The development of comic-book characters into franchises has occurred alongside the growing appreciation of the comic-book genre as art.

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Also in the original trilogy, he took muppets and made them into realistic characters that people cared about, in the new trilogy he used computer technology to intentionally make cartoon looking and acting characters that had no development, or in fact, reason to be in the story at all, other than to try to appeal to children maybe?

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The stars of "Arrested Development" may have to keep their characters within arm's reach in the coming future.

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Rather than continuing the "Modern Warfare" storyline, the development studio decided to start from scratch with a new story and new characters.

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All of these programs in development and on the air give rise to over-the-top characters and issues that make Snooki look like a librarian.

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However, because some character classes or skill sets can easily defeat characters of other classes or skills in many MMORPGs, developers should consider a skill-point character development system over a class-based system to balance play and to provide an opportunity for any character class engaged in combat to win.

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