📢LORE ALERT! ELIZA HAS SURNAME

"dogzdinner;c-18155431" wrote:
Interesting...is it an American thing for teens to have moustaches? I really dont ever remember them being a cool thing (unless the sim version of Magnum PI was popular when they were younger!).

Well to be fair, Mortimer's in his 40's, probably nearing his 50's. He was in Highschool back in the 90's or, if we're being generous here, possibly in the late 80's.

Also now that I think of it, back in highschool I remember having a mustache along with several other guys just because when you could KINDA grow facial hair when you're 14 or 15 you would just take advantage of it and grow it out to show off to your friends who can't even get decent peach fuzz.

"Simmingal;c-18155403" wrote:
I mean he could be but then we have no explanation for Malcolm flipping his whole personality upside down

People change as they grow older, plus this is more in line with the previous incarnations of Malcolm. By the time we see him in the Sims 3, he had been rebooted two or three times already.

The thing is, Malcolm Landgraab is literally the only sim that predates the Sims, debuting in SimCity 3000 as the profit driven billionaire and property developer who wants to bend the will of the city so he can increase his profit margins.

In the Sims 1, he and his businesses are only mentioned in chance cards and lot descriptions.

The Sims 1 console games is probably where a lot of people know him from. Here he is a major supporting character who wants you to fix up his properties (at your own expense), and turn the lives of his kids around. Then after he marries, and later divorces your mother, he takes his anger out on you, and the town.

We can probably see this as all the same Malcolm. A career driven property mogul who sees no issue in bending people to his will and do his bidding, whether through force, coercion or corruption.

In the Sims 2, this Malcolm (and his children) were mentioned in career chance cards, but ultimately they decided to scrap this Malcolm and replace him with the un-Malcolmest Malcolm Landgraab ever, a party playboy who inherits his businesses (also let's face it, after the base game, they stopped putting in any effort into lore and backstory, or trying to connect it with the larger Sims world - seriously, who remembers the people of Bluewater Village, or Riverblossom Hills).

The Sims 3 brings yet another reboot, and in an effort to do a whole backstory thing like with Bella and Mortimer, accidentally made his mother, meme boss Nancy Landgraab the star of the show, and like 2, we get a Malcolm a goody two shoes Malcolm, who is again, at odds with the values and characteristics of Malcolm Landgraab. Note he is not the only one like this, for example, Mortimer Goth has the Grumpy trait in 3 despite 1 and 2 describing him as cheerful and outgoing - a complete 180 on his personality. Or do you think Gunther and Cornelia had a second child named Mortimer too?

Yeah, maybe Malcolm was a good innocent little kid, and became evil in his adulthood. That would make for interesting fan written backstories. Same with morty getting more cheerful as he grew up, maybe Bella had something to do with it.

The Malcolm Landgraab of Sims 2 is Malcolm Landgraab IV, implying that there were other Malcolms before him. So he’s probably different to the ones featured in other games.