I think I understand, but the video still confuses me

Awesome, thanks for the feedback!

So, i was moving along in the course and I think I might have it a little bit off. I was under the impression that super() passed something down from the parent. But, now it seems like the opposite where something is being passed up from the child.

For example, say there were a "Thief" class and a "Warrior" class and the both had a parent of "Character." If you had written in the "Thief" class:

 def __init__(self,name,sneaky = True,**kwargs):
        super().__init__(name, **kwargs)
        self.sneaky = sneaky

Would the "Warrior" also be sneaky sense they share the same parent?

Also, if this is true, if you write the same method shown above into a class without a parent(written in a hidden, universal parent call "object") is it automatically applied to every class?,

Man, super() is really hard to rap my head around, but I think I have it and the perfect analogy after stumbling my way through. So, when you write:

class Thief(Character):
    sneaky = True

    def __init__(self,name,sneaky = True,**kwargs):
        super().__init__(name, **kwargs)
        self.sneaky = sneaky

It is kind like Thief having his parents(Character) over for dinner. When he tells them

super().__init__(name, **kwargs)

he's telling his parents, "you bring the name and the **kwargs." and when he's saying

self.sneaky = sneaky

he's telling them, "I'll handle the sneaky."

So when you call Thief's house you know they're having some name, **kwargs, and sneaky for dinner. But, if you call the parent's house the probably have some leftover name and **kwargs but the sneaky stayed with Thief.

That's a rather complicated and funny analogy but I think you pretty much nailed it. I might make one change, he tells his parents "Here, take this name and kwargs and cook them for me. I'll handle the sneaky."

Quinton Dobbs, I very much enjoyed your analogy. It helped me understand super() better. Thanks Steven Parker for adding in your ideas about super() and further cementing in the concept.

This was excellent! I seriously read through all of the Q&A on this video because I couldn't understand it, even outside of Treehouse and this was the one that made the most sense and allowed me to pass my code challenge. Thanks for the humor guys! :)