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Voice of reason characters are almost always ignored. Here's some of my faves :
Mammy - Gone with the wind
Peter Boyle in Taxi Driver - advises Travis Bickle to be more outgoing and sociable...
Mum from At Close Range (1986) : is no longer fooled by the charms of psycho dad Christopher Walken. Ordering him to get out of her home the minute she sees him again.
and YOU?
Thelma Harper
Feck([B][I]River's Edge[/I][/B])
Alfred the Butler
Tyrion Lannister
Adrian Balboa (her role as "voice of reason" is seen as bad as it is good, since Rocky is meant to do the "unreasonable thing" and take a chance - so even though the voice of reason is frequently the moral compass, it's not so in these movies - Adrian always comes around to his morality by suspending "reason.")
Iceman, Top Gun.
(it was on tv yesterday ^^)
Bob Newhart. In anything.
I think Danie's wife from Cobra Kai is one of the best "voice of reason" characters in recent memory. Sometimes it seems like she's the only adult on the show that's moved on from the 80's.
Sansa Stark for the last two or three seasons. It is known.
[QUOTE=Tuck;4367385]Bob Newhart. In anything.[/QUOTE]
Newhart is the man.
One obvious choice here would Jiminy Cricket, right??
The juror from Twelve Angry Men
(wow, thanks for the replies!)
Lisa Simpson in any Simpsons episode
Then there's the "tyranny of reasonable voices" the first Rocky has those, saying that he'll never be anybody, that he can't do it etc. (other examples?)
Sam Axe in Burn Notice, if only because when he says 'Don't do that', he's willing to stick his neck out for the more dangerous but moral plan.
Davos and Tyerion GOT
Wilson - House MD
Lil Rels character in Get out.
The survivor(s) in any horror movie.
Alfred from Batman(Based on a comic book).
Spock from The Star Trek.
British People.