Favourite fictional character

[NarkyTheNarkster]

oh ya one more thing how do i set a display picture??

[I, Brian]

No problem - I believe that this is the buttom your looking for:

[AVON]

Difficult one to answer, with just a single favourite character!

1) "AVON" - (Blake's 7.)
2) "THE DOCTOR" & his arch-enimies "THE DALEKS!" - (Dr. Who.)
3) "MR. SPOCK" - (Star Trek.)
4) "G'KAR" - (Babylon 5.)
5) "SHERLOCK HOLMES".
6) "ROBIN HOOD".
007) "JAMES BOND".

Plus others too numerous to list!

[okami]

As a reader of science fiction and fantasy for the past few decades, i find it difficult to decide on only one favorite character; there are so many. The best I can see is a four-way tossup between

(1) Robert Heinlein's Lazurus Long of the "Howard Families",

(2) Larry Niven's Louis Wu of the Known Space Series, specifically
the Ringworld novels,

(3) Jack Chalker's Nathan Brazil of the Well World novels, and

(4) Orson Scott Card's Andrew Wiggin, aka Ender the Xenocide, of the Enderverse series.

Unfortunately, television and movies haven't "discovered" them yet. . .uhoh, the wife's found me. . .

[I, Brian]

Hi okami, and welcome to the chronicles-network!

Hm...not heard mention of Ringworld for some time now.

Don't speak too soon about movies, though - dwndrgn has posted elsewhere news about "Ender's Game" being somewhere in the process.

[okami]

That would be great; I've already waited 30-40 years for certain comics (X-Men, Hulk, Flash) to come to the movies or TV. The good news is that we have better special effects now, and the characters' abilities can be portrayed as in the comics; the downside is that the majority of stories often don't do the characters justice (refer Heinlein's Starship Troopers). To see Ender the Xenocide brought to the screen might give a few people thoughts about our problems with terrorism and foreign policy: who knows, someone might stop and think about things.

However, I don't know how much would be lost in translation, which does worry me. . .I worry about what might get changed or cut out. the interactions between Ender, Valentine & Peter, and their genius-level mentalities, COULD NOT be exorcised from any conceivable script; otherwise it'd seem to me to be an SF "Home Alone". And the child playing Ender would have to evoke a great sense of empathy.

I apologize, though. . .I ramble. I don't have a computer of my own, so I use the one at work (now), or public access at the city or university libraries. Family worries have kept me from keeping up with science fiction in the past decade or so, as well. However, I still derive a very great enjoyment from what's left of my SF library, and I find that older stories--including those of previous generations--still affect me deeply.

[Incognito]

Yep - familes do have a habit of creating worry. Hope everything settles better for you - and glad you're still able to indulge in the reading. Small mercies and simple comforts?

[Sage Orion]

I have many fictional characters.....I guess I'll have to narrow them down....

#1 Maximus (Gladiator)
#2 Lucilla (Gladiator)
#3 Legolas (LOTR)
#4 Arwen (LOTR)
#5 Captian Algren (The Last Samurai)
#6 Katsomoto (The Last Samurai)
#7 Jack Sparrow (Pirates of Caribbean)
#8 Will Turner (Pirates of Caribbean)
#9 Harry Potter (Harry Potter)
#10 Snape (Harry Potter)

And many more...........!

[polymorphikos]

The child from the short-story "It's A Good Day", possibly one of the greatest stories ever written. Frankenstein's monster, the raptors in Jurrassic Park, James Bond, the Phantom, Conan the Cimmerian, Lucinda Carlton (don't worry, you've never heard of her, and she only exists in three exercise books in my bedroom), Alex from A Clockwork Orange, Oenode in the Night's Dawn Trilogy, Al Capone in the same, The Bride, Tarzan, and that little black bird in the Warner Bros cartoons that just plods along and is always being chased, but wlks straight through mountains and up cliffs and under the ocean and is ever-ellusive. Finally, Flute in the Tamuli et al, and Polgara. Of all of them, though, probably the little black bird.

[Michael]

1. Rap from A Man of His Word
2. Good ol' Spidey!
3. Thomas Covenant (as annoyed as I was with Donaldson's style, I still loved the story)

[Michael]

If Ender's Game is really in the making, I can't wait!

[Lacedaemonian]

My favourite character is Edmund from the Chronicles of Narnia.

Fingolfin - Silmarillion (His battle with Morgorth dwarfs anything in the LOTR)
Jaim Grymauch - Ravenheart by David Gemmell (His death is the most heart rending in any SF/Fantasy work - no argument.)
Druss the Legend - David Gemmell (Druss is iconic in the world of fantasy)
Talon of the Silver hawk - Raymond E. Feist (An excellent example of a classic fantasy character transition)
Raif Sevrance - A Cavern of Black Ice/A Fortress of Grey Ice by JV Jones (He can heart kill...)
Tyrion - A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (Excellent baddie?)

Edmund was a joke. I also did not feature any LOTR characters because they would pretty much all get a mention. These of course are just fantasy characters, there are much better characters of fiction.

[lord-draco]

I don't know if you know who this is but it would have to be{drumroll}.................Richard Cypher fom the Sword of Truth series.

[Esioul]

Damn, this is quite a nasty question. It changes all the time for me as well.

I'm obsessed with Ant & Cleo at the moment. I used to quite like Caesar, but I'm off him a bit at the moment. I'm beginning to realise what makes Antony work more- I always used to hate him, but now I just feel sorry for his double bind.

[Dead Riverdragon]

I don't suppose they count for ths topic though?

I'd go for:
Erikson's Karsa Orlong,
Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer: one of the great anti-heroes,
Gemmell's Viruk, for the same reason.
Gutz and Alucard from the mangas Berserk and Hellsing respectively.