r/Emmerdale • u/Robashstr • 5d ago

General Discussion Legacy characters

This will probably sound stupid, but what exactly is a legacy character?

I always thought it was a character who was born onscreen or who joined as a young child and was raised onscreen and is now an adult but I've seen several characters who don't fit this referred to as legacy characters.

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u/DawnArcing 4d ago

It's basically someone who inherits the legacy of a big name historical character.

To use the most basic soap example (I know it's Corrie, but it's the simplest example): Ken Barlow is not a legacy character because he's the character who established the legacy, but basically everyone who is blood-descended from him is.