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Here are the first three sets of responses from the top five meme. I figure I'll do them in batches of three so that you're not overwhelmed with my opinions. Thanks to everyone who's responded! You've made my day more awesome.

So this list is going to be almost entirely comics, because those are the moments that really stick with me. This is in order of awesomeness.

(Marvel comics) Wu Ao-Shi beating the shit out of the entire pirate fleet and declaring herself pirate queen. That was some serious fucking ass-kicking there, and I must have read that entire issue twenty times. I would read a series about the adventures of Wu Ao-Shi, no lie.

(DC comics) "None of you understand the situation. I am not locked up in here with you. You are locked up in here with me." 'Nuff said.

(Farscape) It took me forfuckingever to find the moment in which I sat up in my chair and went "Aeryn motherfucking Sun you are the baddest ass to ever badass." But I did! And here it is:

Aeryn: Does this contaminate you, Crais?
Crais: As a Peacekeeper, you took a blood-oath to obey your commanding officer. Till death.
Aeryn: Yes.
Crais: I am still your commanding officer.
Aeryn: But I am no longer a Peacekeeper.
Crais: You are a Peacekeeper for life. On the oath you took—
Aeryn: Your oath means nothing to me. You made sure of that. You destroyed everything. I lost everything because of you.
Crais: Aeryn Sun!
Aeryn: You know what I learned when I was away from you? Everything I lost isn't worth a damn. And I don't want to go back to your past.
Crais: I order you—
Aeryn: You order me? You will never order me again.

I just asjkdfajs;dlfjal;sjfk;ja;sf I wife her so hard. I can't even put into words why this bit just makes me *___________* every time I remember it.

(Marvel comics) Remember that time Luke Cage decided the New Avengers were gonna be doing some impact police work? Because I do. I remember it every single time I think about Luke, because how fucking awesome was that? It's one of the biggest reason why I wife Luke so hard. He's part of the fucking Avengers, he's got shit to deal with like Fury's secret war and, god, I don't even know what the hell else. And yet he's saying that they can take time out of their busy lives to just be there in Harlem, discouraging miscreants just be standing around. Sure, he's got the entirety of New York to care about now, but he still takes the time to make sure that his own little area is doing okay.

(Marvel comics) ARE WE AT ALL SURPRISE THAT THIS ONE IS A DAREDEVIL MOMENT? I THINK NOT. Every fucking time I talk about Daredevil, I come back to that time he went down into the sewers -- Daredevil went into the sewers with the stench and rot and decay -- to convince D-man that his quest was over and he should come back up. None of the Avengers, none of his old buddies, gave a rat's ass about him. It was motherfucking Daredevil who took time out of his busy day to come down and help an ex-super hero. Matt Murdock isn't just a good superhero, he's a genuinely good person, and this just proves it. Excuse me, I have to go *_________* for a while now.

GOD DAMN WHY DO I ONLY GET FIVE. I considered doing my top five top five characters so that I could do 25, but that was just starting to get unwieldy.

Jessica Jones-Cage (Alias, The Pulse) I maybe identify with her a bit overly much, especially in Alias. I keep trying to explain why here, but no matter how I put it, I end up coming off like a jerk. Which, I mean, I am, but I don't want to sound like a jerk when I'm talking about Jessica. SO MOVING ON.

Parker (Leverage) Parker is fucking hilarious. I love how she's this little sociopath aspie and how the entire team loves her and how one of her favorite things in the entire world is jumping off buildings. She's so ridiculously awesome I can't hardly stand it.

Dana Scully (The X-files) IDEK WHAT TO SAY ABOUT HER. SHE IS SMART AND AWESOME AND ABLE TO COME UP WITH RATIONAL EXPLANATIONS FOR EVERYTHING. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED IN A WOMAN, I ASK OF YOU?

Barbara Gordon (Birds of Prey) I DO NOT BELIEVE I HAVE MADE IT A SECRET HOW MUCH I WIFE BABS. She is who I want to be when I grow up, for serious. She's just so amazing and smart and strong and independent and wonderful and I love her so much, you guys. She started at number 5 but I keep moving her up the list because the more I think about it, the more I love her better than anyone else. SHE IS JUST AMAZING OKAY.

Aeryn motherfucking Sun (Farscape) Theoretically, this should be the longest one because she's number one and oh how I love her, but all I can come up to say is incoherent flailing and &AERYN;

Ahahaha OH THIS LIST. 5 through 3 were actually hard to come up with because there are so few characters that evoke an immediate sense of rage within me, and the ones that do the rage is so all-encompassing that I find it hard to think about anything beyond "GOD I HATE THIS CHARACTER SO MUCH" for a while. So basically, 5-3 are "I minorly dislike these people" and 2-1 are "I would honestly go back in time and kill this person's parents, damn the consequences *PAROXYSM OF RAGE*."

Nate (Leverage). Stop whining Nate, for god's sake. No one cares that your kid died and that you have major mangst and that you're an alcoholic. Mostly, I'm frustrated and impatient every time the story is about him and not about Parker or Hardison or Eliot.

Tritter (House) I actually stopped watching House because I hated this guy so much, which was sad because I love the actor. Hack was one of my favorite TV shows ever, and now that's been ruined by how much I fucking hated Tritter. For god's sake, House writers, make your villains interesting like Vogler was, not just dumbass cops with dumbass grudges. I mean, a thermometer in his ass? WHO CARES.

Jack (LOST). YOU ARE BASICALLY THE EPITOME OF EVERY CHARACTER TYPE I HATE JACKHOLE. YOU AND YOUR BORING MANGST AND BORING MANPAIN AND EVERYONE THINKS YOU'RE A HERO BUT REALLY YOU'RE JUST A DOUCHEBAG AND I WISH YOU DID NOT EXIST AND THAT SEASON ONE OF LOST WAS THE LOCKE AND SAWYER SHOW.

Superman (DC Comics). Basically, I hate characters who don't have a little bit of sociopathy in them. And Superman is basically your corn-fed all-American goody-two-shoes and I can't fucking stand that.

CAPTAIN AMERICA (Marvel comics). My hatred of him is so all-encompassing and passionate and overinvested and such that I literally lose respect for people when I find out they like him. I AM AWARE THAT THIS IS RATHER CRAZY BUT I'M SORRY IF YOU'RE THE KIND OF PERSON WHO LIKES CAPTAIN AMERICA YOU ARE A SHITSTAIN AND UGH. I just erased three paragraphs of ranting here because I reread them and realized I looked even more crazy than usual.

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Hah, I kind of guessed number one and I thought Superman might be in there somewhere, but the rest were interesting. Also, the bit about only liking characters that are a bit sociopathic made me think, and yeah, I think I'm pretty much the same.

Really, Cap is just the Marvel version of Superman. I hate him more purely because I've been exposed to him more. I mean, I basically never read Batman comics even though I wife Batman almost as much as I wife Daredevil because Superman's in them too much, you know? Whereas I never bothered to be that scrupulous in avoiding Cap because really, how much could I possibly hate him?

A LOT APPARENTLY.

I wish I could figure out why I can't stand Nice characters. I think a lot of it is that they're so self-righteous and they're never portrayed as being wrong. I mean, Magneto is self-righteous too, but I love him because he's also wrong a lot of the time. Of course, I also think he's right at times when I'm not supposed to think he's right, so maybe that's a bad example.

I don't really hate Cap or Supes, I just find them kind of bland as a general concept. I'm sure really awesome stories could or have been written using them, I just...don't care. I'd much rather read about semi-alcoholic ex-superheroes, or sociopathic mutant outcasts, or Norman Osborn and his Insanity Circus.

MF&DARK AVENGERS; This entire story is the best thing ever and I'm almost willing to forgive Marvel for Civil War because this is what came out of it. OH MAN IT'S JUST SO WONDERFUL AND HILARIOUS AND BULLSEYE IS HAWKEYE AHAHAHAHAHA IF MATT KNEW HE'D HAVE A STROKE.

IT IS SO WONDERFUL AND RIDICULOUS AND I'M AVOIDING MARVEL PREVIEWS BECAUSE THE WEEK THAT ALL MY COMICS STOP HAVING "DARK" IN THE TITLE IS THE WEEK I CRY MYSELF TO DEATH.

DON'T EVEN TALK LIKE THAT >:( MARVEL IS TOTALLY GOING TO BE DOING THIS FOR YEARS, DAMN IT. AT LEAST UNTIL I GET SICK OF READING COMICS, OKAY.

Oh man, I was reading comments somewhere on LJ and somebody said "Oh, looks like Tony's going to die just as Steve gets back," and it was the most :DDDDD: I've ever felt, because if Marvel hold to tradition Steve and Tony will team up to take Osborn down, and I DO NO WANT TO THAT HAPPEN RIGHT NOW. So Tony should die and Steve shouldn't come back to life and Steve/Tony shippers can go fuck themselves and I can read Dark Reign FOREVER.

DUDE TONY FUCKING STARK MISSED THE CLIFF LIST BY THE SKIN OF HIS MOTHERFUCKING TEETH. THE ONLY THING THAT SAVED HIM WAS MOVIEVERSE!TONY. So, basically, I would be ecstatic if Tony died, and not only because it meant Dark Reign would go on FOREVER :DDDDDDDDDDD

I don't think Marvel understands what gold they've hit with this whole Dark Reign thing. If they did they'd milk it for all it's worth and, if I'm being honest with myself, it doesn't look like they're gonna do that. :(

I hate 616!Tony so much. I mean, I can't even. Argh. Rage. Flames, flames on the side of my face. And it's even more annoying because I like Maria Hill and I'd probably like Pepper Potts if I could make myself read the comic and just, IDK, skip any panel with that man in it.

Inorite? I don't think I've ever seen so much positive discussion coming out of a big crossover event like this. I'm actually interested in at least three different storylines going on right now! I knew you'd do good by me some day, Marvel.

I seriously just want to punch his motherfucking face in all the time. IT'S DISTRESSING BECAUSE THEORETICALLY, HE HAS MOST OF MY BULLETPROOF CHARACTER KINKS. He hates himself, he's an alcoholic, he's brilliant, he thinks he's alone in the world, etc etc etc. EXCEPT I'M JUST LIKE "MOTHERFUCKING WHINE MORE YOU HUGE BASTARD YOU HAVE A ZILLION PEOPLE WHO LOVE YOU THERE IS NO REASON FOR YOU TO BE SUCH A WHINY LITTLE SHIT." And then! He had the temerity to be on that side during Civil War AND REALLY I COULD NOT POSSIBLY HATE HIM MORE.

I started reading the latest run of Invincible Iron Man because Pepper became a superhero! MY FONDEST WISH COME TRUE. Except you would not believe the fucking bullshit they pulled with her and how motherfucking angry the entire thing makes me. HATE WOMEN MORE COMICS WRITERS >:O

I'm basically buying (buying!! By god, I haven't bought comics in ages before this!) almost everything labeled Dark Reign just because I love every single story line. *_____*

(Was that you in chat earlier? If it was, I am sorry I missed you! When both SK and I are there it is ALL COMICS ALL THE TIME!CHAT so if you like people like Daredevil and Deadpool and the New Avengers and Osborn ruling the world and the Secret Six you should totally come back sometime between 6 and 8 EST, aka the two hours per day when both SK and I are there)

Yeah, I was in the chat very briefly, and I'm making a note of those times so I can join in with the comics talk. :D Meme is basically the only place I talk about comics any more, since s_d and nos_d were overrun with people I don't like.

I need someone to rec me recs for Davedevil, because he seems like an awesome character but he's relatively isolated from the rest of the Marvel universe. I mean, Jessica worked for him in Alias and &Danny Rand; took over for him when he was nearly unmasked, but I don't know much else about him, and clearly I should. Lol reads too much X-Men.

OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN LIKE OKAY. SK and I spend a lot of time trying to make other people love Daredevil as much as we do because, I mean, HE IS JUST SO AMAZING *_____________________________*

Are you more an art person or a story person? A lot of my favorite stories don't actually feature him all that heavily. And how much do you already know about what's going on in his life?

In case today's one of the days where I can't answer comments at work, if you pop into chat and ask SK to rec you Daredevil comic recs she'll totally do it.

AHAHAHAH AWESOME I TOTALLY NEED ANOTHER COMIC BOOK TO GORGE ON RIGHT NOW.

I like both? Anything set in Marvel NYC pretty much makes me happy. And I know nothing about what's going on with him right now, and only vaguely about his storylines in general, and not on any sort of timeline. I'm a Daredevil n00b, basically.

SK AND I ARE CONFERENCING BY EMAIL RIGHT NOW TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO REC YOU. Basically, everything by Bendis. MF&BENDIS; But we can totally narrow it down to a couple specific story lines.

Basically, v1 is a piece of shit because it was written almost entirely by Frank Miller and, well. IT CERTAINLY EXPLAINS WHY EVERY FEMALE IN DAREDEVIL'S LIFE GETS FRIDGED. All you need to know from that is that Matt dated his secretary, Karen Page, for ages. And she was kind of a dick and I don't like her. Matt is wicked Catholic in v1 and goes to church all the time and SK (and me, now that she's told me) likes to think that it's a running joke in the Marvel U about the level of fridgery going on, and that they get the priest at Matt's church to sometimes say mass or whatever for "whatever poor soul Matthew Murdock is dating now."

v2 starts with Kevin Smith writing, and god love him, no matter how much I love his movies and love him as a person, I can not make myself love his comics. Matt's a huge jerk in them. Karen is killed by Bullseye in a church, basically in Matt's arms, and since then he's only been to church, like, twice. Also, a while back during v1, Bullseye killed ("killed") Elektra, Matt's other long-time ladylove and she died in Matt's arms. THERE IS A PATTERN HERE.

Elektra is the head of Hand, a group of awesome badguy ninjas. She and Matt have an on-again off-again thing, since she's, you know, a bad guy.

16-19 are Bendis' first run, and Mack's the artist, and they're fucking gorgeous. 38-40 are absolutely heartbreaking, and you should read those.

IMPORTANT THING ABOUT DAREDEVIL: He's probably bipolar and is self-medicating with being a superhero. NO REALLY. He's had at least two breakdowns, both when he couldn't be a superhero anymore, one including paranoia and manic episodes. IT'S PRETTY AWESOME. GOD I LOVE HIM.

SO THE FIRST BREAKDOWN. You definitely need to read Hardcore, which sets up King of Hell's Kitchen, which you also need to read. BASICALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS the Kingpin, Matt's archnemesis, dies. And Matt has a breakdown, declares himself Kingpin of Hell's Kitchen, and it's the most hilarious thing ever. (It should probably disturb me that my favorite character having a psychotic break is hilarious to me, but, well...) He basically drives all the crime into other areas of NYC, his friends are like "Dude, knock it off, you're making our jobs harder", he has epic paranoia, and it's just marvelous. MARVELOUS I TELL YOU!

That's, um. 46-50 and then 56-60.

THEN RIGHT. THEN JUST AS HE'S PUTTING HIS LIFE BACK TOGETHER, RIGHT. HE GETS OUTED TO THE PRESS AS DAREDEVIL. SO WHAT DOES HE DO?

HE SUES THE LIVING FUCK OUT OF EVERYONE.

THAT'S RIGHT.

BECAUSE MATT MURDOCK IS NOT DAREDEVIL.

Decalogue, 71-75, is basically my favorite Daredevil story ever. It's this sort-of horror story that just gets more and more claustrophobic as it goes along. The art is gorgeous, because it's part of the Bendis/Maleev run, and have I ever told you how much I motherfucking wife Bendis and Maleev? TONS.

SO. Because Matt being Daredevil means Matt tried cases of criminals he captures means Matt did a Bad Bad Thing means that he gets put in jail pending his trial. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, DAREDEVIL HAS SUPER-SENSES BECAUSE HE'S BLIND, AND THEY PUT HIM IN JAIL MAN. LIKE, FOR THE ENTIRE TIME HE'S IN THERE, HE BASICALLY DOESN'T SLEEP BECAUSE OF THE SENSORY OVERLOAD. IT'S AMAZING. That's when he has his second breakdown, and it's so fucking amazing. They have him in protective custody at the beginning, because he's a blind man. But then his bff, Foggy, dies and Foggy was the only person keeping him in protective custody and so the judge is like "Yeah whatever just put him in genpop" and Matt smiles this tiny little smile and you just know he's going into genpop to die.

Except then he basically takes over the prison. IT'S AMAZING.

So that's 82-87. 88 explains what Foggy was doing the entire time he was dead. <-- SPOILER ALERT

At some point during all that, or maybe before all that, Matt's wife (he married a blind woman) gets driven insane by Mr. Fear. Now he's cheating on her with his new bodyguard person since &Jessica; had to quit. WAY TO GO MATT, YOU'RE SUCH A CLASS ACT >:(

88 is the last issue SK and I have read; we're starting to catch up with the rest of it now, but it's slow going because I need to read tons of other stuff for stuff I'm doing. As far as I know, though, the way it stands now is that he's still denying he's Daredevil, still suing the pants off everyone for saying he's Daredevil. OH AND!

OKAY SO THE KINGPIN WASN'T REALLY DEAD (OBVIOUSLY). AND NOW HE AND MATT ARE WORKING TOGETHER. AND WHEN FOGGY FOUND OUT, FOGGY FIRED MATT!! FROM THEIR LAW FIRM!! OMG MATT'S LIFE LITERALLY JUST GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE ALL THE TIME AND IT'S THE MOST AMAZING THING.

There was something else I had to say, and now I can't remember it. Damn it. So I will tell you that if you come into chat, you will spend a lot of time hearing me and SK go on about how awesome Jessica/Luke/Danny/Matt is because &THAT OT4;

OH RIGHT. The reason why Matt suing the paper is hilarious is because if you know him for more than five minutes, he's like "OH AND I'M DAREDEVIL :D" IT'S THE MOST HILARIOUS THING EVER. HE IS SO BAD AT STAYING IN THE SUPERHERO CLOSET, YET HE THINKS HE'S BRILLIANT AT IT. OH MATT. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Okay, now I'm going to see if this comment is too long or what. *crosses fingers*

OMFG THIS IS AMAZING. Also you're on DW now, so you'll basically never run out of room babbling about comics. OR WILL YOU.

The constantly fridged women was something that I'd heard about Daredevil, and I think it kinda put me off even getting into DD before. Looks like it's slowed down a bit from how it used to be, so, uh, good! Did Matt also date the Black Widow? I might be making that up.

&ALEX MALEEV; I have this :DDD: thing about Bendis, because sometimes he does really, really amazing things (Alias) and sometimes he's stretched too far or tries to pull off too much all at once (bits of Mouse of M and Secret Invasion), but if this was a project he was focusing on it's probably pretty good. :D

RIGHT, going to look for these comics now. I'll avoid v1 because it's against my religion to read anything by Frank Miller, so I'll try the complete run of v2 and see how much I can get. :DDD brb becoming a Murdockwife.

I just erased three paragraphs of ranting here because I reread them and realized I looked even more crazy than usual.

I want to see those paragraphs. :(

ALSO COME IN THE CHAT. I'm so bored.

ALSO COME IN THE CHAT. I'm so bored.

IAWTMFC.

PS I AM CATCHING UP ON TRUE BLOOD AND ONE OF THE FLASHBACK VIKINGS HAS MY ACCENT!1!!ELEVENTY.

DUDE HOW MOTHERFUCKING AWESOME WAS BILL SINGING SHOWTUNES IN A SPEAKEASY????

I want to see those paragraphs. :(

IAWTC maybe only so I can laugh BUT I STILL WANT TO SEE THEM!

I was at a doctor appointment! And now you've gone to bed!

There are other people waiting for this, though! JUST DO IT >:(

No! I won't!

How are you gonna shame the Cap lovers into realizing just what's wrong with them if you don't DD on just what's wrong with them?

I don't think insulting people will endear them to my side. :(

WELL THAT'S NEW

Anyway, you wouldn't be insulting them, you'd just be showing them everything that's wrong with their favorite character.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL YOU DIDN'T READ THE VILE THINGS I SAID ABOUT PEOPLE WHO LIKE CAP BB.

STOP PIQUING MY CURIOSITY ALREADY :((((((((((((

>:)

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