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I'd vote for Yvette Nicole Brown, from COMMUNITY. Every time Shirley flashes anger, I see my Amanda.

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That, at least, had internal motivation and character development beyond "taking a chubby character and making her into a sexy babe."

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Yet, I find myself asking why the resistance to chubby or even fat characters? I created Roger Bochs as a fat guy, and the moment I let go of him, he slimmed down, got his legs back, and started chasing Heather Hudson! In LOST GENERATION I created a deliberately heavy-set character, and Roger Stern surprised me by a suggesting future subplot about him losing weight.

Emma Frost springs first to mind. I drew her deliberately flat chested, to be a contrast to the standard issue Marvel female.

From the same story, I drew Kitty Pryde as a "young Sigourney Weaver", but it took almost no time at all for her to turn into Brooke Shields.

Gary Cody, the character in ALPHA FLIGHT, was based on Gary Cody, my friend in real life. Later he was turned into ME!

Roger Bochs, as noted above, did not retain his original form long after I let go of him.

Elizabeth Twoyoungmen, another female character I designed to be physically different from so many others, has packed on the pounds, mostly in her chest, since I left.

Perhaps the worst was the fate of Cassie Sandsmark, in WONDER WOMAN, who I designed to look as much like a real 14 year old girl as I could, and who, once I was gone, almost overnight turned into Britney Spears.

I believe that too may artists in comics seem incapable of drawing "real" people, especially thinner or more heavy people (unless they are The Blob's size).

I recall being disappointed that Sam Guthrie and Rahne Sinclair of The New Mutants went from being a tall, gawky Southern boy with big ears, and a small, reserved young girl with a typical body type, to a tall, handsome, stereotypical-looking hero, and a tall, and more sexy-looking woman.

Alas, the egos seem to have come much more to the fore, and now the first thing an artist wants to do is make his "mark" on a character. Unfortunately, the imaginations seem so incredibly limited, that many want to make the SAME mark! ("I just had a great idea! Let's give hims some POUCHES!")

Cassie rates as one of the worst make overs. I don't understand why fans or creators can't relate to stories about different people or genders or w/e. I read about characters I have nothing in common with and don't identify as all the time.

QUOTE: It looks to me that they've made Sam shorter.

Even Rob Liefeld kept him fairly in character. It was the guys after him who beefed him up and made him a pretty boy iirc. And Rahne who was stuck with brush like straight hair suddenly grew luxurious beautiful tresses to go along with her new rack.  She was reuglified in X-Factor but she's pretty again.

I don't like Perez's reimagining of Wonder Woman, it was fun and pretty and I enjoyed the addition of characters to her cast but it could've been done in another book. I'm a big defender of "campy" WW though so I am biased.