empathising with characters who look like you

[PlanktonSideburns]

Really enjoying bill tench in mind hunter, partially because of a good character acted well, partially because as time and gravity plays it's cruel game on me, I'm begging to look a bit like him - going from being an amphetamine thinned young person to a husky, burnt out looking kind of sod, and I think part of the joy of watching this bloke is he he comfortable in his shape - where I am still learning to deal with this weird new shape I'm becoming.

Anyone else had a heightened experience of watching a character because of their resemblance to yourself? Either physical or just in style or whatever. I don't look like that bloke, I just increasingly feel like how he looks

[mothman]

Mr. Joshua in Lethal Weapon? Hmm...

[machotrouts]

Chucky did nothing wrong

[thecuriousorange]

Probably why I like so many Brad Pitt films

[bgmnts]

Probably why I like so many Chris Farley films.

[Shaky]

This is why I liked sad, middle-aged, lovelorn, overweight Spider-Man in Spiderverse. A very clever move on their part. See also: sad, middle-aged, lovelorn, overweight Thor in Endgame.

I basically feel like a gone-to-seed superhero these days.

[Epic Bisto]

Vigo just wanted company.  He must have been really twiddling his thumbs for 400 years.

[Dr Rock]

Wolverine in X-Men 2, because he was trying to figure out his past, as I was at the time.

Then later, Logan when he is dealing with constant pain, as I am.

[Puce Moment]

That ginger student in Fame who watches his actor girlfriend kissing the charming student for just a little too long during a rehearsal scene.

[Inspector Norse]

Probably why I like so many Sam, The Ugliest Dog In The World films.

[samadriel]

I look nothing like him, but I really liked the way Walter White generally didn't need to look "cool" to pull off stuff like shooting a drug dealer, he was just a plain scruffy fellow built and dressed like my dad, it was primarily his smarts that made him scary. That marvellous lack of looking cool has given me some comfort in my own skin as I get older and increasingly deplete my reserves of panache.

[bgmnts]

I look nothing like him, but I really liked the way Walter White generally didn't need to look "cool" to pull off stuff like shooting a drug dealer, he was just a plain scruffy fellow built and dressed like my dad, it was primarily his smarts that made him scary. That marvellous lack of looking cool has given me some comfort in my own skin as I get older and increasingly deplete my reserves of panache.

You mean the bloke in the ridiculous pork pie hat and shades?

[samadriel]

Hence "generally". He wasn't actually in his famous hat and shades very much at all.

[Small Man Big Horse]

A young, dashing SMBH.



Ricky from Better Off Dead.

[The Boston Crab]

Always felt a real kinship for that Dirk Diggler bloke.

[Tikwid]

I shan't go into the specifics of comfort characters, kintypes, fictives and the like here - mainly because they operate at such an absolutely vast distance from the alopecic Mockney world of CaB - but rest assured this is a phenomenon that has occured to me many many many times, and when combined with relatable personality traits or experiences it makes for deeply enjoyable and meaningful media consumption. Hooray for screens as coping mechanisms!