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{{quote|'''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise)|Sonic]]''':
'''Chris''': Friends of yours?<br />
'''Sonic''': More like obligatory kid appeal characters.|''[[Sonic F]]''}}
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The Kid Appeal Character is typically the [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|character designed to appeal to a younger demographic]]. Cute, popular, tiny, likely to be [[Totally Radical]], and almost always the youngest character on the team, he's invariably obnoxious and thinks he's so totally cool, in a frantic effort to convince viewers that this is a family friendly show.
As well as that, the Kid Appeal Character is all too often portrayed as seeing [[The Hero]] and [[The Captain|leader]] of the Good Guys as his Father Figure. If the Leader is also quite young, chances are he'll see him as his Big Brother. In the same regard, he may look at [[The Lancer]] as being his uncle. Oh, and being {{color|goldenrod|yellow}} is not compulsory -- but many kid-appeal characters are oddly brightly colored...
Depending on how young he is, how nice he is, or how old his father/brother figure is, the [[Kid Appeal Character]] will usually take one of these roles:
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