They have an agenda, so they assume everyone else does too. It's always projection.
Universal happiness and prosperity could be a part of an agenda as well right?
Not an agenda people talk enough about
Um... they are called the Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister). Is he non binary now?
It's a joke.
It's a joke based on Yakko not having a gender. Which doesn't make sense. Therefore my confusion.
Cartoons operate under the rule of funny, anything is allowed for the joke
I wouldn't say that's how jokes work. Some things need to be established first. The joke is not, that he is non binary. It's a play with words, "agenda" in this case. Him being genderless is supposed to be the baseline. This is contradicted by him being a Warner brother. So the joke is already falling apart during the setup. If the joke was about him being a chicken, it wouldn't have made sense either, because it was never established before. And can't explained with cartoon logic.
It feels like people are automatically mad at me for criticizing the joke, because the topic is gender politics. I never said he can't be non binary, I don't care, but there was never a basis for this. Or so I thought. As others have pointed out, there apparently was an episode or a comic where this was mentioned.
Do you take Wile.E.Coyote running into a wall after the roadrunner runs through it literally too?
There's a panel from the Animaniacs comic where Wakko states that his gender is "other". It floats around the internet ever few years. The comic was, I believe, back in the 90s so I'm not sure I'd say "now". They have always used the term "brother" and he/him pronouns for Wakko though.
In the remake’s theme song;
“We’re gender balanced, pronoun neutral, and ethnically diverse!”
While the fun is in the fast pronunciation of longer words, they’re pointing to a split gender diagram chart between Yakko (male), Dot (female) and Wakko (split). So even if it’s based in a joke from old episodes, WB seems to have run with it.
Remake??
Yup! They did a remake in 2020, never watched it myself cause Hulu but I've heard some good things about it.
It's not canon but he has been adopted by the NB community as a sort of an icon.
While I like the joke, Wakko is actually a boy. He had a crush on Miss Bambon, so one could assume hetro. Humorously, Dot also had a crush on her. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I agree that se is obvious supposed to be a boy, but I don't understand your premise. You can be agender and have a crush on a woman.
Not really trying to make a point. But he’s not agender. Dot is bisexual though.
Your comment seemed awfully opinionated for not trying to make a point.
Don’t read it like that.
Nonbinary does not imply asexuality.
True. Wakko’s pronoun is “he” as the show has decided.
And plenty of nonbinary humans use and prefer the pronoun "he"
Also true. But we must consider the fact that when the show was airing, though I'm sure non-binary people certainly must have existed at the time, non-binary was not something that was part of the mainstream consciousness. So would not have been acceptable in a kids show. And though I'm not sure it would even be acceptable in today's day and age by most mainstream standards, it's more acceptable now than it was 30 years ago.
On top of that it's very likely that most real people at that time who would likely identify as non-binary would not have identified themselves as such and would have chosen a he/she pronoun of some sort to identify themselves in order to conform to the social standard of that time.
Still, we should celebrate the characters who are designed to be nonbinary, to represent that community, not try to decide for that character 30 years later.
Right, to me it feels dishonest and pandering to change a character later like this. I don't feel it's winning points with anyone.
He's a Warner sibling, which means that at any moment he's exactly whatever is necessary for the joke to work.
"Finger prince" is a great joke too from that show. I laughed my ass off.
Goodnight everybody!
I definitely read this in their voices
"And remember kids! Yakko spelled backwards is Okkay"
Wakko looks adorable AF in this image.
Wakko is adorable AF
Wacko is addicted to Don Knots comedy, you can always catch him watching old episodes of Matlock just for the guest appearance's.
That used to be a running joke on the 90's version of that show.
I know it's a small detail but not all non-binary people are agender.
I am one of the <1% that vote Green.
My only agenda is shouting into the void because I am effectively powerless.
Just because you can't solve everything all on your own doesn't mean you're effectively powerless.
What does make you powerless is refusing to act because you have to be part of a crowd to help, instead of some lone avenging angel who can solve everything with a snap of their fingers.
No, what makes me powerless is that 99% of people who vote make the same choices every election regardless of the quality of the candidate.
And that, I definitely cannot change.
At least you're honest about it
No reason to hide it.
The shameful thing is being a proud Democrat or Republican after the last 40 years of regression for the American people.
The shameful part is people like you help usher in fascism so you can feel superior
He? Shouldn’t it be they?
Not necessarily. Nonbinary covers a broad range of gender identities that don't all exclusively use they/them.
Thanks for the info!
Also pronouns aren't necessarily dependent on gender, they're dependent on the person's pronoun preferences. Even someone who seems like they might use a specific set of pronouns based on their gender might use a different set of pronouns, as an example I knew someone who is a demiboy and they go by any pronouns.
It should be whatever Wakko prefers. Perfectly fine for a nonbinary person to use "he".
Edit: And also, pretty sure that's another layer to the joke. Cause Wakko is just out there living his life while the world spins around him making definitions and boxes that have no bearing on how he lives.
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