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itsnotmymindMeme from around. You give me a fandom (see tags for some of the possibilities), and I tell you eleven things:
The character I least understand
Interactions I enjoyed the most
The character who scares me the most
The character who is mostly like me
Hottest looks character
One thing I dislike about my favorite character
One thing I like about my hated character
A quote or scene that haunts me
A death that left me indifferent
A character I wish died but didn’t
My ship that never sailed
You are tagged if you want to be.
The character I least understand
Interactions I enjoyed the most
The character who scares me the most
The character who is mostly like me
Hottest looks character
One thing I dislike about my favorite character
One thing I like about my hated character
A quote or scene that haunts me
A death that left me indifferent
A character I wish died but didn’t
My ship that never sailed
You are tagged if you want to be.
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Date: 2016-05-14 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-15 01:45 am (UTC)I feel like I have a good grasp on most of the main characters. Maybe Kennedy - I wish I understood her better, but for me she blurs into the other potentials and I don't fully get her.
Interactions I enjoyed the most
#1 Buffy/Spike. #2 Xander and Willow. #3 Everyone and everyone.
The character who scares me the most
Do the Gentlemen count as characters? If not, well, Warren is pretty horrifying. Because he is so mundane.
The character who is mostly like me
Willow Rosenberg
Hottest looks character
Spike
One thing I dislike about my favorite character
Buffy has this tendency towards...fandom tends to call it "self-involvement", which works well enough. It's like she loses perspective and blows her own stuff out of proportion. Declaring "Faith wins again" because she and Angel had a tiff while Faith is going to prison for stuff like murder.
One thing I like about my hated character
Hating characters on BtVS is not a thing I do. My least favorite characters are (in no particular order), Riley, Anya, and Tara. However there are many things I love about those characters. I love Riley because his worldview has gone unquestioned for so long and then we get to watch it fall apart. I love Anya because her view of the world is so cockeyed. I love Tara because she has so little confidence in her value to the people around her, and yet she has this quiet confidence in herself.
A quote or scene that haunts me
Buffy finding out about Ford's illness in Lie To Me. "You have a choice. You don't have a good choice, but you have a choice! You're opting for mass murder here, and nothing you say is gonna make that okay![...]I think this is all part of your little fantasy drama! Isn't this exactly how you imagined it? You tell me how you've suffered and I feel sorry for you. Well, I do feel sorry for you, and if those vampires come in here and start feeding, I'll kill you myself!"
Also, Jonathan in Conversations with Dead People:
Andrew: You know what? They don't wanna talk to you—all those people you just mentioned. Not one of them is sitting around going, "I wonder what Jonathan's up to right now." Not one of them cares about you.
Jonathan: Well, I still care about them. That's why I'm here.
A death that left me indifferent
Well, it was hard to keep track of all those potentials.
A character I wish died but didn’t
I can't think of any.
My ship that never sailed
I always thought Faith/Spike would be fun.
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Date: 2016-05-15 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-15 12:43 pm (UTC)Both will be non-X-verse for simplicity's sake.
Comics
The character I least understand
I always had a hard time with Rick Jones. And comicverse Elektra. I do not know what goes on inside her head.
Interactions I enjoyed the most
I always liked DD and Spidey's friendship. And Matt's relationships with both Foggy and Natasha. And Foggy and Natasha's friend-of-a-friend relationship with each other. Also, Peter/MJ OTP.
The character who scares me the most
Venom was pretty creepy on a good day. Also I love Matt but he SCARED ME sometimes.
The character who is mostly like me
Possibly Karolina Dean. Probably Karolina Dean.
Hottest looks character
This is a tough one in comics where character looks vary so wildly based on writer. Maybe Matt.
One thing I dislike about my favorite character
I'll count Matt Murdock and Jessica Jones as my favorite favorites. I actually am having a hard time thinking about flaws they have that really irritate me. Also, because I've been watching the shows, I'm getting their TV-selves and their comic-selves mixed up in my head.
One thing I like about my hated character
There's a story-line in the Jessica Jones comic that made me see the appeal of Rick Jones, a bit. Just this ordinary guy who keeps finding himself in all these crazy situations.
A quote or scene that haunts me
Everything about Daredevil 191. Everything. I don't even want to spoil it, but wow.
Probably the scene with Peter and MJ at the end of the story line where Gwen Stacy dies. As a whole, I think those two issues are actually not as good as most of Gerry Conway's run, but that scene is both very important and very good.
A death that left me indifferent
I think it would be easier to name deaths that didn't. The problem with no one staying dead ever is that it stops meaning anything.
A character I wish died but didn’t
Who hasn't died? I guess I wish Peter's Aunt May had stayed dead, because her death was from natural consequences and made sense, and bringing her back mostly felt like a forced way to de-age Peter.
My ship that never sailed
Totally rooting for Matt and Peter to have a relationship. Which is weird, because usually I don't like relationships where the two parties met while one was an adult and one was a teenager. But due to their statue as superheroes with secret identities, they didn't interact in the unequal way that most adults and teens do. Still, any relationship would have to start after Peter was firmly of age.
Cinema-verse
Date: 2016-05-15 12:57 pm (UTC)The character I least understand
I saw the first Avenger's movie and the first Thor movie, but I don't pay a lot of attention to him, so I can't claim to get him.
Interactions I enjoyed the most
Jessica and Trish. Matt and Foggy. Tony and Rhodey. Tony and Pepper.
The character who scares me the most
Kilgrave is pretty horrifying. On many different levels.
The character who is mostly like me
No one is coming to me.
Hottest looks character
Tony Stark.
One thing I dislike about my favorite character
I'm not sure if it's fair to be disturbed by the way Jessica shocks Kilgrave when he taunts her while he's in that cage. What he did to her, to so many other people, was so unbelievable horrible...and yet, especially when it's tied with the other ways we see Jessica lashing out in anger, it does bother me.
One thing I like about my hated character
I don't hate Claire Temple, but she leaves me cold. I do like her particular brand of snarkiness sometimes. She seems to get the superhero thing, what makes it bad and what makes it good, in a way that a lot of other characters can't. Maybe they're too close to it.
A quote or scene that haunts me
The Kingpin's realization at the end of Daredevil season 1 that he's not the good guy.
A death that left me indifferent
All I can think of are villains and side-characters.
A character I wish died but didn’t
My ship that never sailed
Re: Cinema-verse
Date: 2016-05-15 01:39 pm (UTC)I love all your fave-interactions relationships! Jessica and Trish <3 I am so weak for central sibling relationships. I loved Tony & Rhodey in Civil War!
Re: Cinema-verse
Date: 2016-05-15 03:55 pm (UTC)Trish and her relationship with Jessica was for me the best surprise of Jessica Jones.
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Date: 2016-05-15 01:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-15 04:16 pm (UTC)Probably Castiel, since I ignore him as much as possible. Also Anna, especially her decision to try to kill Sam.
Interactions I enjoyed the most
I would be quite surprised if it were possible to be an SPN fan if you weren't interested and in some way invested in Sam and Dean's relationship.
The character who scares me the most
That little girl in Providence. O. M. G.
Bloody Mary was scary, too. One thing I do regret is how the later seasons lost the scary. That part never got better than S1.
The character who is mostly like me
Dean quoting that particular line from Lord of the Rings at the end of that super racist episode just solidified what I already knew.
Hottest looks character
Dean Winchester
One thing I dislike about my favorite character
Sam can be condescending towards women.
One thing I like about my hated character
Crowley's whole attitude towards demon Dean kind of entertained me.
A quote or scene that haunts me
A lot of the stuff demon Dean said to Sam pushed my buttons. Sam telling Dean it's going to be okay in NRftW, knowing what will happen. The expression on siren-influenced Sam's face while he's taunting Dean about Dean's hell-trauma.
A death that left me indifferent
Far too many, but Charlie's was the worst. I had really liked Charlie, even. But the writers had gone to the well of killing off Sam and Dean's friends too many times. It stopped meaning anything. Too many of their friends weren't even remembered (Caleb, anyone?).
I knew SPN had a reputation for killing off all the woman years before I started watching. The Pilot just underscored that. So when Charlie died, I didn't care. I just thought, "Really? Seriously? Killing off a gay female side character to motivate your straight white male characters?" I mean, if you're going to tell a sexist story at least be original about it. Don't grab an infamous cliché and then repeat it over and over.
A character I wish died but didn’t
Castiel. Crowley. Castiel. Bobby should have died sooner. Castiel. If Castiel and Bobby had stayed dead at the end of Swan Song, I might have considered liking season five.
My ship that never sailed
Supernatural is a claustrophobic enough show that it can be hard to pick out good ships, especially those that never actually happened. There are relationships that I would have liked to see more or less of, but I can't think of any that I wanted to happen yet never did.