Friday, 12 March 2021

Disorders in Dexter’s Lab

The characters of Dexter’s Lab are so relatable to the public, despite the show’s apparent values dissonance. 

Even though the writers of this show didn’t intend her to be more than just depicting her as a comically inexperienced lass, Dee Dee is actually one of the characters who most accurately represent certain variants of sociopathy and/or secondary psychopathy, period. She is my first retroactive female soft crush mostly because she does feel some guilt and isn’t clearly raised well. 

ManDark is also not raised well, even though he’s more of a cold hearted jackass. He’s my first retroactive male soft crush partly due to the possibility of him having (well meant if really screwed up) plausible adoptive parents, as well as having an equally intelligent little sister who’s also from the same plausible birth family as him. As I figure out, he’s implied to be an irreligious adoptee from somewhere near Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh city) in Vietnam. 

My fan theory is that ManDark’s southern Vietnamese birth parents would have been war scarred and middle aged when both of their youngest children were born years apart. He and his little sis are implied to have about three much older brothers. Said older brothers have different body types; the eldest one is a workplace bully, the second one is a moody dude with tanned skin, and the third one’s a critter lover. 

Dexter is implied to show signs of classical autism and a variant of ADHD, as well as having OCD tendencies. While he does show various other emotions, he’s mostly depicted as a cackling, budding antihero scientist to be. 

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