meme: what's your type?

[notconflicted]

So the teacup brought it up last week, or something (I don't remember two days ago, let alone last week) and it's the day after the holiday and I have no work so let's meme!

Some of us very definitely have certain types of characters that we often/usually play. With others, this isn't quite as obvious. Or maybe you just like confusing people, look, I don't know your life.

So comment below listing your characters. Feel free to list dropped characters, too. Then others will comment to you with what they think your type of character is, if any.

Get to it!

Comments

[toteshammered.livejournal.com]

Current:
THOR! (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Ulrik of Denmark (1632)
Toby Logan (The Listener)
William Murdoch (Murdoch Mysteries)
Jake Doyle (Republic of Doyle)
Bobby Drake (X-Men)
Firekeeper (Firekeeper Saga)
Bridge Carson (Power Rangers SPD)

Dropped:
Carmela Rodriguez (Young Wizards)
Xander Bly (Power Rangers Mystic Force)
Tommy Oliver (...let's just say Power Rangers Dino Thunder)

[wasthecuteone]

CANADIANS.

[dollpocalypse]

EEEE YAY I HAVE BEEN SO PUMPED FOR THIS MEME. Ahem. *clears throat*

Current:
Topher Brink (Dollhouse)
Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can)
Alec Lightwood (The Mortal Instruments)
April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Angel)

Drops:
Miley Stewart (Hannah Montana)
Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
Rebecca Logan (Greek)

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

I see quite a few dorks who have trouble speaking to the opposite sex (or same sex in Topher and Alec's case). And then people who have noooooo trouble with that at all.

[endsthegame]

Mine is probably a no-brainer, but here we go.

Current:
Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game)
Peter Wiggin (Ender's Game)
Atton Rand (Knights of the Old Republic 2)
Liara T'Soni (Mass Effect)
Kaidan Alenko (Mass Effect)
Cable (X-Men)
John Mitchell (Being Human)
Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Sarah Kerrigan (StarCraft)

Dropped:
Jeff Murdock (Coupling)
Denise Mahoney (Scrubs)
Earthworm Jim (Earthworm Jim)
Dolf Wega (Crusade in Jeans)
Jak (Jak & Daxter)
Alistair Theirin (Dragon Age: Origins)

[dollpocalypse]

OH OH OH I KNOW THIS ONE. Is it 'stoic and issuey with a side of sci-fi'?

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Current:
Luke Castellan (Percy Jackson & the Olympians)
Jace Wayland (The Mortal Instruments)
Peeta Mellark (The Hunger Games)

Dropped:
Chuck Bass (Gossip Girl)
Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter)
Dick Casablancas (Veronica Mars)
Meg Manning (Veronica Mars)
Lois Lane (Smallville)
Wallace Wells (Scott Pilgrim)
Dan Humphrey (Gossip Girl)
Marshall Eriksen (HIMYM)
Damon Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries)
Harvey Dent (Batman)
Emmett Cullen (Twilight)

There's more but those were the ones off the top of my head.

[dollpocalypse]

Loooots of egotistical dudes who fit the 'Jerk With A Heart of Gold' trope to a tee. A couple of egotistical dudes who don't. And then another group of characters who are such good people it makes your teeth hurt, like Marshall and Meg and Peeta and such.

THAT IS A VERY BALANCED LIST YOU'VE GOT THERE.

[life_inshadow]

Gah, the list is way too long. I suspect my boy "type" and my girl "type" are different, but I'd welcome theories to the contrary. Or any theories. Or pie.

Current:

Jack Priest (New Amsterdam)
Juliet Darling (Dirty Sexy Money)
Romeo Montague (Romeo + Juliet)
Tara Maclay (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones, TV verse)
Victor Mancha (Runaways/Marvel)

Dropped:

Angela Chase (My So-Called Life)
Christian (Moulin Rouge)
Claire Fisher (Six Feet Under)
Colette (Ratatouille)
Didi/ Death of the Endless (Sandman)
Dream of the Endless (Sandman. He should get an asterisk -- I picked him up from another player but would never have had the nerve to write an app on him)
Ella of Frell (Ella Enchanted, bookverse)
Elliot Reed (Scrubs)
Henry DeTamble (The Time Traveler's Wife, bookverse)
Quinn Fabray (Glee)
Sarah Walker (Chuck)
Temperance Brennan
Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
Melody Valentine (Josie & the Pussycats)
Vi (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

[dollpocalypse]

I maintain my previous answer of "Hufflepuffs." Sometimes snarky, sometimes a little caustic or not necessarily super trusting, but they're loyal to the people and values they care about.

...Which is a very general answer, but idk.

[notalender]

OKAY LET'S SEE.

Current:
Arietty Clock (The Borrowers)
Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
Vincent (Eureka)
Priestly (Ten Inch Hero)
Claudia Donovan (Warehouse 13)

Dropped:
Nadia Santos (Alias)
Artie the Strongest Man in the World (The Adventures of Pete and Pete)
Lucas (Empire Records)
Daisy Adair (Dead Like Me)
Pete Hutter (The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.)
Steerpike (Gormenghast)
Maddie and Syvvie (The Kathy and Mo Show)
Warren Cheswick (Ed)
Lola (Run, Lola, Run)
Coyote (Coyote Blue)
Castiel (Supernatural)
Sam Puckett (iCarly)
Zinzi December (Zoo City)

[dollpocalypse]

Comedic characters. A lot of whom happen to be much with the deadpan snarking and such. But usually smarter than the average comedic character, and not necessarily inclined to think of themselves as comedic (see: Cas).

[notconflicted]

Current:
Jaye Tyler (Wonderfalls)
Jaina Solo (Star Wars EU)
Annie Edison (Community)
Susan Sto Helit (Discworld)
Kitty Pryde (X-Men)
Stacey McGill (The Baby-Sitters Club)
Marasiah Fel (Star Wars EU)

Old:
Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
Brooke Davis (One Tree Hill)
Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Audrey Parker (Haven)
Quinn Morgendorffer (Daria)
Joel Robinson (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Cher Horowitz (Clueless)
Esme Weatherwax (Discworld)
Dana Whitaker (Sports Night)
Captain Liberty (The Tick)
Lily Aldrin (How I Met Your Mother)
Ka D'Argo (Farscape)
Mirax Terrik (Star Was EU)
Angela Martin (The Office)
Adrian Ivashkov (Vampire Academy)
Jane Lane (Daria)
another version of Kitty Pryde (X-Men Evolution)

There should be way more (last I knew I was tied for most characters played) but um. I don't have my list with me.

[dollpocalypse]

PFFT. THIS IS AN EASY ONE. Smart, badass, resourceful chicks who get shit done. *nods*

HERE, HAVE AN EASY ONE.

[brat_inslayage]

Active:
Kennedy [might have a last name soon stay tuned fingers crossed who knows] (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Tahiri Veila (Star Wars EU)
Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)
Stephanie Brown (DC Comics, pre-New 52)
Anakin Solo (Star Wars EU)
Jennifer Scotts (Power Rangers Time Force)
Katina Choovanski (Strangers in Paradise)
Samuel Anders (Battlestar Galactica, reboot)

Dropped
Archie Kennedy (Horatio Hornblower movieverse)
Conner McKnight (Power Rangers Dino Thunder)
Yitzhak *microphone feedback* (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
Lacey Burrows (Corner Gas)
Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables series)
Sara Stanley (The Story Girl/The Golden Road)
Janice Covington (Xena: Warrior Princess)
Sakura Nishihori (GoGo Sentai Boukenger)

I'm sure there's more. Don't ask me to remember right now.

Re: HERE, HAVE AN EASY ONE.

[life_inshadow]

You like good people, preferably heroes. They might have some rough edges, but usually those are inspired by mistreatment in the past rather than by just being jerky. (Kennedy can be bratty, but there's a difference between being spoiled and being intentionally unpleasant.)

[wasthecuteone]

Ahahaha this list is so long.

Skank Zero Hopeless-Savage (Hopeless Savages)
Z Delgado (Power Rangers SPD)
Jenny Sparks (The Authority)
Roy Harper (Green Arrow, DC)
Steve Rogers (Captain America & Avengers, Marvel)
Alex Aaron (Ares: God of War & Secret Warriors, Marvel)
Petra West (Beauty Queens)
Anna Korlov (Anna Dressed in Blood)
Natasha Romanoff (Marvel movieverse)

And as for the drops:

Miho (Sin City)
Yomiko Readman (Read or Die)
Alex Drake (Power Rangers: Time Force)
Samuel Cornick (Mercy Thompson)
Jean-Paul Beaubier (Alpha Flight & X-Men, Marvel)
Sam Witwicky (Transformers)
Jill/Jack McTeague (Cycler)
Medusalith Amaquelin (Inhumans, Marvel)
Spock (Star Trek XI)

I think that's everyone, but I would not be surprised if I was wrong.

[dollpocalypse]

Go-getting, take-the-initiative types. Many of whom are motivated by a desire to make the world better (which is what I explained very poorly when I said "idealists" the other day), but others have their own reasons and they're just fine with that, thank you.

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy (Black Jewels)
Cassie Blake (The Secret Circle books)
Savannah Levine (Women of the Otherworld)
Annja Creed-Nast (Rogue Angel)
Gwynn Hood (Princess of Thieves)
Phoebe Halliwell (Charmed)
Chloe Saunders (The Darkest Powers)

[life_inshadow]

Girls who do their best to use their gifts to make the world a better place, but who definitely have some vulnerabilities as well.

[xxlstretchpants.livejournal.com]

Current:
Jamie Madrox - (Marvel Comics)
Matt Murdock - (Marvel Comics)
Jack Carter - (Eureka)
Bruce Banner - (Marvel Movieverse)

Dropped:
Martin Blank (Grosse Pointe Blank)
MacGyver (MacGyver)
Lorne (Angel)
Gunn (Angel)
Worf (Star Trek: TNG)
Melaka Fray (Fray & Buffyverse)
Jethro Gibbs (NCIS)
K (MIB)
Layla Miller (Marvel Comics)
Lindsay Boxer (Woman's Murder Club)
Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
Ron Weasley (Harry Potter)
Dandelion Naizen (Sugarshock)
Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones and...)
Columbus Ohio (Zombieland)

And there had to be more but that's all I can think of.

[notalender]

Non-standard (and frequently goofy) hero types.

[wrongkindofsith]

Current:

Cara (Legend of the Seeker)
Lex Luthor (Smallville)
James Bond (James Bond - Reboot)
Oz (Breaking In)
Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes)
Wendy Watson (The Middleman)
Jo Harvelle (Supernatural)
Rick Castle (Castle)
Callisto (Xena: Warrior Princess)

Dropped:
Autolycus, King of Thieves (Xena-verse)
Seamus Harper (Andromeda)
Zack Addy (Bones)
Seely Booth (Bones)
Ares, God of War (Xena-verse)
Gwen Cooper (Torchwood)

[endsthegame]

Most of your kids seem to be people who have very specific ideas about how much regard they have for other people's opinions, and/or have - ahem - interesting thoughts on how to motivate people to make them better (hi, Oz!). They also have a tendency to be wounded somehow, thus motivating the weird ideas about other people's opinions.

[icecoldfrost]

Current:

Surreal SaDiablo (Black Jewels)
Aino Minako (Codename: Sailor V/Sailormoon)
Emma Frost (Generation X, Marvel 616)
Dojima Yurika (Witch Hunter Robin)
Ghanima Atreides (Children of Dune)

Dropped:

Makita (Red Star)
Anemone (Eureka 7)
Morrigan (Dragon Age: Origins)

[fewer_explosions]

Tough-as-nails, uncompromising girls who aren't too hot on revealing their vulnerabilities.

And Minako. :P

[nottheshoes.livejournal.com]

The current:
George Drayton (The Edge)
Kate Daniels (Magic Bites)
Chuck Bartowski (Chuck)
Effy Stonem (Skins)
Angela Montenegro (Bones)

And as for the dropped:
Cindy Mackenzie (Veronica Mars)
Shawn Farrell (The 4400)

[whenshewasnice]

Currently:

Karolina Dean (Runaways)
Electroclash (No Heroics)
Natalie V. Adams (Scott Pilgrim)
Jeremy Darling (Dirty Sexy Money)
Kate Gregson (United States of Tara)

And up until last week:

Simon Bellamy (Misfits)

[dollpocalypse]

BRIE LARSONS.

Also, people who aren't big on trusting others and letting them in, on account of varying issues and such, but who eventually will to certain select people. Sometimes. If they feel like it.

...And Jeremy.

[trigons_child]

Current:
Raven (Teen Titans)
Angelica Jones (Marvel)
Leia Organa (Star Wars)
Wyatt Halliwell (Charmed)
Belthazor/Cole Turner (Charmed)

Dropped:
Vida Boheme (To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar)
Jessica Hamby (True Blood)
Christian Troy (Nip/Tuck)

I'm leaving off a few dropped from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the game.

[life_inshadow]

Demons!

And ... people who kind of need to grow into what they can be? Whether it's getting used to their powers, or learning about their family, or no longer being quite so demony, or coming out from under Emma Frost's thumb, there seems to be a general trend of potential for growth.

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

LOL, okay. Here goes:

Current:
Britta Perry (Community)
Fawn Singleton Farrell (No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent...blah blah blah)
Stannis Baratheon (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Valentine Wiggin (Ender's Game)
Samus Aran (Metroid)
The Librarian (Discworld)

Past:
Setsuna Sakurazaki (Mahou Sensei Negima!)
Yasutora "Chad" Sado (Bleach)
Kenpachi Zaraki & Yachiru (Bleach)
Kūkaku Shiba (Bleach)
Shunsui Kyōraku (Bleach)
Tabitha-Ruth "Turtle" Wexler (The Westing Game)
Rosette Christopher (Chrono Crusade)
Chrono (Chrono Crusade)
Minsc & Boo (Baldur's Gate)
Aquaman (Batman: The Brave and the Bold)
Adah Price (The Poisonwood Bible)
Rachel Price (The Poisonwood Bible)
Cal Stephanides (Middlesex)
Princess Ariel of Atlantica (The Little Mermaid)
Jane Porter (Disney's Tarzan)
Charlotte York (Sex and the City)
Prince Alexander of Daventry (King's Quest)
Princess Rosella of Daventry (King's Quest)
Sergeant Delphine Angua von Uberwald (Discworld)
Daisy Day (Anansi Boys)
Leopold "Butters" Stotch (South Park)
A.J. (Empire Records)
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (Futurama)

....I think that's everyone. I'm probably wrong.

[notconflicted]

Characters from books I've never heard of that make me want to read their canons. *grumbles*

[selfhelphero]

Oh man, I know I'm going to forget people trying to do this from the airport, but I want to play!

Current characters:
Zoe Winchester (Firefly)
Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
Billy Kaplan (Young Avengers)
Chloe Sullivan (Smallville)
Clint Barton (The Avengers - movie)

Past characters:
Layla Williams (Sky High)
Jess Mariano (Gilmore Girls)
Eowyn (Lord of the Rings - movie)
Morgana (Merlin)
Abigail Whistler (Blade - movie)
Anduin Wrynn (World of Warcraft)
Teyla Emmegan (Stargate Atlantis)
Doogie Howser (Doogie Howser MD)
Martha Jones (Doctor Who)
Ziva David (NCIS)

Yeah, there have to be more, but that's all I can remember at the moment.

[notconflicted]

Adorable boys and badass women.

[alreadyisbeyond.livejournal.com]

No way am I remembering everyone while I'm at work.

Current:
Bruce Wayne
Terry McGinnis
Dave Nelson
Zayne Carrick
Agent Phil Coulson
Yakko Warner
GOB Bluth (ahem, technically current)

Former (likely incomplete):
The Tick
Peter Parker
Ben Reilly
Jim Halpert (twice)
Dick Grayson (twice)
Doctor Doom
Wolverine
J. Jonah Jameson
Lucas Lee
Drax the Destroyer
Jolee Bindo
Kyle Katarn
Possibly others.

I can come up with a few types for myself here, so I'm curious what other people might say.

Well, besides "guys." Someday I'll consider playing a female. Maybe.

[notconflicted]

Stand-up, good guys, with like GOB and Yakko and Doom thrown in to round things out.

[genesishero]

Mine are probably pretty obvious, but I don't know, can you guys pin down anything else?

Current:
Sparkle (Habitat)
Evan Sabahnur (Marvel 616)
Jonothon Starsmore (Marvel 616)
Warren Worthington III (X-Men: The Last Stand)
Dean McCoppin (The Iron Giant)
Kotetsu T. Kaburagi (Tiger & Bunny)

Dropped:
Jim Hawkins (Treasure Planet)
Reno (Final Fantasy VII)
Zack Fair (Final Fantasy VII)
Captain Nathan Algren (The Last Samurai)
Tybalt Capulet (Romeo + Juliet)
Valentine (MirrorMask)
Warren Peace (Sky High)
Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Blackheart (Ghost Rider (Marvel Movieverse))
Lumiere (Beauty and the Beast Broadway)
James (Pokemon)
Macbeth (Macbeth)

[nottrivial]

Dudes who are physically very obviously Not Your Average Human Male, with heaplodes of issues (often in relation to the Not Your Average Human Male thing). And they're not standard archetypical heroes, but very self-sacrificing all the same.

[taseredagod.livejournal.com]

Current:

Darcy Lewis (Marvel)

Long gone:

Alanna of Trebond/Olau (Song of the Lioness)
Broots (The Pretender)
Marco (Animorphs)
Cimorene of Linderwall (Dealing with Dragons)
Diana Hansen (Keeper Chronicles)

I think that's it

[brat_inslayage]

Not so much Broots, maybe, but there is a definite tendency towards sarcasm and/or smartassery in your kids.

[stykera]

I am always amazed at how very, very short my list is compared to everyone else. Do I get a prize for shortest list?

The active:
Stark

The alums:
Lindsey McDonald
Harry Dresden

and the dropped:
Joolushko Tunai Fenta Hovalis

[glacial_queen]

Can we split it?

I don't know if there's enough for a list here

[glacial_queen]

The active:
Karla (Black Jewels)
Sholeh Zeela Zhahar (Landscapers of Ephemera) [Hiatus]

Dropped:
Cindy (Fables)
Trick (Lost Girl)

Re: I don't know if there's enough for a list here

[genesishero]

You know, the only thread that I can really see tying the lot of them together would be the fantasy elements. Lots of magic on the go, here. Oodles of it.

[godscrankshaft.livejournal.com]

I am so going to forget someone, I know I am. And I don't even have that many.

Current!
Ronan Nolan (Young Wizards)
Thomasina Coverly (Arcadia)
Troy Bolton (High School Musical) [Hiatus]

Dropped!
Lulu (Final Fantasy X)
Eric van der Woodsen (Gossip Girl)
Addison Montgomery (Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice)
George Sands (Being Human)
Zach Wright (Shelter)
Marshall Wheeler (Strange Days at Blake Holsey High)

[genesishero]

>.> Boys that could feasibly be made gay.

Ooh! And people who focus on some sort of art, be it theatre, music, sketching... Coooking...

[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

Watch me forget Edmund like I always do. My guess: British, funny, and/or some form of gay, in various combinations.

Current:

Ace McShane (Doctor Who)
Bo Jones (Lost Girl)
Francine Peters (Strangers In Paradise)
Xander (Harris) Carson (BtVS)

Former:
Lorne for about 5 minutes in another country and besides the wench is dead (Angel)
Door (Neverwhere)
Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady)
Illyria (Angel)
Emmett Honeycutt (Queer As Folk: US)
Edmund Blackadder (Blackadder the Third)
Cally of Auron (Blake's 7)

[dollpocalypse]

Funny, yeah, either by being So So Serious (hi, Illyria!) or just being all snarky on purpose. And also they're generally the type to go big, in varying ways.

Oh, and clever. Definitely clever.