Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-5653781-20151210190316/@comment-26884760-20151210195120

jester, almost all Betty cartoons were from 20s to 30s and are thus wildly surreal by our modern standards but she was one of the first "sex symbols" (believe it or not) and many plots had guys like Old Man trying to.. well.. have their way with her.

Old Man is mild but by no means a "good" person, the main reason I added him is he's clearly a feared figure and despite the strangeness he plays an obviously antagonistic role (not as bad as Abusive Farmer, also Betty.. or Ringmaster (a Betty villain I plan on writing soon).. it's hard for us to understand stuff from way back then but Old Man is pretty much a literal take on "Dirty Old Man" (plus I feel he was drawn to be somewhat monstrous, I mean Betty is roughly human sized so Old Man must be some kind of ogre (not quite a literal Giant but certainly some kind of monster) )