Fandom Quiz Thing, God, I Suck
Apr. 6th, 2005 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infiniteprydeFandom quiz thing - list 15 fandoms, have people guess your favorite character in each, update list as people guess right, etc., etc.
Except I suck, because I could only think of 11 fandoms I even have an overall favorite character in. And it only makes it to 11 by splitting hairs. Most of these are giveaways, but not all; and there are two independent trends involved, so I'll be amused to see who gets which.
1) Amber:
2) Babylon 5: Londo, nailed by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
technis. Now, don't get me wrong. Londo is an insufferable, self-centered, self-righteous bastard. His decisions and choices are responsible for much of the horror in Babylon 5; he is in and of himself responsible for millions or billions of intelligent lifeforms dying. And yet. And yet. There are two scenes that stand out in my mind, from all of Babylon 5. Lord Refa's death scene will summon me from all the way across the house; the image of Londo staring in horror out at the destruction he's caused only doesn't summon me because it doesn't have a characteristic sound associated. I love many things about B5, and many characters and scenes and lines in it. But Londo is unique in the series: he trades his soul away for power, and then, knowing he has almost no hope of getting his soul back, does his damnedest to undo what he's done all the same.
3) Buffy (seasons 1-3 only): Pre-Super-Lesbian-Witch Willow, nailed bykara_fm_krypton. I have no problems with either the girl-likin' or the powers, but the changes to the character after Season 3 weren't to my liking. (... neither were the changes to the show in general, actually.) As for why? ... well, Kara nailed that, too - she's basically Kitty.
4) Dragonlance:
5) Dresden Files:
6) Excalibur: Pete Wisdom, nailed by Austin, not that it's all that difficult. Mmmmm snarkiness. Also, sadly, fairly close to my preferred physical type. Yes, that is pathetic.
7) Gotham/Bat-Family: Renee Montoya, nailed byterrasias, who gets bonus points right alongside Kara - since I'd completely forgotten she existed when I noted down my answers. (I'd been thinking Steph, FYI - and for those of you who know how unfond I am of canonSteph, you may derive how unfond I am of the Bats in general. Spoiler was the only reason I had for picking up any of the direct Batbooks - but I've picked up more GCPD for Montoya than I have actual current issues of Steph-related stuff, so Renee wins.) Have you noticed the 'chick with no special abilities, but kicking ass because she thinks it's important to do so' theme here yet? ;)
(Bonus points tokara_fm_krypton, who remembered that I like pre-Crisis Huntress, but I was thinking current Gotham rather than retconned. :) )
8) Green Arrow: Mia Dearden, tagged bytarotchan. Mia doesn't kick ass because she was born to it. She doesn't kick ass because her parents did. She doesn't kick ass because she has special superhuman powers. She kicks ass because dammit, it's important, and nobody including the guy she wants to learn from and fight beside is gonna stop her. I had no idea who she was when samy solicited me to play her; she's now my favorite character still being published regularly. Sigh. ;)
9) Legion of Super-Heroes:
10) Star Trek: Tasha Yar, called bytechnis. You wanna know why I stopped watching Star Trek series? Tasha is it. In the first season of ST:TNG, Tasha was the only character I really attached to hard. And then? Gone. I know from later viewings of reruns that things picked up later, but in that first series, Tasha was the only reason for me to watch. She grew up in hell, and then she put herself to work trying to make sure nobody else would have to; she was so badly scarred that the only person she was attracted to was an android, but she didn't let that stop her. (Bev. Guinan. PFEH. ;) )
11) X-Men: Kitty Pryde, also nailed by Austin; there are privileges to bein' first. She's smart, she's bright, she made her choices a long time ago, and she'll bite your head off if you try to take that choice away.
Except I suck, because I could only think of 11 fandoms I even have an overall favorite character in. And it only makes it to 11 by splitting hairs. Most of these are giveaways, but not all; and there are two independent trends involved, so I'll be amused to see who gets which.
1) Amber:
2) Babylon 5: Londo, nailed by
technis. Now, don't get me wrong. Londo is an insufferable, self-centered, self-righteous bastard. His decisions and choices are responsible for much of the horror in Babylon 5; he is in and of himself responsible for millions or billions of intelligent lifeforms dying. And yet. And yet. There are two scenes that stand out in my mind, from all of Babylon 5. Lord Refa's death scene will summon me from all the way across the house; the image of Londo staring in horror out at the destruction he's caused only doesn't summon me because it doesn't have a characteristic sound associated. I love many things about B5, and many characters and scenes and lines in it. But Londo is unique in the series: he trades his soul away for power, and then, knowing he has almost no hope of getting his soul back, does his damnedest to undo what he's done all the same.3) Buffy (seasons 1-3 only): Pre-Super-Lesbian-Witch Willow, nailed by
kara_fm_krypton. I have no problems with either the girl-likin' or the powers, but the changes to the character after Season 3 weren't to my liking. (... neither were the changes to the show in general, actually.) As for why? ... well, Kara nailed that, too - she's basically Kitty.4) Dragonlance:
5) Dresden Files:
6) Excalibur: Pete Wisdom, nailed by Austin, not that it's all that difficult. Mmmmm snarkiness. Also, sadly, fairly close to my preferred physical type. Yes, that is pathetic.
7) Gotham/Bat-Family: Renee Montoya, nailed by
terrasias, who gets bonus points right alongside Kara - since I'd completely forgotten she existed when I noted down my answers. (I'd been thinking Steph, FYI - and for those of you who know how unfond I am of canonSteph, you may derive how unfond I am of the Bats in general. Spoiler was the only reason I had for picking up any of the direct Batbooks - but I've picked up more GCPD for Montoya than I have actual current issues of Steph-related stuff, so Renee wins.) Have you noticed the 'chick with no special abilities, but kicking ass because she thinks it's important to do so' theme here yet? ;)(Bonus points to
kara_fm_krypton, who remembered that I like pre-Crisis Huntress, but I was thinking current Gotham rather than retconned. :) )8) Green Arrow: Mia Dearden, tagged by
tarotchan. Mia doesn't kick ass because she was born to it. She doesn't kick ass because her parents did. She doesn't kick ass because she has special superhuman powers. She kicks ass because dammit, it's important, and nobody including the guy she wants to learn from and fight beside is gonna stop her. I had no idea who she was when samy solicited me to play her; she's now my favorite character still being published regularly. Sigh. ;)9) Legion of Super-Heroes:
10) Star Trek: Tasha Yar, called by
technis. You wanna know why I stopped watching Star Trek series? Tasha is it. In the first season of ST:TNG, Tasha was the only character I really attached to hard. And then? Gone. I know from later viewings of reruns that things picked up later, but in that first series, Tasha was the only reason for me to watch. She grew up in hell, and then she put herself to work trying to make sure nobody else would have to; she was so badly scarred that the only person she was attracted to was an android, but she didn't let that stop her. (Bev. Guinan. PFEH. ;) )11) X-Men: Kitty Pryde, also nailed by Austin; there are privileges to bein' first. She's smart, she's bright, she made her choices a long time ago, and she'll bite your head off if you try to take that choice away.
