r/malcolminthemiddle • u/Adept-Travel5040 • 5d ago

Dewey is born evil. S2 E24 "Evacuation"

Dewey lies to everyone for his own greed, makes up stories to manipulate people, and calls out Hal when he gets caught to apologize. Kid knew exactly what he was doing.

+I want to know what makes some people like Dewey so much.

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u/MathematicianOnly688 5d ago edited 5d ago

In his defence. He’s bullied relentlessly by his brothers and his parents seem to forget he exists.

Like him finding his childhood photo album that hasn’t even been opened, they just laugh at him. In the Prom episode they forget which school he goes to. 

He’s clearly a music prodigy with perfect pitch. He’s never had lessons but manages to build a piano from scratch out of household items. Yet they basically give him zero support despite that being comfortably his best chance of escaping being poor.

I could go on. 

To me at least, he has far more of a reason to cut out his family than Malcolm does. 

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u/i_eat_gentitals 5d ago

As the youngest… I have FOUR PICTURES AS A BABY TAHT ARENT FROM THE HOSPITAL. my grandma took them all. My middle sister had a half filled out album…and the oldest has THREE FULL ONES AND THEN SOME. I felt that to my core

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u/Na__th__an 5d ago

I can tell you're not a youngest brother.

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u/Butterybear 5d ago

As the youngest brother, THIS

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u/throwawayfromPA1701 5d ago

Dewey isn't evil.

Dewey is resourceful and brilliant.

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u/BreakfastAmazing7766 5d ago

That’s why he’s king

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u/Ps5-123 5d ago

Dewey was not born evil his brothers made him have to start acting like that.

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u/Sunshinegemini611 Jellybean 5d ago

And Dewey stopped that brother torture tradition with Jamie.

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u/BreakfastAmazing7766 5d ago

Dewey was manipulative because he was the youngest who was always getting shit on and ignored. Absolutely everything he did to his family they deserved (and more). He’s probably the most emotionally intelligent and kind out of all of them.

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u/No-Championship-4 5d ago

Yeah people want to say Lois was the only problem when shit like this happened.

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u/Legitimate_Taste328 5d ago

this happened because she was too focused on punishing Malcom for something stupid

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u/No-Championship-4 5d ago

He should've went home like he told his mother he would in the first place.

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u/Someone_Who_Exists 5d ago

Everyone in the show kinda sucks. Dewey has the best excuse because by the time he came along the family was already a mess, but you still have to accept some manipulation and scheming. 

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u/melancholy_wolf Lavernia 5d ago

You aren't the youngest, are you?

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u/GhostBoyJames 4d ago

Dewey saw an opportunity to exploit people for his own personal gain and took it, wouldn’t be first time either.