So my wife bought a toy to help my son celebrate his success during potty training. Jason has recently decided he is a Thomas the Train fanatic so she naturally bought him a train from the series. When he finally reached one of the milestones she had set we gave it to him.
So I went to open the toy and found out she had bought Diesel. For those that don't know Diesel is the nominal bad guy. As a bad guy though he really doesn't rate all that high. His main trick, from what I can see, is to occasionally shove other trains around and have a bad attitude.
I tried to explain to her that as the mother of boys she needs to understand that certain toys are just not cool. Diesel is at best a marginal bad guy toy. He is not Darth Vader, which no set of Star Wars toys made sense without, he was not a stormtrooper, which made good cannon fodder. He is at best Greedo. There are just very few times where he makes sense to play with him.
I don't think she got it.
So she still had hope when she gave it to him.
The result was even more surprising than I thought. He not only doesn't play with Diesel, he has shoved him in a tiny drawer in another toy and gets very upset if you take him out.