This week’s Monday Listicles is 10 Favorite Characters in TV and Movies. Where to start? Actually, that’s easy.
1) Mike Logan. From the original Law & Order. And not that Mike Logan reboot from Criminal Intent, either. I really miss the first five years of the original show.
2) Frank Pembleton. From Homicide: Life on the Street. Smartest. Detective. Ever. I do not care about your Sherlock Holmes, in whom I do not believe. I believe Frank Pembleton could exist, and we’d be better off if he did.
3) Geoffrey Plantagenet. From The Lion in Winter. What a twisted failure of a plotter. And yet somehow John Castle makes him seem sympathetic and appealing. At least to me.
4) James T. Kirk. The Shatner version, regardless of age. Shut up.
5) Leia Organa. Smarter, snarker, a better shot than her brother or the love of her life.
6) Marion Ravenwood. She can out-drink a Tibetan giant and go toe-to-toe with Indiana Jones.
7) John Adams. From 1776. Although I am very fond of the real John Adams, too.
8) Zoe Washburn, nee Alleyne. From Firefly. Zoe is the action heroine I’ve been waiting for my whole life. Thank you, Joss Whedon.
9) Justin the rat. From The Secret of NIMH. I know, I know, it sounds weird, but this rat really is pretty dreamy.
10) Hans Gruber. From Die Hard. I thought about Al Swearingen from Deadwood and Sam Gerard from The Fugitive and Liz Lemon from 30 Rock, but no. Hans Gruber it is. Plus, apparently he’s still alive on Twitter.
Honorable Mention: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on SNL’s Weekend Update. Because I’m pretty sure those are characters, and only kind of the real Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
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24 responses to “These Are a Few of My Favorite Characters”
This is awesome! We ended with Hans Gruber, too! :)-The Dose Girls
I cannot think of Time magazine without thinking of Asian Dawn.
Numbers 6-10 i was thinking “yep, absolutely” with each of them!
Nice!
I love Tina and Amy too!
They’re pretty awesome–I loved their Golden Globes hosting!
My husband and I are watching My. Pembleton in action tonight, via Netflix 🙂
I predict that a good time will be had by all.
I remember reading Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM when I was 9 or 10 and totally mooning over Justin. It was the first book I was heartbroken over for a week or more because of that rat.
We read it in 5th grade. The movie was different, but I still liked Justin. I’m getting sad about the book right now.
I am embarrassed to say, you threw me with the “real” names. I love Marion and Leia, but it took me a minute to figure out you were talking about Indy’s girlfriend and the Princess.
They are pretty incredible!
Firefly! Yes!!! I wouldn’t have picked Zoe, though… maybe Kaylee, because she’s just so freaking adorable… or Mal, because he was just so beautifully sarcastic and obnoxious…
The great thing about Firefly is how hard it is to pick.
Marion Ravenwood was a feisty one, wasn’t she? Loved her.
Definitely!
Cool list. I almost put Jon McClain on my list, but then started thinking of the old Steven Seagal characters that I like (when he was still handing out butt whoopings) and got side-tracked…Anyways, Hans Gruber…yes, he’ was a good bad guy.
It’s tough to limit it to just 10!
What a coincidence – I love Lennie Briscoe! Oh, and Det. Goren. Yeah.
You really can’t go wrong with Vincent d’Onofrio.
Interesting. Also in my case this list requires a lot of googling for me 😉 But they are all rather handsome so I totally forgive you…
🙂
Do you know what the definition of hero is? Somebody who gets other people killed.
Love Zoe.
We’re robbing the place, we’re not occupying it.