Wilt

[BlooCheese]

Wow. Just wow.
You guys are so analytical. I would never be able to think that deeply into something and come up with a good argument.

And it's sort of true that showing emotions is a weakness. Some people in the world will use your emotions for their advantage.

I like Wilt all right. He's an awesome character.

[CCMars]

Originally Posted by InsaneFan

So, anyone else think that maybe Wilt doesn't remember what happened to him? I mean, with all the injuries to his head, you might think he'd have some sorta memory loss...Sorry if someone's already brought this up and discussed it, I wouldn't know. I'm not on that much anymore, so, yeah...

I was thinking of that as well. Post-traumatic stress disorder can also cause amnesia, even more so than blows to the head if I recall correctly. There are a whole bunch of articles on the issue if anyone is interested.

[LaBlooGirl]

Did anyone notice Wilt's incredible leg strength?

Spoiler Below

I mean in the Bloo's the Boss ep, when he's lying down in the tub, he gets up by simply lifting himself out with his legs and from a lying positionwhich we all know is NOT easy to do. In Big Cheese, when he was fighting to get Cheese off of him, he was going in all kinds of directions and positions with fluid ease! Geez, they're not kidding when they say Wilt is "130 lbs of pure muscle".

Being that strong, here is my point. Wilt could definitely defend himself, I doubt he'd be so easily taken down and injured in the fashion he was. I'm not so inclined to believe he was hurt by any gang, at least not without a fight. My own personal idea is he was injured trying to help someone, maybe even his creator, and his creator won't show up to see him because of the guilt he/she feels over what happened to Wilt. I'm stickin' with that one. ^^ (And Wilt, being as apologetic and forgiving as he is, can't understand why his creator would feel that way, and so goes in search of him/her and still misses that individual, despite what tragic past he may have had.)

We DO analyze this to death, Bloo Cheese :bloogrin , but if you think about it, even Craig says he has a very "thinking" mind, and looks deeply into things. I mean the whole story of Coco is pretty deeply thought out if you ask me, with all of her little details. She's the result of some child suffering from a plane crash, too, so in my mind, it's not so "out there" to think Craig would give Wilt a story equally as tragic. Therefore we fans are constantly trying to predict what may have happened to Wilt.
LOL, if Craig is indeed keeping up with this board, he's going to feel awfully pressured with the storyline of GWH. I'm glad to know that they are actually taking their sweet time with this ep, and I think one reason for that is they want to carefully lay out what will happen and put a lot of thought into it. I highly doubt GWH will seem "rushed" such as some people think "The Big Cheese" was.

[pitbulllady]

Yeah, I saw the screen cap of Wilt in the tub that CG made into an avatar, and I didn't know(haven't seen "Bloo's The Boss")if he fell in the tub or was actually taking a relaxing bath. I DID notice that he still had his shoes on, though; doesn't he WASH his feet, for crying out loud? Given how much he can sweat, those socks must get pretty funky, and I do not mean that in a good way, by the end of a typical day! Maybe that's part of the reason he's so reluctant to take off his shoes, but at least washing his feet would help with that particular problem! I dated a guy in college who wore shoes into the shower, because he was afraid he'd catch AIDS or some other disease/fungal infection/somethingorother from the shower stall through the soles of his feet; he was just about as OCD as Wilt is, too. I seem to be attracted to guys with emotional issues, for some reason, LOL!

Wilt is amazingly strong and agile, though, almost like a large constricting snake, like a python or boa. It would be difficult for someone to take him down and hurt him if he fought back, since I can imagine one blow from his fist would probably put someone out for the "mandatory eight-count" at the very least, even if he WAS pulling his punch quite a bit! Still, Mac and Bloo DID manage to not only take him down, but tie him up with duct tape and hide him in a closet during "Adoptcalypse Now". It's true that not having but one arm, and having a blind side, would put him at a disadvantage, but the thing with gangs is that they are experts in taking people out, in torturing people, and they have numbers on their side. They also know the advantage of striking without warning, and if caught off-guard, even with both arms and eyes(at that time), Wilt would have been at a serious disadvantage against a large group. Someone could also have shot him with a shotgun, which has pellets that scatter rather than a single bullet, and could very well account for him losing an eye and arm at the same time, especially if he KNEW he was going to be shot, since he would have reflexively put his "weaker" arm-the left one-up in front of him. Those earlier concept drawings of him on Craig's blog show him with that eye completely gone, stalk and all, so I would guess that the scars on his face are from where a plastic surgeon used muscles and skin from his facial lobes to try and reconstruct an eyestalk to support a fake eye, to try and give his face some semblence of symmetry.

Wilt certainly does have many of the symptoms of someone with PTSD, though. The rapid mood swings, the feelings of guilt, the desparation to belong and not be left alone, as well as possible memory loss, could very well be indicators that he does suffer from this, and it would be very surprising if he DIDN'T. He might NOT recall what happened to him, exactly, having "buried" it far back in his subconcious, where it continues to plague him like a splinter underneath the skin. People with PTSD can be fine for years, and then something will trigger the symptoms again. Wilt seemed fine at the beginning of the series, but as the past two seasons went on, we started to see some disturbing behavior emerge and now it seems that he's almost teetering on the brink of some sort of break-down.

pitbulllady

[Vampyre]

Originally Posted by antgirl1

And I can agree with Insanefan, what if he doesn't show his disabilities because he doesn't REMEMBER that he HAS them? Like, when he got injured he got Amnesia, and thinks he was made this way

The theory that Wilt forgot what happened to him because Amnesia is actually very probable, however I think that he knows there's something wrong with him because he said it himself in the pilot that he is 'broken'. If he thought that he was made handicapped then i really don't think he would say that because if he WAS made that way then technically he would be broken because that's how he was supposed to be.

Also, I'm sorry but, what IS PTSD anyways? Me being, well, a bit of a dolt with the attention span of a fly lost in the land of poo, I'm probably the only one on here has no clue what it means

[kageri]

Originally Posted by Vampyre

Also, I'm sorry but, what IS PTSD anyways? Me being, well, a bit of a dolt with the attention span of a fly lost in the land of poo, I'm probably the only one on here has no clue what it means

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tr...tress_Disorder

[Vampyre]

Ooooooh! Thankyou. So uh anything else Wiltish we can talk about? Such as....

I dunno if this would be going off topic or anything but has anyone ever noticed that out of all the lovey dovey OCs, Wilt has the most ones made for him? I'm not sre if this is just going back to what we were talking about before or not with Mary Sues and stuff but i don't recall having something like this mentioned so uh... yeah. Opinions?

[scary_dream]

Originally Posted by pitbulllady

I DID notice that he still had his shoes on, though; doesn't he WASH his feet, for crying out loud? Given how much he can sweat, those socks must get pretty funky, and I do not mean that in a good way, by the end of a typical day! Maybe that's part of the reason he's so reluctant to take off his shoes, but at least washing his feet would help with that particular problem!

LOL pbl!! True, "funky cheese" feet are NOT cute, even on Wilt.

Originally Posted by pitbulllady

It would be difficult for someone to take him down and hurt him if he fought back, since I can imagine one blow from his fist would probably put someone out for the "mandatory eight-count" at the very least, even if he WAS pulling his punch quite a bit!

Wilt does seem like he could be VERY strong if he really needed to be.

Plus, you know how someone moves their arm too quickly and their hand smacks you in the face or eye or something? Wilt could probably take someone out anyhow just by accident, especially since his hands are so large! It'd be like running into a wall with ONLY your face.

And yes, Vampyre, I HAVE noticed this. I think it's for two reasons: 1) Wilt is charming, pure and simple. It's hard not to fall for him! And 2) Even though Frankie has a lot of fan boys, girls tend to have more of the "dreamer" side left in them from childhood (I think there are very few girls who didn't pretend to be a princess at least ONCE when she was little), so they write themselves in as a lovey-dovey OC for Wilt more often than boys would for Frankie, I'd imagine.

But that's just my speculation.

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by kageri

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tr...tress_Disorder

Yes, Wilt definately displays many of these symptoms, so clearly, in fact, that you can read the list and descriptions of PTSD symptoms and pin-point exact episodes in which he shows them!

Speaking of said Wikipedia article, I found a link on there in which there's a list of fictional characters with PTSD, and added a section for Wilt. However, I failed to create hyperlinks within the article, so if any of you Wikipedia users could go to the page and create links for "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends" and for the character section about Wilt within the Foster's article, I'd appreciate it. You can find the section on Wilt + PTSD here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...der#Television
His is the last paragraph in the section. That way, those who aren't familiar with Foster's, or with him in particular, can find out more, especially since the character description of Wilt in the Foster's article specifically mentions "hinting of some dark times in his past" and shows the missing arm, fake eye and facial scars that I mentioned in my edit.

pitbulllady

[Tonya]

Wow, a lot has been said since I've been gone. Very touching. Hope no one minds if I squeeze in my little Wilt thoerie, huh?
This thing has probably been repeated over and over through the posts, but, mabe whatever happened to him in the past was so tramatizing, and it was so much, and too much for him to handle, so his mind simply blocked it out.
I actually seen a movie once where something so tramatizing happened to a woman when she was little girl, that her mind blocked it out, and later, when she became a woman, she just discovered that she had a past life she never knew she had. And then later, little by little, she started remembering pieces of what hapened to her, and when she put it all together and got it all figured out, at the end of the movie she resolved her problams.
Sorry for getting back on topic if nobody wanted too, it's just that I really wanted to share my theory, or theorie, or however you say it.