Favourite Fictional Character #2

Favourite Fictional Character is a weekly meme by a blog I've just discovered: wordsmithonia. It's where we discuss our favourite fictional characters from books, tv, movies.

Jem!  Jem and the Holograms.

Jem

jem is excitment

ooh ooh jem

jem is adventue

ooh ooh

glamor and glitter, fasion and fame

jem

jem is truly outrajous

truly truly truly outrajous

whoa jem

jem the musics contajous, outrajous

jem is my name no one else is the same

jem is my...

but we're the misfits

our songs are better

we are the misfits

the misfits

and we're going to get her

but we're the misfits

our songs are better

we are the misfits

the misfits

and we're going to get her

jem

jem is truly outrajous, contajous

jem is my name no one else is the same

jem is my name

jem

From wikipedia: Jem, lead singer and frontwoman of the rock group Jem and The Holograms, is in fact the alter ego of Jerrica Benton, owner/manager of Starlight Music. Jerrica adopts this persona with the help of a holographic computer, known as Synergy, which was built by Jerrica's father to be "the ultimate audio-visual entertainment synthesizer" and is bequeathed to Jerrica after his passing. Jerrica is then able to command Synergy to project "the Jem hologram" over herself by means of the remote micro projectors in her earrings, thus disguising her features and clothing and enabling her to assume the Jem persona.  Throughout the series Jem tries to keep her identity secret and protect Synergy.

I love, love, loved Jem as a kid, I'd sit in front of the tv and sing away to the theme song.  My mum would hire videoes from the store just to shut me up when I'd complain there was no Jem on tv.  Jem was the inspiration for my first idea of a career as a singer.  And the Misfits were just perfect as the bitchy, badass rivals.

Looking back now, Jem was way ahead of it's time (it ran from 1985-88). From the animation to the fact Jem had a boyfriend, their was a funeral in one of the episodes (which was rare for a cartoon), one of the characters even got slapped.  It was such an entertaining show - I always wanted to own a pair of earrings which would transform me into a much cooler version of myself.  Oh well, one can dream.