Ellen Peck/TV Tropes page

Ellen Peck is the creator of the Aaron franchise, and the current CEO of ArgosyMTM Group. She has created several iconic TV shows in the medium of Western Animation, and has been credited as making Argosy Animation a true rival to Hanna-Barbera (and later on, Nicktoons and Disney Television Animation), instead of just a Z-list company that copied other studios. She also used to be a newspaper cartoonist from 1984-91 (where the Aaron franchise got its start, if you don’t count Vanity Plates), and a voice actress until 1999.

Tropes related to Ellen Peck:

 * Berserk Button:
 * Don’t get too political around her; she is a proud centrist, and hasn’t voted in any US elections since at least the late-80s. She has even led movements to “Boycott the Vote”.
 * Do not mention NFTs, blockchain, cryptocurrency, or anything related. Ellen vastly hates them. If any of ArgosyMTM’s subsidiaries try doing NFTs without her knowledge, she steps in, terminates the contract, gets the lawyers to cease-and-desist the NFT company, and usually demotes the executives responsible to some other, less-respected part of the conglomerate. There have been cases of entire subsidiaries being merged and losing their autonomy within the company, all because some executive dared to mention the word “NFT”. She revealed in a tweet that Tara Strong ended up on an internal Argosy “blacklist” of people not to work with, for participating in the creation of an NFT-funded holiday special; such blacklist was known to exist before, back to the start of the #MeToo movement (at least), but it only contained sexual harassers and abusers. In fact, one anonymous Argosy employee has said that not only are most NFT marketplaces (such as Rarible and OpenSea) blocked from Argosy’s corporate network under the reason of “malware/phishing”, but that attempting to connect to “.eth” domains (an alternative blockchain-based DNS) on an Argosy corporate network, redirects you to a shock site.
 * She is strongly pro-trans-rights, and thinks “TERFs” are just another faction of “SJWs”. Don’t mention JK Rowling (or anything written by JK Rowling) around her; she will just tell you to “read another book”.
 * She especially hates Elon Musk; don’t call Musk a “genius” (or anything positive) around Ellen.
 * In her opinion, both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard should get therapy for their actions towards each other, instead of constantly suing each other. Telling her that Johnny is somehow better than Amber, or Amber is somehow better than Johnny, will get you told that they’re both bad in her eyes.
 * Do NOT act like an anti-vaxxer around Ellen. Especially if you use the “side effects” excuses, which she has dubbed as “BUT MUH BLOOD CLOTS!!!” and “BUT MUH MYOCARDITIS!!!”.
 * Catch Phrase:
 * ”You fucking idiot!” (often combined with the Jeopardy theme song, and/or the ending screen from Super Mario World; possibly a reference to an old Vinesauce Joel stream)
 * ”You fucking tolmencre!” (also doubles as a Bilingual Bonus, as in the conlang Lojban (which Ellen has learned along with Toki Pona while not working on Argosy projects), “tolmencre” roughly translates to “idiot”)
 * To make fun of political opponents, she often uses the snowclone, “(but) muh X!” (for example, “MUH ERASING WOMEN!!1” to make fun of TERFs, and “but muh Solana!” in response to attempts to greenwash NFTs).
 * Moment of Awesome: In early January 2022 when she personally bought the Blockbuster brand name from Dish Network, simply to keep it out of the hands of Web3/blockchain shills. (At least according to her fans.) The Blockbuster brand was later sold to Peck’s own ArgosyMTM Group, which plans to use it for a free streaming service, to launch sometime in mid-2022.
 * Start My Own: Another thing she has done recently is make her own charities as a Moral Substitute for charities that use NFTs to fundraise. So far, there have been two: the Ellen Peck Fund for Children (EPFC) for UNICEF, and Girls in STEM Foundation for Girls Who Code.
 * It’s not just charities: for example, Kickstarter announces a move to the blockchain. The next day, in a press release, ArgosyMTM Group announces plans to launch their own, open-source, crowdfunding platform, called “Asterion”. (Doubles as a Meaningful Name, Punny Name, and Genius Bonus, because Asterion is a character from the story of Jason and the Argonauts, which is sometimes referred to as “The Argosy”.) When Shopify announced NFT support, Ellen quickly announced that “Asterion will also have a shop”. In fact, Ellen has made it clear that Asterion is meant to replace all of Kickstarter, Shopify, Etsy, and Patreon (despite her not having an issue with the latter two), becoming a “central hub for creators to make money off their work”.
 * Trolling Creator: Downplayed. While not mean to the Aaron fanbase, she does use the “Hatsune Miku created X” meme a lot, especially whenever someone she used to respect does NFTs. She is also known for purging underlings who dare to touch anything related to NFTs or blockchain.