Joe Pace
Favorite Fictional Characters, #301: Damon Killian
The 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Running Man is pretty cheesy stuff, adapted from the much-better Stephen King source material....
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Joe Pace
Oct 25, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #300: Josh Lyman
Man, what I wouldn't give to be Jed Bartlet. The intellect, the gravitas, the sheer untrammeled competence. Or Leo McGarry with his...
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Joe Pace
Oct 24, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #299: Mitchell McDeere
There are a lot of Tom Cruise roles from his Hall-of-Fame stretch from 1983-1996 that I cherish, many of which I even identify with....
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Joe Pace
Oct 23, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #298: Unicron
I'll reiterate what I've said more than once on this list - the 1986 Transformers animated movie is one of my favorite things ever. If...
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Joe Pace
Oct 22, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #297: Asterix
A short, smart, heroic Gaul from the first century AD, Asterix leads the resistance to the conquering Romans in his village and elsewhere...
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Joe Pace
Oct 21, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #296: Rip Van Winkle
I love Rip Van Winkle. Here's a dude who didn't really have any interest in working for a living, interested mainly in loafing around his...
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Joe Pace
Oct 20, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #295: HAL 9000
Sir Arthur C. Clarke was a titan in the history of science fiction, one of the 20th century's Big Three along with Asimov and Heinlein....
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Joe Pace
Oct 19, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #294: Perseus
Perseus was, in many ways, the original questing hero. His story contains many of the elements that have become essential tropes of...
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Joe Pace
Oct 18, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #293: The Brain
Are you pondering what I'm pondering? A genetically modified mouse with unlimited intellect, unbridled arrogance, and unsatiable...
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Joe Pace
Oct 17, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #292: Russell Huxtable
I wonder, if I had undertaken this exercise twenty years ago, how I'd feel about Bill Cosby and The Cosby Show. I watched it as a kid, we...
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Joe Pace
Oct 16, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #291: Little Bear
The Indian in the Cupboard resides in a thorny place in my life. Written in 1980 by Lynne Reid Banks, the book was a favorite of mine as...
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Joe Pace
Oct 15, 2016
Favorite Fictional Characters, #290: Padme Amidala
Let's be honest - there were very much two versions of Amidala. There was the weepy, whiny, Sweet Valley Naboo pushover who made goo-goo...
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