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[themightyspazz]

Look Millideziens! I didn't forget this time!

From valiantrebel:

If your PB is a performer of some sort (actor, singer, &c), what role have they portrayed that is most opposite your pup? If your PB is a non-performer (historical figure, stock photo, public figure, &c), how do you think they'd react to representing your pup?

For PBs who are comics/cartoons/inanimate/animals/illustrations, where can we find more images of your PBs? How else (or with whom) would you (or do you!) represent them in your icons?

Comments

[cameoflage]

I'm something of a unique case here. I looked at the prospect of finding an androgynous blond PB with the right hairdo and Victorian-era clothing -- for a character whom I'd already decided looked a lot like me -- and went "fuck that" and put on a costume. I am my own PB. I can still kind of answer the question, though, from my cosplay history: A Left 4 Dead Special Infected (the Hunter, specifically) is pretty thoroughly unlike Dr Thurlow.

I don't have a PB for Aradia! I'm not sure if using cosplayers (...other than yourself... and I've never cosplayed her, anyway) is kosher, but the thought of such has occurred to me. Most of her icons are either from Homestuck panels (sometimes cropped and resized by me, sometimes by other people) or edited Homestuck panels. (All the edited panels in her icons so far are also by me.)

[newredshoes]

Dude, that's awesome!

[jjprobert]

Stellan Skarsgard (no, I can't be bothered to get the circle thing over the a, but I can be bothered to type this out, deal with it) plays Erik Selvig, and his filmography is one of the reasons I really want to infect him with IMDB flu some time...

As for their most opposite role. In terms of individual character, possibly Bootstrap Bill Turner, though he plays a similar role in the films (Mentor, guardianesque). I don't actually know enough of his films to make many comparisons.

[newredshoes]

One reason Harry Percy is such a delight for me is that Joe Armstrong usually plays these shifty, funny, chaotic neutral Character characters. Probably the biggest role he's done is Allan A Dale in the BBC Robin Hood, where he was apparently contractually obligated to start off at least one sentence with "I'm not being funny, but..." in every episode. But there's also the part he played in (yes) Breaking the Mould (about penicillin), where he's posh. IT'S SO STRANGE.

[ceitfianna]

Three of my characters have James MacAvoy as their face and he's been in a huge range of films and television shows. This is one reason I love using him because the range between Tumnus and Charles Xavier is impressive, but just scraping the surface. I love doing IMDB flu and Halloween for these guys because of the great range of options. Sadly I didn't get to do Halloween this year for Charles but next one, though IMDB flu might be tricky for him with his mutation.

Jude Law who's the face of Moist is another where I love the range of roles he's taken on and probably the one farthest from Moist is John Watson. He's another like James MacAvoy where I've seen a good chunk of his work, but there's a lot more I haven't got around to.

Kate Winslet and Dame Judi Dench have also been in tons of stuff though a lot of it with various Demeter vibes.

I think Jane Austen and Selena Kyle are at different ends of the spectrum for Anne Hathaway though her broken character in Rachel Getting Married might be up there.

For how young he is, Logan Lerman has done a good variety of films, but he's another where I haven't seen many of them, so can't say for certain. Though in terms of most wtf role, D'Artagnan wins, it was such a campy, cheesy movie and he kept trying to act.

Will Young who's Sameth's PB is a British singer and actor, who hasn't done quite has much, but I always have a weird moment when I hear him talk. He doesn't sound like I think Sam should, which confuses me.

And I forgot the Pirate King who's played by Kevin Kline, who's another one with a good long filmography. I'd say that Dave from Dave is probably the farthest as he's just a decent guy.

All of mine have icons that aren't of them, because I love finding the right icon to capture part of what they do. For Sameth's work, I stick with stuff that has a steampunk vibe, there's some gorgeous Demeter art out there and I finally found a good image to use to represent Bisbee. I love finding a PB that's done a lot of different sorts of roles and has a really expressive face. James MacAvoy has done enough stuff that none of his icons for Will, Charles or Tumnus repeat.

[sdelmonte]

As I take most of my pups from movies or TV shows, I have so many actors to ponder.

Robert Wuhl, aka Alex Knox, was possibly furthest from Knox in his role as sleazy sports agent Arliss Michaels. A man with no conscience to speak of. (Sports fans, think Scott Boras.) Knox, whatever his flaws, is very much a man of conscience.

William Shatner has hit the point where every role has a bit of Kirk's bluster and ego. But if you go back far enough, you will find he was a Karamazov in a 1958 adaptation of the famous novel. Kirk as Chekov...that's very different.

Kevin McNally, aka Gibbs, went way far off the beaten path as the paranoid Lone Gunmen-style hacker Frank Deveraux on Supernatural. Smarter, more sober, and a lot more American than Gibbs. And even crazier.

Howard Stark is played by Dominic Cooper, but I am not really familiar with anything else he's done.

Meanwhile, Cyborg and CharlieQuestion come from animation/comics. I've taken all of Cy's icons from the cartoon, through a lot of searching fan sites. I have considered upgrading him to look like the classic Cyborg from the comics, and could even use the actor who played him on Smallville for his "real" face, but I am happy with things as they are. And I think his current comic book look is too clunky.

Charlie is derived from mainly from art done in the 52 miniseries. As much as I love the 1980s Question comic, the art doesn't lend itself to depicting Charlie as I see him now, and while it's easy to find screengrabs of The Question in his mask, shots of his real face are hard to find. I toyed with using Damian Lewis as a PB for him when Life was on. I might take that route someday, though again I am happy with the source material I use.

[notenlightened]

Dude, if you did end up using Damian Lewis as a PB for Charlie it would mess with Reese so hard. ;D

[genarti]

Trowa is an anime character, and I get icons for him from canon screencaps, art by the canon creators (when it's useful art -- some of it's utterly ridiculous), and sometimes fanart and doujinshi. And one Getty image TL and I found of a blond guy and a brown-haired guy with their backs to the camera. I haven't yet found anyone I'd want to use for a PB for him; it would take a very specific kind of impassivity and facial structure and clothing style, even if the coloring were right. (And I'd have to give him a haircut if I did, because no human who has to obey laws of physics has this hairdo, let alone without using any products.)

Clare is another manga and anime character. Other people have made all her icons, from anime screencaps, manga art, and manga art they've colored in. Possibly some fanart as well, although I don't think anything I've uploaded is fanart. I've seen a couple of good cosplays of her, but I've never considered using that for icons; I'm not in real need of more icons, for one thing, and for another cosplays tend to just do a default expression of the sort I already have. I don't know who I'd do for a PB, because she's another with a very specific look.

Thor is, of course, played by Chris Hemsworth. I haven't seen most of his other work, except Snow White and the Huntsman, but the Huntsman is pretty different -- poor, grimy, a drunkard, grieving and cynical. (Also long-haired, medieval-esque, and axe-swinging with anger issues, but whatever.) He was someone in The Cabin in the Woods too, but I don't know anything about the character.

River is Summer Glau, who's been in a bunch of stuff, although she tends to get typecast as a character a little... off from normal reality one way or another, who can kill you with her brain and/or high kicks. Most opposite is probably either her character in Dollhouse, where I believe she was one of the evil scientists manipulating the brains and memories of her human tools, or some minor role in which she's a normal human in normal society. I haven't seen a lot of her other roles, so I don't know the details.

Regan is played by Isabella Hofmann, who's had a lot of minor or one-episode roles in things I haven't seen. So... I dunno! If in any of her police procedural shows she played a cop or ex-military instead of being a businesswoman or judge or mother, then let's go with that. Regan is about as civilian as it gets, somewhat by choice.

[saphyria]

I'm wishing I could find the gif-set I saw once of Hemsworth 1)as Thor quaffing and throwing his goblet down in that pre-ceremony deleted scene, 2) as the begrimed Huntsman, quaffing and dropping his mug as he gets into a fight, and 3) as Curt in Cabin in the Woods, drinking beer with gusto and then tossing the mug over his shoulder.

[camwyn]

Ray is played by Dan Aykroyd. The man’s got a filmography a mile long and most of them are weirdos. I’m just going to cite him for his part in the Canadian Heritage Minute series of PSAs where he briefly played the part of Crawford Gordon Jr., kind of a real-world Canadian Howard Stark, and for playing the same man in a miniseries about his most famous project.

Gordon’s a video game character. Mostly I use fanart of him, which I credit to the original artist wherever I can. His box art design was composited from six different guys and then altered further, according to Valve’s art people. When I have to use a live person for him I use a German actor named Benno Fürmann, largely because I was told “Go watch Speed Racer and tell me Inspector Detector isn’t Gordon in the flesh”, and I had a hard time disagreeing. I’ve seen three movies with him in it- well, two and a half. I never finished Anatomy. None of the parts are much like Gordon at all, though- a high stakes auto racing official (who admittedly kicks ass), a medical student who procures unfortunate victims to be plasticized into anatomical models of dissected body systems while still alive, and a German aristocrat with a sword who works for/is a citizen of a far future cyberpunk corporation (Lt. Maximillian von Steiner, in The Mutant Chronicles)…. Mmmyeah no.

Adrian is also a video game character, and we see even less of him canonically than Gordon. In his box art he’s wearing a gas mask. The only reason I gave him a Caucasian PB is because you can see his forearms in the box art. I picked John Cusack because Cusack’s pretty ordinary-looking and I figured I could get a fair number of screencaps of him. Also because I saw him in The Jack Bull and Myrl Redding gave off a definite ‘there is absolutely fucking nothing I will allow to stop me from doing what I need to get done’ vibe, which seemed about right for a first-person shooter protagonist. I probably should’ve picked someone who’d played more military parts since there’s almost no pictures of Cusack in a uniform or with properly cut hair, other than The Thin Red Line in which his character was Army. As far as Cusack roles least like Shephard’s character… Lane Meyer in Better Off Dead, or Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything.

Ellen’s primary PB, Yoon Eun-hye, started her career as a K-Pop singer ‘known for her cuteness and childlike traits’. When she left music to go into acting she took a pretty fair number of parts. I don’t know much about most of them but Wiki says that in a TV drama called My Fair Lady, ‘Yoon played Kang Hye Na, an arrogant, strong-headed heiress of a rich business family living a "princess-like" life whose world revolved around her.’ So that’s probably it. The other PB I use for her is Thai martial artist and actress Yanin “Jeeja” Vismitananda, who I was directed to by people who said “She looks weirdly like Ellen’s PB but her movies involve beating people up, so you’ll have a good chance of getting screencaps where her face is injured”. I don’t know the main character of Raging Phoenix very well, but her role in Chocolate involved playing an autistic girl who turned out to have absorbed an awful lot of martial arts training from living in an apartment for most of her life with a view of people who practiced martial arts and imitating them for much of the day. Ellen is anything but autistic and her idea of martial arts is “John-117 showed me how to punch properly”, so that should count.

[1nv1nc1ble]

If you need a different look for Furmann, look for a Heath Ledger movie called "The Order." If you can get past some of the excrable writing and almost total lack of research on the Catholic Church, both Ledger and Furmann are entertaining. If you're ever in the need of a hedonistic version of Gordon, he spends most of the film with his shirt open to his clavicle and being very un-Gordon-like.

[bcgphoenix]

Alessandro Juliani (Gaeta's PB) voiced Gambit in X-Men: Evolution.

And various princes in various animated Barbie movies.

Yup.

(When he's actually on screen -- mostly in one-off appearances on sci-fi shows -- he does tend to get typecast as the nerdy, reserved scientist-type-person! He just has a very broad voice acting resumé in addition to his stint as one of the Five Actors in Vancouver.)

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut's PB is an Egyptian RomCom actress, and has stated several times that she likes to make people laugh and absolutely refuses to do anything involving drugs or tons of violence. (She says real life sucks enough in Egypt, people need to laugh) She is saddened that Egyptian cinema is headed that way, but still, the most she will do violence-wise is slapstick (and tons of it), or maybe a suddenly abusive boyfriend for dramatic purposes. Pretty much every role she takes is the opposite of Amascut. To know which is the most opposite would require me to learn Arabic and watch more of her movies.

[jjprobert]

Max Epper has one piece of fanart as his lead icon, then all his others are images of Terry Pratchett that I got from around the internet. I have no idea what Sir Terry would think of me using his face for a character.

Bean's icons are all cropped from fanart works I grabbed from DeviantArt, which I really should add credit to.

Alfred was played by Michael Caine, who is another of these marvellous fellows with a huge filmography, and I am appallingly uneducated about the majority of the role's he's played. However, I really don't think that Ebenezer Scrooge, who he played in the Muppet Christmas Carol, is much like Alfred at all.

Jack is played by Jared Leto, who's role most unlike Jack is... you know what, I have no idea. I haven't seen any of his films. Also, some fan art which is credited to the right places on DeviantArt.

[sdelmonte]

Caine's early years had him in a lot of films playing a rather cheeky sort of eager young cad. The Italian Job, for example, starred him as a very egotistical thief and scoundrel and horndog. I suppose it's possible that Alfred was like that in his youth. But I doubt it.

[bjornwilde]

The one time I've had Ben in bar while in his human skin I used Bruno Ganz, primarily from the movie Wings of Desire. Mr. Ganz' most recent claim to fame, and internet infamy, is Adolf Hitler from the movie Downfall and yes this is the Adolf everyone is using for fandom freak outs. Can't go much farther south from Ben Grimm than Adolf Hitler.

The next time I do his human skin it'll likely be Ty Olsson whom has played a bully of a guardsman in Once Upon A Time (he picked on Rumpelstiltskin before he became the Dark One) or his character in Supernatural (if the gifs I've seen on Tumblr are anything to go by) are pretty far from Ben.

I use Jennifer Connelly for Jessica Drew and well I guess her roll of Sarah from Labyrinth is pretty far from Jess.

I'll have to think on my others.

[bjornwilde]

Oh wait, Hank! Nicholas Holt played a character on Skins who was either a sexual deviant or a sex addict, I'm not sure which as I've never watched the series and I'm being lazy and not googling it. He also plays a zombie in Warm Bodies.

For Palamedes, how about Oded Fehir's role as a gigolo in Deuce Bigalow?

[vance_prime]

The only one of my current pups with a PB is Alyx. When I use a real person for her, it's Nanda Hampe, a half-German half-Thai fashion model who hasn't done any acting as far as I can tell.

If you want to talk about voice actresses, though... Twilight Sparkle and Princess Luna are played by Tara Strong and Tabitha St. Germain, respectively, two VAs with huge and diverse portfolios. And Alyx is voiced by Merle Dandridge, who mostly does Broadway musicals when she's not working for Valve.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Most of Mark's icons are from his comic, pulled either from online sources or scanned in and clipped by Yours Truly. His PB is Patrick Cavanaugh, who did Mark's voice in a "motion comic" version of Invincible and had a role on "Mad Men" as Smitty. I have not watched any of his work, so I can't say what the character is like, but most of the folks on "Mad Men" are pretty far from Mark's general laid-back California attitude, with a side order of teen angst and superheroing.

[sunbaked_baker]

Yrael's PBs are mostly photoshopped stock images of different people and cats. I don't know how the people would react, but the cats wouldn't likely care. :D

Zelgadiss' PB is himself, but there is plenty of fanart out there and some brave, enterprising cosplayers (that last link being one of my favorites).

Sunshine's PB is Amy Adams, who has been in a lot of movies and shows in the last twelve years. I think Sunshine would be closest in character to Julie from Julie and Julia, since they share a love of feeding people and experimenting with food, and possibly Rose from the ironically-named Sunshine Cleaning.

The most opposite of Sunshine? I've not seen all of Amy Adams' roles, but I know that both Giselle from Enchanted and Delysia LaFosse from Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (both movies that are well worth watching, especially the latter) make Sunshine in my head cringe. One is all naivete and butterflies and singing and sugary sweetness, and the other is superficial flightiness and materialism and dependence on others.

[aberration]

Elle's PB is Kristen Bell, who at the moment seems to be cast either as tiny and bubbly, or Type-A career obsessed, which are both very unlike Elle. In semi-related news, I sure wish I could find it in myself to hate House of Lies just a little less.

Leslie is played by Amy Poehler, who has done a lot of similar whacky comedy work. However, as Leslie is sort of an amalgamation of serious, career-driven and super-goofy, her character in Baby Mama against Tina Fey's straight-man-type may be the most different.

The remaining of mine are animated in some way, and I largely use a combination of screenshots and fanart. Grim Fandango, Legend of Korra, and Adventure Time have all inspired some really gorgeous fanart and fanworks generally, though I think Marceline gets the most indulgence on that. Because Manny is a skeleton and Marceline is a ... physically distinctive vampire, Asami's the only one I could have a PB for even if I wanted to, and though I have a real life reference for her (a Japanese actress named Satomi Ishihara), at this point I'm kind of disinclined to have an actual PB for her.

[misslucyjane]

Steve Rogers is played by Chris Evans, who made a lot of romcoms and other comic-book movies prior to Captain America. I haven't seen most of them, but of the movies I have seen of his, I'm going to say his opposite is Lucas Lee from Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World.

...he's also done voices on Robot Chicken. Oh my.

Merlin is played by Colin Morgan, whose career is basically just beginning and his filmography is short. Apparently in one of his movies he played a drug addict who got beaten up a lot, so I'm going with that as Merlin's opposite.

Bilbo Baggins is played by Martin Freeman, who is usually cast when someone needs befuddled and British :D. Out of his very long filmography there's a lot I haven't seen, but if I have to go by what I've seen in clips and gifs I'm going to say Bilbo's opposite is Ricky C from Ali G in Da House. Or Rembrandt. That's right. Martin has played both.

Finally, the new girl is Lydia Martin from Teen Wolf, who is played by Holland Roden, who has done a lot of TV, most of which I haven't seen so I have no idea. I do love that she was once credited as "Yogurt Peddler," though.

[sdelmonte]

Evans's Steve Rogers opposite is Johnny Storm. There are no two Marvel heroes who are no more opposite than these guys.

[mnt_mike]

Oooh good question!
Though...looking at my PB roster it's a great question that's not really all that easy for me to answer. Here, lemme esplain:

Mike is played by Breckin Meyer, who has a tendency to play very Mike-like characters. Hell...Meyer himself is very very Mike like.
(submitted for approval:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYe6YjNrzBI
A clip from the talkshow Conan where Meyer inadvertently outs himself as having taken part in a "Devil's Threesome.")

The best I can come up with as an opposite character for Mike would have to come from Meyer's voicework on Robot Chicken. Possibly his portrayal of Jerk!Superman.

Raph's human PBs are Dominick Lombardozzi, Jason Statham, and Michael Chiklis. All three have Roughneck Badass on their resumes more often than not.

Splinter is George Takei. I'm no where NEAR well versed in Takei's filmography, so off the top of my head the role he's played that's the most opposite of Splinter is maybe the Warden from Avatar? Maybe? I dunno...you guys tell me.

The Loompas main image was swiped from the Todd McFarlane animated video for Korn's "Freak on a Leash," a video you can watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M-BUty4vb8

Bumi and Aang are from "Avatar: The Last Airbender"...which if you haven't seen you probably should. Or not, depending on how much you've already heard people gush about it.

[inlovewithwords]

Henry is played by Jared S. Gilmore. He's twelve. On the other hand, he apparently played 'Little Bill O'Reilly' in something. That probably counts.

Tavi is PB'd by Raoul Bova. He's been in at least one rom-com, so take your pick. I don't know much about his filmography, but at a guess, hot guy in rom-com = very far from Tavi.

Lois Lane of CW's Smallville is played by Erica Durance. Again, I know little of her filmography, but I'm guessing random party girl victim from some House of the Dead movie is notably not Lois Lane.

[thebattycakes]

Bwah! This is a fun one, and while boss peoples are in a meeting most of the afternoon I've got a bit of time to answer :D

Bill Pardy- Nathan Fillion has played quite the assortment of characters, and even though they've got the charm, faaaaces, and wit in common, they're actually pretty different. All Bill's lookalikes in the bar are his opposite in ways.

Mal's a space cowboy thief, Castle is an outgoing party guy who steals police horses naked, Jamie is Castle x10, and Captain Hammer is... Captain Hammer. They are all ruggedly handsome, though.

Bill's complete opposite? Caleb, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. OMFG is that guy is super psycho crazy and scary. Crys once linked me to a fic that someone wrote where Caleb was actually Bill's evil!Twin brother. LOVED IT! And perhaps someday we'll get a chance to play with that AU *G*

Hellboy - Ron Perlman is a rough, tough and gruff guy in most of his movies. So I guess the most opposite of Red I've seen him would be when he plays actual bad guys.

Puss in Boots- This one is kind of tricky since Puss was based off of Antonio Banderas and the roles he played (Zorro, Desperado, suave bad ass, basically), so I can't really think of an opposite in a film of his that I've seen.

Logan / Charlie Kenton- I'm gonna just group these together by using Logan's movie PB and answer with Oklahoma and The Boy from Oz. Really, Logan and Charlie would both be piiiiissed if they found out Hugh was out there singing and dancing while looking like them.

Billy the Kid- EMILIO! Gordon Bombay from The Mighty Ducks. He's a prim attorney who never shoots anyone and isn't crazy. The End.

The Tick- Patrick Warburton is always the same guy. And this is not a bad thing. But, it also means he has no opposite, because everyone is Patrick Warburton in disguise.

Re: Hellboy

[bjornwilde]

How about Vincent in Beauty and the Beast? Or The Lich in Adventure Time? Or Norman Arbuthnot (a Rush Limbaugh type) in The Last Supper?

Okay and I am laughing at how many times he's voiced the Hulk in animated series.

[silveraspen]

Oh, let's see --

Moiraine is represented by Keira Knightley. Omitting voice acting work, for the most opposite role, it's probably a toss-up between Elizabeth Swann (PotC - yep) and Jules Paxton (Bend It Like Beckham).

Sam Winchester is represented by Jared Padalecki. Opposite wise, about Thomas Kinkade (Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage)? Alternately I'd have to go with Zachary Gray from the Ring of Endless Light TV version. (I am ignoring Gilmore Girls for reasons. :D )

Kim Ford is mostly represented by Lindsey Lohan. Um. Can I just say Ms. Lohan's entire actual life is the likely opposite here?

Louis Hoshi is represented by Brad Dryborough, who is another one of those people who gets '5 Actors in Vancouver' syndrome. He's played a doctor or other scientist in a couple of things - including Fringe, Falling Skies, and The Cabin in the Woods, but the role that ALWAYS messes with my mind is his performance as Glen the werewolf in Supernatural (episode "Heart").

Laura Roslin is represented by Mary McDonnell. The most similar role would be her work in Independence Day as First Lady Marilyn Whitmore. I never saw Donnie Darko, so I can't speak to that, but for mind-bending opposite roles, how about her performance as Liz in Sneakers or Stands With A Fist in Dances With Wolves?

Bucky Barnes is represented by Sebastian Stan. Omitting current stage work, um... I think I'll pick his role as Carter Baizen on Gossip Girls, because really, my mind just bends, Jack Benjamin from Kings is a slight bit too close, and also I haven't seen things like Hot Tub Time Machine -- although his work in The Covenant would have to be a runner-up. (For terrifying similarity, however, his role as a teenage sniper on Law and Order probably qualifies.)

Nick Sayre is represented by Paul Walker largely because of Walker's youthful appearance in The Fast and the Furious when I was looking for a PB. Fast Five might be the most dissimilar, but I think I have to give this prize to his work as Lewis Thomas in Joy Ride - which was sprung on me as a surprise in December and which if you have not seen for the love of heaven SPARE YOURSELF.

Captain Jack Sparrow is represented by Johnny Depp. Ahahaha um yeah okay -- sure, why not. I'll pick CIA Agent Sheldon Sands from Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

And finally, Gabriel Tam is represented by William Converse-Roberts, and the award for "most opposite role" has to go to his performance as porn-loving philosophy professor arrested as serial killer 'Casanova' -- i.e., Dr. Wick Sachs in Kiss the Girls.

I need tea and to scrub several of these images from my brain now, thanks. :)

[alchemistseraph]

Bucky's role in political animals kind of warped my mind, too. It was very strange.

[mm_mythos]

The only ones I have that have RL as opposed to drawn faces are Rabastan and Strength, and both of their PBs are singers.

Rabastan's PB is Jackson Browne, and was a suggestion given to me early on, and I've stuck with it. The animal icons I've found here and there. I'm not sure what he'd make of his face being used to portray someone with Rabastan's history. Maybe he'd humour me and quietly wish I'd picked some other person instead.

Strength's PB is Sade, and was my own personal choice. I picked her because to me she looks the way I imagined Strength to look in my head. I can't imagine anyone else being anywhere near as suited.

The rest of them are from animated series, and I can't think of anything I'd use in their place. [There are stills from G.I. Joe, Transformers, ReBoot and My Little Pony out there. I'd link but I'm lazy.]

[death_gone_mad]

Oh, for some reason I though that you picked Kristen Kreuk as Strength's PB, I guess it's probably because I have only seen these two icons before



.. and I have bad eyes

[gavin62truck]

If your PB is a performer of some sort (actor, singer, &c), what role have they portrayed that is most opposite your pup?

I'm trying to think of all the movies I've seen Denis Leary in where he's NOT a sarcastic, fast-talking, foulmouthed [INSERT THING HERE].

So I would say...Diego from Ice Age. Because he's a cartoon sabre-toothed tiger. That's pretty fairly opposite.

[themightyspazz]

Remember that whole "I am not your prey" segment from The Meltdown?

Yeah, me neither.

[vivien]

Christian Coulson (Tom) played the Emcee in a stage version of Cabaret.

I have no pictures. It is sad.

[spit_it_out]

Gene's PB, Philip Glenister, was almost not cast as Gene, because the writers/producers heard his name and went, 'he's a great actor, but he's not Hunt!' - mainly because every other role he's done is different to Gene. Mind you, there haven't been a lot of roles like Gene in recent years. Since the 70s, in fact.

However! Let's see - he played Dobbin, in an adaptaion of Vanity Fair, who is the sweetest, gentlest young chap you'll ever see. I adore him. He has to be the ultimate polar opposite to Gene.

But then there's William Stafford, in The Other Boleyn Girl (BBC TV movie version) - another nice, decent chap. Or Mr Carter in Cranford, a thoroughly upstanding gent. (The BBC really do a lot of classic adaptations, obviously.)

Quinn in Mad Dogs is a regular chap, who goes off the rails and shoots a cop, nicks a load of drug money and vows never to return to England. We'll see how that turns out in the upcoming series 3 and 4 (I assume, not well), but again, nothing like Gene.

He's played long-haired stoner losers who are really very sweet, and a slightly obsessive factory owner, and a DCI (in State of Play, which if you haven't seen, GO AND SEE - BBC mini-series, obv) who's so by-the-book, Gene would hate his guts. Though have some respect for a fellow copper, of course.

I could go on, but I've procrastinated long enough. In conclusion, BBC. No, wait...Gene. There is only one Gene. That's the conclusion.

Oh, and Christian Bale - easy. Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is another, uh...one of a kind, shall we say? I can't see Batman having much in common with him.