If You Can Name All These TV Rebels You Have A Thing For The Bad Boys
- by Jacob Ormrod
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If you ask us, there's a serious problem in showbiz at the moment in that we're essentially saying to various people across the world that there are certain types of individuals out there, especially when it comes to who we are and are not attracted to. For us, this is far too black and white, with the reality being that every person is their complex collection of personality quirks and flaws. Honestly this is much more interesting and we think that it makes for much better character writing as well, but the problem is that it's harder, so many writers don't want to bother.
One type of character that seems to get wheeled out regularly is the "bad boy." This is especially true when watching a show that is catered mainly towards young women. We thought it would be fun to see how many of you fall for these television rebels in a big way, by bringing together some of the biggest television bad boys and seeing how many of them you can correctly guess the name of. If you've fallen for these guys, then we think their rebellious names will still be floating around inside your head.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
Many would argue that you only see the true side of how much of a bad boy someone is when they're pushed into a corner, forced into a position where who they truly are comes out. Until then, they can only ever give you a glimpse of it. This is a character that audiences have been able to see go full bad boy throughout his entire time on television, his rebellious side always right on the surface for everyone to see.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
If you ask us, the biggest sign of a bad boy is a man who respects nothing more than his gang and his motorcycle. That sort of loyalty to a cause is what brings the true rebellion out, makes people see someone for the bad boy that they are. Not only this, but their activities while riding around or performing criminal acts for the gang give the audience a chance to really dig deep into who the bad boy really is.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
There was a time in human history where the tolerance for abhorrent behavior was much higher, allowing people to get away with truly unpleasant acts. If you can look at someone in that form of society and still see what they're doing as going above and beyond the concept of rebellious, then you know that character is a true bad boy. If you can put medieval bad boys to shame, then you truly do deserve the title of television bad boy.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
If we're honest we find it pretty depressing that more people are willing to sit down and watch a television show about political situations across the world than they are willing to stand up and be a part of political issues in the real world. You would think that these shows, while entertaining, would still show people that there is a lot to be done in the real world before we can all just sit back and enjoy ourselves without consequence.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
This guy is known on television for being pretty gross and loveable, but if you actually get down to talking about the things that he does in his show, we think you could make a pretty good case for him being a bad boy. He even refers to himself as being the wild card on more than one occasion, showing that he understands what he's truly capable of if he feels himself being pushed into a corner by the world around him.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
For a while, the concept of a bad boy would conjure up images of somebody in a leather jacket on the back of a motorcycle, somebody that you wouldn't want near your family just by looking at them and judging them by their cover. However, there are still those who know that the people who are really in charge, the ones who are insidiously rebellious behind the scenes to fit their own ends, are the ones in the suits making the decisions.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
This character is a perfect example of how the modern capitalist world is able to turn a horrible person into an "ambitious" one, implying that there's nothing wrong with ambition, even if it ends up hurting other people in the process. We think that this sort of behavior is reprehensible and that nobody should be shown as being even slightly heroic if they let their own ambitions get in the way of making sure that everyone on this planet is comfortable.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
While there's nothing that wrong with people doing adaptations of other people's work, with some of the adaptations breathing new life into what was a pretty stale and old series of books, we do think that the obsession can really hurt things. Now we may have seen the damaged, vampire, bad boy many times before, but right now, none are as memorable, amongst fans as this very good looking other part to the Vampire Diaries famous brothers. What is his name?
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
This guy fits the archetypal bad boy, the one that women fell in love with when they were younger, despite the fact that he's clearly not that great a person. However, he's had a hard past and he seems to be trying, which is often enough for some people to forgive his bad behavior. The thing about this character was that he really tried to be good, but always managed to be different, and somewhat rebellious. His eclectic tastes made him much more of a rebel than a follower.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
Some bad boys are written to be like that for their entire run, while some bad boys become them before our very eyes. However, there is another type, the type that slowly changes their ways as the show goes on. These are the people that we think can be most interesting to watch, to see how they change their long held beliefs and morals as they realize they now longer chime with who they want to be in this world.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
The pretty bad boy is one that we have seen time and time again, and we're likely to continue seeing them until humanity ceases to exist. It would seem that this sort of character speaks to audiences on a huge scale, has, specifically, women tuning in on a regular basis to see what they're getting up to. The thing about him is even if he definitely skirts the law, and he is very hard headed, at the end of the day he would do anything to save his family, and the whole world. Also, I mean, look at him.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
While we've already spoke about the archetypal bad boy that you wouldn't want your child hanging out with, this guy is the perfect example of how to do it right. He has had a bad past and has spent a lot of his life doing things that others would find reprehensible, but he's always trying to do what is right. Maybe if he'd been looked after better by the world around him, there's a chance he wouldn't have ended up this way.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
We know about all sorts of addiction in this world, things that people would rather do than live or manage a proper life with proper relationships, but there are some that are used for entertainment purposes much more than others. This character was the first proper mainstream television look at the way that sex addiction can effect people's lives. We imagine that the antics of this character were much more sensationalised than the tragic reality of real world sex addiction though.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
There's nothing worse than managing to bring the thug bad boy and suited bad boy into one, as it means they are the best of both terrifying worlds. They have the position and power but also the ability to menace whatever they want out of other people with threats and violence. They operate both within and without the law. If you can name a more terrifying bad boy than that then we're listening. We don't think you'll be able to do it.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
Just as the showbiz world seems obsessed with adaptation popular franchises into another medium, it seems impossible for any modern television show to get a popular run and not end up with some sort of spin-off. Again, these spin-offs can end up fantastic, sometimes even better than the original material that they're based on, but that doesn't mean we should be relying on them as much as we are. We need diversity within creation or else everything ends up being stale and unoriginal.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
We haven't yet seen a properly cheeky bad boy in the quiz yet, so we're happy to throw this one in the mix to start making things a little lighter. Sure, you have true rebels, the bad boys who are there just to make other people's lives worse or who are trying to further their own personal ambitions, but some guys are out here just trying to have fun or make what they see to be an important point about the world.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
One thing television will regularly fall back on when attempting to explain why a young man would turn into a rebellious bad boy is the tragic backstory. This usually includes them coming from a broken home in which they weren't properly looked after, or even wanted, by their negligent parents. Honestly, while this is definitely an overused writing technique, in the real world it can be a shockingly accurate assumption when looking at a real life bad boy. So sad.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
Some people, when pushed into a very serious corner with others, will try to club together in the hope of making sure that everyone ends up coming out the other side unscathed. However, for some, a post-apocalyptic world is one that just allows them to become the person that they were always hiding underneath the surface, the one who can do whatever he wants and dominate the world as he sees fit. That is the sort of bad boy you're looking at right now.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
It is possible, we admit, to find a lot of sympathy for a bad boy who seems to have had a rough childhood or had to come through experiences that likely changed them for the rest of their lives. However, there are some bad boys who are like that just because they know they can be, because somebody else will always be there to bail them out. These bad boys are usually just rich kids who never learnt how to play nice.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
If you were granted immortality, or as close as you can get to immortality, we think that you would probably become a rebellious bad boy without even really meaning to. You would become cynical of everything, never being able to see life the way that normal humans do. This still wouldn't be enough to stop us from taking this gift if it was offered to us though! We still don't understand why people wouldn't want to live forever in this world.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
Do you ever find out that a television character that you can't stand is actually immensely popular with the outside world and have to have a moment with yourself to figure out whether it's actually a problem with you rather than the character? This bad boy spent years on television, making people laugh and genuinely crack up with his antics, and somehow we found so many redeeming qualities about him and we actually rooted for him to be with one of the main characters.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
The truly boring television bad boys are the ones that seem entirely one note, who are just a bad boy and nothing else, as nobody is really like this in the real world. To make them relatable, good writers know that they have to add complexity to their bad boys, which is exactly what happened with this character. While he is known for being a brutal warrior, a man who commands serious power due to his physical prowess, he is also known as being a caring and loving husband.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
On a side note, we do think it can be interesting when a television adaptation of a book decides to make one of the characters completely different to how they are on the page. Not only that, but it can be quite the gamble as well, risking many fans of the novels becoming upset that you're messing with their beloved characters, characters that they've been following for years before the adaptation started to take place. We respect that risky move.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
Did we say that these bad boys had to be live action?! Can you get more rebellious than a cartoon who can pretty much go through anything and do anything they want? This metal bad boy spends his entire life looking out for himself over anyone else, even being openly hostile to the people who would refer to him as a friend if it means he can get what he wants from them. Seriously, if that isn't a bad boy, we don't know what is.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
Sometimes, the whole drama and conflict from a television show comes from watching a bad boy become a bad boy. We get to see their rebellious side come out, what it is in life that turns them from somebody who is a normal member of society into a ruthless man, someone who would do anything to meet their own ends. That is the beauty and the genius of this character, a character that will go down in the history of television as one of the most entertaining bad boys out there.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
Yet another cheeky bad boy here, somebody whose rebellious side seems relatively harmless when placed against some of the men that we've included in this quiz. Really, when you get down to it, you can end up feeling sorry for this form of bad boy, as if their lives are nothing more than a pathetic attempt to try and ignore the fact that we're all going to die. He may be a bad boy, but there's nothing of substance to him.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
If you want a look at the old school bad boy, the one who charm his way through the rest of the world even from a young age, then look no further than this bad boy! Meeting a young man like this in real life would probably just make you feel sorry for whoever it was they ended up meeting as an adult, after they'd properly honed their conning skills, rather than endear you to him. It's different when it's on a screen though...
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
It's a rare thing to see a truly genius bad boy, a bad boy that probably spent most of their youth being beaten up by the people who thought they were bad boys in school. However, they do exist, and rather than making them more fearful or weaker, those beatings can end up turning bad boys rogue, bringing out their rebellious side even more. They know they're smarter than you, know they can do more than you, and they won't hide that.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
If you're making a show that can actually deal with harder concepts, it's always a good idea to bring in the prospect of drugs when it comes to bad boys. A real bad boy will not shy away from illicit substances, whether it's using them or selling them, as they know that the world around them is only controlling drugs for negative reasons. The true rebel will therefore negate this control and try every drug that they can get their hands on.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
There is no way, no way at all, that anybody can convince us that it's understandable why any woman would end up being interested in this guy. The problem with the bad boys in shows that are aimed at a female audience is they they almost become a parody of what some women want out of a man. It's as if they're trying to fit every single stereotype of the female fantasy into a single human being, which obviously isn't possible.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
The tough but supposedly caring bad boy is the one that writers will often go for if they're trying to find an easy way to get a female audience watching, which means that it wasn't long before the sight of them on a television screen became incredibly stale. That is the problem that we keep talking about when we say that one day, if we keep going down this path, creativity will seriously suffer in the long-run, which none of us want.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
Some bad boys on television are there to add comedy rather than drama, showing that while the guy may be rebellious and disobedient, he also wants to make people laugh. In fact, some people are only labelled bad boys because they're out to have a good time. While they may not be hurting people while trying to do this, some people just don't like when all anybody else wants to do is have a good time. They get pretty jealous.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
As a writer, you have to be careful and make sure that your bad boy hero isn't impossible to overcome, as this will remove all narrative drama from your work. That's why, if you have written yourself a bad boy protagonist who is almost impossible to overcome, you then have to do the same with the antagonist to ensure that the audience continues to come back for more. If you're not careful, you make your hero boring, and your villain extremely likeable.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
Honestly, we think referring to this guy as a bad boy is probably not going far enough, but he has been written and marketed as a sort of positive serial killer, a good guy fighting his own war in his own unique way. If it was up to us, characters like this wouldn't be allowed, as they lay themselves out as a true moral dilemma but they're actually just an easy way for a writer to crowbar in artificial narrative conflict.
Can You Name This Television Bad Boy?
Look, we know it's not something that everyone is supposed to understand, but if somebody could let us know why it is that so many women seem obsessed with the idea of a demonic hottie? Is it because they truly represent the concept of a bad boy, somebody who will literally kill or maim people just because it's who they are right at their core? They didn't choose to become a bad boy, they were born a bad boy, and that's what's so great about them?