Favorite fictional characters!
OK so here are my tops, not in any particular order ----
The Gunslinger, or Rolland for the 'Dark Tower' fans (Stephen King)
Odd Thomas, definitely (Dean Koontz)
Hannibal Lecter 
(Thomas Harris)
Sal Paradise, hell yeah (Jack Kerouac
and even the Mad Hatter from Lewis Carrolls teaparty
What you guys think?
From Portland, OR
And why am I a Marine?
"Fuck it, ya only live once"
Afghanistan woohoo
as cliche as it is around here, Tyler Durden
Don Quixote
Kurtz (I love the fact that he doesn't show up till the end and yet by the time you meet him you already know him)
Bill the Cat
Scamper the rabbit from Igor.
I just watched the movie yesterday!
"Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in the event, who wants one?"
"I do," Dunbar told him.
"Why?" Clevinger asked.
"What else is there?"
- Catch 22
1) Yossarian from Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
2 & 3) Crowley & Aziraphale from Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
4) Tender Branson from Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk
5) The Narrator, from Fight Club, also by Chuck Palahniuk
6) Severus Snape from Harry Potter, by JK Rowling
7) Tom Ripley from The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
8) Holden Caulfield, from The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger
9) TS Garp, from The World According to Garp, by John Irving
10 & 11) John Wheelwright & Owen Meany, from A Prayer for Owen Meany, also by John Irving
12 & 13) Lestat de Lioncourt & Louis de Pointe du Lac from The Vampire Chronicles, by Anne Rice
14) Mark "Rent Boy" Renton from Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh
15) Rob Fleming from High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
there are many others who are my favourites, i'm a bookworm XD
that Good Omens one reminded me of Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandermar from Neverwhere!
great villains!
1. Roland Deschain of Gilead
2. Shadow Moon
3. Levi bar Alphaeus who is called Biff
4. Jude Fawley
5. Jack Torrance
rl stine
mark twain
dr seuss
george eliot
george orwell
Charlie Bartlett!
(Oops but that's not a book)
Holden Caulfield
1. Randal Patrick McMurphy
2. The Goon
3. Charles Carter aka "Carter the Great"
4. Arthur Dent
5. Samwise Gamgee
Honorable mentions:
Flip from The Adventures of Little Nemo in Slumberland
Indiana Jones
Fiver from Watership Down
mark twain
dr seuss
george eliot
george orwell
those are non-fictional characters.
and don't pull that sh*t that they're all pen names. they're still names of real people.
Of course:
...and of course:
...and of course:
And these two as a team:
and The Durden, but that's cliché.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
mark twain
dr seuss
george eliot
george orwell
those are non-fictional characters.
and don't pull that sh*t that they're all pen names. they're still names of real people.
i was going to write something that explains why i did that, but instead i'll just say, psha!
RL=Robert Lawrence. He goes by Bob in real life.
Random useless information from 2nd grade.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
2. The Goon
3. Charles Carter aka "Carter the Great"
4. Arthur Dent
5. Samwise Gamgee
Honorable mentions:
Flip from The Adventures of Little Nemo in Slumberland
Indiana Jones
i like Arthur Dent too, but my favourite from H2G2 is Zaphod Beeblebrox XD
and Sam is the real hero, not Frodo~!
Esther Greenwood, from The Bell Jar
Jonathan Safran Foer, from Everything Is Illuminated
great villains!
how come? Crowley and Aziraphale are both nice, funny and humane. based on descriptions, Crowley is quite a heartthrob too, while Aziraphale is pleasant and jolly like a teddy bear. plus they both like people. Croup and Vandermar are plain evil... but yes, they are great villians!
I saw Neil read Chapter 7 of the Graveyard Book last night...pics to come later today!
great villains!
how come? Crowley and Aziraphale are both nice, funny and humane. based on descriptions, Crowley is quite a heartthrob too, while Aziraphale is pleasant and jolly like a teddy bear. plus they both like people. Croup and Vandermar are plain evil... but yes, they are great villians!
the one reminded me of the other because they are both written by the same guy.
lucky you! Neil Gaiman will never come to Malaysia... fan base here is a tad too small. there are many, but just not enough.
great villains!
how come? Crowley and Aziraphale are both nice, funny and humane. based on descriptions, Crowley is quite a heartthrob too, while Aziraphale is pleasant and jolly like a teddy bear. plus they both like people. Croup and Vandermar are plain evil... but yes, they are great villians!
the one reminded me of the other because they are both written by the same guy.
hahahahahaha! they way you link things reminds me of Tender Branson.
Vandermar creeps me out a little more that Croup.
Wolf Larson
Roland
Randall Flag
The Durden
Rant Casey
Denny
Luca Brasi
Hannibal Lecter
Louis De Whiny Fucking Vampire
All of Vonnegut's old guys and too many of his side characters
Jack and the Beanstalk
Patrick Bateman
Jason Bourne
Egan & Con
Santiago
yaws trippin. wolverine, dude. hands down.
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
Jazz of Define Normal by Julie Anne Peters.
I don't care just what you think as long as it's about me.
Jo from Little Women
both Bertie Wooster AND Jeeves
Lord Peter Wimsey
Peter Rabbit
Weetzie Bat
Lucy Pevensie
Severus Snape
Francis Tarwater
Zooey AND Franny GLass
Mick Kelly
Mrs Ramsay
Lily fucking Briscoe
Mrs Dalloway
Bunbury
Hiro Protagonist
the dude from "Bright Lights , Big City"
Mr and Mrs Beaver
Tumnus
Cayce Pollard
Anne Shirley
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Holly Golightly
THATS SO +3 STILETTO DUDE
Hiro Protagonist has got to be the worst name for a good character ever. that's even worse than some of Pynchon's names!
I couldn't agree more.
But also:
Howard Roark-The Fountainhead
Esther Greenwood-The Bell Jar
Winston Smith-1984
Alex-A Clockwork Orange
Alex is a great character...but so filthy. Probably the ultimate anti-hero, because most people who get called anti-heroes are way to heroic for the title.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
Titus - Titus Andronicus, by Shakespeare
EPICAC - Welcome To the Monkey House, by Kurt Vonnegut
Humbert Humbert - Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
The Officer - In the Penal Colony, by Franz Kafka
Lord Henry - The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
Aristophanes - Symposium, by Plato
Everyone and the Caterpillar - Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
Elwin Ransom - The Space Trilogy, by C. S. Lewis
Winston Smith - Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
Jake - The Muse Asylum, by David Czucklewski
Narrator - The End of Alice, by A. A. Homes
Ivan Karamozov - The Brothers Karamozov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jack Pumpkinhead - Return to Oz, by L. Frank Baum
D-503 - We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Just a few I love to pieces...
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
Jake - The Muse Asylum, by David Czucklewski
I thought I was the only person who read this book.
Ah, me too. It is a favorite. But no one else seems to like it at all.
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
I think i'm going to put Captain Ahab on this list. not sure yet though...
I'm adding Francis Orme from Observatory Mansions
How could I forget Argyle?
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
D-503 - We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Nice.
Pirate who Was a Bit Immature About Celebrating Other Men's Conquests - Sad Pirate Monkey Saga, mostly by Monkeywright
And I forgot Odysseus, he's really pretty great, and that story is still one of my favorites.
I also considered captain ahab...but I don't think he would like to be on this list, for some reason.
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
I also considered captain ahab...but I don't think he would like to be on this list, for some reason.
String 'im up! On the list, I mean.
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
mark twain
dr seuss
george eliot
george orwell
those are non-fictional characters.
and don't pull that sh*t that they're all pen names. they're still names of real people.
i was going to write something that explains why i did that, but instead i'll just say, psha!
Well, now I wanta know!!
Lord Peter Wimsey
Anne Shirley
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Did you ever watch these on PBS Mystery? I wanted to run away with Peter and his manservant when I was a little girl.
Jonathan Safran Foer, from Everything Is Illuminated
Everything is illuminated is great.
Every time I re-read it, I have to find some one in the house to read out loud to because its just too fucking funny to keep to myself.
Its so easy to speak for the dead.
Ignatius J. Reilly
Holden Caufield
Howard Roark
The Narator/ Tyler Durden
etc
"My hopes lay shattered like a mirror on the floor
I see myself and I look really scattered
But I lived my broken dreams"
- Daniel Johnston
mark twain
dr seuss
george eliot
george orwell
those are non-fictional characters.
and don't pull that sh*t that they're all pen names. they're still names of real people.
i was going to write something that explains why i did that, but instead i'll just say, psha!
Well, now I wanta know!!
I can't remember why i did that now. Barely remember doing it.
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
The Judge
Captain Ahab
Nicholas Urfe
Phinneas Poe
Orpheus
Andrew Ender Wiggin
I don't know, there are a lot of them.
I'm going through a brief period where I'm obsessed by Abraham Van Helsing. Like, when I think about the fact that he's fictional, and I'll never get to meet him, I get sad.
Plus:
Hal Incandenza
Hamlet
Elizabeth Bennett
Rebecca de Winter
Mephistopheles
There is hope, but not for us.
Weetzie Bat
witch baby was so much cooler than weetzie bat.
pete bondurant from james ellroy's stuff.
1. Ender Wiggin - "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
2. Bean - "Ender's Game" and "Ender's Shadow" by Orson Scott Card
3. Hiro Protagonist - "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson
(Yes, Nathaniel, it is a very, very dumb name, but the character is just so damn cool!)
4. Y.T. - "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson
5. Rant Casey - "Rant" by... can't remember
6. Nightcrawler - X-men
7. Milli Vanilli
8. Jesus - Don't know if he's fictional or not, but he's up there with my faves
Oh, and the Prince of Mueller - "Treason" by Orson Scott Card
Really, I could list these for days, but my fingers are so very, very sleepy.
Patoruzú, canejo!
Ni juno a ninguno de esos giles que mencionaste, guachín.