Post by maddieson on Dec 6, 2012 12:51:50 GMT -5
I don't think this question has been asked: Are there any female characters in movies, TV, books, comic books, etc., who remind you of Maddie and why?
For instance, I tend to like a specific kind of female character across film, TV, literature, comic books, the arts an popular culture in general. Some of my favourite female characters are: Maddie, Scully from "The X-Files", Kate Beckett from "Castle", Temperance Brennan from "Bones", Jane Rizzoli from "Rizzoli & Isles", Diane Chambers from "Cheers", Murphy Brown from "Murphy Brown", Michaela Quinn from "Dr. Quinn, the Medicine Woman", Clarice Starling from "The Silence of the Lambs", Elektra from the Marvel comic, Kalinda Sharma from "The Good Wife." They all have certain traits in common:
And so on. If a TV show, book, movie or comic book has a character like this, I get hooked in an instant.
For instance, I tend to like a specific kind of female character across film, TV, literature, comic books, the arts an popular culture in general. Some of my favourite female characters are: Maddie, Scully from "The X-Files", Kate Beckett from "Castle", Temperance Brennan from "Bones", Jane Rizzoli from "Rizzoli & Isles", Diane Chambers from "Cheers", Murphy Brown from "Murphy Brown", Michaela Quinn from "Dr. Quinn, the Medicine Woman", Clarice Starling from "The Silence of the Lambs", Elektra from the Marvel comic, Kalinda Sharma from "The Good Wife." They all have certain traits in common:
- They are emotionally detached and they rarely let their guard down. They keep their emotions very close to the vest and aren't emotionally demonstrative. They don't like discussing their feelings. Because of this, they tend to be perceived as "cold" or "formal", when in reality they're just scared of happiness and things being right so they use formality and distance as an armor.
- They're logical and rational. They don't let emotions affect their judgment, and they approach things logically/rationally and draw the most logical/rational conclusions, even if it makes them look bad.
- They're outspoken. When you ask for their opinion, you'd better be prepared to hear what they really think.
- They have think skin. Because they aren't ruled by emotions and can admit to being wrong if someone logically proves it to them, they can take criticism.
- They're self-reliant to the point of it being a negative trait. They won't accept anybody's help and will only ask for help as a last resort (when they've run out of other options). At the same time, they are very comfortable helping others (they work in fields where they help/serve others in some way).
- They're obsessively searching for happiness, which keeps eluding them because they're afraid of actually being happy. They're rarely truly happy because they won't allow themselves to be happy. For some reason, they don't think they deserve to be happy, so when they see happiness right in front of their noses, they run the other way.
- They're paired with a character who is their perfect opposite. Their relationship with their polar opposite starts with a courtly love (non-physical, cerebral love based on mutual respect) and develops into a physical relationship.
- They're very private. They keep their private life private and they don't like people snooping.
- They're very short-tempered.
- They like a good verbal fight/argument, and have a love/hate relationship with confrontation, whether verbal or physical. They like tit-for-tat.
- Spontaneity is not in their nature, but they can be spontaneous if coerced.
And so on. If a TV show, book, movie or comic book has a character like this, I get hooked in an instant.
