Another Meme... + saddish TV news

[newnumber6]

Well, the last meme seems to be closed off to all newcomers. So I'll provide a new meme, stolen from bachicka!

My challenge to you is: Assemble a superteam from your various fandoms.
Your team must consist of the following:

(1) Team Leader (could be anyone, but must have good leadership skills!)
(1) Warrior (examples: Ronon, Faith, Hercules)
(1) Smartypants (examples: House, Giles, Hermione)
(1) Hottie (examples: Brian Kinney, John Sheppard, Amanda)
(1) Comic Relief (examples: Frannie Vecchio, Wash, Xander)

All your superteam members must be from DIFFERENT fandoms. I will count SG1/SGA and Buffy/Angel as different fandoms, as well as Marvel and DC, but I'm not going to split Marvel and DC into all *their* different fandoms; this meme would be way too easy if you could just fill all the slots with different superpowered people.

Whether your team has a 'theme' (all girls! all Brits! etc.) and their scope-- whether they fight vampires, serial killers, invading aliens or work to prevent littering-- is up to you.


I'd say Buffy/Angel count as different fandoms but if you use someone who was a _regular_ on either, he or she counts for BOTH. So if you use Spike (or Cordelia, or Angel) you can't use anyone else. Similarly for other cross fandoms. But that's just my rule.

Here's my team:
Leader: Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly. He's a pretty damn good leader to me.
Warrior: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I thought of Faith, but Buffy was the title character and so she is by default the superior warrior and would win a Faith/Buffy showdown (unless Faith gets her own series, in which case she would at least temporarily become the undefeatable one). Plus Buffy brings in more chance for guest appearances from the wider Whedonverse.
Smarty-Pants: Samantha Carter, Stargate SG-1. Cause she blew up a sun, once! And, most importantly, she remembers technology and science from previous episodes, and uses the information where appropriate!
Hottie: Veronica Mars. Although not just because she's a hottie, because it allows two smarty-pants on the team.
Comic Relief: Hmmm.. I dunno. I'm going to go with Chase Stein from Runaways (Marvel comics), because he's funny and occasionally not too bright, but he's street smart to an extent and could provide a good dynamic (and hey, Chase/Veronica could be a cracky crossover OTP). Plus, any chance to plug Runaways and use his icon is fun. Also because I couldn't think of any other comic relief characters I really wanted to add to a team that wasn't from a fandom I already used for something else. And hey, this means with the exception of SG1 (of which I don't know his feelings), that means everyone on my list is from a Whedon fandom or a fandom Whedon's professed love for! :)

They travel the world (and into Space) fighting off zombies, vampires, evil supervillains, and hostile aliens, and, hell, Cthulhuesque monsters beyond space and time. Because Chase vs. Cthulhu would be awesome.

Now do your own, either in your own LJ or just comment.

Also, in sad news... looks like Stargate SG1 is being cancelled, unless the creators can find another home for it. Atlantis will be renewed for another year, but that's kinda like... well, cancelling the show I think is better and renewing the one that's okay but not as good. In fact it's exactly like that. Okay, I'm hot right now and not so good on similies.

Comments

[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

Chase is good comic relief but I might go for Nico to fill the hottie role.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Ehhh, if I was going for Runaways on my team I'd rather have Chase than Nico. She's just too 'attempted leaderish' and would attack most of the others on the team because they're grownups and therefore can't be trusted. Chase I think could at least get along. ;)

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

(1) Team Leader: Giles (BtVS)
(1) Warrior: Zoe (Firefly/Serenity)
(1) Smartypants: Mac (Veronica Mars)
(1) Hottie: Burke (Grey's Anatomy)
(1) Comic Relief: The Janitor (Scrubs)


What? So what if I put three brainy people in my team? The other option for hottie was to put Faith and then I'd have two warriors. And did you really think I'd let a stupid person run my operation?

I guess they'd probably be trying to save the world from viral attacks of the biological and cyber persuasion... preferably in space with supernatural components. It would be a very Joss setup clearly.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with multiple brainy people on a team. It's a good list there. I thought about adding a (medical) doctor to mine, but didn't really want to give up the smartypants slot and the only one I could consider as a 'hottie' would be Isabel, and she'd go and get improperly attached to patients and do crazy things. :P

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I would consider Addison to count as a hottie. I've never been that impressed with Katherine Heigl as "the hot one" since in my opinion the other women on the show are for the most part at least as hot as her. I mean she's an attractive woman but... just not more so than most of the women in hollywood in my opinion.

Burke was kind of a stretch I admit... but smart as he is I don't think he really fits in the "smartypants" catagory and he is an attractive man with a highly attractive personality and there was that time that my main comment on an episode was about the beauty of his jawline and cheekbones.

I actually considered putting Cristina in as comic relief but then I felt it was disrespectful to her... even though she does often play that role in the show.


Is it bad that I am composing Burke/Zoe crossover in my head now.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's _bad_ per se, but I'm not sure I see it myself. :)

As to GA hotties... see, I'm a little judgemental of TV characters and their hotness can go down severely from that. The actress playing Meredith Grey is reasonably attractive, but I hate the character so much that I can't find her hot. Likewise, with Addison, I can objectively agree that she's fairly attractive, but because she cheated on her husband (and in fact it was pretty much the first thing we ever knew about her before any sympathy could have been built up) it ruins the hotness quotient for me completely.

Thus, since I'm not terribly attracted to Bailey or Christina (or any of the men), Izzie is the only one left on that show that I'd consider a hottie (well, aside from Syphilis Nurse but I wouldn't add her to my team because she lacks elite surgical skills being a TV nurse).