AIBU in wondering how Mr Men and Little Misses...

[TiggyD]

...Breed? It not the apparent lack of any genitalia so much as the shapes of them and genetics. If Mr Tickle was to have children with Little Miss Tiny, would the children be tiny with huge arms? Slightly smallish with quite long arms? Could the tickle/tiny genes be totally dominant so that all children will be tiny or long armed? Or even worse, both tiny AND long armed?

This is dire news indeed about Mr Strong! I've only read the original books and have been spared the new version.

In my heart, he will ever remain a glorious, red square : four sides good, three sides bad!

The obvious answer is that Mr Men and Little Misses are the Platonic ideal and we humans are the mere hazy impressions of those purer selves. They are the true and perfect forms outside in the sunlight, while we're the pale shadows cast on the wall of the cave.

Therefore, there can only ever be one of each archetype. There is only one Mr Happy and there will only ever be one Mr Happy - the perfect and absolute form of happiness - who is reflected and diluted many times over by poor human imitations of mirth. Of course, Mr Happy never changes - in deed, the story in Mr Happy's book is not actually about Mr Happy's journey. Instead, it is the story of us humans and our struggle to comprehend and come to terms with the absolute form of happiness that is Mr Happy. The ironic last lines of the Mr and Little Miss books are but a wry reminder that, try as we might, we imperfect beings shall never reach a true understanding of Their ultimate and unchanging absoluteness.

I think they must be a representation of the emotion/action, or it really would be nominative determinism at it's finest wouldn't it?

(On a vaguely related note, the most Eeyore-like person I've ever met is called Hope.)

I love how philosophical this thread is becoming! We are definitely covering every aspect of the subject!

Cunning, that's brilliant.

Polka, calling the poor child Hope was bound to end that way. I wouldn't want to read the story of Mr Hope

Mr Hope lived in Hopelessland. A vast desolate wasteland of unremitting torture. [Picture of desolate wasteland]

Mr Hope decided to go to the shops. [Picture of Mr Hope setting off in high spirits]

But this being Hopelessland, there were no shops so his quest was pointless. [Picture of Mr Hope walking through desolate wasteland]

Down swooped a vulture of futility and pecked off Mr Hope's legs. [Mr Hope with legs pecked off.]

"Never mind" Said Mr Hope as he pulled himself along with his hands. [Picture of Mr Hope dragging himself across desolate wasteland.]

Along comes a hyena of broken dreams and slowly nibbles off Mr Hope's arms. [Matching picture]

"Oh well", said Mr Hope. "Somebody will be along soon to help me". [Picture of bloody remains of Mr Hope in desolate wasteland.]

[10 more pages of Mr Hope lying in heap in desolate wasteland]

[picture of dead Mr Hope in desolate wasteland]

"Ah! I've been reincarnated!" Said Mr Hope as he awoke in bed. "Maybe things will be different today!" [Mr Hope in bed]

Go to page two.

Tiggy, you've officially won the thread (so far)
I'm at work so no time atm to write Mr Hope as someone who votes in every election.....

TiggyD

They don't need to breed, Mr or Miss Almighty make them all.

I'm sure the publishers of Mr Men books will be moving heaven and earth to get Mr Hope on to the shelves by Christmas.

TiggyD - amazing

Anyone up for some Mumsnet crowdfunding ?

Well you know how they've started doing grown up ladybird books..?

I'd never noticed that mr strong isn't square anymore.

Little miss outrage
Mr passive aggressive
Miss disgusted of Tunbridge wells
Mr entitled
Little miss did you mean to be quote so rude
Mr privilege
Ms/r gender neutral
Little miss ohfukkitall

I'm so happy to hear that, mavis. Maybe it's just a TV version? You've put my mind at rest!

Little Miss Cis?

Mr Messy stops being a pink frizzy mess and becomes a nice, neat shape

This traumatised me as a child. I had very curly hair and feared being unexpectedly smoothed

Shiny - OMG I also had/have curly hair and had to ask my big sis if that was bad and she had to explain that wasn't actually his hair but his entire being. confused the heck out of me

Thank god I am not alone lorelei9.

that wasn't actually his hair but his entire being

Sooo much worse

there's probably kids all over the country who worried someone would flatten their hair...well it sort of came true when I grew up and got accosted by people trying to sell hair straighteners - you know when they come up to you in dept stores etc!

yes, my sister's valiant explanation of it being "who he was" took me a long time to figure out. I think she drew a scribble to help me figure it out. Bless.

PMSL at 'hyena of broken dreams' 😂😂

Mr Tidy & Mr Neat are the Mr Men equivalent of Samuel L Jackson & John Travolta from Pulp Fiction. Happytown 'enforcers'.

iklboo - that is actually quite scary!! Do you think Tarantino was inspired by Mr Tidy & Mr Neat? How can we find out?

The characters from reservoir dogs were obviously inspired by Roger Red Hat, Billy Blue Hat, Jennifer Yellow Hat and Percy Green.

I know - don't they go round to 'straighten out' Mr Messy? Hmmm. We all know what that means in gangster parlance.