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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 3026148" data-attributes="member: 63">Stepping away from anime, I have been trained to hate &quot;tough chicks.&quot; You know, the ones like Faith from Buffy who are just so cool because their lives were so rough. Sure, they're hot, and can kick ass, but they don't care, because they're so tough. And if a man ever even looks like he wants to help her somehow, he can go to hell, because she's a tough chick, and tough chicks don't need men.Please be aware of intense bitterness and intermittent sarcasm in the above paragraph.On the same line, the brooding hero. Oh, angst. Oh, he's so dark because he doesn't know what to do, and he can't reconcile his dark side with his need to be a hero. B***h, grow up, learn to talk about your feelings, and get over yourself so you can save the world. Drizzt, I'm looking at you. Heck, Smallville Clark Kent falls into this category too.Now mind you, I don't dislike tough women or dark heroes. Tank girl is an awesome character, and Buffy mostly was too. Ripley from Aliens is the pinnacle of a cool tough woman. I just dislike the ones who are full of themselves, and who are presented in the book/movie/show as legitimately being cool, when actually they're lame. Likewise, Batman is cool because he has mostly come to terms with any of his angst. Angel (from Buffy) started off kinda lame, but once he lightened up and came to joke about his own angstiness, he became a great character.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 3026148, member: 63"] Stepping away from anime, I have been trained to hate "tough chicks." You know, the ones like Faith from Buffy who are just so cool because their lives were so rough. Sure, they're hot, and can kick ass, but they don't care, because they're so tough. And if a man ever even looks like he wants to help her somehow, he can go to hell, because she's a tough chick, and tough chicks don't need [i]men[/i]. Please be aware of intense bitterness and intermittent sarcasm in the above paragraph. On the same line, the brooding hero. Oh, angst. Oh, he's so dark because he doesn't know what to do, and he can't reconcile his dark side with his need to be a hero. B***h, grow up, learn to talk about your feelings, and get over yourself so you can save the world. Drizzt, I'm looking at you. Heck, Smallville Clark Kent falls into this category too. Now mind you, I don't dislike tough women or dark heroes. Tank girl is an awesome character, and Buffy mostly was too. Ripley from Aliens is the pinnacle of a cool tough woman. I just dislike the ones who are full of themselves, and who are presented in the book/movie/show as legitimately being cool, when actually they're lame. Likewise, Batman is cool because he has mostly come to terms with any of his angst. Angel (from Buffy) started off kinda lame, but once he lightened up and came to joke about his own angstiness, he became a great character. [/QUOTE]

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