If you had to choose one Pixar character who you consider yourself to be most similar to, who would it be, and
how are you similar? Do you think that what happened to them gave you insight into understanding yourself?
I’d have to go with Red. I’m large, quiet
and shy, but capable of making a lot of noise if I have to.
For me, I am going to consider myself to be
very similar to Violet from the Incredibles. I was a shy boy who could never talk to boys. All I needed was a
chance to shine and excell at something and now, I am a confident person.
I am without a
doubt Violet, and I’m more similar to her the way she was before venturing to
Nomanisan. We’re both incredibly shy and unusual, but we desperately want to break out of our shells and fit in
with the normal crowd.
But lately, I find myself wanting to be accepting of who I am, even if I am a
little different. I can’t help how I am, so I might as well live with it. This is how Violet is as the movie
nears its end.
I’m still a tad nervous talking to guys though. 
Violet has
that beat.
I may also add that I think I’m part Dash. I catch myself
sporadically bouncing around the house suddenly full of energy. 
~~=oP
Lol, strangely enough
PV, I can actually imagine that! 
I think I’ve got a bit of Flik’s happy-go-lucky attitude, but as
for similarities to other characters…I’ll have to have a think.
I think that I’m probably best identified as Flik. I can
be nervous, anxious, and extremely over-exicited when I get into something that I know should/will work. I’m a
great worker to boot, so call me an ant!!
And then there are times when I feel just like Flik when he
yells out "I KNOW it’s a rock! Don’t you think I don’t know this a rock, I’ve been around many
rocks!!" Yeah, I can explode . . . but it’s not often.
Finally, I’d like to think I have the gall
to stand up to some super-oppressor like Hopper one day, but we’ll see. As for bullies, well once they get to
know me, they either come to like me or they just “back off.”
But yeah, I’m a Flik boy, through
and through.
(Note to change Avatar soon . . .)
I
can absolutely identify with Randall, which is one of the main reasons why I like him so much. I’ve been
through the whole mess with having to put up with a boss who hated me, of being constantly compared unfavorably
with the boss’s best friend who also worked there, of seeing the boss’s best friend and the daughter of the
school board president given preferential treatment and get “Teacher of the Year” year after year, in
spite on having been absent from school over 40 days out of the year, and of having been given the ultimatum-do
something illegal(for the good of the school district and the children, of course)or lose my job, my sole means
of support. I know all too well the stress of losing sleep, night after night, to finish projects for my
supervisors, of working on stuff through holidays while everyone went on vacation in order to meet deadlines, and
I know the effect that it has on someone, behaviorally and emotionally. I also understand what it’s like to be
considered a outcast, to be “different”, and to be despised because of it, for things you cannot
control, like who you’re related to (or not), or your skin color. I can remember what it was like to be an
ambitious Twenty-Something, believing that climbing some corporate ladder and making a name for myself, and
grabbing ahold of that elusive American Dream, were the most important things in life. I can also remember what
it was like to realize that everything I’d been working for, all those goals and ambitions-were for nothing more
than to pay bills and avoid bankruptcy. The one-actually, make that TWO-things that I had going for me, that
Randall lacked, were my family, and my Faith(though I can’t say with conviction that he lacked the latter,
anymore than I did when I was 25). I could at least turn to someone I trusted for advice and a shoulder to cry
on if nothing else, and I knew, come what may, that they would not abandon me. Just
those two things are probably what kept me from either taking someone else’s life, or my own, so I totally
understand Randall’s “wild animal in a trap” situation. Unlike me, though, he had no one to turn to,
no family to be there or speak up for him. If he did, they would surely have not allowed that travesty of a
“company play” to be publically presented, making fun of a family member who’d disappeared without a
trace while working for that very company, now would they?
pitbulllady
I’m kinda
a cross between Dash, Mr. Incredible, and Lightning McQueen.
Dash because I’ve always been kinda held
back from who I really am and recently have been allowed to break free and flourish seeing my true
potential.
Mr. Incredible because I feel like I’m constantly being held back and denyed my talents in a
world that glorifies mediocrity and where character gets you nowhere.
Lightning because I have a major ego
and from time to time need to be knocked off my high horse to stop and smell the roses. I also have that
tendancy to loneliness and emptiness and tring to fill that void like Lightning.
Marlin.
Definitely. I’m so Marlin to a T! I’m so uptight and nervous about everything! The "I’m feeling
happy…which is a big deal, for me" and “How do you something bad isnt gonna happen?!” really hit
home for me. It was like whoa! Somehow those guys at Pixar got inside my head!
To tell ya the truth, I bet we can
all identify ourselves with every character in Pixar.
Not
necessarily every character…There are some characters that I dislike, so…But I’m sure everyone can identify
with at least one or two characters.
No kidding! I certainly don’t identify with MOST of them, even the
ones I like. That’s one of the reasons why Finding Nemo is my least-favorite Pixar
movie; even though I liked it a LOT, and it’s still a great movie, I really could not identify with any of the
characters or their situations at all. I’m not a parent, I’ve never lost a spouse(or HAD one, for that
matter), I never got kidnapped or taken away from my family as a child, and I have really good memory. I still
eat fish. I am so NOT into the whole California surfer culture…or ANY surfer culture(unless you can count web
surfing). It just felt like a bit of a let-down following up on Monsters, Inc., in
which I found a character who was more like my animated soulmate, and I could totally relate to the whole
workplace mindset, with the safety posters and short lunch breaks and workplace rivalries and
such.
pitbulllady
I’m
most like Lightning McQueen, and, though I’m not all that proud to admit it, I’d say that I’m probably more
like pre-Radiator Springs and maybe during-Radiator Springs McQueen than I am like post-Radiator Springs
McQueen… I live out in a pretty rural area, and truth be told I don’t really like it all that much. It’s
where my grandparents live, though, that really makes me most like him: they live out in a super-rural area (they
live on a farm, I think that’s pretty darn rural), and whenever we go visit them and/or all our other family
that lives around there, I really feel like I just can’t stand them or the place… I’m not exactly like
McQueen in that I have no friends in the world or that I’m not nice or anything, but moreso in the fact that I
don’t appreciate the “slow lane” as well as I should, and (which I’m more ashamed of) that even if I
don’t really enjoy the company of “country folk,” I can’t find myself able to even appreciate them
much.
I’m only in high school, though, and I recognize my shortcomings, which is the first step to
overcoming them. 
Exactly! The only character I found REALLY intriguied me was
Gill, but his backstory was hardly touched upon anyway, so there wasn’t much there for us. I still adore Finding
Nemo, I just don’t identify with any of the characters. Then again, there are several MI characters I don’t
identify with- Sulley, for one. I guess it just depends on each individual.