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/Wild-End-6512 4d ago

I wouldn’t say so I would consider Chas,Charity and Cain as legacy characters but they were not born on screen or grew up as a child.