James the Red Engine (Thomas & Friends)

James the Red Engine is the tritagonist of the Thomas & Friends. He is a red mixed-traffic tender engine who is very vain and boastful, but has a good heart.

Why He Rocks

 * 1) He is one of the iconic engines in the franchise.
 * 2) He has a nice engine design, especially his nice red coat.
 * 3) He is a jack-of-all-stats which means he is capable of doing several jobs.
 * 4) After blowing steam and bumping his coaches and being stuck in the sheds for it, James proves his redemption by successfully pulling his freight cars up and didn't crash this time and got praised for it by Sir Topham Hatt.
 * 5) He has funny moments, especially when he's very accident prone, such as crashing into tar wagons, sliding into snow, and crashing into Edward's poster, getting teased for his mishaps, or when he teases other engines.
 * 6) He is a splendid engine, as shown as he doesn't always boasts that he's one, but he proves he is one plenty of times.
 * 7) Despite his vanity and egotistical personality, he proves to be caring and kind-hearted, as shown when he helps his friends numerous times.
 * 8) When he is rude and insults other engines, he often gets his comeuppance or realizes his mistake and tries to apologize.
 * 9) Even though he only likes to pull coaches and not freight cars, he often learns "he can't always do the jobs he likes to do" and does
 * 10) His catchphrase as of Season 20: "Here's James!" when he arrives in a station is very neat, which is a reference to Jack Torrance's famous quote in The Shining, "Here's Johnny!".

Bad Qualities

 * 1) He can be rude and insensitive to other engines, especially smaller ones like Thomas and Percy.
 * 2) He was very unlikable in "James to the Rescue", "Diesel's Special Delivery", and "Apology Impossible".
 * 3) In Thomas & The Magic Railroad, his moment where he was cornered by Diesel 10 and almost pushed back into a smelting pit was very scary.