User blog:Sandgar/Character's True Behavior VS Character's Designed Behavior

There has been an ongoing debate about whether a characters' intelligence is shown by how a character actually acts in a show, or by how the creators meant the character to be viewed as. For Example: Lumpy was designed by the creators to be seen as a very stupid character, yet in the show, he is a very good doctor, or how Sniffles was designed by the creators to be a very smart character, able to invent at will, but in the actual show, has done things without thinking them out first, and could of been done better.

So the question is, do we say Lumpy is dumb because he was made that way, or say he is smart (For his medical knowledge) from things he has done in the show. Same with Sniffles, should Sniffles be classified smart because he was designed to be smart, or should he be classified dumb because of his non-intelligent mistakes.

Should characters intelligence be classified by... How they were designed to be viewed as How they have acted in the show

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