Friday, June 18, 2010
Your Turn
This week someone asked me about a movie and then we got to talking about some books and characters and it got me to thinking about who my favorite fictional character is. To me it seems to change from year to year or even from book to book. Right now in books, I would have to say it is Jack Reacher in the series by Lee Child. Oh, Lucas Davenport is good too in the Prey books. Movies and television is harder for me, because it seems to change after I have watched a great movie. I love Hugh Grant's character in Love, Actually. I love Uncle Buck and I also love William Miller in Almost Famous. Who are your favorite fictional characters?
Scarlett O'Hara.
ReplyDeleteGOB Bluth from Arrested Development. Any of the Bluths, really.
ReplyDeleteANYONE on Friday Night Lights, especially Connie Britton's character, Tami Taylor.
Loved Henry in The Time Traveler's Wife -- total sexy badass. Was SO mad the film people turned that incredible book into generic Nicholas Sparks crap!
Captain Jack Sparrow is another. ;-)
ReplyDeleteDid you know that Entertainment Weekly recently did a piece on the best characters from the past 20 years?
Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy~Pride and Predjudice
ReplyDeleteScarlett and Rhett-Gone with the Wind
Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sawyer on Lost
Magnum and Higgins on Magnum, PI
Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian
Mrs. Miniver
Those are just a few that I can think of, there are so many
oooohhh, great question. Jack Reacher is on my "list". Harry Potter, Jay and Slient Bob, Martin Blank, Anne Shirley, Little Bear, Sookie(from the books)and Chandler Bing.
ReplyDeleteGregory Peck as Atticus Finch.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow
Hey Adventurous Kate, I'm reading that book right now!
ReplyDeleteScarlett O'Hara
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Bennett
Severus Snape :-D
Michael "Mouse" Tolliver from Tales of the City series.
ReplyDeleteDoes Jo March count as a fictional character? She's up there very high for me.
ReplyDelete@Jeannies Bottle
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy it!! It's my #2 book of all time (#1 is The Sun Also Rises). Such a good, good, good book, and Henry and Clare are amazing, brilliant, multifaceted characters.
Storm from the X-men
ReplyDeleteLucky Santangelo
Hannibal Lechter
Aunt Beast from A Wrinkle in Time.
ReplyDeleteThe Dude: Big Lebowski
ReplyDeleteEleanor Dashwood: Sense and Sensibility
John Locke: Lost
Fox Mulder: X-Files
Mike Wazowski: Monsters, Inc.
Ferris Bueller
Truvy: Steel Magnolias (or Weezer)
Liz Lemon: 30 Rock
Doc Holiday: Tombstone
Ash: Army of Darkness
Wesley: Princess Bride
Way too many characters in books that I loved...too hard to pick. Classics that everyone love and then just the secondary characters with all the great one-liners.
Pippi Longstocking
ReplyDeleteWillow Rosenberg
Jerri Blank
Kilgore Trout
Gobo Fraggle
Jughead
She-Hulk
Buster Bluth
oooo and Jo from Little Women
ReplyDeleteI love Lucas Davenport. Living in Wisconsin, I've met John Sandford several times at book signings (he's from Minnesota). Cool guy. His books are my favorite mystery books - reading Storm Prey. Along those lines, I really like these fictional characters: Harry Bosch, Joe Pike, Elvis Cole (I've met Robert Crais, too, and he is hot), Kathleen Mallory, and Joe Pitt.
ReplyDeleteI love Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy in literature and in the movies.
Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) in North by Northwest is dreamy.
I really dig Sunny and Don Corleone from The Godfather, parts I and II.
I have a fond affection for James Bond (only when played by DANIEL CRAIG).
I also have affection for Sandy Lyle (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) in Along Came Polly.
-Books: Severus Snape (Harry Potter child over here!)
ReplyDelete-Movies: The Dude! - Big Lebowski
-Tv:...too hard I would have to come up with a list and it might be annoying, lol
Great topic.
Ugh! I forgot Severus Snape! Good pick Lisa! That also brings me to Alan Rickman as Colonial Brandon! Swoon!!!
ReplyDeleteblanche dubois, george and martha, gustav von aschenbach, randal p. mcmurphy, and count dracula
ReplyDeleteAnne Shirley is a good one. Love her.
ReplyDeleteHeidi
Heathcliff and Claire Huxtable
Olivia Benson (L%O)
Columbo
Matlock
Opie
Scooby Doo
Sonny Corinthos
Ooh - in reading some of the other comments, I've forgotten a few...
ReplyDeleteDoc Holliday (I'm your huckleberry)
Ferris Bueller (thanks Carissa)
Bugs Bunny (peeping through the knothole in Grandpa's wooden leg, why'd they build the shore so close to the ocean?)
Snape's a good one, too!
ReplyDeleteDr. FrankenFurter- The Rocky Horror Picture show
ReplyDeleteWesley- The Princess Bride
Ferris Bueller- Ferris Buellers' day off
Anita Blake- Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K Hamilton
Heaven- VC Andrews
oh man this is hard,i'm such a bookie.
ReplyDeleteRamona Quimby
Harry Potter
Rachel from Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes
Bridget Jones
Jeff Spicolli
Rob Gordon- High Fidelity
William Thacker- Notting Hill
Dang, this is my last post. Promise. But when you mentioned Uncle Buck, it really makes me think of Del Griffith (John Candy) in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
ReplyDeleteOhh TV-Ok
ReplyDeleteWonder Woman
Alexis Carrington
Jamie Sommers
Maya from Space 1999
Easy - Shirley Valentine from the movie of the same name. Hands down.
ReplyDeleteon TV - atm it's Dr. Cal Lightman from "Lie to Me" god I love that man - strong, snarky, brilliant which sorta makes him sexy.
Quagmire. GIGGITY GIGGITY!
ReplyDeleteSeverus Snape. And the guy Alan Rickman played in Sense and Sensibility.
Jack from Sideways.
I LOVE the creepy characters Robin Williams has played in recent years, especially in Insomnia. Plus MRS. DOUBTFIRE!
Iago from Aladdin. :-)
This is cool - I get ideas for books to read..
ReplyDeleteMy favorite character ( don't laugh) is Sarah Connor from Terminator II. She was a strong, bad ass female, but what she really was was a mother protecting her child. Linda Hamilton was perfect in that role.
Love Hermione in the Harry Potter books. Actually loved all three of them.
And finally, Maria Von Trapp!!!! (the Hiiillls are alive, with the sound of muuuusic..)
Lazarus Long
ReplyDeleteScarlett O'Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler
Lucas Davenport
Weather Davenport
Anita Blake (don't hate me...the series is just that addictive)
Harry Dresden
Alex Cross
Comte Ferenc Ragoskcy De Sanct Germaine
Roger
Madelaine d' Montalia
Olivia
And there are honestly a thousand others - I read too much.
Dina Lohan, hands down.
ReplyDeleteSurely someone asstastically cunty can't exist in real life, right? She has to be fictional.
I would also agree with Jack Reacher. Read all the books. My mom and I keep thinking how to cast him in a movies. Along with him Joe Pike and Elvis Cole from the Robert Crais books. Twilly Spree and Skink from the Hiaasen novels.Rip Cantrell from Saucer by Stephen Coonts.
ReplyDeleteIn movies Dracula played by Gary Oldman, Ash from the Evil Dead, The Dude, Dexter, Buckarroo Banzai, Perfect Tommy, Scarlett O'Hara...
The Doctor...from Doctor Who. Doesn't matter which actor...I just love that character so much. I've watched the show since I was very small and just always loved him so much! :)
ReplyDeleteHands down Myron Bolitar in the Harlan Coben books
ReplyDeleteAbaddon - I had forgotten about Elvis Cole and Joe Pike!
ReplyDeleteMyron Bolitar - Harlan Coben
Lucas Davenport - John Sandford
Joe Pike and Elvis Cole - Robert Crais
Jack Lost
ReplyDeleteRose & Blanche Golden Girls
Ginger & Sam from Casino
Miranda on Grey's
Joan Cusack in 9 months
the mom in the Transformers movies
Gregory House
ReplyDeleteRocky Sullivan
ReplyDeleteOmar Little
Scarlett O'Hara
Jane Craig
I love this question! 2 days ago I finally saw Sunset Blvd w/Bill Holden & Gloria Swanson...love, love, love, loved it! I can't believe I never saw it before. Norma Desmond is by far my favorite movie fictional character. Fantastic movie!! If any of have never seen it YOU MUST! Timeless......
ReplyDeleteTV - Lucy Ricardo.... simply the best!
Lucivar Yaslana from the Black Jewels Trilogy
ReplyDeletePhedre no Delaunay and Josselin Verreuil from the Kushiel series
Talia and Vanyel from the Valdemar series
Parker and Eliot from Leverage
Cristina Yang and Dr. Bailey from Grey's Anatomy
Lafayette Reynolds from True Blood
I like Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis in Jonathan Kellerman's books. Any character Jennifer Crusie invents. Mikhail Blomqvist and Lisbeth Sandovar. Temperance Brennan (book version only) and Kay Scarpetta. Ten million others.
ReplyDeleteFor movies, it's usually the last one I saw, which would be Crazy Heart, so Bad Blake gets my vote this week.
Oooh, so many great ones on here!!! I am still sticking with just Jo March as my #1 favorite, though. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, love this one! I'll try to get em all on one post, but I know I'll foret some :P
ReplyDeleteMarge & Homer Simpson
The whole cast of Futurama
Atticus Finch
Scout Finch
Garp
Duckie - Pretty in Pink
Jeff Spicoli - Good one Jax!
Sookie Stackhouse
Eric
Jacob Jankowski - Water for Elephants
Annie
Astrid - White Oleander (book)
Pippy
William Miller - Almost Famous
Olivia Benson - SVU
Antoine Batiste - Treme
Nathan & David Fisher
Dexter
Gosh, so many, and I know I'm foregetting a bunch..
Happy Weekend Everyone!
Eleanore Ann Arroway
ReplyDeleteJim Rockford
ReplyDeleteOmar from the Wire
Greg House
Dexter
Barbara Havers - from the Inspector Lynley books from Elizabeth George
Awesome question!
ReplyDeleteXander Harris - Buffy
Chandler Bing
Fletch (from the movie; I've never read the books)
Luna Lovegood
Anne Shirley
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
Jo March (Little Women) and Jo Polniaczek (Facts of Life) - when we played house I always wanted to be called Jo, after both of them
Slater - Dazed and Confused
Loralai Gilmore
Fox Mulder
have to add to the list:
ReplyDeleteBridget Jones
Ben Hur played by Charlton Heston
The charactors Natalie Wood and Robert Redford played in "this Property is Condemned"~great movie, check it out!
Every charactor in "it'a a wonderful life", especially George and Mary Bailey and Uncle Billy
McGarrett,Danno, Chin Ho and Kono on Hawaii 5-0
Lucas Davenport lives just a couple of miles away from me.
ReplyDeleteTV: Agent Cooper, Napoleon Solo, Rupert Giles.
Movies: Lane Meyer, Jay & Silent Bob, pretty much any character Cary Grant played.
Books: Merlin, Dumbledore, Ender, Dirk Gently, Thursday Next, Alex Delaware, James Bond, Aloysius Pendergast.
Oops, forgot Doctor Who!!!
ReplyDeleteAny character in Sense and Sensibility.
ReplyDeleteBelgarion from the Belgariad
ReplyDeleteCaptn Jack Sparrow
Frodo Baggins -LOTR books
Pippin Took - LOTR books
Severus Snape - HP books
Lucy - Narnia books
Jo - Little Women
Tom Sawyer - Tom Sawyer!
Jax - Pern
Spock - Star Trek
Bones - Star Trek
Anne Shirley - Green Gables series
The guy Alan Rickman played in Galaxy Quest, I can never remember his name!
Speaking of Alan Rickman, I loved him in Die Hard. I know he was the bad guy, but he was so sexy about it.
ReplyDeleteBatman, far and away. Oh, and let's not forget Jules Kirby.
ReplyDelete@Mooshki-
ReplyDeleteLucas Davenport is a near-neighbor? Is Virgil F'ing Flowers ever nearby? LOVE John Sandford. Enty- you would probably also like Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp, and Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford. I am an avid (or is it rabid?) reader and see many of my favorites on these lists. Great question.
Books -
ReplyDeleteOwen Meany
Alex Delaware
Garp
Sookie
Stephanie Plumm
TV-
House
Dexter (the books pale)
Archie Bunker
Pee Wee Herman
Film -
Carla - The Other Sister
Russell - Up
Corky - Guffman
Rambo - (only the first two movies)
Miss Weeza - Steel Magnolias
So many!!
ReplyDeleteFor TV:
Punky Brewster
Rudy Huxtable
Mark Green on ER
Ross and Chandler on Friends
Wakko (from Animaniacs)
Stabler (but that could be my love for Chris Meloni coming through)
Currently, the blonde cheerleader (Brittany) on Glee...she cracks me up!
Movies:
Will Hunting
Cat (Annabeth Gish) in Mystic Pizza
The Little Mermaid (don't laugh!)
Lloyd Dobler (Say Anything)
I'm sure I'll think of more! :)
I'm gonna stick with books or my list would be way too long
ReplyDeleteAmelia Peabody and family - Crocodile on the Sandbank
Dumbledore - HP Books
Fred/George - HP Books
Inigo Montoya - Princess Bride
Mommy Bunny - Runaway Bunny
Pan - Jitterbug Perfume
Biff - The Lamb ( the Gospel According to Biff)
Max - Where the Wild Things Are
Oh gosh, I forgot Amelia Peabody! I love her and have read the entire series. I also like Sara Linton in Karin Slaughter's series and Phillippa in "In This House of Brede" by Rumer Godden.
ReplyDeleteVikingwench, his house is on the river in St. Paul, so I just live across from him. ;) Mitch Rapp is the book version of Jack Bauer. They're almost identical.
ReplyDeleteGreen Wave Gal, you reminded me, I also forgot Kermit!!!
Green Wave Gal, I love that you mentioned Wakko and Cat! I didn't think of Cat, but I LOOOOVE Mystic Pizza, and that character in particular. And I considered mentioning Wakko, but I wasn't brave enough.
ReplyDeleteEnty, you should do a post on #booksthatchangedmylife
ReplyDeleteIt's my favorite thing about Twitter.
Sorry, #booksthatchangedmyworld
ReplyDeleteFrancis Crawford of Lymond, from the Lymond Chronicles, by Dorothy Dunnett. (6 book series) Best character ever! I think I'll reread those books this summer, and oh that reminds me, I need to buy a hammock.
ReplyDeleteJesus.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I'm a fan of all the characters, Al Giardello is my favourite from Homicide.
ReplyDeleteAlso, David Fisher from Six Feet Under. He had an amazing arc in the series.
Stephanie Plum, Grandma and Lulu
ReplyDeleteJack Reacher
Rizzo from Grease
Charly Baltimore (the Geena Davis character from the Long Kiss Goodnight)
Xena and Gabrielle
Marlene Ciampi (the wife in the Butch Karp series of books - damn she kicks ass).
Sally Albright from When Harry Met Sally
ReplyDeleteStephanie Plum.
Roland Deschain from the Dark Tower novel series and of course Lucas Jackson from Cool Hand Luke with an honourable mention for Tony Montana from Scarface!
ReplyDeleteShit - I gotta add Omar Little (The Wire) and Al Swearengen (Deadwood)
ReplyDeleteJack Sparrow
ReplyDeleteScarlett O'Hara
Wendy Kroy/Bridget Gregory
Addie Loggins(Paper Moon)
Clark Griswold and Eddie
Omar(The Wire)
Archie and Edith Bunker, the best
ReplyDelete@ Leia - Aunt Beast is amazing!
ReplyDeleteWould Enty be considered a fictional character? If so, he's #1. Otherwise, my favorite has to be Auntie Mame as played by Rosalind Russell.
Other favorites include:
Ainsley Hayes (West Wing)
Adelia Aguilar & Rowley (books by Ariana Franklin)
Sid Halley (books by Dick Francis)
Olympia (Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve)
Dirk Pitt (books by Clive Cussler)
Lucas Davenport (Prey books) - good call, Enty!
Father Chuck O'Malley/Going My Way, the Bells of St. Mary's
ReplyDeleteRalph Walker/Saint Ralph
Chris Walker/Five in a Tent
@Nicole: I'm so glad I'm not the only one (re: Wakko and Cat)! I could so relate to Cat. I've crushed on older men (teachers/professors) but never actually got with them. I love that she's smart and naive at the same time! One of my all-time fave movies! Wakko and the songs especially...the Planets when he says "You forgot Uranus...". Gets me EVERY time. We used to watch Animaniacs in college. :) Good memories!
ReplyDeleteOoh...Lorelai Gilmore is a good one too! Nicole, I think we could be BFFs! :)
Oh snap @Majik trying to *start something*. ;P
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Bennett
ReplyDeleteJo March
Scarlett O'Hara
Heathcliff
Jane Eyre
Jay Gatsby
Holly Golightly
Auntie Mame
Margo Channing
Charlotte Vale -- Now, Voyager
Kitty Foyle
Nick & Nora Charles
Remington Steele
Molly Dodd
Rose Nylund
Maude Findlay
Harris K. Telemacher -- L.A. Story
Books:
ReplyDelete-Stuttering Bill (It)
-Glen Bateman (The Stand)
-Sam Gamgee (LOTR)
Movies:
-obviously, The Dude
-Inigo Montoya (best revenge scene ever)
-Harmonica (Once Upon a Time in the West)
-the entire cast from LOTR
-John Cleese's Lancelot in Monty Python & the Holy Grail
-Otto (Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda)
Books:
ReplyDeleteMr Darcy ~ Pride and Prejudice
Marius ~ The Vampire Chronicles
Eric Northman ~ Southern Vampire Mysteries
Ben ~ The Mercy Thompson books
Severus Snape ~ Harry Potter
Movies:
GoGo Yubari ~ Kill Bill vol. 1
Jareth ~ Labyrinth
Archibald Cunningham ~ Rob Roy
Bridget ~ Ginger Snaps
TV:
Lafayette ~ True Blood
Six ~ Battlestar Galactica (reimagined)
River Tam ~ Firefly
Birkhoff ~ La Femme Nikita
Oz ~ Buffy
Alpha ~ Dollhouse
OK, I'll fess up. I've had a long-simmering crush on Huckleberry Finn!!!! ;-)
ReplyDeleteAunt Beast is the best!
ReplyDeleteBlackCat14, I like Dirk Pitt, but I like Juan Cabrillo even more. I'm glad Cussler is (co)writing so many Oregon Files books.
Mooshki, you are so right! I love Juan Cabrillo as well. Just had to fall back on Dirk Pitt since he was the character who got me hooked on Clive Cussler. Does it annoy you as much as it annoys me when Cussler puts himself in the book?
ReplyDeleteOff the top of my head:
ReplyDeleteLincoln Rhyme - Jeffery Deaver thrillers (awesome!)
Sirius Black - Harry Potter
Gregory House
Elliot Stabler/Olivia Benson
Jack Skellington
Thelma and Louise
Books - Marjorie Morningstar! The most romantic book ever. EVER.
ReplyDeleteAnd Richard from "The Secret History." I wish I had a bad cold so I could stay in bed and re-read it again...highly recommended!
TV? No-brainer -Lucille Bluth, Rhoda, or Maryanne from Cybill come to mind.
Freaks and Geeks was the best TV show, Picket Fences was damn good.
CDAN reader have great taste - will add to my list of things to read this summer - thanks!
Long time lurker first time poster
ReplyDeleteAtticus Finch
Alex Cross
Jane Eyre
Melanie Wilkes
Scarlett O'hara
Eric Northman
Lafayette
Hollywood (mannequin)
Maria von trapp
Harry Dresden (The Dresden Files books)
ReplyDeleteAnita Blake (in the AB Series by LK Hamilton's early books when the character was less succubus and more monster killer)
SPIKE aka William the Bloody - Buffy tVS
Dr. Spencer Reid - Criminal Minds
Patrick Jane - The Mentalist
DAMIEN Salvator - Vampire Diaries
oh and I agree...
ReplyDeleteEric, Lafayette from True Blood
BlackCat14 I always laugh when he shows up in his books - it's so damned cheesy!
ReplyDeleteFor the 'Mystic Pizza' fans, a friend and I run a fansite for Billy Moses. He's so dreamy in that movie, even though he's a bit of an ass. :)
OMGosh...so many!!
ReplyDeleteScarlett o'Hara
Rhett Butler
Alex Cross
Severus Snape
Captain Jack Sparrow
Captain Barbosa too
Jack Reacher
just to name a few!!
Don Draper
ReplyDeleteO.J. Simpson "If I Did It..."
ReplyDeleteJack Ryan
ReplyDeleteDirk Pitt
Lucky Santangelo
Cassie Logan
Bobby Goren/Alex Eames
I'm reading Time Travelers Wife now too! & @Polly The Secret History is one of my favorites.
ReplyDeletemost of mine are repeats of what u guys have said!
Books:
Bridget Jones
Hermione Granger
TV
GOB from Arrested Development
Kenneth the Page - 30 Rock
Lorelai Gilmore
Carrie Bradshaw
Movies:
Clark Griswold
George Bailey
Willy Wonka
Movies:
Scarlett O'Hara
Rupert Giles
ReplyDeleteBuffy Summers
Willow Rosenberg
Xander Harris
(all from Buffy)
Satine from Moulin Rouge
Shaun from Shaun of the Dead
Ed from Shaun of the Dead
Forrest Gump
Hermione Granger
Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter
Neville Longbottom
Louis from the Interview from the Vampire series. His character really resonated with me.
ReplyDeletePretty much anyone from Rocky Horror. Except Dr. Scott, he was a funbreaker.
TV ... Okay, I'll be roundly criticized for this but the first character to pop into my head is Gaby from Desperate Housewives. She knows she does things the wrong way, but at least she's determined to get what she wants out of life no matter what.
What happened to my post? :(
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ - Although he didn't have much of a speaking part, what he did say packed a punch.
Lazarus Long and Jubal Harshaw - Undisputed Heinlein heavyweights
Holden Caulfield - My heart breaks for that boy. I always want to give him a hug.
Rincewind - Terry Pratchett is the shit
Ren and Stimpy