Greatest Character Showdown! (Nominations CLOSED)

29. The Bride from Kill Bill
The Bride, codename "Black Mamba", was a former member of "Deadly Viper Assassination Squad", an elite, shadowy group of assassins. A formidable, ruthless warrior trained under martial arts master Pai Mei, she served at the right hand of Bill, her boss and lover, a position that provoked the furious envy of the other Vipers, especially Elle Driver, who was also Bill's lover. Kiddo, a master of the crane style of kung fu, was the only Viper to learn the "Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique," a method of killing an assailant by quickly striking five pressure points around the heart. Pai Mei refused to teach this technique, which was said to be 'the deadliest blow in all of martial arts' even to Bill.

Kiddo abandoned the dangerous life of an assassin after she learned she was pregnant with Bill's child. She faked her own death, hid in rural Texas under the name "Arleen Machiavelli," and got engaged to a young man named Tommy Plympton. Bill found her, however, and gate-crashed her wedding rehearsal with the other Vipers and murdered everyone inside. Bill then shot her in the head, leaving her in a seemingly irreversible coma. She remained comatose for four years, during which she was repeatedly prostituted and raped by an orderly named Buck.

Awakened just as one of Buck's "clients" was about to violate her, she killed Buck and the would-be rapist, and then went on a mission to exact revenge on the other Vipers. She first traveled to Japan, where she trained under the legendary swordsmith Hattori Hanzō, who forged her one of his priceless katanas.

After killing Vipers O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green, she went after Budd, Bill's brother, who incapacitated her and buried her alive in order to collect a bounty from her old rival, Driver. She escaped, however, and went back to Budd's trailer — where he lay dead of a black mamba bite, with Driver standing over him. Driver engaged her in battle, and revealed that she had killed Pai Mei as revenge for tearing out her eye. Enraged, Kiddo tore out the other one and left Driver to die in the middle of the desert. She then pursued her final target, Bill.

When she found him, however, she discovered that their daughter, B.B., whom she presumed had died in utero, was alive and well. They spent the evening together as a family until B.B. went to bed, and then Bill and Kiddo settled their differences; Bill explained his reasons for nearly killing her, while she admitted she couldn't be happy as anything other than a warrior. They did not make peace though, and at the end of their conversation a brief battle ensued where Kiddo killed Bill with the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, and disappeared with B.B. in the middle of the night. Their whereabouts are unknown.

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Captain James T. Kirk

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The youngest starship captain in Federation history, Captain Kirk led the Enterprise on a historic five year mission. He brought the Federation message of peace (sometimes with a two-fisted punch) to all corners of the galaxy. Kirk battled Klingons, Romulans, Tholians, Gorn, Greek gods, crazy computers, and the superman, Khan Noonian Singh.

Shortly after his five year mission, Kirk was promoted to Admiral. He was uncomfortable with the position, however, preferring to be "galaxy hopping" from the bridge of a starship. Kirk didn't let his rank get in the way of adventures, however. He saved Earth from V'ger, stopped Khan once again, saved his friend, Spock, from final death, saved Earth (again) from a destructive probe by traveling back in time and getting some humpback whales, asked God what he needed with a starship, and defeated a group of klingons and humans bent on stopping a peace treaty.

James T. Kirk is an inspiration to us all and clearly the greatest character of all time. :cool:

Misc note: Talgian, it's Mr. Spock, not Dr. Spock.
 

31. Dream (The Sandman)

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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
 

32 Belloq

Another Raiders of the Lost Ark villain:

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Rene Belloq is Indiana Jones' most talented and competitive rival, and enemy, in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. He frequently refers to this competition by saying 'what was once yours, is now mine.' Belloq is a french archeologist who also travels the globe in search of priceless artifacts. In hope of finding the Lost Ark, he allies himself with the Nazis.

It's a tremendous shame that this villain hasn't had more screen time than he has (Has he been in any of the 'Young Indiana...' shows?).

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33 Angus MacGyver

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Simply known as 'MacGyver', or 'Mac', this clever character became a classic 'brains over brawn'. He always figured a way out of his jams. Like all classic characters he had his share of trademarks--the leather jacket he always wore and never washed, and duct tape and swiss knife he always carried and would use to get out of the knottiest situations.

Unfortunately, as the series progressed the producers of the series seemed to focus on Mac's attraction to his female viewers and concentrated less on what made MacGyver great--his geeky intelligence that always got him out of trouble.
 
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34. Hannibal Lecter

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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 ingenious, cultured psychiatrist and resourceful serial killer, who practices cannibalism upon his victims. He has often been rated among the greatest villains in literature and film, along with Satan from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Darth Vader from the Star Wars films, and Professor Moriarty from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

-Talgian
 

35. Samwise Gamgee

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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 gardener by trade, Sam seems to be a simple Hobbit of plain speech. However, his love for Elves, his gift for poetry, and his belief that the world contains greater wonders than most hobbits are aware of (all nurtured by his tutor Bilbo Baggins) set him apart from the beginning. It is Sam who first introduces the theme of the Elves sailing from Middle-earth, a subtle foreshadowing of Bilbo and Frodo's final journey across the Sea. He lives with his father, Hamfast Gamgee, known as "The Gaffer", on Bagshot Row in the Shire, close to Bag End. Sam's mother is Bell Goodchild; he has five siblings: Hamson, Halfred, Daisy, May, and Marigold.

-Talgian
 

36. Mario

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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 traditionally associated, Mario has appeared in video games in many different genres, including the Mario Kart series, many of Nintendo's arcade sports games (such as the Mario Tennis and Mario Golf series), and Nintendo's series of Mario role playing games (RPGs) (including Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Paper Mario Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Super Paper Mario, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, and its sequel, Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time).

Mario is a plumber motivated by a sense of justice, though at times he has been depicted as a doctor and numerous other professions. His distinctive appearance was defined somewhat by the limitations of early video game hardware. Though he began with the ability to jump high, in subsequent games, he received additional powers such as pyrokinesis and flight, and additional playable versions, including Baby Mario, Tanooki suit Mario and Metal Mario, through the use of power-ups. In adventure games, Mario has used varying techniques for defeating enemies and solving puzzles in his games, both by using his own abilities and the properties of items or abilities of allies he encountered.

-Talgian
 

37 Lex Luthor

Quite simply, the greatest criminal mind of all time. Superman's lifelong enemy, who is obsessed with killing Superman and taking over the entire world.

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38 Odo

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One of the more intriguing characters from the Star Trek universe, Chief Constable Odo is a shapechanger living in a foreign land. He has ties to many of the powers in the ST: DS9 Storyline (he is a founder himself; he worked for the Cardassians, and later the Bajorans). His character is someone who is usually neutral, but always does the right thing.
 

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