1.) LOVE! Hank is just... pretty much perfect. He's brilliant and hilarious, a social butterfly and athletic brawler but still a scientific genius, a jack-of-all-trades, a poet and a scholar and fantastic with children. His angst about his transformations only makes him more appealing.
2.) Hank is not nearly as important as I'd like. He's usually a solid supporting character, which is fine, except when he's basically in limbo -- if he's not going to be an X-Man right now, I wish he would be used better in Secret Avengers! And I wish SWORD hadn't been cancelled.
3.) I relate to Hank a lot, or at least I did while I was RPing him, both in personal ways I won't get into and in more superficial ways as a natural good-natured sidekick type/person who defines herself by her intelligence. Hank is WAY more social than I am, though, and way more fun. I'd love to be more like him. But either way, I find him incredibly compelling.
4.) See above about my feelings on X-Men/Marvel canon/fandom. :)
5.) Hank is one of the few characters I've written who I see as pretty much entirely straight, though I can see the potential for Hank/Bobby and Hank/Wonder Man (which is canon in an Exiles AU). I ship him with Abigail Brand right now a lot, and I also kind of ship him with Jean Grey. (Only Chris Claremont agrees with me.) My crack ship is Hank/Irene Merryweather, and I am intrigued by Hank/Emma, because I think he brings out the best in her. Basically the only love interest I don't ship him with his awful Trish Tilby. For platonic relationships, I love him with Bobby and Wonder Man, and also with Scott and with all the original X-Men as a whole.
6.) I would get rid of the fake coming-out story from Morrison's run, which was embarrassing, offensive, and totally OOC. (I would NOT change the cat thing, though. I like it, even if no one else does.)
7.) Hank can be friends with ANYONE. I like to think we'd get along and could talk about stuff ranging from trashy TV to the high canon of English literature.
8.) Yes, definitely. I even did academic work on him!
9.) I would hype up the character, but I don't think it would be that important -- I have yet to meet someone who dislikes Hank, and he's pretty much lovable as soon as he appears.
10.) He's not the most popular or anything -- much like his role in canon, he tends to be a side character in people's interests. But everyone likes him, and the people who love him REALLY love him. If they dislike him at all, it's because of his cat form.
2.) Hank is not nearly as important as I'd like. He's usually a solid supporting character, which is fine, except when he's basically in limbo -- if he's not going to be an X-Man right now, I wish he would be used better in Secret Avengers! And I wish SWORD hadn't been cancelled.
3.) I relate to Hank a lot, or at least I did while I was RPing him, both in personal ways I won't get into and in more superficial ways as a natural good-natured sidekick type/person who defines herself by her intelligence. Hank is WAY more social than I am, though, and way more fun. I'd love to be more like him. But either way, I find him incredibly compelling.
4.) See above about my feelings on X-Men/Marvel canon/fandom. :)
5.) Hank is one of the few characters I've written who I see as pretty much entirely straight, though I can see the potential for Hank/Bobby and Hank/Wonder Man (which is canon in an Exiles AU). I ship him with Abigail Brand right now a lot, and I also kind of ship him with Jean Grey. (Only Chris Claremont agrees with me.) My crack ship is Hank/Irene Merryweather, and I am intrigued by Hank/Emma, because I think he brings out the best in her. Basically the only love interest I don't ship him with his awful Trish Tilby. For platonic relationships, I love him with Bobby and Wonder Man, and also with Scott and with all the original X-Men as a whole.
6.) I would get rid of the fake coming-out story from Morrison's run, which was embarrassing, offensive, and totally OOC. (I would NOT change the cat thing, though. I like it, even if no one else does.)
7.) Hank can be friends with ANYONE. I like to think we'd get along and could talk about stuff ranging from trashy TV to the high canon of English literature.
8.) Yes, definitely. I even did academic work on him!
9.) I would hype up the character, but I don't think it would be that important -- I have yet to meet someone who dislikes Hank, and he's pretty much lovable as soon as he appears.
10.) He's not the most popular or anything -- much like his role in canon, he tends to be a side character in people's interests. But everyone likes him, and the people who love him REALLY love him. If they dislike him at all, it's because of his cat form.
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