Five characters beginning with M...
I got this from _medley_: Letter meme
- Comment on this post.
- I will give you a letter.
- Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
- Magneto, Master of Magnetism from X-Men comics. Magneto was the villain in the very first issue of X-Men - one of the greatest anti-heroes of Marvel comics: a mutant who suffered in a concentration camp in his childhood because of his powers, who wants to ensure that mutants need not suffer again under the control of Homo Sapiens. He has been both hero and villian, and White King of the Hellfire Club (not to mention ruler of Genosha). I loved the period when he was Headmaster of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in New Mutants. I've written both Magneto/Gambit slash and Magneto/Cannonball slash.
It does no harm that one of my favourite actors has played him in movies - Sir Ian McKellen. They're promising another movie called X-Men Origins: Magneto, but nothing much seems to be done on it yet. I'm not holding my breath.
- Martha Jones, the Doctor's companion in the 2007 series of Doctor Who. Smart, beautiful, romantic and sharp, Martha was just about the perfect action heroine. Now she's Doctor Martha Jones in both Doctor Who and Torchwood, and I hope we see more of her.
- Methos, the oldest living man, born c. five thousand years ago and going strong, from the TV series Highlander. One of the best TV characters ever; and his meeting with Duncan MacLeod in the episode "Methos" was one of the best scenes in the series. I always wanted to see more of Methos. Much more. So much story to tell... He was Death of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; he married 68 times, but all his wives were mortal; and though he refused to admit to being a hero, he showed over and over that he was one. He had a great talent for avoiding danger and keeping himself alive.
- From the gone-but-not-forgotten TV show Firefly: Mal Reynolds, captain of "Serenity", a man who fought for the Browncoats in the war against the Alliance, and lost. ("May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.")
- Miles Vorkosigan, in the SF novels of Lois McMaster Bujold. Son of a powerful aristocrat on the planet Barrayar, he is a youth with military ambitions, an ingenious midget on speed, a 'hyperactive git' who might be the salvation of his planet. He combines wisdom and recklessness, his life built on forward momentum, or perhaps desperate gambles. The mind was the first and final battleground, the stuff in between was just noise.
