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02-11-2011, 10:30 PM
Leveling Up: TV's Most Badass Makeovers
Break out the leather, hit the gym and flip on the tube for UGO's epic list of TV's Most Badass Makeovers! And don't forget, a sword never hurts either.
33
Captain Benjamin Sisko
Blank Canvas: Avery Brooks of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Makeover, Makeover: When Worf joins the crew, you KNOW it's on! With the threat of the Dominion looming on the horizon and the Federation drifting toward war, Sisko changes his look along with the tone of the series and trades "happy go-lucky" for "goateed, bald, and bad mother-f$%ker."
32
Spider-Man
Blank Canvas: Christopher Daniel Barnes, Josh Keaton of Spider-Man
Makeover, Makeover: Come on, how could you forget a comic, TV and movie classic?! Spider-Man’s costume makeover from red and blue to black may not have wowed any critics at the box-office, but remains a legendary makeover for the web-slinger, his new aggressive persona darkening the tone of any property it touches.
31
Rachel Berry
Blank Canvas: Lea Michele of Glee
Makeover, Makeover: Naturally when the clean-cut Gleek needs to wow her man, Rachel goes the absurdly misogynist and unresolved method from Grease, IE dressing herself as a sad clown hooker to win Finn’s affections.
Rachel would pull a similar Britney Spears-inspired makeover in the second season, which surprisingly only involved tying her shirt in a knot and wearing pigtails.
30
Aquaman
Blank Canvas: Miguel Ferrer of Superman: The Animated Series
Makeover, Makeover: After initially appearing in his golden-age garb on Superman: The Animated Series, Aquaman, like his comic counterpart graduated to Justice League with his newly revamped look, sporting a harpoon hand and long blonde locks.
Why? Well, talking to fish that long would make anybody angsty.
29
Sarah Walker
Blank Canvas: Yvonne Strahovski of Chuck
Makeover, Makeover: Naturally, if you’re going to defect to the bad guys you’d have to ditch the blonde as well. It’s the law.
Sarah slaps on a skintight Black Widow catsuit and wig (or dye? We never learned...) for her role as Volkoff’s newest operative, greatly resembling the actress’ Mass Effect character in the process.
28
Gabrielle
Blank Canvas: Renee O'Connor of Xena: Warrior Princess
Makeover, Makeover: In addition to questing across the land with Xena and learning how to hold her own own over time, the death of her daughter Hope inspires Gabrielle to adopt a new, shorter-cropped look that compliments her evolving wardrop and fighting skills, her abilities and decor rivaling Xena herself by series' end.
27
Ryan Howard
Blank Canvas: BJ Novak of The Office
Makeover, Makeover: Newly promoted to Jan’s former position at Dunder-Mifflin, former temp Ryan embraces his newfound status and puts in his bid for douchebag of the century with fancy new suits, an expensive haircut, and lightest, most meticulously thin beard he could muster.
26
Meg Griffin
Blank Canvas: Mila Kunis of Family Guy
Makeover, Makeover: Meg’s gone through one or two makeovers in her day, first as a much more attractive singing blonde, and later, the above ex-convict.
Joe sends Meg to prison for harboring her fugitive boyfriend, and subsequently returns as the Griffin Family’s worst nightmare, their much put-upon daughter now with all the intimidation and anger you’d expect from a cartoon convict. Poop bucket. That is all.
25
Peter Petrelli
Blank Canvas: Milo Ventimiglia of Heroes
Makeover, Makeover: Jeez, who in Heroes didn’t’ take the intervening five years in between timelines to give themselves a dark makeover?
Secretly responsible for the desctruction of New York City, Future Peter takes a few cues from The Matrix and Equilibrium with his long black dress, slicked back hair, and the jagged scar across his face of unknown origin.
24
Professor Richard Impossible
Blank Canvas: Bill Hader of The Venture Bros.
Makeover, Makeover: Still despondent over his wife leaving him, Professor Impossible falls in with Phantom Limb, and finds new purpose helping him regain his powers, joining the revenge society, slapping on a black costume and re-dubbing himself Professor...Incorrigble...Indolent...Indochina.
He’ll figure that out later.
23
Stan Marsh
Blank Canvas: Trey Parker of South Park
Makeover, Makeover: Here at UGO, darkness and pain fills all our souls. The dismal abyss of conformity pulls the picture-perfect corporate wannabes into spouting black bile to all the huddled masses, but not us coffee-drinking free thinkers.
At least that’s what Stan Marsh would have said, after Wendy dumped his ass and drove him into the embrace of the Goth kids.
22
The Iron Enforcer
Blank Canvas: Steel Chambers of Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
Makeover, Makeover: Cast out for being less than heroic in his crusade against evil-doers (or whatever this show asked the contestants to do), Stan Lee re-enlisted the Iron Enforcer as The Dark Enforcer, a hooded super-villain who did...something...
Seriously, what was this show about?
21
Uncle Iroh
Blank Canvas: Mako of Avatar: The Last Airbender
Makeover, Makeover: With his days as a Fire Nation warlord behind him, Iroh allowed himself to get a little soggy around the midsection in his time with Zuko.
That is, until Zuko’s betrayal landed the former General in prison, where he honed his body in secret in preparation for the White Lotus’ upcoming Sozen’s Comet offensive against Fire Lord Ozai, keeping pillows under his robes to hide his work.
20
Chloe Sullivan
Blank Canvas: Allison Mack of Smallville
Makeover, Makeover: Infected by a Kryptonian parasite, both Pete and Chloe take to impulsive, reckless behavior that leads to the pair slipping red Kryptonite onto Clark and Chloe dragging the similarly affected farmboy into the Talon for a payback make-out session.
We understand that the darker impulses would cause Chloe's black eye shadow...but where did the streaks in her hair come from? And where did they go afterwards?
19
The Justice League
Blank Canvas: The Justice League of Bruce Timm’s DCAU Justice League Unlimited
Makeover, Makeover: An alternate reality of The Justice League sees Lex Luthor entering the White House and murdering The Flash, to which Superman snaps, killing him and re-formatting the league as the tyrannical Justice Lords, complete with outfit upgrades.
Superman had earlier undergone a similar costume change in his own series after the supposed death of Lois Lane.
18
Kes
Blank Canvas: Jennifer Lien of Star Trek: Voyager
Makeover, Makeover: After previously departing Voyager as an energy being (just in time for the much hotter Jeri Ryan to join the crew), Kes eventually returns a grizzled, confused and much older woman (Ocompans only live nine years) attempting to destroy the ship, corridors exploding everywhere in her wake.
17
Mickey Smith
Blank Canvas: Noel Clarke of Doctor Who
Makeover, Makeover: The year spent as a fugitive on suspicion of killing Rose certainly hardens the affable (if annoying) computer nerd, but only after spending a significant amount of time fighting off Cybermen in an alternate reality does Mickey re-emerge with a new, less innocent look and having leveled up his badass-quotient several fold.
16
John Connor
Blank Canvas: Thomas Dekker of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Makeover, Makeover: John finally accepts his destiny as leader of the resistance, most notably after his and his mother’s constant run-ins with agents of Skynet force him to make his first kill. And lord knows no one’s going to take the future leader of mankind seriously with emo bangs like that.
15
Claire Bennett
Blank Canvas: Hayden Panetierre of Heroe
Makeover, Makeover: EVIL FUTURE! Four years down the road of the Heroes timeline, Claire takes to working as a personal enforcer the Pinehearst, keeping super-powered individuals under-wraps for fear of further genocide.
Why the dark hair, and leather? Well, that's just what you do when the future goes all apocalypse-y. It's science.
14
Clark "The Blur" Kent
Blank Canvas: Tom Welling of Smallville
Makeover, Makeover: Finally! After nine long years of a red jacket and blue t-shirt, and one season of a Matrix-inspired black trenchcoat costume, the future Man of Steel finally slicks back his hair and dons the...red...leather...jacket, and blue...t-shirt.
Close enough.
13
Charlie Pace
Blank Canvas: Dominic Monaghan of LOST
Makeover, Makeover: Evidently death suits the man. Long after his drowning in the Looking Glass station, Charlie re-appears to Hurley off-island to drop a little knowledge about the castaways' upcoming journey, sporting closely-shorn hair, aviators and significantly less facial hair, looking less Charlie and more Tyler Durden.
So was it really Charlie, or perhaps an unconscious manifestation of the alterna-reality purgatory, who wore his hair similarly in what would have been 2004? Or perhaps no one planned this out, but if they did, I just blew your mind.
12
Elliot Reid
Blank Canvas: Sarah Chalke of Scrub
Makeover, Makeover: Finally deciding not to be the put-down member of the group anymore (and also after writers realized they could no longer hide how insatiably hot Sarah Chalk was), Elliot takes with a vengeance to her prissy locks, dons jeans, stilettos, a tight black top, a sassy attitude and more eye make-up than a prostitute that caters exclusively to clowns.
11
Super Saiyans
Blank Canvas: Super-Saiyans of Dragon Ball Z
Makeover, Makeover: Enough training and rage sends the energy of any Saiyan skyrocketing, transforming them into spikey golden-haired warriors with blue eyes, best exemplified with Gohan’s transformation during the Cell games.
It’s a temporary makeover to be sure, but you can’t help wondering what Nappa would have looked like.
10
Henchman 21
Blank Canvas: Doc Hammer of The Venture Bros.
Makeover, Makeover: With 24’s death and his own status as an un-killable series regular thrown into question, henchman 21 goes into a deep depression and uses his failure to transform his body into a (mostly) muscled fighting machine, and uber-competent henchman that would assure no other innocent soldiers in the war against Dr. Venture paid for his cowardice.
9
Saul Tigh
Blank Canvas: Michael Hogan of Battlestar Galactica
Makeover, Makeover: Initially somewhat a of a hapless (if competent) drunk aboard the Battlestar Galactica, Saul takes a gruffer and tougher new persona after the occupation of New Caprica sees him losing one of his eyes, growing an impressive beard and sending several soldiers to their deaths on suicide missions.
8
Power Ranger Tommy Oliver
Blank Canvas: Jason David Frank of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
Makeover, Makeover: With the power of the Green Ranger transformed into a wax candle and eventually faded away entirely, Zordon and Alpha take to recruiting Tommy into a makeover as the newly designed, and pure of power White Ranger, complete with Tigerzord.
What are you looking at me for? This show was awesome growing up.
7
Barney Stinson
Blank Canvas: Neil Patrick Harris of How I Met Your Mother
Makeover, Makeover: Few outside of the gang knew of Barney's mellow, hippie past with ex-girlfriend Shannon. When the lovely lady abandoned hers and Barney's plans to join the peace core and took in with another man, Barney decided to stop being sad and be awesome instead.
A simple flyer bearing the iconic slogan inspired Barney to trim his hair and "suit up" for the very first time.
6
Enzo Matrix
Blank Canvas: Paul Dobson of ReBoot
Makeover, Makeover: Given that time moves at an accelerated rate in the Games, little Enzo Matrix emerged along with AndrAIa as a much older, grizzled Guardian protecting the city, which he remained for the rest of the series despite the re-appearance of the younger version of his sprite, affectionately titled "Little Enzo."
5
Stan Smith
Blank Canvas: Seth Macfarlane of American Dad!
Makeover, Makeover: The events of “Rapture’s Delight” see Steve and Hailey called up to heaven for Judgement Day, while Stan and Francine remain on the hell-torn Earth having had a quickie in a church closet.
A few years of living in the apocalypse naturally transformed the staunchly conservative CIA agent into a road warrior, complete with soul patch, scars and his own private Captain Hook.
4
Willow Rosenberg
Blank Canvas: Alyson Hannigan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Makeover, Makeover: A little dark magic never hurt anybody, right?
Foreshadowed with Willow’s attack on Glory in the fifth season, Willow goes full on wicked wicca after Warren accidentally shoots her longtime love Tara, absorbing enough dark magic to turn her hair, eyes and veins black with pure hate.
3
Walter White
Blank Canvas: Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad
Makeover, Makeover: Even with his head shaved in anticipation of the effects of chemotherapy, chemistry teacher turned meth-maker Walter White takes on his infamous porkpie hat and dark sunglasses for the persona of “Heisenberg,” brazenly blowing the floor out of Tuco’s operation in defense of his partner.
2
Hiro Nakamura
Blank Canvas: Masi Oka of Heroes
Makeover, Makeover: After the destruction of New York City and best friend Ando’s death, the perpetually child-like Hiro Nakamura finally gets his act together and becomes the badass he’d always dreamed of, sporting a ponytail, soul patch, fluent English, a long dark coat and Takezo Kensei’s sword.
Masi Oka included the sword as a nod to “Future Trunks” of DBZ continuity, who appeared on the scene under similar pretenses.
1
Pretty Much Every Doctor Who
Blank Canvas: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, and Matt Smith of Doctor Who
Makeover, Makeover: The power of the Time Lords too great to contain in any one vessel, forever, Doctor Who took to incrementally “regenerating” its protagonist as a new actor, the process being a make-over of sorts that changes appearance and personality to fit the newcomer.
The series revitalization in 2005 saw Christopher Eccleston’s 9th doctor as a much more grizzled, war-torn doctor while subsequent installments have added a bit more warmth, still sure to keep his impressive skills and knowledge for long-running fans.
UGO
Break out the leather, hit the gym and flip on the tube for UGO's epic list of TV's Most Badass Makeovers! And don't forget, a sword never hurts either.
33
Captain Benjamin Sisko
Blank Canvas: Avery Brooks of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Makeover, Makeover: When Worf joins the crew, you KNOW it's on! With the threat of the Dominion looming on the horizon and the Federation drifting toward war, Sisko changes his look along with the tone of the series and trades "happy go-lucky" for "goateed, bald, and bad mother-f$%ker."
32
Spider-Man
Blank Canvas: Christopher Daniel Barnes, Josh Keaton of Spider-Man
Makeover, Makeover: Come on, how could you forget a comic, TV and movie classic?! Spider-Man’s costume makeover from red and blue to black may not have wowed any critics at the box-office, but remains a legendary makeover for the web-slinger, his new aggressive persona darkening the tone of any property it touches.
31
Rachel Berry
Blank Canvas: Lea Michele of Glee
Makeover, Makeover: Naturally when the clean-cut Gleek needs to wow her man, Rachel goes the absurdly misogynist and unresolved method from Grease, IE dressing herself as a sad clown hooker to win Finn’s affections.
Rachel would pull a similar Britney Spears-inspired makeover in the second season, which surprisingly only involved tying her shirt in a knot and wearing pigtails.
30
Aquaman
Blank Canvas: Miguel Ferrer of Superman: The Animated Series
Makeover, Makeover: After initially appearing in his golden-age garb on Superman: The Animated Series, Aquaman, like his comic counterpart graduated to Justice League with his newly revamped look, sporting a harpoon hand and long blonde locks.
Why? Well, talking to fish that long would make anybody angsty.
29
Sarah Walker
Blank Canvas: Yvonne Strahovski of Chuck
Makeover, Makeover: Naturally, if you’re going to defect to the bad guys you’d have to ditch the blonde as well. It’s the law.
Sarah slaps on a skintight Black Widow catsuit and wig (or dye? We never learned...) for her role as Volkoff’s newest operative, greatly resembling the actress’ Mass Effect character in the process.
28
Gabrielle
Blank Canvas: Renee O'Connor of Xena: Warrior Princess
Makeover, Makeover: In addition to questing across the land with Xena and learning how to hold her own own over time, the death of her daughter Hope inspires Gabrielle to adopt a new, shorter-cropped look that compliments her evolving wardrop and fighting skills, her abilities and decor rivaling Xena herself by series' end.
27
Ryan Howard
Blank Canvas: BJ Novak of The Office
Makeover, Makeover: Newly promoted to Jan’s former position at Dunder-Mifflin, former temp Ryan embraces his newfound status and puts in his bid for douchebag of the century with fancy new suits, an expensive haircut, and lightest, most meticulously thin beard he could muster.
26
Meg Griffin
Blank Canvas: Mila Kunis of Family Guy
Makeover, Makeover: Meg’s gone through one or two makeovers in her day, first as a much more attractive singing blonde, and later, the above ex-convict.
Joe sends Meg to prison for harboring her fugitive boyfriend, and subsequently returns as the Griffin Family’s worst nightmare, their much put-upon daughter now with all the intimidation and anger you’d expect from a cartoon convict. Poop bucket. That is all.
25
Peter Petrelli
Blank Canvas: Milo Ventimiglia of Heroes
Makeover, Makeover: Jeez, who in Heroes didn’t’ take the intervening five years in between timelines to give themselves a dark makeover?
Secretly responsible for the desctruction of New York City, Future Peter takes a few cues from The Matrix and Equilibrium with his long black dress, slicked back hair, and the jagged scar across his face of unknown origin.
24
Professor Richard Impossible
Blank Canvas: Bill Hader of The Venture Bros.
Makeover, Makeover: Still despondent over his wife leaving him, Professor Impossible falls in with Phantom Limb, and finds new purpose helping him regain his powers, joining the revenge society, slapping on a black costume and re-dubbing himself Professor...Incorrigble...Indolent...Indochina.
He’ll figure that out later.
23
Stan Marsh
Blank Canvas: Trey Parker of South Park
Makeover, Makeover: Here at UGO, darkness and pain fills all our souls. The dismal abyss of conformity pulls the picture-perfect corporate wannabes into spouting black bile to all the huddled masses, but not us coffee-drinking free thinkers.
At least that’s what Stan Marsh would have said, after Wendy dumped his ass and drove him into the embrace of the Goth kids.
22
The Iron Enforcer
Blank Canvas: Steel Chambers of Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
Makeover, Makeover: Cast out for being less than heroic in his crusade against evil-doers (or whatever this show asked the contestants to do), Stan Lee re-enlisted the Iron Enforcer as The Dark Enforcer, a hooded super-villain who did...something...
Seriously, what was this show about?
21
Uncle Iroh
Blank Canvas: Mako of Avatar: The Last Airbender
Makeover, Makeover: With his days as a Fire Nation warlord behind him, Iroh allowed himself to get a little soggy around the midsection in his time with Zuko.
That is, until Zuko’s betrayal landed the former General in prison, where he honed his body in secret in preparation for the White Lotus’ upcoming Sozen’s Comet offensive against Fire Lord Ozai, keeping pillows under his robes to hide his work.
20
Chloe Sullivan
Blank Canvas: Allison Mack of Smallville
Makeover, Makeover: Infected by a Kryptonian parasite, both Pete and Chloe take to impulsive, reckless behavior that leads to the pair slipping red Kryptonite onto Clark and Chloe dragging the similarly affected farmboy into the Talon for a payback make-out session.
We understand that the darker impulses would cause Chloe's black eye shadow...but where did the streaks in her hair come from? And where did they go afterwards?
19
The Justice League
Blank Canvas: The Justice League of Bruce Timm’s DCAU Justice League Unlimited
Makeover, Makeover: An alternate reality of The Justice League sees Lex Luthor entering the White House and murdering The Flash, to which Superman snaps, killing him and re-formatting the league as the tyrannical Justice Lords, complete with outfit upgrades.
Superman had earlier undergone a similar costume change in his own series after the supposed death of Lois Lane.
18
Kes
Blank Canvas: Jennifer Lien of Star Trek: Voyager
Makeover, Makeover: After previously departing Voyager as an energy being (just in time for the much hotter Jeri Ryan to join the crew), Kes eventually returns a grizzled, confused and much older woman (Ocompans only live nine years) attempting to destroy the ship, corridors exploding everywhere in her wake.
17
Mickey Smith
Blank Canvas: Noel Clarke of Doctor Who
Makeover, Makeover: The year spent as a fugitive on suspicion of killing Rose certainly hardens the affable (if annoying) computer nerd, but only after spending a significant amount of time fighting off Cybermen in an alternate reality does Mickey re-emerge with a new, less innocent look and having leveled up his badass-quotient several fold.
16
John Connor
Blank Canvas: Thomas Dekker of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Makeover, Makeover: John finally accepts his destiny as leader of the resistance, most notably after his and his mother’s constant run-ins with agents of Skynet force him to make his first kill. And lord knows no one’s going to take the future leader of mankind seriously with emo bangs like that.
15
Claire Bennett
Blank Canvas: Hayden Panetierre of Heroe
Makeover, Makeover: EVIL FUTURE! Four years down the road of the Heroes timeline, Claire takes to working as a personal enforcer the Pinehearst, keeping super-powered individuals under-wraps for fear of further genocide.
Why the dark hair, and leather? Well, that's just what you do when the future goes all apocalypse-y. It's science.
14
Clark "The Blur" Kent
Blank Canvas: Tom Welling of Smallville
Makeover, Makeover: Finally! After nine long years of a red jacket and blue t-shirt, and one season of a Matrix-inspired black trenchcoat costume, the future Man of Steel finally slicks back his hair and dons the...red...leather...jacket, and blue...t-shirt.
Close enough.
13
Charlie Pace
Blank Canvas: Dominic Monaghan of LOST
Makeover, Makeover: Evidently death suits the man. Long after his drowning in the Looking Glass station, Charlie re-appears to Hurley off-island to drop a little knowledge about the castaways' upcoming journey, sporting closely-shorn hair, aviators and significantly less facial hair, looking less Charlie and more Tyler Durden.
So was it really Charlie, or perhaps an unconscious manifestation of the alterna-reality purgatory, who wore his hair similarly in what would have been 2004? Or perhaps no one planned this out, but if they did, I just blew your mind.
12
Elliot Reid
Blank Canvas: Sarah Chalke of Scrub
Makeover, Makeover: Finally deciding not to be the put-down member of the group anymore (and also after writers realized they could no longer hide how insatiably hot Sarah Chalk was), Elliot takes with a vengeance to her prissy locks, dons jeans, stilettos, a tight black top, a sassy attitude and more eye make-up than a prostitute that caters exclusively to clowns.
11
Super Saiyans
Blank Canvas: Super-Saiyans of Dragon Ball Z
Makeover, Makeover: Enough training and rage sends the energy of any Saiyan skyrocketing, transforming them into spikey golden-haired warriors with blue eyes, best exemplified with Gohan’s transformation during the Cell games.
It’s a temporary makeover to be sure, but you can’t help wondering what Nappa would have looked like.
10
Henchman 21
Blank Canvas: Doc Hammer of The Venture Bros.
Makeover, Makeover: With 24’s death and his own status as an un-killable series regular thrown into question, henchman 21 goes into a deep depression and uses his failure to transform his body into a (mostly) muscled fighting machine, and uber-competent henchman that would assure no other innocent soldiers in the war against Dr. Venture paid for his cowardice.
9
Saul Tigh
Blank Canvas: Michael Hogan of Battlestar Galactica
Makeover, Makeover: Initially somewhat a of a hapless (if competent) drunk aboard the Battlestar Galactica, Saul takes a gruffer and tougher new persona after the occupation of New Caprica sees him losing one of his eyes, growing an impressive beard and sending several soldiers to their deaths on suicide missions.
8
Power Ranger Tommy Oliver
Blank Canvas: Jason David Frank of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
Makeover, Makeover: With the power of the Green Ranger transformed into a wax candle and eventually faded away entirely, Zordon and Alpha take to recruiting Tommy into a makeover as the newly designed, and pure of power White Ranger, complete with Tigerzord.
What are you looking at me for? This show was awesome growing up.
7
Barney Stinson
Blank Canvas: Neil Patrick Harris of How I Met Your Mother
Makeover, Makeover: Few outside of the gang knew of Barney's mellow, hippie past with ex-girlfriend Shannon. When the lovely lady abandoned hers and Barney's plans to join the peace core and took in with another man, Barney decided to stop being sad and be awesome instead.
A simple flyer bearing the iconic slogan inspired Barney to trim his hair and "suit up" for the very first time.
6
Enzo Matrix
Blank Canvas: Paul Dobson of ReBoot
Makeover, Makeover: Given that time moves at an accelerated rate in the Games, little Enzo Matrix emerged along with AndrAIa as a much older, grizzled Guardian protecting the city, which he remained for the rest of the series despite the re-appearance of the younger version of his sprite, affectionately titled "Little Enzo."
5
Stan Smith
Blank Canvas: Seth Macfarlane of American Dad!
Makeover, Makeover: The events of “Rapture’s Delight” see Steve and Hailey called up to heaven for Judgement Day, while Stan and Francine remain on the hell-torn Earth having had a quickie in a church closet.
A few years of living in the apocalypse naturally transformed the staunchly conservative CIA agent into a road warrior, complete with soul patch, scars and his own private Captain Hook.
4
Willow Rosenberg
Blank Canvas: Alyson Hannigan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Makeover, Makeover: A little dark magic never hurt anybody, right?
Foreshadowed with Willow’s attack on Glory in the fifth season, Willow goes full on wicked wicca after Warren accidentally shoots her longtime love Tara, absorbing enough dark magic to turn her hair, eyes and veins black with pure hate.
3
Walter White
Blank Canvas: Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad
Makeover, Makeover: Even with his head shaved in anticipation of the effects of chemotherapy, chemistry teacher turned meth-maker Walter White takes on his infamous porkpie hat and dark sunglasses for the persona of “Heisenberg,” brazenly blowing the floor out of Tuco’s operation in defense of his partner.
2
Hiro Nakamura
Blank Canvas: Masi Oka of Heroes
Makeover, Makeover: After the destruction of New York City and best friend Ando’s death, the perpetually child-like Hiro Nakamura finally gets his act together and becomes the badass he’d always dreamed of, sporting a ponytail, soul patch, fluent English, a long dark coat and Takezo Kensei’s sword.
Masi Oka included the sword as a nod to “Future Trunks” of DBZ continuity, who appeared on the scene under similar pretenses.
1
Pretty Much Every Doctor Who
Blank Canvas: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, and Matt Smith of Doctor Who
Makeover, Makeover: The power of the Time Lords too great to contain in any one vessel, forever, Doctor Who took to incrementally “regenerating” its protagonist as a new actor, the process being a make-over of sorts that changes appearance and personality to fit the newcomer.
The series revitalization in 2005 saw Christopher Eccleston’s 9th doctor as a much more grizzled, war-torn doctor while subsequent installments have added a bit more warmth, still sure to keep his impressive skills and knowledge for long-running fans.
UGO