All-time favorite fictional characters

[RogueWriter]

John Carter
Garak
Honor Harrington
Juan Sanchez Villalobos Ramirez
Bruce Wayne
Kimball Kinnison
Woodrow Wilson Smith
Norrin Radd
Jaxom
James Bond
Clark Savage Jr.
John Clayton
Jack O'Neill
Stephen Strange
Isobel Fisher
Maureen Johnson Smith
Samantha Carter

I could go on and on....

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Many comics, books, cartoons and a couple movies) - To me he is the most human of Super-Heroes and the most interesting.

Jack O'Neill (Stargate: SG-1) - To me he is another human character who seems like he'd be interesting and fun to get to know.

Harry Dresden (Dresden File series by Jim Butcher) - Just to harp on this again, another human character.

I guess thats the most important to me. They need to be human, multi-facteted characters.

 

[KenM]

Lets see:
Michael Garabaldi (Babylon 5, TV)
Mr. Morden (Babylon 5)
Rorsasch (Watchmen, comics)
Gimli (LOTR)
Ingio Montoya (Princess Bride, book and movie)
Tyrion Lannister (A song of Ice and Fire)
Jules Winfield (Pulp Fiction)
Aryin Moonblade (FR novels)
John Clark (Clancy novels)

Those are in no order.

 

[Welverin]

Spider-man
The Avatar, from the Ultima series, also starring in my avatar
The Rat Creatures

Video Games: Yes, I'm aware how stupid this category is.

What's so stupid about it?

 

[Enchantress]

What's so stupid about it?

The fact that I am such a nerd that I would actually consider what video game character I would want to be. And yet even with all of the time that I spend on video games I still can't seem to beat Ninja Gaiden.

 

[RenoOfTheTurks]

Books:
Cugel (Vance's Dying Earth)
Lestat (Rice's Vampire Chronicles)
Gollum (LotR, the books only of course)
Gimli (LotR the books, for God's sake not the movies)
Walker Boh (Brooks' Shannara)
Aillas (Vance's Lyonesse)
Elaith Craulnober (FR)
Cyric the thief (FR)
Raistlin Majere (DL)
Corwin (Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber)
Hiro Protagonist (Stephenson's Snow Crash)

Movie/Cartoon/Anime:
Rock Lee (Naruto)
Kakashi (Naruto)
Soundwave (Transformers)
Dean Corso (The Ninth Gate)
Rochester (Plunkett & MacLeane)
Mad Martigan (Willow)
Royal Tenenbaum (duh)

Video Games:
Cecil (FFIV)
Shadow (FFVI)

 

[Mercule]

In no particular order (and having the benefit of reading others' posts):

• Karl Cullinane (Guardians of the Flame) tops my list. He was the only one that immediately came to mind.
• Jason Cullinane (GotF)
• Walter Slovotsky (GotF)
• Spiderman (duh)
• Hank McCoy (X-Men)
• Hannibal King (Nightstalkers)
• Aragorn (LotR)
• Marcus (B5)
• Jon Snow (Song of Fire and Ice)
• Arya Stark (Song of Fire and Ice)
• Perrin Aybarra (Wheel of Time)
• Wesley Wyndham-Price (Angel)
• Cordelia Chase (Angel -- after she matured a bit)
• Harry Keogh (Necroscope)

I think I would enjoy the company of most of those (Harry Keogh is the exception), some more than others. Karl Cullinane and Henry McCoy would probably be the two that I'd most want to have a conversation with, though.

 

[MonsterMash]

Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin from Patrick O'Brian' Aubrey-Maturin series

I'd second that - two of my favourite characters from fiction.

James Bond - but more the movie version rather than from the novels
Mustrum Ridcully, Samuel Vimes - Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
Slippery Jim di Griz

 

[Pielorinho]

This is a question I've been pondering for a while, and thought I'd post here. Who are your absolute favorite fictional characters? Of all the books you've read, which characters have stayed with you long after you'd finished the book? Who would you want to buy a drink for? Who would you want to be friends with? Who would you want to be ? (You don't necessarily have to answer all those questions; they're just food for thought.)

Great question! Most of my favorites have already been mentioned, but I'd add the following:
Stayed with me long after the book was finished: Edmond Dantes (The Count of Monte Cristo)

Daniel

 

[Mallus]

With no particular rhyme or reason...

Richard Blaine --prop. of Rick's Cafe Americain.
Capt. Lousis Renault --patron at Rick's.
Douglass Roberts --aka Mr. Roberts.

Frank Booth --a fan of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Travis Bickle --a fan of Jodie Foster.

Jay Gatsby --the greatest American hero.
Dorian Gray --Oscar Wilde's greatest creation [next to Oscar Wilde].
F**khead --from Denis Johnson's Jesus's Son
Severian --from Wolfe's Book of the New Sun
Gerald Tarant --Vampire Christ Superstar!
Aiken Drum --from May's Saga of the Pliocene Exile
Cheradenine Zakalwe --from Bank's Use of Weapons

Londo Molari --best SF character in years.
Elim Garak --2nd best SF character in years.
Mr. Spock --the master.
John Crighton --best wisecrack-delivering SF action hero that still works a believable human being [wait, make that only]