When I was little I didn’t look up to the cool kick-ass characters who always Won and always Got Things Done – in fact, I often hated those characters and wanted them to fail. I liked the downtrodden characters, the ones who constantly got put down and were the butt of jokes. The unassuming, the sidekicks, the underdogs. I always wanted them to get the happy ending, to come out on top against all the odds – and against all expectation. (And, possibly, get revenge on the world that’s kept them down along the way >.>)

…This is explaining a lot about my faves as an adult, isn’t it? Kanjani8 and Felipe Massa, totally conforming to the pattern.