The ILC Favourite Characters Of All Time

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He had no votes at all until about halfway through.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

TS: spider jerusalem vs uncle duke

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 September 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

*cough*

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 11 September 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

#49 Optimus Prime (Transformers)

(53 points)

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/pictures/wedge/uploaded_images/optimus-743096.jpg

Greatest Moment: His death in the Transformers movie, obviously. I was five years old, and I think I started freaking out and crying. (Laura)

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

#48. Flex Mentallo (Doom Patrol/Flex Mentallo)

(53 points)

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/pictures/wedge/uploaded_images/flex-748988.jpg

Imaginary friends is a constant Grant Morrison trope, because after all that's what comics characters used to be for a lot of kids. Flex Mentallo, in Doom Patrol and particularly in his own series, is Morrison's most involved working-through of this idea, acting almost as the imaginary friend of superhero comics themselves. Flex, slightly dim, often baffled, always heroic, is as much symbol as character but is no less memorable for that. Also he has one of the greatest origin issues in comics!

Greatest Moment: Flex turns the Pentagon into a circle. (Vic Fluro)

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

You have to love that thigh stubble.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and I forgot to mention - tied points are being decided by the highest placing each character got (so Flex Mentallo got a 2nd place from someone, beating Optimus Prime who got a 5th or 6th)

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

..........

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

God has it really been a week? I'll see if I can sneak one in before I leave work.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

#47. Marv (Sin City)

(56 points)

http://homepage.mac.com/merussell/iblog/B835531044/C31175526/E1653270529/Media/Marv1.gif

He's the heart and soul in the Sin City universe -- every other protagonist has been an unimaginative and tired genre exercise. Balancing his invigorating self-unawareness with intimate familiarity with the seamy underworld and his ultimate fate, and with dialogue that Frank Miller hasn't topped since... (Leee)

Greatest Moment: I want to say the panel where he kicks in the windshield of the police car, but that's mostly because I love its art. Instead, I'll go with Marv shooting at the statue of Roarke and then laughing like the loveable psycopathic lunatic that he is. (Leee)

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 22 September 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

#46. Darkseid (New Gods etc.)

(56 points)

Darkseid is the nuclear bomb of the DC Universe. He's Mutually Assured Destruction. He's powerful enough that he could take down every hero who's ever been a member of the JLA with one Omega Beam behind his back, but he's such a cocky bastard that he never quite does. While his life's work, the Anti-Life Equation, is essentially the End of All Things, he's not necessarily a bad guy. (Huk)

Greatest Moment:
http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/pictures/wedge/uploaded_images/darkseid-794253.jpg

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 25 September 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Is Darkseid supposed to be reading Mein Kampf in that pic? If so, why is it spelled Mein Kamph?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 September 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

Why is it spelled Darkseid?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Why is Obercon covered in brown ooze?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Oberon has just crawled through a sewer.

That's how they spell "struggle" in Apokoliptian, and he's reading his own book.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 25 September 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Mein Oomph

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 25 September 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Update!

― steviespitfire, Thursday, 29 September 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

Don't fret, we'll be done by 2007.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Thursday, 29 September 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

I think the Roy of the Rovers cover is pretty scary... Hairstyle aside, everyone in it has exactly the same face and the same evil eyes. It looks kinda like the Come to Daddy cover. Is Roy leading a team of clones?

Not at all.
Left to right they are Noel Baxter (team joker), Jimmy ???(the kid), Blackie Gray (Roy's best friend), Charlie 'The Cat' Carter (goalkeeper), Roy Race, Lofty Peak (hard man), Mervyn Wallace (inconsistent genius), and Duncan MacKay (the Scot).

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

So, about this, then...

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I want my...
I want my...
I want my ILC (Favourite Characters of All Time Poll Results)!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I should have submitted my late Wulf Sternhammer vote. These results are coming out as slow as der cucumber.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Most of the characters already announced are dead by now.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

JUST KIDDING. HABEAUS MARCIANO CORPUS!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

I have deleted my bookmarks for all other boards and will try and rectify this ongoing situation.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

bUMP

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 7 October 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

Tom is running a telethon today so you won't get any.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 7 October 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

#45. Hellboy (Hellboy)

(59 points)

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/pictures/wedge/uploaded_images/hellboy-746341.jpg

Like a savvier, more knowledgeable and more indestructible Marv. Just as key is the fact that he's out there in the world, with friends who actually look up to him, and the fact that he tangles with Nazis, Rasputin, vampires, werefrogs, dragons, ghosts, demons and manages to tell them all to shut up in so many words, cos he's got the Right Hand of Doom to back him up, you know. (Leee)

Best moment: From Wake the Devil, when he jumps out of the plane with the jetpack that doesn't work, stubbornly clicking the ignition without success while freefalling, and muttering, "Aw crap," which sums up his appeal: unprepossessing, straight-forward and with understated humor. (Leee)

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 7 October 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

£1100 raised so far, by the way.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 7 October 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Nicely done!

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Let us not forget PANCAKES!!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 October 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Was Hellboy created with Ron Perlman in mind? Because WOW.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

The first meeting between the director and Mignola when they were making the film was apparently one they were both nervous about, because each of them was going to insist that it had to be Perlman for the lead role.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 October 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

perlman is so perfect. i wish the movie was better! it really starts out as my favourite movie ever and then goes pretty much to crap!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Sez you!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Tho you're kinda right. But not really.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I was disappointed that HB kept fighting the same kind of monsters over and over. YAWN.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

i was dissapointed they had to have some douchey normal dude be the nominal star cuz they were afraid we wouldn't be able to identify with hellboy!! which is BS!!

and yeah, what huk said. when he first fought those monsters i figured it was a ghostbusters/slimer thing, the first ugly bad guy before the other stuff happens... but it was really just those cgi things.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Hollywood movie in "trying-to-tell-a-conventional-uncomplicated-story" shocker!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

b-b-b-but trying to have two protagonists just complicated things MORE!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure the sequel will be better, because they've dispensed with all the whatever, and can now just tell a story.
That's, like, my pet peeve with superhero movies (although Batman Begins is an exception, because it takes the tack of doing the origin as its whole reason for being, it's raison d'etre if you will) is that they waste time with fussy origins and introducing these characters who have been in the public consciousness for decades, when they should just shut up and tell a good story.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I think Spidey 1 is an exception to this - the origin section is an absolute joy, then he just fights a Power Ranger and moons over Kirsten Dunst for an hour.

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I think Spidey 1 is an exception to this - the origin section is an absolute joy, then he just fights a Power Ranger and moons over Kirsten Dunst for an hour.

ie, just like the comic!

Huk, the criticism you're making has absolutely no bearing on the movie "Hellboy" (unless of course Hellboy has been a top-tier character since 1930 and I just didn't notice).

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

No, no, it has nothing to do with the Hellboy movie. I know.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

In fact, it's a most irrelevant point, since, y'know, X-Men didn't really do it, and, yeah, Spider-Man, that was, like, the emotional whatzit of Peter Parker and his eternal RagsMorales™ sadface. And then, um, whatever. Hulk, I think, is what started it, and I've just projected that onto EVERY MOVIE EVER.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

God, Hulk's a boring movie.

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

IT IS NOT BORING, IT IS TRANQUIL

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Tranquil being an adjective one readily associates with the Hulk.

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Hulk contemplate.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Hulk quietly impressed by flawless cinematography.

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

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