20 Characters You View Way Differently Once You Grow Up

Unless you had really cool parents who exposed you to and explained the finer points of the Scorsese catalog, the movies and TV shows you watched as a child were probably not very complicated. At least, they didn’t seem like it at the time. These stories are written by adults, after all, so if you go back and watch them again, you might be surprised by how much complexity they managed to sneak in there.

For example, when little kids watch Lilo & Stitch, they might see Lilo’s older sister as a harsh authoritarian who blames her for everything, but “Jesus, she was 19 years old,” user missluluh told r/AskReddit. “A 19-year-old doing all that is unbelievable. And you can see all her surfing trophies in her room; she clearly had to give up a lot of her dreams in order to take care of Lilo. Throughout the movie, she tries so hard to protect Lilo. She didn't want her to feel guilty about losing her job, so she made up another reason. She tries so hard, and I know at 19, I couldn’t have done something like that.”

They then asked, “What character did you view totally different(ly) as a child vs. as an adult?” Below are the very adult-like responses they received in return…