I think both Susie and Angelica were equally bratty as one another, but in different ways.
This is true, but rather then hating Susie as a whole, I simply didn't like where they went with her character. Though there ere somme episodes where I felt Angelica went too far with her actions, I felt that Susie was too much of a goody-good.
In the beginning, in he episode where she and her family move in, I liked how they introduced her with her whinnying over a soccer ball, yet made her likable enough when she introduced herself because she seemed like a real kid. What made Rugrats work was that it knew how kids think and what personalities truly are. I could see her getting overly angry at Angelica for thinking she may have stolen her tricycle. I could relate to her helping her older sister by finding the monster that caused a blackout.
Once the series got revived, Susie role seemed to be reduced to being the one to tell Angelica that what she's doing is wrong with the babies. I wouldn't have minded it once, but it was done too many times. Not to mention that she got a little too much of a showoff when it came to her talents. They tried to make it up with that episode where she made those Reptar cereal bars that were terrible, but I generally don't like that one as she was still rewarded by Stu for finding a better use for it.
In the second Rugrats movie where Angelica told her she was trying to learn french, Susie then says some things fluently. It came off as so obnoxious that I want to tell her to shut up.
In a way, you could make the argument that she was kind of a bully to Angelica (even though Angelica bullied her as much), though I blame it on weak writing in the later seasons.
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