What Does This Mean?
A long-running fictional character's personality or writing quality noticeably degrading over a show or franchise's run — becoming flatter, more inconsistent, or reduced to a single joke compared to earlier, better-written versions of themselves.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"This character used to be so nuanced in season one, now it's full character regression into one repetitive joke."
LORE & ORIGIN
Named directly by anime and TV fandoms tracking how a character's writing changes across seasons, borrowing 'regression' to describe this backward slide rather than any deliberate in-story character development.
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