Alpha Male TV Characters

Alpha Male TV Characters

Although TV is mainly for entertainment, with an open mind and an eagerness to learn, everyone can get something useful out of it. The TV series characters sometimes portray behavior that should be included in one's arsenal as well. Here is a list of five TV characters that men should try to emulate.

Steven Hyde (That 70's Show) - Hyde represents the rebel that lies in all of us. He does what he wants to and ignores the rest, he drinks beer, does not care about his studies, and is laid back all the time. Although many students in high school do go through that phase, most of them stop after college, when they get a job and settle down with a family. However, is that how it should be? Should one just stop having fun altogether and become completely rigid and uptight? No. Actually, it is at this point of life that people should try harder to have fun, since life becomes more difficult. Everyone should bring out their inner Hyde occasionally to take a break from the hardships of life and stay from being burnt out.


Jon Hamm (Don Draper) -  Don Draper is the mysterious, brusque, womanizing advertising genius at the heart of the TV show Mad Men. A super-stylish look at the culture of mass-market advertising in the early 1960s, Mad Men premiered on the cable channel AMC in 2007 and remained a hit until the end of its run in 2015. As the series began, Don Draper was the creative director at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency in New York City. As played by Jon Hamm, Draper was charismatic and creative, a heavy smoker and drinker, a wearer of sharp business suits, a steely-eyed boss, and a champion adulterer who slept around aggressively despite being married (at first) to the beautiful Betty Draper (played by January Jones). He was also hiding a secret: he was born as Dick Whitman, was later orphaned, and then remade himself as Don Draper after he secretly switched identities with a fellow soldier who was killed next to him during the Korean War. The show followed Don Draper's creative triumphs and crashes and personal dramas as he juggled his job, his affairs, his wife and kids, his divorce and remarriage, and his secret identity.

''Everyone Wants To Be Don Draper... Except Don Draper ''

Mike Ross (Suits) - With increasingly easier access to drugs and other self-destructive substances, it is very easy for someone to completely lose control over their live and mess up. That is when one should take inspiration from Mike Ross. He did not even go to college, but once opportunity knocked at his door, he welcomed it in. Instead of feeling sorry for his past mistakes, he moved on and decided to change life for the better, something ever man should do.

Fox Mulder (X-Files) - Agent Fox Mulder supposedly lost his sister to an alien abduction when he was a child, and never got over it. As result, throughout his life, he had two obsessions driving him: He wanted to find his sister, and he wanted to find extra-terrestrial beings. While such obsessions may be unhealthy, the lack of obsessions today is far more unhealthy. Every man must have a driving force, whether that be a car, a position, power, money or the knowledge, is irrelevant. The presence of an ambition is what really matters.

Harvey Specter (Suits) - Harvey Specter is the perfect mix of Michael and Sonny Corleone. He is smart, cunning and good with words, but he also loses his temper often, and is not afraid of a fist fight. He will go at any length to protect his loved ones, and has a very strong sense of ethics. He neither forgets a favor nor forgives an insult, which makes him all the more respectable.

David Palmer (24) - Of all the people to emulate, who better than the President of the United States, David Palmer. A confident man, totally in control of himself, and very well-respected by his peers, this man is the ultimate alpha male. However, what really sets him apart is his ability to make extremely sensitive decisions under a great deal of pressure. He is also quite fearless, and is not afraid of making personal sacrifice for the greater good. At the end of the day, David Palmer is the man to be.