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If there's one thing I like to do, it's find lookalikes of my favourite anime characters. I've done this most successfully with Allen (see ASP) but it occurred to me that it was about time I extended the favour to his good sergeant. So here are some chaps from anime, the real world, and elsewhere, who remind me a bit of Gaddes.
Aaah,
David Duchovny. I managed to find a picture of him
at his most Gaddesesque, with five o'clock shadow
and an open-necked shirt. Mr Duchovny is an actor
chiefly famous for playing Fox Mulder in The
X-Files. I think it's interesting, not to say
plagiaristic, that Allen Schezar has Mulder's
backstory (the missing little sister) and Gaddes
has his looks. (Meanwhile, Merle has Scully's
hair.) Mr
Duchovny is married to Téa Leoni and they
have a daughter named Madelaine. He has been in
some very lame movies (although I kind of liked
Return to Me) and I have seen a photo of him
sitting on a kitchen counter wearing nothing but a
big smile and a large coffee cup in his
lap. Good-looking,
then, but not much dignity. Now
that his showbiz career is dying down a bit, I
think he should return to university and finish the
PhD he left incomplete to follow his muse. Then he
would be Doctor David Duchovny and that would just
sound Too Cool. I
always think (or at least always have since I saw
him) that Murdoc from the, ah, virtual band
Gorillaz looks like Gaddes' evil twin, the scruffy
type of evil twin who never brushes his teeth,
stands around in peculiar positions and wears
excessively tight jeans. He is from Stoke-on-Trent
and his most prized possession is a Winnebago. The
snaggle-toothed Svengali behind the winning
Gorillaz formula, Murdoc is a Gemini, a devout
Satanist and an exceptionally bad
driver. I
am sometimes disturbed by mild feelings of
attraction towards him, but am able to reassure
myself with the thought that this is only because
of his resemblance to Gaddes. Get
the cool shoeshine at the Official
Gorillaz
Fansite
(where I pinched the picture). Lieutenant
Makoto Yamamoto is the first officer of the
starship Soyokaze in the SF comedy
anime Irresponsible Captain Tylor. He
is loyal, honourable, courageous and desperately
uptight. While
Gaddes has an admirable commander who presumably
made him the fine soldier he is today, Yamamoto is
stuck with a sleepy-eyed slacker captain who drives
him mad on a regular basis (sample Tylor quote:
'Let's surrender!'). Although it may take you a
while to see it, he's quite soft-hearted and
worries a lot when his friends are unhappy. One of
the most delightful things about Tylor is
getting to see the evolution of Yamamoto's
character, from Anime Guy Most Often Likened to
Rimmer From Red Dwarf to... well, watch the
series yourself and enjoy it. Yamamoto's
chief hobby is trying to find ways to relieve his
stress. He has sought medical treatment but also
finds sitting in the captain's chair on the bridge
smoking cigars and shouting orders at imaginary
people late at night very therapeutic. He's a
cutie. Spuckler
is a supporting character in Mark Crilley's
beautiful children's comic Akiko. (I took
the graphic novel collections to summer camp with
me and they got passed round a cabin of nine/ten
year old girls so much the cover fell off one. I
was a counselor, I should say - the books aren't
that old.) Spucky
is a reformed space pirate with a wooden leg and a
defective sense of smell. He's one of the devoted
little gang that accompanies Akiko on her
adventures on the planet Smoo, and tends to be the
most practically helpful and emotionally supportive
one among them, which is very
Gaddes-like. Calls
Akiko 'kiko and offers excellent life advice like
'Never ask what something is before you eat it.'
Babyish about having Band-Aids removed. I
like him *^.^* Manu
(a.k.a. Jon) Bennett is an actor from New Zealand
who spent a chunk of his life in Australia. If you
think you've seen him before that's probably
because you watched Xena: Warrior Princess
and, like me, admired him very much as Marc Anthony
in an episode which really should have had a note
in the credits, like the first season of Black
Adder, saying 'Additional Dialogue by William
Shakespeare.' Or of course it might be because you
watch Shortland Street and have seen him
recently playing very nice but quite mad lawyer
Jack Hewitt, or worse still, back in the day you
watched the execrable and blessedly short-lived
Australian soap Paradise Beachand saw him
playing a berk called Kirk. 'Manu'
is a Maori name meaning bird, and he has Maori
blood. (The Maori were one of the two groups of
Polynesian people who lived in New Zealand before
European colonisation - they overthrew the earlier
Moriori.) He
looks like Gaddes, he has an exquisitely sculpted
upper body (even my grandmother thinks so) and he
looks good togged up like a Roman general.
Yay! This
is not a very good picture of him, but it's pretty
difficult to find Manu Bennet pictures on the
Internet. If it weren't for this
one dedicated
person
I wouldn't've found any at all. Visit her page to
see Manu with a really terrible Afro-mullet hybrid
haircut! Query
- I have heard a rumour that Nicholas Wolfwood from
Trigun is a Gaddes-alike. Unfortunately, the
only pictures of Wolfwood that I've seen have been
doujinshi ones, and while I thought he was
hotter'n spit on a griddle, I'm not prepared to
judge from that. Wolfwood fans of the world, what
do you think? Email
me.
(Attaching a picture or so to show what you mean
would help.)
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