The Wikipedia article for Little Orphan Annie is one of the most horrifying things I've ever read.
Some highlights:
Some highlights:
- Little Orphan Annie is capitalist propaganda
- Little Orphan Annie shares a universe with **** Tracy
- Daddy Warbucks died after learning Franklin D. Roosevelt won the election
- Daddy Warbucks somehow came back to life after FDR went out of office
- Annie ages like an anime character
- Annie is friends with God
- Annie was based on some random child her creator met on the street
- Daddy Warbucks uses vigilante justice and manipulates the court. This is portrayed as heroic.
- Daddy Warbucks has lynched people
- Annie blew up a Nazi submarine
- A villain Annie faced was directly based on a real person who refused to help fund the strip
- Annie was framed for a murder
- Annie's author supported child labour
- The Little Orphan Annie comic strip has been referred to as a "threat to world peace".
- Little Orphan Annie ended with a cliffhanger of Annie being kidnapped. This was resolved 3 years later in **** Tracy.
(The franchise died out way back in 2008, last game was Shake It)