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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 1627803" data-attributes="member: 4090">The ones that come immediately to mind for me are:Corwin (Chronicles of Amber): Just one of the coolest cats around. He's a great warrior, but down and dirty- he rightly sees fighting as violence, not competition (and he has one of the best lines in a book- actually many, but my favorite is when he faces down Borel, a Chaos warrior who wants to test his mettle against Corwin, but Corwin beats him by playing dirty. Borel- "Oh, basely done!" Corwin- "This isn't exactly the Olympic games.") He's also sneaky and plays his cards close to the chest- so much so that he is able to pull a fast one several times on people who know much more of the plot than he does. He's just... cool.Gerald Tarrant: The most standout villain in any fiction that I can think of. Intelligent, powerful, scheming, and with a sense of honor and dignity that is so ingrained into his character that even centuries of murder and villainy cannot completely eradicate it. Like Darth Vader, but without the terrible "Anakin" phase of life. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />John Daker: The "true" Eternal Warrior. My favorite of all of Moorcock's characters/incarnations. I love Elric, but Daker has always been more tangible to me. Ironically, I read a review of the Eternal Champion recently that, while not unfavorable, remarked that it was raw and unrefined being one of Moorcock's first pieces. Yet, to me, that book was more visceral and meaningful than any of his later works.D'Artagnan: He's kind of like Corwin as far as the coolness factor goes. Watching him grow and develop over the course of the entire "Three Musketeers" trilogy (well, quintet if you count each of the three parts of the "Man in the Iron Mask" series)- watching that development really put a perspective on him that hasn't ever really been touched very well by any of the movies. Richard Sharpe: What can I say about this guy? Once again, cool. I first fell in love with his character when I saw Sean Bean play him in the Sharpe movies (and, hell, Sean Bean is pretty darn cool himself). That prompted me to pick up the Sharpe books, and I've loved every one of them. A regular joe just trying to get by doing the only thing he knows how to do. His struggles against a class system that rewards nepotism and entitlement over accomplishment and merit is one that I think most people can relate to (I certainly can), and is as topical in the 21st century as it was in the 19th.</blockquote>

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