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General => Movies and TV => Topic started by: MirrorMask on June 22, 2017, 04:24:04 AM
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Is there any TV or movie character that, even though you like to follow on the big or the small screen, you realize you'd never ever want to have anything to do with them should they be real, existing persons?
I'm not looking for *characters* you hate, just their "real persons" counterpart should they be actually real.
I'll start with some names...
Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) - I have a lifelong appreciation for The Simpsons, and Homer always crack me up, but his stupidity would be an hell to endure in real life. This was the entire point of one of their best episodes ever, the Frank Grimes one. I hope to never work with someone like Homer in real life :lol
Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory) - absolutely a thrill to watch him live, and Jim Parson is amazing at potrraying him. But dealing for real with such a self absorbed narcisist, totally OCD borderline autistic? no thanks.
Rodrigo (Mozart in the Jungle) - as much as it's hilarous to see this young and charming director doing things in his own way, he's completely hammered the entire time, and needs to be followed around more than a child. I'm not so sure his talents and his general goodness, in real life, would be enough to make everyone forget of how much of a completely stoned wild card he is every moment he's awake.
Nick Miller (New Girl) - he's loveable and funny, and good hearted, yes... but he's completely immature, absurd, and very stubborn. I would find hard to put up with all his goofiness just because at times he's funny, someone so messed up would never be able to score the girls he gets throughout the series.
Sherlock Holmes, his latest Cumberbatch version (Sherlock Holmes) - the smartest man alive, and he damn well knows it, and loses no occasion to show it off. Well, if he were real, I'd probably never have to deal wit him 'cause he's such a recluse, but I don't know if I'd ever see the genius beneath the arrogance and contempt he would surely display.
I will probably think of more, feel free to add your lists of characters that you love, but as long as they stay in fiction and they never materialize as real persons :lol
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Walter White, Stringer Bell, Lorne Malvo, Vic Mackey, Al Swearengen & All the Lannisters. - I'd probably end up dead, mostly likely betrayed first.
JL Picard - Insufferable self righteous bore.
Oh and the guy in my Profile pic.
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Denny Crane
Woody Boyd
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Lorne Malvo
Well, depends on which persona he's portraying. He can be quite charming and reassuring, he managed to go undercover for six months and create a life as a respected dentist after all.
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Dwight Schrute.
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Theodore Bagwell
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Lorne Malvo
Well, depends on which persona he's portraying. He can be quite charming and reassuring, he managed to go undercover for six months and create a life as a respected dentist after all.
...Then he killed everyone.
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Lorne Malvo
Well, depends on which persona he's portraying. He can be quite charming and reassuring, he managed to go undercover for six months and create a life as a respected dentist after all.
...Then he killed everyone.
Bah. You're nitpicking.
;D
Nah, of course you're right, it's just that generally the explanation for why not wanting anything to do with any charming bad guy in the end it's the same... "he/she's gonna kill me". That's why I was thinking of a non-killing version of Malvo.
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Peter Vankman
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Leo Getz
Wayne and Garth
Austin Powers
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Tony Stark
Captain Jack Sparrow
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Good call on both, especially Jack Sparrow.
I was about to try and defend Tony Stark as well, but I realize that he probably would be an obnoxious a-hole all the time :lol
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I was about to try and defend Tony Stark as well, but I realize that he probably would be an obnoxious a-hole all the time :lol
Yeah, I'm sure he would be hard to live with. :)
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Moira Rose from the show Schitt's Creek.
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Peter Vankman
Honestly, you can just say that about any Bill Murray role where he is a sarcastic wiseass (see: most of them).
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The Queen says Nicky Reagan from the tv show Blue Bloods. She can't stand that bitch. :lol
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Dwight Schrute.
I came here just to post this!
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The Queen says Nicky Reagan from the tv show Blue Bloods. She can't stand that bitch. :lol
But this thread is about great characters. :P I've never liked her.
Maybe Danny Reagan though. :lol
And I have no idea who most of these characters are or what they're from.
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I feel like........most of them? Most characters are so heightened in their portrayals that I imagine they'd get very tiring very quickly in real life.
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hannibal lecter
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hannibal lecter
Well, as long as he doesn't plan to eat you (He can't eat everyone he knows, can he?) he could be quite pleasant.
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Darth Vader
Agent Smith
Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega
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The Queen says Nicky Reagan from the tv show Blue Bloods. She can't stand that bitch. :lol
But this thread is about great characters. :P I've never liked her.
Maybe Danny Reagan though. :lol
And I have no idea who most of these characters are or what they're from.
I told her that to. Her hate just took over. :lol
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Peter Griffin
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Erlich Bachman. Instead of seeing 5 minutes of him a week, imagine living with him.
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Great thread!
Motherfucking Rustin Cohle.
Brilliant, depressed, occasionally deranged, macabre, meticulous... and 100% annoying as all hell in real life. I think five minutes into meeting him, even if he was investigating your own case, I'd be telling him to shut the fuck up and to forget about my murdered *whoever*. :lol
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Erlich Bachman. Instead of seeing 5 minutes of him a week, imagine living with him.
Great call! he's an awesome character and TJ Miller does wonders with him, but yeah, should he exist, please let me be as far away from him as I can.
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I forgot someone I wanted to put in my original list: Lucifer, from the show named after him.
It's hilarious to watch him but were he real, his partner would have already shot him between the eyes a dozen times, his charisma and good looks work well only on the screen, otherwise he's so annoying and egomaniacal that he makes Tony Stark look humble :lol
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Peter Vankman
I wanted to agree at first, but now it makes me slightly sad because I share his same sarcasm and capacity for one-liners, although with more puns... which I imagine makes me even more unbearable.
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Adrian Monk
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Will Hunting. Intimidating in every way and you'd have no ground to stand as an equal.
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Barnabas Collins
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Virtually everyone on Scrubs.
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Phoebe on Friends. I hate those "duh, I'm cute because I'm an airhead" type roles. It's not cute; it's irritating.
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Phoebe on Friends. I hate those "duh, I'm cute because I'm an airhead" type roles. It's not cute; it's irritating.
I'd rather put up with a Phoebe over a Monica any day.
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Phoebe on Friends. I hate those "duh, I'm cute because I'm an airhead" type roles. It's not cute; it's irritating.
I'd rather put up with a Phoebe over a Monica any day.
Me too, and Monica over Rachel.
My general answer is any of those quippy, smarmy, too-smart-for-school people. The character that Joel McHale plays on his show, for example.
I might also add some of the people on the procedurals that have no social life and are in the office 21.5 hours every day and beat themselves up like Chris Farley when they don't solve the Jack The Ripper mystery in half an episode. Abby Schiuto comes to mind here (you can put any of the hipster IT people here from any of the procedural shows).
I would put "Tig" Trager in here, only because I would be scared shitless of him. He's a maniac.
Who would you LIKE to hang with?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs
- Any of the DiMeo family members on the Sopranos (bet you didn't know that was the name of the crime family!)
- Jack on "This Is Us"
- Barga or Rollins on "Law And Order: SVU"
- Sipowicz on NYPD Blue
- Jax on Sons of Anarchy (though I'd be scared)
- Tommy Gavin, Janet Gavin, and Sheila Keefe from Rescue Me
- Janet Gavin from Rescue Me
- Sheila Keefe from Rescue Me
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Phoebe on Friends. I hate those "duh, I'm cute because I'm an airhead" type roles. It's not cute; it's irritating.
I'd rather put up with a Phoebe over a Monica any day.
Me too, and Monica over Rachel.
I feel like you and I could be.....friends.
Not even going to apologize for that one.
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Phoebe on Friends. I hate those "duh, I'm cute because I'm an airhead" type roles. It's not cute; it's irritating.
I'd rather put up with a Phoebe over a Monica any day.
I'll take neurotic over dopey. :lol
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Phoebe on Friends. I hate those "duh, I'm cute because I'm an airhead" type roles. It's not cute; it's irritating.
I'd rather put up with a Phoebe over a Monica any day.
I'll take neurotic over dopey. :lol
Monica is insufferable.
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Phoebe on Friends. I hate those "duh, I'm cute because I'm an airhead" type roles. It's not cute; it's irritating.
I'd rather put up with a Phoebe over a Monica any day.
I'll take neurotic over dopey. :lol
Monica is insufferable.
And extraordinarily selfish and self-centered. Someone like that in real life would drive you insane.
I think some forget how freaking hot Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) was. Courteney Cox was really nice to listen to early on in the series, too (she looked amazing in Season 4 with the shorter haircut), but as Cox got too thin and scrawny-looking, her character got more insufferable.
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Jennifer Aniston was so hot during the first couple seasons of Friends that I would tolerate any personality from her character.
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I never found any of them exceedingly attractive. Jennifer Aniston just irritates me in general, Phoebe is a dope, and well Gale Weathers. Nuff said.
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I feel like I might be the only guy on earth who is in no way attracted to Jennifer Aniston.
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Jennifer Aniston was so hot during the first couple seasons of Friends that I would tolerate any personality from her character.
Pretty much. I actually think she was at her hottest in the early seasons when she still had a little bit of baby fat on her. That episode in Season 1 where she loses Ross' monkey might have been her at the height of her hotness. Wearing that plaid skirt and knee high socks. Yama-hama. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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Jennifer Aniston was so hot during the first couple seasons of Friends that I would tolerate any personality from her character.
Pretty much. I actually think she was at her hottest in the early seasons when she still had a little bit of baby fat on her. That episode in Season 1 where she loses Ross' monkey might have been her at the height of her hotness. Wearing that plaid skirt and knee high socks. Yama-hama. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
We're venturing pretty far off topic here, but I agree that she was at her hottest then, before she got thinner.
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I feel like I might be the only guy on earth who is in no way attracted to Jennifer Aniston.
Did you just completely miss what I wrote? :lol
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I feel like I might be the only guy on earth who is in no way attracted to Jennifer Aniston.
Did you just completely miss what I wrote? :lol
Nope. I said guy.
OH SNAP!
I actually wanted to say it, but then you said your thing, so I figured I'd ignore it and post it anyway :millahhhh
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- Tommy Gavin, Janet Gavin, and Sheila Keefe from Rescue Me Yes Stadler, so true, I would have forgot how bad Sheila was...
- Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad
- Marie Schrader from Breaking Bad
- Skylar White from Breaking Bad
- Kelso & Kitty from That 70's Show
- Joyce Byers from Stranger Things
- Woody, Cliff, Dianne from Cheers
- George from Seinfeld
- Joffrey, Sansa, Cersei from Game of Thrones
- Carl from The Walking Dead .. still ..
The list could go forever...
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George Costanza.
Abby Schiuto comes to mind here (you can put any of the hipster IT people here from any of the procedural shows).
I would agree with second part. But while it seems Abby lives in her lab, there is plenty of evidence to infer that she has a sufficient life outside of the naval yard.
Who would you LIKE to hang with?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Gibbs, despite his epic coolness, would likely be a bore. He spends all his free time working in his shop. Hanging with DiNozzo would be awesome, if only to talk film for hours on end. Plus he'd probably foot the bar tab. He would be the worst wingman though.
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Peggy Hill - I really despise her on King of the Hill. I've known a few people in the work environment who had similar traits as her, such as never admitting you're wrong, or over estimating you're competence.
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I wouldn't say Peggy is a "Great" TV character, but yes she would be insufferable. To that end, so would Dale and Bill.
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- Tommy Gavin, Janet Gavin, and Sheila Keefe from Rescue Me Yes Stadler, so true, I would have forgot how bad Sheila was...
- Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad
- Marie Schrader from Breaking Bad
- Skylar White from Breaking Bad
- Kelso & Kitty from That 70's Show
- Joyce Byers from Stranger Things
- Woody, Cliff, Dianne from Cheers
- George from Seinfeld
- Joffrey, Sansa, Cersei from Game of Thrones
- Carl from The Walking Dead .. still ..
The list could go forever...
Kitty?! No way. Great wife. Great mom. Loves her family. Works hard. Full breakfast every morning.
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I feel like I might be the only guy on earth who is in no way attracted to Jennifer Aniston.
Did you just completely miss what I wrote? :lol
Nope. I said guy.
OH SNAP!
I actually wanted to say it, but then you said your thing, so I figured I'd ignore it and post it anyway :millahhhh
(https://24.media.tumblr.com/cb8d3d1752fa5d9abe09cb6772d96f75/tumblr_mkj0jk3Tlc1r2mdfao1_500.gif)
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Urkel and Gilligan come to mind.
I have a friend who's pretty much a real life Gilligan. I want to punch him sometimes.
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Quint from Jaws.
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Willie Scott from Temple of Doom.
She's bad enough on screen.
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Will Hunting. Intimidating in every way and you'd have no ground to stand as an equal.
It's not your fault.
Also, how has nobody mention Eric Cartman yet? I assume that's just a given, but here, now we have him on the list. :)
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Bender from Futurama and every single character from It's Always Sunny.
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Leonard McCoy. For the most part just stands around to mope about the situation.
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Any character Danny McBride has been.
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Quint from Jaws.
Blaspemy. Iconic movie figure.
To give that performance and being 100% drunk off your ass,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, he gets a pass
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To sidetrack the topic, I would love to eat dinner with Kevin Spacey.