Crushes On Fictional Characters?

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Spinning off from childrens-books thread. While reading one particular Green Knowe book I got v. interested in one particular character and developed a PASH on her. Can't remember anything about this character now except that she was from the 16th century (and was fictional, obviously) so was safely distant. I would have been about 7, so this was mostly non-sexual though was come to think of it extremely gendered - I wanted to step into the book somehow and Sort Out Her Troubles.

So....any childhood crushes on fictional characters? Or, indeed, non-childhood ones? Or am I a COMPLETE FREAK?

― Tom, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Prince Irrylath in the Darkangel Trilogy, and George Emerson in Room with a View. Mmmmmmmmm...lovely.

― Melissa W, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She wasn't called Linnet, was she, Tom?

If so, I think I came close to feeling the same way ...

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Morvern Callar from Alan Warner's genius books. She's something else.

― Johnathan, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had an only half-joking crush on Hopey Glass in Love&Rockets — despite my Grate Critic's Brane being perfectly aware that she is nothing if not a Comicbook- Device-by-Which-to-Produce-Pash-in-the- Punky-Fanboy — which I then managed to transfer into a non-joking crush on an extremely Hopey-like friend, with DISASTROUS consequences.

I've hunted my subconscious to recall if I fell for any Fictionals when younger — given me, I'd have thought I would. I certainly had lewd thoughts abt Marion the Dog-Girl in Hundred Million Francs (and then as usual started wondering about how great it wd therefore be to BE her, with her short hair and short skirt and long legs and cute beret). (Which lust-confusion was anyway more to do with the Richard Kennedy illustrations thanx anything texutal, tho I liked her total self-composure and autonomy.) But the cupboard seems to be bare.

― mark s, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not getting big crush on Hopey = bit odd(if sexuality appropriate to gender etc.)

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"if sexuality appropriate to gender": I think I shd get a T-shirt made with this on it. Or else get it put on my tombstone.

crushes on the Hopey-like in Real Life: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS!! THEY ARE ALL AS MAD AS MAD JACK McMAD!!

― mark s, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Taking Sides time.

I had ("had") a crush on Maggie, duh. Particularly after she got big (in fact, only after she got big (and Hopey was safely out of the way)).

Potentiality of projecting Maggie-esque characteristics onto real- life Maggie-ish individuals hadn't occurred to me but frankly quite possibly should have (uh, and indeed, oh).

― Tom, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Had distinct pash for Sally Kimball in the Encyclopedia Brown books - she was Chuck D to Encyclopedia's Flavor Flav. I always wanted a girl who'd get in fights for me (which I suddenly realize explains a lot of my more disastrous 'things' ("relationships" = other words, please)). Also the girl at the country hospital that Kitty Scherbatsky meets in Anna Kareninna. Mm. I am sad.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There was a spooky girl in a Stephen King story called Nona who I wrote really terrible poems about in my teenage years. Man, that is depressing.

― bnw, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ROLLERGIRL!!!!!!!

― JM, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does Sebastian Flyte from Brideshead Revisted count? And it wasn't just the foppish Antony Andrews in the television series, it was the character in the book, who was much more beautiful, and much sadder, and much more tragic.

It's probably his fault I have a thing for foppish, borderline alcoholic Oxford boys who abuse their teddy bears. ;-)

― masonic boom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pffff...there I was thinking that posting up admissions of crushes on comic-book characters was WAAAY too embarassing, only to find you lot have even less shame than me....sooo, MY hottest L&R character is undoubtedly IZZY. Izzy is R0WR, right? DON'T ARGUE.

I also had a bit of a thing for both halo jones and rodice olsun from "The Ballad Of Halo Jones", complicated slightly by actually wanting to be rodice.

I can't think of anything else off the top of my head. I think the above is probably enough, really.

x0x0

― Norman Fay, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Halo Jones: the grate prologue to one of the HJ books - even-further- future academic expert on HJ confesses love for long-dead same - is both effectively slushy and an ace pisstake of fanboys who fancy comics characters (i.e. most of them).

Artist of Supergirl who used to draw her nude? (I forget who exactly) Apocryphal or not?

― Tom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You know, on this board, I have discovered that

-indie boys have crushes on Maggie and Hopey from L&R (me and my best friend in high school, basically *were* Hopey and Maggie)

-indie boys have crushes on girls who work in record stores

-indie boys have crushes on girls who play bass in punk rock indie bands

So why, in gods name, while I was growing up, did *NO* indie boys *EVER* have a crush on *ME*?!?!?!? It's just not fair, I tell you. Just not fair. I think I'm going to go and eat some worms.

― masonic boom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kate, the reasons are as stated above: Real-life Hopey = Madder than MJM (as attested to by experts, I believe).

Course, I'm not an "indie-boy"...

― mark s, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would have a big crush on Kate, but I think my indie boy credentials (if any) would have been found wanting ;)

― Patrick, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aren't indie boys notoriously shy & socially awkward? Hell, I'm both of those things, and I'm resolute proto-yuppie scum. I would think that bookish music geeks (pardon my stereotyping) possess these characteristics in spades.

― David Raposa, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"...would have HAD a big crush..."

― Patrick, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, that's *one* of the eleven fancy-ILM-regulars people exposed.

― Tom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yay, Patrick! ::does happy dance around the flat:: Now I feel all validated! Hooray!

― masonic boom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not an indie-BOY, cuz I'm an indie-MAN

(Adopts unconvincing John Wayne rolling walk, and leaves work for home a la closing iris-out of The Searchers...

― mark s, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmm...Lum from Urusei Yatsura, I wouldn't mind being Ataru!
― james e l, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DIE! vile italics!!!

x0x0

― Norman Fay, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Artist of Supergirl who used to draw her nude? (I forget who exactly) Apocryphal or not?

Tom - prob. either Jim Mooney or Kurt Schaffenburger(sp). But almost certainly apocryphal, or rather a comic book 'urban legend'. Just late night I was reading an anthology of 1950s Archie comics and the same story abt a penciller drawing the lead characters in the nude crops up in that bk's intro (only substitute Betty and Veronica for Supergirl, of course.) Wish-fulfillment on the part of funny bk types, I reckon...

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The children's books thread has reminded me of Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables. Mmm, he could pull my pigtails and call me carrots any day. For a more grown-up crush, Philip Marlowe.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

Um got one or two,the elusive and beautiful Lord Sebastian Flyte,drunken Ben from Leaving Las Vegas (the screen play).

― Aloysius Grrl, Friday, 24 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I never answered this. GODDAMNIT. I used to be in love with Han Solo, ya'all top that shit. Plus - the lead guy on Voltron.

― Ally, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He's fictional but he's still Harrison Ford, thats horrible.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Most gurlies I know had a crush on Sebastian Flyte too.

I cannot speak for myself here in this respect, but back in high school lots of boys had a crush on computer game gurlies - and this was before yer Lara Crofts, we're thinking more um, Golden Axe 8 or 16 bit console time. I didn't have crushes on computer games characters though, them being either rubbish musclemen, dwarves or plumbers with mustaches. I did however fancy Sonic the Hedgehog.

This is getting bizarre. But I've realised how much I like the word "hedgehog". Hedgehog hedgehog.

― Sarah, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a massive crush on the Snork Maiden when I was small.

In general my list of fictional crushes is too vast to detail.

― DV, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Han Solo is not Harrison Ford, he is Han Solo. Duh.

― Ally, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He'll always look like Harrison Ford to me.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I supposedly look like Gillian Anderson but that doesn't make me Gillian Anderson.

― Ally, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah you mentalist surely nobody ever had a crush on anyone out of Golden Axe?

― Tom, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aren't all crushes on fictional characters by definition, since a crush is an imaginary relationship with an image of a person in your head designed to stop you actually having to deal with that person for real -- even if that person is alive and well and living round the corner / working in your office etc.?

― alex t, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Spoilsport. This is coming from a man who thinks Wyclef Jean's 'Perfect Gentleman' is the most romantic song ever written.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, my secret is now public. So should I post an add for a go-go dancer with a college education to elope with?

― alex t, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, do not underestimate the perv power of the otaku. The otaku will crush any mange-tinged female in sight, which is why so many of them also love Gwen Stefani (circa 1999).

I mean, we've got people crushing Ulala, Lara Croft, Chun Li, Sakura, Cammy, Sarah Bryant, Ivy, Xianghua, Sophitia, Aeris, Tifa, Yuffie, Morrigan, Felicia, Viconia, Aerie, Jahiera, and Cate Archer. Surely Golden Axe characters are not immune.

(I've just realized that I neglected to list video games on the boring areas of expertise thread...)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but the reason Han Solo looks like Harrison Ford is because his character was played by........Harrison Ford, your character was not played by Gillian Andersen, since you are not fictional.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How about Helena Bonham-Carter in Planet Of The Apes? That am be a sexy monkey...(But where did they get the horses).

― Pete, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"mange-tinged females"? These are not guinea pigs we're talking about.

I think there is an excellent case for "Perfect Gentleman"'s exalted status.

― Tom, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes Tom they did. THE GURL ONE. Did she have a red underwear type outfit on or something? SAUCY.

(Unless I am thinking of some other game with top gurl talent with similar fighting people and magickal action).

However I think when they started playing Streetfighter 2 they fancied Chun Li more. Perhaps they liked it cos I always played as her and they got to perve at her. I think I fancy the gurls in Final Fantasy Eight.

― Sarah, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mange = manga + anime.

Oh, who am I kidding?

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A better defense of my typo: The average otaku is so starved for female companionship that he will go for mange-tinted females, as the operative word is FEMALE.

Don't get me started on the furry phenomenon...

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

I'm STILL in love with Luke Skywalker, and have been ever since I was 11. I think there is something wrong with me, because I everday still always think about him before I go to sleep. Maybe I should see a shrink...I still want to marry him anyway.

― Michelle LaMonde, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

umm i think i was in love with matthew star from "the powers of matthew star" when i was very young. i was in love with KITT from Knight Rider too - yes the car. i fantasized about humping that car.

― di, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I might love Samurai Jack, but it wouldn't work between us because he has to get back to his own time, etc...

― Nicole, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my first remembered crush was George from rainbow. even now i don't know whether George was a he or a she.

also i am completely smitten with Amelie Poulain.

― petra jane, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

never loved a fictional character (not to the same degree that i've been turned into a trembling gelatinous mass for real people). my best friend loved shredder from teenage mutant ninja turtles tho. at least it wasn't krang

― minna, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My little sister had a crush on Yoda.

So the other Canadians can laugh at me, I'll confess that when I was very young I had a thing for Casey (yes, the puppet boy who lived in Mr. Dress-Up's tree with Finnigan the dog) and I used to tell my mother that I wanted to marry him someday and would get quite agitated whenever she tried to explain to me that he wasn't a 'real boy'. Real boys - pshaw.

― Kim, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i thought he was a girl ?

― anthony, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, don't say that. I was already confused enough just being a hetero puppet loving little kid - being a lesbian puppet loving little kid might've really screwed me up.

― Kim, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I had a crush on Sally Acorn from the Sonic The Hedgehog siries
Am i a freak.......Maybe

― Irdas Nimra, Thursday, 14 October 2004 04:05 (twenty years ago)

I've masturbated to the imago of the ever-elusive Gertie McDowell!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 14 October 2004 04:15 (twenty years ago)

When i was a young kid i had a mad crush on April O'Neil.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Thursday, 14 October 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)

Rogue from the X-men, especially when you come-of-age during Jim Lee's run on the title.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 October 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago)

I just remembered this: When I was little I had a crush on Gargamel from the Smurfs. But I think this was more about having a crush on a boy who always played Gargamel in our little kid games (about smurfs... I was always Azriel, bien sur...) But still, wtf.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 14 October 2004 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Second April O'Neil. Also, I has a big crush on Jessica Atreides from the Dune books - thinking about it now, that is wrong on so many levels.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 14 October 2004 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Re: X-characters, I was all about Gambit for my early teen years. Esp. as drawn by the Kubert bros.

― Laura E (laurae55), Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Ruth Fisher.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:15 (twenty years ago)

You are a sick man, Barry.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Gambit in the Saturday morning TV show, another nod to George Emerson, plus (as a 15-year-old) Mr. Rochester, Mr. Darcy and the dead but not fictional, Franz Lizst.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:41 (twenty years ago)

After your Ruth Archer confession, you are precious short of legs to stand on, Mr The Nipper.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:44 (twenty years ago)

It's an anti-crush, really, Stevo. I can't even imagine her in a sexual way but I'm totally drawn to her.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago)

OMG, the sunday morning show on Fox was where it all started, jocelyn. you are so correct.

― Laura E (laurae55), Thursday, 14 October 2004 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I swear there's another variation of this thread in which I proclaimed my teenage crush on Bonanza Jellybean from Even Cowgirls Get The Blues and Ms. Hoover from The Simpsons.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 October 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago)

'Stevo'!?

Who is Ruth Fisher?

― the bellefox, Thursday, 14 October 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago)

The mother on "Six Feet Under."

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 14 October 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Okay, risking derision here, but going for it anyway. Crushes on fictional characters:
* Aragorn from Lord of the Rings (the book, when I was in high school, although the movie version is damn fine, too)
* Sidney Carton from A Tale of Two Cities
* Quentin Compson in The Sound and the Fury (yeah, I know; that one's probably actionable)
* Han Solo
* Lt. Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica
* Herne, the crippled Starbuck in Joan Vinge's The Summer Queen
* Doug Ross on ER

Okay. I'm standing in the corner with my hands over my head now. Pelt with marshmallows and chocolate bars if you insist. : )

― Hey Jude, Friday, 15 October 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh...oh... and....
* Tony Stark (Iron Man), especially back in the mid-'80s when he was battling alcoholism
* Wolverine
* The DJ on Northern Exposure, Chris. Hubba hubba.

― Hey Jude, Friday, 15 October 2004 02:38 (twenty years ago)

I have crushes on nutcase women in films.

Mabel Longhetti in A Woman Under the Influence
Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest
Carol White in Safe
Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 15 October 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Mme Bovary

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 15 October 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago)

The red haired woman from "Star Blazers", the pretentious older sister from"Doug" and Melanie Brodie from the original Degrassi Jr. High (in that order).

― Tim Lake Ellison, Friday, 15 October 2004 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Mme Bovary

-- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), October 14th, 2004 9:33 PM. (later)

OTM! I had a huge thing for her!

Also, Zola's 'Nana' was a total minx.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 October 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago)

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― trashmaster (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Friday, 15 October 2004 06:14 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe nobody's mentioned Sally Bowles! Indie boys, go and read Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and PREPARE TO BE CRUSHED (out).

― antexit (antexit), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

the pretentious older sister from "Doug"

I had completely forgotten about this.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago)

She was like 13 and already completely confident in thinking of herself as a French existentialist!

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:55 (twenty years ago)

(When did Ned change his name to "Hey Jude"?)

― Evil Mang (Dan Perry), Friday, 15 October 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Sally Bowles? Not at all... I love, love, love the book. But she reminds me of enough terrible high school girlfriends to steer me far clear.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 October 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago)

Hey! I am not Ned. You are not Ned. We are not Ned. Ned is himself.

::considering:: I'm pretty sure, anyway.

Viggo Mortensen's got a great ass. That sound like Ned? If it does, should we worry? ::grin::

― Hey Jude, Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Whilst quite young, I developed a bad crush on Rebecca in Ivanhoe. And then on the next few girls I met called Rebecca. I projected too much.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago)

it got quite bad when I became convinced that i and my friends actually were the Secret Seven.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:47 (twenty years ago)

But hey, at least I had more friends than the Famous Five, ha.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:48 (twenty years ago)

I totally have a crush on Cassandra. Totally. On the Troy thread there's an exchange where I'm all "I demand they cast Reese Witherspoon immediately" and then Prude goes "I'm imagining her stomping her foot going "Why aren't you LISTENING to me?!!?!?" a la Tracy Flick" and it's pretty much the sexiest image ever posted to ILX ever.

I plausibly should not have admitted that.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 16 October 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago)

When I was younger, Dana Delany's nurse on China Beach. (Now just Dana Delany in general.)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 16 October 2004 05:36 (twenty years ago)

Used to love the Tracy Gold character on Growing Pains.
It's hard for me to admit this.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 October 2004 05:39 (twenty years ago)

Quentin Compson in The Sound and the Fury

hey jude wins.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 16 October 2004 06:35 (twenty years ago)

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