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Favorite Fictional Characters, #182: The Sheriff of Nottingham
Robin Hood was never really a hero of mine (my own political leanings aside). And other than maybe Errol Flynn's prehistoric relics, or...

Joe Pace
Jun 30, 2016


Favorite Fictional Characters, #181: Jessie
I've never been a fan of anime. It's just not my cup of sencha. And while I dipped a very brief toe in the card and video games, Pokemon...

Joe Pace
Jun 29, 2016


Favorite Fictional Characters, #180: Chief Casey Ryback
It's no secret that Steven Seagal is a bizarre creature, but in the late '80s and early '90s he was the epitome of the cinematic bad-ass...

Joe Pace
Jun 28, 2016


Favorite Ficitional Characters, #179: Frances "Baby" Houseman
I suspect 1987's Dirty Dancing has long been a guilty pleasure for many of my vintage, both women and men. It's a fairly uncomplicated...

Joe Pace
Jun 27, 2016


Favorite Fictional Characters, #178: Lt. Frank Drebin
Someone's been swimming in raw sewage, and he's not the only one who loves it. I've mentioned before that parody films are a dicey...

Joe Pace
Jun 26, 2016


Favorite Fictional Characters, #177: Puck
John Byrne and Chris Claremont's joint tenure on the X-Men from 1977 to 1981 produced some of the best comic books of all time, including...

Joe Pace
Jun 25, 2016


Favorite Fictional Characters, #176: Temeraire
Temeraire is a dragon. Lots of dragons in fantasy, of course, from Smaug to Toothless to Puff. What makes Temeraire different is that he...

Joe Pace
Jun 24, 2016


Favorite Fictional Characters, #175: Satan
Here's a fun question: Satan, real or fictional? I've included other purported deities on this list, but that's not really the debate I'm...

Joe Pace
Jun 23, 2016


Favorite Fictional Characters, #174: Mona Lisa Vito
1992's My Cousin Vinny is a fun, predictable little movie, with Karate Kid Ralph Macchio clinging to the last vestiges of his cinematic...

Joe Pace
Jun 22, 2016


Favorite Fictional Characters, #173: Freakazoid
In the mid-1990s, animation was undergoing a renaissance, led by Disney's renewed feature-length greatness but also by heightened...

Joe Pace
Jun 21, 2016


Favorite Fictional Characters, #172: Sinbad the Sailor
Sinbad comes late to the Arabic fable-cycle we know as the 1001 Arabian Nights, appearing first in recognizable form in the 17th century,...

Joe Pace
Jun 20, 2016


Favorite Fictional Characters, #171: Homer Simpson
There are dozens of denizens of Springfield who could make this list. Lugubrious, spineless newscaster Kent Brockman and unabashed...

Joe Pace
Jun 19, 2016
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