Top 10 fictional men of the...while...

[meganbmoore]

This has been going around the f-list a bit in various forms.  My fictional likes/crushes tend to remain relatively constant, as I'm really stubborn and generally end up comparing other characters to these, all of whom have been here for a year or longer(ok, technically, Bourne came back when the new movie came out...but he was there earlier)

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[crumpeteer]

You certainly go for the badasses, don't you ;)

[meganbmoore]

I know, such a shock...

Probably their willingness to tear up the world over their girl(dead or alive) and still come out on top.

And hey, they weren't ALL badasses....looking at it, i think the strongest theme is that they all have a unique brand of loyalty and honor that they holdthemselves to.

[crumpeteer]

Well, not ALL, but there's a general theme ;) I simply can't imagine you falling for a character that sits around angsting and writing love sonnets, unless he were writing love sonnets in the blood of his enemies.

I seem to aim for either crazy intelligent (too often crazy/intelligent) or the walking wounded, the guys who act tough and are vicious protectors, but who are also so messed up they have trouble functioning normally.

[meganbmoore]

" I simply can't imagine you falling for a character that sits around angsting and writing love sonnets, unless he were writing love sonnets in the blood of his enemies. "

I would fall asleep from boredom, unless he were Very, Very Special. Unless, as you point out, blood was involved...it could also be his blood, or the blood ofthe person they were about to set off to avenge...

"I seem to aim for either crazy intelligent (too often crazy/intelligent) or the walking wounded, the guys who act tough and are vicious protectors, but who are also so messed up they have trouble functioning normally.With the occassional exception of "intelligent"(take away the battlefield and kyo and Magstu, love them as i do, aren't that bright) that pretty much applies to all the ones on my list...it may just take a bit longer for the more positive traits to shine through for some

[foenix]

Jasons are awesome.

[meganbmoore]

They are indeed. Even the ones obsessed with redheads.

[foenix]

That just makes for the bonus awesomeness.

[wistfulmemory]

I love the Bourne movies, and the main reason is for that love is Jason Bourne and the abilities he has. I love watching him fight. I should be receiving the third movie sometime next week, and I need to decide when I'm going to marathon the trilogy. Oh, and you're not missing much by not reading the books. They are definitely dated for the era that they were written, and the movies don't really have anything in common with them.

"(and he wins at having the most impressive "I love you, let's get back together" known to man)"

Man, I stopped reading Basara when the available manga volumes were only in the lower teens. I need to find copies of this and finish reading it. This manga series is one of the only ones a friend and I were able to persuade my college roommmate to read (and she liked it).

"Mob hitman who harbors the ultimate personification of evil inside him(it's a family heirloom)"

Okay, I had to read this line a couple of times because it was so unexpected. How does one have the ultimate personification of evil as a family

[meganbmoore]

Basara is MY FAVORITE MANGA EVER!!! I am always saddened to meet someone who doesn't or won't read it.

"Okay, I had to read this line a couple of times because it was so unexpected. How does one have the ultimate personification of evil as a family heirloom?"

basically, it's passed on genetically from father to son, and when your son is born, it leaves you and you die. Jackie is about the only one to find out about it before the "dying young" part(not that the family really has much life expectancy anyway...)

[southerndave]

"Basara is MY FAVORITE MANGA EVER!!! "

So... is it any good?

[meganbmoore]

yes.

though like most of the best manga, it takes a few volumes to hit its stride.