Meme Answers (with Commentary Where Appropriate)

Here are twenty-five favorite characters from twenty-five different shows, in no particular order.

1. Dawn Summers (Michelle Trachtenbeg) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Fred Burkle (Amy Acker) from Angel
Bonus! Drusilla (Juliet Landau) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
3. River Tam (Summer Glau) from Firefly

Is there really anything else to be said about the above?

4. Player (Justin Shenkarow, Jeffrey Tucker, Joanie Pleasant) from Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? ( Commentary )

5. Dr. Olga Vukavitch (Justina Vail) from Seven Days ( Commentary )

6. Morgan Matthews (Lily Nicksay, Lindsay Ridgeway) from Boy Meets World ( Commentary )

7. Capt. Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) from Star Trek: Voyager ( Commentary )

8. Cindy Mackenzie (Tina Majorino) from Veronica Mars ( Commentary )

9. President Mackenzie Allen (Geena Davis) in Commander-in-Chief( Commentary )

10. Donna Moss (Janel Moloney) from The West Wing ( Commentary )

11A. Tess Doerner (Summer Glau) from The 4400 ( Commentary )

11B. Maia Skouris née Rutlidge (Conchita Campbell) from The 4400 ( Commentary )

12. Clarissa Darling (Melissa Joan Hart) from Clarissa Explains It All ( Commentary )

13. Alex Mack (Larissa Oleynik) from The Secret World of Alex Mack ( Commentary )

14. Fred Rogers (Himself) from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood ( Commentary )

15. Nona Mecklenberg (Michelle Trachtenberg) from The Adventures of Pete and Pete ( Commentary )

16. Rogue (Lenora Zann) from X-Men (90's cartoon) ( Commentary )

17. Kitty Pryde (Maggie Blue O'Hara) from X-Men Evolution ( Commentary )

18. Jan Brady (Eve Plumb) from The Brady Bunch ( Commentary )

19. Wednesday Addams from The Addams Family ( Commentary )

20. The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant) from Doctor Who ( Commentary )

21. Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelly) from Star Trek: The Original Series ( Commentary )

22. Col. Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan) from Battlestar Galactica (2003) ( Commentary )

23. Rita Repulsa (Barbara Goodson, Carla Pérez, Machiko Soga) from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers ( Commentary )

24. Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer) from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( Commentary )

25. Rory Gilmore (Alexis Beidel) from Gilmore Girls ( Commentary )

Ari wondered what it meant that she guessed that most of my favorites were female. It means that she knows me well, because most of my favorites--all but four, plus the ambiguously-gendered Player--are female. Which is interesting, because many of these relate to early childhood, when my heterosexuality wouldn't have been a factor (right?). I'm not sure what it says that I've always found it easier to identify with (or at least be interested in) female characters than male ones, but I think it's pretty clearly true.