# Most analyzed female tv character? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** actor-characters\ **Created:** [April 28, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881 "2024-04-28T21:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/21 "2024-04-29T02:48:09Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Wonder Woman. > Whole books have been written… Though, how many of those books were primarily, if not exclusively, about the character in her original comic-book milieu, rather than the TV show which began over thirty years after the character’s creation? ---
**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/22 "2024-04-29T05:12:39Z")
C’mon, who else but Special Agent Dana Scully? > **[Dana Scully](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scully)** > > Tegan Moss (young Scully) > Dr. Dana Katherine Scully, MD, is a fictional character and one of the two protagonists in the Fox science-fiction, supernatural television series The X-Files, played by Gillian Anderson. Scully is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent and a medical doctor (MD), partnered with fellow Special Agent Fox Mulder for seasons one to seven and seasons 10 and 11, and with John Doggett in the eighth and ninth seasons. In the television series, they work out ... Please…she even caused a sociological phenomenon to manifest itself. > **[‘The Scully Effect’ Is Real — and There’s Data to Prove It](https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/xfiles-dana-scully-effect-women-stem/)** > > The truth is out there — Dana Scully inspired a generation of women to pursue STEM. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/23 "2024-04-29T16:59:10Z")
How could we forget Roseanne Barr? ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/24 "2024-04-29T18:22:06Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Marge Simpson. Has anybody _not_ wondered why she’s still married to that oaf? The first character that came to my mind when I saw the thread was, _Lisa_ Simpson. Vegetarian (but not vegan - she (well, the show’s writers) makes that clear in at least one episode) Dismisses pretty much every “mainstream” religion, but has no problem praying to “my lord, Buddha” Can’t make up her mind whether she’s eight years old or 28. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/25 "2024-04-30T02:06:54Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > Dismisses pretty much every “mainstream” religion, but has no problem praying to “my lord, Buddha” TIL that Buddhism, the fourth-largest world religion with over half a billion followers, is not a “mainstream” religion. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/26 "2024-04-30T02:21:52Z")
REVEREND LOVEJOY: Homer, God didn’t burn your house down, but he was working in the hearts of your friends - be they Christian, Jew, or…miscellaneous. APU: Hindu. There are seven hundred million of us. REVEREND LOVEJOY: Aww, that’s super. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/27 "2024-04-30T02:35:03Z")
The TV character or the buffoon who portrayed her? While we’re on the subject, Edith Bunker. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/28 "2024-04-30T03:09:12Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > How could we forget Roseanne Barr? Possibly because “Roseanne Barr” isn’t a fictional character. You could go with Roseanne Conner, though. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/29 "2024-04-30T15:29:25Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > There was a lot of discussion of Skyler White, at least during the run of _Breaking Bad_. Heh. I watched the entire run of _Breaking Bad_ despite Skyler. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/30 "2024-04-30T15:40:40Z")
Miss Piggy! Nah, it’s Buffy. Her post-show comic book series is still going strong. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/31 "2024-04-30T16:30:58Z")
100% it’s Skyler. Every resident of the Andrew Tate circle of hell has made a video demonizing Skyler. And probably a good half of “nice guy” Youtube has also done a “Skyler’s the real villain if you think about it” videos. If not Skyler… its Buffy. At this point I think multiple scholarly books have been written about her as a character. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/32 "2024-04-30T16:39:01Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Murphy Brown. Yup. If you were alive during this era there is no question this tv role made our nation question itself and our times and everyone projected what they believed on her character. Then politics commented and everyone lost their shit. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/33 "2024-04-30T16:42:55Z")
Rey is a good runner up. Buffy fans don’t celebrate a date every year like it’s a national holiday. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/34 "2024-04-30T16:52:55Z")
I’d think Captain Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager would have to be up there given the fanaticism of many Trekkies ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/35 "2024-04-30T16:53:04Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > 100% it’s Skyler. Every resident of the Andrew Tate circle of hell has made a video demonizing Skyler. > And probably a good half of “nice guy” Youtube has also done a “Skyler’s the real villain if you think about it” videos. If being shit on by internet man-babies counts as “analysis,” then nearly every female character in any relaunched IP has hordes of insecure incels screaming about how their childhoods have been ripped away from them by woke Mary Sue characters added to their beloved stories. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/36 "2024-04-30T17:01:57Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > If being shit on by internet man-babies counts as “analysis,” then nearly every female character in any relaunched IP has hordes of insecure incels screaming about how their childhoods have been ripped away from them by woke Mary Sue characters added to their beloved stories. Well, yeah. The OP set that as a parameter. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/37 "2024-04-30T17:10:45Z")
Sorry, wasn’t trying to question your post just expressing my disgust with the phenomenon. It’s genuinely insane to me how outraged these types get over Rey Skywalker or Captain Marvel. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/38 "2024-04-30T17:12:41Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > Lucy Ricardo. Yeah, I was going to say it was a toss-up between Lucy and Mary Richards (_Mary Tyler Moore Show_). I doubt 3rd place is even close. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/39 "2024-05-02T11:45:45Z")
Noodling around with Google Scholar: Buffy vampire: about 19100 results “I love Lucy” 12800 results Uhura 3160 results Wonder woman 24000 results Scully X-files 2950 Murphy Brown 6340 Xena Warrior 4730 ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/40 "2024-05-02T16:39:30Z")
Oh I understand. Sorry if my response seemed cross. I think we’re much more aligned in how we’re thinking about it. Analyzation doesnt necessary have to be correct or good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881.md?page=3)