# Guess the TV or movie character from His,Hers or Its Wiki page description **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 26, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751 "2012-08-26T21:02:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/1 "2012-08-26T21:02:19Z")
Try to keep it fairly simple. Here is a start. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is characterized as indulging in several sexual fetishes, from frotteurism and erotic asphyxiation to zoophilia and incest and necrophilia. He is also an implied rapist; several episodes feature him having sex with women who are unconscious. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/2 "2012-08-26T23:06:27Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Try to keep it fairly simple. > > Here is a start. > > \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is characterized as indulging in several sexual fetishes, from frotteurism and erotic asphyxiation to zoophilia and incest and necrophilia. He is also an implied rapist; several episodes feature him having sex with women who are unconscious. Quagmire (from Family Guy) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/3 "2012-08-26T23:50:08Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Quagmire (from Family Guy) Yes. Add one of your own. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/4 "2012-08-26T23:56:47Z")
Despite his bumbling nature, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ has an innate innocence of character that causes the others to forgive his mistakes. He occasionally saves the others when a [redacted because it gives too much away] plan goes awry. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/5 "2012-08-26T23:58:15Z")
Gilligan? ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/6 "2012-08-26T23:58:59Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Gilligan? Yes. Add one of your own. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/7 "2012-08-27T00:10:07Z")
I’m trying. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. Here’s what I got … from the movie wiki page: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ has dropped out of college and volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam. Assigned to Bravo Company, near the Cambodian border, he is worn down by the exhausting conditions and his enthusiasm for the war wanes. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/8 "2012-08-27T00:19:31Z")
she claimed to be vegetarian, with the exception of fish and the “occasional steak…I love steak!”. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/9 "2012-08-27T00:22:22Z")
From post #7: Chris Taylor (from _Platoon_). \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is brown from head to toe with several distinctive black spots on his upper body and doesn’t seem to have a melanistic mask. He is generally a quadruped, but displays bipedal ‘human’ characteristics occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/10 "2012-08-27T01:49:07Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > From post #7: > > Chris Taylor (from _Platoon_). > > \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is brown from head to toe with several distinctive black spots on his upper body and doesn’t seem to have a melanistic mask. He is generally a quadruped, but displays bipedal ‘human’ characteristics occasionally. Scooby Doo? \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ a Missouri farmer, is driven to revenge by the murder of his wife and son by a band of pro-Union Jayhawkers — Senator James H. Lane’s Redlegs from Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/11 "2012-08-27T04:48:15Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ a Missouri farmer, is driven to revenge by the murder of his wife and son by a band of pro-Union Jayhawkers — Senator James H. Lane’s Redlegs from Kansas. Josey Wales (one of the few Westerns I like). Much like \ herself, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ was born and raised in Jamestown, New York. (Although episode#138 reports her birthplace to be West Jamestown, New York, such designation does not exist) to an American family of Scottish descent. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/12 "2012-08-27T05:47:44Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > she claimed to be vegetarian, with the exception of fish and the “occasional steak…I love steak!”. Is that Penny from _The Big Bang Theory_? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/13 "2012-08-27T06:48:33Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Much like \ herself, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ was born and raised in Jamestown, New York. (Although episode#138 reports her birthplace to be West Jamestown, New York, such designation does not exist) to an American family of Scottish descent. Lucy Despite his comparatively brutish manner, \_\_\_ regularly displays cunning and common sense. \_\_\_, when asked to described the character, said “Sex. Muscle. Humor. Thuggery. \_\_\_.” He also calls \_\_\_ a “practical guy,” explaining his character’s use of gallows humor by explaining that when in peril, the choice is to “panic and cry and crap your pants, or you make a joke and you try to survive.” ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/14 "2012-08-27T12:55:00Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Is that Penny from _The Big Bang Theory_? Yes ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/15 "2012-08-27T13:34:03Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Scooby Doo? Correct. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/16 "2012-08-27T13:43:43Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Lucy > > Despite his comparatively brutish manner, \_\_\_ regularly displays cunning and common sense. \_\_\_, when asked to described the character, said “Sex. Muscle. Humor. Thuggery. \_\_\_.” He also calls \_\_\_ a “practical guy,” explaining his character’s use of gallows humor by explaining that when in peril, the choice is to “panic and cry and crap your pants, or you make a joke and you try to survive.” [Jayne Cobb](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Cobb#Jayne_Cobb). “…he makes use of intellect, detective skills, science and technology, wealth, physical prowess, martial arts skills, an indomitable will, fear, and intimidation…” ---
**Author:** ![Rubixcube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Rubixcube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubixcube)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/17 "2012-08-27T17:35:57Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > “…he makes use of intellect, detective skills, science and technology, wealth, physical prowess, martial arts skills, an indomitable will, fear, and intimidation…” Batman? > [@](#): > > He was a physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, researcher, and, as revealed in **\_\_\_** , a musician. A team of scientists assembled by his father deliberately trained his mind and body to near-superhuman abilities almost from birth, giving him great strength and endurance, a photographic memory, a mastery of the martial arts, and vast knowledge of the sciences ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/18 "2012-08-27T17:54:36Z")
Batman is correct. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/19 "2012-08-27T18:24:16Z")
> [@](#): > > He was a physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, researcher, and, as revealed in \_\_\_, a musician. A team of scientists assembled by his father deliberately trained his mind and body to near-superhuman abilities almost from birth, giving him great strength and endurance, a photographic memory, a mastery of the martial arts, and vast knowledge of the sciences Doc Savage. Here’s mine: While he has proven himself to be a talented and determined detective, he is disliked by many of his superiors because of his arrogance, disdain for authority, and disrespect for the chain of command. When off the job, he has frequent problems involving alimony, alcoholism, child support, and relationships. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751/20 "2012-08-27T18:42:51Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Doc Savage. > > Here’s mine: > > While he has proven himself to be a talented and determined detective, he is disliked by many of his superiors because of his arrogance, disdain for authority, and disrespect for the chain of command. When off the job, he has frequent problems involving alimony, alcoholism, child support, and relationships. Jimmy McNulty? Here’s mine: “\_\_\_\_\_ has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Science degree in Criminology and Law from the University of California, Berkeley. He enlisted in the United States Army and later graduated from Officer Candidate School. He was a member of Delta Force and specialized in infantry operations. Among his awards and decorations are the Silver Star, the Purple Heart, and the Legion of Merit. He received Airborne, Air Assault, Ranger training. He left the Army in the rank of Captain after fifteen years of service. Following his military career, \_\_\_\_ worked for both the Los Angeles Police Department’s Special Weapons and Tactics unit and for the Central Intelligence Agency as a case officer in the clandestine service. He was recruited into the \_\_\_\_\_\_ by \_\_\_\_\_\_” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-tv-or-movie-character-from-his-hers-or-its-wiki-page-description/632751.md?page=2)