General & Others What makes a character your favorite?

[DonWick]

I’d be lying if if I said I didn’t lean towards the badass characters with an I do what I want attitude. I like strong characters but the personality comes first. A few of my favorites are:

Luffy
Yusuke
Kenpachi
Vegeta
Hisoka
Kisame
Kuhn (Tower of God)
Todo

How about you?

 

[MonsterKaido]

I like villains who are extremely powerful but stay hidden and manipulate others from behind. Also something unique about them like an ability or style

--Obito as masked man with Kamui
--Aizen
--Youma Kairos with time manipulation
--Sensui where he was the only S ranked human before yusuke and only he had sacred power
--Diavolo in jojo

Badassness also matter.

 

[Salah WG]

You like them first and then you try to come up with excuses and justifications of why you do,
It's never the opposite,

 

[Sir Yasheen]

I got two types:
1. Funny and borderline unserious characters who get badass moments
Sanji
Kisuke Urahara
Shikamaru
Yami Sukehiro

2. Mad shit talkers
Yusuke Urameshi
Escanor
Vegeta
Crocodile

 

[DonWick]

I like villains who are extremely powerful but stay hidden and manipulate others from behind. Also something unique about them like an ability or style

--Obito as masked man with Kamui
--Aizen
--Youma Kairos with time manipulation
--Sensui where he was the only S ranked human before yusuke and only he had sacred power
--Diavolo in jojo

Badassness also matter.

Aizen is top tier anyone that doesn’t love him I have questions for.

 

[MonsterKaido]

Aizen is top tier anyone that doesn’t love him I have questions for.

@TheAncientCenturion

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

@TheAncientCenturion

It’s very telling that the only time Aizen is interesting is when he’s not the focal antagonist (Soul Society Arc & TYBW). I’d hazard a guess and say Aizen’s one of the biggest problems to Bleach’s story telling.

A bland and charismatic less villain who is more lethargic than grandpa on a mobility scooter is about as mid as it gets

 

[Roo]

One of the best written characters

Coolest design for a “normal” human being

and he fits the trope of characters I like. Tough exterior but softy deep down

 

[Yoho]

Good development and some what relatable also their values and loyalty

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

I usually gravitate to characters who have some degree of identity issue or subtle angst over themselves, but not always. Kisame, Rock from MhA Vigilantes, Starrk, Dabi, King, etc

 

[DonWick]

I got two types:
1. Funny and borderline unserious characters who get badass moments
Sanji
Kisuke Urahara
Shikamaru
Yami Sukehiro

2. Mad shit talkers
Yusuke Urameshi
Escanor
Vegeta
Crocodile

All fire picks.

 

[Zoinks52]

Personality, strength, relatability, cool factor, how they bounce off the rest of their cast and sometimes unexpectedness (in a good way) usually matter to me.

FWIW my favourite fictional characters are Courage the Cowardly Dog and Wakatsuki Takeshi from Kengan. But many of the others I like are super different from those two.

 

[DonWick]

It’s very telling that the only time Aizen is interesting is when he’s not the focal antagonist (Soul Society Arc & TYBW). I’d hazard a guess and say Aizen’s one of the biggest problems to Bleach’s story telling.

A bland and charismatic less villain who is more lethargic than grandpa on a mobility scooter is about as mid as it gets

Yo what are you on about? Aizen is the opposite of everything you said.

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I usually gravitate to characters who have some degree of identity issue or subtle angst over themselves, but not always. Kisame, Rock from MhA Vigilantes, Starrk, Dabi, King, etc

We agree on Kisame. I always liked him but his ending sold me.

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

Yo what are you on about? Aizen is the opposite of everything you said.

No he isn’t. Aizen is the main antagonist from chapter 200~ to 430 and he doesn’t actively get involved until around chapter 400. He spends most of his screen time sitting there with a smug look on his face not doing anything

 

[DonWick]

One of the best written characters

Coolest design for a “normal” human being

and he fits the trope of characters I like. Tough exterior but softy deep down

What character are you referring to?

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No he isn’t. Aizen is the main antagonist from chapter 200~ to 430 and he doesn’t actively get involved until around chapter 400. He spends most of his screen time sitting there with a smug look on his face not doing anything

He’s manipulating everything. You don’t like that he doesn’t have to lift a finger?

 

[kekaro]

I like characters that are fun or doing stuff on the screen and have more going on personality and backstory wise and are also goofing around and you can talk about the character for hours about their true thoughts
Like some of my favorites are Kakashi, Kisuke, Sanji from the big tree
Or Sakamoto and Shin from Sakamoto days from one the current running manga
Im allergic to "..." type shit stoic aura farmer characters
an "edgy" character done right is for example Alucard from Hellsing who is also fucking funny

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

He’s manipulating everything. You don’t like that he doesn’t have to lift a finger?

So that makes him a lethargic antagonist. He does nothing on screen and the author hand waves it away and gives him off screen kudos.

That’s not interesting. He’s an main antagonist who doesn’t antagonize very often.

 

[kekaro]

So that makes him a lethargic antagonist. He does nothing on screen and the author hand waves it away and gives him off screen kudos.

That’s not interesting. He’s an main antagonist who doesn’t antagonize very often.

Tac is right on this
You need to imagine the "interesting" part that is not onscreen
Absolute dogshit type of writing imo

 

[DonWick]

So that makes him a lethargic antagonist. He does nothing on screen and the author hand waves it away and gives him off screen kudos.

That’s not interesting. He’s an main antagonist who doesn’t antagonize very often.

Tac is right on this
You need to imagine the "interesting" part that is not onscreen
Absolute dogshit type of writing imo

I disagree we’ve seen him in action and it’s always epic.

 

[TheAncientCenturion]

I disagree we’ve seen him in action and it’s always epic.

Yes we saw him eventually do things, after slogging through a 200 chapter arc where the most active he gets is Reiatsu crushing Grimmjow for being disobedient lol. That’s a lot of chapters with inactivity, when his personality is summed up to smug and silent.