The white-clad characters functioned as life-size puppets.
The songs' characters function almost as friends, providing ways of analysing aspects of himself.
The characters function as who they extravagantly are, and also as the allegorical figures they represent.
Scott is interested solely in the characters' function in relation to the success of the mission to rescue Mark.
Some models, like the Beat and Trax, which will appear as the Autobots Skids and Mudflap for "Revenge of the Fallen," even affected how the characters functioned.
When at rest, such as waiting for a train or as a passenger on board the animated characters function in an idle cycle, which is an animated loop of small and almost imperceptible movements that characters make when they are sitting or standing.
"Which is why -- over time -- our characters' function in Aladdin changed and the humor in this show changed as well," Brian Gonzales, who plays Babkak, stated.
Box wasn't as vulgar a character as those of the generation he represents, but he does serve his characters function in the twist at the end of the film.
The piece looks at storytelling in a whole new way, examining how characters function in an interactive environment beyond the video game, and how technology is evolving this dynamic outside of traditional narratives.
Todd VanDerWerff awarded the episode with an "A" grade, and, despite noting the silliness of the story and the fact that most of the characters function as stereotypes, wrote that "'Prometheus' just works".
