Human Characters – the good, the bad and the plain irritating!



How do you rate the different human characters in the different Transformer continuities?
Note: Looking mainly at the cartoons and movies as humans tend to be less irritating in comics (generally but not always).


G1
*Sparkplug Witwicky – good
*Spike Witwicky – good
*Carly Witwicky – good
*Daniel Witwicky – a damn irritant!
*Chip Chase – fine
*Marrisa Fairborne – good in some, why she had suddenly developed a Texan accent in ‘The Big Broadcast of 2006’ I don’t know


RID/Armada/Energon/Cybertron
*All irritating for the most part


Animated
*Sari Sumdac – got cooler as the series went along
*Professor Sumdac – not great but fine
*Captain Fanzone – ‘this is why I hate machines’ – loved it!
*The Headmaster – could have strangled him with that voice of his! Argit off Ben10 has the same one.
*Professor Princess – nice little ‘My Little Pony’ homage/crossover
*The other villains (The Angry Archer, Nanosec etc), all mildly irritating or very one dimensional


Prime
*Special Agent Fowler – not bad
*Jack - not bad
*Raff – tolerable
*Miko – fricken annoying! When she called Optimus’ new form ‘Rad’ I died a little inside
*Silas – very cool, though half the time all I could hear was Lex Luthor


Movies
*Sam Witwicky – irritating
*Sams Dad – ok
*Sams mum – funny in 1st, psychotic in 2nd (see the send up of her on Robot Chicken – hilarious), not bad in the 3rd
*Mikala – uninspiring but lovely to look at
*Carly – not that bright but at least sort of a G1 homage and very physically appealing
*Lennox & Epps – very good! Best humans in the trilogy!
*Simmons – like Sams mum – varied between good and over the top
*Dutch – very good
*The rest not really interesting enough to comment on, though I did like the Aussie actress from the first one, nice to see a female character that was not there just as eye candy, a romantic interest or comic relief



So what do you think of the various human characters that we have been given over the years?