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Alright, folks, here we go! Please make your choices obvious, by bolding, striking through, deleting, or some other simple method that allows me to determine who you are voting for. Voting will close Sunday at 11 P.M. CST sharp! 1. Angus MacGyver vs. Batman 2. Cthulhu vs. Doomsday (Superman...

Woo-hoo! Go team ENWorld. I'm glad nominations are done with, and I am going to throw up the first round sometime tonight. A thank you to everyone who participated in the nominations, I'm thrilled that my fear of me having to nominate 40 characters didn't come true :). -Talgian

116. Javert A police inspector who strictly believes in law and order and will stop at nothing to enforce France’s harsh penal codes. Javert is incapable of compassion or pity, and performs his work with such passion that he takes on a nearly animal quality when he is on the chase. He nurses...

I'm not sure if it's more sad that Colbert said all that stuff on national television, or that I understood every word. He didn't even call Quenya just "elvish" but rather what it really is, "high elvish." The man who does that is my hero. -Talgian

102. Dr. Frankenstein The doomed protagonist and narrator of the main portion of Frankenstein. Studying in Ingolstadt, Victor discovers the secret of life and creates an intelligent but grotesque monster, from whom he recoils in horror. Victor keeps his creation of the monster a secret...

96. King Lear The aging king of Britain and the protagonist of the play. Lear is used to enjoying absolute power and to being flattered, and he does not respond well to being contradicted or challenged. At the beginning of the play, his values are notably hollow—he prioritizes the appearance...

Arthur should be 79 and Cheshire Cat 80. -Talgian

75. Han Solo Han Solo (born 29 BBY) is a character in the fictional Star Wars universe. He was played by Harrison Ford in all the Star Wars films. Solo plays a major role in the Star Wars saga, moving from a reluctant, selfish participant to a central figure over the course of the first three...

74. Maxwell Smart A bumbling secret agent working for CONTROL, he some how always manages to save the world from KAOS with the help of Agent 99. -Talgian

73. Hal Jordan Hal Jordan is a DC Comics superhero, the Silver Age Green Lantern, and arguably the most famous hero to bear that name. Created by John Broome and Gil Kane, he first appeared in Showcase #22 (October 1959). -Talgian

59. Hal 9000 HAL 9000 (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a fictional computer/character in the Space Odyssey series, the first being the novel and film 2001: A Space Odyssey, written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1968. HAL is an artificial intelligence, the sentient on-board computer...

52. Michael Corleone Michael Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel, The Godfather. He is also the main character of the film trilogy that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, portrayed by Al Pacino. Michael is the youngest son of Don Vito Corleone (played by Marlon Brando...

40. Ozymandias (Watchmen) From Alan Moore's Watchmen. Without spoiling too much, Ozymandias is a superhero who retired before the Keene Act and has made millions as a benevolent entreprenuer. As the series goes on, we learn more about his past, and plans for the future. -Talgian

36. Mario Mario is a video game character created by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. As well as being Nintendo's mascot, he is the most recognizable character in video game history, appearing in over a hundred games, many of them best-sellers. Outside of the platformers with which he is...

35. Samwise Gamgee Samwise Gamgee (T.A. 2980 – F.A. sometime after 61), later Samwise Gardner and commonly known as Sam, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world Middle-earth. Sam is Frodo Baggins' servant, and proves to be the most loyal of the Fellowship of the Ring. A...

34. Hannibal Lecter Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter is a fictional character appearing in four novels by author Thomas Harris and their film adaptations. He is generally renowned as one of the most fearsome villains ever depicted. In Harris' novels and their film adaptations, Lecter is an...

31. Dream (The Sandman) Dream is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman. He is the personification of dreams, storytelling and—because the Endless also represent the opposite of that which they personify—reality. -Talgian

28. Keyser Soze So mysterious that even his nationality is disputed, Soze allegedly began his criminal career in Turkey as a low-level drug smuggler. The entity that is Keyser Soze was truly born, however, when rival smugglers working for the Hungarian Mafia invaded his house while he wasn't...

24. The Joker The Joker is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain and widely considered Batman's archenemy. The character was initially conceived by art assistant Jerry Robinson and re-designed by Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger. He first appeared in Batman #1 (1940). The...

Uh huh, blame it on the "girlfriend." :p -Talgian