Our Favorite Fictional Characters

Hi, this is Frank Todaro, and you're listening

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Yeah, that one I don't understand, but... Anyway...

We're going to talk about fun things tonight.

Yes, yes we are. Today, tonight, whenever you

find people are listening to this. I don't even

know if people listen to this show. I need to

start promoting it more. We will be bringing

you another list episode. This time around, we're

going to talk about, in no particular order,

even though I have my own list numbered, our

favorite fictional characters. Take it away,

Holden McNeil. Okay, they're talking about fictional

characters. Fictional characters. Am I getting

through to you at all? As he said, these are

fictional characters. You can go first, sir.

Who is the first one that you would like to talk

about? Well, I think I'll... My calculations

are correct. When this baby hits 88 miles per

hour, you're gonna see some serious shit. With

Doc Brown, for obvious reasons. Mad scientist,

but not, like, in a bad way. But he does turn

the DeLorean into a time machine, which obviously

is a beautiful piece of machinery because it's

got that nice angular metal look of the 80s.

I mean, the way he saw it is, if you're going

to make a time machine on everything, why don't

you do it with some style? Yeah, I love Doc Brown.

Yeah, Doc Brown's awesome. For me, That entire

movie series, that trilogy, the whole thing that

makes it for me is Christopher Lloyd. I love

anything the dude's in. Just that raspy voice

that he gets when he gets excited. Yep. Absolutely.

Doc Brown is one of the coolest characters out

there. I know that you weren't on this, but I

think I have the PDFs for you that you can read

if you are so inclined to do so. IDW did Back

to the Future comics and Optimus Solo and I had

covered them and literally as I'm reading these

books, I am hearing Christopher Lloyd in my head

and I'm like, oh my God. Say what you will and

we actually did the episode on this on over on

tooncast tooncast Beyond it was actually the

last episode of tooncast Beyond before it was

just became tooncast again Back to the future

the animated series say what you will what Dan

cast Lanetta? I mean a pretty good job. Yeah,

he did knock in yeah the voice out. I mean that's

Christopher Lloyd like I feel like there's a

there's this like oh, this is a fun episode.

We should do this It just came to me The Mount

Rushmore of basically of of awesome iconic voice

act like actors that their voice is their like

claim to fame. Yep Absolutely, we should definitely

do that in the future But I mean Christopher

Lloyd Doc Brown He's a character that is lovable.

He's a character that is very absent -minded.

He's a character that is also very complex as

well and He's just one of those quintessential

characters and the way that they wrote him the

way that you know He is kind of a mentor to Marty

I don't want to say father figure because Marty

did have his dad even though his dad was little

nuts, but Doc Brown was always so very very cool

It's so fun. I absolutely love him. I might actually

watch that move those movies after we finish

this Maybe, I don't know yet. For me... People

are gonna cry havoc and let out the gophers of

war with this one. And your little dog too! I

got you now! You little furry freak! You're not

gonna get away from me! Scrabbling around. I

know you're in there. He's close. You're close,

aren't ya? You see the way. Fucking me. I'm gonna

go for a lie that says... The Gopher from Caddyshack

2. The reason why I'm saying the sequel is because,

I don't think, I'd have to look it up, but I

don't think Frank Welker voiced the Gopher in

the first film. I know he voiced the Gopher in

the second film. And the adventures that the

Gopher has with Dan Aykroyd are just hilarious.

And me being from Massachusetts and all of that

and... before I think AMW bought them out, we

had a company up there called Hire's Root Beer.

And the can of root beer that Muffy or Miffy

or whatever her name is has Jonathan Silverman's

character go to get is a can of Diet Hire's Root

Beer. And there's a, I have it screen capped

somewhere, there's a picture of the gopher who

has the can. I'm like, oh my God, that is so

hilarious. I just love how he always gets out

of the situations that he ends up getting himself

into. Very, very fun. Totally. My next up, in

no particular order, is Q from Star Trek The

Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Picard.

Aubrey, you want to add that in there? I just

love Jonathan or John Delancey's like portrayal

of the character like Just the kind of the trickster

the the nonchalant like I don't care like, you

know Oh, come on. Let's have fun Capitan, you

know, yep Just it's I love the portrayal. I love

the character. Is that all this meant to you?

Tell me commander, where is that doctor of yours?

He was supposed to meet me here a half an hour

ago. Tell me about Q I'll tell you anything you

want to know commander Just answer one question

Is Starfleet penalizing you or did you actually

request such a dismal command? It's it's one

of those characters that when I want a good Like

enjoyable episode of Star Trek. Mm -hmm. I always

go back to Crossover ones where it's one of the

series with an original series character or like

a flashback episode like that Or an episode with

Q like pretty much anytime. There's an episode

with Q. I'm I'm golden I'm like, okay, this is

great. I can sit here and watch this I don't

have to necessarily pay attention, but it's It's

one of those ones that I can just sit back and

enjoy Yeah, you know it so well that you know

It's one of those things where hey, I know that

voice or hey, I know this or hey, I know that

and this is when he says this and this is when

he does this and and all of that so that's very

very cool up next for me is if i only have three

days to do this i have to go deep undercover

i'm undercover deep now this is deep but i'm

going deeper i don't want no more money or nothing

but i'm going deep deep deep deep undercover

so you signed that for me and i'm going so deep

sir you not even know where i people gonna try

to page me if it's excellent no answer because

i'm gonna be deep undercover I'm tired of your

bullshit, Foley. You got three days. If I don't

see some results by then, I'm gonna grind your

ass in the dog meat. You got that? Deal. I'll

have a dog meat ass. Now, could you please sign

my authorization for my flash money, please?

Flash money. Just make sure nothing happens to

that Ferrari. That's a $50 ,000 automobile, you

know. Oh, no, no, no. It's $67 ,000 in fast.

It goes from 100 to 150 in like... You're gonna

put a banana where? That's right folks it is

Axel Foley More so for Beverly Hills cop 2 than

cop 1 but I do like cop 1 but I'd look he is

so much more hilarious in in cop 2 I just you

know Some of the jokes like Beverly Hills cop

2 was in theaters and when I was 7 years old

and 87 so by the time I saw it on VHS might have

been 89 90 something like that because you know

folks back in the 80s it took a while for things

to leave theaters and now theaters probably aren't

even going to be around anymore or something

and I watched a lot of stuff as a kid that I

shouldn't have and His line in the 385 North

Club when he says I'd like to get a Coke bartenders

like $7 $7 for a Coke I can get blown for $7

and I'm like Okay, there's a kid. I was like,

huh as an adult. I'm like, alrighty then yeah,

this is most definitely an adult femme but I

love him and judge Reinhold in this and Axl is

just that That Streetwise cop that you see in

almost anything nowadays, but except Axel's in

Axel's case. The character was done a hell of

a lot better. He's a fun character for sure.

Yes. Yes, he is. What's next for you, sir? Well,

what's next for me is and this is where I start

devolving into two of my favorite franchises

being Star Trek and And and Transformers and

superheroes. Yep. Oh three. So Next up I would

put Batman the eminent series Batman Which encompasses

Batman Beyond so it's kind of a cover. Yeah,

it's it's DCA you Yeah, it's yeah with Kevin

Conroy so Kevin Conroy and I am the goddamn Batman

very good then mr. McGinnis Welcome to my world.

I obviously One the voice like whenever I read

Batman. That's what I hear like hands down. It

doesn't matter. I always hear Kevin Conroy Even

when somebody else is voicing I might pretend

that Kevin Conroy speaking Just makes it that

much more enjoyable But then you know, I love

the portrayal of the character I love the the

way that they humanize them a little bit more

with it and yes, he can still do some things

that you know, I'm like the the Christopher Nolan

stuff where they show Batman actually get hurt.

They show him get hurt quite a bit in the Amid

It series, which is refreshing because a lot

of shows, they show it, but he's got an extremely

quick recovery. Right. Yeah. Like, yeah, he loses

his memory in an episode. Yeah, he gets saved

by his mentor. Yeah, he, you know, he's he gets

thrown into a Lazarus pit. I mean, He's all different

ranges of his personality but frailty of his

body. I love the whole evolution you get through

the DCAU. As he said to Terry McGinnis in Return

of the Joker, block it out and power on through.

The only way Batman can block shit out and power

on through is by having a lot of pain pills.

Oh, man. Up next for me, as I said, I think I

might have said this already in the episode,

but I might have said it off air instead. The

next one for me is kind of a cheat, because I'm

picking two. But it was either pick two or pick

all four. But Donnie and Mikey from Turtles.

Rock, dudes. Do you realize what this is? The

crucial piece of evidence we were looking for?

Specifically, the 87 cartoon. And the 90s movies.

Absolutely love him. Donatello is... Well, he

does machines. And Mikey is just the party dude

and... What IDW has done with these characters

in the TMNT comics has just been so well done

and so very, very cool. I love that whole thing,

but the original animated series and the original

first three films, with Robbie Wriste being the

voice of Mikey and Corey Feldman being the voice

of Zanatello, it just was so, so good. I think

my two favorite scenes, one is with both of them.

It's when they're in the sewer waiting for the

pizza guy. Time's up, three bucks off. And then

for Donnie specifically, it's when he and Casey

are trying to fix the truck and they go through

the whole alphabet of calling each other names.

I thought that was just hilarious. with Barry

Gordon and Townsend Coleman voicing them each

respectively Donnie for Barry and Mikey for Townsend

in the animated series. Oh man, what adventures.

I need to get my hands on that Turtle Van DVD

box set at some point because I need to watch

that show again. I missed the old show. Not that

the new ones haven't been decent. I like the

2012 and I liked the 2003, but there's something

to be said for, you know, the OG. Yeah, I love

the 2003 show and the 2012 show I liked and I

thought it was good, but I never actually watched

all of it all the way through. It had its moments.

Yeah, I'm not saying it's bad at all. What I'm

saying is I need to go back and it's on Hulu,

so I guess I can go back and watch through it

at some point. Next up for you, sir. Okay. Next

up for me would be Iron Man. I had to go superheroes

with a little bit of it. I really enjoyed Iron

Man just from Robert Downey Jr. mostly. I liked

him in the old Spider -Man the animated series

stuff. 1994 Iron Man cartoon as well. Yeah, that

one too But I mostly resonated with the character

with Robert Downey jr. Is it better to be feared

or respected and I say Is it too much to ask

for both? With that in mind I humbly present

the crown jewel of Stark Industries freedom line

It's the first missile system to incorporate

our proprietary repulsor technology. They Say

the best weapon is when you never have to fire.

I respectfully disagree I prefer the weapon you

only have to fire once. That's how dad did it.

That's how America does it. And it's worked out

pretty well so far. Well, that's because since

the 90s, there wasn't I mean, there was a few

like they tried doing Iron Man armored adventures,

but he was a younger Tony kind of a thing and

whatever. But yeah, Robert Downey Jr. is Iron

Man. Man, there's so many. So many quotes throughout

the entire cinematic universe. I like how they

mirrored his Birth is Iron Man and his death

is Iron Man. Yep Which was perfect, you know

goes goes in as he you know goes out as he went

in You know cocky and ready to you know, stir

the pot Absolutely and shoving it in everyone's

face. Hey Tony. We've got these things prepared

for you. We want you to say it I am Iron Man

Like, don't care. Yeah, screw it. And then he

does it again when, you know, Thanos... What

are you? Who are you? I'm Iron Man. Snap. Yep.

Yep. And yeah, that was just... And then the

recording beyond the grave. Yeah, if you're seeing

this, I bit the big one. Yeah, that was very,

very sad. I know a lot of people out there don't

like Iron Man 3. What I like I don't mind it.

I don't like Iron Man 2 as much yeah, I I feel

like that was the more hollow of the three whereas

Iron Man 3 yes, I give it crap for being You

know essentially a Christmas time movie But the

dudes gone through you know, he's had You know

between the the New York thing and you know,

I think that was with Ultron 2 right there at

that point wasn't it? Iron Man 3 was the beginning

of Phase 3, I think? Was that before Ultron?

No, it was after Ultron. That's what I thought.

So you had that too. So, I mean, just the whole

gamut of things that he was dealing with, you

know, PTSD from it all, and had to deal with

it and kind of rise above it and start fresh.

Yeah. Yeah, I love RDJ as Iron Man. I love Robert

Hayes, the guy who voiced Iron Man in the 1994

cartoon series. I thought that was amazing But

really I mean the man like I can't see or hear

anybody else other than Robert Downey jr. Doing

Iron Man which as of this recording It kind of

stinks and they haven't revealed who it is yet,

but in the new Disney Plus Marvel what if that's

that's gonna be happening it says animated series,

it's not his voice, it's somebody else. And I'm

like, what? That would have been such an easy

way for him to reinsert himself without having

to put the suit on. Well, plus it's animated,

it's voice acted, but here's the thing with this.

The new Disney Marvel What If animated series,

it has every other actor. It's the last thing.

Chadwick Boseman did before he died. It has every

other actor from the MCU except Robert Downey

Jr. as the voice of Iron Man. And it just kind

of stinks, but it is what it is, I guess. Yeah,

so Tony Stark. Absolutely love that guy. Iron

Man from Marvel Cinematic Universe. So good.

All right. For me, next up is... This is Jason

David Frank, and you're listening to the Geek

Cash Radio Network. No one ever thought he'd

grow up to become a doctor, but, uh, Dr. Tommy

Oliver. Our teacher is the oldest living Power

Ranger. Not the oldest. Just the best. There's

two things you guys need to learn about Dino

Gems. One, you can't choose them. They choose

you. What's the other? They go real well with

dinomorphers. Aren't you a little old for this,

Tommy? I may be old, but I can still pull it

off. If you could see 13 -year -old me in the

90s, 13, 14, 15, up until that first movie was

released, I had nothing but green shirts on.

And then when he went to the White Ranger, I

had nothing but white shirts and black jeans.

I love Jason David Frank as Tommy Oliver on the

show, in the comics. even the Lord Drakens side

of him, I just love everything that they have

done with that character. I can see that. Yeah,

I like the character as well. Yeah. Well, you

know, again, from the Boom Studios comics, if

you're reading those folks, I haven't read the

new ones, but the original Boom Studios MMPR

series that they did that I'm still trying to

wrap up over on the pullback. Just what they

did with him and how they got around and all

this and everything else and stuff on the show

man is just so So fun, so good. I love Dragonzord,

but I just love Tigerzord and Falconzord just

a little bit more Oh, I always loved the white

ranger. That was always my favorite character

in Power Rangers and then I followed Tommy Oliver

like a hawk through the series. So, you know

Yeah, that forever red appearance was awesome.

And then obviously he was the teacher slash doctor

in Dino Thunder Well, and then he came back yet

again For dimensions in danger and other things.

Yeah. Yep All right, who's next on your list?

So I have four down. So let's see. I have more

characters than what I need Optimus Prime okay

I can go digital or like animated so I never

said you couldn't I do too so yeah so I have

Optimus Prime but that's because but I'm talking

like the the g1 prime not right yeah the one

where he's not dark and he's not mm -hmm you

know give me your face give me your face Megatron

Was not prepared. Yeah, I love the original run

with Peter Cullen and I'm through And he's one

of those characters that just kind of stands

the test of time. It's kind of like you're like

Stand -in like father figure type person in in

the series you look up to him you you look up

to the voice just the the larger than lifeness

of him and I mean In his quotes cool freedom

of all, you know freedom is the right of all

sentient beings And I love the red semi I just

that's I've always liked that I still have a

hot yellow red semi truck that I keep because

When I got into transformers, I didn't have optimus

prime and so that was my stand -in Very cool.

Very cool yeah, I love optimus as well, even

though I give everybody a hard time about him

because Everybody's like oh, he's the greatest

leader ever and I wouldn't go that far, but he's

he's definitely up there so I recently and I

don't know I don't think you watch this person,

but I recently watched one of Lyo convoy reviews

his old videos where you know he's talking about

optimus prime and Rodimus prime and Who's the

better leader and yada yada yada? He pointed

out two very distinct things between the two

of them. Under Optimus' watch, they lost Cybertron

for four million years. Yes, granted that four

million years, they were mostly asleep in the

Ark. But basically, the Decepticons had control

of Cybertron. And by the time Rodimus comes in,

Rodimus wins Cybertron back and exiles the Dece...

So it's this whole thing. But I mean, I get it.

I understand why people love the character. And

I do have sentimentality and love for the character.

I just think Rodimus is better. It hurted everything

after the fact. So it was easier for him and

plus Prime had the moon bases anyway. No, he

got relegated to the moon bases They had Cybertron

and then the Decepticons took over and then they

got kicked off cyber. Anyway, it's a whole other

discussion for either either way Yeah, yeah,

all the race would have died without prime. So

next up for me is someone who Affected all of

our lives no matter what he was doing it didn't

matter if he was I don't know, if he was in the

classroom, if he was next door, if, you know,

he was stuck in a 1980s Trans Am. But next up

for me is specifically Mr. Feeney from Boy Meets

World. That's the way uh -huh. Uh -huh. I like

it. You want to talk about a father figure or

You know again looking up to a teacher having

a father figure there and obviously Corey had

his dad and everything in boy mates world, but

mr. Feeney was always So good and William Daniels

as as mr. Feeney. I absolutely love that. I love

the lessons and There isn't an episode of Boy

Meets World that goes by that I don't find something

that I remember learning because of that character.

Yeah, I always loved Feeny in Boy Meets World.

What you got next, sir? Well, I got Captain Picard.

Star Trek. I've been watching a lot of that.

I don't care for him in his own title series

of Star Trek Picard, right, but I like him in

in the next generation just because Yeah, he

took the diplomatic approach and he generally

if he thought an idea was stupid from command

he just did what he wanted anyway, but He also

if push came to shove had no problem Throwing

someone down plus you got the team up of Captain

Kirk and Picard in the same movie generations.

Yeah So that was epic to me, even though they

killed my favorite of the two. I was gallivanting

around the galaxy when your grandfather was still

in diapers. Yeah, they stole that from relics

with Scotty. Next up for me is Nightwing, Dick

Grayson Nightwing. This is specifically from

the new 52 run. Now, I love s'mores as much as

the next guy. But I'm fresh out of marshmallows.

What do you say we call it a night? Of the comics

with Kyle Higgins writing him, but it is also

Nightwing Robin in the DCAU as well. But specific

to the comics, I just love the like, you can

clearly tell anytime Kyle Higgins is writing

something on a licensed property that he loves

the character that he loves the content. And

just everything that he did with Nightwing for

the 50 -something issues, 40 -something issues

that he got. I forget off the top of my head

how many issues that Nightwing, New 52 Nightwing

had, but anyway. I love the character Nightwing

is to me is always that that character. Okay.

Yes. No one is not a lot of people are orphan

circus brats. I understand that, but I often

say Nightwing is the character we want to be

versus Batman is the legend we need to live up

to kind of thing. And someone pointed that out

to me the other day is, Oh, well, not everybody's

a, uh, Has their parents murdered and and lives

in the circus. I'm like that's true, but he's

the everyman character He's not rich. He still

has to struggle He yes, he has Bruce there as

Batman and whatever else but he goes through

his own struggles and he goes through his own

growing pains and It's just so much fun. I highly

suggest if people have not read the new 52 Nightwing

run that Kyle Higgins did Please read it. It

had 30 issues now that I remember. Issue 29,

it brings it all back to where Nightwing began

and just absolutely amazing and awesome. Who's

next for you, sir? Well, my next one would be

Captain Kirk. who I looked up to immensely as

a child, to the point that I had Halloween costumes.

I liked to put on that persona when I had to

speak in front of people in school because I

absolutely hate being in front of groups. So,

yeah, it was difficult. As a kid and so I always

looked up to his character because he just kind

of was like Yeah, I am I just don't care. Like,

I'm going to do it this way. Like, Kalbala diplomacy

and, you know, and whatnot. So I just I always

enjoyed watching the character, especially in

the films, just because I thought he was so much

better in the films. But even with that said,

I just yeah, I had that as one of my favorites

of all time. And plus, Shatner is still around.

Well, no signs of slowing down. You should not

say, okay, yes, I agree. He is that way. But

every time you say stuff like that, the next

day, the news headlines read some sort of stop

predicting stuff, dude. I'm not predicting it.

I said he's got no sign of stopping. No, but

you're going to jinx it. No, jinx it. He's awesome.

He is very much so. The next character for me

is someone who sadly only got five seasons of

a television show, but in those five seasons,

his character, at least to me, had such dynamic

range and he didn't always push forward. He always

kind of got pulled back into old habits, but

It's Nash Bridges played by Don Johnson. Now.

I know a lot of people out there like who what?

This was in the time when CBS was doing like

action Friday night. It was Walker Texas Ranger

Nash Bridges and Marshall Law Marshall Law starring

Sammo Hung If I have to say who's starring in

Walker, Texas Ranger you people are living under

a rock, but Don Johnson Nash Bridges what I like

about him is he is a veteran cop that has so

many scars but you just constantly root for the

guy because you want to see him succeed. Who

are you guys? Uh, we're with the gas company.

Cops. He's a cop? Oh, you fail to identify yourself,

huh? I was busy. I bet. I want him arrested for

assault and battery and breaking and entering.

Well, let's just talk about you first. What do

you say, Daryl? You know, attempting suicide's

a crime. Now, you see, Daryl, if we arrest you,

we're obligated to search this place. and with

you being on probation and all, and if we happen

to run across, oh, say, some controlled substances...

What if I, uh, uh, didn't press charges? Well,

that would be a start. What do you want? Now,

do you see how easy that was? We're looking for

a guy that's making some wonky steroids, you

know, like the kind you sold to Bart Mackey Hey,

this is my gig back off. I'm in no mood and they

constantly threw things at him that he just eventually

overcame and overcame and overcame and I Just

I really dig that type of character in in television

Who's next for you sir next for me down to that

that nitty -gritty now I got seven down Optimus

Primal Silverbolt do it if she's headed where

I think she's headed Because as a kid, I just

I I don't know. I just loved the humor of the

guy I felt very much like that another father

figure character Whereas like prime now that

I think about it. He's more of like the grandpa

type figure the grandfather like old and wise

and ready to tell you what you need to do and

you know, and then primals like Well, that's

just Prime. Let's just go do it our way and kind

of wait from there. I think that one, the voice

acting is superb for it. Two, his transformations

throughout the series just made me like him all

the more. The fact that even though Prime dies

and comes back, he has a similar situation. Yeah,

it was interesting how they handled that in Beast

Wars. Yeah, I love Optimus Primal. I've always

loved Optimus Primal. Watching season one again

recently, and I'm like, I like his alt mode.

No, I like his robot mode more than his alt mode

in the first season. But once he gets to like

surf ape and then and then optimal optimus, I'm

like, ooh, this is a really cool Kind of thing,

but you're right. He is always that that wise

leader kind of thing Whereas in the current Transformers

Beast Wars IDW comic he's that young Green green

kind of leader. So it's another way to see optimus

primal Gary chalk style Yep Yep Next up for me

is I've said this before and I will say this

until it actually happens if funko ever releases

a funko pop of this character People better look

out because I will be a bull in a china shot

to get this I had one of the original dolls from

the 80s of this character and one of the talking

dolls It was a tape recorder, I think, if I remember

correctly. But ran from 86 to 90, one of the

best 80s comedies ever. It is that alien life

form, Alf himself, Gordon Shumway. Oh, can I

make a suggestion? Yeah, sure. Why not? Well,

if it's not too much trouble. How about fixing

my spaceship? I love Alf. Hello. read my lips

it talks it's heavy it's hairy and it talks good

now how about fixing my spaceship so i can get

my heavy hairy body out of here alf was so fun

alf was always getting into trouble and the funny

thing is you'd think that you know You think

that television, and it generally does, but it

rubs off on us and it gives us impressions. I

remember back in the eighties, oh my God, Transformers

is violent. Don't let your kids watch that or

else they're gonna go out and get... For me,

real life and fiction were two very separate

things. Anything on my television, I knew that

was fiction and I knew I couldn't go out and

do that. Now, Alf, his one fault, I personally

believe, is that he likes to eat cats. That's

a little much. But I love what Paul Fusco did

with The Voice. I love all of the adventures

they get into. I love the Alf animated series.

Just everything to do with the character was

so fun. Again, he's another character that has

his heart on his chest kind of thing. And it

was just so cool seeing this alien interact with

the family of the tanners. Yeah, I don't remember

much of Elf, but... Yeah, Elf was between the

time you were born and the time you were... four

or five, I want to say. Yeah, he's not one that

really resonates with me. Think you would I think

if you go back like right now watching a lot

of old stuff I find that a lot of it just doesn't

resonate with me. Mm -hmm. I Might actually have

to sit here after we're doing done with this

and watch some elf on 2b. But anyway Who's next

for you? All right next for me, this is this

is hard because I have two left and I have I

Have four characters. Yeah So I I'll mention

my honorable mentions and I'll say like wharf

and commander Riker, but there It's more so just

cuz I I got to watch them evolve over multiple

series Beast Wars rattrap Not beast machines

rattrap because well, he's just awesome for one

And to like anytime I want to pick me up for

an episode with sarcasm and anything funny about

it I put on an episode with rat trap, you know

a Better mouse trap Yeah, you know just just

anything with rat trap because he's hilarious

Mm -hmm. So I yeah, and I love Scott McNeil's

voice work. So yeah I'm going to say this here

and now, I need to say this in all things Transformers

at some point, but you, as the Beast Wars Megatron

fan I know that you are, you owe everything to

the Low Road. Why? Because... I'm waiting for

this punchline here and I'm not... Because it

is where Megatron has some of his best lines

and also, even though you're not a Beast Machines

Rattrap fan, you also owe everything to the weakest

component. Because that episode... is where we

get the single -handed best Megatron line out

of the entire series. And I will put it right

here. So let's cut through the signal noise,

shall we? For your reference, let's cut through

the signal noise, shall we? But yes, Beast Wars

Rattrap, absolutely love him. So cool, so fun.

And as you said, Scott McNeil... Gotta, I gotta

figure out a way to get that guy on for an interview

with us. Alrighty folks, we've kind of been counting

down. So my number two, and this is gonna shock

everybody. My number two is Hot Rod slash Rodimus

Prime from the G1 cartoon and the IDW comics

because of two very specific and different reasons.

First of all, in the cartoon, he was the young

Basically, young character, the young boy character

kind of thing, where he had leadership thrust

upon him and he had to figure it out all by himself.

The Matrix was essentially empty after he defeated

Unicron kind of thing and they had to figure

it all out. I love that about him. I love what

he tries to do as a leader. I love how in Five

Faces of Darkness Magnus is like, don't you want

to make some sort of speech? And he's like, ah,

forget it. Let's do it. Let's go on with the

games. And it's just that character of show me

what I need to do and I'll get it done kind of

thing. And I just absolutely love them. Why'd

I have to be the chosen one? Oh, we're in our

last one. Yes, this is number one folks Beast

Wars Megatron hands down. All right. Bye I Love

the portrayal. Yes I love the the designs the

multiple bodies that he gets the fact that he

got the farthest out of any, any bad guy leader.

And the fact that he wiped out the entire Cybertronian

populace to achieve his megalomania. And the

only one that stood between him and his ultimate

goal was Optimus Primal and the Oracle. Yep.

And legitimately, he accomplished more than any

other leader in any other Transformers series.

Because he fell off the Autobot shuttle because

instead of you know caging him inside Like I

still don't understand that they're like we don't

want to look at them. They type tape them to

the outside I Still don't understand that I don't

I still don't understand that change is all the

Maximals fault because they didn't have follow

through on you know preventative maintenance

So Megatron one yes yes for your list for my

list and I kind of debated this whether I was

gonna do that originally hot rod was gonna be

my number one but you want to talk about a mission

a mission statement no you don't what I don't

you don't know You don't know me man, don't sit

there and try to say You want to talk about a

mission statement? You want to talk about a belief

system? You want to talk about something that?

Anyone can get behind it is the one line That

Wilton left Michael and that is one man can make

a difference You want to talk about the one character

on television as a kid that I looked up to all

of the time, David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight

in Knight Rider. Because by the time I was old

enough to understand the TV stuff, the fictional

stuff, the whatever stuff, Knight Rider ran from

82 to 86. So by the time 85, 86 rolled around,

I was not only seeing new episodes from whatever

seasons those were I was also seeing the reruns

from the previous seasons because obviously I

wasn't old enough in 82 I was only two years

old at the time but just everything Michael Knight

believes in as a character everything that he

wants to stand up for the little person kind

of thing I always strived for that as a kid and

I know I've become senile old fool and crotchety

and everything else in my lifetime, but it's

just one of those things where I can still look

at that one line, one man can make a difference.

And that's honestly what I hope we do with a

lot of the shows that we do here on the GeekCaster

network, whether it's this new stuff with Studio

2009, whether it's old stuff with whatever show

that it is. You know, I'm hoping that even though

we're having fun doing the discussions, that

people are having fun listening to the discussions.

And Michael Knight even had, I think it was Michael

or it was a kid, I forget. He had a line about

video games in one of the episodes. I don't know,

I'll throw it in here somewhere. I just thought

that was hilarious. Yeah, so for me as a kid

and as an adult, Michael Knight was one of the

coolest characters. And one of the ones that

is easily my favorite and there are so many other

favorites that I have We kind of limited this

list to 10 characters could we because we'd be

here for two hours if it was anything longer

than that if it was 20 characters or whatever

kind of thing and This could change at any minute.

I mean Alf Nash bridges, you know that kind of

stuff Axel Foley you know all of that might change

but between Michael Knight, Rodimus Prime, and

Mr. Feeny, like those three are always gonna

be somewhere close to the top of any top favorite

character list I do. So, to the audience, we

pose the question. You can let us know and listen

or whatever. Who are your favorite fictional

characters? There are actually a ton of favorite

fictional characters I have. Like I said, seriously,

I could do my own personal top 100 favorite fictional

characters. Not that I'm going to, but I could.

So yes, after you guys and gals and all you other

people listen to this podcast, please let us

know who are some of your favorite fictional

characters and why. What else would you like

to say before we get the heck out of here, sir?

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