{"id":377071,"date":"2026-09-06T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=377071"},"modified":"2026-09-06T04:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:40:07","slug":"peanuts-charlotte-braun-resurfaces-one-reader-got-her-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/peanuts-charlotte-braun-resurfaces-one-reader-got-her-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanuts\u2019 Charlotte Braun resurfaces: one reader got her dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story behind Charlotte Braun\u2019s removal from Peanuts<\/em> in early 1955<\/strong> has been making the rounds again. Charles M. Schulz introduced her on November 30, 1954, then dropped the character after only 10 appearances, following a complaint from a reader named Elizabeth Swaim.<\/p>\n

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Schulz appears to have created Charlotte Braun as a female counterpart to Charlie Brown. What readers got, though, was a much louder character, complete with oversized bold lettering that clashed with the strip\u2019s softer, gentler humor. By February 1, 1955<\/strong>, Charlotte Braun was gone, and a lot of Peanuts<\/em> fans never even knew she had existed.<\/p>\n\n

When Elizabeth Swaim wrote to Charles M. Schulz asking him to remove Charlotte Braun, he sent back a reply on January 5, 1955<\/strong> that\u2019s still startling to read. He told her that she and her friends would have \u201cthe death of an innocent child on your conscience,\u201d and he even drew Charlotte Braun with an axe in her head, a dark little \u201cgetting the axe\u201d joke. It never appeared in the strip itself, but it\u2019s often treated as the closest thing Peanuts<\/em> has to an implied character death.<\/p>\n\n

If you follow Peanuts<\/em> history, this episode has a lot going on. It shows fan feedback reshaping canon<\/strong> as early as the 1950s, suggests that some of Charlotte Braun\u2019s bossy DNA may have lived on in Lucy van Pelt, and helps explain why a franchise better known for kite-eating trees, baseball losses, and Snoopy still has this odd dark footnote attached to it. You can trace the broader rediscovery of the story to Elizabeth Swaim\u2019s 2000 donation of Schulz\u2019s letter to the Library of Congress, and Charlotte Braun still pops up in later projects, including the mobile game Snoopy\u2019s Town Tale<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story behind Charlotte Braun\u2019s removal from Peanuts in early 1955 has been making the rounds again. Charles M. Schulz introduced her on November 30, 1954, then dropped the character after only 10 appearances, following a complaint from a reader named Elizabeth Swaim. Schulz appears to have created Charlotte Braun as a female counterpart to … Continue reading “Peanuts\u2019 Charlotte Braun resurfaces: one reader got her dropped”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9324,"featured_media":377070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-377071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377072,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377071\/revisions\/377072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377071"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=377071"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=377071"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=377071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}