Count the detectives and heros who have a dead wife. A dead wife (and optional dead daughter) gives good men who fight evil the ultimate tragic past, makes them loyal and unavailable yet conflicted and available, deeply and interestingly damaged, and probably also provides a revenge storyline.
You call them heroes?
ReplyDeleteGibbs is a hero!
ReplyDeleteSimon Baker's character is too egotistical to be a hero. And I never saw the appeal of Monk. ;p
Gil Mayo's wife disappeared. Same deal.
ReplyDeleteAlso Richard Sharpe.
ReplyDeleteBaker plays a really not nice man. That's why I like him. But he looks angelic and fights evil.