Positive male leads

I give you Saul Goodman

In my experience children learn what they live, the only positive role models they need are the adults they live with…not some fictional character off the tele.

Or seriously some of the male characters in The Wire

More radio:

On the subject of Mal Reynolds, “Castle” had already crossed my mind.

Who’s the guy with Farage in the third picture, I don’t recognise it?

lazybike – Member
In my experience children learn what they live, the only positive role models they need are the adults they live with…not some fictional character off the tele.

^^^ This. 🙂

Homer Simpson surely?

cinnamon_girl – Member

@hols2 – is that Sipowicz? Excellent choice!

hols2 – Member

Buntz from Hill Street Blues, but basically the same character.

It’s an awful choice: his character was not likeable and often behaved badly or bent/broke the rules. It’s interesting that of all the characters in Hill Street Blues, you have picked one of the least appropriate as a positive male role model. I suppose you have forgotten those who were good role models, like the character played by Daniel J Travanti, Captain Frank Furillo, because they were not as attractive as the flawed ones, or maybe you simply would not be able to recognise a genuinely positive role model, like the many who have suggested their favourite bad boy action hero (although I think they at least have the excuse of having their tongue in their cheek).

Who’s the guy with Farage in the third picture, I don’t recognise it?

The third one down of the ones I posted? That’s Shean Evans as Endeavour Morse, alongside Roger Allam, DI Fred Thursday.

If we’re going Walking Dead (TV) I’d pick Darryl over Prick.

Umm, Ray Gillette?

Ooh, Dredd. Minus the whole authoritarian thing of course. Damn.

Steve Backshall. He spends so much of his life in hot, humid rainforests that you’d assume he stinks. Far from it. Alan Partridge finds his aroma to be really quite enjoyable, like uncooked pastry. Smiles alot mind 🙂

Ok not fictional but David Attenborough

Fiction, Obi-wan Kenobi (yes the lightsabre to the nutter in the cantina bar but that’s the only bit)

Dumbeldore, Sirius black and so on

Whoever said Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights – hell yeah!

Every episode – a lesson in how to be a better man from Coach.

If Coah Taylor quotes were motivational posters. 😆

Guy Martin

Snape. Does the right thing knowing that everyone will hate him. Carries on and on sucking up the hate from Harry Potter et al but carries on protecting them. Dumbeldore dying heroically is good but Snape use my role model.

Pingu.

samunkim – Member

Guy Martin

The fictional character Guy Martin?

Gibbs from NCIS…

But also, why would a shape-shifting alien with two hearts who is basically a wizard (magic flying castle/carries a wand) and who despite being able to travel in time only ever does anything in the nick of time be considered a role model?

wordnumb – Member

But also, why would a shape-shifting alien with two hearts who is basically a wizard (magic flying castle/carries a wand) and who despite being able to travel in time only ever does anything in the nick of time be considered a role model?

Because if he, she, they were perfect and handled every situation with ease in a timely fashion it would be boring. See my earlier post.

Heroes need flaws to make them relate-able.

Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights

Gibbs from NCIS – definitely not. Emotionally crippled and breaks rules all over the place when it suits him. Divorced twice too.

Serious answer: Booth from Bones. Watch carefully. He’s a square jawed tough guy hero, but he is very clearly written as a vehicle to address this while subject.

He follows and endorses the rules, he doesn’t punch the bad guys out unless he has to, he lets people get away rather than shoot them, he respects women, and lots more.

It’s very well written. Well, the good ones are at any rate 🙂 this gets discussed a lot in our house. The character deals with a lot of male problems. And the show in general eschews th concept of righteous violence which I think is so baked into Hollywood that we don’t even notice it being promoted all the time.

That family favourite, Back to the Future – think about the moral of that first movie…

That family favourite, Back to the Future – think about the moral of that first movie

Don’t have sex with your mother.

Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights

But not coach Stephens from Last Chance U.

Ricky, Julian and Bubbles.

But not coach Stephens from Last Chance U.

Yet ironically he’s the sort of person his athletes need as they all seem to lack some basic life skills.