Gack! That was completely backwards! Is fixed now!
I figured it had to be, because in no way is Death a woobie. A role-model, hell yes. But not a woobie.
Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Atropa - Jun 27, 2005 11:11:35 am PDT #4784 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
P.M. Marc - Jun 27, 2005 11:12:17 am PDT #4785 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Maybe it's a term that can only apply to people that try to give off an image of strong or scary, but don't back it up and make you want to hug them anyway.
Aeryn is actually strong and scary, and does not project a need for hugs. She's not a woobie. Chiana, however? Total woobie.
Jessica - Jun 27, 2005 11:12:29 am PDT #4786 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Death needs the least hugs of any of them. (But she should get them anyway, because she's cute.)
juliana - Jun 27, 2005 11:12:52 am PDT #4787 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I don't get a sense of woobieness from Destruction or Delirium. Del has Barnabas to keep an eye on her, and Destruction ... I just don't see him needing a hug, a blanky, and some hot soup. Or someone petting his head.
I'm thinking specifically of Destruction's story in Endless Nights. Delirium is severely damaged, and Destruction is all quiet, self-contained despair. That's where I'm getting the woobie vibe.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 27, 2005 11:12:56 am PDT #4788 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think River is a woobie quite often.
Death needs the least hugs of any of them.
Yeah, she's the one who's there to give the needed hugs at the end to everyone else.
Polter-Cow - Jun 27, 2005 11:15:04 am PDT #4789 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh whoa. Good point.
Mr. Broom - Jun 27, 2005 11:15:18 am PDT #4790 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I was going to compare River to Despair earlier in that very respect, actually, but didn't want to draw out my post any longer. Both are unbalanced and damaged, but powerful in their own ways, capable of things that are disturbing and things that are adorable. And you just want to hug the crap out of 'em.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2005 11:16:17 am PDT #4791 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dr Luka from ER? So damned woobie. PTSD! White Knight syndrome! Loss of wife and kids to war!
What's not to woob?
beathen - Jun 27, 2005 11:25:05 am PDT #4792 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
Saw Batman Begins yesterday (the Serentity trailer wasn't attached). Loooooved it. Was channel flipping last night and a trailer for BB came on.
"Uh, honeyyyyy? Wanna go see Batman again tomorrow?"
He seriously thought about it before we decided to wait a week or so and let it settle. Loved it, and I'm not a comics person, at all. So that's from someone entirely free of preconceived ideas about Batman. Loved.
I finally saw it last night and I loved it too! Action! Dramatic musical score! Hot male lead! (Yum). I'm sooo tempted to see it again tonight.
Most movies I can wait to see until it comes out on DVD, but this one might require a second go at the theater. (No Serenity trailer, though - sadness.)
Nicklas - Jun 27, 2005 11:34:18 am PDT #4793 of 10002
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
Which Batman title should I read?
askye -- the only one I've liked are of the ongoing Bat-series are the "Detective Comics" penned by David Lapham. (Oh, and the Grant Morrioson JLA:Classified #1-3, but that one was rather bizarre.) Gothman Central is excellent too, but it rarely features the Bat and is more about the Gotham police. Don't know what happens after the ongoing crisis-mash though, except that DCU is about to stop playing loose with continuity.