# "THE WIRE": Your Favorite Characters from: THE STREET **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 5, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289 "2010-08-05T16:25:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289/21 "2010-08-06T23:52:15Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Lots of love for Bodie, which I agree with but am surprised by. My reaction too. Loved me some Bodie, he was a street soldier, but in having decided/fell into being a street soldier, he decided to be the best street soldier he could be, and when it was time to go, he went out like a soldier. (Not glorifying crime or lack of education, just recognizing a man doing the best he could with the choices he thought he had.) I wish there was a way for each person to see the list in a different order when they click in so there’s no bias created by certain people getting votes just by always appearing at the top. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289/22 "2010-08-07T00:06:28Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > I thought Omar was the best character. He was awesome. For some reason he didn’t make the list. Psst, scroll up and find the links I posted to the other poll threads. Omar is in a group all his own. ---
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289/23 "2010-08-07T22:42:53Z")
The cartoonish and one-dimensional Brother Mouzone has more votes than D’Angelo? Come on, people. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289/24 "2010-08-10T02:09:30Z")
Bodie’s lunch with McNulty was great. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289/25 "2010-08-10T03:07:07Z")
I gotta go with Stringer Bell here… “You are taking notes during a meeting of a criminal-fucking enterprise!” ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289/26 "2010-08-16T02:34:36Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > > [@Bob Ducca](#): > > > > I think that being at the top of the poll, and appearing in so many episodes, really helped him out here. > > > > Or maybe it was his fabulous do-rags. > > There was something about Bodie’s personality that I enjoyed…he actually had some perspective on the events going on aound him. It was Omar on screen when Bunk said, “A man must have a code.” But it could have been Bodie. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289/27 "2010-08-16T04:03:12Z")
> [@alexandra](#): > > The cartoonish and one-dimensional Brother Mouzone has more votes than D’Angelo? Come on, people. Or more than Marlo Stanfield? Marlo is TERRIFYING. Omar is presented in the show as being a major badass, but Marlo Stanfield is vastly, vastly more badass. Oh, Omar’s got a code and he’s got style and he’s pretty cool when he comes whistling “The Farmer In The Dell,” but Marlo Stanfield might well be the scariest, most thoroughly evil villain in the history of television. He is cunning, intelligent, and completely, totally psychopathic. He ends up defeating Bell, Barksdale et al. because he is the ultimate evolution of the criminal mastermind, a machine without remorse or conscience. Jamie Hector played the scariest villain I’ve ever seen on a TV show. He was scarier than all the Cylons put together. If that doesn’t get a vote, my oh my. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289/28 "2010-08-16T05:09:07Z")
> [@alexandra](#): > > The cartoonish and one-dimensional Brother Mouzone has more votes than D’Angelo? Come on, people. He made my list. 🙂 He was in just 7 episodes, but he made an impression – maybe because he was so different. Some of Omar’s shine rubs off on him too – their “showdown” scene is very memorable. “I see you favor a .45.” ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289/29 "2010-08-16T06:43:25Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > > [@alexandra](#): > > > > The cartoonish and one-dimensional Brother Mouzone has more votes than D’Angelo? Come on, people. > > Or more than Marlo Stanfield? > > Marlo is TERRIFYING. Omar is presented in the show as being a major badass, but Marlo Stanfield is vastly, vastly more badass. Oh, Omar’s got a code and he’s got style and he’s pretty cool when he comes whistling “The Farmer In The Dell,” but Marlo Stanfield might well be the scariest, most thoroughly evil villain in the history of television. He is cunning, intelligent, and completely, totally psychopathic. He ends up defeating Bell, Barksdale et al. because he is the ultimate evolution of the criminal mastermind, a machine without remorse or conscience. > > Jamie Hector played the scariest villain I’ve ever seen on a TV show. He was scarier than all the Cylons put together. If that doesn’t get a vote, my oh my. I’m too scared to vote for him. Or Snoop! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289/30 "2010-08-16T06:46:53Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > > [@alexandra](#): > > > > The cartoonish and one-dimensional Brother Mouzone has more votes than D’Angelo? Come on, people. > > He made my list. 🙂 He was in just 7 episodes, but he made an impression – maybe because he was so different. Some of Omar’s shine rubs off on him too – their “showdown” scene is very memorable. “I see you favor a .45.” Exactly. The “Gunfight at the OK Corral” came to mind as well as dozens of other westerns. Most recent one of that stature was Kevin Kline and Brian Dennehy in _Silverado_. Once these polls close it will be fun to find anybody with a better ratio of episodes to votes than Bro Mouzone. He got my vote. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2010, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289/31 "2010-08-16T07:51:27Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > There was something about Bodie’s personality that I enjoyed…he actually had some perspective on the events going on aound him. Agreed. Plus, he was hot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wire-your-favorite-characters-from-the-street/549289.md?page=1)