The Best Character?

[Jaltus]

Who is your favorite character in any book or series?

My favorite hero is Fitz from Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy.

My favorite villain is Iago from WS's Othello.

My favorite anti-hero is Elric from Michael Moorcock's books.

[The Curtmudgeon]

Yow! That's a hard one...

Hmm... :huh: Well, I'll have to list some doubles, as they're too close to call on my list:

Favourite hero: Lessingham, Mistress of Mistresses by E. R. Eddison; also, John Carter, A Princess of Mars et al. by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Favourite villian: Iago's a good 'un, alright, but I'll have to say Lord Gro, The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison

Favourite anti-hero: Can I call him 'anti-hero' if he starts out really bad/nasty but becomes a good kind before the story's end? If so, then Billy Byrne, The Mucker and Return of the Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs (if I have to stick with someone who stays an anti-hero, then I'll go with Elric, too)

Favourite sidekick: Bridge (aka "The Unabridged"), Return of the Mucker and The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Favourite ladies: Lady Fiorinda and Lady Mary Scanlon, Mistress of Mistresses and A Fish Dinner in Memizon by E. R. Eddison; Dejah Thoris, A Princess of Mars et al. by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The (you should never leave out the ladies) Curtmudgeon

[Patroclus]

My favorite character is Daisy Miller of Daisy Miller.

My favorite Hero is Patroclus from Illiad.

My favorite Villian is Big Brother of 1984.

My favorite anti-hero is Louis from Interview With A Vampire.

My favorite tragic hero is Willy Lowman of Death of a Salesman

My favorite character that I have created is Grace of Lies and Grace.

[The Curtmudgeon]

Today @ 02:37 AM Patroclus:

My favorite Hero is Patroclus from Illiad.


Gee, who'd have thunk it!? :cheers:

The (nobody writes books about me :bawl: ) Curtmudgeon

[djnoz]

Favourite hero - Molly from Neuromancer. She has style :brow:

[Solly]

My favourite character from before I was a Christian was Zorba the Greek, from the novel by Kazantzakis.

For the whole list, they can be filled from my reading of recent times, but it is a toss up between the characters in Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor, Ivan, Dimitri, Alyosha, etc and Williams' Many Dimensions - Lord Arglay, Chloe Burnett, Sir Giles Tumulty.

[Ryokan]

hero: Roland of Gilead, Son of Steven, Last of the Gunslingers, from Steven Kings Dark Tower series.

villain: The Moties, from A Mote in God's Eye

supporting cast: John Clark, from Tom Clancy novels

anti-heroes: Definitely Elric, too.

[Solly]

Ryokan:
villain: The Moties, A Mote in God's Eye

--Does evolutionary efficiency make one villainous?

[Pilgrim]

Garion - The Belgariad

[Ryokan]

To Solly:
No, it doesn't. I don't even think they are villains, techinically. They are the antagonist to the human protagonist, though, so thats how they got categorized. They are my favorite Sci-fi alien race, though.

[GrayPilgrim]

Favorite Character: Samwise Gamgee The Lord of the Rings

Favorite Hero: Olorin/Mithrandir/Gandalf the Gray

Tragic Hero: James "Ol' Pete" Longstreet The Killer Angels

[Bill the Cat]

Who is your favorite character in any book or series?

My favorite hero is Colossus and Wolverine from X Men and Thomas Covenant from the The Cronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. For a description, see http://www.kevinswatch.com/

My favorite villain is Apocalypse from X Men or the Demons in the Quintara Marathon series by Jack L. Chalker

My favorite anti-hero is Don Quixote

[Piebald]

Who is your favorite character in any book or series?

Aslan

My favorite hero is ...

Frodo!


My favorite villain is ...

The villanous White Witch from the Chronicles of Narnia

[Ryokan]

thomas covenant isn't much of a hero

[Bill the Cat]

In the end he is. The bit with him fighting Nome was cool.

[Entropic Gnosis]

Mythic Type Hero: Gandalf

Intellectual Hero: William of Baskerville

Comic Hero: Ford Prefect

Villian(s): Iago, The White Witch, Mephastophles

Anti hero: Elric, Raskolnikov

[Aravis]

Favorite hero: Aragorn (Is it because I find him attractive? Probably so.) In the non-sexually attractive realm, Albus Dumbledore.

Favorite Jane Austen hero: Mr. Knightley (Emma)

Favorite villain: If movies count, Darth Vader or Agent Smith. If not... Lucius Malfoy, though he isn't so major (Unfortunately this list is going to be very nerd fandom heavy... I do read other works, but I seem to be particularly attached to my fantasy characters.) Oh, how can I forget Mr. Kurtz?!? (Heart of Darkness) In real life, Hermann Goering.

Favorite minor character: Sirius Black

Favorite anti-hero: Amen to Raskolnikov. That's my cat's surname.

Favorite female role models: Galadriel, Eowyn, Professor McGonagall

[Elf-Child]

No hero I've ever encountered anywhere triumphed like Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables." =]