Who are some of your favorite male fictional characters?

[BreweryYardRat]

George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire:
Eddard Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Sandor Clegane, Jaime Lannister (now that he's finally redeeming himself), and Ser Duncan the Tall.

Harry Turtledove's assorted novels:
Gerin the Fox, Nordric One-Eye, Drago the Bear, Sharur, Sostratos son of Lysistratos, Jonathan Moss, Leonard O'Doull, Gordon McSweeney, and King Grus.

Paul Kidd's Greyhawk novels:
The Justicar and Polk.

Barbara Hambly's vampire novels (Those Who Hunt the Night, Traveling with the Dead):
Don Simon Ysidro.

Alan Dean Foster's Journeys of the Catechist series:
The entire main cast.

Others (points if you get some of the more obscure ones):
Jack O'Neill, Rodney McKay, Carson Beckett, Chief Tyrol, Bill Adama, Doctor McCoy, Montgomery Scott, Macbeth, Conan, Solomon Kane, Charles Xavier (Ultimate universe and/or movieverse), Jack McCoy, Lord Soth, Alexander Andersong, Poertena...

Your eyes are probably glazing over by now, so I'll stop.

Edit: And I just remembered three more. :shakes head:

[_testify_]

1. Oooh fun

Roland Deschain and all the other Gunslingers

Samwise Gamgee - the best character in all Middle Earth

Frank Castle - The Punisher

John Clark & Ding Chavez (Tom Clancy characters)

[Broken_Hero]

3. Long Days, and Pleasant nights!...:) nt

[RiffRandell]

4. Holden Caulfield.

I love it when he leaves school and yells "Goodbye ya morons!" and runs down the stairs.

I like Richard in "The Secret History" as well.

[mdmc]

10. Catcher fan here too

[yellowdogintexas]

39. John Clark and Ding Chavez are Clancy's best characters, IMO

I enjoyed Rainbow Six just because it focused on them.

[Broken_Hero]

2. :)

Drizzt Dourden, from RA Salvatores long series...

Croaker, from The Annals of the Black Company, by Glen Cook...

Leland Gaunt, from Needful Things, by Stephen King

Roland Deschain, from the Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King

Randall Flagg, from a good number of Stephen King books...:)

Jarlaxle and Artemis Entreri, from RA Salvatore's books...

Superman, aka Kal-el, aka Clark Kent, aka Big Blue Boyscout...:)

Batman, I enjoyed The Dark Knight Returns greatly....

Collosus/Wolverine/Juggernaut-they are just badasses, need I say more?

John Kelly aka Mr. Clark, from many Tom Clancy novels...

Vampire Lestat, from the Anne Rice novels...

Vampire Strahd, from the Ravenloft books...

hmm, thats about it, so far...

oh, and Prisoner 17 from the Mage the Ascension books...:)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

5. Professor Snape...

Remus Lupin, (HP theme here)... Vampires Lestat and Armand, and Aragorn (Strider).

[Broken_Hero]

6. damn

I can't believe I forgot Snape!...or, the Half Blood Prince, to be precise...;)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

8. Of course!

Glad to know there's at least one other SS fan out there :hi:

[Broken_Hero]

11. There are a lot of us out there

:) Just finished the whole series, in hmm...late march, read all 6 books, in about a week...my wife and I trade series of books, to one another...I made her read the RA Salvatore series, she made me read the Dark Tower series, I made her read the Annals of the Black Company series, I had to read the Harry Potter series...right now, i'm just reading random Stephen King books..

[_testify_]

7. I forgot all the generic professor-types from HP Lovecraft

[Ptah]

9. Jim Chee, Lt. Leaphorn, Gabriel Du Pre.

Spenser, Stone Barrington.

for a start.

[MrSlayer]

12. Raistlin Majere, Gandalf the Grey, Ford Prefect....

Everis Cale and Drasek Riven from the Forgotten Realms, Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, Steel Brightblade from Dragonlance (Hell, all Dragonlance characters), Pennywise the dancing clown from "IT", many others.

[_testify_]

13. Raistlin is the only character I cared for from Dragonlance

And American Psycho is brilliant

[MrSlayer]

15. He is head and shoulders above the rest for sure.

But I still like a lot of the others. His apprentice Dalamar the Dark is also very cool.

[iamjoy]

14. Hello! Atticus Finch!

one of the best ever
(And the Film Institute agrees)

[snacker]

28. That would be my choice too. n/t

[cobalt1999]

16. Ignatius J. Reilly

from A Confederacy of Dunces.

[iamjoy]

49. Ugh!

He was a weird little creep!

[RevolutionaryActs]

17. Everyone from The Lord of the Rings. JohnYossarian from Catch-22

Ron, Lupin, Black, and Hagrid from Harry Potter.

Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Christo.

Sydney Carton, A Tale of Two Cities.


To name a few. :7

[_testify_]

19. Catch-22 is a brilliant book.

Yossarian is awesome, as is Orr, with chestnuts in his cheeks.

[Crabby Appleton]

18. would compasionate conservatives count?

[Joe Fields]

20. Tom Joad

[idgiehkt]

21. the newly minted lawyer in most John Grisham books.

I enjoy those and I always learn alot

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. Some of mine:

Sherlock Holmes

Sir Harry Paget Flashman, VC, KCB (from George Macdonald Fraser's Flashman novels)

Enoch Root (from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and Baroque Cycle)

Beowulf

Captain John Yossarian, USAAF (from Catch-22)

George Smiley (many of John le Carré's spy novels)

and several others I'm too lazy to list at the moment.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. In the mystery world

Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January

P.D. James' Inspector Dalgliesh

[Flaxbee]

29. I'll add Inspector Morse and Horace Rumpole

I loooooove Dalgliesh! I liked Roy Marsden as Dalgliesh on Mystery! - not really fond of the new guy...

[everythingsxen]

24. LOL Seawolf...

On the Song of Fire and Ice list, I would agree on all counts except I would add Syrio and... oh snap.. what was his name... the assassin that Arya freed from the fire, the dude who killed a bunch of people.... but him. And Jon Snow. And even though he's evil as hell... Littlefinger.

My all-time, favorite male character is almost certainly... Darth Vader.

Generally speaking my favorite characters are always villains, specifically villains who are villains because they are honorable. If that makes sense. Like evil samurai. They won't just jump on their sword to avoid killing innocents or anything... but they also won't go out of their way to be exceptionally cruel. From a D&D standpoint, almost any Lawful Evil or Lawful Neutral character. :)

[BreweryYardRat]

33. That would be...

"the assassin that Arya freed from the fire" is one Jaqen H'Ghar (at least that's the name he used).

[everythingsxen]

35. That's his name!

I can't believe I forgot.. I have to reread the series again before the next book.

He is without a doubt one of my favorite characters.

I loved his speech pattern. "No, a girl must not do that.. a girl would be sad to lose her only friend." (or something to that effect)

[PassingFair]

25. Larry Darrell - Maugham"s The Razor's Edge

David Copperfield - Dickens

Horselover Fat - PKD

Tom Jones - Fielding

All innocents, except for Larry, who suffered fools
like no other enlightened man, ever.

[Glorfindel]

26. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist

Atticus Finch
Ebenezer Scrooge
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Paul Atreides/Muad'dib
Gandalf the Grey
Samwise Gamgee
Petronius Niger (from "Quo Vadis")

[Arkham House]

27. Gandalf, Ignatius Reilly, Sherlock Holmes, Ellery Queen...

...Gully Foyle from Bester's "The Stars My Destination", Mr Micawber, Lear, Don Quixote, Gatsby, Jake Barnes, Ben Grimm, Reed Richards, The Smoking Man, Iago, and on and on and on...

[alcibiades_mystery]

30. Tyrone Slothrop

Perhaps the best male character in post-war fiction.

[swag]

31. Charles Pooter from "Diary of a Nobody"

[Doctor_J]

32. The one who shares your screen name

Wolf Larson is a great character, as portrayed by Edward G Robinson in the film and especially in the Jack London book.

[SmileyBoy]

34. Nick Andros from Stephen King's "The Stand"

I liked the fact that he never died throughout the whole book. I don't think King could've killed off such a great character.

[Godhumor]

36. How do we go this long without....

Terry Pratchett?

Samuel Vimes, Captain Carrot, Nobby, Sgt. Colon

DEATH

"Bloody Stupid" Johnson

William Worde

Moist the Postmaster

and my 3 personal favorite characters, possibly ever:

Rincewind

The Bursar

The Patrician

[enigmatic]

37. Larry Darrell of Maughm's "The Razor's Edge"

http://www.geocities.com/upakaascetic/all_larry_darrell.html

[LordshipLadyship]

38. Milo Sturgis. nt

[mitchum]

40. Huckleberry Finn, The Misfit" in "A Good Man is Hard To Find", Jesus...

of Nazareth, Stanley Kowalski, Jamie Tyrone, Lenny in Pinter's "The Homecoming"

[stanwyck]

52. Oh, Mitchum

you always make me laugh.
The Misfit. I actually had a teacher years ago who read that O'Connor story to us. Probably middle-school age. I can't imagine a teacher now getting away with that; the fundies would be up in arms.

[mitchum]

64. I also wonder how O'Connor fares in the classroom today...

she was once a staple, but as you say, the fundies would have a fit

[Jade Fox]

41. Lord Peter Wimsey

[Flaxbee]

45. How could I forget?!?!?

Yes, Lord Peter is wonderful. Simply wonderful.

[BlueIris]

42. Ah, Jack O'Neill. You gotta love him.

Lemme see...

Well, he had a pretty serious crack in his frame, but Louis Creed from King's "Pet Sematary" is one of my favorite characters ever. John Smith from "The Dead Zone" is a close second, along with my beloved Sheriff Bannerman. Then of course, there's "Firestarter"'s Andy McGee, who is simply PRECIOUS. If we could fill the world with men like that, we could end war.

If I have to leave the realm of high-end popular fiction to finish this post and play with the cool kids--the Biblical King David is also one of my favorites. He defines the term "multifaceted." Does the Monster in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" count? 'Cause he's another good, labyrinthine male character who fascinates me. Caravaggio and Ladislau Almasy from "The English Patient" are awesome. "Maddox died because of nations." How great a line is that??

[YankeyMCC]

43. Alrighty

Spock
John Crichton - Farscape
Charlie Marlow - Heart of Darkness
Samwise Gamgee
Rick Blaine - Casablanca
Mal Reynolds - Firefly
Batman
Limar Ponyets - From Isaac Asimov's Foundation stories
G'Kar - Babalon 5 - He's alien but male :)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

44. Captain John Sheridan

Don't forget Babylon 5!

[Hand]

46. Jeeves and Bertie Wooster! nt

[El Fuego]

47. Milo Minderbinder, Catch-22

[stanwyck]

53. Milo is now working for Halliburton

and don't forget Major Major

[TheCentepedeShoes]

48. Inspector Roderick Alleyn n/t

[Wetzelbill]

50. Thomas Builds-the-Fire and Victor Joseph from Sherman Alexie's novels...

From James Welch:

Sylvester Yellow Calf, the unnamed narrator from Winter in The Blood, Jim Loney, Charging Elk, and Fools Crow

Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

Florentino Ariza

James Patterson:

Alex Cross, and I was always down with Kyle Craig.

Chuck Palahniuk:
I always like the narrators friend in Choke, I can't recall his name right now, but he was a recovery masturbation addict, interesting character.

[wildhorses]

51. Tom Sawyer, Peter Pan, Jondalar

off the top of my head

[wickerwoman]

54. Athos

Adam Bede
Leopold Bloom
Benedict from Much Ado About Nothing
Most of the men in Marion Zimmer Bradley books (Mists of Avalon and The Firebrand)
Bayard and Galen in "Weasel's Luck"- one of the Dragonlance books

[JackDragna]

55. Jesus.

*runs*

[Nicole]

56. Mr. Right

:rofl:

Atticus Finch
Tom Joad

[emanymton]

57. Tex Murphy

Go ahead say it. "Who is Tex Murphy?" And, "Why here?"

[Coonce-Ewing]

58. My favorites

Alan Dean Foster's Skua September and Flinx
Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes - Cadman Weyland
JK Rowling's Severus Snape and Lord Voldemort (sure he's evil but hey, evil is cool baby!)
Tom Clancy's John Clark

[greguganus]

59. Gollum from LOTR n/t

[jobycom]

60. Jean Valjean (Les Miserables), Silk (Book of the Long Sun--Gene Wolf)

Both rather Christ-like figures.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

61. Michael Valentine fom Stranger in a Strange Land, Billy Pilgrim

from Slaughterhouse Five, Tom Joad and Yossarian.

[GirlinContempt]

62. Skeletor

[CBHagman]

63. Gavin Lamb in Getting It Right.

I also like Harry, his best friend, in the same book.

Gus, Newt, and Joshua in Lonesome Dove are favorites of mine, particularly Gus. What a great character.