Favourite fictional character

[brian]

Just thought I'd ask a general question:

Are there any characters in fiction who stand out particularly for you? If so, why?

I'm going to have to think about this myself.

[Archangel Scream]

Gotta be Gandalf! The smoke rings and fireworks do it for me!

[Kilroy]

Gotta be Han Solo and/or James Bond. nuff said.

Kilroy Was Here

[PaenDragaan]

I'll probably get shot for saying this here, but one of mine is Rand al'Thor.

The second is the heroine of the series I'm reading right now. Anna of the Series The Spellsong Cycle.

[SirRob]

Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye. He's weird but he's cool ;D.

I'll probably get shot for saying this here, but one of mine is Rand al'Thor.

*BANG*

[nemesis]

Not a great character but an interesting one. Raistlin from Dragonlance.

[Survivor]

Cordelia Naismith always caught my fancy (I liked her son too, but not quite as much). It's sad that Bujold decided not to write more stories from her perspective. I guess she sort of intimidates her own author, though.

[Persephone]

Xena! If only the coppers would let *me* carry a sword as well! Tah-tah for now! (blows kisses)

[mac1]

I have a few favorites, Spike from Buffy is cool, mostly due to the screen presence of James Masters. Similarly Avery Brooks' Benjimin Sisko is also amazing. That guy can really act. Morbo, the news reader from Futurama is always hilarious as is Richard Nixons Head.

Choose a favorite you say?
No
But heres a few more favorites - Michael Corleone, Fox Mulder, Homer Simpson, Link, Wayne and Garth, Hannible Lector, Ash (from the Evil Dead), and Williams (from Enter The Dragon). That will do for now.

[brian]

Sisko was much better in DS9 after - I think it was - the third series - when he came out with the shaved head. Somehow he came across as stronger when he was otherwise a little variable. Though I guess it helps when facing a Klingon attack and then the Dominion proper .

[Eldanuumea]

Elric of Melnibone......disturbing, thinking person's hero/antihero?
Vivacia.....the young Liveship in Ship of Magic.
The woman protagonist in Harriet Arnow's The Dollmaker.......strongest woman in all of literature.
Demetrius in The Robe.......the loyal slave/friend of Marcellus.

[Dimlien]

It was the fourth series of DS9 I believe, certainly it was series four that started with the the big two-parter where the klingons attack the station and the dominion thing really stepped up a notch then. I'm pretty sure that was when he shaved his head anyway and I agree he was much better from that point.

However, my favourite characters are probably Waylander and Jon Shanow from the books of David Gemmell. Also Zakk Wylde (ok he's not exactly a fictional character but sometimes I could almost swear he is)

[mac1]

Rock On!!

Saw him play an epic guitar solo that must have been about 7 minutes long at last years Ozzfest. It was raining, it was dark, he was in a pale blue spotlight, his hair was blowing horizontally due to a fan at one side of the stage, and he was down in his usual uber-low playing stance, and he played one of the most amazing guitar solos I have ever seen. That guy rules.

Oh and while we are on the subject Slash is practically a fictional character too!!

[chronicles]

I'm going to bring back this thread and nominate...

...Mr Spock!

[chronicles]

Sorry - Captain Spock for that photo-shoot.