It’s a series that created the “Friendship” and “Babality” finishing moves, cheeky features that ensure the games never take themselves too seriously, and a reminder that these fighters are all cartoon caricatures.

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Good conflict can be stressful and heated, but it doesn’t collapse into caricature.

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It’s sometimes easy to forget that the leaders who guide this country through its toughest moments aren’t steely caricatures.

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The author’s account is too much of a caricature to serve as a guide to a complex and contradictory personality.

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Part of the Viking image today is a caricature of masculinity—the long-haired warrior still incorporated into the logos or advertising for products appealing to a supposed ideal of manly behavior.

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Nor did Ethel know that that caricature had been the cause of the black eye that Harry had brought home last summer.

THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGE

His look of consternation was exaggerated into a most comical caricature, in order to hide how much of it was real.

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SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985

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