Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
And, just so we're clear, I don't mean James Marsters, although I'm sure he's a lovely bloke. I mean the character, Spike, complete with the makeup, the wardrobe, the low-grade evil, the high-grade ineptitude, and the candlelit crypt.

Yes, I know, vampires aren't real. Yes, I know, Buffy is often lacking in plot, character depth, acting skills and suchlike. Yes, I know that there was no excuse for the musical episode.

Nevertheless.
( Batsgirl, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 12:32, 11 replies)

My missus would concur with you on that one.
James Marsters - Meh.

Spike - WIN!

I got her a Spike puppet a couple of Christmasses ago. Best Christmas present ever according to her.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 6 Nov 2009, 13:15, closed)

Oh yes! I LOVE him!
I especially love it when he says "Bloody hell" or the episode where the Red Indians come to thanks giving dinner "A bear! You made a bear! Undo it!! UNDO IT!"

I even went as far as to see James perform solo at a gig in London back in April but it just wants the same, he was all 'merkin and bronzed and I wanted, with every fibre of my body, for him to burst in to "I died, so many years agooooo..."

Fight you for a go on him

GoTW x
(GirlOfTheWorld, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 13:23, closed)

oh yes
the song wasn't that good but things like the little look at 0.19 on this video have been watched many, many times.
( Batsgirl, Sun 8 Nov 2009, 13:18, closed)

spike
totallt get what you mean...drool
(phe, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 13:40, closed)

Angel was way hotter
Although he couldn't do an Irish accent any better than Spike could do an English one. Why do Americans think we all talk like either Sid Vicious or the Queen (here represented by Giles and Wesley)?

Also, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was and is stunningly good TV, even if the lead actress was a bit crap. Although you get points for having the nerve to diss The Whedon on a geek forum
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 13:43, closed)

I concede the accents point,
but I didn't find Angel (or the actor who played him) physically attractive - too "pretty", too good-boy. Even when he was being evil, you could still have introduced him to your mother.
( Batsgirl, Sun 8 Nov 2009, 13:25, closed)

He had a sexy smoking a fag and playing pool pose too. I also liked it very much when he sang My Way. So much finer than Angel too.
(dancebiscuits, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 13:45, closed)

I suspect
that part of it is that he was one of the few characters on aimed-at-teens TV who was allowed to smoke and yet still be sexy, without it being a "smoking kills you in 3.7 seconds, mmkay?" kind of episode. As I recall there were only ever a couple of mild rebukes, like when Xander says "those things'll kill you" and just gets a dead eyebrow raised at him by way of reply.
( Batsgirl, Sun 8 Nov 2009, 13:28, closed)

so, so much better than that pussy angel
i'd ride his undead bones all over sunnydale!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 15:00, closed)

James Marsters' songwriting
is pretty effulgient.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Sat 7 Nov 2009, 1:11, closed)

With you on this one
especially since it could have been a lot worse - you could have said Edward Cullen from Twilight... vampire FAIL.
( Maladicta, Sat 7 Nov 2009, 22:21, closed)