also i know he was a joke gimmick character but Allan was genuinely the most intriguing character in that movie to me from a gender standpoint- he’s existing outside of the barbie/ken binary but not necessarily in an eye-catching or interesting way; adjacent to ken but not quite ken enough to be a ken and definitely not a barbie but ends up grouped with the barbies when the kens take over; non-conforming and subversive but not really in a cool way like weird barbie. basically the point here is that michael cera is good at portraying vaguely transgender discomfort and i wish there was more allan in that movie for my own personal sake