Favourite Fictional Character?

[DUMBO.66]

 

[DUMBO.66]

Quite an obvious one: Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird

did ya see him in the film he was FUCKING HUGE!!!

 

[mozzy]

Quite an obvious one: Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird

Agree with this - wonderful man. I thought Gregory Peck portrayed his character very well in the film too. I also really liked Boo Radley in the book too - he came to mind before i read your post as i couldn't remember Atticus' name.

 

[Brockway]

Arturo Bandini

good call...

 

[Roadkill]

Captain Hornblower - partly because he's set in a period and situation that I find very interesting, but also because he's such a well-drawn and plausible character: highly competent, very good at what he does, but slightly too introspective and too insecure to congratulate himself on his achievements (which are mainly believable, and based in large measure on real events). An easy character to like and to sympathise with.

<edit> Ioan Gruffyd (or however you spell it) plays him quite well, so it's a shame the TV adaptation he does so in is so irredeemably shit: the finest Hornblower on screen, notwithstanding the American accent, was Gregory Peck in the 1951 film. None of them comes anywhere near to the books.

 

[Flashman]

Harry Flashman is another favourite

Huzzah!

These two for me:

 

[Mogden]

Ma Larkin from Darling Buds

*flumps up bosoms*

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

i could never name a favourite

and there are so many to chose from

though judging by posters and statues i consider ayanami rei to be a minor deity

 

[damnhippie]

Withnail
Derek Smalls
the print version of Hunter S. Thompson

 

[Orang Utan]

Ignatius from A Confederacy Of Dunces, pretty much every single character in Catch 22 and Sam Weller

 

[milesy]

rorymac

 

[foo]

milesy.

 

[STFC]

Bond. James Bond.

 

[brixtonvilla]

A shortlist:

Heathcliff.
Smilla Jaspersen.
Rorshach.
Count Olaf.
Keith Talent.
George Osborne.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I like Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov too.

He's no Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov though.

 

[SpookyFrank]

pretty much every single character in Catch 22

General Dreedle =

 

[Mungy]

Samuel Vimes
Columbo
Dirk Gently

that i can think of right now

 

[ska invita]

For me I think it is Avon (Paul Darrow), from Balkes 7.

Favourite characters aren't necessarily the best acted or most profound acharacters, but fill those little cosy spots in your life so that when you go back to them everything is all okay again.

Paul Darrow's acting as Avon has this effect on me - his holding of poses and looking off into the distance with eyes slighlty squinted makes me feel calm and less anxious about how society is fucked etc., etc.,

IN typical pose here:

 

[story]

Yossarian

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Strangely enough, another Yank one. From a thirties novel by Thorne Smith. Hunter Hawk, the hero in 'Night Life of the Gods'. <snip>

Hadn't thought about Thorne Smith for years. I loved his stuff when I was a kid

 

[rubbershoes]

Derek Smalls

good call. he's gnomic in all the right ways

 

[krtek a houby]

Russell, from Big Bang comics.

Nice one. Pete Loveday's finest ... and on a more superhero vibe;
Grant Morrison's "Zenith".

20 years old in comics this year & no reprints!!!

I hate to say it but I can see Robbie Williams taking the role if ever it made it to the screens.

Yes, tis derivative of Watchmen/X-Men/Miracleman.

But it still pisses over Judge Dredd. And I say that as a Dredd fan.

Back to Russell, the Saga of an ordinary man...

Neil Morrisey to play Russ? Or is that too obvious? Maybe that Ifans chap from "Notting Hill", then?

 

[Cid]

Probably one of the best used characters ever created...

 

[Julie]

Foghorn Leghorn

 

[N_igma]

Cartman
Iago
Alan Partridge

 

[Flashman]

Alan Partridge

Ohhhh, butter my arse! Yes indeed.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Napoleon Wilson

 

[A380]

Napoleon Wilson

14 years is a long time to spend pondering this question.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Some questions need that level of mullage

 

[krtek a houby]

Nice one. Pete Loveday's finest ... and on a more superhero vibe;
Grant Morrison's "Zenith".

20 years old in comics this year & no reprints!!!

I hate to say it but I can see Robbie Williams taking the role if ever it made it to the screens.

Yes, tis derivative of Watchmen/X-Men/Miracleman.

But it still pisses over Judge Dredd. And I say that as a Dredd fan.

Back to Russell, the Saga of an ordinary man...

Neil Morrisey to play Russ? Or is that too obvious? Maybe that Ifans chap from "Notting Hill", then?

Robbie Williams? Neil fucking Morrissey?

You absolute twat