Hot characters who are nonetheless too odd (or outright nuts) to date.

Buffy does nothing for me - she’s just too small - but otherwise she’s datable, IMO. She’s very funny, for a start. Marriageable? Probably not - you’d die first.

Well, I’m female; if she were gay or bi, I’d date her. She’s terribly needy but really upfront about it.

Penis-less me finds her more needy and less datable than Anya. But I think this is mainly body language or something, because on paper she’s definitely datable.

She was a lovely GF when she dated Xander - it was him who ruined that. then there were about three seasons where she wasn’t insane, possessed or impregnated (except for one episode early on, which was over and done with within that episode).

Even though I think she’s one of the sexiest of all Joss Whedon’s women, I agree; she’d love you with all her heart and sell you anyway.

She’s not my type physically, but her personality is actually quite lovely.

I agree with you on the ones I deleted.

Inara is the most datable woman anywhere ever. The downside is that you’d have to turn into Mal Reynolds for it to be more than a paid date. Is that actually a downside? Hmm.

I don’t remember that one, but I bet that if it did happen it’d be a silly piss-taking joy, like playing a prank on someone who also enjoys playing a prank on you - not emotional game-playing.

She can’t have been that jealous if she hung out so often with her BF’s ex-GF who was still hung up on him enough to have a full-size cut-out of him in her bedroom.

Helena Bonham Carter’s Marla Singer from Fight Club.

Well, I would add at the beginning that she’s blonde with a cute face and a killer set of gams (you gotta put the strongest selling points up first).:wink:

Eliza Dushku’s character on Dollhouse.

Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes. He’s brilliant, can be very funny, sexy, great shape, wonderful survival skills and a good income when he chooses, but also has limited social skills, very little tact, clingy and possessive yet neither affectionate nor giving, a cocaine addiction, erratic hours and, on top of it all, enemies who would see him dead. Bring him home to mother and he’d like as not reveal to you that she used to be a prostitute, the man you know as your father isn’t, he’d tell you the food was terrible and then he’d somehow kill the cat on the way out.

Maggie O’Connell? Don’t wanna get hit by a de-orbiting satellite.

George Lass? Don’t wanna get hit by a de-orbiting toilet seat.

The same might be said for Robert Downey Jr. when he’s not playing Sherlock Holmes.


Did NOT like the new Rhodey.

The whole prostitution thing, even in a legal and formalized context like that, leaves me cold. She’s basically a professional liar.

Greg House. I can’t imagine actually dating him . . . but given the opportunity I wouldn’t turn him down.

Ahem . . . you are already in that universe.

Yep - I’m not a man or a gay woman, but I think she’s pretty hot.

My submission is Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.

Obviously super hot, but don’t be trying to wake the man up from a deep sleep unless you’re fast on your feet and need some bread sliced.

Kathleen Turner in Body Heat, Prizzi’s Honor, or The War of the Roses.

(Re: the Winchester brothers on Supernatural.)

I know you’re joking, but their codependence is just one symptom of their nuttiness. Their relationship is…very weird.

Adrian Monk

Speaking of Inara, I’ll nominate Morena Baccarin’s character, Anna, on V. Very hot in her human guise, but in private she’ll turn into a lizard and eat you! Baccarin also played a crazy villain in Stargate: SG1.

Angela from The Office. Can be quite hot when she wants to be (see: her nurse costume on the recent Halloween episode) and is apparently wild in the sack, but outwardly is a real bitch.

Deb on Dexter. Tons of emotional issues, but apparently quite a good lay. I guess you could also include Lila (Jaime Murray) from season 2.

Callisto (Hudson Leick) from Xena: Warrior Princess. Callisto was truly evil, but smokin’ hot!

Tia Dalma from Pirates of the Caribbean.

You forgot Amy Madison! Before she was rat-i-fied, she was totally datable, so long as her mother was safely trapped in the cheerleader trophy case.

Sally from Third Rock.

Wait, what?

I don’t understand how you go from prostitute to liar. Can you explain?

Well, there’s other reasons not to date Wolverine, but that’s hardly one. The wakes-up-with-claws-extended thing is easily manageable.