Wednesday, January 1, 2020

The Annual New Crushes List

Happy New Year. Let's hope 2020 sees the end of our long national nightmare, either through the impeachment process or by an election without foreign interference. But that's not why we're here today. As I do every year, it's time to introduce a new batch of Capper Crushes. This is the biggest group in sometime. 30 new live action crushes, two illustrated Crushes and one new Crush-in-waiting.

But first, a bit of a Crush conundrum. Since last year, two of my previously declared Crushes, Ashley Benson and Cara Delevigne, have begun a relationship. With each other. Now, I wont say that being my Crushes brought them together, but, since they have yet to state if they are actively bisexual or fully lesbian, leaves them in a state of Crush Limbo.

Anyway, onto the new blood.

Starting with a lovely young lady celebrating her 19th birthday today, from Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, Angourie Rice.


From Fighting with my Family, and the upcoming Black Widow, Florence Pugh. (Who can also be seen with fellow crush Emma Watson right now in Little Women, but, since I don't plan on seeing that one, it doesn't count,)

A double dose from Shazam, who played two versions of the same character, Grace Fulton...


… and Michelle Borth, who has also appeared on Hawaii Five-0.


Also from Hawaii Five-O, Meghan Rath.



From Disney's live action Aladdin, plus voice work in Despicable Me 2 and Dr Seuss' The Lorax, Nasim Pedrad.

These next two ladies earned their Crush status from the same movie, Fast and Furious presents Hobbs and Shaw. 

First, also to be seen in this year's Godzilla vs Kong, Eiza Gonzalez.

And, previously seen in Mission Impossible: Fallout, Vanessa Kirby.


Another double dose from the same source, the Maleficent movies.

First, from both of the Maleficent films, along with The Dark Knight Rises, the 2011 version of The Three Musketeers and Year One, Juno Temple.


 And, just from Maleficent< mistress of Evil, Jenn Murray. 


(Who, FYI, did not look that hot in the movie. She looked almost androgenous.)

Yet another double dose, from DC Universe's Titans.

Conor Leslie...

...and Minka Kelly.


(There's one more Titan still to come, but that's a different section.)

Yet another double dose, from the not-so-well receievec Terminator movie, Dark Fate.

Mackenzie Davis...

...and Natalia Reyes.


And one last live action double dose, from Knives Out/ (If you haven't seen it yet, you really should.)

Ana de Armas (who will also be seen in the next Bond movie, No Time to Die.)

and Katherine Langford. (who can also be seen in a deleted scene from this year's biggest movie, Avengers Endgame.)


From Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Jumanji The Next Level, Madison Iseman.


Going back to the DC Universe streaming service, from DC Daily, Amy Dallen.

And from Doom Patrol, April Bowlby.


From the CW;s Batwoman, Nicole Kang.


From a few episodes during Peter Capaldi's run as The Doctor, the (hopefully) upcoming movie The New Mutants, and that show with the dragons, Maisie Williams.


From Transformers: The Last Knight, and that live action Dora the Explorer movie, Isabela Moner, or, as she's now going by, Isabela Merced. (Not because she got married. She changed her name to honor her late grandmother.)


From Arrow, and a rumored spin-off, Green Arrow and the Canaries, Katherine McNamara.


From Moana, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and the somewhat poorly received The Little Mermaid Live, Auli'i Cravalho.


A recent addition to Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Jamie Gray Hyder.


From The Orville, Jessica Szohr.

And last, but certainly not least, from Deadpool and the Disney+ hit series, The Mandalorian, former MMA fighter Gina Carano.


Next, the two illustrated Crushes for this year, both from Dragon Ball Super, and both Saiyans from Universe 6.

Kale...

...and Caulifla..


This year's YouTube crush comes from the Disney World centric YouTube channel, All Ears.net,  Margeaux Jordan.


And finally, this year's Crush-in-Waiting, from DC Universe's Titans, Teagan Croft.



So, that's it for the Crush class of 2020.  Will next year's class be bigger or smaller? We'll know fir sure in one year.

In Non-Crush news, this year, I'll be heading back to Walt Disney World, to take my first visit to Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. But that's five months away. Who knows what the rest of the year will bring.