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Walter the Softy

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refers to her as Walter's sister, but she has not appeared since. The 1996 cartoon revealed he had an uncle who was a barber named Slasher obsessed with Dennis' hair. Walter's parents were always characterised as a wealthy couple who spoil their son, but Walter's post-2012 reincarnation shows his father, Wilbur, as the prideful, smug mayor of Beanotown, who was once Dennis' father's bullying target when they were children (implying that Wilbur was the original Walter who has now toughened up somewhat).
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Walter is friends with other schoolboys who are as hardworking and unmanly like him, with similar hobbies. Originally, he had two: Algernon Scott "Scotty" (formerly "Spotty") Perkins and Bertram James "Bertie" Blenkinsop, but the magazine and children's cartoons have also introduced "Sweet" William,
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who is vilified because of his lack of interest in stereotypically masculine activities and attitudes. From his first appearance in 1953, Walter became the target of Dennis' pranks and misbehaviour but would brush it off. Sometime in the 1980s, Walter's characterisation changed after reader backlash
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series after Dennis' parents changed into new designs, and his father was revealed as the original Dennis three years later. Despite this, Walter still lives with his mother and father, and his pets. In his original characterisation, a girl named Priscilla made a one-issue appearance and Dennis
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spokesman Mike Stirling later said in 2013 that Walter's post-2012 version would hopefully be "dramatically satisfying" reason for readers if Dennis turned violent because " doesn't want to be a kid, he wants to be a grownup and is always snitching on kids who are having fun."
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Walter's personality and behaviour fluctuated, depending on the writer: he remained a diligent student and uninterested in playing sports, but would be a spoilt
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in another. Some stories featured Walter being courageous enough to create pranks and traps to irritate or frame Dennis, and other stories showed Dennis and/or
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win a pig race, and trying to save Dennis's favourite tree. They once find out the two are distant cousins, but it has only been mentioned once.
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who notably appeared in the 1996 cartoon; Walter was devoted to her to the point of implications that she bossed him around.
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Jeremy Snodgrass, "Softy" Matthew and "Nervous" Rex. His girlfriend Matilda was a short-tempered
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in his shirt collar, a blue jumper and black shorts. His surname was not revealed until 1994.
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intimidating him for their entertainment, with Walter too scared and startled to fight back.
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MP with upper middle-class mannerisms, asserting that Rees-Mogg was imitating Walter.
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and learned necromancy in order to kill, resurrect, and torture his bully.
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From Walter's debut, he and Dennis the Menace have been enemies. Walter's
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For an unspecified time, some former readers have assumed Walter was an
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Walter has neat black hair and wears round-lensed glasses, a red
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Walter is parodied in some editions of the adult comic
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as "Cedric Soft" in the strip about popular character
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