English
Flanderization
From Flanders + -ization (suffix forming nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing or making something), from the American animated television series The Simpsons (first broadcast in 1989) where the character Ned Flanders underwent a progressive shift from a good-natured Christian to a religious fundamentalist.
Formed from Flanders + -ization
Proto-West Germanic *flaumdr ‘waterlogged land’
Middle Dutch Vlâendren
Anglo-Norman Flaundre
Middle English Flaundres
English Flanders
The story
The word was coined on the popular culture wiki TV Tropes around 2006.
Today it means
noun The progressive exaggeration of a single trait or set of traits of a fictional character until it overtakes all other characterization.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Flanderization