fans of The Wire: which character is your favorite?

[private joker]

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Kima LDO.

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That's some lazy support. Kima still has zero votes in the poll as of my post right now.

[Sooga]

I'm surprised there hasn't been more love for McNulty... when he spent 3 hours of his own time just to stick Rawls with all the bodies on the boat, that made me laugh as hard as any other scene in that show.

[PayTheSnucka]

missing:

Prop Joe
Daniels

and no Clay Davis? Sheeeeeeeit!!

[gumpzilla]

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I'm surprised there hasn't been more love for McNulty... when he spent 3 hours of his own time just to stick Rawls with all the bodies on the boat, that made me laugh as hard as any other scene in that show.

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McNulty is a great character for sure. But, since he was more central for most of the show for so far, he gets a little overexposed. Characters like Bunk and Omar get somewhat less face time and consequently most of it tends to be awesome. Also, the fuller presentation of McNulty also reveals the extent to which he's a self-destructive [censored], which negatively affects his likability, at least in my eyes.

[miajag]

I always really enjoy scenes with Herc and Carver, but I gotta agree with everyone who says Omar is the best character.

Bubbles is [censored] terrible. Die already.

[gumpzilla]

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Bubbles is [censored] terrible. Die already.

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Blasphemy!

I think the only characters in the history of the show that I've really wanted to disappear were Johnny and Ziggy. And by the end of that season I think they did Ziggy well.

[Sooga]

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I think the only characters in the history of the show that I've really wanted to disappear were Johnny and Ziggy. And by the end of that season I think they did Ziggy well.

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QFT.. when I first saw the Ziggy character I thought, christ, I have to last a whole season with this moron? But by the end of the show I really started to feel some sympathy for him.

[Dids]

This would be an easier thread if we were asked to list characters we hated, since everybody in the wire is awesome.

Answer: Bro Mozone is too much of a cartoon. Hate him. The only cool factor is that his manservant is the real DeAndre from The Corner.

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The only cool factor is that his manservant is the real DeAndre from The Corner.

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I'm impressed at how much of this type of stuff they manage to sneak in. Snoop is supposedly playing more or less herself - her character has the same name. The white mustachioed lieutenant in the Western is the actual Jay Landsman. And so on.

[Aloysius]

S4 introduces 2 characters I really like alot, but through S3, my favorites:

1) Omar
2) Stringer
3) McNulty
4) Bunk

Think DeezNuts once told me that Omar is the character Simon gets questioned on the most (as being the most unrealistic). Simon acknowledges that while this person exists (i.e. guy who robs drug dealers), he extended the archetype to give the audience "someone living by his own rules and code", an increasingly difficult / basically impossible task in this era. The fact that Omar feels grounded and real is a testament to the actor, imo.

-Al