Meme from a_white_rain

[pikabot]

Choose five series (no peeking before you choose them), list them, and then answer the questions behind the cut.

1. One Piece
2. Avatar
3. Naruto
4. Doctor Who
5. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

1. Which is your favorite series from your list? And why?
One Piece. No matter how long it goes on, and how many arcs they churn through, Eiichiro Oda consistently demonstrates a wealth of imagination and fun. The characters are hilarious and eccentric, but also incredibly awesome, with motivations that feel real and relationships that cause the whole thing to feel like one big family.

2. If you were to pair two characters from 1 and 4, who would they be?
Jack and Bon Clay.

3. What is one thing you'd like to change about 3's plot line?
...EVERYTHING? I would make it about Team Gai, because Rock Lee is about ten times as awesome as Naruto's Big Three combined, and Neji and Tenten don't suck either. And Kakashi's great and all, but...Gai.

4. If both main characters of 2 and 5 were falling off a cliff, which one would you save?
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Appa can save the Avatar kids.

5. Which event was the most horrible for you in 1?
"It's Heavy" ;_;

6. Which is your least favorite character of 2?
If I'm restricted to the main cast, then Zuko. I'm sorry, his angst-fests bore me.

If I can delve into the one-shot characters, Doc/Shu was the worst gag ever.

7. If the antagonist of 3 were to rape the main character of 1, what would you do?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'd like to see anyone from Naruto try. The Odaverse operates on a completely different power scale from Naruto's world. Itachi or Orochimaru or whoever you would consider the antagonist of Naruto might be tough shit in their world, but Luffy would roll right over him. Oda cranks it up to eleven.

8. What song reminds you of 5?
"Spirit Never Dies" by Masterplan. Although this actually applies to pretty much everything on that list except for Doctor Who.

9. Of 1, 3, and 5, which is the easiest to think about?
I'm...I'm not sure I understand the question? If it means the easiest to dig your own corner of fanon in and come up with fanfic ideas, then One Piece. It's so cracky that fic practically writes itself.

10. Are the protagonists of 2 and 4 similar?
No. Not even slightly.

Comments

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

Re number ten: I think that Nine and Aang have quite a few likenesses. I mean, besides the ears.

[pikabot]

Well I was mostly thinking of Ten, I will admit, but I don't really see it. Besides the ears. And them both being really old.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I was more thinking about the guilt Aang and Nine both have - it leeks into Ten. But I'm not sure wtf RTD is doing with that and the Jesus imagery, while I have a pretty good idea of one for Avatar.

[pikabot]

I...I guess? But the source of their guilt is pretty different (Aang because he wasn't there due to a freak accident, and Nine because he was there and deliberately chose to wipe out both the Daleks and the Time Lords) and they deal with it in fundamentally different ways: Nine deals by being all dark and brooding, and Aang acts goofy and tries to avoid responsibility.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

ZOMYGOD I WAS EDITING.

And Aang and Ten do both tend to run away and try not to think too hard about their problems.

They're not much, so I'm not quite sure why they stick out as alike in my mind. *ponders*

[pikabot]

Ten doesn't do the guilt thing very much, though. That was sort of Nine's schtick. Mostly Ten just plays Alien Tour Guide :D and pines for Rose.

So...I guess each of Nine and Ten have aspects of Aang's personality and stuff, and combined they would be a little similar, but as-is you only get about half of it at a time.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

Hahah I meant when Ten is faced with things he doesn't really want do deal with, he acts a bit like Aang does when he doesn't want to deal with something. By running away or lying.

Yeah that's it.

[pikabot]

Really, the differences are so huge that they vastly overshadow the similarities. Primarily, both Nine and Ten are incredibly confidant and self-assured, almost to the point of arrogance. Aang, notsomuch.

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

Yeah there isn't a lot, but the ones I mentioned stick out a lot with me in Aang and the Doctor for some reason.

And there is the part where Aang is ladies man while the Doctor... is not.

[pikabot]

Ignoring Ten's chemistry with everything under the sun, naturally?

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more of how Ten relates to people in a romantic/sexual manner, which is kinda dorky when it's something he feels and he seems a bit unaware of the fact he can seduce anyone under the sun.

Aang seems unaware of attracting the girls too. Though he certainly was more confident in the Kaatango then Ten ever was with Rose.

[paperclipchains.livejournal.com]

I agree with 7. I've got a game in my SO where with every new series we're introduced to we run through the list to see if anyone could beat any of the Straw Hats.

Damn 'moders.

[pikabot]

Once you've taken down a precognitive with perfect reaction time who can transform into electricity and thus move just below the speed of light, you're pretty much proof against getting beat by other series.

[pimpstergust.livejournal.com]

Simon would beat Enel like whoa. Might not beat Luffy though, but only because the fight would result in an explosion of sheer manly spirit and refusal to give up that would completely obliterate the entire universe.

[pikabot]

Cannot argue with this.

Actually, pre-episode eleven Simon would probably get the shit kicked out of him if Kamina was not nearby to believe in him.

[rebbe]

I have to agree with Zuko being made of boring angst-fests D: