Seriously, labeling every single character who tries to have even the slightest bit of feeling in them as "emo"? What the hell? It's like people want characters to be either incredibly happy mindless drones, or just expressionless robots. LET ME ENJOY THE PLOT DAMMIT!
@Adam: There's a 3-letter word known as sad, or if you want a better word, there's depressing. Not emo man. The character's don't just sit around doing nothing, waiting for their eventual deaths while cutting on themselves. If that were the case, then it would be emo. And there's a really BIG difference between having a psychological breakdown and being emo.
The word "emo" is subject to a world of semantic confusion, from my experience, and is used to refer to all manner of things, from music to personalities, with no real consistency.
I just try to avoid the word entirely. Most of the time I encounter it, it's on the comments to a YouTube video or on IMDB or something similar, and usually in the middle of a string of angry, semi-fascist nonsense like "STFU you f*in p**sy emo homo" etc. I kid you not. So, there's good reason to avoid it.
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Even the character's who can really be labeled as such don't seem all that emo. First, there's the obvious, Jake from LIT. His character description has him as slightly emo, which is actually understandable. And then there's the kind of obvious, Strong Sad from SBCG4AP, who is intentionally made emo as a joke. But still, they have more plot to them than real emos.
I'm too old to understand the current meaning of the word. When I was a lad "emo" referred to hardcore punk with emotional delivery like Minor Threat (possibly the pioneers; also straightedge, but that's something else), Fuel (not whatever that new band is, the original and best), Embrace (ditto -- the hardcore band, not the current one) other teeny tiny bands from 20 years ago (not necessarily all featuring the sublime Ian MacKaye).
I would have called these "emo" kids today "goth" -- or is that something else. Anyone under the age of 30 can explain it all to me?
The word comes from what you're talking about, Sean. But over the years, the hardcore element was sucked out, and then the emotional delivery was reduced to a monoemotional fake sappy "I'm so sad and lonely" attitude. Music that's considered emo will actually even play on mainstream radio, or at least it used to whenever I turned on a radio last. It's become a subculture, too, that hardly distinguishes itself from goth at times. Swerd Murd describes the look / attitude pretty well.
"Emo" has become such a ridiculed concept that any display or hint of emotion gets labeled as such as an insult now, which was actually funny for a day or two, but as the OP says, it has gotten very old. Still, I don't think some characters in games deserve it. TWEWY's character was not awful, but definitely too whiney and not believable all the time.
lol, i was totally about to post that... pretty sure he says that in Another Day. even his own programming team was lampooning Neku as emo, so i don't think it's so farfetched to use that word in conjunction with TWEWY.
edit: 'I feel my inner emo stirring... must...fight...emo...urges...' is the quote, i'm pretty sure... lol
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