Alpha male. (in current romance parlance... sorry, couldn't help myself.)
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Barb - Nov 06, 2008 4:14:57 am PST #7876 of 28769
“Not dead yet!”
Jessica - Nov 06, 2008 4:15:43 am PST #7877 of 28769
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jack?
amych - Nov 06, 2008 4:17:32 am PST #7878 of 28769
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jack?
Snerk.
Ginger - Nov 06, 2008 4:20:18 am PST #7879 of 28769
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Jack definitely is one, whatever one is.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 06, 2008 4:40:02 am PST #7880 of 28769
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I've somehow missed whether there's a name for a male Mary Sue. I'm thinking of the sort of character who's a doctor who lands a commercial airplane in an emergency; finds food and water in the wilderness; makes an electric generator with spare parts; is true to his one true love while being hit on by everyone woman he meets; and has steely gray eyes and a determined chin.
MacGyver.
Fred Pete - Nov 06, 2008 5:16:01 am PST #7881 of 28769
Ann, that's a ferret.
the sort of character who's a doctor who lands a commercial airplane in an emergency; finds food and water in the wilderness; makes an electric generator with spare parts; is true to his one true love while being hit on by everyone woman he meets; and has steely gray eyes and a determined chin.
I'm surprised nobody named Buckaroo Banzai.
Connie Neil - Nov 06, 2008 5:21:33 am PST #7882 of 28769
brillig
I'm surprised nobody named Buckaroo Banzai.
Well, there was no mention of surgery or playing an instrument.
Dana - Nov 06, 2008 6:39:44 am PST #7883 of 28769
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Gary Stu is the other one I've heard.
amych - Nov 06, 2008 6:45:22 am PST #7884 of 28769
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, I hear Gary Stu or Larry Stu more often than Marty -- my guess is that the rhyme makes it work better for people.
Or, you know, "protagonist".
Strix - Nov 06, 2008 9:00:09 am PST #7885 of 28769
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
In shockin news, I find that I have to say LK Hamilton's latest book is...actually decent. It's...almost all plot!
2 kinda short sex scenes, with only one being actual sex. It was not bad at all.
Craxy.
Also, I think that it is the last Merry Gentry book. It seems to be the conclusion of the series.