Grey’s Anatomy
The preceding 16 seasons ofGrey ’s Anatomyhave been a rollercoaster of emotion . There has been death and life , dear and brokenheartedness , joy and grief , as the popular medical play leaped from one difficult matter to the next . When a series goes on for this many years , character come and go , but some stand out .
Denny Duquette , play to perfection by Jeffrey Dean Morgan , is one of the early good example of a side character that genuinely tugged at viewer ' heartstrings . The human relationship between the dying heart affected role and Izzie Stevens may have been unprofessional , but it was pure , and buff fell in love with Denny just as fast and just as firmly as Izzie did .
A retentive term affected role of Dr. Burke , Denny has been through hell since his diagnosis with viral cardiomyopathy - an ailment that regularly get his heart to fail .
Kindhearted and happy - go - golden , Denny still knows when to be serious , and he makes it percipient to Meredith that he is serious about his notion for Izzie . It does n’t matter to him thatshe ’s a doctor and he ’s a patient . lifetime is just too brusque to miss out on a unspoilt affair .
“How Am I Supposed To Get In Your Pants If You Took A Vow Of Celibacy?”
Denny does n’t trample the line of an appropriate rapport between doctor and patient . He jumps directly over that dividing line and then kicks the front doorway of the building down for good measurement .
The first fourth dimension that he meets Izzie , he jokes about his whiz star sign and his hobbies like something out of a punk date stamp visibility , and the playful flirtation only get bolder from there . He is n’t timid about his intentions , and Izzie is just as infatuate with him .
“Izzie, I’m Getting A New Heart”
That make his tearful smile as he tells Izzie that he might lastly be getting a novel middle even more meaningful . It ’s not just a surgery , it mean that he might get his intact life back .
“I Oughtta Kick Your A**, Makin' Me Yell Like A Baby In Front Of The Girl I’m Tryin' To Impress”
Tachycardic but awake , the doctors take fast natural process and shock Denny ’s heart in an attempt to slow down his rapid heartbeat enough to save his life history . Jealous of their connection , Alex offers to man the paddles and takes a smug delight as Denny cries out in pain sensation .
Stabilized but watery , Denny still manages to get the last word in , joking through his pain , and letting everyone in the elbow room lie with that he is in fact trying to impress Izzie .
“You’re Gonna Make My Heart Stop Beating, And It’s Brand New”
For a serviceman always puddle raunchy jokes and professing his feelings for his doctor , there is something unbelievably perfect and vulnerable about Denny Duquette . He always knows exactly the correct thing to say , and that ’s the case when Izzie lastly tells him that yes , she will marry him .
sentence does n’t matter to him any longer . He just get a heart transplant and he want to make the most of that gift , and in his mind , he ca n’t do that without Izzie Stevens in his lifetime .
“You Are In Love With Me. It’s Not Your Fault…I’m A Catch”
Denny has his optic on his beautiful attending medico from day one , flirting back and forth with her as she checks his vital organ . He goes so far as to tease her that she is already in sexual love with him - and for good reason , harmonise to him .
“ I think of , I ’m well off , but I ’m not into money . I ’m smart but I ’m not a get laid - it - all . I ’m risible . I ’m really courteous . I love animal . And I ’m red-hot . ” One thing Denny is not is lowly , but that ’s part of his appealingness .
“Would It Be Wrong For Me To Feel You Up Right Now?”
Amidst their tragical love chronicle , there is ever - present lightsome humor interweave in Denny ’s looming fear of it all ending in an instant . He uses sense of humour therapeutically , but he does n’t obviate .
He lets her in . He tells her how hard this all is on him , but he ’s still got his joke . Even in the darkest fourth dimension , he chance sweet and comic way to let her know that he wants her , in more ways than one .
“I Thought You Were My Heaven, But Maybe I’m Your Hell”
" I love you so much . I love you so much that when I got to follow back for you , I thought … you were my heaven " . Denny completes most of his series run over sporadic guest spotsin time of year 2and season 3 , but he come back a few seasons by and by as a spectre .
This plot line is particularly irritating because not only is Izzie death , but Denny is still Denny . He ’s not change . He is n’t a skittish harbinger of doom . He is still himself and he is still urgently in love with her .
“I Tricked Her Into Marrying Me. How Smart Am I?”
Despitetheir relationship being against the rulesin just about every agency , Denny is proud of his crush and jokes about it in front of the other hospital stave barefacedly .
When Dr. Bailey comes into his room just as Izzie leaves , Denny grins from capitulum to ear as he jokes that he play tricks Izzie into splice him - fragile self - deprecation as he feels his shape has to do with her wish for him . Still , there ’s so much pride in his tone , he clearly would n’t take care it being genuine .
“I Choose You Izzie Stevens”
Dennychose Izziefrom the very beginning . The first minute that he saw her , he loved her , and he always treated her that mode . “For five years , I ’ve had to survive by the pick of my doctors . The guys that cut me undefendable decided my life-time , there was n’t one choice that was mine . "
Denny did n’t have a healthy trunk or a way to take her out on extravagant dates , but he did have love and he never get her sense like she was n’t appreciate . Both with his words and his actions , Denny chose her every day .
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