There are people with Southern accents that can make everything they say sound like a killing insult. Effeminate Southern gays are even worse. If Lindsey Graham was a Socialist along with Bernie Sanders, my knuckles would still itch when I heard him talk.

But boy howdy, can Susan Sarandon make a drawl work.

That's true. I lived in Atlanta and there was a lady who sounded just like Droopy the Dog making a death threat every time she said "hello, how are you?". I got used after a while but for some time I felt like I lived in in a cartoon show.

I HATE EVERYONE WHO DOESN'T SOUND LIKE ME

Here in Louisiana, I've overheard conversations where people with exactly the same accent have a hard time understanding each other's accent.

The accent that was kind of cute and charming in Fargo just sounds dumb and hateful coming from Sarah Palin.

I don't think it's the accent that makes her sound that way. ¬_¬

There are regional differences in dialect, which are probably fair game for a bit of light-hearted humor once in a while - Four Yorkshiremen skit anyone? - and then there's making fun of someone for being poor and uneducated.

Making a competition for the "ugliest" seems tactless ... at best. They could have searched for the "coolest" accent with much the same conclusion but considerably less ill-will.

+1 for the Gawker smackdown.

I find the New York and the New Jersey accents grating. I don't mind southern accents so much...Detroit get on my nerves too...

Pretty silly idea, considering how subjective this is, it all depends where you're from and what you're used to. My parents were born and raised in NYC, so I grew up listening to the accent and don't mind it at all. Can't stand the Texas accent because of the political affiliations- especially the swaggering affected G.W. Bush version. Also annoying to me- Baltimore, Philly, and most especially the SoCal 'Valley/surfer'. Not crazy about Chicago either.

I dunno, Rogue from the 90's X-men cartoon made southern accents hot for me.

Now a yooper accent? Can't imagine hearing that in bed without bursting out laughing.

I always liked gambit from both that and the origins movie.
that evolution one dint have the same charm.

Like this?

Also...

ROGUE TRIBUTES! HOORAY!

I didn't like Goth Rogue in X-Men Evolution. I mean, it made more sense that her power would make her an introverted sourpuss, but I guess chalk it up to be just being all finicky over one of my first childhood crushes.

There was a lot wrong with Evolution. It did get pretty interesting in the last two seasons before it got cancelled and we got X-23 out of it (for better or worse). I don't regret the cancellation. It seems a bit inexcusable for a show to take four seasons to find its voice.

I don't know how X-23 turned out in the comics, but her two Evolution episodes were among the stronger material.

X-Men:TAS was a fun cartoon that offered unusual material no one else had at the time (at least not for children). It was really hindered by its adherence to the comic book look (the black inks in particular). X-Men came out a year after Batman: TAS (1993 and 1992 respectively), but the difference in quality is apparent. No doubt Batman had a higher budget to begin with, but if X-Men had been willing to streamline their characters designs, they would have had stronger animation.

Wolverine and the X-Men had strong animation and character design, and some interesting material, but at some point you just wonder when Logan and Charles are going to start making out already. Their relationship often felt like something out of a fanfic. I will give it points for deviating heavily from prior concepts instead of rehashing the same stories.

Marvel has shit the bed an awful lot with their forays onto television. Either their shows are massive disappointments or they're abruptly canceled when you're really getting into them.

Yes, I'm still mad about Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes being canceled so they could make a cartoon that's tied into the MCU more. Though the first episode of the seconds season of Avengers Assemble looks more promising.

How do you feel about animated Deadpool for children? He has Ron Stoppable's voice (who was also the voice of Terry on Batman Beyond, and the older brother on Boy Meets World).

You mean that episode of Ultimate Spider-Man? It was alright. I never read that much Deadpool so I'm not too attached to the character. He's basically a snarky goofball like Spider-Man, only completely amoral. No reason why there can't be a "kid's friendly" version. Yeah, he can't gun down people on screen, but cartoons these days can have characters die violent deaths via explosions just so long as they cut away at the last frame. So he can at least amass a body count via gross negligence.

Funny. I found him intolerably annoying. As much as I like Will Friedle, that voice, talking that fast, with that much nonsense is too much. I think it's cognitive dissonance; the voice is too kiddy for what should be an adult man at least in his 20s.

Oh, yeah, I didn't care for the voice either. I thought you were talking more in regards to his characterization.

Nolan North's Deadpool was pretty good. And I kind of dug how he spoke with a Newfoundland dialect in the X-Men: Ultimate Alliance games.

People really hated the movie version, but I liked him less mouthy, slightly more able to shut the fuck up and kill things. His high protein diet in an elevator joke was probably too subtle a fart joke for his average fan.

I know that being over the top and hyperactive is the gimmick, but it's not one which appeals to me. It becomes aggressively annoying after a while. Rather than wanting to change Deadpool, it's easier to admit I am clearly not his intended audience. If I want an ultraviolent parody, I prefer Lobo. Or I did pre New 52.

There's a difference between having him less mouthy and literally sewing his mouth shut.

As for Lobo, yeah, I don't care for the New 52 version either. But I get it. Or at least I think I do. Assuming he's still supposed to be a parody. Old Lobo was a product of the 90's. A jacked up biker dripping with testosterone with skulls and spikes everywhere. What the typical 12 year old thought was "hardcore" at the time. Antiheroes these days are more lithe and calculating than over the top machismo. The anime influence is really apparent.

The ending was messed up, but up until they turned him into a pink monstrosity, I thought he was pretty good.

I mention good ol Bo specifically because he was a parody of Wolverine and Deadpool was a parody of Lobo. At some point the circle jerk got so fervent a horse got involved and, well, you know the rest, my friend.

Actually Deadpool started off as a completely serious carbon-copy of DC's Deathstroke. Later writers were all "fuck it, I'm having some fun with this Liefeldian dreck!" Though at this point Deadppol has been pretty Flanderized.

That's right! I forgot. It wasn't until later that he entered the ultra-violent, grimmer and grittier parody circle J. Ah those were the days.