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Escapist Character

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Escapist Character	comment	So you just started watching this movie about a guy who is super-rich, super-talented, super-hot, long-lost royalty, and an Ideal Hero to boot. Sounds like your garden-variety Mary Sue, right? Except that you don't mind at all. Instead, you're seeing yourself in their shoes and enjoying it. After all, everyone likes to fantasize about being awesome once in a while. You can argue over whether or not they're too self-centered, but they're definitely an Escapist Character. While these are generally bad things, some of the most widely loved characters in existence are Escapist Characters with any number of Common Mary Sue Traits. While a badly written Escapist Character can come off as an Author Avatar, the key difference between the two is that while the former is the author's wish fulfillment fantasy, the Escapist Character functions as the audience's wish fulfillment fantasy. Some members of the audience may identify with a character and others may not identify with the same character. Whilst many audience member's Wish-Fulfillment fantasies have common elements, they are not all identical. Thus, the distinction between this and a standard self-insert is very much a subjective matter. Please remember that conceptually, neither Wish-Fulfillment nor Escapism are bad. Compare the Showy Invincible Hero. See also: I Just Want to Be Normal, I Just Want to Have Friends, I Just Want to Be Special, I Just Want to Be Badass; wishes that are fulfilled by escapist characters. Compare/Contrast the Expectation Lowerer, a character that allows you to feel awesome by being much worse than you are; and This Loser Is You; a character who the creator feels is a representative of the audience. This trope has nothing to do with the Escapist film or website.
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Escapist Character / int_10254bd5	comment	Malcolm Tucker of The Thick of It might be fascinatingly unsympathetic, but much of his appeal comes from the fact that he's exactly the kind of asshole that we've all wanted to be at some point while working an unrewarding, low-paying job. He's got a Hair-Trigger Temper, he curses at every available momeent, and he always speaks his mind...because he knows full well that he's the smartest man in his field, and he's so valuable that his bosses would never dare get rid of him.
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Escapist Character / int_104b5e68	comment	Bobby Pendragon in the Pendragon books starts out this way when he writes in his journal about how popular he is, how good at sports and school he is, his Cool Uncle taking him on adventures etc. He spends the rest of the first book stressed out about his Traveler mission, refusing its Call, and making mistakes. Not cool.
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Escapist Character / int_10b03dcf	comment	Batman himself in Batman: Arkham Asylum. Something is just so fun about terrorizing the inmates that it doesn't matter that, as normal, Batman is Crazy-Prepared. When one terrified opponent asks "What ARE you?", the urge to reply (out loud) "I'm Batman" is almost irresistible. This is to the point the developers, Rocksteady, explicitly stated that their games are about making the gamers feel as if they're Batman, making them fight like Batman and think like Batman.
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Escapist Character / int_1153f710	comment	Kirk in The Gungan Council is based heavily off of the Kirk, and generally flew around in a ship blowing up things and getting lots of tail. However, averted due to having a terminal disease.
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Escapist Character / int_116de4aa	comment	Back in the 70s, The Six Million Dollar Man embodied this in some ways (though Steve did have some problems his bionics could not solve). Interestingly, the other in-universe characters provided some counterpoint, there was another bionic man who had turned out to be psychologically unable to handle it, and Steve's lady-love Jaime Sommmers had recurring problems of bionic rejection that made her superpowers something of a double-edged blessing.
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Escapist Character / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: Finn the Human Boy lives in the fantasy world of every kid's imagination, enjoys fighting evil with Charles Atlas Superpower, and has a talking, stretching dog as his brother and sidekick. When he's not adventuring, hangs out with the likes of a living video game console and a sexy, fun-loving, and all-around fun vampire girl in a Treehouse of Fun with a room full of gold. Unfortunately, things get rougher as he grows older. Namely, dealing with different sides and hidden secrets of his friends, the ramifications of being (possibly) the last human alive, and most painfully, dealing with his love life with very little guidance and no prospective romantic partners that match both his age and his species. note Even the room full of treasure got addressed realistically. The only reason it got so big is because Finn and Jake didn't know they could spend it. Once they did, they blew it all in less than a day.
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Escapist Character / int_16fc4335	comment	The Heralds of Valdemar series tries to subvert this trope. It really does. But...about half its protagonists escape dreary (and/or abusive) lives when a magical white horse takes them away to have cool adventures, so a degree of escapism is unavoidable. Of note, the main character of the Last Herald-Mage Trilogy, Vanyel Ashkevron, endures a whole lot of suffering. His baseline state in the last two books is lonely and overworked. Still, he's very beautiful, powerful, and incredibly capable and important. Everyone who dislikes him either comes around to loving him, comes to see him as a paragon they respect highly, or just dies. He also has a lot of Gayngst, but his father gets Character Development and comes to love him and regret his former harshness, something a lot of LGBT fans appreciate.
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Escapist Character / int_18be2488	comment	Dragon Ball DC: Kakarot Kent. He is a Composite Character of Son Goku and Superman, who were already famous examples of this trope.
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Escapist Character / int_19437fdf	comment	The protagonist of the Tairen Soul series is saved from her abusive fiancÃ© when the handsome Sorcerer King of the Fey literally descends from the sky to claim her as his divinely intended soulmate and make her queen of the Fey. All of this happens in the first three chapters, and the wish fulfillment only escalates from there — not that that's a bad thing. (Oh, and she's also a magical prodigy who's able to wield the six elements with enough power to intimidate experienced mages, the only one who can save the Fey and the Tairen races from extinction, and secretly incredibly beautiful. Fortunately her biological parents cast a spell to hide that.)
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Escapist Character / int_1ad6e2b5	comment	Yuma Tsukumo. Unusual for the fact that he doesn't start out at one. Probably why he was hated among the franchise protagonist, for at least Yugi is meant to be a Vanilla Protagonist.
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Escapist Character / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Kitty Pryde started out as the team's NaÃ¯ve Newcomer, and grew up to be a badass ninja genius with a pet space dragon and lots of friends on earth and out of it. The fandom rejoiced of course, for they watched every step of this journey from Everygirl to Super-Special Heroine and wished they could be her (or "be with her"). Wolverine. So. Very. Much. After a while, it simply became a running joke with a Lampshade on his head much of the time. Storm is almost as blatant a one of these as Kitty, being one of the most powerful members of the team, worshipped as a goddess, having mad fighty and thiefy skills, and being heart-stoppingly gorgeous. Sometimes this got carried so far that even for teenage dreamers, it became something of a running joke. For example, the infamous scene where a depowered Ororo somehow manages to defeat Cyclops in a Danger Room contest, using rules which he more-or-less could not lose under. She manages to dodge energy blasts moving at the speed of light, more-or-less, and it was so blatant that even many of the fanboys ended up saying 'what?' Even Chris Claremont, who wrote the Storm/Cyclops fight, seemed to realize it was a bit silly, as 50 issues later he retconned it by claiming that Cyclops was being psychically influenced at the time by Madeline, who wanted him to lose so he would retire and come live with her instead. Psylocke is popular with many fans precisely because she's both sexy and has it all. Betsy is filthy rich, a literal supermodel, becomes increasingly powerful as time goes on, a master ninja, assassin, secret agent, adventurer and pilot, and of course, is quite possibly the most sexy woman in the Marvel Universe. Is it any wonder fans often want to be her, or rather, be with her? Colossus is an unusual example in the superhero genre, as while many superheroes exist to serve as a power fantasy, Colossus's main purpose over the years has evolved into being a Romance fantasy. A Hunk with Chronic Hero Syndrome and Incorruptible Pure Pureness, Colossus could have stepped whole and breathing from the most wholesome books of the Romance Novel genre. Most of what he does and who he is is defined by his love relationships, another trademark of the romance novel love interest. The character ended up so much into this that was Reductio ad absurdum in Deadpool 2.
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Escapist Character / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach has Kurosaki Ichigo. A teenager who is an excellent student and beats the bullies in the face at the same time, skips school, gets more and more strength and fantastic super-powers, practically free from adults and meets many hot girls. Besides, he's based on Goku as many other Shōnen protagonists and has practically all of his good qualities. Who doesn't want to be him?
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Escapist Character / int_2247a14a	comment	There's Taran, from The Chronicles of Prydain. He goes from being an awkward, rather whiny Idiot Hero to being a brave fighter who participates in multiple battles and even is a war leader in the last one. He meets and holds council with the land's High King and multiple princes and noblemen, with one lord offering to name him as heir to his lands. He's wise (said lord wanted to adopt him because Taran was able to use his wits to end a long feud between two bickering noblemen), kind, and inspires the Common Folk to rise up and participate in the war against Arwan. The series also ends with him becoming High King and marrying the beautiful, clever princess Eilonwy. On the other hand, he only gets most of those things by sacrificing most things he desires, constantly feels the pain of those who died under his command, and ends the series with his friends leaving him, and him considering the position of High King to be mockery, initially.
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Escapist Character / int_2275c659	comment	House: Dr. House, despite the chronic leg pain and occasional mental breakdown, is really fun to watch because he skewers stupid people without mercy. And he pretty much always gets away with it. Who doesn't want to be able to tell coworkers and customers exactly what you think of them?
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Escapist Character / int_23e9e713	comment	The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Girl embodies the lighter and more wonderous side of comics. Notably, a Civil War (2006) tie-in featured Doreen lamenting that The Dark Age of Comic Books had led to comics losing sight of their escapist elements.
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Escapist Character / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: The eponymous heroine is a starship commander, the most victorious admiral in either of her two nations' histories, the first or second highest ranking officer in both militaries, a powerful feudal lord in both those nations, filthy rich from prize money and her landholdings, is genetically engineered to be stronger and faster than the average human, has several bionic implants, is one of the few humans to be mentally bonded with a friendly but badass alien companion, benefits from a medical technology that will keep her young, vital and beautiful for centuries, and ends up Married both to a handsome, intelligent man and his kind and loving wife. To top it all off, every one of her victories, titles and ranks was earned by her own hard work, talent, and fierce determination. If only all of our toils paid off as well as hers!
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Escapist Character / int_251fe885	comment	The titular problem children in Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they? but especially Izayoi can be considered this - they are beautiful, smart, super strong and have awesome adventures, yet aren't annoying.
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Escapist Character / int_26012a0a	comment	Karlsson on the Roof, by the same author, is an escapist character, as well. He more or less gets away with everything (at least in the '50's) a child wished they could get away with, and go too far with things like tormenting thieves.
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Escapist Character / int_261c8d3f	comment	Spoofed in an episode of The Simpsons with Biclops, a nerdy superhero who wears glasses that resemble Milhouse's and spends his time beating up jocks.
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Escapist Character / int_2696be8d	comment	The Outbursts of Everett True: You know those people who take too long at lines, are massive hypocrites, abuse animals, borrow money without returning it, or just generally piss you off every day? Do you wish you could beat up those annoying people with no consequences? Everett True can.
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Escapist Character / int_2e1df124	comment	Vanellope Von Schweetz from Wreck-It Ralph, evoking sympathy from her situation as an outcast to becoming a Badass Adorable, has spawned a legion of cosplayers in a very short amount of time.
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Escapist Character / int_2fee008d	comment	Simon the Digger of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. His beloved adoptive brother is Kamina, he hangs out with Yoko and Nia, almost everyone around him is incredibly supportive and he ends up leading a rebellion against (in order) an earth-wide tyranny, then a universe-wide tyranny at the ages of about fourteen and then about twenty-one. In a world where mechs quite frequently do the impossible, he's literally the best Gunmen pilot there is.
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Escapist Character / int_30b255fb	comment	Supergirl: Supergirl was created in the Silver Age as a power fantasy for young female readers: a cute, kind-hearted 15-year-old girl who is powerful enough to make anything, including but not limited to move planets, outrace light, shrug bullets -and nukes- off, fly, breathe in space and travel to other planets and time periods under her own power to live all kind of adventures (such like taming and riding a dinosaur).
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Escapist Character / int_32c541e6	comment	Edward Elric and the entire profession of 'alchemist' in Fullmetal Alchemist is designed to make the fairly mundane science of chemistry into an awesome, flashy combat form. The alchemists shown in the series are almost all incredibly intelligent and dedicated scientists who also happen to be extremely combat proficient.
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Escapist Character / int_3388293a	comment	Invoked and discussed at length in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, a novel about two Jewish-American comic book creators in the 1940s who create a popular superhero who becomes a major pop culture sensation. Their character is a crime-fighting escape artist literally called "The Escapist" who embodies the American public's desire to escape from the harsh realities of World War II, as well as the title characters' desires to escape (literally and figuratively) from their own problems; Joe Kavalier wants to help his family escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, and Sammy Clay wants to escape from his polio-stricken body and his repressed homosexuality.
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Escapist Character / int_33acebd8	comment	Sol Badguy from Guilty Gear is a rebel Bounty Hunter rocker who likes Queen and can turn into a badass half-dragon and Curb Stomp most of the cast with only half his potential power. His character is so absolutely over-the-top that he'd be a textbook Gary Stu if he wasn't so damn qu cool, or if he didn't actually have quite a rough past.
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Escapist Character / int_343830b9	comment	The Night Unfurls: Kyril Sutherland, the unkillable, unstoppable eldritch Genius Bruiser as depicted in this story. He represents the experience and reward of any Bloodborne Player Character that "got good" after dying numerous times, slaughtering beasts regardless of the skin they wear like a badass. Remember how in Bloodborne, Yharnam seems to be doomed no matter how many beasts the Player Character slays, and whichever ending they get? Here, the Hunter gets to make the world of Kuroinu a better place by purging it of the rapists and slavers who are dumb enough to be in his way. Sure, there will be people who would not be pleased with how murderous he is, but as long as he is effective and badass enough, earning the admiration and fear from just everyone would be a total cakewalk. Furthermore, he not only gets a harem by the end of the story (not that he's really happy with it), but also manages to be aware of that. Despite having little social expertise, he is able to maintain his celibacy while keeping a healthy distance with those who are pursuing for his affections. Kyril Sutherland sets a shining example to people who either has a mind as dense as a black hole, isn't into romance or any of that mushy stuff, or has relationship issues in general.Some may argue that with all the trauma he has to go through in Yharnam, together with dealing with the potential complexities as a squid-like creature, being Kyril, as opposed to being like Kyril may not be as appealing as it sounds like. On the other hand, the following perks will definitely show that being Kyril would be Worth It: you get to live in an abode both rent-free and disturbance-free (though he prefers a farm); you get to spend all the time in the world with your loyal, long-time companion whom you love all the same, and; should you feel bored, you can always go out and kill a few beasts for your own good, without any sort of repercussion whatsoever. Kyril's four apprentices count as well. The first three (Sanakan, Hugh, Lily) are victims of war due to the Black Dogs' Rape, Pillage, and Burn, while the fourth, Soren, is a thief who constantly suffers from physical abuse by his superiors. All four of them start out as hapless civilians — no wealth, no prestige, no combat experience. People who would be NPCs in another story. Then they meet Kyril (see above), who becomes their sensei and gives them food, shelter, training, a paycheck, and a bunch of improbable-but-cool Mix and Match Weapons. Cue Taking a Level in Badass x4. Other escapist qualities include: an extraordinarily powerful being, far greater than you ever are, giving you the respect, encouragement, and empowerment you deserve, in a way that no other can; the simple desire to be badass triumphing any kind of trauma, misery, or personal demon; and lastly, the prospect that you don't have to be chosen, be a saint, be rich, be a royal, look hot, score dates, or be a suave, smart bastard, to make a difference.
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Escapist Character / int_347facfb	comment	Scarface's Tony-fuckin-Montana was never intended to be this but the only thing anyone remembers of him is how hardcore he was and how epic his death was. Entire subcultures sprung up just to emulate his badassitude.
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Escapist Character / int_366a284d	comment	Fist of the North Star: Luckily, it's not too hard to want to be Kenshiro. This is a dude who beats enemies and blows them up like bombs on a day-to-day basis, and these enemies happen to be super evil that toys around with the weak just to be a bully because they have strength, so it's ALSO an escapism of upholding justice and beating evil in the most epic way possible. He protects the innocent, and more or less turns into The Messiah. He has to work at his victories and doesn't just get them handed over to him on a silver platter. This guy has coolness surrounding him like an aura.
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Escapist Character / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman was explicitly created to be a female power fantasy: she's as powerful as any man, without losing any of her femininity.
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Escapist Character / int_3923b055	comment	Gentleman Jack: Leading lady Anne Lister is this for the show's (massive) sapphic audience. She's an intelligent and strong-willed businesswoman who's about as close to being openly gay as you could be in the 1830s (as in, basically everyone knows except for the extremely oblivious, sheltered, or closed-minded). She dresses exactly how she likes to dress, standards of femininity be damned, travels when and wherever she pleases, doesn't allow men to bully or talk down to her, charms nearly every woman she's interested in, and refuses to apologize for any of it. She's totally confident and self-assured, and spends much of the show gleefully running rings around polite society, being so blatant and open that no one knows what to make of her. Most of the queer women watching the show either wish they were dating Anne, or wish they were Anne.
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Escapist Character / int_3971613a	comment	In I Think Our Son Is Gay, there's an intensely escapist fantasy in Hiroki and his relationship with his mother Tomoko: the idea, for a gay person of any age, that your parent will be supportive and accepting of your sexuality, dedicating themselves to make sure that you feel comfortable even before coming out to them while simultaneously respecting your privacy in the subject, and wishing that the world and the people in your life will also accept and love you—in troper terms, helping you to defy Gayngst. There's a good reason why Tomoko's Fan Nickname is "Best Mom".
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Escapist Character / int_3aab82a	comment	Rico Rodriguez of the Just Cause series. Manly, yet suave, with a magic parachute, whose literal job is "blow everything in sight up"? It's like playing as the forgotten lovechild of James Bond and MacGyver.
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Escapist Character / int_3ac755dd	comment	Belle is socially isolated, but widely considered to be the most beautiful woman in town, is confident in who she is, and has a doting father who understands her. She's intelligent and well-read, and eventually finds love with someone who not only appreciates her not for her looks but who she is, but betters himself due to her influence.
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Escapist Character / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter, before the Cerebus Syndrome set in, his character is almost entirely this in the first book. As an abused orphan he suddenly discovers that he is rich, famous, and oh yes, a wizard. The following six consist of him slowing learning a: the magic world is just as messed up as the muggle one and b: It Sucks to Be the Chosen One. A good way to see this is by reading any of the later books (especially Order of the Phoenix) and comparing them to the first: don't want to be Harry Potter anymore, do ya?
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Escapist Character / int_3b7abee2	comment	Gordon Freeman from Half-Life. Genius MIT graduate working in a secret research facility turned Action Survivor in the first game, then in the second he fills a role of leadership for an oppressed humanity. All of this mainly with a crowbar. He's essentially this trope in video game form. Could have something to do with him being a Silent Protagonist.
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Escapist Character / int_3be307d1	comment	Of course, this also pretty much applies to the protagonist in any harem series. Tenchi Muyo!, Maison Ikkoku, et cetera. Amusingly, one of the biggest complaints about these sorts of characters being wishy-washy ignores the fact that it's the easiest way to make an escapist character not feel openly exploitative of the situation.
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Escapist Character / int_3c5675b	comment	Black Panther: The strong, wise, and noble king of a powerful and extremely technologically advanced African nation untouched by the evils of colonization, and one of the smartest men in the Marvel Universe.
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Escapist Character / int_3f4a104b	comment	Dilbert: Dogbert. Scott Adams has even said that he represents the kinds of things he wishes he could get away with and say to people.
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Escapist Character / int_410978c2	comment	Interspecies Reviewers: While any member of the main cast could count to an extent, Stunk is probably the best example due to being the sole human with (most likely) tastes similar to that of the readerbase. Not only does he get to have sex with dozens of super hot monster girls, he get paid good money to do it! Which he then promptly spends on sex with even more monster girls! Which he then gets paid even more money for!
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Escapist Character / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-1230 is built on this. It's a book where you read it, and the next time you fall asleep you enter an extremely complex dream world where you are the protagonist of a troubled land. These worlds change depending on the user's expectations of fantasy adventure and years can pass inside the dream though you are not asleep for any longer than normal. The book has a consciousness and appears as a benign old man, but he warns users against trying to substitute their personal fantasy for reality. Though classified as Safe, all personnel accessing 1230 are required to undergo psychological examination before and after using the book, after an incident where a professor (who was also an avid player of tabletop roleplaying games) tried to invoke I Choose to Stay and committed suicide when the attempt to keep his personal fantasy going on forever failed.
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Escapist Character / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers and Super Sentai: Many people can get behind the concept. Being a group of ordinary people, who can transform into superpowered heroes at will, and save the world from the Monster of the Week. That anybody of any background can become a ranger, and that having access to cool gadgets and powers, and being able to pilot (or transform) giant robots to save the day.
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Escapist Character / int_46dacb10	comment	Richie Rich: Richie Rich, without a doubt, can be considered one of these. Who WOULDN'T want to be the richest kid in the world, who literally has everything, and yet somehow remains the embodiment of sweetness?
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Escapist Character / int_4811a5a6	comment	Asura from Asura's Wrath is definitely one of these. He's extremely powerful, and can punch out planet sized objects. He seems to subvert this somewhat, in that when his Old Master Augus thinks the way an escapist character should; fighting, eating, drinking, and sleeping with babes, Asura seems to not like it much, and is only focused on retrieving the daughter the 7 Deities took from him.
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Escapist Character / int_49a87cb3	comment	Cloud Strife of Final Fantasy VII is a criticism of this trend, as it turns out he's an insecure and pretentious young man deluding himself into thinking he's a cool fantasy badass himself, and the overall moral of his character arc is to Be Yourself. However, it's fair to say that the reason he sticks so deeply in fans' hearts is because he's strong, intelligent, stylish, has cool magic powers, rides a motorbike, has a kickass BFS, and is so respected for his competence and so charismatic that he can act like an outrageous, negging Jerkass and still be adored by all the girls. (And all the boys.) Many of his appearances in his spinoff media and cameos emphasize this side of his character, to wildly popular but somewhat mixed results. Final Fantasy VII Remake moves back towards celebrating Cloud's outrageous coolness and Chick Magnet gorgeousness while at the same time letting him be "cringe-worthy", but, without the Heroic BSoD that occurs in the full story, it comes across as just another aspect of the escapism — Cloud's a useless nerd who can't talk to girls, just like you, but he's now in the Sexier Alter Ego of a peerless Super-Soldier whose social issues don't obscure his better side.
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Escapist Character / int_50bcf7a6	comment	The Kids in Homestuck (at least in the early arcs before things get really dark). They essentially end up living in a RPG Mechanics 'Verse where they acquire a variety of awesome abilities, craft lots of cool powerful items, fight monsters, and go on epic quests, all while getting to make friends (well, for a loose definition of "friends") with a bunch of alien kids.
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Escapist Character / int_521875b4	comment	Black Bullet's Tina Sprout. It's generally agreed that many want Tina as their little sister instead of Enju (especially in America). It also doesn't help to note that Tina's personality does not fit into the typical Japanese stereotype of an American.note While Americans are often portrayed to be brash, loud, Hot-Blooded, and sometimes arrogant. Tina is a complete opposite where she's quiet, an airhead, and a very friendly girl at heart.
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Escapist Character / int_529ee66	comment	Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic is an ace of a superhero who always wins against the bad guys, usually very easily. Heâ€™s powerful, clever, and the fastest thing alive, as well as being very popular with girls and a world-famous celebrity whoâ€™s loved and respected by everyone. To drive the point home, Sonicâ€™s sidekick, Tails, idolizes him and talks a lot about how cool he is.
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Escapist Character / int_542849ec	comment	According to Greg Sestero, Johnny from The Room (2003) was this for Tommy Wiseau. A well-liked, well-off man with a lavish apartment in San Francisco. Honestly, if it wasn't for his girlfriend cheating on him with his best friend, the film would have ended after the first sex scene.
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Escapist Character / int_554fcf93	comment	Sara from A Little Princess is in denial about her (unconventional) beauty, filthy rich yet sweet to everyone, treated unfairly by the antagonists who eventually get their comeuppance, extremely smart, Wise Beyond Her Years and can speak fluent French. She is still a likeable character, with a little help from Grandfather Clause.
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Escapist Character / int_569093cc	comment	DuckTales (2017): Scrooge McDuck is rich beyond belief, talented at nearly everything, is smart and able to think his way of everything, and has a loving family and employs colorful and interesting people. Who wouldn't want to be in his shoes? In spite of his Jerkass behavior, Gladstone Gander is so lucky, people can't help but wonder what things would be like if they had his kind of luck.
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Escapist Character / int_56a211e9	comment	Lina Inverse from Slayers is this to many people. She's a beautiful, powerful sorceress who can level an entire city if she wanted to, lives her life as she pleases without letting anyone or anything get in her way, takes no shit from anyone, always wins in the end, not to mention she gets to eat a lot of delicious food without ever worrying about her weight. Of course, many of her best traits are also presented as flaws, so she still manages to be a well-written and likable character at the same time.
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Escapist Character / int_5908ee91	comment	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: The Dragonborn, in spades. You start out as a random nobody who is about to get executed by mistake in the context of a rampaging Civil War, with Dragons suddenly showing up. Then it turns out you are some kind of Humanoid Abomination with the ability to absorb dragon's souls in order to get their power, as well as The Chosen One to save the world. You then proceed to take several level in badass, gain several titles, help end the Civil War by joining the side you want, join various factions to eventually become their leader, become the champion to various Draedric Princes, get various loyal followers and generally shape the country to you fantasy. And it's awesome. The setting itself also appeals to this. You're essentially in Fantasy Scandinavia, in a land where fantasy Vikings and fantasy Romans are battling for control, where dragons roam, or as many fans had pointed out you're in Game of Thrones where fantasy Starks and fantasy Lannisters are battling for control, where dragons roam, and GoT is one of the many many many mods that can further the idea. Massive predators lurk, evil elves plot in the shadows, and thieves, werewolves, wizards, and assassins do their work. Everywhere you go, there's monsters to kill, bandits to put to justice, evil wizards to defeat, vampires to slay, and countless more badguys to battle. And when you're not looking for things to fight, there's the an absolutely jaw-droppingly wondrous environment to explore.
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Escapist Character / int_59151283	comment	Solid Snake from Metal Gear is a subversion. The series starts by setting him up as an absolutely archetypal action hero (particularly the 80s action, Kurt Russell type), a classic Escapist Character. As the plot progresses, the player learns exactly how miserable and shattered Snake really is. Unfortunately, some players missed the point; Kojima decided to be a touch less subtle in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and gave us Raiden (an extremely vicious aversion of the trope) instead. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots also highlights how unhealthy it can be to use first person shooter games as part of your escapist fantasies; not only does Snake have a lot of disdain for how warfare has changed due to social attitudes and technology, Big Mama has a long speech about how it helps mould people into viewing warfare as being just a game and possibly becoming soldiers themselves for the wrong reasons. To really drive home the point, it even shows an image of someone choosing to play the game, while emphasising how bad these games are! Moral of the story is that Kojima really doesn't want you to admire Solid Snake, or any FPS heroes who are like him. Snake's looks have faded (well, somewhat) and his body is breaking down, and he doesn't end up particularly important in saving the world either, instead merely acting as a disposable bodyguard to a plan hatched and implemented by Otacon, Sunny, Naomi... and Big Boss. Of course, he's still depicted as a cool and romanticised hero, so there's a definite Do Not Do This Cool Thing aspect to this.
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Escapist Character / int_5921531c	comment	The Phantom Thieves from Persona 5. The first arc involves an abusive and predatory gym teacher who gets away with everything until the protagonist and his friends stumble upon the power of Persona, which lets them fight back and force him to change his ways. They then proceed to help other teenagers defeat the adults who are ruining their lives in a similar way, before moving up to fighting the corrupt government.
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Escapist Character / int_5ada53ed	comment	Since he's a James Bond Expy, it's not surprising that James West easily qualifies. His partner, Artemus Gordon, gradually develops into one as well.
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Escapist Character / int_5c40c4a3	comment	The Man With No Name of the Dollars Trilogy is smart, handsome, intelligent, always wins, and is the sort of guy that audiences feel they want to be.
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Escapist Character / int_5ce2f08b	comment	Ciel of Black Butler. An incredibly rich and beautiful Teen Genius that nearly everyone loves and respects who has an almighty Bishounen Battle Butler that can grant his every wish and can be extremely close to him at times? Not to mention his Dark and Troubled Past (which he was 'rescued from' by the aforementioned butler), Even the Guys Want Him, he works for the queen, and he owns the largest toy company in Britain... all starting before the age of twelve.
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Escapist Character / int_5fe8632b	comment	W.I.T.C.H.: The titular Guardians of Kandrakar — Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin — are this for the franchise's intended target audience of young girls. They were once ordinary school girls dealing with the troubles of growing up who, after becoming the Guardians, now have superpowers, go on exciting adventures and have near-singlehandedly saved the world a few times.
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Escapist Character / int_61165847	comment	HuniePop is deliberately set up to let you be one of these. You, the main character, start out as a shy virgin who can barely even talk to girls, and, with some help from Kyu the love fairy, end up having sex with several beautiful girls, including a catgirl, an alien, the aforementioned Kyu, and finally the goddess of love herself, Venus. And you do it all by, essentially, playing Bejeweled.
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Escapist Character / int_6155364	comment	Wolfenstein: The New Order: The Hero, William Joseph Blazkowicz, or B.J. for short. Implacable Man? Check. Older Than They Look? Check. Determinator? Check. Happily Married? Check. Master in being a soldier? Check. Hope Bringer? Check. Killing Nazis in the horde, in the most brutal ways possible? Check.
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Escapist Character / int_630755ab	comment	Tavi of Calderon from Codex Alera. So what if everyone outclasses you? You can kick their asses anyway! And they don't really outclass you, you're just a late bloomer.
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Escapist Character / int_631805af	comment	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots also highlights how unhealthy it can be to use first person shooter games as part of your escapist fantasies; not only does Snake have a lot of disdain for how warfare has changed due to social attitudes and technology, Big Mama has a long speech about how it helps mould people into viewing warfare as being just a game and possibly becoming soldiers themselves for the wrong reasons. To really drive home the point, it even shows an image of someone choosing to play the game, while emphasising how bad these games are! Moral of the story is that Kojima really doesn't want you to admire Solid Snake, or any FPS heroes who are like him. Snake's looks have faded (well, somewhat) and his body is breaking down, and he doesn't end up particularly important in saving the world either, instead merely acting as a disposable bodyguard to a plan hatched and implemented by Otacon, Sunny, Naomi... and Big Boss. Of course, he's still depicted as a cool and romanticised hero, so there's a definite Do Not Do This Cool Thing aspect to this.
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Escapist Character / int_63f08c20	comment	The Escapist Character is the central premise of all tabletop role-playing games. From Bunnies & Burrows to Exalted, they all focus on allowing the players to run characters who aren't bound by the rules of that pesky Real Life.
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Escapist Character / int_65e80f63	comment	Much of the appeal of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin was that he said whatever he wanted and did whatever he wanted, got to beat up vile authority figures, and then cracked open a cold beer or six afterward. His act also involved infrequent use of Cool Trucks, to the point several monster trucks ran some variation of the "Austin 3:16" name under an official WWF license.
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Escapist Character / int_699c1e80	comment	She-Hulk: She-Hulk, the Hulk's cousin and Distaff Counterpart is a straighter example. She's a brilliant lawyer who also happens to be a superhuman Amazonian Beauty.
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Escapist Character / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Considering Overwatch setting about heroes, some characters really fit the bill more than others. Those that stand out include: Tracer, a beamingly cheerful British pilot who totes a dual gun and perpetually cheerful, always constantly positive and fighting for common good in the world, with her motto being "The world could use more heroes." Helping things are the fact that she can reverse time and reappear in a place several seconds before her. Bonus points for being unashamedly lesbian and not being discriminated for it, making more lesbian people feel more awed by her. Lucio, a funky Brazilian DJ who doubles as a freedom fighter and struck against a corrupt corporate from harming his people, becoming famous for that and spreads the good message of unity and freedom. He's loved by a lot of people, very social (except against anyone from that corporate) and his music, helped with his tools, can either heal people or stimulate them to move faster. D.Va, a 19-year-old South Korean Gamer Chick who is an undefeated Starcraft pro, being conscripted by her nation's military in order to fight off giant robots that invaded her country, never losing optimism despite the horrors she went through and in fact streams her battles to lift her people's spirits and in battle, likes to pepper gaming jargon in battles, and also doubles as a celebrity.
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Escapist Character / int_6f96cb3d	comment	Sucker Punch invokes this both for the characters themselves and for the audience. To cope with the traumas in their lives, the girls create fantasized versions of themselves, who are badass warriors who mop the floors with robotic Nazis, orcs, and whatever else comes their way. Meanwhile, they invoke all kinds of daydreams the audience members have: piloting awesome mechas, mowing down enemy soldiers with machine guns, fighting robotic samurai with katanas, etc.
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Escapist Character / int_72e7d7f6	comment	Lord Peter Wimsey has elements of this: Dorothy L. Sayers created the character when she was desperately poor and got a certain satisfaction from making him the richest and most self-indulgent man in London.
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Escapist Character / int_755b343f	comment	Master Chief in the Halo series, and especially Noble Six from Halo: Reach, since customization allows the player to identify even more with the Spartan who just happens to be as "hyperlethal" as Chief — and can even be female.
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Escapist Character / int_7988cb68	comment	This trope is Commander Shepard from Mass Effect to a tee. You can choose to be the ultimate hero or the ultimate bad ass, you can customize Shepard to be most like yourself, most of the characters have a crush on you, and you go around saving the world and kicking ass, as well as becoming an intergalactic celebrity on a regular basis.
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Escapist Character / int_79970f6	comment	In American Dreamer, Cathy saw Rebecca Ryan as this In-Universe, even though the character seemed to take James Bond's apparent Sue traits up a notch.
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Escapist Character / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb, especially Phineas, are imaginative brothers who have the know-how to build awesome inventions that can make everyone happy, have a loyal circle of friends, get to meet all sorts of wacky characters and beings, and even have a pet who leads a double life as a secret agent.
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Escapist Character / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Frozen: Queen Elsa definitely counts. There's a reason her Signature Song "Let it Go" is such a hit: in one catchy tune, she encapsulates many moviegoers' desire to cast away all their social hangups and be without restraints. Her ice powers, that can instantly weave dresses, craft enormous Ice Palaces, and conjure living snowmen, is the icing on the cake.
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Escapist Character / int_7f2f55ad	comment	The Punisher MAX: The Frank Castle character from the MAX imprint is particularly popular among those who strongly dislike criminals. Similarly, for obvious reasons, Frank is immensely popular among readers with right-leaning political tendencies, as well as among state officials such as police officers and military personnel. This inclination was even acknowledged in the movie American Sniper, where one of the main characters' fellow SEALs can be seen reading the first arc of the comic.
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Escapist Character / int_8124a34e	comment	Barbie is meant to be every little girl's fantasy come to life. She's been a doctor, a zookeeper, a fairy princess, The President, an astronaut, and many more, all while being as attractive and glamorous as they come.
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Escapist Character / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: The concept of serving on a Starfleet ship as a whole can be a fantasy fufillment for many people seeking strange new worlds, new life, and new civilizations while going where no one has ever gone before. Working on a spaceship with cutting edge technology, encountering the unknown with coworkers and friends without the present day stigma of racial and sexual societal norms, meeting new alien species and handling intergalatic crisis through guile and human emotions are some of the best values that Star Trek has to offer. A few characters from Star Trek stand out for one reason or another: Data and Spock serve as the same sort of wish fulfillment archetype for socially awkward Trekkies. To wit, they're smart, respected, physically powerful, long-lived, and they're blessed with loving and devoted friends even though they themselves have never managed to master human social skills. Riker. Has a killer beard, grew up in Alaska, knows martial arts, plays trombone, will wipe the floor with you at poker, isn't afraid to break the rules, unflappable (well mostly)... And then he turns out to be an augment exile in one of the books. Squee! Kirk, the handsome, two-fisted, galaxy-trotting captain who calls the shots and bangs the aliens. Jean Luc Picard was a more educated, articulate, enlightened alternative to the pulp-reminiscent Kirk. Arguably, Sisko and Janeway were a Darker and Edgier alternative to both. Wesley was intended to be this to young viewers; a kid who could hold his own and had skills gradually prove himself to the crew as someone useful. Worf also became this in many of the more Klingon-centric episodes. The Proud Warrior Race Guy is usually pretty popular with the Fanboys.
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Escapist Character / int_83d41855	comment	Gargoyles: David Xanatos. Xanatos is rich, successful, charismatic, handsome, a fighter capable of taking on the world's greatest warriors in single combat, and so intelligent that he named two different planning tropes, always coming out on top. The catch? He's the villain. Though the Gargoyles are our heroes, and Xanatos must often be stopped for the good of others, it's hard not to want to be the Evil Genius Xanatos is presented as.
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Escapist Character / int_86814ea1	comment	Noctis and Prompto in Final Fantasy XV. Noctis is a good-looking prince with the sexiest Cool Car ever to appear in the series, proficiency in absolutely every weapon, ridiculous magic powers over dimensions itself that all his friends are dependent on, a great outfit, a beautiful princess he's already engaged to, and a gaggle of friends who think he's the greatest thing ever. Prompto used to be an awkward, shy fat kid who lost weight, came out of his shell, and is now cool enough to hang around someone as cool as Noctis.
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Escapist Character / int_869a0304	comment	Lisbeth Salander from the Millennium trilogy. An uber-hacker, punk bad-ass (but still vulnerable), slim-bodied (then conveniently well-endowed), absurdly wealthy, master-of-disguise bisexual Manic Pixie Dream Girl GENIUS with a strong sexual appetite and a sympathetic Dark and Troubled Past? What's not to want? Blomkvist certainly fits the trope, as well.
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Escapist Character / int_876c7452	comment	Sports Night was once described as the office where everyone wants to work (in contrast to The Office, where everyone does). Issac is the ideal boss, Dan and Casey are the friends/co-workers you wish you had, and the loyalty of the characters to each other is extreme. Whenever a group member has a problem, expect the characters to do rally around them, even when doing so would be firmly at odds with their stated job duties. The characters and their choices are wildly improbable and idealistic, but they're the gateway to a world in which people do the right thing.
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Escapist Character / int_882f1fdb	comment	Bugs Bunny. As Chuck Jones put it: "We love Daffy because he is us, we love Bugs because he is as wonderful as we would like to be." This could very well be the appeal of the Karmic Trickster, defying the laws of physics to stay several steps ahead of your foes in the most hilarious way possible.
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Escapist Character / int_88b348e8	comment	Sakura Kinomoto of Cardcaptor Sakura is one for the intended audience of young girls, being a spacey but kind-hearted girl who gains immense magical power, is deemed worthy of wielding the cards that grant her such power, wins over her rival, and befriends practically everyone she meets with The Power of Friendship.
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Escapist Character / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians. So what if you don't do well in school, and your stepfather is a jerk? You're really a super-powerful demigod with Poseidon for a father, and you get to do cool stuff from now on! You even get to go to a summer camp full of people just like you! (This is likely why Rick wrote it in the first place — his son happens to have dyslexia and ADHD. Coincidence? Unlikely!) Though as with Harry Potter, Cerebus Syndrome set in, and became more of an example of It Sucks to Be the Chosen One.
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Escapist Character / int_8a339030	comment	Indiana Jones: Travel the globe. Pick up chick. Punch Nazis. Find priceless artifact. Reveal ancient secrets. Get hounded by college girls. Repeat.
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Escapist Character / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: Light Yagami. His villainous nature, perceived sexuality, fan fixations, and the fact that evil rocks doesn't hurt either. Besides, the power to get rid in a few seconds of every evil people (or those deemed to be so) and avenge injustice and prevarication is really tempting. Also, L. Who doesn't want to just say whatever's on their mind, get whatever they want, afford to be picky about what work they take on, subsist on sweets and stay thin, and count putting on ratty old sneakers as "getting dressed up?" Not to mention he's a genius detective, and is implied to be incredibly rich.
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Escapist Character / int_8c135a20	comment	Rainbow Brite: Wisp enters Rainbowland seeking to return it to its former glory. In the end, she becomes Rainbow Brite, the leader of the Color Kids, who are in charge of making the world a brighter place. She has the ability to take down powerful villains with ease, explores fantastical settings, gets to meet all sorts of wonderful and wacky characters and beings, and has a loyal companion and even two pets who are nearly always by her side.
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Escapist Character / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: He's the Man of Tomorrow (i.e. he was supposed to be what ordinary people might dream of someday becoming), The Cape, the'' Ideal Hero, and The Paragon whom everyone looks up to, as well as an immensely powerful Flying Brick who put most of the Justice League to shame. And the name of his city, "Metropolis", comes from the Greek and Latin roots for "city," so Clark Kent is basically Everyman, Everywhere.
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Escapist Character / int_8f1f4b97	comment	The Main Character of Summertime Saga is one for horny teenage boys. Despite being relatively plain in all other respects, he's hung like a moose, has sex with nearly every woman in townnote including, during earlier stages of development, his own family members he lusts after, gets the Alpha Bitch to dump her boyfriend for him, beats said Jerk Jock boyfriend into a pulp after humiliating him, and gets to hang out with Mario, John Wick, and Ivanka Trump before almost single-handedly disposing of The Mafiya, avenging his father's death, and ending up with a Cool Car, a beach house and a loaded bank account, and possibly becoming a father several times over (without the burdens of things like child support or having to invest any time in raising babies).
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Escapist Character / int_8f25225c	comment	The protagonists of the mainline Danganronpa games. The Closed Circle setting means they get to hang out with quirky, fun-loving teenagers all day without adult supervision, show off their brains by solving trials, and grow close to a cute, smart girl... and have to watch all their closest friends get horribly murdered, but details. This goes double for the extra modes where the killing game doesn't occur, meaning nobody has to be traumatized and none of the students you like die gruesomely. In-universe, it's heavily suggested that the persona 'Celestia Ludenberg' is one to Taeko Yasuhiro. Taeko is a painfully generic Japanese schoolgirl, having a name that's basically 'Jane Smith', liking a common snack, with a completely plain appearance. When she discovered she did have something that stood out (her talent at games of chance), she took the opportunity to completely reinvent herself as an Elegant Gothic Lolita with a cool name, royal demeanor, unflappable poise, less common tastes (i.e. liking 'royal milk tea'), and intriguing title as the Queen of Liars. She gets uncharacteristically upset when her fellows uncover her mundane true identity during the third trial.
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Escapist Character / int_8f4ee60f	comment	Marty McFly of Back to the Future fame is, like Peter Parker, somewhere between "everyman" and "cool guy you want to hang out with". He's good at playing guitar, skateboarding, hoverboarding, wooing ladies, escaping by the skin of his teeth, and video games — pretty much everything an Eighties kid or teenager would love. Plus, his best friend is a mad scientist who invents time travel, allowing both to have exciting adventures in past and future. Shame about his mother, though.
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Escapist Character / int_980c3316	comment	Shazam!: Captain Marvel took up the Wish-Fulfillment a notch by taking Billy Batson, a boy within the age range of the target demographic, and giving him the ability to transform into a superhero very much like the one kids were into at the time. Unfortunately, the courts agreed with DC that it was a little too similar (which interestingly ended up with them in the same universe).
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Escapist Character / int_990dea86	comment	Moana is looked up to be the next chief in her beautiful peaceful island and everybody loves her. She has a special connection with the ocean and a magical destiny in tow.
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Escapist Character / int_9a8bf274	comment	The entire Command & Conquer series bar 1 or 2 exceptions has faceless protagonists as the respective Commander or General of your chosen side (and even if not, the player characters are generally very cool). This allows players to freely act like any kind of military commander they would like to, while building giant bases, training swarms of infantry and sending out dozens of awesome tanks in all shapes and sizes, alongside mecha, aircraft and sometimes battleships. Or occasionally lone commandos who can cause more damage than Superman. Most games put the fate of the world into the player's hand and allow their side total domination of the world, while they serve (and sometimes usurp) awesome characters like Kane, Stalin, Yuri and others, who hand out military honours and congratulatory remarks by the bucket load.
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Escapist Character / int_9b530c26	comment	Archie Comics: Archie is a huge Chick Magnet with girls always falling into his lap, despite him not really doing anything. He also is a musician, is on the football team, lives in a pretty scenic town, has a lot of friends, and is above-average looking (bar his Early Installment Character-Design Difference).
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Escapist Character / int_9db1766a	comment	Dante of Devil May Cry. A witty, snarky, badass Half-Demon Hunter of His Own Kind who does all kinds of ridiculous over-the-top stylish stunts in both gameplay and cutscenes and runs his own kickass Demon Hunting business. Who wouldn't want to be as cool as him? Though he borders on subversion in the first game: sure he wields incredible power and kicks a lot of ass, but he's also shown to have a lot of Survivor's Guilt, be the Angsty Surviving Twin and can even verge on Sad Clown, depending on how his fears and traumas are interpreted. Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening on the other hand, takes this trope and runs with it.
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Escapist Character / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece; an eccentric, friendly, and courageous pirate adventurer with strange and extraordinary elastic abilities who sails around the world on grand adventures with his True Companions, defeating deadly, notorious pirates, saving entire kingdoms, and rebelling against a corrupt government to follow his dreams, becoming one of the world's most famous pirates in his quest to become King of the Pirates. Many story arcs end with Luffy and his crew celebrating victories with massive parties, inviting all the friends and people they've helped to join in, and with Luffy being the Magnetic Hero that he is, it usually ends up spanning an entire island. Like many Shonen protagonists, Luffy is directly based on Goku, one of the most famous escapist characters in manga.
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Escapist Character / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Most PokÃ©mon protagonists. You're a young child around 11 — 16 traveling the country without any adult supervision, and you never have to go to school. You get to fight villainous teams using often times cute animals with extraordinary powers. You become the best trainer in that region within a few months.
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Escapist Character / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin: The titular protagonist could possibly qualify as one of these; he's a successful journalist embarking on incredible adventures accompanied by a medley of unusual comrades. Not only that, but Herge himself admitted that Tintin's limited personality was a means of enabling readers to assume Tintin's position and experience such great adventures, and that writing the books provided him Wish Fulfillment, having initially conceived Tintin as an idealized version of himself.
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Escapist Character / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: In the 20th century, Philip J. Fry was your typical down-on-his-luck Idiot Manchild who would never amount to anything. 1000 years into The Future, and he's landed a steady job traveling the cosmos, interacting with all sorts of crazy aliens and robots, and has even been instrumental in saving the world a few times.
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Escapist Character / int_a309c5a5	comment	Hannah Montana is a textbook example for the preteen girl demographic of the show: an average, dorky, unpopular girl who is secretly a beautiful, glamorous pop star whom everybody loves.
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Escapist Character / int_a32b6a64	comment	The West Wing: Keeping in mind the above, but with the stakes raised from "cable sports show" to "the White House." Would any White House staff member ever be so idealistic and willing to put principles ahead of politics, let alone be so bold in their politics? See their rivals as human beings first and enemies second? Of course. Almost the entire cast falls under this trope, but Donna, the audience surrogate (who is treated very well despite being an administrative assistant), Sam, Toby, and Leo stand out for being incredible idealists with improbable skill-sets.
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Escapist Character / int_a63b23da	comment	Bruce from Bruce Almighty. Aside from having a fairly attractive girlfriend and a steady job, he gets to spend several weeks with God's Powers, with which he could do absolutely ANYTHING he wanted (Aside from tell anyone he was God or affect free will), such as getting a promotion at work, revenge on people who'd done him wrong, making himself the world's greatest sex machine, making his girlfriend's boobs bigger, and getting himself an amazing car. Really the only reason all the bad stuff happened to Bruce was that he was stupid, and seemed to forget that he could, in his own words, "Clean everything up in 5 minutes if he wanted to".
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Escapist Character / int_a6543322	comment	While most Touhou Project protagonists could well count, Sanae Kochiya seems to have been created specifically with this in mind, maybe even as an Audience Surrogate. She is a rather geeky human from the Outside World who gets to personally come to the fantasy world of Gensokyo, live with goddesses and experience the beautiful danmaku battles firsthand, a dream that many fans of the series share. She quickly adapts to her new environment and seems to have a lot of fun dueling the locals. She is not exactly a small fry on the Gensokyan steep power scale, either. The fact that she is a descendent of a deity and has (admittedly minor) divine powers herself does not hurt, either. Marisa Kirisame could also count. She is a legit badass witch who fires giant lasers and just takes essentially whatever she wants from whoever she wants. But what makes her relatable is the fact that, unlike most of the characters, she is just an average human who knows a lot about magic, demonstrating that with enough drive and work, anyone could potentially become an awesome badass.
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Escapist Character / int_a81325d3	comment	Lots of Final Fantasy protagonists. The characters in I and III lack names, encouraging the player to name them after themselves and their friends. Cloud Strife of Final Fantasy VII is a criticism of this trend, as it turns out he's an insecure and pretentious young man deluding himself into thinking he's a cool fantasy badass himself, and the overall moral of his character arc is to Be Yourself. However, it's fair to say that the reason he sticks so deeply in fans' hearts is because he's strong, intelligent, stylish, has cool magic powers, rides a motorbike, has a kickass BFS, and is so respected for his competence and so charismatic that he can act like an outrageous, negging Jerkass and still be adored by all the girls. (And all the boys.) Many of his appearances in his spinoff media and cameos emphasize this side of his character, to wildly popular but somewhat mixed results. Final Fantasy VII Remake moves back towards celebrating Cloud's outrageous coolness and Chick Magnet gorgeousness while at the same time letting him be "cringe-worthy", but, without the Heroic BSoD that occurs in the full story, it comes across as just another aspect of the escapism — Cloud's a useless nerd who can't talk to girls, just like you, but he's now in the Sexier Alter Ego of a peerless Super-Soldier whose social issues don't obscure his better side. Noctis and Prompto in Final Fantasy XV. Noctis is a good-looking prince with the sexiest Cool Car ever to appear in the series, proficiency in absolutely every weapon, ridiculous magic powers over dimensions itself that all his friends are dependent on, a great outfit, a beautiful princess he's already engaged to, and a gaggle of friends who think he's the greatest thing ever. Prompto used to be an awkward, shy fat kid who lost weight, came out of his shell, and is now cool enough to hang around someone as cool as Noctis.
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Escapist Character / int_a825da3e	comment	Jace Beleren from Magic: The Gathering was explicitly designed to be this for the game's largest demographic, he is a shy, introverted creative person in his late teens to early twenties and he is the most popular of the game's colors among the fanbase (blue). He is also known for his great power, very strong cards, and anime hair. The official game font used for card titles as of Magic 2015 is even called Beleren.
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Escapist Character / int_a96a7ada	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Yugi Muto from Yu-Gi-Oh!. He's a Shrinking Violet who has the loyalty of a powerful and ancient spirit Sharing a Body with him, has a core group of best friends who stick by him through thick and thin, and eventually becomes a strong duelist in his own right. To a slightly lesser extent, The Rival Seto Kaiba could also be seen as this, being a super-smart billionaire Teen Genius. Yuma Tsukumo. Unusual for the fact that he doesn't start out at one. Probably why he was hated among the franchise protagonist, for at least Yugi is meant to be a Vanilla Protagonist.
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Escapist Character / int_a9a8ff11	comment	My Dress-Up Darling: As always in those kinds of Romantic Comedy anime, Gojo makes for a wish fulfillment character, being a male lead with poor social skills who suddenly finds himself among the charms of a beautiful girl that also respects and admires even his most embarrassing sides. There is an extra bonus in that, for a change, said girl does not deny her feelings for him and is actively (if in her own way) trying to ease their way into a relationship. Kitagawa herself is seen by the female audience as a borderline wish fulfillment character, given that she manages to enter the cosplay scene with the adorable and handsome Gojo by her side, who she helps with his insecurities as he does for her. Furthermore, Kitagawa manages to be extremely confident in her nerdy interests all the while maintaining her beautiful gyaru looks that she's proud to flaunt, but it's especially the fact that Kitagawa is an understanding Nice Girl that also appeals to the female audience, who are happy the series subverts expectations by Kitagawa not engaging in mean-spirited or tsundere antics towards Gojo that are usually found with female leads in male targeted works.
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Escapist Character / int_a9efa696	comment	Lyle Phipps of Great is perhaps the ultimate example of this trope. After being brought to the edge of the Despair Event Horizon when losing his job and his wife on the same day, he decides to hell with it and swears that from that day forth, he would be a badass. Which he promptly does. He goes to a bad part of town and challenges a street gang. Not only does he win, he becomes their leader, and helps the now-Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters deal with their emotional issues. This eventually leads to him meeting a beautiful woman who marries him, and the two of them take over Lyle's new father-in-law's noodle shop, becoming multi-millionaires whom everybody looks up to. He also has such great charisma that he is able to create a self-help program that actually works, through sheer force of personality alone. Eventually, however, his wife becomes a better chef than him, leading to him going off on his own to improve himself some more, but realizes that he doesn't need worldly success to be happy, and contents himself with running a small noodle stand at the park.
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Escapist Character / int_aeb6ec24	comment	Rachel and Kirsty from the Rainbow Magic series are these for younger readers; they hang out with fairies and save the world from Jack Frost all the time.
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Escapist Character / int_afc86b0a	comment	Ender Wiggin is a mix. On the one hand, he is the smartest kid in the entire Battle School, and while not the strongest is clever enough to crush much bigger and stronger foes with ease. He's constantly hailed as the only hope the human race has of defeating the buggers, and manages to win every battle of the war, as well as in the Battle School. That is really cool to read as a kid, especially when you get to imagine yourself playing through all the fun sounding battle simulation games Ender trains in. On the other hand, Ender is constantly targeted by bullies, the people who hail him as a savior of the human race have no respect for his mental health and well being beyond being able to defeat the buggers, and the stress eventually starts driving Ender a little crazy.
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Escapist Character / int_afeeacf6	comment	Rey continues this trend in The Force Awakens. She's an orphan, abandoned by her parents and living all alone on a lifeless backwater planet, scrounging for scraps and hoping she has enough to trade to an obnoxious junk-trader boss so that he'll give her enough to eat. Then she gets to fly the Millennium Falcon, fight the evil First Order, become fast friends with the Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Luke Skywalker, and in the case of the latter, even wield his lightsaber in a fight against Kylo Ren. Firmly driven home in The Last Jedi with Rey, when it's revealed that she explicitly is not the child of anyone special. Unlike Luke Skywalker, you don't have to be the child of the greatest Jedi ever to live to have amazing adventures and epic Force powers — she gets to do it all on her own. The final shot of the film drives this home, with a Force-sensitive boy in child slavery, looking up at the stars, holding a broom like a lightsaber, and dreaming of becoming a Jedi. Just like all of us. That last point was subverted by The Rise of Skywalker when it's revealed that Rey is the granddaughter of none other than Emperor Palpatine himself.
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Escapist Character / int_b11e29d2	comment	Outlaw Star: Gene Starwind is almost certifiably the epitome of this trope: Hot, muscular guy with lots of Shirtless Scenes, awesom fighting skills, lecherous pervert who still scores booty all the time with various incredibly hot women, spends cash like popcorn yet never runs out because some bounty is always available for collection, has a highly sought after Cool Spaceship, commands a Badass Crew that is mostly female, follows his insane orders without much questioning and adores him and a Magical Girlfriend that loves him dearly and heals all his injuries via Intimate Healing. He wields a one of a kind Hand Cannon that is also a Wave-Motion Gun, and always leaves the bad guys screaming in frustration. He can act as an obnoxious, irresponsible Manchild all the time and get away with it without breaking a sweat.
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Escapist Character / int_b2ec030b	comment	Pippi Longstocking. Why does she get Super-Strength, lots of gold, a horse, and no parents around to tell her what to do? Because that was your fantasy. Karlsson on the Roof, by the same author, is an escapist character, as well. He more or less gets away with everything (at least in the '50's) a child wished they could get away with, and go too far with things like tormenting thieves.
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Escapist Character / int_b30ae4db	comment	The setting itself also appeals to this. You're essentially in Fantasy Scandinavia, in a land where fantasy Vikings and fantasy Romans are battling for control, where dragons roam, or as many fans had pointed out you're in Game of Thrones where fantasy Starks and fantasy Lannisters are battling for control, where dragons roam, and GoT is one of the many many many mods that can further the idea. Massive predators lurk, evil elves plot in the shadows, and thieves, werewolves, wizards, and assassins do their work. Everywhere you go, there's monsters to kill, bandits to put to justice, evil wizards to defeat, vampires to slay, and countless more badguys to battle. And when you're not looking for things to fight, there's the an absolutely jaw-droppingly wondrous environment to explore.
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Escapist Character / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic himself is one of these. He's fast, powerful, and incredibly acrobatic, and he has several powerful transformations. Heâ€™s also world-famous and very often written as being a Chick Magnet. Who wouldn't want to be him? His rebellious attitude towards authority and his laidback, casual demeanor only help to further allow the player to project themselves on the Blue Blur. Shadow may be even more obvious. He's almost as strong as Knuckles, as fast as Sonic thanks to his jet rollerblades, uses guns, cars, cursing, and can choose whichever side he wants be on at any given moment. He's immortal, very intelligent, and pretty much has magical/super powers along with several transformations.
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Escapist Character / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Spider-Man straddles the line between This Loser Is You and an Escapist Character pretty much constantly. No matter how much his life ends up sucking (Hero with Bad Publicity, dead parents and uncle, "rocky" love-life pre-MJ, One More Day) he's a superhero who gets to web-sling from skyscrapers and he always has a quip ready. There's also something very appealing about an everyman amongst so many other powerful superheroes (even more so when you consider how most Marvel Universe characters are everymen already). Several critics have argued that the character has become this to the writers even more so than to the reader. Hence why the franchise has gone through so many eras where the character pandered to each writer's personal vision of how the character should be instead of focusing on delivering a cohesive narrative.
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Escapist Character / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk is a mix between This Loser Is You and this. Most people can relate to feeling like poor, downtrodden Bruce Banner at least once in their life and he can provide wish fulfillment by turning into an unstoppable rage monster that can curbstomp almost anything that pisses him off. Less so in later storylines, as his Hulk persona wrecked his personal and professional life. Deconstructed In-Universe in Totally Awesome Hulk. Amadeus Cho is an Audience Surrogate for all those who would savor the power and invincibility of the Hulk, unlike Bruce Banner. However, as the recurring dream sequences symbolize, he isn't quite as in control as he believes, and being the Hulk comes comes with a lot of responsibility that a kid may not be mature enough to handle.
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Escapist Character / int_b53d6525	comment	The title character of The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon. Sure, he doesn't get all the chicks (at least not yet), but he can beat you down faster than you can say, "Look out! Jack Cannon's about to punch you with his kung-fu-like action!"
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Escapist Character / int_b541a2a5	comment	The House of Night, is filled with these. ahem The vampyre race is persecuted by humans, despite being superior to them both physically and aesthetically (and having superpowers). Because vampyres are more creative and passionate than any human, they are responsible for nearly all intellectual and artistic advancements, ever. They're all incredibly wealthy, and so socially progressive that their society is ruled entirely by women. Most importantly, upon reaching puberty, a human may be chosen by Nyx and taken away to become one of these glamorous creatures of the night. (To be fair, though, this same process may kill them.)
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Escapist Character / int_b98da5d2	comment	Love Hina's Keitaro Urashima. For everyone who ever couldn't get a date, what could be better than suddenly becoming the guy in charge of an all-girls inn, with an onsen, where practically all of them eventually fall for you? Sure, there's the physical pain inflicted on a nearly daily basis, but most would agree that it's Worth It. Of course, this also pretty much applies to the protagonist in any harem series. Tenchi Muyo!, Maison Ikkoku, et cetera. Amusingly, one of the biggest complaints about these sorts of characters being wishy-washy ignores the fact that it's the easiest way to make an escapist character not feel openly exploitative of the situation.
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Escapist Character / int_b99da0d	comment	The Incredible Hercules: Hercules is male power fantasy to a tee. He's a manly Handsome Lech who Really Gets Around and solves nearly every problem he encounters through Attack! Attack! Attack!. He has thus been most guys' personal fantasy made manifest for the last couple millennia.
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Escapist Character / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom: Before Daniel Fenton was turned into a half-ghost, he was your typical down-on-his-luck 14-year old dealing with bullies and the turmoil of school life. After getting mutated, he has superpowers and now gets to have amazing adventures fighting evil, takes on his tormentors with ease, meets all kinds of wild and crazy beings, and has near-singlehandedly saved the world a few times. He is also a Chick Magnet, and although he starts out as a Hero with Bad Publicity, he later becomes loved by the public, to the point that he appears on magazines, newspapers, and billboards, and gets mobbed by fans.
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Escapist Character / int_bd310eaa	comment	Tedd Verres of El Goonish Shive has a shapeshifter girlfriend and access to transformation technology. Elliot is also somewhat of this trope having recently developed superpowers particularly with respect to his reaction to being able to fly.
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Escapist Character / int_bd447006	comment	Sherlock Holmes can solve any case, no matter how bizarre, and can identify a person by a strand of hair inside a hat! And right so inhumanly often. (People tend to forget the cocaine addiction and original shut-in nature.)
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Escapist Character / int_be3298dd	comment	The title character in 1981's Arthur. He's insanely wealthy, never has to work, has a loyal valet, can have just about everything he desires, travels in glamorous circles in New York City, and while he is The Alcoholic, he's still witty and a joy to be around. His only problems, as he sees them, is that his family and their peers are all too stuffy and he hasn't found true love, which of course is something money can't buy — and when he finally finds it, it's with a working-class woman he can't have without risking his inheritance, which hinges on an Arranged Marriage with someone who would bring him down to Earth. Ironically, it's pursuing love instead of money that finally leads him to achieving some maturity, and in the Happy Ending he still gets both. About the only thing he isn't, due to the casting of Dudley Moore in a role that was conceived with a performer like Warren Beatty in mind, is conventionally attractive — key word being conventionally. In the film, Arthur actually asks someone "Don't you wish you were me? I know I do" — which became the basis for one of the film's Taglines ("Don't you wish you were Arthur?").
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Escapist Character / int_c0105f18	comment	The writers of The Bionic Woman invoked this by having Jaime use her bionics to accomplish mundane tasks, just like any other normal person would do in the same situation. Who needs a can opener when you have a bionic hand?
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Escapist Character / int_c0eadab8	comment	Chris Thorndyke from Sonic X came off as this. He was originally meant to be written as an character that the general audience can identify with, but due to his wealthy lifestyle and living with a family of famous relatives, as well as being best friends with Sonic the Hedgehog and helping him foil Dr. Eggman's plans, it seems like the writers wrote Chris as a character that the audience would like to be rather than a character the audience can identify with. Sonic is an even greater example, being a very powerful, world-famous superhero, surrounded by friends who like and respect him and a girl whoâ€™s madly in love with him.
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Escapist Character / int_c11df2bf	comment	Dan Kuso from Bakugan Battle Brawlers is intended to be this for its intended target audience of young boys, being a typical kid who suddenly gains immense fighting power, is deemed worthy of using the titular Mons that give him that power, goes on adventures with a loyal group of friends, wins over rivals, becomes more and more stronger with every battle, always saves the day whenever faced with an enemy others can't handle, and by the end of the original anime becomes the strongest Brawler in the universe.
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Escapist Character / int_c3d12dad	comment	Issei Hyoudou from High School Dx D starts as The Everyman inducted into the Occult Research Club, and spends the next twenty volumes becoming the envy of any normal guy. He's surrounded by beautiful, adoring women who have no problems sharing him, the other two guys in the club are his best friend and an underclassman who idolizes him, the most beautiful girl in school is his girlfriend, he's one of the most powerful members of his generation, he's now rich beyond his wildest dreams because his eccentric brother-in-law made a TV show about him, and he's on the fast track to becoming a noble in the demon world. Who wouldn't want to be him? It could be argued that there are Escapist Character tendencies for most of the cast. There are many scenes that may and probably will go beyond suspension of disbelief, but the stylization with which Hirano pulls it off is so awesome that it can be excused on account of Rule of Cool.
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Escapist Character / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic gives us an In-Universe example in the form of the Daring Do books that Rainbow Dash becomes a fan of. Daring Do is an Adventurer Archaeologist in the vain of Indiana Jones who is fast, strong, smart, and an all-around capable explorer who always gets the treasure and beats the bad guys. It's safe to assume that pretty much every pony in Equestria wants to be like Daring. All six main characters are designed to serve as ideals to strive towards for kids of different personalities and ambitions, but perhaps none moreso than Twilight Sparkle. A magical prodigy capable of mastering in minutes spells that would take a more average unicorn years to learn, the student of the very ruler of Equestria, acquires a group of Fire-Forged Friends in the very first episodes, eventually becomes a Princess of Magic herself... What makes Twilight a particularly good example of an escapist character is that, in good Dungeons & Dragons Wizard Classic fashion, and in spite of being the Chosen One predestined by a higher power and who won the Superpower Lottery with "more raw power than any pony Celestia had ever seen", she still learns her magic through study and is a bit of a loner before, and to some extent even after, discovering The Power of Friendship. A few of her personality quirks, such as her lack of social skills and obsessive desire for order, could easily be read as signs that she may be somewhere on the autism spectrum. The kind of kids her character is sure to resonate with tend to have difficulties in their social life, and many of them surely wish they could become influential and popular and have a group of close friends, just like Twilight. Rainbow Dash counts as well, seeing that she can move and fly at incredible speeds, sheâ€™s very athletic and confident, she has her own fan club In-Universe made up of kids who idolize her, and she joins the famous Wonderbolts. In a comic, she was also shown to be a Class Princess in Flight Camp. Rarity is also worth mentioning, as sheâ€™s considered stunningly beautiful In-Universe, with several guys developing a crush on her throughout the show and the comic series. She also has magical powers, a great fashion sense, and is very charismatic, to the point that when she temporarily stays in Canterlot and mingles with high-society ponies, she quickly becomes the most popular pony in town. She later achieves her dream of becoming a famous (and no doubt rich) fashion designer, which makes her more of an escapist character for anyone who has the same dream.
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Escapist Character / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor. Owner of an effectively self-powering, Bigger on the Inside time machine that lets him go anywhere in time and space he feels like — and no matter where that is, his ability to save the day lets him get away with acting (and dressing) like a complete lunatic regardless of cultural norms. Oh, and his travelling companions tend to be attractive twenty-something women. He doesn't have to work at a job, finds money to be a queer social construct he doesn't entirely get the hang of, and can go anywhere in time and space. The Doctor, like many of his geek fans, is never a rugged, muscular, Action Hero. He prides himself in saving the day using his wit, humor, and intellect instead of fisticuffs and guns. He is quirky and eccentric but still seen as a thousand times more charismatic than the traditionally masculine types. Oh, and when he gets old, he can just change into a younger, often sexier body. No matter your age, that's pretty fun. The Doctor's companions are an Audience Surrogate who also get to be more grown-up, cooler and more fun than the children. Many, many children in the UK have grown up wishing the Doctor would whisk them away for adventures in his TARDIS. Susan Foreman was added to the show for this reason. The two teachers were needed for the show's original edutainment premise, and then an innocent teenager and close relative of the Doctor was added so children could imagine themselves aboard the TARDIS. Leela was created because Philip Hinchcliffe was concerned that the show lacked a companion that little girls would want to be, rather than one who always got rescued or who didn't have any cool features. She's an extremely strong and highly intelligent Action Girl from a warrior tribe selectively bred to embody the Doctor's courage and passion, with highly aware senses and a great outfit. She gets to come with the Doctor and learn about the world (and stab robots). Russell T. Davies stated that Rose was intended to be this. She is an Audience Surrogate already, but also a young woman from a London council estate (housing project for American tropers) who gets picked out of her boring life to find adventure and love (!) with an alien much cooler than her current boyfriend. The cosplaying Petronella Osgood is explicitly a big fan of the Doctor's. She's almost the canonical Whovian and she gets to run with the Doctor. SQUEE! Daleks. It's been noted for half a century that children strongly identify with Daleks — it's often suggested that it is because they act like bratty toddlers (even having Ambiguous Innocence) but get to exterminate adults, allowing children to explore anger and hate in a safe way. The 60s comics even used Daleks as heroes because this was what children wanted. In "Pyramids of Mars", when the Doctor shows Lawrence Scarman into the TARDIS, watch how Michael Sheard (who plays Scarman) chooses to play it — his otherwise adult character suddenly starts acting like an excited child. Sheard said that he hadn't known how to perform the scene, but then decided that his job was to 'live the dream of the children in the audience'.
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Escapist Character / int_c487221e	comment	J from Men in Black definitely qualifies. He gets to wear a natty black suit, gets some awesome gadgets to play around with including an Amnesia Ray and the ray gun equivalent to a Cute Bruiser, a car that can drive on the ceilings of tunnels, and he STILL gets to out-cool Rip Torn and Tommy Lee Jones as well. He even manages to recruit a female MIB and avert the loneliness of the job. And he gets to save the world and hang out with alien pugs and chain-smoking worms all day!
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Escapist Character / int_c70a1171	comment	Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan were and are both this for fantasy fans of a certain age. Big, heroic badass of a guy who has grand adventures and (for Conan) gets lots of hot babes? Sign me up!
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Escapist Character / int_c9b854c4	comment	Nancy Drew, a globetrotting, beautiful, upper-class teenage detective whose wits and courage enable tons of adventures and inevitably save the Victim of the Week (escapism isn't necessarily selfish, after all). Some scholars consider Nancy a feminist icon because the publication of her series encouraged 1930s women to seek the same freedoms she had.
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Escapist Character / int_cac20f89	comment	Harmon Rabb, Jr. from JAG comes across as this. His character imperfections are few and far between and they pale completely when compared to his strengths: an Ace Pilot, Perry Mason quality litigator, a resourceful man of action with Ultimate Job Security, Tall, Dark, and Handsome, and Friend to All Childrenâ€¦
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Escapist Character / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yugi Muto from Yu-Gi-Oh!. He's a Shrinking Violet who has the loyalty of a powerful and ancient spirit Sharing a Body with him, has a core group of best friends who stick by him through thick and thin, and eventually becomes a strong duelist in his own right. To a slightly lesser extent, The Rival Seto Kaiba could also be seen as this, being a super-smart billionaire Teen Genius.
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Escapist Character / int_cb7392b7	comment	A Court of Thorns and Roses: Feyre. She goes from an impoverished, unappreciated and relatively ordinary girl to the love interest of not one, but two extremely attractive and powerful faerie lords, is turned into a Fae herself with all kinds of rare abilities, helps save the world from Hybern and becomes High Lady of the Night Court, living in peace and comfort for the rest of her life in a beautiful city surrounded by all her friends and family. Within about two years of becoming a High Fae, she also finds her soulmate and gives birth to a healthy child, both of which are said to be rare occurrences for Fae.
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Escapist Character / int_cde0faea	comment	Jane by Design's Jane is shaping up to be this. She has multiple potential love interests, a fantastic job that comes easily to her, and all problems she has are quickly resolved.
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Escapist Character / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball has Son Goku. He is an All-Loving Hero who is The Ace and Hope Bringer among his friends and the universe at large. He is considered one of the strongest beings in the universe, regularly defeats super-powered aliens, androids, demons, and even gods, and can learn about any technique by just seeing it once. The fact that he was born weak and gained his strength through good old-fashioned hard work on top of being extremely talented endear him to a lot of people, which is part of why he is seen as a better main character than his son, who is much more down-to-earth. There's a reason why he became a Fountain of Expies to many modern day Shōnen protagonists and is often compared to Superman.
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Escapist Character / int_cfb3439a	comment	Eddie Riggs from BrÃ¼tal Legend embodies the zeitgeist of mid-to-late-2000s metalhead culture. He is a jaded roadie who feels his love for classic overdriven guitar riffs is underappreciated in the era of teen-oriented emo and Nu Metal music. He ends up in a world where his roadie skills allow him to create war machines and his guitar can make the emo kids' heads explode.
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Escapist Character / int_d1035000	comment	The human (or once human) Animorphs are this. They're 5 ordinary teens who are suddenly given the potentially limitless superpower of being able to become any animal they can touch, who then go out and save the world from brain infesting parasites. But, like many other instances on this page, this wears off as the series goes on. By then, the main characters feel totally isolated from others, are dealing with intense PTSD and grappling with incredibly huge questions of morality. They've discovered that War Is Hell, and they just want it to end.
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Escapist Character / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	Bella Swan (for The Twilight Saga's target audience). Her oft-complained about blandness was not a result of bad writing, but a deliberate decision on Stephenie Meyer's part so readers can step into her shoes more easily and experience what it's like to be loved by Edward Cullen. She's a very ordinary girl who effortlessly catches the eye of the perfect boyfriend and his beautiful, powerful, wealthy family, is fought over or secretly desired by every guy she meets, becomes an eternally beautiful and powerful vampire, and has just the right special power to protect her new family from a vampire army (which was already a strong, wealthy, moral group even before it leveled up by gaining such a priceless asset as Bella: a vampire who can render herself and others immune to many of the most powerful weaponized vampire abilities).
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Escapist Character / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Aladdin. In just 90 minutes he went from living off stolen food to having the friendship of an all-powerful-genie-Robin Williams, a flying carpet, the affection of the richest, most desirable girl in the kingdom, and an assured future as the next Sultan — and this status remains through two movies and 86 half-hours. That's pretty darn escapist.
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Escapist Character / int_d54405eb	comment	Jason King: Jason King writes best-selling novels, travels to exotic locations around the world, seduces beautiful women by the busload, and has a knack for getting himself into and out of tight situations. And he does all this with his own individual and peculiar sense of style.
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Escapist Character / int_d54469f8	comment	Meta Knight from Kirby. He's a Badass Adorable warrior who can not only go toe to toe with the greatest warrior in the galaxy and not only win, but win handily twice. Not to mention, he has a giant airship that looks like him, along with an army of loyal minions that are willing to die for him and follow him to the ends of the galaxy if they need too.
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Escapist Character / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Ash from PokÃ©mon: The Series is a ten year old boy who doesn't have to worry about school or other problems most kids his age do. He's instead out on a journey across the world where he makes his own rules and does what he wants. He has a neverending chain of friends, both human and non-human, and several of them are attractive girls who Word of God notes are supposed to be eye-candy for kids. Ash himself is a bit of a Chick Magnet, though he's Oblivious to Love. Ash is a powerful trainer when he wants to be, has been noted as The Chosen One on more than one occasion, and even has spiffy powers such as aura. He also never ages. Ash being an escapist character is most pronounced in PokÃ©mon: I Choose You!. In it, there are many scenes showing off how cool and free it is to be a PokÃ©mon trainer. There's a Dream Sequence where Ash lives in a realistic world and goes to school. It's surreal and almost nightmarish to see Ash in such a mundane, lifeless world, which accentuates how much more freeing his life is from a normal ten year old's.
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Escapist Character / int_d5e9e1db	comment	Wario is one of these. He's rude and crude with a thirst for wealth and treasure, doesn't abide by that pesky golden rule, and isn't afraid to speak his mind. He gets to consume junk food 24/7, fights bad guys with ease, has a loaded bank account, owns his own personal gold mine, several castles, multiple Cool Cars and even stadiums, and even owns and runs a successful video game developer/publisher.
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Escapist Character / int_d66ef045	comment	Atlantis: The Lost Empire Milo goes from being freshly fired friendless nerd to having an expedition financed to search for his dream. By the end of the movie he basically has everything he ever wanted.
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Escapist Character / int_db30cf92	comment	Firestar from Warrior Cats starts out as a bored pet kitten who escapes into the forest to live freely. He's courageous, handsome, The Chosen One and overcomes oppression to become the first kittypet-born Clan leader ever.
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Escapist Character / int_db404a1a	comment	Kazuo Yamashita from Kengan Ashura is far from an idealized character, but his story arc can easily represent many people's Wish-Fulfillment. He's an ordinary middle-aged salaryman whose life gets turned for the better when the CEO of his company picks him to be the manager of their newly hired representative fighter, Ohma. As Ohma becomes builds up fame within the Kengan Association, Yamashita gets pulled into his spotlight; and, through a combination of luck and various misunderstandings, he manages to attract the attention, and eventually the favour, of some of the richest and most influential businessmen in Japan, and is even noticed by several world leaders. In short, he is able to reap most the benefits that Ohma's fighting career brings, but virtually none of the risks. By the end of the first series, he manages to show up his Mean Boss (who used to pick on him) when the two friends he made during the Tournament—both of whom are big-shot CEOs—personally came to pick him up from his old workplace as he starts a new company.
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Escapist Character / int_db418e95	comment	Batgirl: Batgirl fulfills the female power fantasy function in the Batman comics. Barbara Gordon is a beautiful, learned and mature woman and kickass fighter who owns a cool bike and all kind of fantastic toys for fighting crime.
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Escapist Character / int_dbb68ab6	comment	Lucy Pevensie — and to a lesser extent the other protagonists — are this in The Chronicles of Narnia. Hasn't everyone dreamed of finding themselves in a fantasy world they're destined to rule over?
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Escapist Character / int_dd3fe595	comment	Dagny Taggart of Atlas Shrugged. Whilst she is clearly an idealized author avatar, a significant portion of the book's female audience has found Dagny provides a satisfying fantasy for them, as well.
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Escapist Character / int_dd4d627f	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country: Lora is a 27-year-old who is one of the "commonfolk", being a mere mercenary and being the only one of the 9 protagonists who isn't a royal or a Blade. She lives with, and is in love with, a man who happens to be the most renowned Blade in all of Torna, and gets along perfectly with said royals and their Blades as she sets off on her quest to find her mother, getting swept into the larger conflict to defeat Malos and even getting knighted. While she is presented as the main character of the game, in-universe she wouldn't be seen as this due to Addam's greater fame and reputation and his being The Hero of the Aegis War itself, making her situation easy to relate to and look up to for many people.
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Escapist Character / int_e23ff2b1	comment	Masters of the Universe: By the thinking of the original creators, kids have almost no authority or control over their lives. So what could be more irresistable for one than to be a Master of the Universe - to get to shout, "I have the power!"
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Escapist Character / int_e356cbe8	comment	Smith from Shoot 'Em Up is a master of every firearm known to man, kills dozens of people in increasingly more creative ways, battles strawmen on both sides of the political spectrum, gets to have sex with Monica Bellucci, and rams inconsiderate drivers off the road without consequence.
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Escapist Character / int_e3b75023	comment	In Vampire Hunter D, the main character is D, an impossibly beautiful half-vampire monster-hunter.
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Escapist Character / int_e8595ff9	comment	Rapunzel may be locked up in her tower, but she spends her free time doing a lot of common pastimes. Her freedom comes in the form of a magical adventure where she meets the love of her live, her true origins, and gets definitely away from her abuser.
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Escapist Character / int_eb5d7301	comment	Amphibia: Marcy Wu is living out the dream of anyone who's ever read a Trapped in Another World story and found themselves saying "I Wish It Were Real." Unlike Anne, she takes to Amphibia Like a Duck Takes to Water, becoming absolutely beloved in the city of Newtopia and having been taken in by the King himself, who is a fatherly mentor figure towards her. She trains in both combat and magic, and takes several levels in badass compared to the absentminded nerd she was back home. In Amphibia, her smarts and love of fantasy fiction are what make her cool and competent, and she and her two best friends are having an amazing adventure in a world beyond her imagination. Her whole situation is likely to be the envy of any socially awkward, nerdy viewers. And all this takes a turn for the worse in the second season finale, which reveals she selfishly got herself and her friends stuck in Amphibia on purpose, and doesn't even realize what she did was wrong until she sees her friends' horrifed reactions. To make matters worse, the events of the show end up deepening the already-present cracks the the trio's friendship, when her whole motivation was to make sure they could stay together. Oh, and the wise and benevolent mentor she found? He's a tyrant who was only using her, and stabs her In the Back as soon as she turns on him. Her desire to live out her fantasy made her very easily manipulated, and cost her and her two dearest friends everything.
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Escapist Character / int_eded135a	comment	Tomb Raider (2013) seems to bring Lara down a bit from being so larger than life in an attempt to make her more relateable, but she still remains an untrained twenty something post grad with more academic know how than a chief archeologist, and once she takes a level in badass (a prerequisite for any origin story) she becomes unstoppable, taking out dozens of mooks (some of them several times larger than her) in minutes.
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Escapist Character / int_ee37b29	comment	Discussed in Izzzyzzz's video essay about Mary Sues. Izzy describes how most Sues are created by teenaged authors and artists, and that being a teenager is generally terrible, especially if you're a nerdy type who gets picked on at school and have trouble making friends. Many kids use their art and writing both as a creative outlet and a form of escape, and that often takes the form of a self-indulgent, idealized character who the creator either sees themselves in or wishes they were, who gets to have fun adventures and be beloved by everyone and have epic magic powers and Impossibly Cool Clothes and a sword while they're at it. For a lonely, bored teen, it's quite therapeutic and fun.
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Escapist Character / int_eef5470a	comment	Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin. He's a brilliant, talented swordsman who is considered the greatest in all of Japan. His sword skills are so legendary that he is a Living Legend who single-handily brought his side to victory during the war. And he did all of this when he was a teenager. Him being a chick magnet is also a bonus. Although for all his talent, Kenshin is a very broken individual who has been through several lifetimes worth of trauma started from when he was kid. It's not until the end of the manga that he finally gets a happy ending. Maybe you would want to be like Kenshin, but you wouldn't want his life.
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Escapist Character / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad's Walter White is an interesting version. He's a lower middle-class teacher who gets crapped on in every possible way, including getting cancer...and he completely manages to turn his life around by living a double life as a badass drug dealer, getting wealthy, and commanding the respect of hardened criminals. A lot of people can identify with his initial hardships, and so we root for him when he starts kicking ass. As the show goes on, this makes it all the more disturbing when he gradually loses touch with his humanity, his family dissolves, and he begins indiscriminately killing anyone who gets in his way — becoming a Villain Protagonist. Because we're encouraged to identify with him in the beginning, his downfall carries the implication that we could go bad just as easily as him if given the chance. Interestingly, Walt's Escapist Character status ends up working as something of a Secret Test of Character for the audience. As Walt gradually begins committing more heinous acts over the course of the series, there will inevitably come a point when the audience stops fantasizing about being him and starts seeing him as the villain — probably when he finally does something that the viewer would never do. By pinpointing his Moral Event Horizon, we also end up learning how far we would really go if we were put in his shoes and forced to make life-or-death decisions to survive in the criminal underworld.
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Escapist Character / int_f3ef0f86	comment	Artemis Fowl doesn't have to go to school because his parents are either missing or bedridden. He has a Battle Butler and enough money to indulge a self-admitted childish belief in fairies and magic. Though only 12, he's treated like an adult.
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Escapist Character / int_f4bc8de	comment	Owen from Let Me In is a woobie and loner who is neglected by his parents and bullied and beaten up by his classmates. But then new neighbors move in, and the girl next door, Abby, is a beautiful and strange outsider. She encourages him, she shows him real affection and care for him, and she protects him. Eventually Owen leaves the town with his vampire lover Abby.
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Escapist Character / int_f6a54e75	comment	Sora from Kingdom Hearts got to live out millions of kids' childhood dreams of being involved in various Disney Movies. Add being The Hero into the mix and he's officially become the Escapist Character we all dreamed of being as kids.
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Escapist Character / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	Ariel is a beautiful mermaid princess living in an underwater kingdom yet feels alienated by her hobbies and feeling misunderstood by her father. Eventually she manages to both live in the dream world she always yearned for and also catch the affection of the guy of her dreams.
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Escapist Character / int_f84c42c0	comment	Lupin of Lupin III. He's a Phantom Thief with a Heart of Gold, traveling the world stealing priceless artifacts with his masterful cunning, trying to score with recurring Femme Fatale Fujiko (or the Girl of the Week) and always managing to be one step ahead of both the law and his adversaries. As quoted from author Monkey Punch in an interview with Anime News Network:
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Escapist Character / int_f8705c18	comment	Alucard from Hellsing. Seras is also an example, as she goes from a police girl with a tragic past to an elite vampire soldier and even takes Alucard's position for a while.
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Escapist Character / int_f9e75921	comment	Kenny Omega derives a lot of his popularity from being the projected self-image of every geeky teenager who's ever wanted to be big and strong enough to stand up to their tormenters. He's famous for his unabashed love of video games, anime, and science-fiction — but he also happens to be a handsome and highly charismatic athlete with the physique of a linebacker. If your average wrestler is a high school football player all grown up, Kenny is their timid classmate who got mocked for reading manga in the cafeteria.
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Escapist Character / int_fa738078	comment	Sailor Moon: Usagi is one of these. She starts out as an ordinary school girl, then quickly gains magical powers, a small platoon of new friends, a destined love from a previous life, and finds out that she's a princess who's going to become The High Queen who rules the world sometime in the distant future. The anime makes it less so by giving her a desire to be normal again that wasn't nearly as present in the manga, showing that she ends up watching all of her friends die right before her eyes, and then deciding to sacrifice her own life to save the world in the finale of the first season. Her life isn't always glamorous, but it's ultimately played straight in that no matter how dire her circumstances become, she always perseveres and saves the day as the All-Loving Hero she's meant to be. Tuxedo Mask may count as an example for the guys. He is a handsome young man who throws roses at monsters of the week, has both Usagi's and Rei's affections (anime-only), gets to fight alongside multiple women, and becomes a Happily Married couple with Usagi in an idyllic future where they rule the Earth together. This applies more in the manga and Crystal, where he's a prominent focus throughout and gets some useful attacks of his own, as opposed to the anime where he becomes Out of Focus after the first two seasons. Given how popular Sailor Moon remains and the number of fandom-created Senshi, it's safe to say the characters are all escapist to some degree. No matter what happens, the Senshi are loyal to each other and pull through without long-lasting psychological damage. Going from an awkward adolescent to a badass fighter in an improbable outfit is a considerable upgrade for most people.
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Escapist Character / int_fb8549c	comment	Deadpool: This is part of the reason why Deadpool saw a sudden burst in popularity after the release of the film adaptations of his comics. He achieves Success Through Insanity via an large arsenal of guns, swords, and other tools, he treats the Fourth Wall like it's nothing and can beat up those he doesn't like with little-to-no consequences.
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Escapist Character / int_fc0e7530	comment	The leads of shows like Dexter's Laboratory, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, The Fairly OddParents!, and Codename: Kids Next Door. What kid didn't wish for an Improbably High I.Q., Fairy Companions, or access to a secret organization loaded with Bamboo Technology to invent or wish their imagination to life and help them out of childhood's many jams? Even relatively normal kid protagonists are still able to go out and have amazing adventures without adult supervision.
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Escapist Character / int_fc439a61	comment	Kay Faraday from Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth is any fangirl's dream. She's a perky, smart thief who gets to tag along with Ensemble Dark Horse Edgeworth, is Gumshoe's bestest friend ever, most everyone is at least nice to her (even Jerk with a Heart of Gold Lang), and she even has a tragic past matching Edgeworth's so they have even more in common. In the previous games, Maya, Ema, and Trucy can count as this as well. They all get to tag along and help out investigating crime scenes, are clever enough to make at least one helpful observation or contribution, become close friends with Phoenix or Apollo, and have some talent that really helps out (Maya's channeling, Ema's forensics techniques, and Trucy's magic tricks).
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Escapist Character / int_fc93e179	comment	Tyler Durden of Fight Club basically exists to pass on Testosterone Poisoning to the men of The '90s. This was subtly parodied in the book, but lampshaded like a mofo in the movie.
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Escapist Character / int_fe8ef766	comment	Captain America: Scrawny 4F artist from Brooklyn becomes a A1 Super-Soldier and the embodiment of all that is good and right about America.
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Escapist Character / int_fe9b480e	comment	The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Luo Binghe was written In-Universe by his author to be the ultimate straight male power fantasy self-insert as an all-powerful and invincible God-Mode Sue who gets to wreak bloody revenge on everyone who wronged him, conquer all three realms without breaking a sweat, and have a gigantic penis that he uses to have amazing sex with literal hundreds of women. In the actual Scum Villain story, however, he's more of a Deconstructive Parody of this kind of character with the narrative constantly lampshading how over-the-top his protagonist powers and Plot Armor are and showing that what he truly desires isn't power, a harem, or any of the stereotypical male power fantasy things, but true love and acceptance that his original self never got. Shen Yuan is a straighter example of this trope: while far from immune from the Deconstructive Parody narrative making things more difficult or humiliating for him, he still gets to transmigrate into his favorite webnovel to fix all the Plot Holes that annoyed him, save and/or improve the lives of a lot of characters, and get the all-powerful and gorgeous original protagonist to fall madly in love with him without even intending to.
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