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transience ranks every notable character from "24". (mega spoilers) (mega-list)
Keeler
survived because of a mandate from Fox saying that they couldn't kill
an on-screen president. same goes for Wayne, I assume. --- xyzzy |
who the hell is roger stanton --- If you're seeing this sig, Dr_Football won the Guru Contest! |
watch season 2 --- xyzzy |
Keeler survived because of a mandate from Fox saying that they couldn't kill an on-screen president Thats Weak :/ --- My God, did that predict good! Dr_Football-l-l it no goin' and you tell me do things, I done runnin'... |
72. Mitch Anderson Season(s): 4 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Mitch_Anderson A brutal ex-military man hired by Marwan to blow up Air Force One. Anderson is notable because he was actually successful - prior to Samir, this is probably the only completely successful terrorist act in 24 history. Anderson stands out because of his appearance (a white boy with bright red hair and his conversation with Jack Bauer in the stealth aircraft. Jack's "WAS AIR FORCE ONE JUST HIT?" makes the episode and makes Anderson unforgettable. We'll never know if he truly got shot down or if this was the protection that Marwan promised Anderson. 71. Bob Warner Season(s): 2 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Bob_Warner A likable businessman who cares a lot about his daughters. Warner also did some independent work for the CIA, a fact that he hid from CTU which shifted suspicion of terrorist activity from Reza to him. Warner starts the day with his right hand man marrying his youngest daughter and ends it with one daughter behind bars and his future son-in-law dead. It's really easy to sympathize with Bob Warner. 70. Andre Drazen Season(s): 1 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Andre_Drazen Of the three Drazens, I think Andre takes the mission against the Bauers and Palmer the most seriously. He speaks to Ira Gaines with utter disdain when he fails in his mission to frame Bauer for Palmer's murder. "You need to have a plan B, not another plan A". Beyond that, Andre Drazen is a fairly vanilla character: he doesn't do much or say much, and he kinda ducks out of the decision making process once his dad is rescued. The Drazens are an interesting plot arc but their actual characters don't do much for anyone. --- xyzzy |
bob warner more like christian shepard --- If you're seeing this sig, Dr_Football won the Guru Contest! |
...I never noticed that damn you goatee --- xyzzy |
also james prescott more like charles widmore (this one I didn't know about until 2 minutes ago) --- If you're seeing this sig, Dr_Football won the Guru Contest! |
whoa, Prescott is Widmore too, weird --- xyzzy |
Andre Drazen more like Edmund Burke --- http://www.backloggery.com/myimmortal |
Andre Drazen? More like.. No wait not that show --- FC 1849 0634 8041 Boring sig is boring |
69. Prime Minister Ule Matobo Season(s): 7 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Ule_Matobo Sangala's popular Prime Minister and, supposedly, the only man capable of uniting Sangala. Jack and Tony kidnap Matobo to get close to Dubaku, retrieving the CIP DEVICE in the process. Despite Jack and Tony nearly killing him and his wife, Matobo decides to trust them, vouching for them to President Taylor. In the limited time that we see Matobo, he makes sound decisions and is a likable guy. I really liked how he wanted only what was best for Sangala. He didn't care that Jack and Tony had done some pretty whack things to him (and especially to his wife). That said, he doesn't have a ton of screen time, so it's tough to like him *that* much. 68. Victor Drazen Season(s): 1 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Victor_Drazen This is one hardcore dude. When Jack tries to escape from the Drazen's custody, he takes Victor's friend's daughter hostage. Victor shoots her to ensure that Jack can't get away, and when his friend objects he shoots him too. That's pretty damn cold. As a character, Victor is hard as hell to believe thanks to Dennis Hopper's ridiculous accent. He strikes fear and he's a good antagonist, but it's tough to really like or dislike him. I almost feel bad for him since his family has been dying left and right thanks to Bauer. Jack eventually wipes out his entire family by the end of day 1. Harsh. he deserved it though, dude was a dick 67. Navi Araz Season(s): 4 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Navi_Araz The biggest jerk in the Araz family is the best character. Navi has a great amount of conviction towards his cause and is very demanding of Behrooz. When Behrooz turns on him, Navi takes it as a personal insult and vows to kill him to protect the mission. Navi's a solid villain, though a small-time one. He could have been a lot better if he wasn't spending the day hunting his family. As it is, he's threatening and dangerous, but only to Behrooz. I could see Navi wiping out thousands of people and being successful at it, but he's stuck chasing after his family who had the good fortune of running into Jack Bauer. --- xyzzy |
Prescott has a fairly substantial role in the game, but I'm like one of two people that bought that. I'm the other --- http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1985/e541ae2d50410e4888b601c.jpg http://card.mmos.com/psn/profile/ca/p/CaptainRockman/card.png |
and actually since 24 has ended I've had an urge to replay it if only for the stages you get to play as Tony --- http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1985/e541ae2d50410e4888b601c.jpg http://card.mmos.com/psn/profile/ca/p/CaptainRockman/card.png |
are tonys missions just you saying 'yeah' constantly --- sess |
I own (and beat) the 24 game!! --- http://www.backloggery.com/myimmortal |
the
only thing preventing me from replaying it is the stages where you're
playing as Kim in CTU when it's under attack and all you really have
with her is a taser --- http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1985/e541ae2d50410e4888b601c.jpg http://card.mmos.com/psn/profile/ca/p/CaptainRockman/card.png |
This just reminds me that CTU gets hit with an EMP in the game too. YOU'D THINK THEY WOULD PUT IN SOME COUNTERMEASURES FOR THE NY BRANCH THEN --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
the game was the first thing I thought of when it happened in Day 8! --- http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1985/e541ae2d50410e4888b601c.jpg http://card.mmos.com/psn/profile/ca/p/CaptainRockman/card.png |
Like CTU is smart enough to not get attacked. --- My God, did that predict good! Dr_Football-l-l it no goin' and you tell me do things, I done runnin'... |
Ghetto
S1 CTU didn't get attacked! ...somehow. And I think S4 CTU got away
clean too. And in S7 it didn't exist so it doesn't count. S2 - Bombed Game - EMPed and taken over by terrorists S3 - Virus from Nina S5 - Gassed S6 - Taken over by terrorists again S8- EMPed again --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
66. Carl Webb Season(s): 1 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Carl_Webb A member of David Palmer's staff and the man he goes to to fix things. Carl is more than a little bit shady and will do what needs to be done in order to fix a problem. He's the one who covered up Keith's involvement in Lyle GIbson's death and when Maureen Kingsley sought to bring out the truth, killed Kingsley's source in a fire. He looks like a weasel and acts like one too. Carl's existence always threw me for a loop. Here we have David Palmer, the model of integrity, dealing with a guy that seems oh so shady. Either David Palmer knew what Carl was doing or he went out of his way not to know. I refuse to believe that Palmer was that naive. I guess it makes for a nice neat story to have Palmer vs. the world, but yeah. I always wondered what happened to Carl - Palmer comes out with the story and we never see him again. I kinda feel bad for him, he got screwed for trying to protect David, but then that's what happens when you do underhanded stuff. 65. Noah Daniels Season(s): 6, Redemption Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Noah_Daniels I can never tell how I feel about Noah. He doesn't seem like an evil president but then he certainly isn't 100% clean either. He's in this weird grey area where you're not supposed to like him but you understand where he's coming from. Noah Daniels is power-hungry and wants his policies enacted but it's not all power lust -- he believes strongly in his ideals and if this is what it takes to get them accomplished, so be it. In that sense I almost like the guy. Unfortunately he's dragged down by two things: one, he's doing all of this at the expense of Wayne Palmer, one of my favourite guys, and two, he's banging Lisa Miller. Everything is worse when she's around and I hold it against Noah. I also don't think he's particularly effective at foreign policy. Suvarov runs circles around Daniels. Lennox runs circles around Daniels too. As a president I'd say he's the second least effective one in the series behind the legendary Charles Logan. 64. Keith Palmer Season(s): 1, 2 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Keith_Palmer I like Keith more than I should. He always resonated with me as a 'real' character - he's a regular kid with a bad secret that's about to be exposed by his dad for political reasons. His dad was never there for him due to his career. His disdain for the situation makes perfect sense and I feel for him when everything is happening. When his shrink - the guy who was there when his dad wasn't - gets killed as a coverup, Keith jumps to his dad's side because he wants justice. I can get where he's coming from. When he runs away from this dad on his morning jog and says "you weren't there!", I think it has a lot of merit. Keith also has a hell of a lot of balls to confront Carl and then record the whole thing. Seeing him and his dad fishing together at the beginning of season 2 is a nice way to show where their relationship has gone since the events of day 1. --- xyzzy |
daniels should be higher just because he's played by a guy named POWERS --- http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1985/e541ae2d50410e4888b601c.jpg http://card.mmos.com/psn/profile/ca/p/CaptainRockman/card.png |
Noah = Worst pres in the show. He was just "-_-" even after his face turn. --- My God, did that predict good! Dr_Football-l-l it no goin' and you tell me do things, I done runnin'... |
all three of these guys are too high imo. they certainly should go above navi ****in' araz, who was a champ. --- Gandhi loved you, and look what happened to Gandhi. |
dr. ferragamo for #1 --- If you're seeing this sig, Dr_Football won the Guru Contest! |
I
was really hoping Mitch Anderson was going to become a Mandy type
character and return somewhere down the line. His "death" as the
write-up says was hardly definitive, considering what Marwan told him. --- "O, Lord, give me health and strength. We'll steal the rest." |
the movie will be jack, chloe, and pierce teaming up to take down tony, mandy, and anderson after the first hour, the six will realize that they have a common enemy and target suvarov chloe will kill the wheelchair-bound logan by talking at him until he has a heart attack jack will kill suvarov by putting a towel down his throat mandy will dance on david palmer's grave which is for some reason in europe due to those goddamn russians stealing his body --- Gandhi loved you, and look what happened to Gandhi. |
I
honestly thought they were going to bring back the towel torture again
once he started interrogating Russians. Shame they didn't. It would
have be so amazing if Jack towel gutted Pavel and out came the sim
card. --- "O, Lord, give me health and strength. We'll steal the rest." |
Great list so far. Teri Bauer sucks. --- Is Boman420, user ID: 22732 |
Just recently started watching 24(I'm a bit into Season 2 now). Came in just out of curiousity as to how low Kim would land. I don't think a character can get more incompetent than she is right now. Every scene with her so far has made me want to smash something against a wall. Unfortunately I spoiled myself with the fact she doesnt die, but oh well. --- "First thing that crosses my mind: I didn't get any GameFAQs Karma yesterday." Math Murderer after getting his appendix removed. |
63. Sergei Bazhaev Season(s): 8 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Sergei_Bazhaev A classic mafia-type bad guy, Bahzaev is all about family and loyalty. When his son Josef goes behind his back to try and help his other son, Sergei shoots his sick son in front of Josef to prove a point: do not go against my wishes or I will kill you. When he is captured and Jack threatens his family, Sergei gives in immediately. Family is everything to Sergei. He lost both of his sons in day 8 and leaves the day a broken man. As a villain, Sergei is pretty standard fare, but I found myself liking him a lot. He's just in it to get paid, nothing more. "Never disobey me again" is a classic line that made me like him instantly. 62. Cara Bowden Season(s): 7 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Cara_Bowden A key member of THE GROUP, Cara poses as Jonas's lawyer and gives him a suicide pill to take. If he doesn't, THE GROUP will hunt out his family. Cara is one of the only people that Alan Wilson trusts, and Tony knows this. He positions himself with her to gain access to Alan. Together, Cara and Tony make a good team, setting up Jibraan Al-Zarian to be a terrorist and forcing Jack to help them by using Kim as leverage. Cara is a competent villain and Tony seems to really like her until he shoots her at point blank range when she came to hug him. This is one of Tony's best moments in season 7, a season where he had a lot of great moments. 61. Walt Cummings Season(s): 4, 5 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Walt_Cummings Alright, let's be honest here: you remember Walt Cummings more for Jack pulling out a knife and threatening to cut out his eye than anything else. You remember the scar he has afterwards, and how he ends up killing himself -- or rather, how Logan's people end up hanging him. ('cause you know Logan didn't do it himself, he's too much of a wuss to actually do anything like that. then again, he *did* just pop Jason Pillar with a rock, so maybe he does actually have the balls to do it. whatever.) Walt Cummings is Logan's chief of staff and the guy who suggested taking out Bauer at the end of season 4. Walt is the original antagonist of season 5, the guy who knocked out Martha Logan to hide the truth about her phone call with David Palmer. He's the one who got Spenser Wolff from CTU to help him smuggle a guy in so he could kill Jack Bauer. Cummings is small-time, but I always liked him, and I'm happy to admit that it's because Jack almost popped out his damn eye. --- xyzzy |
i honestly have no idea what cara bowden's doing this high. she's not bad, but ... why? bezhaev and cummings, on the other hand, i'm glad to see 'up here.' one of my favorite bezhaev moments is when he tells his son that it's ****ing over because the goddamn feds got involved. CTU often gets very little respect, and it's great to see a villain who's not too badass to recognize that he's been had and that it's over. bezhaev's return is also an underrated favorite moment for me in late S8. his return was economical and it showed a lot of class on the writers' part to bring this guy back. --- Gandhi loved you, and look what happened to Gandhi. |
Cara
gets bonus points for being in a lot of scenes involving Tony. Tony
carries that last arc, not Jack, and Cara is right there in each scene.
it's easy to like her, I think. --- xyzzy |
60. Phillip Bauer Season(s): 6 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Phillip_Bauer "That'll do, Jack." This made up line pretty much sums up everything wrong with Phil Bauer. The idea of Jack's dad being the one behind day 5's conspiracy is just madness. It's offensive. The writers realized that they had something great in day 5's plot and just kept retconning it over and over until it had no more life to give. When they brought Alan Wilson into the mix you knew they were running out of ideas. The amount of people in on the day 5 conspiracy was so huge that it's amazing it didn't leak out prior to the attack. There must have been hundreds of people in on it. Anyway, Phil Bauer. Despite the concept of daddy superterrorist being offensive, Phil's actually a pretty good character. He straddles the line between good and bad guy very well: at first he plays innocent while Graem pretends to be the bad guy, then he kills Graem and frames Jack for it, then he hangs out at CTU gathering information, then he kidnaps Josh, and then he lets Jack go and gives him Charles Logan's number. Throughout the first half of season 6, Phil is an enigma. It's hard to tell just what he's up to. His true motives come out later in the season, and quite frankly they're idiotic. Phil wants to ally himself with the Chinese and take Josh there to grow prosperous. It's dumb as hell, but Phil is actually pretty cunning throughout: he plays Noah Daniels, he wrecks Mike Doyle's eyes, he repairs the FB subcircuit board, he gives Cheng the access codes to CTU so they can grab Josh in exchange for the board. He's never shown up once throughout his season 6 run. Sure, Jack gets there and ends up killing him, but it wasn't like he outsmarted him or anything like that. Phil had even accepted his fate and said goodbye to his son. So yeah, Phil isn't the greatest storyline and that hurts his character a lot. If you take his last name away, though, he's a fairly competent villain with a huge gray area. If nothing else, he's interesting and unpredictable. --- xyzzy |
59. Peter Kingsley Season(s): 2 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Kingsley The biggest problem with Peter Kingsley is that he doesn't feel like an end boss. Victor Drazen felt worthy of the end of a season; the same goes for Saunders, Marwan, Henderson/Logan, etc etc. Kingsley is just a businessman with a lot of hired goons. That said, he does have a few choice moments. His cynicism shines through. He certainly doesn't have the charisma or the conviction of a Syed Ali, but his desire for money and lack of empathy towards everyone else really makes him an interesting character. It isn't like he's evil, really, it's more like he just doesn't care about other people. If somebody gets killed, that's cool. Then again, he *did* stab his assistant as she was hugging him, so.. 58. Yusuf Auda Season(s): 2 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Yusuf_Auda Auda is one of the most unlikely heroes of 24. He comes into CTU as a suspicious analyst, someone we are programmed not to trust. It looks like another crappy political arc with Tony trying to sideline this guy for filler. Auda ends up being Jack's right hand man, and he's actually pretty cool for the few minutes he gets to shine. He does a great job freeing Jonathan Wallace. And then, just like that, he's gone. In one of the worst moments in 24 history, a bunch of rednecks come and beat him to within an inch of his life for being middle eastern. There's no sense to it and I hold it against the character that he couldn't defend himself or Kate. I'm always torn on the last arc of season 2 - the Palmer stuff is great and everything else, not so much. 57. Tarin Faroush Season(s): 8 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Tarin_Faroush Season 8 is like season 2 in one key way - it does not have great villains. Bahzaev and Mehran are decent characters but they're not especially memorable and don't get a lot of screen time, not like the ones in season 3 or season 5. The Russians at the end of season 8 are particularly dreadful, with Mikhail Novakovich being completely useless and Pavel whatever-his-name-is having the worst, most forced accent ever. The exception to this is Tarin, a character who we first get to know as a prisoner of Omar Hassan's paranoia. He starts out a sympathetic figure, but soon we find out that he's actually a bad guy and is planning to use his girlfriend Kayla as a hostage. Tarin seems torn about the whole ideal and is confronted about it by Samir, but it's actually an act to get Kayla to think she escaped and take out CTU with an EMP. After nearly detonating a nuke in the middle of NYC, Tarin collects Omar Hassan, passes him off and then drives straight off a roof without hesitation. Tarin certainly had balls, if nothing else. Tarin is by far the most humanized of all the villains in season 8. He gets ample screen time in a variety of situations - being locked up, as a kidnapper, about to detonate a nuke, and in a chase scene. He gets a great scene with Omar where he calls him out for "betraying his wife with a western whore" and "wanting the cover of Time Magazine". He successfully convinces the audience that he's changed sides at least four times. He's only a mid-boss type of guy, but he's probably the most memorable villain from the entire season. --- xyzzy |
what the goddamn hell are kingsley and auda doing this high kingsley should be chilling down with dan mounts not sure if tarin's too low yet; need to see some more characters. he was an awesome character, though, and it's just a shame that his death, which should have had a week to sink in, was immediately followed by the season's climax. --- Gandhi loved you, and look what happened to Gandhi. |
i loved kingsley 'im not gonna let some pimply faced trekkie ruin everything ive worked for' and just the simple fact that its jack vs jigsaw --- sess |
how did you do a walt cummings writeup without I AM A PATRIOT --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
'cause I knew you'd do it for me --- xyzzy |
56. Blaine Meyer Season(s): 7 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Blaine_Mayer A liberal senator trying his hardest to embarrass Jack Bauer for all the torturing he's done over the years. Meyer is responsible for CTU getting shut down and is extremely judgmental about Jack Bauer, often assuming that he's just a thug who tortures people without thinking about the ramifications. When the White House gets attacked, Meyer is still defiant despite seeing what Jack does for him. And despite how bad the first, second and third impressions of Meyer are, there's an honesty to him that isn't often seen in many political figures. He's not a guy worried about moving up or getting votes. Meyer just does what he believes in, and he strongly believes in ethics throughout the government. When Bauer breaks into his house, Meyer is predictably scared but comes to his senses and helps Jack out. For this one episode, Meyer is really awesome. When John Quinn comes to the door and shoots Meyer in cold blood, I cringed and went "oh man, that sucks." That was the proof right there that I liked his character. 55. Mike Doyle Season(s): 6 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Mike_Doyle This guy starts off as a giant douche, so of course he's going to get better at some point. He's got a dumb relationship with Milo and a weird triangle breaks out between those two and Nadia. It's not exactly the shining moment of the show. Doyle ends up being pretty cool once he chills out. He ends up trusting Nadia despite being a dick to her at first; when this jackass named Johnson tries to set Doyle up by giving him evidence that Nadia is innocent before getting checked in, Doyle does the right thing. When Doyle doesn't like what's happening to Audrey, he frees Jack and lets him knock him out. Doyle is the only partner of Jack's that really seems like his own man instead of just a guy taking orders. He's a very competent agent - not competent enough to get the jump on Jack, but good enough that he's never left looking bad. Doyle had some potential to be a good character, someone who could potentially replace the void Curtis left. And then, just like that, he gets blasted in the eyes by Philip Bauer's trap and we never see him again. Another casualty of season 6. --- xyzzy |
whoops, I just noticed that I skipped a number a long time ago Doyle should be 56 --- xyzzy |
55. Carl Benton Season(s): Redemption Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Carl_Benton I wasn't sure if I should include this guy since he was never in a proper episode, but he was kind of the star of Redemption so I left him in. Benton is a friend of Jack's who takes him in when he's looking to flee the country. Benton runs a school for poor kids in Africa and cares more about their protection than anything else. He and Jack clearly go a long way back and they have a lot of respect for each other. Benton's banner moment is when he saves Willie from stepping on a landmine. Benton ends up stepping on it himself, dooming himself to death the second he takes a step. He tells Jack to take the kids and go and to give him a gun. Benton's last moments are fairly awesome - he gets shot twice by the bad guys but does not move his foot off the mine. When they finally get close enough, he tells them to go to hell and suicide bombs the entire area. Hell of a way to go. The one downside to Benton is that Dubaku somehow survived the attack. Benton died for a bunch of low-level guys. That sucks. Then again, I like Dubaku a lot so I'm okay with sacrificing Benton, a guy who had relatively little screen time, for the greater good. 54. Kate Warner Season(s): 2 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Kate_Warner Kate Warner is, for lack of a better term, boring. She isn't useless like a lot of the girls in 24, but she doesn't really have much going for her either. She's paranoid and cautious, yet willing to put herself in harm's way for the greater good, something she does more than once during day 2. That's her most admirable trait. She walks into a mosque to identify Syed Ali after seeing somebody that she hired tortured and killed only minutes before. She goes to check on Kim at the end of the day. She helps out Jack and Yusuf. She tries talking to Marie. Those are the best parts about Kate. Everything else about her is fairly vanilla. She's a competent character, but season 2 had way too much Kate in it. She didn't need to be in every episode. Between her and Kim, you could have cut 5 hours out of season 2 and not really lost anything. --- xyzzy |
i
think doyle should probably be lower, but that's because there are some
quality characters you've slated below him - tarin, araz, bezhaev.
meyer's cool, carl's probably a little too high but cool, and i think
kate's cool too - might put her higher because it was pretty ****ing
hard to find a girl i liked in early 24. kate, as both a likable female
character and a well-paired match for jack, was naturally a favorite. --- Gandhi loved you, and look what happened to Gandhi. |
is ricker gonna show up on the list? he was ridiculously good for the like 4 episodes he was in --- sess |
who's ricker? --- xyzzy |
jim ricker of s8 the guy with the armory as his apartment --- sess |
oh,
nah. there's a lot of smaller guys I kept out. he was good enough but I
dunno about 'ridiculously awesome', he didn't really do that much --- xyzzy |
you make me cry sometimes man --- sess |
