Sometimes, perception becomes the enemy. A film you’ve looked forward to gets panned by critics, your favorite funny person is mocked as puerile, you get picked to be the Dragon Warrior, but some snotty little red panda who talks like Rain Man sabotages you at every turn. Life, it’s said, is a crapshoot, with the emphasis on the first syllable. This, by the way, is why I think people gravitate to the idea of Batman as a powerless individual in a sea of superhuman monsters, but then again, he also wins more than Squirrel Girl. As I’ve aged, I find myself appreciating the unsung heroes: Tiny, who flies the ship; Tenzil, whose political connections keep his team afloat; even the much-maligned Sixth Doctor, the only one who was brilliant enough to fix the Chameleon Circuit in his TARDIS and who battled against his own nature as much as The Daleks. Some call me contrarian, but these are the stories that I want more of, leading to today’s unappreciated query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) gets really angry at the Furious Five when they mock Po, but that only makes his triumph sweeter, asking: Which unsung hero of fiction is your favorite under-appreciated character?
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Luigi. Most of the time he does exactly same things as Mario, but because being P2 for so long, nobody even remembers him most of the time.