I think the Halloween Specialâs characterization is canon, even if the plot line is not. And this is important for the character of Dolphin.
(Analysis below)
I know that a lot of people are eager and happy to consider pcfcâs Halloween specialâRevealing the Trout-pocalyseânot canon both because a lot of the main cast was put into the background and a whole slew of the throwaway background characters became the main cast with some notable exceptions
(like, God [Mary] and Yuri God [Niki] were present but not a lot was seen from the mainstays like Elo, Skew, Bridge, and Ethan and so on so forth)
And because of the whole âeveryone died in the endâ nihilistic-type ending that makes the practically-movie-length-special a âpointless waste of timeâ
But I think this was the writersâ way of trying to softly test out how audiences would react to an expansion of the cast (the fandom reacted poorly) but this means that the characterizations in the Halloween special may very well be canon. Which means⊠I donât want to see any Dolphin apologists!!
(That is a joke, the type of dolphin apologists i donât want to see are the people going âshe never did anything wrong and it was the writers who maimed her characterâ, and to them i say⊠you wouldnât have been shocked by the âSteals Skewâs Godhoodâ arc if you cared to watch the special.
She can do catastrophic damage and do it for fun just as much as Skew and Mary often do in every episode and Iâd like to see some critical thinking about her actions from before that pivotal arc. Everyone talks about how the fandom mischaracterizes Bridge, but no one is talking about how infantilized and sanitized the fandom made the âGod of Mercyâ.)
The Trout-pocalyse was foreshadowing for Dolphinâs character, and the fandom just wasnât paying attention.
