# Characters who are never a dick **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/41 "2011-01-04T22:24:09Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Even the stated example, Ten (Tennant) was pretty nasty a lot of the time - he actively tried to be a nice guy, but there was too much of Nine left in him. He was little better to Mickey than Nine was. The way he treated Jack was truly assholish. The way he dealt with the Family of Blood was a pretty impressive case of poetic cruelty. He was awful to Jenny for most of The Doctor’s Daughter - even ignoring his haranguing her over being a soldier, rather than attempting to guide her, his refusal to even acknowledge her as an actual being right from the start was a major case of being a dick. You’re right about Mickey, and especially Jack. I’d say the Family of Blood gets forgiven under the “Jesus and the Moneychangers” exemption. He wasn’t being a dick, he was delivering righteous punishment. And “The Doctor’s Daughter” was just too stupid to be legitimately considered part of continuity. > [@Acorns... but not Bacon](#): > > Aww, poor Wesley. I don’t get the Wesley hate, incidentally I don’t think Wesley was a ever a dick. Man, even [Wil Wheaton hates Wesley.](http://www.tvsquad.com/bloggers/wil-wheaton/) ---
**Author:** ![Acorns.but\_not\_Bacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@Acorns.but\_not\_Bacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acorns.but_not_Bacon)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/42 "2011-01-04T22:42:11Z")
Oh wow, I knew Wil Wheaton was self deprecating but I didn’t know he wrote synopses for TNG. Cool, will read. Still like Wesley though. 🙂 Think it’s the enthusiasm. ---
**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/43 "2011-01-04T22:56:33Z")
Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke. He’s perfectly noble and fair-minded. Never mean or peevish, even when angry. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/44 "2011-01-04T23:00:48Z")
Atticus Finch ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/45 "2011-01-05T03:30:43Z")
Bertram Wilberforce Wooster. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/46 "2011-01-05T03:44:26Z")
Jughead. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/47 "2011-01-05T03:46:54Z")
Laura Petrie. Never a dick. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/48 "2011-01-05T04:18:48Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > Bertram Wilberforce Wooster. Dick is one thing, and wuss is another. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/49 "2011-01-05T04:22:25Z")
On the original _Melrose Place,_ the one never-dick character was Matt, the token gay. He also was often the [Butt Monkey.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButtMonkey) He was also the one character who **never** got to make out on-camera while being bent over an article of furniture to a background of hot guitar licks. I can’t even remember seeing him **kiss** a dude. Why was that? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/50 "2011-01-05T04:27:29Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > Jughead. And Moose and Dilton. And Betty. And Archie was only ever a dick in his treatment of Betty. Reggie and Veronica were always dicks, but, otherwise, remarkably dickless community, Riverdale. (Central High, everyone knew, was the place where dickery was a required course.) ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/51 "2011-01-05T04:30:47Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Dick is one thing, and wuss is another. Bertie isn’t a wuss. He’s a _preux chevalier_. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/52 "2011-01-05T04:44:26Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Also, Coach. But coach became a dick in the episode where he was coaching little league. He is angry that the kids only win by one run, “What’s the point of winning if you can’t humiliate the other team?” Later: Diane: Coach has lost his sweet disposition. he’s turned into a tyrant. Sam: Yeah, but he’s winning Diane and winning is the most important thing here. I’ll nominate Barney Miller. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/53 "2011-01-05T05:33:47Z")
> [@Acorns.but\_not\_Bacon](#): > > Aww, poor Wesley. I don’t get the Wesley hate, incidentally I don’t think Wesley was a ever a dick. He was a dick all through the Native American relocation episode. ---
**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/54 "2011-01-05T20:56:38Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > And Moose and Dilton. And Betty. And Archie was only ever a dick in his treatment of Betty. Reggie and Veronica were always dicks, but, otherwise, remarkably dickless community, Riverdale… If I recall, Moose was an enormous dick. He brutalized any boy he saw just \*speaking \*to Midge. Jughead often employed dickery in his mooching. Betty was constantly pulling dick moves on Veronica by causing her hair and clothes to be ruined (though often in response to an assault by Veronica) Gotta say, Riverdale was full of dicks. ---
**Author:** ![Kivick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/65b543/32.png) [@Kivick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kivick)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/55 "2011-01-05T21:22:39Z")
[Amelie from the movie of the same name](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/) She tries to help everyone and does so with childish fervor. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/56 "2011-01-05T23:13:14Z")
Orihime Inoue in _Bleach_. She is always friendly, offers people her (awful) cooking, and even healed Loly and Menoly after Grimmjow beat them up for bullying her. I also want to say Izuru Kira (3rd division lieutenant, originally 4th division) and Hanataro Yamada. In fact, pretty much everyone in the 4th division is a nice guy or girl - they are also the butt monkeys of Soul Society, because they tend to focus on healing rather than killing. Iruka-sensei in _Naruto_. He’s friendly and kind, and one of the first people to treat Naruto like a human being, since he remembered what it was like to be an unloved orphan. His only semi-dickish move was attacking Team 7 in disguise early on, but he only did that to test them in order to make sure they were capable of surviving the Chuunin exams. I’m trying to remember whether Kakashi put him up to it or he did it on his own. Hinata Hyuuga, also from _Naruto_. She is very shy and timid, but is the kindest and sweetest of the ninjas her age. I really hope she ends up with Naruto, because she is always nice to him and doesn’t beat the crap out of him all the time like Sakura does. Hinata is also the only nice individual in a family where you pretty much have to be a dick in order to get any respect, which is part of the reason why her father passed her over to make her younger sister the clan heiress. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/57 "2011-01-05T23:31:41Z")
> [@Acorns.but\_not\_Bacon](#): > > Oh wow, I knew Wil Wheaton was self deprecating but I didn’t know he wrote synopses for TNG. Cool, will read. > > Still like Wesley though. 🙂 Think it’s the enthusiasm. FYI, there’s also a [book](http://www.amazon.com/Memories-Future-Vol-Wil-Wheaton/dp/0974116041/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1294270236&sr=8-5). ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/58 "2011-01-05T23:45:08Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > 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). Didn’t he once curse a tree because it wasn’t bearing fruit and he was feeling peckish? And assaulted a bunch of poor merchants trying to have an honest day’s work? Hurley once kept food hidden from his hungry fellow castaways. Ned Flanders once had teaching evolution banished from Springfield’s Elementary. I remember Sam Becket enjoying quite a lot of girls while disguised as another guy. In Superman 3, Chris Reeves literally became asshole USperman because of some kryptonite. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/59 "2011-01-06T09:31:33Z")
Bob Newhart Always seemed to play gentle, bemused types… ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/60 "2011-01-06T09:38:30Z")
There’s an episode of The Bob Newhart Show where Emily starts crying, and the more she cries, the more he laughs. Which was hilarious, but arguably a little bit dickish. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333.md?page=4)