Best fictional character

[ShinymetalASS]

Death :banana: he cracks me up...

[ShinymetalASS]

Should have qualified that one.... Discworld's Death

[BlueBoy]

Les Norton from the earlier Barret books. Fuck knows what happend to him in the later ones.

[locust]

Hiro Protagonist. Kickass name and carries a sword, what more do you need?

[StygiaN]

John Kelly/Clarke from Tom Clancy's Without Remorse/Rainbow Six/a few of this other books I haven't read.

Without Remorse is one of the best books on getting revenge I have ever seen. And Kelly is a fucking demon. I aspire to be like him and that makes him my favourite fictional character.

ps. I should really read some of that discworld shit. All geeks talk about it, I guess I am not one until I do. ;)

[jambo]

Nodbugger.

[Foxfire]

Jesse from The Preacher.

Now there's a man who can talk you into doing anything. ;p

[Aardvark]

MacGyver

[Goat Boy]

God.

[Aardvark]

Now now, Goatboy, no sense in starting a flamewar. Even a small child can think of a more deserving fictional character than that

[ShinymetalASS]

Gotta go a bit of Rhodry from Deverry series too... love a beserker...

[Benwah]

Rick Deckard - Bladerunner, cool calm and collected and utterly miserable ;)

[Glompbot]

Commander Vimes

[beowulf437]

John Carter

[Thyrd]

I agree with both Macgyver and Discworlds Death.

[berserk]

God.

No way is God the "best" charater.
Its a poorly developed character with major inconsistencies. E.g. is God 1 & 3, God knows everything & is intemporal but humans have free will, God is merciful but is a punisher.

[reykjavik]

God.

Bastard beat me to it.

[Sutter]

Call you guys tell us where your choice comes from and why? It'd be nice to read the books you guys like so much, or at least find out more about the character.

Tough choice, my first shot:
Dracula, from Dracula.
First modern vampire, inspired so much cool (and shitty) mythology and fiction.

[ShinymetalASS]

The reason for Discworld's Death being my favourite....
I find the irony of death's character utterly hilarious AND
He chose a guy called Mort for his apprentice.

Done and done.

[ShinymetalASS]

And while i'm around this thread I'll have to throw in a bit of Legolas form LOTR...
HOWEVER....
pre-movie, book only, Legolas as a character in the book....

[Juice Biscuit]

Victor Mancini from Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. Victor is a medical school drop out that works in one of those 1834 style theme parks, like old Sydney town. He also happens to be a sex addict and believes he may be a direct descendant of Jesus.

I liked the character for his activities such as, cruising sex addict support groups in an attempt to get laid, pretending to choke on food at restaurants so people will give him money and attention.

Tony Soprano from The Sopranos

Same type of reasons mainly due to their character flaws and how they deal with them.

I don't wont to be either of them nor but they would definitely be the two characters have enjoyed the most.

[hooptieride]

Bernard Black

[ShinymetalASS]

Elves, gremlins and eskimos

[fbleagh]

Who :Edmund Blackadder
From :Blackadders ( TV Series )
Why :Perfectly ruthless and calculating but never seems to get anywhere.

hmm other favorites are
The Major - Ghost in the Shell ( TV and movie ) - Because she is just so calm and collected under pressure.

Fras Glasken - Souls in the Great Machine series ( books -Australian SciFi ) - Because he is a complete lecher through and through, yet he still manages to be one of the most amazingly driven person. IE he saves the world a few times and ends up giving up so much in doing so.

:)

[Evil Dan]

Chewbacca......... because he shagged princess Leia while Han Solo was on ice.

[hooptieride]

Chewbacca......... because he shagged princess Leia while Han Solo was on ice.
Han Solo took crystal meth??

[Marshall77]

I thought you. I mean Chewbaccashagged Han Solo while the princess was giving it to chewie with a strap on

[legion]

And you have to remember according to south park god looks like some midget hippo rat thing not good.

My answer - Unicron - bye bye planet

[Goat Boy]

Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mocking Bird.
If I am ever forced to raise my children I would use him as my role model.

[Aardvark]

Don't worry, I'm sure if you ever had children, an alarm would go off in Social Services HQ and a crack team of SS agents would descend upon the child, snatching it away and spiriting it off to a government institution, where it would be ensured a substandard upbringing and a criminal career path

[polite]

Yossarian.

[NastyButler]

Second vote for Hiro Protagonist, however to be original and go off on a tangent I'll go for Optimus Prime.

[bronco]

I've gotta go Hannibal Lector from Thomas Harris. Nothing like a sadistic, yet cultured cannibal.

'A census-taker tried to quiz me sometime back. I had his liver with fava beans and a nice chianti'. - Hannibal Lector

[Asmodeus]

MacGuyver and Anita Blake

for those that dont know anita blake, check out the series by laurell k hamilton.. gotta love a character that slays zobies and vampire and has a stuffed toy penguin collection

[mr_russy]

Vito Corleone in Mario Puzo's The Godfather

[Canalien]

Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool.

Best comic book character in history, depending on who was writing at the time, but the first several issues of the monthly series that started in '96/'97 was worth twice as much as it cost in humour/kg alone.
Let me refer to the issue in which he had to extract a sample of blood from the Hulk, as he dynamically parachuted out of a plane he yelled
'TIME TO MAKE DONUTS!!!!!!!!... you were expecting I might have said "Spoon"?'

Other reasons include; He's Canadian. He has Wolverine's healing factor. Did I mention he's funny? (Might have something to do with the fact he has terminal cancer but can't die because of the pesky healing factor). He runs with sharp objects.

[Scythe]

Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.

What can I say, i'm old school.

[Whiskers]

Rhodry from that Katherine Kerr series.
My first (sadly not last) crush on a fictional character.

[Thyrd]

Drizzt

[Aardvark]

Lo Wang

In a fight between him and Duke Nukem, I reckon Lo Wang would win, because one liners are infinitely funnier when delivered in a chinese accent

[reykjavik]

Windom Earle from Twin Peaks - a literal diabolical genius.

[hazza]

sunol


olol pranked

[Lujan]

Just about any discworld character.

Favourite non discworld though would be either Stark from Only Forward, or Lister from Red Dwarf

[Buffy]

sunol


olol pranked
sunol is NODBUGGAR!!~!!`!!!!one~!!!! ololpranked

[44Harry]

Stephen King's - Christine.

[Moga2]

Lister of Smeg.... and many others.
Jack O'Niell from stargate (thats 2 l's)....
Max Evans (Roswell)....
... and many others.

[dogwomble]

I believe the greatest fictional character is the one I invented in my last job application :P

[iaidoka]

Minsc

[jefah]

Yossarian.
good call (if you disregard Closing Time).

How about The Dude aka Jeffrey Lebowski from the big Lebowski. He's living the life man.

[Merudo]

Snake Plisken.


Escape from new york sucked balls though, escape from LA was hilarious.

(it wasnt a comedy, you say? :o)


so many kick arse one-liners, lol.

Hell, the entire movie kicked arse.


and pingers right too, tony soprano is right up there.


edit:

just realised this was in the books section...

umm... probably ... shit, i cant remember his name, wait yes i can

Shane Schofield, who was in some of matthew reilly's books.


Ice station being one of the great ones. :banana:


OH OH also

Jack Reacher out of Lee Child's novels. Well, the ones that revolve around jack anyway. GREAT books.

[hooptieride]

just realised this was in the books section...

umm... probably ... shit, i cant remember his name, wait yes i can

Shane Schofield, who was in some of matthew reilly's books.


Ice station being one of the great ones. :banana:


OH OH also

Jack Reacher out of Lee Child's novels. Well, the ones that revolve around jack anyway. GREAT books.
Oh shit its in the book section.

I didn't even know there was a book section :/

[Colonel Kurtz]

David (& Leigh) Eddings' Sparhawk

[ShinymetalASS]

David (& Leigh) Eddings' Sparhawk

Is it my (constantly) failing memory or did Ursula Le Guin have a Sparrowhawk char in her series? I think he later turned into Ged (his true name). He was a bit of a tosser..... if memory serves.. haha!!

Plus, having just finished David Drake's Lord of the Isles I'm going to add Cashel from that book. What a sexy bastard.

[Sparhawk]

Take a guess.


Also, Rulke the Charon and Dirk & Al.

[s3raph]

Someone has probably already said this but Hannibal Lecter. Hes fucking cool.

[Lina]

Zach from the Poppy Z Brite novel 'Drawing Blood'. Oh my...geeky boy with a mustang *drool*.

[SuCC]

This is too broad a category even for books. Raistlin is a great fantasy character.

[Hairyman]

The Stainless Steel Rat

[sagit]

Postal Dude

[ttpuk]

charlie muffin: the anti james bond (by brien freemantle)
cohen the barbarian: cause he reminds me of my grandad (by terry pratchett)
yoda: funny, wise, sadistic! (some starwars writer)

[Sparhawk]

Bill Door.

[kré]

Gir.

[Aardvark]

The Space Marine from Doom. Keeps his trap shut and lets his guns do the talking, still able to fight after injuries that would've felled a lesser man.

Duke Nukem and Lo Wang come close, but they really weren't as hard arse as the Doom Marine. They both had kickarse one liners, though. Lo Wang edging out Duke Nukem in that department

Quake guy was a faggot.

The dude from Blood was alright but still has nothing on Doom guy

Master Chief is a fucking faggot

Serious Sam rates #2. Only because Doom was the original and the best and no matter what anyone says, the BFG 9000 was far meatier than that stupid cannon

[Manshoon]

DEATH from Discworld......Rincewind a close second in that series
Drizzt Do'Urden.....cant stop reading that series
Manshoon.....cant explain but I like him!
Raistlin in the Dragonlance series was awesome.....
Lister rocks in the Red Dwarf books......Cat only comes a close second.
Dagnarus in the Sovreign Stone trilogy I liked.

All good characters!

[Eds]

Bob Lee Swagger from Stephen Hunter's books
Jack Reacher from Lee Child's books
Finn MacCool from "At Swim Two Birds"
Avantor the avantor from "Illegal Aliens"
Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series (And I guess, by way of homage, Clint Eastwood's Leone-era Man With No Name)
Emma Caulfied's Anya from Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Maasaki Sakai's Monkey God (Monkey Magic!!)
Pando and Acko from Two Hands
Peter Fonda's character in "Ulee's Gold"
and James Woods' Mike Toreno in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

[scathing]

I may have to go with Dr Perry Cox (http://bliss.twinkles.nu/quotes.html#scrubs).

[Moga2]

well from books ill list:
Scarecrow, from Matt Rielly books..
Pug and Thomas from Raymond E Feist..
Dirk Provin from Jennifer Falon's Second Sons Trilogy, just because he's so intelligents its cool...

[scathing]

Why is it that people don't actually know what "best" means?

[arelius19]

drizzt duorden

[Arsozah]

Hmmm, if you mean best by favourite, then:

I love Rhodry too. But only in the beginning. When he's all bitter in the Westlands Cycle and getting it on with Dallandra in The Dragon Mage I kind of lost interest and switched my attentions to Ebany. I think the love affair Rhodry had with Jill was part of the appeal *sigh*

I also have a soft spot for all powerful mighty sorcerors - Nevyn and Belgarath are the coolest.

But lately, I find myself being drawn to a certain Discworld character. Drawn quite strongly, in fact. Is it wrong to identify so well with a homicidal, brainless suitcase on legs?

Long live the Luggage!!!

[ShinymetalASS]

When I was younger, I used to read Jilly Cooper books (was also a horse mad girl growing up in the sticks) and there were 2 characters in her books that kept recurring. They were twin polo players who were so sexy. Is it wrong to want both twins? At once?

[scathing]

Is it wrong to want both twins? At once?
If its wrong to want to bed twins, I don't want to be right.

[legion]

mmm errrrrr.. Deadpool

[a|A]

Ray Martin

[offcuts]

detritus for the complete lack of understanding and use of riot act
perrin for the axe
nevyn for everything he is
hannibal lecter for turning clarice

[GeeWhiz]

Luke Reinthart from the dice man. The best book I have ever and possibley every will read.

[Thyrd]

Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool.

Best comic book character in history, depending on who was writing at the time, but the first several issues of the monthly series that started in '96/'97 was worth twice as much as it cost in humour/kg alone.
Let me refer to the issue in which he had to extract a sample of blood from the Hulk, as he dynamically parachuted out of a plane he yelled
'TIME TO MAKE DONUTS!!!!!!!!... you were expecting I might have said "Spoon"?'

Other reasons include; He's Canadian. He has Wolverine's healing factor. Did I mention he's funny? (Might have something to do with the fact he has terminal cancer but can't die because of the pesky healing factor). He runs with sharp objects.

FUCKING W3RD!

[EvilMuppet]

"DEATH from Discworld......Rincewind a close second in that series
Drizzt Do'Urden.....cant stop reading that series
Manshoon.....cant explain but I like him!
Raistlin in the Dragonlance series was awesome.....
Lister rocks in the Red Dwarf books......Cat only comes a close second."

You stole all mine you bastard!

Also detritus.
Tasslehoff from Dragonlance.

[Sken]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide yet. He would have to be my number one, simply because he has some of the best lines ever written. For example:

"You think you've got problems, what are you supposed to do if you're a manically depressed robot? No, don't bother to answer that, I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level."

Yossarian (Catch 22), Dorian Gray (Picture of Dorian Gray) and Mat (Wheel of Time) are other favourites of mine.

[hakksaww]

Anti-heroes -

Thomas Covenant
Paul Atreides
Elric of Melnibone!

[Canalien]

Forgot about this thread, it's a winner. Will have to make some additions here;

Edmond Dantes
Graf Orlock
Calvin
Ashley J. Williams
Hamlet

[Scumbag]

god

[Glompbot]

god

do you actually believe he is the BEST fictional character, or are you just saying that to be facetious?

[BlueBoy]

God was a poorly thought out character with no backstory who spends half the book throwing tantrums. Certainly not the 'best' character.

[ShinymetalASS]

do you actually believe he is the BEST fictional character, or are you just saying that to be facetious?


Same joke as people used at start of thread.

I'd like to add Waylander to this thread :)

[Javaira]

Not many female characters

Off the top of my head I would say Lisa Hayes from Robotech is pretty awesome and I love Sen from Spirited away.

I am going to think of someone else bloody obvious as soon as I stop typing. /sigh

[Glompbot]

Whilst we're on the studio ghibi characters....
Mei from My neighbour totoro

http://www.rubypersson.com/animecellar/animecels/cels/mytotoro/totoro-004.jpg

[Thyrd]

Not many female characters

Off the top of my head I would say Lisa Hayes from Robotech is pretty awesome and I love Sen from Spirited away.

I am going to think of someone else bloody obvious as soon as I stop typing. /sigh

I bought robotech on DVD a few weeks ago. It seemed to be that Lisa Hayes didn't really do much apart from boss Rick around and then pine over him. Oh, and occasionally get captured by the Zentradi.

[ShinymetalASS]

Who's that sexy samurai from Samurai 7? The young one with green eyes and turquoise hair?

[dazmon]

The Shrike from the Hyperion series.

wish i could impale people on a tree of pain!!

[scathing]

Not many female characters

Off the top of my head I would say Lisa Hayes from Robotech is pretty awesome and I love Sen from Spirited away.

Female characters.

YT from Snow Crash

Letty from The Fast and the Furious (actually, most of Michelle Rodriguez's characters seem to be independent and strong yet not stereotypically ball-busting bull-dykes)


Two off the top of my head.

[Glompbot]

marjorie westriding from sheri s teppers books