Redo - Top 20 Favourite Male Characters

My long-overdue update on my severely outdated Favourite Male Characters list is here!

The kindest, the most compassionate, the most sensitive, the heroic, the antiheroic, the diverse, the charming, the charismatic, the snarky, the funny, the interesting, the respectful, the loyal, the wonderful, or just the least beholden to toxic masculinity - these are my men and boys! Included here are the names of my favourite fictional guys of all time - who they are should tell you enough about my tastes.

And to add at least one written part from my old, old list, which has not stopped applying to anything new: 

Same rules and disclosures that applied to my Favourite Female Characters list also apply here: One character per franchise to be included [though pairs are acceptable, if I can't separate or choose between them], fictional characters only, this is all my subjective opinion, etc.

Oh, and to make this perfectly clear once and for all [...]: Feminists don't hate men. Here is the list of men whom I enjoy and think really break traditional ground on how tough and alpha male this sex is usually represented. No male wish fulfilment fantasies here. Real men feel emotions and respect women and other marginalized people. Or these men just make me laugh, or think about how complex and cleverly-written they are, without falling back into the traditional broody, film-noir archetype, or the "charming arsehole" and pervert cardboard cut-out that seriously needs to die in all medium.

My Top 20 Favourite Male Characters are:

20. Megamind (Megamind)

19. Kyo Sohma (Fruits Basket)

18. Arnold Rimmer and Dave Lister (Red Dwarf)

17. Phillip J. Fry (Futurama)

16. Arnold Shortman (Hey Arnold!)

15. Spider-Man (Marvel)

14. King (The Owl House)

13. Sideshow Bob Terwilliger (The Simpsons)

12. Wallace and Gromit (Wallace and Gromit)

11. Prince Sebastian (The Prince and the Dressmaker)

10. Edmund Blackadder (Blackadder series)

9. Aladdin (Disney's Aladdin)

8. Bow (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

7. Beast Boy (Teen Titans, DC)

6. Hercules (Disney's Hercules)

5. Harry Potter (Harry Potter series)

4. Woody (Toy Story series)

3. Lazlo Strange (Strange the Dreamer series)

2. Sans (Undertale)

1. Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring (Heartstopper series)

And that's all folks!