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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ome" data-source="post: 259866" data-attributes="member: 2"><h2>90. Dr. House (House)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25487[/ATTACH]Played by Hugh LaurieCantankerous, curmudgeon, another c-word that isn't fit to print: These things all describe Dr. Gregory House, the character English actor Hugh Laurie embodied over medical drama House's eight seasons, earning him six Emmy nods. But he was the Sherlock Holmes of the medical world, a sleuth-like, pill-popping genius picking up on details that others glossed over to arrive at a rare patient diagnosis to the ire of the doctors around them. For as gruff as he was (which was rich for spoofing), he also established the sort of dickhead doctor savant archetype that other shows might try to emulate, but take a swing and miss. Dr. House wasn't a good guy by any means, but he had depth. -- LB<h2>89. Hannah Horvath (Girls)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25488[/ATTACH]Played by Lena DunhamOn the first episode of Girls, Hannah Horvath declared she was the voice of her generation, "or at least, a voice of a generation," but as the Brooklyn transplant was forced to grow up, she proved, for better or worse, to be not entirely wrong. Critics and audiences perpetually confused Hannah with Dunham, making her a tricky character to figure out. Hannah was annoying as hell, super-messy, and made a lot of people yell, "Why the f**k would she do that?" But Dunham's portrayal of the utterly chaotic 20-something was also a painfully accurate, if complicated, representation of young adulthood for many Girls viewers, especially as her selfishness, which initially seemed like an immature blip, morphed into her main trait and isolated her from her friends Marnie, Jessa, and Shoshanna. Hannah's very personhood was an astute, albeit incredibly privileged observation on mid-2000s gentrified Brooklyn life, at least worthy of making her a voice of a generation of free-spirited, gig-economy millennials with means. -- Sadie Bell<h2>88. Noho Hank (Barry)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25489[/ATTACH]Played by Anthony CarriganThe initial concept for Noho Hank, one of the quasi-antagonists of Barry, is enough to elicit chuckles. As actor Anthony Carrigan explained in an interview with Thrillist: "Initially, it was like a Chechen mobster who is very polite and is very considerate. I was like, OK, cool, this is like a fantastic jumping off point." Gangsters are old hat at this point, but Carrigan and Barry creator and star Bill Hader managed to reinvent the archetype with Noho Hank. Pretty much every single part of Noho Hank is funny: His over-the-top personal style, his accent, his desire to make everyone feel comfortable. But he also can be truly terrifying at times, which fits right in the disturbing world of the series. Nearly every character in Barry is surprising: Hader's titular assassin-turned-actor does not have a heart of gold, while his eventual girlfriend Sarah adds new layers to the stereotypical neurotic actress. Still, it's Noho Hank who has our hearts as he offers us some babka while plotting our murder. -- EZ<h2>87. Bill Adama (Battlestar Galactica)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25490[/ATTACH]Played by Edward James OlmosSuch an incredible cast of characters make up Syfy's reboot of the 1970s humans-vs-robots space opera that it was difficult to choose the best representative out of all of them. But Admiral Bill Adama, played by Edward James Olmos, tossed into a leadership role he'd never dreamed of accepting while shepherding the last of humanity through a hostile cosmos in search of a mythical planet, was the heart and soul of Battlestar Galactica. After four seasons, it was impossible to imagine the character, played in the original series by Lorne Greene, without Olmos' signature gravelly voice and pockmarked face. He served as the show's moral compass, and even in his darker episodes provided an aspirational beacon for the rest of the characters to follow, especially in his complex romance with his sometimes political adversary Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell). When his friends abandoned him, you felt his pain, and when they returned, your heart soared. -- ES<h2>86. Castiel (Supernatural)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25491[/ATTACH]Played by Misha CollinsEternally rumpled and perpetually resurrected, the angel Castiel is one of those characters you're always stoked to see whenever he pops up in Supernatural, even when he's acting as a vessel for Satan or eating thousands of souls and proclaiming himself a new God. The relationship between demon-hunting brothers Sam and Dean Winchester is one of the most compelling on TV, but it's when the show added Castiel to the mix that it became truly fun to watch -- and launched a formidable genre of fanfiction. As a seraph, Castiel is nearly hopeless at blending in with humanity, and his comic gaffes -- who could forget "assbutt"? -- and forever bewildered expressions make it all the more breathtaking when he spreads his shadowy wings and gives his righteous speeches to the armies fighting their celestial forever war. Those two brothers would be nowhere without their guardian angel. -- ES</blockquote>

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