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El Deafo (Comic Book)

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El Deafo (Comic Book)	label	El Deafo (Comic Book)
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El Deafo (Comic Book)	comment	El Deafo is a 2014 graphic novel memoir by Cece Bell, chronicling her childhood up to 5th grade as a deaf person in The '70s and The '80s, as well as depicting everyone ironically as "rabbit people".An Animated Miniseries adaptation was released on Apple TV+ on January 7th, 2022. Cece Bell herself worked on it as an executive producer, writer, and narrator. The trailer can be seen here.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Mighty Bolt, the superhero in the Show Within a Show that Cece watches, takes the place of Batman in the original book. P. Evil, Mr. Potts' supervillain counterpart, is a new addition. Mr. Potts didn't have a supervillain counterpart in the book.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Cece Bell herself acts as the narrator of the story.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Martha feels awful when Cece accidentally runs into a tree branch and pokes her eye, blaming the incident on herself when it wasn't. She would then avoid or run away from Cece if she notices her, though they would reconcile at the end.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_164497e1	type	Knew It All Along
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_164497e1	comment	Knew It All Along: Cece avoids telling Martha about her hearing aids and, because Martha treats her so normally, Cece never suspects that Martha was already told by the neighborhood kids until Cece turns her hearing aids off at their sleepover.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_1ad6e2da	type	Little Bit Beastly
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_1ad6e2da	comment	Little Bit Beastly: The characters are depicted as "rabbit people". They are mostly human-like except for their ears and noses. Their fur, if they have any at all, is also skin-colored.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Inverted with Missy who is very sweet and enthusiastic about Cece's disability, but also unintentionally gets on Cece's nerves. Lampshaded by Ginny who implies that she is a popular girl.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_2c3ec06e	type	Better as Friends
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_2c3ec06e	comment	Better as Friends: A one-sided example. Despite having a massive crush on him for a majority of the book, Cece thinks this to herself when her Mike becomes a fan of Van Halen.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Cece's childhood friend Emma is not present in the miniseries, and neither is the arc about them being separated after Cece moves states. The plot point of Cece failing a vocabulary test because of her worsening eyesight is not present in the mini series. The book had an arc in which the students made "warm fuzzies" out of pom poms to hand out to the class, and Cece ends up giving Laura one after not speaking for a long time. This is absent from the series. Cece's curly pencil getting broken also doesn't happen. Although not entirely removed, less emphasis is placed on Cece bonding with her siblings while watching TV together.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_36b774e	type	Love Floats
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_36b774e	comment	Love Floats: A frame shows Cece doing this metaphorically after she heard that Mike knows The Beatles.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: After Cece loses her hearing, most of the voices are muffled unless they're in an Imagine Spot or speaking through her phonic ear microphone.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: Laura is like this to her little sister, making her the target of "the dining room game", where you have to walk around the dining room table until Laura sics her dog. Cece is also subject to the game once.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Although not entirely removed, less emphasis is placed on Cece bonding with her siblings while watching TV together.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_4bdb06f5	type	Culturally Sensitive Adaptation
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_4bdb06f5	comment	Culturally Sensitive Adaptation: Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Wakely are not shown smoking at all.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_56723175	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_56723175	comment	Adaptation Induced Plothole: While not exactly vital to the story, Cece's crush on Mike makes slightly less sense as a result of their shared interest in The Beatles being omitted. This also makes Mike's comment about Cece's glasses making her look like John Lennon come out of nowhere.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_5973fab5	type	Does Not Like Spam
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_5973fab5	comment	Does Not Like Spam: Cece doesn't like fish, but ends up having to eat a fish dinner due to a miscommunication between her and Martha. However, she eats it anyway to not let Martha know that anything's amiss with her.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_5dc016f	type	Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_5dc016f	comment	Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation: The novel is based on the author's real life experiences of growing up deaf, except all the people are drawn as rabbits.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_71fa50b5	type	New Transfer Student
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_71fa50b5	comment	New Transfer Student: Ginny moves from Georgia to Cece's school in 3rd Grade.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_7a2d9301	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_7a2d9301	comment	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Laura compares her and Cece's matching outfits to Susan and Sharon in The Parent Trap (1961), which Cece doesn't get.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_7d2f46e3	type	Furry Lens
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_7d2f46e3	comment	Furry Lens: A semi-autobiographical work illustrating human beings as rabbits.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_8e92e125	type	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_8e92e125	comment	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Wilma and Fred Flintstone, along with Spock and Kirk appear as rabbit versions of themselves. Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, as well as Tom and Jerry appear in a much more simplified style.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_94be6b61	type	Coordinated Clothes
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_94be6b61	comment	Coordinated Clothes: Invoked by Laura, who convinces Cece to wear matching clothes to school to show their budding friendship. After a few days of this, Laura gets annoyed with Cece for wearing a pale blue shirt instead of a dark blue one, though Cece thinks to herself that Laura didn't specify which blue to wear.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_94e4b975	comment	In the book, when Cece shows Martha her eyepatch and later her glasses, Martha vomits in response. In the series, it's toned down to her running away crying.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_96c49e7	type	Reading Lips
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_96c49e7	comment	Reading Lips: Cece discusses this as she's learning about it in kindergarten, saying that it's not as easy as it sounds. She tells the audience about various things that make it harder, such as facial hair, darkness, group conversation, or exaggerated mouth movements.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: Almost all of the branded properties were removed from the mini series. The Fritos that Laura offers Cece became regular chips, Ginny's Monty Python record became a generic comedy record, and all of the shows that Cece watched (notably Tom and Jerry, Little House on the Prairie, and Batman) were replaced with the fictional Mighty Bolt.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass / Adaptational Villainy: Mr. Potts, Cece's gym teacher, is more antagonistic towards her in the series. When he accidentally breaks her Phonic Ear microphone in the book, he reacts with a nervous chuckle and a "whoopsie." In the series, he insists to Cece that she'll be fine without it. The series also gives him a supervillain counterpart that the book doesn't have.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_aefd2a14	type	Pinky Swear
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_aefd2a14	comment	Pinky Swear: Cece and Martha do a pinky swear to stay best friends forever, but Martha rescinds it after believing Cece's eye injury was her fault.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Cece's siblings are not focused on nearly as much as they are in the book.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_c2393191	comment	Mighty Bolt, the superhero in the Show Within a Show that Cece watches, takes the place of Batman in the original book.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_c86a504	type	Group Costume Fail
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_c86a504	comment	Group Costume Fail: When Laura asks Cece to dress like twins for a week, she gets mad at Cece when, a few days in, Cece wears a pale blue shirt that doesn't match the dark blue shirt Laura is wearing, even though Laura never specified the shade of blue. Also discussed since Cece points out in her narration that, due to her Phonic Ear setting her apart from everyone else, she and Laura can never really look alike.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: Played for Drama. When Cece's showing Martha her new glasses, she compares herself to Helen Keller. Martha doesn't find it funny because she believes that she caused Cece's eye injury, which led to her needing glasses. Cece would later assure her that this isn't the case.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_cf61bce5	type	New Friend Envy
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_cf61bce5	comment	New Friend Envy: Laura is this to Cece when she befriends Ginny. Afterwards, she becomes increasingly possessive, demanding that Cece only hang out with her.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_d75b5f08	type	Moving Angst
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_d75b5f08	comment	Moving Angst: Cece moves to another state after kindergarten and leaves her first best friend, Emma, behind.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_d8e40b47	type	El Spanish "-o"
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_d8e40b47	comment	El Spanish "-o": The title of the book and a nickname Cece gives herself. Not only is the Spanish word for "deaf" "sordo", but in Cece's case, it would actually be "La Sorda" because she's a girl.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: The supervillain counterparts in Cece's imagine spots are given different names. Mighty Mom is changed to Spidermom and the "pajama wearing supervillains" become The Pajama Bunch. Martha's sidekick counterpart wasn't given a name in the book, but in the series, she's called Marvy Girl.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Actions attributed to certain characters in the book were given to other characters in the show to cut down on the amount of characters. For example, instead of a random girl at school, Missy becomes the one whose words Cece misinterprets as "my cat likes pie" and whose attempts to sign inspire Cece's mom to bring her to sign language classes.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_f33ff01c	type	Adaptational Context Change
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: The series has the couple in the diner speaking sign language, but the book specifies that they were arguing. In the book, Mrs. Sinklemann draws an apple on the blackboard and writes the names of misbehaving kids inside of it, saying that it only takes a few "rotten spots" to spoil the apple. In the series, the apple is changed to a tomato. Martha had absolutely nothing to do with Cece running into the branch in the book. In the series, she pushes the branch away from herself as she runs past it, leading it to rebound into Cece's eye. In the book, when Cece shows Martha her eyepatch and later her glasses, Martha vomits in response. In the series, it's toned down to her running away crying.
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El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
El Deafo (Comic Book) / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: Both Missy and Ginny. When Ginny introduces Cece to Missy as her "deaf friend," Missy starts trying to teach Cece sign language, which she finds patronizing. Ginny also speaks to Cece (and only Cece) in a slow, over-articulated way, which she doesn't realize actually makes it harder for Cece to understand her.
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