Favourite fictional character

[Kissmequick]

Eomer, LOTR

Nhi Vanye , Chronicles of Morgaine

Sam Vimes, Terry Pratchett

I could go on, and on, but those are my top 3

[The Ace]

Belgarath, a very bad old man who can stop the sun in its tracks.

Johhny Alpha, the strontium dog from 2000AD, killing off first Wulf then him was a grave error. If you wonder why, try to get hold of, 'Portrait of a Mutant,' written when the extreme right in the UK were making a power play. Allegorical or not, it'll knock your socks off.

[VionesspXmoone]

There are so many I will just name a few. From books there are:

Drizzt Do'Urden, Pikel Bouldershoulder, and Cadderly Bonnaduce all R.A. Salvatore characters (his books got me back into reading fantasy after years of not, you should see me laughing at the dwarves in his books while reading at work, I am sure people think I'm an idiot. )
Phaerun Mizzrym from The War of the Spider Queen books
Simon Snowlock from Tad Williams M, S, &T

From Film or TV:

Indiana Jones, Darth Vader, Captain Picard, Data, D. Frankenfurter , Henry Spencer (from David Lynch's Eraserhead, gotta love the freaks ) and numerous more

[nj1]

Derfel from the Bernard Cornwell Arthur tirlogy.
An oridinary man who raises to become a war lord.(thuogh he does love Arthur a bit much).

Utred of Babbenburg from bernard cornwell's Alfred the Great books, Loves the Danes and hates the christians cos they prey too much! But fights for the christians anyway. A greta reluctant hero.

[Manarion]

Where would I start?

First off, I'd probably say Garion from David Eddings' Belgariad/Mallorean series.

Second, I'd probably say, heh, Total from James Patterson's Maximum Ride books-you'd have to read them to understand.

It could go on and on. Those are two of the best, I think, though.

[pyan]

Originally Posted by Manarion

Where would I start?

Good question! Where to stop would be more to the point!

Samwise Gamgee - the real hero of LotR

Sam Vimes - Discworld

Pyanfar Chanur - from the books by C.J.Cherryh

"Slippery" Jim DeGriz - The Stainless Steel Rat

Lord Miles Vorkosigan - created by Lois Bujold

Lazarus Long - R.A. Heinlein

Roland Deschain of Gilead - from The Dark Tower by Stephen King

Just a few.......

[Adasunshine]

Originally Posted by pyan

Samwise Gamgee - the real hero of LotR

Here here!

I have no idea where to start with this one or as Pyan rightly says, where to stop...

I love Belgarath from Eddings' various books

Iorek Byrnison and Will from His Dark Materials

The Disreputable Dog from Garth Nix's books

Arya, Bran, Jon and Tyrion from GRRM's ASoIaF

Merlin... just Merlin

Dumbledore, Sirius and Mr Weasley from HP

Even though he's a bit of a dark creature, Odin from Gaiman's American Gods

Mr Nancy from Anansi Boys

The Old Bailey from Neverwhere

Dogman, Logen Ninefingers & Glokta from Joe Abercrombie's books

That'll do for now...

xx

[Connavar]

I will name the 5 i like the most in no ranking order.


Jon Shannow - David Gemmell's Shannow tales

Conan - Robert E Howard stories of course

Parker - Richard Stark Parker novels

Harry Bosch - Michael Connelly HB crime series

Ghyl Tarvoke - Jack Vance's Emphyrio



Honorable mentions:

Rick Deckard - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Takeshi Kovacs - TK series Richard Morgan
Manuel Garcia O'Kelly - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Wyoming "Wyoh" Knott - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Professor Bernardo de la Paz The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Dr.Eric Sweetscent - Philip K. Dick Now Wait For Last Year

[yngvi]

Cadman Wayland from The Legacy of Heorot by Niven et al

Louis Wu from Ringworld

Sparrowhawk from the Earthsea Books by Ursula Le Guin

Billy Danger from Galactic Odyssey by Keith Laumer.

[nixie]

For me it has to be Nakor from Fiest's Riftwar series or Fiddler from Erikson's Malazan.

[nixie]

Originally Posted by The Ace

Belgarath, a very bad old man who can stop the sun in its tracks.

Johhny Alpha, the strontium dog from 2000AD, killing off first Wulf then him was a grave error. If you wonder why, try to get hold of, 'Portrait of a Mutant,' written when the extreme right in the UK were making a power play. Allegorical or not, it'll knock your socks off.

Johhny Alpha was a brilliant character, Durham Red didn't quite cut for me. Remember Midden Face

[The Ace]

Originally Posted by nixie

Johhny Alpha was a brilliant character, Durham Red didn't quite cut for me. Remember Midden Face

Bearing a startling resemblance to my brother ? How could I forget. (Wish I could forget, 'Lang may yer breeks reek, though.)

[nixie]

I still sneak a read of 2000ad, did you read Starlord? I thought Wolfie Smith was brilliant. Also preferred Ro-Jaws and Hammerstien when they were part of Ro-Busters.

[The Ace]

Didn't we all ?

I loved 'Starlord.'

[daisybee]

Okay so this thread has made me smile, so I'll add mine. Some have been mentioned but can we share?

Slippery Jim, The Stainless Steel Rat.

Buffy, and Spike from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Mr Bennet, Pride and Prejudice.

Silk, Belgariad

Mrs Coulter, His Dark Materials

Homer Simpson

Eric, Dungeons & Dragons

John Cage, Ally McBeal (The Biscuit still rocks)

Captain James T Kirk (of the USS Enterprise)

Sarah Connor, Terminators 1 & 2.

wow I had more than I thought!