Felt compelled to put this up in response to Smacketology: A tournament to determine The Wire’s greatest character. Mostly because they didn’t include loyal muscle Slim Charles and ranked Bubbles to low. It could be argued that the entire series was Bubbles’ story. So a 7th seed seems criminal.
Anyway. Never cared for McNulty so he’s not listed. Hey, it’s my list.
1. Omar Little
2. Bubbles Cousins
3. Bunk Moreland
4. Stringer Bell
5. Clay Davis
6. Bunny Colvin
7. Prop Joe
8. Wallace
9. Slim Charles
10. Cutty Wise
11. Bodie Broadus
12. Snoop Pearson
13. Chris Partlow
14. Dukie Weems
15. Michael Lee
16. Lester Freamon
17. Prez
18. Kima Greggs
19. Wee Bay Brice
20. Brother Mouzon
21. William Rawls
22. Jay Landsman
23. Marlo Stansfield
24. Frank Sobotka
25. D’angelo Barksdale
26. Avon Barksdale
27. Cedric Daniels
28. Maurice Levy
29. Kenard
30. Herc
31. Butchie
32. Carver
This entire list is invalid without McNulty. Aside from the city of Baltimore itself, McNulty is the main character, and the instigator of EVERYTHING
I agree completely. I just never liked, or even disliked, him all that much. Everyone else was far into those two territories, I either really loved (Bubbles) or hated (Marlo) them. But McNulty….eh. I never really cared about him. If there was a critical, academic list on the influence and validity of characters, sure, put him at top. But this is more of a warm fuzzy list on how one’s emotions were fueled by the actors / characters. Take Kenard, very small character in the grand scheme, but man I HATED him, even before his notorious act near the end of the show. And this is a CHILD. Oh, well. If it makes you feel any better McNulty lost in the finals to Omar in the other tourney.
Ill take a baby willow please. I’m not even gonna weigh in on the wire thing. At least you got #1 right. Yeah yeah…i know this site is for NOLA residents but i think i should get a provisional say since we’ve down by law for 20 years. You know what would be really awesome? If you could get your jacked up phone fixed. Call me dude. Jaimes and me will be coming to stay at least one night maybe two if the offer still stands. Long live the Boss! Holla at ya boy. By the way, (I cant resist) Wee Bay needs to come up on your list.