Since the crazy ladies are always my favorite on tv, I thought I'd make a little list of my current favorites.
10. Winifred "Fred" Burkle- Angel
"You know what they say about payback? Well, I'm the bitch."
Fred! She's not so much crazy as she is traumatized. Stuck in a hell dimension for five years where the habitants call you a cow, put a collar on you and make you work until you drop dead. Oh and did I mention that the collar would make your head explode if you disobey? And the occasional feeding on a human. Enough to make a girl mad (both meanings). She can surprise you though, sometimes it's just too much and she pops, just ask her old professor, oh wait, you can't because he's dead (ok fine, she didn't really kill him but she would have!)! She is utterly adorable though, with a love for tacos and a Texan accent you just want to take her home.
9. Bernadette - the Magdalene sisters
"You can shove your friendly face up your not so friendly arse."
Also not so much a natural crazy as it is one created by the people around her. Just a normal girl trying to lead a normal life, flirted with the boys a bit too much in the nuns' opinions. So off she was shipped, to a laundry house where she had to work until she broke down and beaten when she didn't. Her story really is quite sad, but I still think she's awesome and badass. She does what she has to do to keep herself safe. Don't cross her.
8. Cameron Phillips- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
"Goodbye, bird. There's a fifty-one percent chance I wouldn't have killed you."
Ok, in her defense, she really didn't mean to be a bird killer. It was a weird hand spasm. Hand spasm, you say? How does that kill birds, you may ask. Well, she's a robot. One from the future no less, sent back to protect this big savior, John. She has no emotions (or at least, not supposed to have them), has been programmed for her mission and her mission only, so basically a super strong robot with a one track mind. If John (or his mom) does not stop her in time and you're in her way, you're in big trouble. She has little social skills and that's always a big hit. But hey, she'll protect you and will follow you wherever you go, except for water, she doesn't swim.
7. Velma Kelly- Chicago
"Oh no, Mama, not you, too."
Now she, is special. She'll do just about anything for her fame and fortune, but be damned if you cross her, she'll kill you. No really, she will. So don't even dare doing the number 17 with her sister. She'll kill you so fast that she won't even remember it.... until she washes your blood off her hands. But to be fair, you had it coming. As I said, she'll do anything for the spotlight, that's why, at the end of the movie, she joins forces with the person she's been competing against for all of the previous 108 minutes. All for a bit of fame, I guess it feels good.
6. River Tam - Firefly
"I swallowed a bug"
First of all, allow me a moment to giggle at the quote/photo combination that was completely unintentional.
*beat*
Ok, lets move on to miss River Tam. Evil scientists cut up her brain and pulled out a few pieces here and there, making her feel every emotion as it comes. So you have that, which should be enough crazy, but no, Joss wanted more, she had to be a mind reader as well. Me thinks being able to read other people's whacked up minds while yours is missing a few crucial parts, not a good idea.
She also has ninja skills, y'all. Which makes her not only crazy, but dangerous. As Cameron (who is conveniently played by the same actress, if you hadn't noticed) she has next to zero social skills at times.
5. Whiskey/Dr. Claire Saunders- Dollhouse
"I like my scars. They bring out my eyes."
The quote alone should answer your question of 'why is she on this list?'. Well she used to be a doll, programmed for whatever you can imagine, she was the best, until some doll gone bad mucked up her face and she got downgraded to the house's physician. Eventually she caught on to what she was and that did not help her sanity at all. And the scar quote was from before that all happened! So eventually she made up her own little agenda and decided to kill one of the good guys. Why? We shall never know because the evil that is Fox canceled the show. Joss, really now? Learn from this please, us fans are dying over here.
4. Bennet Halverson -Dollhouse
"I'd love to get a look at your amygdala"
Well, miss Summer Glau sure has a face for playing the Sci Fi 'weirdos'. Lets talk Bennett, super smart, shy, sweet, but that's only one of her sides. Sometimes her other side comes out to play and it not nice. See, her left arm is dead, it got trapped under something heavy yada yada. When this happened she was trying to bring down the company she worked with with her over achiever of a best friend. There were explosions, pieces of the building fell down, one piece landed on her arm. Best friend fled never to be seen again. But then she finds this friend, but not really, she's a doll now, so really, just her friend's body. She decides to torture her for a long time and even sends other dolls to kill her. Bitter? Definitely, especially since, you know, this is just the shell of your friend. And hell yes she did understand that and she still wanted to torture her. For fun? (heck I'd like to give that doll one or two shocks) Maybe. That's what makes her even scarier.
Now we are nearing the top three, keep your guesses ready, my friends, lets get ready to rumble with three of the most crazy women I've seen on tv.
3. Lisa Rowe- Girl, interrupted
"We are very rare and we are mostly men."
Hell yes. You really thought I'd leave this lady out? This is one of my all time favorite movies ever. Lisa is crazy! Literally, she's in a mental hospital. Every knows her and pretty much either follows her lead or stays away from her. She is the boss. She will manipulate the others so that they'll be dependent on her and will, without noticing it, stop trying to get better. This way Lisa can have her friends with her forever. Brilliant.
2. Bellatrix Lestrange- Harry Potter
"I killed Sirius Black!"
HELLO. Anyone that has seen the last few movies and/or has read the book knows that this woman has left quite a few strings unattached way up there. She will kill and destroy just because she feels like it and then she'll probably dance around out of utter glee. She's got the crazy eyes down, as well as the "I've been running through the woods in my underwear' hair (I have no idea where I got that from).
She has killed her cousin (that would be this Sirius Black dude) and she is very very proud of it. She likes to whisper it, yell it, chant it, sing it, as long as is contains those words.
Now, finally...
1. Drusilla - Buffy/Angel
"Run and Catch. Run and Catch. The Lamb is caught in the blackberry patch."
Drusilla, affectionately called Dru (doesn't happen often) INVENTED crazy, thus she is the winner. She is deliciously brilliant and it helps that she has an awesome English accent to go with. (I'd say it adds to the crazy but I have British friends, yaknow).
She's a vampire and a very dangerous one at that. She's been around for a long time and therefor has acquired a lot more special powers, this probably also made her even crazier. She likes to talk to... anything. She seems to have a better relationship to stars than any other object that doesn't talk back (usually). She affectionately calls Angel 'Daddy' and Darla would be 'Grandmummy' and also her daughter, as she got to turn Darla into a vampire after a freak event or seven. She's into torture and just general pain (that isn't hers). In a way she's like a child, and not much is scarier than someone with the mentality of a child with a taste for blood.
I heart Bellatrix & Lisa Rowe too. :D
ReplyDeleteYay! The crazy ladies need more love.
ReplyDeleteI have a nominee for another one - Mr. Yang from the Psych season 3 and 4 finales (yes, "Mr." Yang is a woman - it's an alias)... she's craaazy.
ReplyDeleteOoooh, I'll have to start watching that then!
ReplyDeleteThere are probably going to be a few extra crazies though as I've already found another one!