The largest problem for the brand new Star Wars was to make us love Rey and Finn as a lot as Luke and Han. Mission completed! But more often than not, when a venerable franchise introduces new characters, it’s a horrendous failure. Here are 10 lengthy-operating collection that really made us care about new characters.

There are loads of lists cataloguing the occasions that a collection added a model new character who ruined every part. The Scrappy Doo impact. But what concerning the instances the place new characters (or an entire new forged) got here alongside and everybody embraced them?

Here are our picks, in no specific order:

B. Donna Noble on Doctor Who. This present has survived for 50+ years, largely, by including new supporting characters yearly or two. But Donna was the textbook instance of a brand new character who stole everybody’s coronary heart and captured our imaginations. Even if we type of hated her at first.

P. Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road. Sorry, she’s simply on our minds proper now. She’s nonetheless our favourite new character of 2015, and we type of need one other Furiosa film greater than one other Mad Max film.

O. Anya on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She got here alongside fairly late within the present’s run, contemplating, and in contrast to another different late additions (cough, cough, Dawn) she turned one among our favorites among the many Scooby Gang. I nonetheless assume Xander ought to have married her.

A. Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. This might have gone so horribly flawed. Adding a beforehand unknown character who studied with Anakin between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith was a horrible concept, on the face of it. But she turned out to be among the best issues ever to occur to Star Wars, and even made Anakin far more fascinating.

H. Rodney McKay in Stargate. We still have a shrine in our hearts to the chatty, uber-geeky, typically conceited Canadian who joined SG-M after which dominated the spin-off, Atlantis.

S. Root and Shaw in Person of Interest. It’s virtually exhausting to recollect at this level that the psycho hacker and the psycho killer weren’t a part of this present’s forged from the start. They have been comparatively late additions, particularly Shaw, however at this level they’re the guts of the present.

S. Queen Divine Justice in Black Panther. This clever-cracking Chicago teen who turnes out to have a vitally essential household legacy was launched comparatively just lately, during Priest’s indispensible 1990s run. And she’s now our favourite supporting character within the Black Panther forged. Let’s hope she turns up within the film!

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H. Stephanie Brown in Batman. The Nineteen Nineties have been full of latest characters being added to your favourite comics, and most of them have been complete losses. But Stephanie Brown, aka Spoiler, is among the most fascinating characters within the Batman mythos at this level. The daughter of a supervillain, she hates secrets and techniques and lies, and needs to make issues proper. Plus on this day of intense spoiler-phobia, having a vigilante named “Spoiler” is sort of good.

N. Henry Jones, Sr. in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. This is one other factor that would have turned out abominably. Indiana Jones is a type of characters who’s just about good and absolutely shaped—so let’s introduce his semi-estranged father! Ugh, no. But the mixture of witty writing and Sean Connery’s chemistry with Harrison Ford makes this the perfect factor ever.

10. Castiel and Crowley in Supernatural. Again, these characters have been launched comparatively late within the present’s run—in the direction of the tail finish of creator Eric Kripke’s tenure, anyway. But this insurgent angel and scheming demon principally turned key members of the supporting forged. And they’re an amazing pairing, every time they should work collectively. Even if the present did kind of run out of issues to do with them after a bit.

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Charlie Jane Anders is the writer of All The Birds in the Sky, coming in January from Tor Books. Follow her on Twitter, and email her.

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