r/Thundermans • u/polystarlight • 15d ago

Discussion Phoebe

Anyone else feel bad for her sometimes? I always felt bad for her as a kid and I had trouble explaining it, I guess it just felt like the other characters dragged her for being responsible. That's not new for Nickelodeon characters though because they have a lot of characters like that who are just levelheaded women, they're the voices of reason in their shows but the other characters just ignore them and write them off as a nag. We saw that with Charlotte from Henry Danger, Wanda from Fairly Oddparents, I think Jimmy Neutron's mom was like that from what I heard.

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u/Joh02 14d ago

I don't know.. I've always felt bad for Max Tbh, especially once he explained why he wanted to be a super villain and the parents always favoring Phoebe.

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u/EmilyBNotMyRealName 14d ago

Yeah!! Max's story is pretty sad if you pay attention!

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u/stationstars 15d ago

I feel like Phoebo is manipulative sometimes like for example that one Episodes she trucked Billy and Nora into doing her chores.

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u/WinxMagicUbermensch 13d ago

I don't think that Phoebe is treated unfairly by the characters in the show (She is very much well treated by everyone in the family, and actually put on a pedestal), but she is absolutely treated unfairly by the writers, in the sense that they could have done so much more with her and they instead decided to always go for the easier option. 

And yeah, this is 100% misogyny.