8 Childhood Characters We’re Still Disappointed We Can’t Be
Oh, how time flies. We’re as far from 1992 as 2030 and yet, adulting seems to be an insurmountable task. Especially so when nostalgia hits every time we see or hear about our childhood memories. How we wish we could go back in time when the line between reality and fantasy is blurred and all we have to worry about is when will your favorite characters recruit you to be a part of their world.
But no, reality has to kick us in the gut. Nevertheless, there’s no reason we can’t reminisce the past when we were young’uns frustrated that we’re on the wrong side of the screen.
8. Super Saiyan
All we can do is live out our fantasy to be part of their world. Of course, Dragon Ball wouldn’t be missed in any part of your childhood, what with all the reruns from GT to Z. Goku had defeated hundreds of villains, had been dead and brought back to life, had become a young boy and had a young boy of his own, had been a full-blown monkey and still you can’t figure out how hard you have to shout to make your hair yellow.
7. Power Ranger
Speaking of color, nothing can beat these color-coded superheroes when fighting any villain that transforms to a giant version of itself in the last 15 minutes of the episode. Who can forget banding your own group of five and assigning each other a colored ranger? Of course, if there are no girls in your friends, it’s kinda awkward who gets to be the yellow or pink ranger.
6. Sailor Soldier
Maybe there was no girl in the group because they are busy creating their own. In a group of girls, it’s almost impossible not to go through the Sailor Moon phase and assign each other with their own sailor soldier. Then, they watch their favorite series where the girls’ transformation takes up half of the episode’s length. It may be an allusion to girls taking forever to dress up but seriously, if the Earth is in danger and it all boils down to a matter of seconds, I think make up would be the least of your worries.
5. Ghost Fighter
But nothing beats how much forever it does take for Ghost Fighter to end. That’s probably why most of our generation have, one way or another, fantasized to be one. There will always be some kid who would make an imaginary gun out of his hands, sneak behind someone, poke him in the derriere and then shout “raygun!” . Or the kid who randomly picks up a rope and pretends to be Dennis. Still, it’s frustrating that we can’t fight ghosts in a tournament arena that somehow magically reconstructs itself for the next fight no matter how destructive the last one was.
4. Middle-earth peoples
There really is something endearing with fiction that creates a world of its own with different characters we can identify with. Who didn’t, at one point in their lives, dreamt of forming his own Fellowship of the Ring, assigning their friends as either a dwarf, a hobbit or an elf? Moreover, we picked up a long branch, smote the ground with it and shouted ‘You shall not pass!’ until our graduating classmate cried in fear.
3. Jedi
Need I say more? I mean, there was definitely a certain phase in our childhood when we wielded our makeshift lightsabers and made a whooshing sound as we battled with our friends. The prettiest girl would, of course, be Princess Leia, complete with ensaymada hairdo; the not so pretty ones would probably be cast as Chewbacca or Jabba the Hutt. And who hasn’t imitated Darth Vader’s breathing in their life? Of course, now that we are grownups, Star Wars is still our source for a different kind of fantasy.
2. Pokémon master
I’ll just sit quietly here while you sing the next lines:
“I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause”
1. Wizard/Witch
Hands down, Harry Potter franchise has a very big influence in this generation. Remember the days when we used to wait for our Hogwarts acceptance letter every start of school year, hoping it would save us from our real school. Of course, it wouldn’t be lost in us to pick our own ‘wands’ and blurt out all the magic spells we have memorized. Sometimes, we still fight the urge to tap any brick wall in a train station or to whisper “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good” every time we see a blank paper. There’s so much in the wizarding world we wish were true that I’d like to discuss but you’re probably holding your broomsticks now preparing for a Quidditch match. Just cross your fingers – there’s always the Filch’s way.
