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Well the subject says it all what are your favourite characters from fiction. It dosen't matter where there from, to start the ball rolling here are mine:
Samuel Vines of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch,
Death of Discworld,
Rimmer from Red Dwarf
Ivan Issaacs from the Priest manhwa
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I think probably Buddy Glass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_family) from a number of JD Salinger stories. I think "Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters" is my favourite story by Salinger. I like the friendship he develops with the little old man.
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At first I was going to be all "man two fucking discworld characters out of four choices? That is some serious fan boy shit there, cut that out" but at least you chose the best two characters so that is cool, sorry I thought about snapping at you and then told you about how I thought about it dude.
This is a really hard one for me to be honest. It is hard because most of my favourite characters are in genre fiction but as an English Lit major I am bound to pretend that I consider genre lit to be beneath me.
Also since I am basically in love with Television as a fictional medium, I am just going to say Mike from Spaced and then leave it at that for the moment.
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If I had to pick one of the discworld characters it would be Vimes. Sorry if I did sound a bit fanboyish
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(Don't mind me hoss I am pretty sure I am just being a jerk today)
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I like L from Death Note, Momiji from Fruits Basket, Phineas from A Separate Peace, Henry from The Secret History.
I'm trying to keep it at four right now, but I like a lot of people that aren't real.
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Sam Spade
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or Philip Marlowe, it's a tossup.
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Lord Vetenari
either that or Winston Smith.
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Morpheus, Death, and Hob Gadling from Gaiman's Sandman
Spider Jerusalem
Bokonon
Roland Deschain
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Man this is difficult for me. I mean, I feel like I'm in elementary school and it's a new year and the teacher is all like "Let's go around in a circle and tell each other our names, our favorite color, our favorite food, and what you want to be when you grow up."
Stephen Dedalus from James Joyce's Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man would be one.
I'm going to give comics a berth here. I can't help myself not because they're my absolute favorites (this is something I could never correctly decide), but because I really enjoy these characters in the medium in which they're presented. And this medium, comics, I feel should be given more credit.
So, Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Spider Jerusalem from Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan, and Rorschach from Alan Moore's Watchmen.
But shit, what about Sam and Max? I love those guys.
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Rimmer from Red Dwarf
The Rimmer Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV17GxTh3Mo)
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Donna from That 70's Show
The Chink from Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_Cowgirls_Get_the_Blues)
Dr. Wiggs Dannyboy from Jitterbug Perfume (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitterbug_Perfume)
Jim Crow from The Invisibles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisibles)
Leon from The Professional (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Yossarian
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Rimmer from Red Dwarf
The Rimmer Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV17GxTh3Mo)
This perhaps one of my favourite scenes with Rimmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWkvrrxF6WU
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Vimes. The man is a genuine fucking hero.
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Donna from That 70's Show
Leon from The Professional (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
yes!
also,
Kilgore Trout from various Vonnegut books
Jon from Watchmen
Nell from the movie by the same name
The Shrike from Hyperion and it's sequels
Calvin & Hobbes! duh!
i could go on, but i think you get the idea.
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dogg you should check out the Tom Robbins books I was talking about
and also The Invisibles
oh man
your head will explode
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will do!
i am all about having my head explode.
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vincent gallo
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Captain Ahab is pretty spectacular. He's pretty high on my list.
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A really minor character that left a really huge impression on me was the Great Gamer from Alan Moore's Top Ten. Or: has anyone read Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse? I am a fan of the character Ashe Marson from that book. And I love the little boy from Yi Yi.
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(http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/Drama/Drama/CasablancaRenaultRick.jpg)
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The Bunk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdY2MnDm48w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdY2MnDm48w)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai3R1g7UEyg&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai3R1g7UEyg&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVW34_gnxu4&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVW34_gnxu4&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwhLUEyVlEE&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwhLUEyVlEE&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKLoN3dWlA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKLoN3dWlA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1h0pjVwGDI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1h0pjVwGDI)
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Sir Harry Flashman - Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser
Felix Jaeger - My Travels with Gotrek
Derfel Cadarn - King Arthur series by Bernard Cornwell
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Roland Deschain, without a doubt my favorite.
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Daffy Duck
Homer Simpson
Kazuo Kiriyama (Battle Royale)
Mr Wednesday (American Gods)
Death of the Discworld
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(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d158/dream_loud/daarien-79.jpg)
Yeah. Tuxedo Mask.
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Roland Deschain, without a doubt my favorite.
This, though Randall Flagg is pretty cool too.
EDIT: A real-life Dark Tower
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa219/livbarrob/BurjDubai_0906.jpg)
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa219/livbarrob/burjdubai2.jpg)
Okay, so its the Burj Dubai but this is what it would probably look like. That, or Barad Dûr from LOTR.
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That's a little frightening. :|
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Senor Esteban Maturin y Domanova
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Mrs. Lovett
Luna Lovegood
Amelia Peabody (Love ELizabeth Peters novels!)
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Anton Gorodetsky, Gesar, and Zabulon from the Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko
Paul Muad'dib, from Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender, from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Aziriphale and Crowley, from Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Also all of the characters from the Pratchett books that have been mentioned. The man makes some excellent characters. I also have to agree with Blyss about Roland Deschain.
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Alex The Large.
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BoomZilla!!
BOOMZILLA in the Lucky Dragon, back in there for what he knows is the first time they work this Lucky Dragon Nanofax, not a game but how you copy solid shit from one store to another. Not sure he gets that but there's free candy and big drinks for the kids, of which he is opting to be very definitely one, right now, but it's gone sideways with the bridge burning, and those motherfucker bulklifters come drop a fuckload of water on it, got about a hundred fire trucks and everything here, police, tactical squads, helicopters up in the air, so Lucky Dragon can't do the special thing for the first time they use the Lucky Dragon Nanofax, manager's going lateral, walks the aisle talking to himself. But the store's doing business big-time, home office won't let him close, and Boomzilla's started eating candy bars free because the securities are watching the smoke still rise off the wet black garbage, all that's left this end, so you can see the real bridge there, the old part, black too, hanging out in the air like something's bones.
And finally the manager comes and reads from a notebook, ladies and gentlemen, this momentous occasion, jaw jaw, and now they are placing the first object in the unit in our Singapore branch (Boomzilla sees on TV, out on the pylon, it's a gold statue of the Lucky Dragon himself, smiling) and it will now be reproduced, at a molecular level, in every branch of our chain throughout the world.
Checker and two securities, they clap. Boomzilla sucks on the ice in the bottom of his big drink. Waits.
Lucky Dragon Nanofax has a hatch on the front Boomzilla could fit through, he wanted to, and he wonders would that make more Boomzillas other places and could he trust those motherfuckers? If he could, he'd have a tight posse but he doesn't trust anybody, why should they?
Light over the hatch turns green, and the hatch slides up and out crawls, unfolds sort of, this butt-naked girl, black hair, maybe Chinese, Japanese, something, she's long and thin, not much titties on her the
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way Boomzilla likes but she's smiling, and everybody, the manager, checker, securities, they jaw-hang, eyes popped: girl straightening up, still smiling, and walks fast to the front of the store, past the security counter, and Boomzilla sees her reach up and open the door, just right on out, and it'll take more than a naked Japanese girl get anybody's attention out there, in the middle of this disaster shit.
But the crazy thing is, and he really doesn't get this, standing looking out through the doors at the video pylon, so that he has to go outside and fire up his last Russian Marlboro to think about it, after, is that when he sees her walk past the screens there, he sees her on every last screen, walking out of every Lucky Dragon in the world, wearing that same smile.
Boomzilla still thinking about this when his Marlboro's done, but thinks it's time for a Lucky Dragon Muff-Lette microwave, he thinks of that as his businessman's breakfast, and he's got the money but when he gets back in they got no Muff-Lette, fucking firemen ate them all.
"Fuck that," he tells them. 'Why don't you fax me one from fucking Paris?"
So security throws his ass out.
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what
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Whoa, what is that page 268 of? I'd like to read the rest.
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Really? I can't make any sense of that shit.
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I kinda like fiction that makes it seem like the writer is thinking faster than he is putting words together but still making enough of an effort to require extra thought on the part of the reader.
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It looks like a mash-up or fanfic of a scene from one of William Gibson's books - one of the bridge ones.
At least, there's a bit where a character goes into a Lucky Dragon convenience store and they have these nano thingies that fax shit by copying it and re-assembling it elsewhere, plus the reference to the san fran Bridge as well.
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yep, its from tall tomorows parties.
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Definitely would have to say William Thatcher, Nathaniel Poe, Chief Inspector Finch, and Robin of Locksley. Yeah... I'm odd.
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Alex The Large.
Neil Gaiman's Sandman
The Endless, Hob Gadling, Nada (sp), Lucifer, Rose, Ishtar (calling sister midniiight!), Barnabas, that Raven, Lucien, That pixie girl who had a crush on Morpheus (not Titania, hahahaha) and was short and had a cute nose and returned but didn't wear her "glamor," and fucked up morpheus' plans (sorta) during the endgame arc. Yeah. That one.
and Hippolyta (sp) Hall. The Furies and The Fates.
and The Corinthian. God he was awesome.
Watchmen
Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandias,
Shakespeare Characters
Othello, Iago, Tybalt, Mercutio, Lady Capulet, Puck, Richard II, Macbeth, Oberon, Bottom, Pyramus & Thisbe,
Other
Cyrano de Bergerac, Chief Insp. Finch, V, Donnie Darko, The Mule (YES YES MUAHHAHAHAHAAA), the first Xenomorph from Alien (lol, he/she got class), Batman (from Frank Miller's Comics), The Joker From The Killing Joke, Da Termiinaetah, The child and the older guy from A.I., Sin City, Fortuno and Montressor,
ill think of others later.
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Well the subject says it all what are your favourite characters from fiction. It dosen't matter where there from, to start the ball rolling here are mine:
Samuel Vines of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch,
Death of Discworld,
Rimmer from Red Dwarf
Ivan Issaacs from the Priest manhwa
Vines is so my favorite Pratchett character. My friends always say I am Carrot because I act like Captain America. But I'm really like Vimes: cynical and angry and barely holding it all in.
I've also liked Hardesty Morratta in Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale since I was a kid.
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that Raven....... That pixie girl who had a crush on Morpheus (not Titania, hahahaha) and was short and had a cute nose and returned but didn't wear her "glamor," and fucked up morpheus' plans (sorta) during the endgame arc.
Matthew and Nuala, respectively.
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(http://monscooch.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/tintin-top.jpg)
Tin Tin and the gang are pretty cool.
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where's rastastapopolis (sp) and that general guy with the nose and the slit eyes?
and thanks dazed for the help!
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Algernon from Importance of Being Earnest.
Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights.
Yossarian from Catch 22.
Billy Pilgrim from Slaughterhouse 5.
Stephen Daedalus from Portrait of the Artist/Ulysses
Alex from Clockwork Orange.
Ignatius from Confederacy of Dunces.
Rorsarcht from The Watchmen.
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I think Tintin is a pretty cool guy. eh travels the world and doesnt afraid of anything.
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Shinji Mimura
Tom Cat
Wong off Infernal Affairs
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Man, there's no way I could pick just one. I'm not surprised to see Sam Vimes and Death get mentioned though, not at all. I'm tempted to say the entire cast of the Venture Brothers, although, to be honest, I'm probably just saying that now because I watched some VB earlier today, so they're kind of on my mind. Were you to ask me tomorrow it'd probably be something else.
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Toki Wartooth. For that matter, the entire band. Toki just stands out because he's the most innocent.
There are probably more. I know there are more. This topic is conducive to multiple posts.
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tl;dr long fucking post alert!!!!
I agree with the earlier poster about Leon from Leon (or the professional if you've only seen the US Version)
Gotta Add:
Mathilda from Leon
Pink from The Wall
Edmund Blackadder from Blackadder
Butters from South Park
Randall Graves from View Askew
Silent Bob from View Askew
Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates...
Tyler Durden from Fight Club
House from House
Westley from The Princess Bride
Eric Draven from The Crow
Phill Connors from Groundhog Day
The Joker from The Dark Knight (its a shame people who havent seen the movie will think he just got the Oscar cause he died)
Sex Machine from From Dusk Til Dawn
Steve & Doug Butabi from A Night at the Roxbury
Victor & Vincent Vega from Res. Dogs & Pulp Fiction
The Wishmaster from Wishmaster 1 & 2 (the others sucked)
Wayne Gale from Natural Born Killers
Julie Walker from Return of the Living Dead III
Ted the Bellhop from Four Rooms
Ron Burgundy from Anchorman
Brick Tamland from Anchorman
Abby Sciuto from NCIS
The FUCKING DUDE
oh and MAD MAD RESPECT for Betty White's Character in Lake Placid.
Could think of hundreds more characters I love, but I'm thinking my list might be too long for you guys to read already.
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Stephen Maturin and Jack Aubrey from the Patrick O'Brian novels (they were okay in the movie, but frankly not nearly as awesome, especially Stephen).
I mean, Stephen is a world-renowned scientist, amazing (perhaps House-like) Doctor, accomplished duellist, wildly adventurous pharmocological self-experimenter and incredibly able spy. (So no, as cute as womenfolk may have found Paul Bettany, he didn't do him justice).
Jack is a brilliant tactician, oaf, accomplished astronomer and mathematician, surprisingly well-meaning/naive rake and brilliant musician.
BFF.
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Edmund Blackadder from Blackadder
Why didn't I think of that
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Stephen Maturin and Jack Aubrey from the Patrick O'Brian novels (they were okay in the movie, but frankly not nearly as awesome, especially Stephen).
I mean, Stephen is a world-renowned scientist, amazing (perhaps House-like) Doctor, accomplished duellist, wildly adventurous pharmocological self-experimenter and incredibly able spy. (So no, as cute as womenfolk may have found Paul Bettany, he didn't do him justice).
Jack is a brilliant tactician, oaf, accomplished astronomer and mathematician, surprisingly well-meaning/naive rake and brilliant musician.
BFF.
Yaaay! I forgot these two fellows! You're right!
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Tank Girl!
and Toki Wartooth.
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(http://www.hakanuygun.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/halo.jpg)
WRITE THE OTHER SEVEN BOOKS ALAN YOU TWAT.
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Lyra from the His Dark Materials series, not just because she's a lady but because her main strength is not honour or character but because she's an amazing liar.
Also, the entire cast of the Venture Brothers.
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R. P. McMurphy.
Ignatius Reilly is pretty good too.
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Yeesh How in the hell did I forget about Edmund Blackadder, add him to my list. Oh and Roland Deschain as well.
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Charlie Kelly from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
Charlie from Flowers For Algernon.
Hank Moody from Californication.
Ari Goldd from Entourage.
Tyler Durden from Fight Club.
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How did I not know this thread existed. Any anyway, Im just going to go with one pick since its favourite fictional character
Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop
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Nick Fury. Not picky about which version, they're all equally manly
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Frank Lehmann (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herr_Lehmann). Read that book, it is the best!
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Edmund Blackadder from Blackadder
Why didn't I think of that
Because Blackadder, Parte the Seconde; Blackadder the Third; Blackadder Goes Forth and the Blackadder Christmas Carol were much better.
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Edmund Blackadder from Blackadder
Why didn't I think of that
Because Blackadder, Parte the Seconde; Blackadder the Third; Blackadder Goes Forth and the Blackadder Christmas Carol were much better.
True, but to be fair my OP was meant to be all encompassing. I know they're different characters, but let me slide on this one.
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The Doctor.
Well ... incarnations ... 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 ...
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Edmund Blackadder from Blackadder
Why didn't I think of that
Because Blackadder, Parte the Seconde; Blackadder the Third; Blackadder Goes Forth and the Blackadder Christmas Carol were much better.
True, but to be fair my OP was meant to be all encompassing. I know they're different characters, but let me slide on this one.
If we're being pedantic about it, Border Reiver, Edmund from the first series wasn't called Edmund Blackadder, he was Prince Edmund aka "The Black Adder" and the show was also called The Black Adder. Blackadder as far as I'm concerned refers to the series in general
Yeah that's right 8-)
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I'm all for pedanticism as long as it works out in my favor. (That was in my favor, wasnt it?)
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Sherlock Holmes!
I mean, in times of extreme boredom he takes out a revolver and shoots his ceiling. Rad.
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I'm all for pedanticism as long as it works out in my favor. (That was in my favor, wasnt it?)
Yup
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River Tam (http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/RiverTam)
River Tam (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/action_movies.png)
River Tam (http://boobtubedude.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/river_tam.png)
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winston churchill
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River Tam (http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/RiverTam)
River Tam (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/action_movies.png)
River Tam (http://boobtubedude.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/river_tam.png)
Damn, you beat me to be first with my obsessive Firefly fanboyism. I'll actually go ahead and say everyone from Firefly.
Also: Charlie Crews from Life. He's just so unabashedly strange.
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Don Vito Corleone aka "The Godfather"
He started as a poor immigrant who spoke no English, and became arguably the most powerful man in New York.
His morals were beyond reproach. You do what is right, you do what needs to be done, period. You do not cheat on your wife. You do what you said you would do, period.
Yes, he broke many laws. But he never hurt anyone who was not trying to hurt him or his family, and who was not also a criminal.
He was generous and loving to his friends. His enemies... well, their feelings did not matter; they were his enemies.
His did everything he did for his family. "A man who does not spend time with his family can never be a real man."
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Vegeta
And Moriarty
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Oh yeah, and...The Joker.
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Goku from Dragonball
MechaHitler from Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Carrie from Mythbusters
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Carrie's fictional? :?
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I was just wondering about that.
Although some would argue that she's too awesome to be real.
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Women are just pretend.
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Uncle Toby from Tristram Shandy.
My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries; not from want of courage; I have told you in a previous chapter, "that he was a man of courage:" and will add here, that where just occasions presented, or called it forth, I know no man under whose arm I would have sooner taken shelter; nor did this arise from any insensibility or obtuseness of his intellectual parts; for he felt this insult of my father as feelingly as a man could do; but he was of a peaceful, placid nature, no jarring element in it, all was mixed up so kindly within him; my uncle Toby had scarce a heart to retaliate upon a fly.
Go, says he, one day at dinner, to an overgrown one which had buzzed about his nose, and tormented him cruelly all dinner-time, and which, after infinite attempts, he had caught at last, as it flew by him; I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape: go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
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Argh. That book is staring at me on my bookshelf right now. Nabokov loved it, and it apparently influenced Gogol and Pushkin. I want to read it! But diving into a 500+ page novel right as exams are about to start probably isn't a good idea.
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Zatoichi (as played by Shintaro Katsu). Man, I love those freaking movies. Zatoichi is the fucking best
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Zatoichi (as played by Shintaro Katsu). Man, I love those freaking movies. Zatoichi is the fucking best
I agree, but I'm going to have to include Zatoichi as played by Takeshi Kitano
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I would like add Caboose and Sarge from Red vs Blue.
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I would like add Caboose and Sarge from Red vs Blue.
I only drink the blood of my enemies!
And occasionally a Strawberry Yoohoo...
or Sarsaparilla...
Grenadine, straight from the can, dee-licious...
Oh, occasionally I do enjoy a Sex On The Beach or a Pina Colada.
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Hmmm.....
Steerpike, Mr Flay, Fuschia and Dr Prunesquallor from Gormenghast
Mrs Trunchbull from Matilda
Odysseus from the Odyssey
San from Princess Mononoke
Seita from Grave of the Fireflies
Marvin the Paranoid Android and Arthur Dent from HG2G
Bernard from Brave New World
....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
There are probably a few more but my brain is foggy today.
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I was just thinking about the book and I have to add: Jadis from The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis. Damn Fine Woman, that.
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BONUS BROWNNOSING POINTS:
Marten off that QC Webcomic
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....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
I agree.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar was an incredibly compelling and dense character.
I doubt there's been a hungrier Caterpillar since.
I'll add to my list
George and Martha from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Oskar from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jordan Baker and Owl Eyes from Gatsby
also, Bernard Black. le sighhhh.
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....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Us Australians grow up with that guy.
Sometimes we get the Rainbow Serpent as well.
And the Rainbow Fish.
They're not actually related and Wikipedia says the Rainbow Fish is a communist wtf
No-one mentioned Tony Stark yet D=
The Chief from Get Smart. Alan Arkin did him friggin justice like Carell did to Max.