My Favourite Characters - Chandler Bing

In my life I have described my sense of humour-hell most of my personality-is a mixture between Homer Simpson and Chandler Bing. Most of the time my general sarcastic, flamboyant and (If I do say so myself) witty sense of humour is basically an imitation of Chandler and his sense of humour. His tone, his pacing, his body language, all stuff that has influenced me and how I behave when trying to be funny. Because it's no question that Chandler is the funniest character in Friends, hence why he's always referred too as the funny one (Not the best title to give a character in a comedy but whatever). In fact when I look back at some of my favourite episodes, The One With The Black Out, The One With Chandler In A Box, they're often episodes that give Chandler a fair amount to do, and very little of it is plot heavy, it's just Chandler in a funny situation. After all who would have thought they could get an entire episode worth of material out of just Chandler sat in a box for half the episode? And we don't even see him in the box! We just get dialogue, that is a great example of a really talented comedic actor.

Now that being said there is a recurring joke with Chandler that I just don't get...when he randomly blerts out gibberish. "Nice to meet you I'm blaghbuh". It's just...even as a kid I didn't see the humour in these, he's just shouting random vowels, it's not funny, it's not clever, it's just literal gibberish. Also then there are points to be made about how emotionally stinted he is, very insecure in his own sexuality and just general incompetence in lots of parts of life...So yeah maybe don't look to Chandler as a role model considering how many issues he has, just look at him for comedy and nothing much else. Yes he does develop and grow as the show goes on, even gets married and has kids, but not all the way, even in the very last episode he's panicking over the idea of too much responsibility even though so, maybe not the best improvements.

But none of this changes the fact that he is one of my comedic icons, has influenced me to no end, even to this day I can still burst out laughing at one of his jokes, everything about it is perfect, he's one of the funniest characters in all of comedy, and is another one to write down as one of my all time favourite characters.

-Danny

My Favourite Characters - Nightwing

When it comes to my top 3 favourite DC characters I always list Superman, Wonder Woman and Nightwing; and people are always surprised by that last one. "Why Nightwing and not Batman?". Simple, Nightwing is all of the best parts of Batman with none of the bad stuff. Now don't get me wrong, I love Batman, I think he is such a fascinating character to read and analyse, but Nightwing is superior for me, the answer of why is simple. A while ago I did a post that briefly touched upon this, when you boil Batman down to his most simple reasoning, why is Batman, Batman? To make sure no other eight year old boy will ever have to go through what he went through.

Bruce Wayne was destroyed by the death of his parents and it's something that he never fully recovered from, he's psychologically scarred from the event and is what made him into the man he is today, someone that fights crime and makes his city a better place, but personally his life is a constant wreck. When Dick Grayson's parents were killed by criminals, Batman thought he failed his mission, that's why he took him in, he could relate to him better than anyone and hopefully steer him into the right direction. Make the world a better place but also hopefully turn out a better person than Bruce because he doesn't have to go through it alone. Which is exactly what happened.

Dick Grayson grew up to be a crime fighter and detective like Batman and has saved countless lives. But he also has a sense of humour, he has friends, he has a girlfriend, he still has a life outside of fighting crime. Dick Grayson didn't lose his humanity the night his parents died and the darkness never took control of him like it did Bruce Wayne. True he's not as tough or as smart as Batman but he's a happy medium. Nightwing has all of the great skills of Batman, but with none of the baggage to come with it. That's what makes me love him and makes him one of my favourite DC characters.

-Danny

Thoughts On The Female Iron Man

That's it. This is sort of a non-story for me. In case you aren't aware, a little context: Marvel has announced they are introducing a new Iron Man into the Marvel comic universe, a 15 year old black woman, Riri Williams. The internet of course erupted in both cheers and boos and honestly...I don't think it deserves it. Marvel is in such a big state of diversifying its roster of characters to be more inclusive, sometimes this has worked great (Kamala Khan as Ms Marvel) sometimes it has gone terribly (She-Thor) and sometimes it hasn't really made an impact (Sam Wilson as Captain America). This is just the next step in Marvel trying to have a larger variety of characters. Here's the thing, I think it's good that Marvel is trying so hard to be more diverse and hell, characters like Kamala Khan or Miles Morales are some of the best characters that Marvel has created in over 20 years. Hell i'd say they're more interesting than their elder counterparts. So far we don't know the alias of the new character (I mean Iron Man is clearly no longer applicable) but 'Fe' is the symbol for Iron, so Fe-Male=Iron Man. But honestly the best suggestion i've heard so far is Iron Maiden.

But then there are the people that are complaining about this, and most of the time they try to cover up their whiney fanboyisms with "I'd just rather they make original characters instead of ripping off classic characters". These people have apparently never heard of Legacy characters, so I guess that also means they won't ever be reading any stories involving The Flash, Green Lantern, Captain Marvel, Robin, Blue Beetle, Wolverine, Hulk or Supergirl, because literally all of these characters are legacy characters, meaning the mantels are currently (And for some of them, have been for decades now) being held by someone who was not the original version of that superhero. So stop whining nerds, it looks pathetic.

Will Riri Williams be good as Iron Maiden (That's such a cool name)? Who knows. I haven't read any comics with her, we don't know what this means for Tony Stark, we don't know how this character will interact with everyone else or what her stories are, all we know is...there's a new people putting on the Iron suit...so I repeat...ehh.

-Danny