Daily Entertainment: the Odd Couples!

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

Do my eyes deceive me? Is there no daily entertainment up for us poor office shills who might be staring down the barrel of nothing to do (like me >.>)? We* must do something about that! And we shall!

We've talked about odd friendships. Now let's talk odd romantic relationships. Is your pup in a romantic pairing with someone you never in a million years thought they'd hook up with? Or are there other romantic relationships in game between two pups you never in a million years thought would make such a cute couple as they do?

To start: Simon Skinner and Ana Pascal. I don't know--when you consider that Ana, progressively opinionated as she is, fell for Harold Crick, an uptight IRS agent, it doesn't seem too odd that she's paired up ith a 60-year-old serial killer/supermarket manager, but the fact that said serial killer/supermarket manager is Simon Skiiner makes it odd enough.

Sarah Jane and James Bond is another one that seems odd if you don't think about it too much, but given the qualities he liked in Tracy Draco in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (namely that she's resourceful and adventurous), it's not that odd. It's just that Sarah Jane's not your typical Bond girl.

And my pups are not involved in this, but Le Chiffre/Villiers? Has no right to be as cute as it is. BUT IT IS CUTE.

Discuss!

* Not royal "we." Poster is unsure who "we" refers to, as there's only me. I think.

Comments

[kali921.livejournal.com]

My currently posting pups have no relationships in bar, so I have to go with "what might have happened/what might happen" and canon.

Kendra and Mugen still blows my mind. I have NO idea why she got along with such a cocky, wiseass punk (which is how she thinks of him), but they clicked, and I'm so very sorry that they won't get to team up in the future.

Kendra and Tom on the surface are another unlikely pair. Kendra's used to being around a lot of uber-competent alpha males and superpowered Boy Scouts (yes, Batman counts as an alpha male type, in his own way, and there's a picture of Hawkman next to the definition of "alpha male" in every encyclopedia in existence), and so Tom is incredibly refreshing to her. He's entirely masculine and extremely resourceful (but doesn't seem to realize it, which only adds to his charm), which reminds her of her compatriots back home, but his is a less bombastic-but-no-less-compelling masculinity, and she can totally relate to going through an apocalyptic event that completely knocks what you thought of as the dominant life paradigm down, and trying to pick up the pieces afterwards. Plus, he's cute. Did I mention cute?

As for She-Hulk, I think her oddest relationships were/are (obviously) in canon. Wyatt Wingfoot was a GREAT match for her, but they were also a completely odd match - dignified Native American decathlete, CEO, and Kaweezi tribal chief (and a TOTAL HUNK) dating a high-powered totally extroverted party girl attorney from Los Angeles?

But it worked while it did, and it was fun. I'm still kind of sorry that they never got married.

Jen's husband, John Jameson (the son of J. Jonah Jameson!)...the less said, the better. He had problems with her She-Hulk identity and was in general a total wet blanket. I'm very glad that Dan Slott saw the error in putting them together and promptly broke them up. Shortest superhero marriage on record!

As for brain breaking relationships, I remind you that She-Hulk bedded THE MOTHERFRELLING JUGGERNAUT.

[gotham-knocking.livejournal.com]

Whatever happened that Jen and Wyatt didn't get married? I seem to recall that there was a GN back in the day that actually promised a wedding.

[adiva_calandia]

*snickers* I remember when the unlikely friends meme came around, I was like "Nah, Tom and Kendra aren't that unlikely -- I mean, they both kill or have killed zombies and all." I hadn't thought about it in the context of the other guys Kendra's around, though. And . . . yeah. If Tom's anywhere in the traditional superhero lineup, I guess he's closest to the Peter Parker archetype -- the awkward, geeky guy -- but he doesn't have superpowers to compensate. Very much out of the mold.

And from Tom's perspective, I'm pretty sure he never considered the possibility of even kissing a spandex-clad superheroine. (Except, possibly, as a teenager, behind locked doors. *cough*)