# Characters who are never a dick
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 4, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333 "2011-01-04T08:02:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/1 "2011-01-04T08:02:27Z")
Looking for characters in any medium who are the polar opposite of “a dick”.
I’m thinking “Jesus” counts - even when he got pissed over the temple, it seems like spontaneous genuine anger. And otherwise he usually was all “turn the other cheek”. (Speaking literature here, not religiously).
But, Dr Who, the obvious choice, doesn’t count. He was kind of a dick at the end of Tennant’s life.
Which other characters (or even real life people) epitomize the essence of “never a dick”?
IOW, not only do they never succumb to dickery, but it’s not even in their inherent nature?
I’m thinking perhaps the main guy in Gentlemen Broncos might count. What do you think?
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/2 "2011-01-04T08:12:59Z")
I think the ultimate “never a dick” character is Agent Dale Cooper from the show _Twin Peaks._ There has never been another character like this, in my opinion. Cooper is unequaled in his combination of confidence and innocence. He’s completely chivalrous, polite, and respectful. He’s not a pushover; if anything, he’s a rock-solid individual who never backs down from anything, yet at the same time he’s never domineering and he doesn’t act like an “alpha male.” He is never arrogant towards the people of Twin Peaks from of his position of authority; as the show goes on, he gradually adopts their lifestyle, right down to the checked flannel shirt. He is, in short, the ultimate gentleman.
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### Author:  [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/3 "2011-01-04T08:22:55Z")
Woody from _Cheers_.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/4 "2011-01-04T08:24:45Z")
Hurley from _Lost_.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/5 "2011-01-04T08:40:05Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#):
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> But, Dr Who, the obvious choice, doesn’t count. He was kind of a dick at the end of Tennant’s life.
And pretty much all of Tom Baker’s run. I’ve been watching some classic Who episodes, and I’m stunned by what a colossal prick the Doctor used to be. It’s great fun to watch, and you know the Doctor always has the best intentions in the end, but it’s astonishing that he makes it through each episode without someone busting him in his buck teeth.
Kinda wish they’d bring some of that back into the new series, to be honest.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/6 "2011-01-04T08:58:04Z")
I think Matt Smith is often a dick - a lot more so than Tennant, who had to get along with everyone.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/7 "2011-01-04T11:48:06Z")
Benton Fraser from _Due South_, maybe?
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### Author:  [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/8 "2011-01-04T12:48:29Z")
Benton Fraser and Captain Carrot are both of the same archetype. Both have not a dick as part of their foundation.
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/9 "2011-01-04T13:41:20Z")
> [@lee](#):
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> Benton Fraser and Captain Carrot are both of the same archetype. Both have not a dick as part of their foundation.
And the Middleman from The Middleman.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/10 "2011-01-04T14:02:04Z")
Edith from All In The Family.
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/11 "2011-01-04T14:04:44Z")
Flanders.
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### Author:  [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/12 "2011-01-04T14:13:22Z")
Lev Nikolaevich \*\*Myshkin \*\*in Dostoevsky’s _The Idiot_.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/13 "2011-01-04T14:33:53Z")
_Quantum Leap_’s Sam Becket is never a dick.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/14 "2011-01-04T14:44:17Z")
Batman (Adam West version). Sanctimonious twit sometimes, but never ever a dick.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/15 "2011-01-04T16:06:16Z")
When I was skimming the CS page, this thread was right below “Animals eaten young,” and so I initially read this one’s title as “Characters who have never eaten a dick.”
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/16 "2011-01-04T16:09:36Z")
Lord Valentine of Robert Silverberg’s Majipoor series. The guy’s written practically as a saint.
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/17 "2011-01-04T16:10:58Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#):
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> I’m thinking “Jesus” counts - even when he got pissed over the temple, it seems like spontaneous genuine anger. And otherwise he usually was all “turn the other cheek”. (Speaking literature here, not religiously).
What about when he cursed the fig tree? I mean, it’s a fig tree, why are you fighting with it, jesus?!
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/18 "2011-01-04T16:14:23Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#):
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> I think the ultimate “never a dick” character is Agent Dale Cooper from the show _Twin Peaks._ There has never been another character like this, in my opinion. Cooper is unequaled in his combination of confidence and innocence. He’s completely chivalrous, polite, and respectful. He’s not a pushover; if anything, he’s a rock-solid individual who never backs down from anything, yet at the same time he’s never domineering and he doesn’t act like an “alpha male.” He is never arrogant towards the people of Twin Peaks from of his position of authority; as the show goes on, he gradually adopts their lifestyle, right down to the checked flannel shirt. He is, in short, the ultimate gentleman.
You could probably put Hawk in that category as well.
My first thought was Hal from Malcolm in the Middle.
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/19 "2011-01-04T16:23:48Z")
Superman, at least as portrayed by George Reeves on TV and Christopher Reeve on film. As to the comic book Man of Steel, I can’t say.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/20 "2011-01-04T16:33:56Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#):
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> As to the comic book Man of Steel, I can’t say.
These guys can:
[http://superdickery.com/](http://superdickery.com/)
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