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You prevent writing a comic-relief character by making them essential to the mission. And not shallow or dumb. Give him a skill (besides punning) that the others value, or even a trait: Perhaps h...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2019-12-19T22:13:43Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/43860 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T11:27:35Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/43860 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
You prevent writing a comic-relief character by making them essential to the mission. And not shallow or dumb. Give him a skill (besides punning) that the others value, or even a trait: Perhaps he likes punning because he is also extremely inventive in a good way, for solving problems, for anticipating the enemy, for thinking around corners. Maybe puns, bad and good, are just signs of an always active mind looking at _everything_ from six sides at once. So his friends put up with the puns, because his insights and strategies save their butt more often than not, and they can actually be grateful to have him. Even if they don't find his puns funny, the gratitude they have for his contributions far outweigh any irritation they have at dumb puns; so they don't resent them. They just ignore 90% of them, and laugh at 10% of them. And he can be fine with that, he made them laugh.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-03-21T14:17:16Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 21