Where Did All the Good Guys Go?

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Why Are All The Best Men Fictional? or Men Who Should Be Real But Aren't

I shall remain single for the rest of my life! Why? Because real men suck, plain and simple fact of life. Are my standards too high? Yep, most likely. Am I going to lower them? Nope! So what is this lens about? It's my list of fictitious men who should be real, and why I prefer them to real men. =P

NOTE: Currently under construction! Tread lightly while I move things around, take things out, and add new things to this lens! Thank you.

What Women Want...

...real men who were more like the fictional ones.

My #1 Pick For Most Perfect Fictional Man: Colonel Christopher Brandon 

Most perfect man EVER! The man by whom, I hence forth shall judge all other men, both real and fictional.

My advice to all men everywhere: Go out and rent a copy of Sense and Sensibility (the one with Alan Rickman in it), and actually force yourselves to watch it. All of it. No pretending to be watching it while listen to the game on the radio. And no "But I had one eye open!" excuses will be accepted if you fall asleep either. Watch the whole thing, and pay really close attention to one character, and one character only: Col. Brandon.

Why? Because men are always asking what kind of man a woman wants, and Col. Brandon is EXACTLY the kind of man every woman dreams about. Watch and learn boys!

He stood by her through EVERYTHING! The woman was a freaking nut. A wild child, who never grew up, and ran off with every good looking guy she saw. Out dancing all night. Totally ruined her reputation, shamed her family, and where was Col Brandon the whole time? Waiting for her to come to her senses and realize that he was never going to leave her or forsake her no matter what. Not once did he run away and say "I can't deal with this crazy woman!"

After everything she did, who was there in the end when she was dieing? Not the guys she was out dancing with. Nope, they up and disappeared the instance she wasn't fun any more. It was her ever devoted Col. Brandon her stayed by her side to the end.

I want a man like Col Brandon! Where is he? Why are there no Col. Brandons in the real world?

 

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James T Kirk 

I can't believe I'm saying this, but Capt Kirk, actually made it on to this list! Seeing how I couldn't overlook enough faults to get most of my fave fictional men on the list, I wrote up a second list of names, of other fictional men, who I still like, just not as much, and when I got done crossing those names off for one reason or another, the only name I had left was James T Kirk!

Well, in spite of the fact that he has a different girl in every episode, otherwise, there is nothing wrong with kirk, and he's nearly as perfect as Col. Brandon.

What we have here is a leader who takes being a leader very seriously, and will do whatever necessary to protect his crew. Though he will fight if provoked, he preaches intergalactic/world peace, and tries to find every peaceful way possible to avoid a conflict. His policy is to harm no one, learn from those who have something to teach us, teach those who have something to learn from us, and make friends with everyone no matter if they black, white, blue, green, or black & white checked.

You don't meet to many men who preach a policy like that and than actually act upon it.

 

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Prince Nuada 

Right now you are probably scratching your head and going "Huh? How can HE be on this list? Wasn't he a bad guy? Isn't he the villain?". Yep, technically Nuada was a bad guy villain. Technically: meaning he was causing trouble for the humans so the humans were out to stop him, but coming from his point of view, was he really all that bad?

Okay, so I had to overlook a few faults to get Nuada on this list. He is the second of the only three names on my original list to make it to this lens.

I don't think of Nuada as a "real" villain. He's not bad enough to really be a villain at all. Think about it. Here he was living in peace and what happened? The humans come along and tear down his forests, uproot his trees, send his people off their land, and what does he do? He rises up to defend his home and his people. Sure, he went around killing off humans to do it, but if the humans had not first killed off his people, he would never have retaliated and started killing humans in the first place. Right?

Now I ask you, what would you do, if some invaders from another land suddenly landed in your back yard and started tearing up your land and garden and forced your family to move simply because they claimed to be "superior" to you? Would YOU sit back and take that kind of treatment without a fight? Of course not! So how can anyone in their right mind call Nuada a villain? He was acting in self defense and protecting what was rightfully his.

And there is your answer to how I can put Prince Nuada on my list of the world's best men. When the rest of his people ran away with their tails between their legs, he stood up and fought back. He defended his home and his family, even though he had to fight the entire human race on his own, because all of his people ran away. It takes one hell of a man to stand up and defend his people like that.

Where are the men in the world who will defend their families and homes no matter what? Are there any out there any more?

Oh yeah... and he's also here on this list because, oh hell, he looks like Lord Sesshomaru, and well, you KNOW how much I love him!

 

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Which Brings Me To: Sessho Maru Sama 

ooooh... Most perfect man ever ... and yet, probably the farthest thing from being perfect. How ironic! I really, really, really like this guy, sooo, I really, really, really, REALLY had do some major overlooking of faults to keep him on this list. yeah, right, you just knew I wasn't going to cross Sessho Maru off no matter what the guy does. Sesshomaru was the third of the three originals that where left after I crossed off every body else.

I can't honestly say Sessho Maru is completely perfect. This guy has issues. He needs A LOT of work! Starting with his overblown ego and his vanity issues. This guy as an ego the size of Pluto and is so proud of himself he'd shame a whole ten flocks of peacocks.

Of course once you get him stop thinking how much greater he is than everyone else, than there is his whole anti-human policy. Yeah, kind of hard to fall head over heels for a non-human when you happen to be a human yourself and he thinks the only good human is a dead human and make a joy ride out of lopping off as many human heads as he possibly can in one day, so, yeah, this guy has a few problems.

Actually, this guy has a lot of problems, I had to *overlook* quite a bit to get him on this list.

So how can an egotistical, blood thirsty megalomaniac get on my list? Well, let's over look his faults for a moment, pretend they are not there, and see what it is that makes him so great...

 

This guy likes kids. "What, to eat?" Nope, he told his mother he doesn't do that anymore ... hhhmmm ... okay, so now we know he used to eat human children, we well over look that bad point too. :) Anyways...

This guy likes kids. We know he likes kids because he adopted two of them. First he adopted an eight year girl who never stopped talking long enough to breath, and than later he adopted an eleven year old boy. Both children were humans, btw.

He likes animals. We know he likes animals, because he has a pet dragon. He is one of only three characters in the series who owns a pet. The other two, Kagome and Sango, (both girls) each have a pet cat, making Sessho Maru the only male character in the series to own a pet.

Loyalty. Sessho is real big on loyalty. While it may be difficult to near impossible to gain his friendship, once you have it, you'll NEVER lose it no matter what! This guy REALLY knows the meaning of loyalty. To date only Jaken, Rin, Kohaku, and AhUn (the frog, the girl, the boy, and the dragon) have ever grained his trust and friendship, but you even think of giving a dirty look to one of his four companions and he'll tear your eyes out. Okay, so maybe he takes loyalty and protecting his friends a little bit to the extreme, but still, you got to admire a guy who will defend you on all levels. You will never have anything to fear with a guy like that. You just know he's always going to be at your side no matter what, and you know he will do everything in his power to keep you safe.

Protection. Sessho would never hesitate to protect his loved ones, even if it meant getting himself killed to do so. And just how far would he go to protect his friends? Remember a little while back when I said he told his mom he didn't eat human children any more? Well, Sessho Maru's mom is the gate keeper of Hell, she being the Queen Hell Hound and all (basically she is the equivalent of Satan, which makes Sessho Maru the son of Satan ... interesting thought ... the son of Satan makes it on to the list of the world's best men! LOL!). Well, his mom got so angry with him for having a human child as a friend that she hurtled the little girl into the pit of Hell and sealed off the gate, an a whole "you just wait and see what happens when you defy your mother" moment. Nice mom he's got btw.

So how does Sessho respond to this? He literally tears a hole through the fabric of space and time and than bold as brass walks straight into the pit of Hell to bring his little girl back. Unfortunately for a human to go to Hell means they must be dead, but he's so damn certain he's bringing her back that the fact that she's dead isn't going to stop him.

And one more thing: While he is a short tempered, hot headed bully, who will beat you to a pulp and than beat you up against just for the fun of it, Sessho would never raise a hand against his loved ones. He wouldn't even consider it.

Sooo... how many real men are there out there who like chatterbox children, have pets, and are willing to fight off the demons of hell you protect the ones they love? In spite of his faults, you feel safe with a guy like Sessho. I REALLY, REALLY need a guy who can make me feel safe. That is VERY important to me.

 

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THE HUSBAND STORE 

Taking a break from writing this lens, to find something to laugh about.

A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:

You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!

So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

    Floor 1 - These men Have Jobs.

    She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:

    Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.

    "That's nice," she thinks, "but I want more."

    So she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:

    Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely Good Looking.

    "Wow," she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.

    She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:

    Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help With Housework.

    "Oh, mercy me!" she exclaims, "I can hardly stand it!"

    Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:

    Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.

    She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:

    Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

Why This List Is So Short or It's Just as Hard to Find Good Fictional Men as It Is To Find Real Ones! 

=P

I started out with a list of about 30 fictional men, who I was going to add to this list, but than I started writing about them and well, one by one they all got crossed off!

Of 30, only 3 made it. In other words, only 10% of the fictional men are actually any better than real men, once I started looking at why they were better!

*SIGH* Maybe I should start looking in another galaxy or something? I don't suppose that would help much though, would it?

Okay, so for the rest of this list, I look at WHY these men are not as good as they seem to be.

Mr Rochester: 

Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyer has long been one of my favorite fictional men, (I'm seeing a trend in my liking one armed men, why is that?), however he didn't make the list for this lens, because if he was real, I don't think he would be a very good person. Maybe the problem with Rochester is he's too much like real men? Let's look at the reasons he didn't make my list:

  • This guy has a temper, which he'll aim at anyone, including the woman he loves.

  • On the day of his wedding, it was revealed that he was already married and had his first wife locked up in the attic of his huge manor house.

  • He took care of his daughter because he had to, not because he wanted too and would have sent her away except he feared it would cause a scandal in doing so.

  • It took being nearly burnt alive, going blind, losing his arm, and being left penniless with nothing to bring him to his senses.

Capt Jack Sparrow 

Another of my fave fictional men, who did not have what it takes to make my list. I'm cheating now, because Jack Sparrow was not on my original list of the best fictional men. He only got added once I started adding this second, men who got crossed off list!

I'll let Jack speak for himself on this subject, as he seems to do well enough on his own, at explaining why he's not perfect.

  • But why is the rum gone?

  • I deserved that...
    ...and that...
    I don't think I deserved that.

  • I like to wave at those moments as they pass me by.

So, of the men you have known, what would you say was the one thing you hated the most? 

That is an easy answer. I know exactly the one thing I hate most about men. I hate secrets. Not the surprise secrets, like "I've got a birthday secret", but real secrets; big secrets; bad secrets. You want an example of what I mean? I had a boyfriend whom I was with for 15 years. He was notorious for secrets and lies. We never went on a date. I asked once about that, and his reason, so he said was because we could spend more time together if we stayed at my house. I believed him for several years, and did not ask about this again. One day however, we went to the store together, to the Maine Mall. Seventy-three stores under one roof, 10,000 shoppers a day, biggest mall in New England. So me and bf were walking down the hall, when suddenly he grabbed my arm and shoved me aside, telling me to walk the other way and pretend not to know him. I refused and demanded to know why. He said he could not be seen in public with me, because it would ruin his reputation, adding that some people he knew from work were coming this way. Because I refused to leave his side, he grabbed my arm again, and forcibly dragged me out of the Mall, only a few minutes after we had arrived. He took me home, and than gave me the silent treatment for over a week.

When I did hear from him again, he acted like nothing had happened. When I asked him why he acted the way he had, he said "Because I'm the man, I'm in charge." That was the end of it. Over the course of the 15 years we were together, this happened about twice per month. One time, a woman with a baby came up to him and started to talk to him, but he grabbed my arm and rushed me to the next aisle, ignoring the woman. A few minutes later she walked by, dropped a piece of paper on the ground, which I went to pick up, but he made a mad dash for it and than took it unfolded it with one hand over it, and than, disappeared down the aisle next to us. I followed him, to see him, rush up to the women with the baby, say something, and than rushed her towards the other side of the store. He returned to me. When I asked what was going on, he pretended not to hear me and changed to subject by saying "I think we need to buy some milk."

The one time a man he knew did catch us together, was when a man came up behind us who took bf by surprise. The man asked who I was, and bf (who by this time I was now engaged too) introduced me by saying: "Oh, she's nobody, her dad is a friend of mine from church, I'm just giving her a ride." I'm nobody. We had been together for 15 years. We were getting married in less than a month, and he introduced me to his friends as: nobody, the daughter of a friend. You could not even begin to imagine how much his words hurt me. I wanted to die right than and there. I have never felt so betrayed, so unloved, I couldn't believe he had said those words. A few weeks later, I found out, I was one of four women in this man's life, a man who confessed to be a proud supporter of polygamy. I haven't been able to trust men since than.

These sorts of events were frequent, and today, looking back, I have no idea why I ignored them or put up with them. As a result of the 15 years I had put up with this, I grew to develop a deep hatred for lies, secrets, and cheaters.

So What Is It Exactly That Women Want? 

I'm not sure that most women even know what they want. Do I know what I want? Yep. And guess what? I made a list!

 

  • A man who is not a freaking coward and runs off at the drop of a pin. *AARRGH* There's just so many times a guy can run away from his own shadow, before you want to kick him. I know this from experience.

  • A man who will defend me. Kind of goes with the last one. I really, really, really HATE it, when a bully shows up, and your boyfriend high tails it out of there leaving the girl to deal with the scum. I know this from experience too, not once has a man ever stood up for me.

  • Don't be ashamed to be seen in public with me: Either you want to be with me or you do not want to be with me. If you can't let your friends know you associate with me, that tells me than that I am not one of your friends, nor do you truly consider me to be one of your friends, otherwise you would not be hiding me from your friends, but rather including me with them. If you can't include me as one of your friends, than you have no business be with me at all.

    You can't even begin to image how much it hurts to be told you ae not good enough to be seen in public with the man who claims he loves you.

  • It's one thing to want loyalty and dislike a cheat, it's a whole other thing to have been cheated on. Been there, done that, went from mildly disliking cheats, to believing the theory "Castrate them all!". If you can't be a one woman man, than don't come near me, because after having been cheated on, I now hate cheaters.

  • I have 14 cats, 1 dog, and 40+ roosters. In the past my list has included: horses, goats, more than 2,000 hens, more than 500 roosters, 5 squirrels, a few dozen 20 - 50 lb wild Snapping Turtles, fish, eels, 3 parrots, rabbits, a cowatti, 200+ ducks, 24 cats not including the ones I have now, and 8 dogs not including one I have now (note that I had all 8 of them at the same time) and a pigeon that lived on my hat and slept on my head for 9 years. I'm an animal rights activist. I rescue ferals, strays, homeless, and otherwise unwanted animals. All of the above were/are pets, and all but the biggest ones, lived in the house with me...roosters asleep on the bookshelves... yes... I do, will, and have put the animals first. I kind of need to have a man who likes lots and lots and lots of pets.

  • He really needs to like kids. Why? Well, people outside my family (namely my ex) have described my family as being "like a weird mafia family". Why? Well, because there are more than 300 of us, and we all know everything each other is doing, and they all land unannounced at our house, quite often, because we are the ones with a farm and enough room for 20 or 30 kids to run wild all at once. There are 4 generations of us: Twelve original brothers and sisters, each of whole has no less than 4 kids, 8 being the average, with the current record at 15. Their kids, all have kids, with the same kinds of numbers, and so do their kids. I am from the second generation, and I am one of 64 kids born to the 12 original kids, most of those 64 kids now having 6 to 8 kids of their own. We have BIIIIIG family reunions, completely unplanned and unannounced, usually involving people landing in our back yard and setting up tents while we are not home, big surprise, happens every year or so, and than our yard, our land, our garden, our barns, and our house filled with lots and lots and lots of kids. You gonna start spending serious time with me, than you better start planning on being around a lot of kids. Fortunately as their kids get older, their families land unannounced in our backyard less and less often, so who knows, maybe 10 years from now I won't have to deal with them and their kids dropping in out of the blue. I can always dream, can't I?

  • Basically, I want a man who will protect me, someone I can say I feel safe with, and someone I can trust to not be chasing every other woman in town, who at the same time has no problem with unusually high concentrations of animals and children.

  • Oh yeah... and though I've since left the church, I was raised Mormon, which means: all men who drink and smoke are out too.

  • And one last thing... my room is wall papered with posters/clocks/wall hanging/etc of Johnny Depp, C*C*DeVille, and Lord Sesshomaru, and I'm not taking those down... most of them went up when I was 12 years old and I haven't taken them down yet in spite of my ex's protests. Nor will I stop dressing like Willy Wonka, Naraku, Sessho Maru, Darkwing Duck, Doctor Who, the Sense & Sensibility girls or and of the other "costumes" that make up my normal street cloths. So, I kid of need a man, who either is also a life acting CosPlayer or at least doesn't mind that I'm one.

  • So, what do you think? I'm single for life, ain't I?

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    EelKat EelKat Mar 15, 2009 @ 9:53 pm | in reply to silvermander
    Living in the real world? hmmm... yeah, about that.

    My contact with Humans has been extremely limited. My contact with men, limited only to men within a single church (cult?) congregation. Experience has taught me that men are lying cheating thieves (see my homelessness lenses for more info on what happened.) I was stuck with a man from the time I was 12 until I was 27. I had zero contact with any other men my whole life. I was never allowed to leave the house or to speak to others, and I never saw ant other men at all. You got to understand the type of men I grew up with to understand my meaning here.

    I've only been out and about in "the real world" for less than 3 years, and I'm actually finding it very difficult to live in, because never having contact with Humans before and now trying to live among them, is very difficult for me. It's like they are a whole different race.
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    EelKat EelKat Mar 15, 2009 @ 9:49 pm | in reply to Artbear
    NO! NO! NO! NO! You completely miss interpreted what I said. I admire his devotion to her, not that he let her run around. I was saying that most men would leave a woman for far less offenses than she put him through. Adultery is a grave sin and was punishable by execution right here in the USA until the mid-1950s, a law that should never have been changed. Personally I can not understand why it isn't still punishable by death. But yes, I agree with you, she was a ridiculous slut, and I actually hate her character, and don't think that he should ever have wanted to be with her to begin with. My point is, this guy had so much love and devotion, that in spite of her sinfulness, he still loved her. That just amazes me, because in the real world a guy would say "You gonna cheat on me? Just you watch me cheat right back!" The natural response is to spite a person not love them more. Faithfulness and devotion are so rare in the real world.
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    Artbear Artbear Feb 26, 2009 @ 10:30 pm
    The sad truth is I and friends of mine have both been the type to wait for a girl. But in the end, whats mean to be is meant to be. And the fact that you cherish this man (character) because he let the woman he love go out and do what she wanted is rediculous. No man, and no woman, should wait around for the one they love to come to their senses. Why should a woman expect a man to wait for her like that. No woman is worth waiting your whole life for while watching her live her own life and mess around with other men.
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    silvermander silvermander Dec 21, 2008 @ 2:03 pm
    You just can't be please by anyone or anything real, can you? Fiction is great, but we need to live in the real world and try to be too horribly bitter.
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    shannon_hilson shannon_hilson Oct 18, 2008 @ 2:31 am
    I totally feel you! Especially with your choice of Colonel Brandon. I'd probably have him on my list as well, along with Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice. Great lens!

    : )
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    monarch13 monarch13 Oct 15, 2008 @ 7:12 pm
    Soo right! 5* and lensrolled to Women to Women Gifts.
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    blurby blurby Aug 25, 2008 @ 5:39 pm
    how did you leave Gabe from "Blood and Chocolate" off this list? even as a straight boy, I can say "DAMN..." when I read the scenes with him in them
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    spirituality spirituality Aug 23, 2008 @ 2:50 am
    This is funny. Well, at least you know what you want! I too think I'm single for life, but I am not quite ready to write about it :)
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    Sancho8297 Sancho8297 Aug 20, 2008 @ 10:55 am
    Ok, I just cancelled my subscription to Esquire, and ordered 3 different Japaname's plus the 5 hour extended version of S&S off of amazon!
    One step closer to manhood. Check!

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