Crushes on Fictional Characters

[weatherwax]

Disagree! There have been ten men and five women who have contributed their crushes. You've got us two to one.

[kaclickpoing]

Yeah, but is there a 2:1 ratio of forum members?

[drachefly]

Well, you still mis-stated it.

oh, and Both Dax's on DS:9.. though i liked Ezri a touch more.

I didn't really crush on them, but I rather liked Jadzia. A pity she was such a technobabbler.

[Steave]

Slightly off topic. The majority of my female celebrity crushes when I was younger turned out to be lesbians. This goes a way to explain how I ended up with my wife ... Though that's a completely different story.

[inspiration]

Slightly off topic. The majority of my female celebrity crushes when I was younger turned out to be lesbians. This goes a way to explain how I ended up with my wife ... Though that's a completely different story.

Heh -- all my fictional crushes, from Captain Hastings (of Agatha Christie's Poirot novels) in junior high, to Niles Crane, to Jayne Cobb, to Prince Zuko, to Simon Ilyan (of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan novels) -- have been hetero males. Yet I identify as lesbian. Yet I married a hetero cis man. Life, she is not meant for neat labels.

(Simon ... *swoon*)

[Kea]

I had a liking for Prince Zuko, too, but then I felt a bit weird about being nearly twice his age even though he's y'know, fictional.

[weatherwax]

I thought that THIS may be appropriate, as it's on topic. It's the Nostalgia Chick listing the top 10 hottest animated guys (tallied from the lists her twitter followers provided).

It's not too surprising, except for the number 10 spot.

1. Aladdin
2. Dimitri (Anastasia)
3. Gambit (X-Men the Animated Series)
4. Beast (In Beast form! Beauty and the Beast)
5. Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon)
6. Shang (Mulan) NOTE! I believe Shang was Disney's first real dip into fanbait. I mean, seriously, shucking off his shirt for deminstrations of skill? Mulan's mouth-dropping admiration?
7. Trent Lane (Daria)
8. Batman (Batman the Animated Series)
9. A tie! Eric (The Little Mermaid) / Goliath (Gargoyles)
10. Judge Claude Frollo (Disney's the Hunchback of Notre Dame)

Oh, did I just hear the scratch of a record? Yes, that number 10 spot is a weird one. I don't get it. It worries me. I did like the Chick's line up of awesome animated fellows that could have made the list in Follo's stead. (I forgot all about Dean from Iron Giant! Yes, that beatnik scrap artist totally deserved to be on the list!)

[Ruan]

oO. Frollo? Really? Was it the voice?

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Speaking of voices... while not crushes, I have a definite love of deep, deep voices. The kind where you hear the voice and go "yes God? Oh wait, I thought you were someone else."

For example... Jouji Nakata - you hear him voice acting as Kirei Kotomine. Generally I just listen happily while in the back of my mind thinking 'man, I wish I had a voice like that'.

[weatherwax]

I'm not a fan of the deep voices. Not really AGAINST them, either, but a nice, smooth baritone or low tenor is preferable to me. Which explains most of my voice crushes.

[AlternateTorg]

Interesting tidbit: The original visual design for Aladdin had him looking younger and sorta scrappy, like a very young Michael J. Fox. But when they put that next to the design for Jasmine (which at that point wasn't much different than the final design), they looked at it and basically said, "There's no way people are going to believe that a woman like her is gonna go for a kid like him." (Sorta contrary to the whole "capture the woman's heart by being yourself" thing it had going, but...)

But Jasmine, yeah, very nice. Even though she has freakishly large eyes compared to other Disney females. If you put those eyes on a real human face you'd find it disturbing, but somehow it works on her.

Least attractive Disney princess? No contest: Snow White.

[drachefly]

Not if you make Cinderella dress up. That blue dress and the rear-up-do are sufficiently ridiculous to let Snow White get off the bottom.

That is a significant topic shift, no?

[baconbotsforever]

All right, I'm going to list off a few that may have occasionally flashed through my brain while I was... um... single?

There was an arcade game, the name of which I cannot currently recall, back in the late 80s? Early 90s? where you were this futuristic space dude trying to save this girl. The whole thing was basically animated cutscenes depending on what direction you chose (most of which ended up in some kind of grisly animated death). Anyways, the chick was hot.

On the subject of arcade games, Cami from Street Fighter. I could never figure out her moves cause I was paying too much attention to her... moves... *Cami Wins! (Buttshot!)*

As for Buffy, there is no Buffy after Kristy Swanson. Buffy must have boobs and booty. Sarah Michelle Gellar has neither. Charisma Carpenter, OTOH...

Also, if you're talking about Snow White, Dita VonTeese did a photo shoot in that outfit. Even completely clothed it was *jawdrop*. And if outfits make the character, can you say Seven of Nine? Mrrrraaawr! Also, Catherine Bell in JAG... ladies, the uniform thing works both ways. I'd go through boot camp three times if I got to look at that every day.

And as for Gabrielle... again, the lack of front and rear compared to Lucy Lawless was just a dealbreaker for me.

Hmmm. I'm beginning to detect a pattern in these choices. My mom used to say that she just failed to wean me soon enough. (True story. I miss her sense of humor something fierce some days.)

[AlternateTorg]

There was an arcade game, the name of which I cannot currently recall, back in the late 80s? Early 90s? where you were this futuristic space dude trying to save this girl. The whole thing was basically animated cutscenes depending on what direction you chose (most of which ended up in some kind of grisly animated death). Anyways, the chick was hot.

Are you perhaps thinking of Space Ace?

On the subject of arcade games, Cami from Street Fighter.

*cough*Chun-Li*cough*

[Kea]

Have you ever experienced or encountered Nerd Rage over fictional crushes? Ngau keeps telling me stories about fans who completely wig out on the internet when their favourite anime character finds a love interest, or when the voice actress is spotted with a boyfriend. I'm just sitting there thinking, "Whaa?"

[inspiration]

I don't get upset when a crush gets a love interest in general, but I will confess to Very Strong Opinions about the paramours of my imaginary boyfriends.