User:Stellafera/Rankings

My Character Rankings (Overall)
1 ) Duncan . Duncan doesn't care about the long term. He does whatever he feels like, prefers to forget about it later, and have a laugh while he's at it. Duncan also doesn't care about trying to impress people, trying to be helpful, or giving a crap in general. And that is what makes him so great . He's consistently entertaining and ranks up there with Noah in one-liners, because he basically insults everybody all the time and still could not care less. When he does good things, it's because he feels like it at the time; he'd be less inclined towards random acts of kindness if he thought in the long term ever, though he'd also be a bit less of a bully... While World Tour made him surprsingly unlikeable, Seasons 1 and 2 were full of great Duncan-ness. I rooted for him completely in The Aftermath: IV.

2 ) Cody . Now Cody is the more traditional sort of favorite character for me. Flawed but ultimately a good kid, and trying so hard to project an image of coolness that he doesn't have. While I enjoyed his antics earlier on in that season, Up The Creek is where Cody went from "adorkable pervert" to "actually one of the nicest characters in the show and also still a pervert", which surprised me. The following episode, Paintball Deer Hunter, is where he went from "pretty unlucky" to "approaching Zuko levels of the universe hating him", and that trait continued through World Tour, a great season for Cody. Utter genius placing him on a team of all girls. It's all he ever wanted... and all he never wanted at the same time. I vehemently disagree with the belief that he was entirely carried by Sierra; he kept his team together, did half the grunt work in challenges, and only got a single vote placed on him all season. Easily my second favorite.

3 ) Mike.  A bit of background first. Due to a few personal issues of my own, I tend to express a lot of empathy towards characters with mental illness. I bring this up because I believe it factors quite a bit into why I like Mike; I see where he is coming from. Certainly I lack the abusive background implied by MPD, but the idea of your mind not being a stable thing or the fear of people thinking that you are an unstable person? I understand that to some degree. Therefore, I found his fear of telling Zoey about his disorder to be very sympathetic and his excitement when Cameron offered to help him adorable. I VERY MUCH hope that he hasn't been "cured" of his MPD. That'd just trivialize it.

Sometimes I see the claim that Mike has no character outside of his personalities. This is another place where I disagree; he's a bit of a hopeless romantic type, with low self confidence (the disorder just explains why), and desperate for friends... rather similar to Zoey, actually. But done better, in my opinion.