h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi there. I think this -- F19585?thread=8312514 -- has been a rousing success!

So I'm making a new one, this time for characters you admire from fictional works.

To get things started --


Game of Thrones

• Arya Stark
• Daenerys Targaryen
• Jaqen H’ghar
• Lord Varys
• Oberyn Martell
• Sandor Clegane
• Sir Barristan Selmy
• Sir Bronn of the Blackwater
• Syrio Forel
• Tyrion Lannister


RWBY

• Ruby Rose
• Yang Xiao Long


Stargate

• Ba’al
• Cameron Mitchell
• Daniel Jackson
• Jack O’Neill
• Master Bra’tac
• Teal’c
• Todd


Farscape

• Aeryn Sun
• Dominar Rygel XVI
• Harvey
• John Crichton
• Scorpius
• Sikozu


Dragon Age

• Anders
• Morrigan
• Sigrun


Baldur’s Gate

• Edwin
• Imoen
• Minsc
• Viconia
• Yoshimo


Star Trek

• Commander Shran
• Data
• Garak
• General Martok
• Jadzia Dax
• Kor
• Seven of Nine
• The Doctor
• Q


Mythology

• Achilles
• Hector of Troy
• Odysseus


Disney

• Benjamin Franklin Gates
• Hector Barbossa
• Jack Sparrow
• Mulan
• Sao Feng


The Addams Family

• Gomez Addams
• Wednesday Addams


Comic Books

• Batman
• Captain America
• Gambit
• Magneto
• Mystique
• Natasha Romanov
• Peter Quill
• Professor Xavier
• Tony Stark
• Wolverine


Theater

• Cyrano De Bergerauc


Maverick

• Chief Joseph
• Maverick


Lord of the Rings

• Aragorn, son of Arathorn
• Faramir
• Gandalf the Grey
• Gimli, son of Gloin


Hunger Games

• Cinna
• Haymitch Abernathy


The Matrix

• Link
• Seraph


The Mummy

• Ardeth Bay
• Rick O’Connel


Troy

• Achilles
• Hector
• Odysseus


Underworld

• Lucian
• Selene


Battlestar Galactica

• Felix Gaeta
• Doctor Sherman Cottle
• Lee Adama
• Romo Lampkin
• William Adama


Beast Wars

• Black Arachnia
• Depth Charge
• Dinobot
• Megatron
• Rattrap


Jackie Chan Adventures

• Jackie Chan
• Jade Chan
• Tohru


MASH

• Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger
• Major Charles Emerson Winchester III


Mystery Science Theater 3000

• Brain Guy
• Crow T. Robot
• Mike Nelson
• Tom Servo


Red vs. Blue

• Church
• Griff
• Sarge


Roseanne

• Darlene Connor
• Roseanne Connor


Animorphs

• Aximili
• Marco


Harry Potter

• Fred and George Weasley
• Ginny Weasley
• Hermione Granger
• Nymphadora Tonks
• Rubeus Hagrid
• Severus Snape


Kiesha’ra

• Danica Shardae
• Jager
• Risika
• Zane Cobriana


The Princess Bride

• Inigo Montoya
• Westley


Star Wars

• Han Solo
• HK-47
• Mara Jade


Other (Film)

• Azeem
• Burt Gummer
• Draco
• Edmund Blackadder
• George Bailey
• Indiana Jones
• John McClaine
• Kicking Bird
• Malcolm Reynolds
• Mr. Darcy
• Number 5
• Robin Hood
• Sherlock Holmes
• Shrek
• Tallahassee
• The Ghost of Christmas Present
• The Terminator
• Tigress
• V
• Van Helsing
• Xena, Warrior Princess


Other (Literature)

• Ford Prefect
• Garet Jax
• Marty Frankenstein



Remember, anyone you find noteworthy, for any reason you like. (Because who doesn't like going on about how great people are?) Though, in this case, imaginary.

And Phil Coulson.

I love the fact that after that lot, you put Ford Prefect in 'Other Literature'

That's Captain Jack Sparrow

My apologies.



Also, Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Zak Kebron
Mackenzie Calhoun
Burgoyne 172
Janos

Nancy Blackett

Horatio Hornblower

Boba Fett

It can depend on the writer. Frank Miller's version of Batman is a thug in a suit.

I always like The Animated Series the best.

The best-known fictional characters of all time:

Sherlock Holmes
Hamlet

Title characters from great works of literature:

Anna Karenina
Jeeves
Mary Poppins
Madame Bovary
Lemuel Gulliver
Moll Flanders
Ethan Frome
Robinson Crusoe
Winnie the Pooh
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
Emma
Silas Marner
Mrs. Dalloway
Barnaby Rudge
Miss Lonelyhearts
Tom Jones
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Magnificent Ambersons [collective characters]
The Wizard of Oz
Pi Patel [from "Life of Pi"]
Jane Eyre


Star trek characters not previously mentioned:

Deanna Troi
Mr. Spock
Gaia
Jordy Laforge
Khan
Mort
The Lion King
Aslan
Paddington Bear
Corduroy
Harry Potter


Places that are so important to the story that they seem t be characters in their own right:

Tara [Gone with the wind]
Wuthering heights
Cold Mountain
The Chalk [in the Tiffany Discworld books]

[Sorry, I forgot to move the last 4 or five entries from "Star trek characters" up to the previous list]

THIS is more like it!

Winnie-the-Pooh.
Rincewind.
Nev (Bear Behaving Badly).
Lois Griffin (Fwoar).
Latka Gravas (Taxi).
Adam Smallbone (Rev).

PP.

Ghosts who help living sleuths solve murder mysteries:

Bailey Ruth Raeburn [author: Carolyn Hart]
Jitty [helps Sarah Booth Delaney in a southern town. Author: Carolyn Haines]
Aunt Dimitty [helps Lori Shepherd in Finch, a Cotswold town. Author: Nancy Atherton]

Dwarves or Midgets [excluding Tolkien]:

Walter, a.k.a. Kinko ["Like water for elephants," by Sara Gruen]
Oskar Matzerath, whose voice shatters glass ["The Tin Drum," by Nobel laureate Gunter Grass]
Trudi Montag ["Stones from the river," by Ursula Hegi]

Amateur sleuths:

Molly Murphy ["Murphy's law," by Rhys Bowen]
Theodosia Browning, Charleston tea shop proprietess [Tea Shop Mysteries by Laura Childs]
Agatha Raisin [by M C Beaton]
Jaine Austen [Killing Cupid," by Laura Levine]
Natalie Barnes [Grey Whale Inn series by Karen McInerny]
Phyllis Newsome ["Fatal funnel cake," by Livia J Washburn]
Hannah Swenson ["Cherry cheesecake murder," by Joanne Fluke]
Ruby the Rabbi's wife [series by Sharon Kahn]
Cora Felton [Puzzle lady series by Parnell Hall]
Bernie and Libby Simmons [A catered thanksgiving," by Isis Crawford]
Jacopia Tiptree [Home repair is homicide series by Sarah Graves]
Dorothy Martin ["The corpse of Saint James's," by Jeanne M Dams]


Professional private investigators, Bobbies, or police detectives:

Hamish MacBeth [by M C Beaton]
John Rebus ["Resurrection Men," by Ian Rankin]
Bernie Little and his dog Chet ["The Dog who knew too much," by Spencer Quinn]
Armand Gamache [Three Pines series, by Louise Penny]

Animal sleuths:

Chet, the dog mentioned above under Bernie Little
Prozac. Jaine Austen's neurotic cat, see above
Sneaky Pie Brown, a cat ["Santa Clawed," by Rita Mae Brown]
Koko and Yum Yum, Siamese cats ["The Cat who smelled a rat," by Lilian Jackson Braun]

That's *Geordie LaForge.

Birth Wooster
Geeves

Billy Bunter
William Brown
Capt. James Bigglesworth
Dan Dare
Jet Morgan
Heidi
Dent, Arthur Dent
Prof Bernard Quatermass
Athos Porthos Aramis D'Artagnan
Sir Harry Paget Flashman
Atticus Finch
Samuel Pickwick Esq.
Sir Percy Blakeney
The Time Traveller
Katy Carr
Sydney Carton
Edmond Dantes
David Copperfield
Ebenezer Scrooge
Mike Hammer
Miss Jane Marple
Jessica Rabbit

"It can depend on the writer. Frank Miller's version of Batman is a thug in a suit."

"I always like The Animated Series the best."


But, that said, Heath Ledger as the Joker was AMAZING! And Batman: Arkham Asylum is awesome too.

Tom Ripley!