I can't BELIEVE I forgot Darkwing Duck! That's embarrassing. I love that he's a single dad trying his best (he may not always try his best at crime fighting, but that's another matter).
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I mean are the reasons you wouldn't want to self care or something? Anyway, it's not a long read if you can take some very unpleasant allegationsShould I dig into the specifics of what happened withJim Cummings?
He's a godawful person, and yet he's the most consistently funny character on a show full of hilarious personalities. Sometimes our dark side can be hilarious.
Brock is very fun, whether he's being machismo incarnate and fucking up/fucking a room full of people, or being an exasperated bodyguard and reluctant uncle.
I was one of the other votes for Darkwing, and pretty much have the same thoughts as Issun. The whole block of shows was my jam for many years but most of the rest are such ensemble pieces that Darkwing was the one to stand out enough to make the list as a character.I loved Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers and Tale Spin, but as soon as DW entered the lineup it was the height of the Disney Afternoon for me. Johnny covered most of it. That two-part premiere is still some of the best stuff Disney's put in an animated series, and a lot of it is seeing that, though Drake/Darkwing fancies himself a devil-may-care crimefighter, he still cares deeply for those closest to him.
Shame Jim Cummings turned out to be a shitheel.
I don't think Trigun holds up very well these days, but I think it's main character does. It's still a very fun idea: a unbeatably skilled gunfighter who refuses to harm another living thing and dances through life trying not to be killed as an entire civilization relentlessly pursues him for the gigantic bounty on his head, and has the scars to prove it. A child at heart, I think he and my #1 would have been very good friends, and have more than a little in common.
A really fun character. Whose blasé, goofy demeanor, and staunch passifisim, hints at a deep and traumatized past. Vash is a paradox. He is incredibly deft and skilled with a gun, but he refuses to kill. And that dichotomy puts him in increasingly desperate situations where he's forced to test his ethics and mettle. Watching that is good fun. And watching him scurry about like a whacky human cockroach is also good fun. Vash makes his show.
DraculaMabel is fun. Another force of chaos, and a walking punchline, but she's human underneath that, and fun to follow.
Plaintiffs:She’s just here for a good time, even if that means accidentally opening a portal to hell.
Maybe the best TV cartoon of all the ages, Adventure Time is bursting at the seams with nuanced characters, such that I could have filled this whole list with them. Marceline has a dark and heart-wrenching backstory, but despite her Vampire Queen status, she’s (usually) not an antagonist. Instead she’s a combination of warm, funny, and badass, and often the emotional side of the couple she forms with Princess Bubblegum.
Scooby ain’t the Scooby Doo character I voted for; and my stance on Lovable Dogs is well established