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Someone who spoke to you more than any real human being. Someone who you identified with. Someone who you felt captured a perfect snapshot of the human psyche. Or, simply, someone you felt was really, really cool.
For me, it would have to be a toss up between Holden Caufield and Hamlet. Both are such deep characters that it's scary.
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Harry Potter Bridget Jones Chandler from Friends The Buckman from Mad About You Danny Ocean Tula from My Big Fat Greek Wedding Kate and Luc from French Kiss Kathleen Kelly and Joe Fox from You've Got Mail
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Caliban Professor Fate and Maximillion The Hero of Canton Rube & George (Dead Like Me) I wish I was Han Solo.
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Sam Vimes and Esme Weatherwax - Discworld Francie Nolan - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Jo March - Little Women Inigo Montoya - The Princess Bride Ford Prefect - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sam Gamgee - Lord of the Rings Spike - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Lauren Olamina- Parable of the Talents Veronica Mars And to be true to the fangirl in me... Ender, Valentine, and Peter Posts: 1947 | Registered: Aug 2002
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Wow. Good Job, Amanecer, with the Lauren reference. She came to mind first, but I'm giving it some more thought before I give the difinitive answer...
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I hope to marry a woman who will let me name one of our sons 'Atticus' if that gives you any indication...
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Sydney Carton from "A Tale of Two Cities" and Edmond Dantes of "The Count of Monte Cristo". Close seconds are Sam from LOTR and Athos from "The Three Musketeers"
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Firstly I'd like to second some of the selections that went before.
quote:Originally posted by MandyM: Chandler from Friends
Yeah, that's also one of my choices. A lot of this character's backstory has similarities to my own.
quote:Originally posted by calaban: Caliban
I can easily feel the loneliness that he had to experience on that island.
quote:Originally posted by starLisa: Dagny Taggart
Even though I'm still reading this book, she has quickly become one of my favourite characters. Following your own star, no matter what anyone might say. Rule!?
quote:Originally posted by Dan_raven: Sherlock Holmes Spock Gandalf
Ah well, I don't think these need any explanation.
quote:Originally posted by Little_Doctor FitzChivalry Farseer
Duty, Solitude and in touch with nature.
Besides those, the first character that comes to mind is Cugel from Jack Vance's "Tales of the Dying Earth". I admire him because he's far from being your typical fantasy type hero. He kicks and screams and rails against the fates, which he seems to think are always in conspiracy against him and yet he perseveres. He's not unwilling to help someone else, but there's gotta be something in it for himself as well. Needless to say I only want to be a bit more like him, because on the whole he's not a very lovable person.
*Wolverine; loner type of hero, gruff exterior with the soft core. *Link; the elvish hero from the Zelda game series, most especially as he appeared in his two adventures on the N64. *Pug & Jimmy the Hand; from the wonderful world of Midkemia. *Roy Calvert; from the novel "The Light and the Dark" by C.P. Snow. A phenomenal linguist struggles with his talents and the way the establishment is trying to push him. *George Passant; from the novel "Strangers and Brothers" by ibid. A man, while trying to help the people around him, gets into trounble himself. *Henry Wilt; the man with the grasshopper mind. from the novels by Tom Sharpe. *Orlando; from the Otherland series by Tad Williams. Battling an incurable disease and still managing to be a hero at the right time. Kudos! *Richard (Cypher) Rahl; The Seeker of Truth, just because of that function I feel strongly connected to him.
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Thought of a few more: R. Daneel Olivaw - Asimov's Robot books Tasslehoff Burrfoot - Dragonlance books Raul Endymion - Endymion series by Simmons Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin of Perdido Street Station Willow from Buffy because she's super hot Posts: 3950 | Registered: Mar 2006
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I know there's probably more obvious reasons to like this character, but Major Motoko Kusanagi of Ghost in the Shell fame, has to be my top cool character.
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My second choice (and I know he's the love of at least one other): Alessandro Giullani, A Soldier of the Great WarPosts: 14017 | Registered: May 2000
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Spike is great; he's the only reason I ever tuned into "Buffy". Ford Prefect is also wonderful -- both in the book and, to my great suprise, as Mos Def plays him in the recent movie. As for Jean-Luc Picard, ST:TNG came on the air when I was three -- I've grown up with him and the whole crew!
My own additions to the list:
Philip Carey from "Of Human Bondage", i.e., my alter-ego.
Charlotte York from "Sex and the City", i.e., my alternate alter-ego.
Night Tenjo from "Absolute Boyfriend", i.e., a manga re-imagining of my boyfriend.
Heathcliff from "Wuthering Heights", whom I had a crush on.
... and for sheer coolness, Jack Sparrow from "Pirates of the Carribean". He's just so increadibly far out of his mind!
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Really cool: Jack Sparrow from the first movie. Spider Jerusalem, during my cynical moods. Robert B. Parker's Hawk. The demon Crowley. V. Death of the Endless. Spike.
Identified with: Sam Vimes or Rincewind, depending on my needs. Oz from BtVS. Hoban "Wash" Washburne Peter Parker. Gomez Addams and Captain Spaulding, when it comes to romance. Jake Stonebender.
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Zoe from Firefly Faith and Spike from Buffy Death and Delirium from Sandman Bigby Wolf from Fables Ed, Catelyn, and Arya Stark and Tyrion Lannister from Song of Ice and Fire Phedre no Delaunay and Melisande Shahrizai from the Kushiel books Starbuck from BSG (the new one, naturally) Delenn, Ivanova, and G'Kar from Babylon 5
I know there's a lot more, but I'm having trouble thinking of them.
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quote:Originally posted by Stray: Ed, Catelyn, and Arya Stark and Tyrion Lannister from Song of Ice and Fire
Interesting that you include Catelyn in that list. While I agree with you about Ned, Arya, and Tyrion, I actually dislike Catelyn a bit. It's because of her treatment of Jon (Jon being a character that I'd put on the list alongside Ned, Arya, and Tyrion).
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I dislike Catelyn quite a bit as well, but for me it's because of how she abandoned her her youngest sons when they needed her most.
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Kingsley, for sure. Or perhaps Tony Shaloub.
Many "bad guys" have reasons for doing what they are doing. Somtimes the reasons may even appear good to them. There is no denying that Abner did some pretty bad things in the name of freeing the universe; to accomplish his goals he had to become the evil he was trying to destroy through deception coercing and killing. He knew he was an angel of distruction and willingly assumed that mantle.
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Xander (from buffy): In a world of 'super heroes' he was the regular guy. He often seemed to be on the outside looking in...but he would do anything for his friends.
Ben Hur (from the book of the same name): He persevered through an insane amount of hardship...but in the end didn't let his rage consume him (and he had every right to feel rage).
Athalus (from the Redemption of Athalus): A very funny character, who never claims to be "good" in our society he would have been locked up, but he still fights those who are evil.
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