Our Favourite Tv Characters Part I to V

[DrJackson]

Well, it is sunday in the afternoon, I'm just after a nap , and I came here to see what is new.
Hmmm..., nothing special, just as usual, a little bit of "please...", or, 'if it is possible...', or, "when will be...", common stuff.

And some guests who are searching and looking for..., I don't know..., for something, they are guests, so they can only search and read what others had posting here.(I'm always asking myself, why they are named guests? It is like "friend" in facebook? )

Therefore, I will post... something... to have five days with something new, not just...

So,

Television, that blue-glowing glass box that sits like a silent visitor in all of our homes, has given us some unforgettable friends over the years, from talking cars to silent killers, from wacky neighbors to creepy stalkers.
The medium of serial TV is a perfect one for characters to grow, with hour after hour of airtime allowing producers, writers and actors to lend nuance and variety to their parts.
Here will be a list of some 50 Greatest TV Characters (or something ).
As you know, dear reader, we all have broad tastes, from sci-fi and fantasy to historical drama, but I'm confident you'll be pleased with the results, and possibly might even meet some new faces on the way.
And, yes, I fully expect this list to inspire fevered debate -- so please feel free to let your choices be known in the comments below.

50. Homer Simpson

The patriarch of the longest-running family on prime-time TV has redefined what it means to be a father in America.
Before Homer, fathers were usually seen as the rock of the family - a little dim-witted sometimes, but always there to help their kids out of a jam.
On The Simpson’s, though, the roles are reversed... most of the family's troubles are due to Homer and his gluttony, idiocy and laziness.
Working at the Springfield Nuclear Plant for almost twenty years (although only a few have passed in the Simpson’s universe) may have exposed him to enough radiation to explain his transformation from the everyday Dad with anger issues from the first few seasons to the indestructible pinball of plot advancement that he has become.
Based (and named after) series creator Matt Groening's own father, and voiced by the indomitable Dan Castellaneta, Homer is one of the most iconic cartoon characters of all time.

49. Stewie Griffin

And a child shall lead them, they say, and we can believe it.
The youngest member of the Griffin clan on FOX's Family Guy is also far and away the smartest, with many of the show's early episodes revolving around young Stewie's attempts to murder his unsuspecting mother, Lois with a variety of insane devices.
As the show continued, however, Stewie's homicidal impulses seem to have been slightly curbed, replaced by an even weirder array of character traits.
Most prominent is his sexual ambiguity - although the show's creators never come out and say it, the bitter one-year-old may indeed is a shining example of homosexuality as a genetic trait.
Mostly, however, the little man just wants to kill his mother and take over the world - and is that really so wrong?
After Family Guy survived repeated attempts at cancellation to become one of the most popular animated series on TV, we can only hope that one day we'll be able to see Stewie's second birthday. It'll be so cute!

48. Dr. Gregory House

The acerbic Dr. House, played with aplomb by British thespian Hugh Laurie, shatters our preconceptions of how a doctor should act.
Where in the past, TV doctors have been kind, comforting and patient, House is a caustic, nervous wreck, following inexplicable hunches to get to the bottom of the oft-bizarre conditions he and his staff are presented with.
As a young man, House was expelled from Johns Hopkins for copying answers on a test, going on to get his degree from the University of Michigan.
After suffering an infarction in his leg, he underwent a potentially dangerous surgery to repair it, leaving him with a limp and constant pain, which he manages with pills. After taking a job at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where he is supervised by former one-night stand Lisa Cuddy, House assembles a crack team of doctors to help him treat a medical mystery each and every week. House has no patience for his patients, if you'll excuse the pun, and his mantra for dealing with them is "Everybody lies."
After surviving a malpractice trial, a bus accident, and most of his staff quitting, House is ready for a new season and new diseases - possibly lupus!

47. Number Six

"I am not a number. I am a free man!" With those words, one of the most mind-bending TV series of all time jack hammered its way into our hearts.
The man known only as Number Six was once a spy, but after tendering his resignation from the agency was kidnapped and woke up in the Village, a bizarre, idyllic community cut off from the rest of the world, where the powers that be attempted to extract information... by hook or by crook.
Played by Patrick McGoohan, who had previously had the role of John Drake on Secret Agent, Number Six is a man trapped in an Orwellian nightmare of constantly shifting loyalty, but throughout it all he stands resolute and unbroken.
McGoohan came up with the plot and concept of the series himself, and the incredibly risky, sometimes surreal show became one of the biggest cult classics of all time.

46. Charlie Kelly

The dim-witted third wheel of the Always Sunny in Philadelphia gang has earned himself quite a cult following in the show's three seasons.
Living in a ramshackle hovel covered in filth, and low man on the totem pole at the bar he co-owns, Charlie's state of continual mental derangement has powered many of the show's best episodes.
Quick to anger, slow to understand, and nearly impossible to injure, Charlie squanders what pittance he makes from the bar on bad investments and ludicrous plans to win the heart of a café waitress who would rather see him dead.
His finest moment comes in the episode Sweet Dee's Dating A Retarded Person, in which he forms a band with Frank and Mac to perform his magnum opus, "Night Man."
The song, which is about being taken over by a dark supernatural being (according to Charlie) or about being raped by a dude (according to Mac) quickly became a huge Internet meme and ensured more Night Man in future episodes.

45. Spock

Without Spock, there would have been no counterbalance to Kirk's rampaging Id. No wonder there's so much fan-fiction written about the pairing. Leonard Nimoy inhabited the role so thoroughly that it's virtually impossible to even conceive of somebody else playing the character, but we'll see how Heroes' Zachary Quinto does in the upcoming movie. And let's not forget the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, practiced too little effect in schoolyards across the country.

It's only logical that the science officer of the original (and still best) Enterprise deserves a place on this list. In an era when sci-fi aliens were nearly always represented as babe-grabbing invaders in funny costumes, the emotionless Vulcan from Star Trek was just a normal dude with pointy ears and spectacular enunciation.

44. Benjamin Linus

The producers of Lost originally hired actor Michael Emerson to play "Henry Gale," a mysterious man identified as one of the Others on the island, for just three episodes.
His amazing performance, however, convinced them to keep him around for a bit longer, and the character of Benjamin Linus - for that is his name - has developed into one of the most fascinating villains ever to hit the small screen.
The son of a humble maintenance man, Ben was brought to the island at the age of ten, and grew to maturity in the Dharma Initiative compound.
As an adult, Ben turned on Dharma and massacred every last one of them, joining the mysterious Others.
With a host of plans and schemes feeding into some grand machination that only he knows about, Ben may be the only real key to the island's mysteries - or he may be just as in the dark as the rest of us, and just hides it better.

43. Optimus Prime

The noble leader of the Autobots has been through several TV incarnations, but there's only one that matters to us - the original 80s animated series.
As voiced by the legendary Peter Cullen, Optimus Prime was an exemplary leader of machines - staunch in the face of overwhelming odds, Prime defended the Earth from the Decepticon threat.
Starting his life as humble dockworker Orion Pax, Prime was rebuilt into the noble warrior we know and love after a cowardly Decepticon attack.
Given the Matrix of Leadership, the newly redubbed Optimus Prime led his loyal Autobot warriors against Megatron and his rapacious horde.
The war between the Autobots and the Decepticons lasted four million years, with Optimus eventually meeting his fate not on the TV show, but in the animated movie spin-off.
If you're going to use an enormous talking robot as a role model for your children (and who's to say you shouldn't), you could make no better choice than Optimus Prime

42. Cobra Commander

Whether we're talking about the expressionless silver-masked Commander or the more traditional "blue curtain over the face" Commander, there's no denying that the leader of COBRA is one of the best animated foes of all time.
Voiced by Chris Latta, the raspy Commander showed no mercy to his horde of loyal underlings, often leading them into battle against hopeless odds only to turn tail and run when things started to go south.
Although he was the Supreme Leader of the COBRA troops, he was often disrespected by his subordinates, especially that punk Destro, for his oft-ludicrous schemes - one occasion, where he carved his face on the moon with a giant laser for no real reason, was a huge waste of time and money.
But no matter how ludicrous the Commander's plans got, he never once faltered in his drive to conquer the Earth, despite being relegated to lackey of Serpentor and eventually devolving into a snake in the G.I. Joe animated movie, hissing "I was once a man - a maaaaaan."
That's our ring tone for when our Mom calls, by the by.

41. Zoe Washburne

The loyal second-in-command of the Serenity, Zoe is a take-no-prisoners ass-kicker with a heart of gold.
As played by Gina Torres, Zoe first served under the ship’s captain Mal Reynolds during the Unification War and stuck with him after the disastrous Battle of Serenity Valley into his new business.
Series creator Joss Whedon is well-known for his love of strong female protagonists, and Zoe is no exception - her military training makes her a force to be reckoned with, but it also never compromises her essential femininity.
Wielding a custom Winchester rifle known as the "Mare's Leg", Zoe and her husband are essential parts of the ship's crew and it's still a shame that Firefly was cancelled before the characters could be explored to their depths.

But Zoe isn't the only Woman of Whedon.

That's part I

See you next time!

doc.

[DrJackson]

Good morning all.

Take a cup of coffee, or tea, or.... , and enjoy reading about some of our favorite characters!



40. Cosmo Kramer (my favourite neighbor )





New York City is full of kooks, but the absolute kookiest had to be Jerry's bizarre neighbor on the comedy classic Seinfeld.
Played by Michael Richards (pre-racist meltdown), Kramer was a frizzy-haired bundle of nervous energy in the classic mode, constantly jumping between harebrained schemes like a coked-up grasshopper.
Whether it be a coffee-table book about coffee tables (shaped like a coffee table), a beach-scented cologne, of the "bro" (aka the "manziere"), a bra for dudes, Kramer's non-stop imagination gave the show some of its best moments.
Independently wealthy, dressed like a throwback from the '50s, and inexplicably attractive to women, Kramer is one of the greatest sitcom neighbors of all time.
Real-life New York comedian Kenny Kramer, one-time neighbor of Seinfeld creator Larry David, claims to be the inspiration for the TV Kramer, but in reality Michael Richards' creation is unique, sprung fully-formed from the dome of Zeus to slide across the living room floor for all eternity.


39. Jack Bauer





The history of television is full of action heroes who put their life on the line for their country, but none have done it with quite so much sweaty dedication and fervid zeal as 24's Jack Bauer, played with relentless energy by Kiefer Sutherland.
After college, Bauer joined the U.S. Army and quickly rose to a position in Delta Force, an elite operations unit.
After his term of service ended, Jack joined the CIA before being brought into the newly-formed Counter-Terrorist Unit, defending America from various threats.
The show starts with Jack's wife Teri and daughter Kim kidnapped by Victor Drazen, kicking off an all-day adventure that ends with Teri shot dead by the traitorous Nina Meyers, establishing a pattern of betrayal and loss that would characterize all of Jack's future adventures.
As the show went on, Jack's missions have led to him developing a heroin addiction, being incarcerated and tortured in a Chinese prison, and being framed for murder.
Driven, intense, and emotionally complex, Jack Bauer has become a character of legend.


38. KITT





Yes, we know that a car doesn't exactly qualify as a "character," but when it's displaying more acting talent than anybody else on the show, we'll make an exception.
Michael Knight's sweet ride was a self-aware Trans Am with a Cylon light in the hood, voiced with delectable smugness by veteran actor William Daniels.
The car came equipped with a host of gimmicks and gadgets, from body armor and turbo boosters to more esoteric stuff like an olfactory sensor, a rotating license plate and self-tinting windows. With Michael behind the wheel, perfectly coiffed hair blowing in the breeze, KITT busted spies, saboteurs and other crooks in four seasons of hard-driving action.
The 2008 reimagining of the show has a much more advanced automobile, voiced by Val Kilmer, but for our money the original is still the hottest thing on four wheels.


37. B. A. Baracus





The strongman of the A-Team was just one of four colorful characters, but no disrespect to Mad Dog, Faceman or Hannibal, the man we're here to pay tribute to is Bosco "Bad Attitude"" Baracus.
Portrayed by the immortal Mr. T, the milk-loving, plane-hating mechanic and strongman became an iconic figure during the 1980s, with his "I pity the fool"" catchphrase on the lips of fool-pitiers everywhere.
Baracus had significantly more dimension than your average musclehead - in addition to his skills at hand-to-hand combat, he is also a mechanical genius, able to jerry-rig all sorts of devices to help the A-Team with their missions.
B.A. also is the only man allowed behind the wheel of the team's awesome black and red van. Baracus trivia: his childhood nickname was Scooter!



36. C. J. Parker




The role that rocketed Pamela Anderson and her legendary rack to worldwide fame came on the impossibly successful syndicated hit Baywatch.
As C.J. Parker, one of the many hot-bodied lifeguards that protected the beaches of Los Angeles County, Anderson's impossible body stretched the fabric of her bright red one-piece to the brink of credulity.
Her acting skills weren't similarly stretched, with the starlet taking the role because the character shared her interest in New Age religion, including crystals and meditation, but so what.
Not every great character has to be an acting tour de force, and Anderson did fine with some of the show's more ludicrous plotlines, including the episode where a homeless man dies and leaves her a multi-million dollar fortune in his will.
In a show stuffed to the gills with some of the hottest babes of the 90s, Anderson made a name for herself by simply being herself, and when C.J. signed off in Season 7, we shed a single manly tear.


35. Don Draper





The lead character of AMC's surprise hit Mad Men is poised to become the breakout character of the next decade - if the show can stay on the air, we don't see anywhere to go but up for Don Draper.
The advertising executive has a dark and checkered past... born Dick Whitman, the bastard son of a dying prostitute, he was raised by his drunk, abusive father and left home to fight in the Korean War.
When a fellow soldier named Don Draper was killed in action, Whitman stole his dog tags and began a new life under his name. Returning to America, Draper found a job at preeminent advertising agency Sterling Cooper, rising through the ranks to become first creative director and eventually junior partner.
The successful, popular Draper earns a place on this list for his astounding portrayal of a man struggling to keep up appearances even as his internal demons threaten to destroy everything he' has built.




34. The Doctor





Which doctor? Doctor Who, that's who.
The titular character of the long-running British sci-fi series has been portrayed by ten actors over his lifespan, a feat not performed by any other character on this list.
The man is technically a Time Lord, an alien from the planet Gallifrey who wanders the reaches of time and space willy-nilly, encountering and solving various crises.
His tendency to get involve din the activities of us mere mortals has led to him being labeled a renegade by the other Time Lords, who have, by the Doctor's ninth incarnation, all died out anyways. The explanation for the multiple actors is that, after a Time Lord suffers a mortal illness or injury, he can "regenerate," curing all damage at the cost of appearance and personality.
That multifaceted casting has allowed for Doctors to exhibit a wide range of character traits, trademark costumes, and even accents, with the one of the latest Doctor, played by David Tennant, an excitable, manic counterpoint to some of the more sedate ones that have gone before.



33. Dwight Schrute




The assistant (to the) regional manager of Dunder Mifflin Paper, Dwight is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a fluffy buttermilk pancake.
Played by Rainn Wilson, Schrute grew up on his family's beet farm outside of Scranton, PA, where he still lives with his brother Mose.
When he was in the womb, Dwight "resorbed" his unborn twin, giving him the strength of two men - a full-grown adult plus a baby.
He is a purple belt in Gojo-Ryu karate, has a stash of weaponry at his desk, and holds a long-abiding hatred for Jim Halpert.
In the show's second season, a new and terrifying dimension was added to the character with his romance with the dwarfish and cruel Angela Martin.
When Angela asks Dwight to take care of her sick cat, however, he instead puts it in the freezer to end the poor beast's suffering, an act which drives her into the banjo-picking arms of Andy Bernard.
Where the bizarre love triangle will go from here is anybody's guess, but she's got another think coming if she believes she can upset the crystalline perfection of the greatest of the Schrutes.



32. Andy Botwin





If you were trying to create a medium-sized drug empire in a small California town, you'd want to surround yourself with people who could keep their mouth shut, right?
Unfortunately for Nancy Botwin, protagonist of the Showtime comedy Weeds, you don't get to pick your family.
After Nancy's husband dies, brother-in-law Andy returns from exile in Alaska to ostensibly help out with the family, but ends up trying to dodge the Draft by enrolling in Hebrew school.
After a brief and emasculating dalliance with the school's lovely headmaster, Andy has his toes bitten off and is Army-bound until an experiment goes awry and he is discharged.
A brief dalliance in adult entertainment follows, and Andy takes off with Nancy and the kids as they flee a burning Agrestic for parts unknown.
Andy would be on this list for one reason - his insane second-season diatribe to his nephew Shane about masturbation, which should be YouTubed immediately - but luckily he's an awesome enough dude that he can stand without it as well.



31. GOB Bluth





It's short for George Oscar Bluth, if you must know - the eldest of the Bluth siblings on Arrested Development, played by the catastrophically funny Will Arnett, made riding a Segway fun again throughout the prematurely cancelled show's three seasons.
A part-time magician by trade, Gob is easily the biggest failure among the three Bluth boys, and yet remains his father's favorite (which isn't saying much), often serving as an unwitting catspaw in his schemes to undermine Michael.
Known not only for his arsenal of catchphrases and insulting chicken dance (that doesn't actually resemble any movements performed by an actual chicken), but also for his misadventures with the ladies (his pathological inability to ever deny having sex with anyone leading him into more than a few sticky situations), Gob is the ultimate smug, annoying a-hole, and we love him for it.


To be continued...

doc.

[alex28]

I actually got The A-team (series) again and started watching it. I can't say i like B.A. as i used to. After watching the movie (A-Team 2010) i like the new B.A. better.
Just my 2 cents ;p

[DrJackson]

I like the old one because I didn't seen the new one. Yet.

Well, I'm sorry, I was very busy today, tomorow I will also be gone, so, next parts will come just on thursday.

doc.

[alex28]

you HAVE to see it!!!

[DrJackson]

After a "short" pause (by various reasons), I'll continue now to present (OH NO!, NOT AGAIN!!! - some whispers) some TV characters.

Here we go:



30. Fox Mulder

"I want to believe."
Those words, spoken like a mantra by Fox Mulder on The X-Files, perfectly sum up this tormented FBI agent.
Along with his partner Dana Scully, Mulder would investigate an army of bizarre cases all over America on his way to tracking down the source of a secret conspiracy that aimed to keep knowledge of extraterrestrial life out of the hands of the public.
Mulder was born to do this work - his first word was "JFK" - and his obsessive devotion to unearthing the truth has cost him dearly.
After being dosed with a psychoactive drug in 1989, Mulder's obsession with the paranormal led to the FBI's dumping him in a basement office to work on his bizarre cases without bothering the rest of the Bureau.
However, when Fox got too close to the truth, the conspiracy arranged to have him abducted once more, and at the end of the series he and Scully have been driven into hiding, unable to effectively fight back against the forces arrayed against them.



29. Angus MacGYVER

Yes, his first name was Angus.
In an era of beefcake actioners like Rambo, hit series MacGyver presented a different kind of hero - one who triumphed on the strength of his wits.
MacGyver was a mechanical genius of the highest order, capable of constructing just what he needed out of an assortment of whatever junk was lying around. Refusing to carry a gun due to a childhood firearms accident, MacGyver is the master of innovative solutions, including disabling a nuclear warhead with a paper clip and building a number of improvised bombs out of common household objects.
Armed only with his trusted Swiss Army knife, MacGyver tinkered his way through seven seasons of his show, and we're jazzed to hear that a big-screen remake is in the cards, although it's unknown whether original Angus Richard Dead Anderson will return to the role.


28. Sarah Walker

Although the concept of having a terabyte of data forcibly downloaded into our brain doesn't seem very compelling, if it resulted in us being under the constant supervision of a super-hottie like Chuck's Sarah Walker, we could probably learn to live with it.
Played by Polish knockout Yvonne Strahovski, Sarah Walker (her real name is Lisa, but let's not split hairs) is assigned to protect the hapless nebbish with the skull full of sensitive data, and she even finds herself falling for him in the process.
But when Sarah's former lover Bryce Larkin re-surfaces, she must make a tough choice between the past and the future.
With our hero locked in a detention cell at the end of the season, and rumors of a big shake-up in the series, we can only hold onto hope that we'll be able to feast our peepers on Sarah in her charming little wiener-serving outfit once more.


27. Audrey Horne

Attempting to choose the best character from David Lynch's surreal TV masterpiece Twin Peaks is like trying to choose the best angel to take you to Heaven.
From agent Dale Cooper to the mysterious Log Lady, the show was literally overflowing with unique personalities and great actors.
So, naturally, we went with our gut and just picked the hottest girl.
Audrey Horne, played by the drop-dead gorgeous Sherilyn Fenn, was the good daughter of local business mogul Benjamin Horne, but in the town of Twin Peaks even the cleanest faces hid secrets.
Audrey, in trying to help Cooper with his investigation, goes undercover at One Eyed Jack's, leading to the memorable scene in which she ties a cherry stem in a knot with her tongue.
In the show's finale, Audrey is seemingly exploded to death by a bomb, but in our private moments we cross our fingers and hope that she made it out OK.


26. Bill Haverchuck

Freaks and Geeks essentially launched the career of Knocked Up mastermind Judd Apatow, and if you're a fan you'll be able to spot all of the recurring actors that pop up in all of his projects.
One of favourites is Martin Starr, the gangly bug-eyed nerd who took on his most famous role as the hapless Bill Haverchuck.
As the third wheel to the friendship of Sam Weir and Neil Schweiber, Bill often received abuse from not only the more popular kids, but also his own peers at times. But the gentle, kind Bill never let the abuse get to him, and while his pals were trying to climb the perilous social ladder of high school, Bill remained content to play D&D, watch Dallas and generally be an awesome dude on his own merits


25. Ari Gold

The hard-cursing agent on HBO's Entourage is always a half-step away from a heart attack.
One of the most powerful men in Hollywood, we first met Ari as he shepherded the career of hot young Hollywood actor Vincent Chase from indie obscurity to the top of Tinseltown.
After feuding with the head of his agency in Season 2, Ari went off on his own (helpfully supported by his long-suffering wife's inheritance) and founded a new agency with his former mentor Babs Miller.
As the head of an agency, Ari's sociopathic tendencies are in full flower, regularly chewing out anybody and everybody in his single-minded quest to grab as much fortune and glory as humanly possible.
Based on real-life superagent Ari Emanuel, Gold is one of the greatest predators to ever hit the small screen, and his scenes have made him one of the show's fan favorite characters.
Honorable mention has to go to his long-suffering assistant Lloyd, who suffers Ari's depredations with an infinite reserve of good humor.


24. Omar Little

If we had our druthers, we could have filled up this entire list with fifty characters from HBO's astounding Baltimore drama The Wire, but you probably could just watch the show in the time it took you to read it.
So we're going to have to reach into the bag and pick just one, and that one is Omar Little.
First seen as the scourge of the street dealers in Season 1, Omar's presence is like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing from the thugs to give to... well, himself, really. Omar's trademark whistling and keen aim with a shotgun may make him a formidable opponent, but even he can't stand forever against the grinding machinery of the corrupt Balto system.
As his destiny becomes inexorably entwined with McNulty and the rest of the unit, Omar considers leaving the life of crime he's chosen, only to realize that a man can't dodge his true nature forever.
Played by Michael K. Williams, who has become one of Hollywood's most in-demand character actors following his debut, Omar is just one thread in the rich tapestry that is The Wire, but without him the whole thing would unravel.



23.Xena

The single-named Warrior Princess reinvented action television in the 90s, creating not only a combat-packed weekly series but also a whole mythology. Played by Lucy Lawless, Xena was a take-no-crap female fury who would wade into the thick of battle with her trusty sword and razor-sharp chakram, frequently standing toe-to-toe with opponents twice her size. Born the daughter of a tavern-keeper Xena's path of rage would begin when her father tried to sacrifice her to Ares at the age of seven. As she grew, she quickly learned the way of the warrior, building an army to topple the warlord Cortese before traveling the world, learning the battle techniques of many lands and leaving a trail of blood behind her. The series starts with Xena pledging to make amends for her wanton destruction, and accompanied by her stalwart ward Gabrielle the two enjoyed six seasons of high adventure



22. Emma Peel

The original femme fatale, Emma Peel was the female lead on The Avengers, the seminal British spy show that instilled a deep and abiding love of catsuits in many a young man. One of the first truly feminist heroines on TV, Peel eschewed the standard damsel in distress situations, instead choosing to become a master of multiple forms of combat as well as a skilled swordfighter. Her mind is as honed as her body, with mastery of chemistry and the physical sciences aiding her in her missions for an unnamed branch of British intelligence. Accompanied by her partner, the dapper John Steed, Ms. Peel dealt with carnivorous plants, invisible enemies and the legendary Cybernauts, all with a quick with and a sense of humor. Emma Peel was also a fashion icon, with the character's op-art dresses and mod catsuits becoming a staple of late 60s British fashion.



21.Barney Stinson

The jive-talking best friend on How I Met Your Mother has elevated the sidekick role to new heights.
Played by Neil Patrick Harris, who seems to have been in hibernation since Doogie Howser went off the air, Barney is an unapologetic lech who serves as a caustic counterpoint to the at times unforgivably mushy premise of the show.
As the perpetual fifth wheel to the show's other two couples, Barney both tries to aid Ted in his attempts to meet ladies and sabotages his friend's attempts, often with hilarious results.
Barney lives his life by "The Bro Code," a system of rules that lets him drink, womanize, and generally act like a louse with no moral repercussions.
One of the elements that has made the character such a success is his ludicrous dependence on catchphrases, with "Suit up!" being the most famous.
The character is also an amateur magician and Star Wars fan, two traits that normally would make you less cool, not more, but somehow it works.

That's all for today.
See you.

doc.

P.S. Don't be shy. If you are not agree those characters, or if you liked, or if you just want to complete this list, say it!

[DrJackson]

[DrJackson]

10. Horatio Caine

David Caruso first came to fame as Detective John Kelly on NYPD Blue, but after a failed attempt to abandon the small screen for the cinema, he returned to the tube as an even better detective - CSI: Miami's Horatio Caine.
With an excessively dramatic and convoluted backstory (he killed the man who murdered his mother! That man was his father!) and a penchant for droll one-liners and large explosions, Caine quickly became a cult figure and catapulted the show into worldwide popularity.
Driven by a monomaniacal obsession to get criminals off the streets, Horatio has been shot, stabbed, and generally torn up in the line of duty, only to bounce back, put his sunglasses on (or take them off) and lead us into the opening credits one more time.


9. Bender

This hard-drinking robot (designation Bending Unit 22, full name Bender Bending Rodriguez) is quite possibly the best mechanical supporting player of all time.
In Futurama, Matt Groening's sci-fi comedy series, Bender was hired by Professor Farnsworth to crew the Planet Express delivery ship, despite his drinking, smoking and gambling problems.
Created for the singular task of bending steel girders to construct suicide booths, Bender rebelled against his programming to lead a life of relative freedom.
Not much is known about Bender's past - especially since his repeated time travels have given him a lifespan of millions of years to deal with - but the one thing we know is that where Bender goes, disaster follows.
He does have a softer side, however; when a magnet is placed against his head to short out his "inhibition unit," he has been known to pick up an acoustic guitar and express his inner feelings through the beautiful medium of folk music.


8. Kermit The Frog

The ringleader of the Muppet gang is most certainly the greenest character on this list.
Created by Jim Henson in 1955 out of a women's coat and two ping-pong balls, the friendly frog became a regular on Sesame Street before Henson took his crew to nighttime in 1976.
The Muppet Show cast Kermit as the stage manager of a wild theater company populated by a huge number of bizarre puppets, from the love-crazed Miss Piggy to the grotesque Great Gonzo. Kermit's main function was to act as a straight man to all this weirdness, keeping the show basically on track while wrangling the stars, the guests, and even the audience.
Not much is known about Kermit's early life, or why he made the decision to get into show business, but the world is a better place for it.


7. Tracy Jordan

Sometimes the producers of a TV show will give an actor's character a name that's very close to their real name, so the actor doesn't get confused for whatever reason.
We can only assume that's what happened with 30 Rock's Tracy Jordan, played by Tracy Morgan.
The two characters are like funhouse mirror versions of each other, and we're not sure which is more outrageous.
Jordan plays the star of TGS, a weekly sketch comedy show, and his free-wheeling insanity is one of the many good reasons to watch the show.
Whether it be developing the world's first pornographic videogame, releasing the holiday hit Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, or walking around naked in his house to show his oldest son who has the biggest dink, Tracy is the hottest mess on prime-time TV.
Accompanied by his faithful entourage of Grizz and Dot Com, Tracy Jordan is one of the many hundreds of reasons to watch 30 Rock.


6. Sylar

The creepy uber-villain from the hit series Heroes has been through some ups and downs lately, but when he's at his peak he's well-nigh invincible.
Born Gabriel Gray, the son of a watchmaker has the power of "intuitive aptitude" - an innate understanding of how things work.
After meeting another human with paranormal abilities, Sylar uses his skill to understand how to get those abilities for himself - a process that involves the death of the original owner.
After stealing a host of powers, including telekinesis, precognition, and the ability to emit radiation, Sylar faces off with the good guys at Kirby Plaza and is stabbed by Hiro.
After surgery, his powers seemed lost, but previews show our bad boy back and good as new.


5. Lennie Briscoe

The greatest TV detective of all time, Det. Lennie Brisco anchored twelve seasons of Law & Order with his no-nonsense approach to crimebusting.
Briscoe, played by late, lamented actor Jerry Orbach, was a continual fixture on Law & Order, his craggy face and dry wit making the cases he worked that much more bearable.
Divorced twice (or, as he put it, "single three times",) Briscoe worked hard to be a good parent to his two daughters, only to be shattered when one of his daughters is murdered by a drug dealer after she testifies against him.
Struggling with an addiction to alcohol all his life, Briscoe's arc followed him from his early days in Homicide to become one of the department's most venerable men, working with multiple partners and solving hundreds of cases over his storied career.
When Orbach died in 2004, Briscoe was written off the series, but his partners and friends still speak fondly of him.


4. Willow Rosenberg

Every nerd's biggest crush, the flame-haired Willow grew from a library nerd hanging around to give useful info dumps to Buffy into one of the show's most compelling characters.
From her relationship with part-time werewolf Oz to her romantic tension with fellow Scooby Gang member Xander, Willow became one of the best reasons to tune into Buffy, especially after actress Alyson Hannigan began showing her range in more daring plotlines.
When Willow went lesbian in the show's fourth season, you could hear the hearts breaking across the country, but rather than going for cheap thrills, Joss Whedon and crew treated her alternative lifestyle with wit, dignity and compassion, making it an essential part of her character.
When the seductive lure of magic overwhelmed poor Willow, making her the "Big Bad" for Season 6, we saw a dark side come out as well. In many ways, Willow was as much the protagonist of the show as Buffy was.


3. William Adama

The re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica has turned out to be one of television's most unlikely success stories, as the 70s space opera has become a rich and complex tale of loyalty, faith and humanity, all set against a galaxy-spanning war with the merciless Cylons.
One of the new show's focal characters is William Adama, the commanding officer of the great ship Galactica.
Played by Edward James Olmos, Adama is a man near the end of his military career pressed into service by unforeseen events, piloting the aging battlecruiser in what may be Mankind's last breath of life.
Adama's leadership on the vessel's flight to New Caprica earns him a new lease on life, but when the Cylons strike once more he must mount a daring plan to liberate the humans under their rule. Adama is exactly the kind of commanding officer we'd want to serve under; although bold and daring, he's also very human and flawed, with his past failings instilling in him an abiding respect for innocent life.


2. Vic Mackey

In FX's breakout drama The Shield, a world of constant moral compromise enfolds the officers working out of the fictional Farmington district of Los Angeles, and at the center of those compromises is Vic Mackey.
Leader of the "Strike Team," an independent unit that was chartered to deal with gang-related problems, Mackey has never shirked from working both sides of the law, from pocketing seized cash to using criminals as informants in exchange for police protection.
When Mackey and crew rob an Armenian money train, the take would be enough for them to all retire, but the loss of the money drives them even further into a spiral of paranoia and violence.
What makes Vic such a great character is his conflicting motives; he steals to make a better life for his family and his kids, but his criminal activities threaten to destroy everything he's worked hard for.



1. Tony Soprano

Was there ever any doubt?
The richest, most complex, and most believable character ever to hit the airwaves is the Mafia lieutenant played for eight years by James Gandolfini.
Growing up in New Jersey connected to the DiMeo crime family, young Tony had a path laid out for him early.
Committing his first murder at the age of 22, he was quickly a "made man" in the organization under his father's tutelage.
When his father died, Tony took over his crew and brought the family to even greater success.
But what made The Sopranos such a landmark drama was the contrast between his brutal occupation and his family life.
Tony was also a devoted father to his two children, ad did his best to insulate them from the life he led.
Add in his recurring appointments with his therapist, Dr. Melfi, and you had a Mafioso like no other: flawed, human, and empathetic.
The show's shock ending, which left some viewers disappointed, served as a perfect coda to Soprano's life, in which nothing was ever truly certain but family.


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Article that you read (if you have read, and if you had the patience to read it after I divided into five parts ), was written by K. Thor Jensen, in 2008 (hence and several issues were overcome).

As I said, if you want to add something about the characters presented, or, if you want to add some other of your favorite characters, you are always welcome.


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