In today’s pop culture climate, there is one huge fallacious argument that keeps popping up, over and over again: I call it “The One True Whatever.” Rather than enjoy what they like, live and let live, people insist on taking sides and picking fights over points of pop culture. Do you prefer Barry Allen or Wally West? Cyborg or Martian Manhunter? Sean Connery or Daniel Craig? Whichever side you choose, it seems that the important part is that you argue that the other side is stupid, wrong, and a knee-biter whose mother never, ever loved them. For my part, I often have conflict because I like multiple takes on characters. “Space Ghost: Coast To Coast” and “Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law” are a lot of fun, but I still appreciate the straightforward ’60s square-jawed heroes in their retro glory. Thus, when the sides get taken, I can’t be part of either group of cool kids, which leads us to today’s heavily-factionalized query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) still can’t think about ‘The Brak Show’ rap episode without giggling like a lunatic, asking: What characters with multiple iterations do you like in *more than one* of those iterations?
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One of my favorite iterations of Batman was Dick Grayson. It was a different take on the dark, brooding Batman.
The obvious one is Doctor Who, where I’ve liked all of the iterations that I’ve seen; typically even if I don’t like a particular story, I’ll still like the portrayal of the Doctor within that story.
Possibly more controversial are Battlestar Galactica characters Boomer, Colonel Tigh, Baltar, Starbuck, Apollo, and Commander Adama. They were the right version of the characters for the story that was being told, in the era it was being told.
Godzilla. I like most types they have done.