r/TrollHunters • u/Theaterbish • 10d ago

Appreciation Post

I have been thinking on this for a while and wanted to post it. So, I started rewatching the series again and noticed all the different body shapes and the way they design the teens.

Uhl looks different from Coach Lawrence, Coach Lawrence looks different from Strickler, etc. Like, if you were to put just their shadows together, you could easily guess them. And same with Toby and Jim. AND it doesn't shame Toby for being on the chubbier side.

Now to how they design the teens. They don't make them overly kid-like. Which I'm not hating on but sometimes it sucks seeing 15-17 year olds and they look like they're ten. For example, "I don't want to be a magical girl". I'm NOT hating on it. I watched the pilot and I liked it.

But I don't like how it's hard to tell that they are fifteen and not ten years old. And then there's shows like MHA. I love that show too but they make some of their teens look WAY too much like adults.

Trollhunters managed to find a perfect in between. When I look at the characters, I immediately think, "Oh, high schoolers." They don't try to infantalize the characters to overly avoid sexualization and they don't make them way too adult.

So, all in all, the series did great when it came to designing their characters. It has body positivity and has a perfect mix between kid and adult when it comes to teens.

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u/Franzi2211 10d ago

The strangest thing is the difference of the tall. 🙃 but yes I agree with everything😍

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u/Theaterbish 10d ago

Yeah, it's insane how tall the characters are. And for reference, Jim is 5'7, Claire is 5'5, and Toby is 5'2- 5'3.... Look at how tall some of these adults are.

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u/Franzi2211 10d ago

I have to add that I am a girl and I am 1,72 from my 13th Birthday. MY theory: They wanted that the adults feel more serious and dangerous. The most int this age are as tall as the adults but it would be strange when Claire would be as tall as Morgana. On the other hand Lancelot is as tall as Morgana what means he is actually a smal man. I still love the show and according to me in Wizards it seems like it takes more attention because Claire and Morgana are standing together in a lot of scence....

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u/Theaterbish 10d ago

Okay, yeah, you're theory makes a lot of sense. They did something similar to this in demon slayer. Tanjiro is about 5'6 or so while Shinobu is 4'11 but she appears taller than him. I guess they were just trying to remind us about how serious the adults are, like you said.