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fannish5 asks, "Who are your 5 favorite non-humanoid characters?"
1. Discworld's Greebo. Because he's a massive gray tomcat with a face like a furry fist and one evil yellow eye and he attacks or rapes anything that moves and once took down an elk and seriously surprised a female wolf. Okay, yeah, maybe he was human once for a short period of time, but he's a cat through and through.
2. Discworld's Gaspode the Wonder Dog. Quite on the flip side, I love Gaspode's inner battle between what he thinks he should be (a tough, independent, mangy mongrel who don't need nobody 'r nuthin') and what he knows he wants to be deep down inside (Lassie). Another brilliant, insightful, hilarious Pratchett parody of a familiar stereotype.
3. Skinny Legs and All's Can of Beans. It's been a little while since the last time I re-read Skinny Legs and All, but from what I remember Can of Beans is the most interesting of the whole animated objects crew. Very philosophical, and quite possibly my introduction to the idea of gender as choice.
4. Doctor Who's TARDIS. Go ahead and tell me she doesn't count, I dare you. She is woefully underused, though. I would really like the show to explore the idea of a living ship a bit more. Maybe they do in the books...?
5. Firefly's Serenity. Only the tenth character on the show, just before River's feet! Okay, maybe this one's a bit of a stretch, but I don't care. Serenity is love.
Runner-up: Discworld's The Librarian. As much as he's embraced his ape-hood, he's just too humanoid to count, unfortunately. But he is also very awesome, and way up there on my list of favorite Discworld characters.
fannish5 asks, "Who are your 5 favorite non-humanoid characters?"1. Discworld's Greebo. Because he's a massive gray tomcat with a face like a furry fist and one evil yellow eye and he attacks or rapes anything that moves and once took down an elk and seriously surprised a female wolf. Okay, yeah, maybe he was human once for a short period of time, but he's a cat through and through.
2. Discworld's Gaspode the Wonder Dog. Quite on the flip side, I love Gaspode's inner battle between what he thinks he should be (a tough, independent, mangy mongrel who don't need nobody 'r nuthin') and what he knows he wants to be deep down inside (Lassie). Another brilliant, insightful, hilarious Pratchett parody of a familiar stereotype.
3. Skinny Legs and All's Can of Beans. It's been a little while since the last time I re-read Skinny Legs and All, but from what I remember Can of Beans is the most interesting of the whole animated objects crew. Very philosophical, and quite possibly my introduction to the idea of gender as choice.
4. Doctor Who's TARDIS. Go ahead and tell me she doesn't count, I dare you. She is woefully underused, though. I would really like the show to explore the idea of a living ship a bit more. Maybe they do in the books...?
5. Firefly's Serenity. Only the tenth character on the show, just before River's feet! Okay, maybe this one's a bit of a stretch, but I don't care. Serenity is love.
Runner-up: Discworld's The Librarian. As much as he's embraced his ape-hood, he's just too humanoid to count, unfortunately. But he is also very awesome, and way up there on my list of favorite Discworld characters.
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