List your top male and female fictional characters of all time here.
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 08:54
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I'm gonna shock everyone here and pick Mal Reynolds and Max Guevarra.
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Keep it moving Chrisisall
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I'd like to do a top five but right now, with my current state of heart I'd say The Maxx from Sam Kieths The Maxx and his female counterpart Julia.
Back in a place I never wanted to be remembering who I am, not who someone else thinks I am or someone I used to be.
That pretty much sums it up.
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Female.
Winner.
Ellen Ripley.
Honorable Mentions
Vasquez.
Yo-Saf-Bridge.
Gloria. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080798/ )
Minnie May. ( http://www.animefu.com/index.pl?node_id=8624 )
Mandy.
(dancer from irving berlin's white christmas, played by Vera Ellen, and the only female on-screen character to make me whimper in sexual frustration out loud.)
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Male.
Winner.
Colbey Callistinsson. ( http://www.mickeyzuckerreichert.com/cst_rc_01.html )
Honorable Mentions
Samuel "slick" Des Grieux. ( http://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Hammers-Slammers-No/dp/0671720589 )
Jayne.
Lon Suder ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Suder )
Ham Tyler ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_%28TV_series%29 )
Richard B Riddick.
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Yeah!!! New list.
And one I don't think I've seen before.
It's a toughie tho'. So many to choose from.
For male character it would have to be Constable Benton Fraser of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He came to Chicago on the trail of his father's killer and for reasons that need not be gone into now, has remained attached as liason to the Canadian Consulate.
Seriously, I always liked his honesty, loyalty and determination to do the right thing. Whilst he could be a little naive about some things, he still went with his heart in the right place. Even if he lost out by it.
There was a lot to admire about him.
For female I would have to go with the obvious answer of Buffy.
I thought long about this, bringing in novels, tv and films, but she has always stood out on top. There she was dumped with this almighty destiny, which basically meant she wasn't going to live long. But despite all her moaning, protests etc. she still followed her fate. She still fought for and protected those closest to her, to the best of her abilities. She even gave her life for them.
Hey Chris.
Mal I can understand, but would you give your reasons for Max?? I think it's a great show, with great characters (Herbal was my fave) but I am curious as to why she is your top. Maybe you just think she's hot (which she is).
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Not etching this in stone or nothin, but here's my list, as of now...
Female:
Max Guevara
Honorable Mentions:
Sarah Conner
Aeryn Sun
Ripley
Rogue
Male:
Han Solo
Honorable Mentions:
Richard B. Riddick
Wolverine
Spike
Peter Parker
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Female- Luna Lovegood (YES, the one from HP, I love her!)
Male- Johnny Rico (From Starship Troopers, the book)
-Danny
We move for all mankind,
A million miles from everything we've ever know...
We're on their hearts and minds,
A million heads are bowed to bring us safely home...
Hemmed in by emptiness,
A million ways that everything could be undone...
THRICE RULES!!!!!!!!!
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Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I'm gonna shock everyone here and pick Mal Reynolds and Max Guevarra.
Next!
Keep it moving Chrisisall
Of all time! Jees you never make these easy do you Chris...
Male:
Cyrano De Bergerac
Edward Scissorhands
Flash Gordon (Larry 'Buster' Crab)
Indianna Jones
Asterix the Gaul
Female:
Buffy
Marion Ravenwood
Maggie O' Connel (Northern Exposure)
Catwoman (Michelle Pfieffer)
Princess Aura (Flash Gordon... Hey it was the first time I fell for a bad woman. You don't forget that!)
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Originally posted by lwaves:
For male character it would have to be Constable Benton Fraser of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Seriously, I always liked his honesty, loyalty and determination to do the right thing. Whilst he could be a little naive about some things, he still went with his heart in the right place. Even if he lost out by it.
There was a lot to admire about him.
Not enough people watched that show. Always a sleeper; real shame. Lot of heart.
As for my lists:
Male:
Duncan MacLeod - Highlander the Series & Endgame
Honorable Mention:
Mal - Firefly ("You wanna meet the real me NOW!" almost pushed him to #1)
Obi-Wan Kenobi - Star Wars (It being my contention that the further development of his character was one of the only positive things to come from the prequel trilogy.)
Madmartigan - Willow
Master Splinter - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ferris Bueller - Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Yes, I'm serious.)
Henry "Indiana" Jones - Indiana Jones
Taran - Chronicles of Prydain
Female:
Aeryn Sun - Farscape
Honorable Mention:
Samus Aran - Metroid game series (again, a close call)
River Tam - Firefly
Delenn of Mir - Babylon 5
Dr. Janet Frasier - Stargate SG-1
Lady Jessica - Dune
"When you can't do somethin' smart, do somethin' right!" -Jayne Cobb quotes Shepherd Book
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So many good ones here. The ones I'm listing isn't necessarily "all time", but here are just a few off the top of my head.
Charles Foster Kane - CITIZEN KANE One of the great tragic characters in film history. The introductions to him and to another famous Orson Welles character Harry Lime in THE THIRD MAN are two of the best character reveals ever. But I give the edge to Kane in that no matter how many perspectives you see of the man, you never really know him. He's neither a hero or an asshole, although he has characteristics of both.
"A toast, Jedediah, to love on my own terms. The only terms anyone ever knows. His own."
Withnail from WITHNAIL AND I - There are many famous drunks, but this one is my favorite in that every one of Withnail's lines is a memorable quote and that he's a comedically tragic character. Yes, we laugh with him and at him, but at the end you realize that being a drunken unemployable actor is all he'll ever be. And the Hamlet monologue he delivers at the end of the movie is by far the best bit of Shakespearian acting ever put to film.
"I must have some booze. I DEMAND TO HAVE SOME BOOZE!!!"
Terry Anne Wolfmeier from THE UPSIDE OF ANGER - I know 2005 will be the year of SERENITY for all of us here, but one other movie I saw that I was a huge fan of was this little gem of a movie starring Joan Allen as the matriarch of these four girls. The husband has just disappeared (everyone thinks he ran off with his secretary, but the reveal at the end of the film as to his whereabouts brings a tragic edge to the movie I'm a big fan of real tragedies), and so this once very happy housewife has turned into this angry alcoholic whose trying to keep her family together. And even though she's a character that you're not supposed to like, you're both rooting for her and at times astonished at her behaviour.
"I love how you worry that the letter you sent to the parent who deserted you sounds too mean, and yet to the one here in the fight, you have no trouble saying the most vile things. Isn't that a tad odd?" (walks away, and then returns) "Please finish setting the table."
Susan Alexander in CITIZEN KANE
Even though KANE is pretty much all Welles show, he does give his actors great characters and material to play with. Susan Alexander is my favorite female character in the movie, since she's at first one of the few people sympathetic to Kane, but after years of abuse, she finally leaves. And when Kane pleads to her to stay, she gives what I think is the great put-down ever spoken.
"I see. So this is YOU who this is being done to. It's not me at all. Not how I feel. Not what it means to me. I can't do this to you? Oh yes I can."
What can I saw, I like the classics.
Oh and just really quickly, Elwood Blues, Calamity Jane from DEADWOOD, Salieri from AMADEUS and Mame Dennis as played by Rosalind Russell in AUNTIE MAME.
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Loudon Wainwright III - "Strange Weirdos" off the "Knocked Up" soundtrack
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This was a toughie but after careful consideration it has to be:
Male
Malcolm Reynolds
Female
Elizabeth Bennet From Pride and Prejudice
Honorable mentions
Male
Jack Sparrow
Han Solo
Zaphod Beeblebrox (from the book)
Rhett Butler
Mr Darcy
Female
Ellen Ripley
Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
Scarlett O'Hara
Buffy
Dr Quinn
"Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life"
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