The shagability of the Tracy brothers

Scott

He's my favourite. Slightly bossy, but he can do as he's told, looks adorably stupid in his hat, cute little dimples :-)... He has a great aura of patience and calm, but with four little brothers, it'd either be that or a nervous breakdown. I bet he got stuck babysitting all the time.

Virgil

The arty one. He looks enough like Jeff to put me off slightly, but I can see what people see in him. To be fair, I do think he looks good rumpled (See Trapped in the Sky and Pit of Peril for some good examples), and he has an endearing kind of brainless enthusiasm and sense of fun, even if it is expressed through laughing at/playing practical jokes on Lady P. (The Mighty Atom) Could be passive-aggressive revenge for her taking up his father's attention whenever she's around...

John

The pretty one. It's difficult with him, he's never had much of a personality, and he's too perfect-looking to be taken seriously. You can tell why they never take him on any rescues, though. He might get his hair mussed or something. I bet that's why he almost never wears the hat. Wonder if him and Jeff have ever rowed about that... You can tell he'd enjoy a good argument, but I bet Jeff doesn't feel the same way.

Gordon

In my opinion, the ugliest. The fact that he sounds disconcertingly like Brains doesn't help. Probably gets the least amount of screen time, due to TB4's general uselessness (The same could be said of TB3, but at least they need it for the shuttle runs). He's supposed to 28 if memory serves. He looks about 45. If he was a superhero, he'd be Aquaman. Nuff sed.

Alan

A little bit podgy, but I'm sure it's just baby fat. He'll grow out of it any day. I can also see Jeff here, but it almost suits him, although the fluffyness of the hair is a little overdone. He should get some hairsyling tips from John... except that they never see each other. Is this the parental ultimatum of 'if you don't play nicely, I'll separate you' taken to extremes? But in the end, any discussion is pointless. He's taken. And I bet Tin Tin's got a mean right hook...


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