Bonifatus wrote:Four-eyes crony kills me every time they say it though. IIRC that was forced by Khara when they took over the 3.33 dub though wasn’t it?
Yeah. And I bet by now Tiffany Grant has developed an involuntarily twitch every time she had to say it.
And crony is the wrong word for what Asuka claims Mari is. Crony means a close friend, accomplice, henchman, that sort of thing. Cronyism is "the appointment of friends and associates to positions of authority, without proper regard to their qualifications." but being on the receiving end of that doesn't make you a crony. It would only make sense if said you were someone's crony. And that's not said. So it doesn't sound right.
Though to be fair I can't think of anything better that gets the point across. Just calling her "Glasses" or "Four-Eyes" like in the first 3.0 dub just makes Asuka sound petty and childish. The best I can come up with is something like "Little Miss Brown-Nose" but that doesn't really work.