# Hot characters who are nonetheless too odd (or outright nuts) to date. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 2, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248 "2010-11-02T20:28:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/21 "2010-11-02T21:55:57Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > There are lots of such anime characters, starting with Excel from [Excel Saga](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excel_Saga), Dokuro Mitsukai from [Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bludgeoning_Angel_Dokuro-Chan) and [Ryoko](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryoko_%28Tenchi_Muyo!%29) from the [Tenchi\_Muyo!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenchi_Muyo!) franchise. You also might want to add the somewhat saner, but quite impossible to live with, [Haruhi Suzumiya](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruhi_Suzumiya_%28character%29). Hah! True on all accounts – I might include Misa Misa from **Death Note** as well… And as for Rory Gilmore…what!!! She’s like the perfect girlfriend I never met… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/22 "2010-11-02T22:04:42Z")
I’m surprised that it took so long to mention River Tam (and even then, not by name). I’ll also add a fair bit of the cast of _Battlestar Galactica_: All of the Sixes, all of the Threes, all of the Eights except for Athena (especially Boomer), plus Ellen Tigh (who was probably a real looker when she was younger, but who seems to positively delight in destroying all she touches) and Adm. Caine (just plain way too evil). Oh, and most of Baltar’s groupies, too. ---
**Author:** ![Silent\_Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Silent\_Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silent_Kal)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/23 "2010-11-02T22:06:25Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Cameron, the Terminator from the television series. Summer Glau is lovely, but, well - Cameron is a Terminator, for frak’s sake. Your microwave oven arguably has a richer emotional life. She did a pretty good job of pretending in the premiere episode, when she first met John at his school, but I don’t recall that she ever displayed the ability to simulate emotions and a bubbly personality at any other point in the series. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/24 "2010-11-02T22:23:08Z")
> [@infinitii](#): > > Hah! True on all accounts – I might include Misa Misa from **Death Note** as well… > > And as for Rory Gilmore…what!!! She’s like the perfect girlfriend I never met… Rory would be fine for short-term dating – except that she doesn’t go for short-term dating. And once she sits down with her therapist and figures out a way to be less of a neurotic dweeb who falls apart because of one bad performance evaluation after two months work, she’ll be fine. > [@Chronos](#): > > I’m surprised that it took so long to mention River Tam (and even then, not by name). I’ll also add a fair bit of the cast of _Battlestar Galactica_: All of the Sixes, all of the Threes, all of the Eights except for Athena (especially Boomer), plus Ellen Tigh (who was probably a real looker when she was younger, but who seems to positively delight in destroying all she touches) and Adm. Caine (just plain way too evil). Oh, and most of Baltar’s groupies, too. I am offended, sir, by the implication that evil makes one un-dateable. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/25 "2010-11-02T22:30:29Z")
Liz Lemon. Sure she’s intelligent and funny and she looks like Tina Fey. But she’s got major issues. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/26 "2010-11-02T22:32:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’m surprised that it took so long to mention River Tam (and even then, not by name). I’ll also add a fair bit of the cast of _Battlestar Galactica_: All of the Sixes, all of the Threes, all of the Eights except for Athena (especially Boomer), plus Ellen Tigh (who was probably a real looker when she was younger, but who seems to positively delight in destroying all she touches) and Adm. Caine (just plain way too evil). Oh, and most of Baltar’s groupies, too. You’re implying that Starbuck is dateable? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/27 "2010-11-02T22:34:21Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > You’re implying that Starbuck is dateable? The thread is about HOT characters. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/28 "2010-11-02T23:07:49Z")
Oasis from Sluggy Freelance. She has sharp knives and [jealousy issues](http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20000425). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/29 "2010-11-02T23:17:01Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > the entire cast of glee, statutory rape aside. Eh, they are just teenagers with bonus TV-drama. Ross from \*Friends \*was so damaged to be undateable. Whiny, too. The actor is handsome enough in other roles. I must diagree with **llcoolbj77**. I think Capt Reynolds is dateable, he was starting to open up to Our Mrs Reynolds and the Madame. He’s kind to River and Kaylee. He’s got some issues and rage from the war, but I don’t think he’s too crazy to date. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/30 "2010-11-02T23:18:43Z")
Kelly Bundy ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/31 "2010-11-02T23:32:39Z")
> [@](#): > > You’re implying that Starbuck is dateable? Well, more so than the rest of that list, but yeah, good point. Come to think of it, I think the only females on that show I _would_ really consider would be Callie, Athena, and Pres. Roslyn. And **Skald** , there is such a thing as _too_ evil. As in, Nazi-like. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/32 "2010-11-02T23:41:18Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Well, more so than the rest of that list, but yeah, good point. Come to think of it, I think the only females on that show I _would_ really consider would be Callie, Athena, and Pres. Roslyn. > > And **Skald** , there is such a thing as _too_ evil. As in, Nazi-like. Well, yes, but that doesn’t make you undateable. Even the Red Skull gets some from time to time. Admittedly those girls tend to [del]be prostitutes[/del] [del]be mind-controlled[/del] have explosive charges implanted in their spleens forcing compliance, but even so.l ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/33 "2010-11-02T23:50:31Z")
Dorothy Vallens in _ **Blue Velvet** _ Cora Smith in _ **The Postman Always Rings Twice** _ Phyllis Dietrichson in _ **Double Indemnity** _ Leeloo in _ **The Fifth Element** _ Samantha Stephens in _ **Bewitched** _ Oh yeah, Sheila Keefe in _ **Rescue Me** _ ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/34 "2010-11-02T23:56:10Z")
> [@DonLogan](#): > > Samantha Stephens in _ **Bewitched** _ I’m going to assume you mean the recent Nicole Kidman crapfest. (Okay, I don’t know from my personal experience that it’s bad, as my seething and sourceless loathing for the Kidman woman prevented me from watching it.) But the 60s version, with the angelic Elizabeth Montgomery, was enormously dateable. And I’d see no reasonto ask her not to use her powers (except that I wouldn’t want help at work unless magic had caused the problem in the first place). Also, what’s wrong with Leeloo? I think she was fine once the figurative weight of the world was off her shoulders. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/35 "2010-11-03T00:09:59Z")
Dark Willow. Definitely fuckable. Way too crazy to date. Hit it once and break away clean. Buffy. Same deal. Starbuck. Yup. Hit that, and hope you get three steps towards the door. Caprica 6. Hope she doesn’t go Mrs. Praying Mantis on you when it’s done. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/36 "2010-11-03T00:19:00Z")
Undatable female hottie characters; Parker from _Leverage_, pretty much any hot female cop on any show, also most doctors and nurses. Yeah, pretty much all of them. Undatable males; lots of those as well, special mention of Sam and Dean Winchester from _Supernatural_ and George the werewolf and Mitchell the vampire from _Being Human_. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/37 "2010-11-03T00:19:23Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Pretty much any character on a Joss Whedon show, ever. Faith would be too terrifying. I’d add Drusilla, except she reminds me of someone I did date. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/38 "2010-11-03T00:19:37Z")
> [@DonLogan](#): > > Leeloo in _ **The Fifth Element** _ Oh no no no. If she picks you to love, you damned well better love her back, or the planet is going kerblooey. You’re stuck. ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/39 "2010-11-03T00:21:31Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’m going to assume you mean the recent Nicole Kidman crapfest. (Okay, I don’t know from my personal experience that it’s bad, as my seething and sourceless loathing for the Kidman woman prevented me from watching it.) But the 60s version, with the angelic Elizabeth Montgomery, was enormously dateable. And I’d see no reasonto ask her not to use her powers (except that I wouldn’t want help at work unless magic had caused the problem in the first place). > > Also, what’s wrong with Leeloo? I think she was fine once the figurative weight of the world was off her shoulders. Nah, I meant the original Samantha. She and Leeloo both fall into the ‘too odd" category, then you throw in the crazy in laws; who needs Endora, Esmerelda or Uncle Arthur popping in while I’m tryin’ to bang the witch? Plus, once you save the universe, there’s nowhere to go but down. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248/40 "2010-11-03T00:21:33Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > Undatable female hottie characters; Parker from _Leverage_, Athena damn it! I said _hot!_. 😉 > [@](#): > > Undatable males; lots of those as well, special mention of Sam and Dean Winchester from _Supernatural_. Aren’t they dating each other? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-characters-who-are-nonetheless-too-odd-or-outright-nuts-to-date/559248.md?page=3)