Greatest Character Showdown! (Nominations CLOSED)

[griff_goodbeard]

Madmartigan

Madmartigan is a Daikini theif and a great swordsman. He prefers to travel alone, fighting for his own means instead of getting mixed up in the afairs of others. Still, he has a good heart, and when the challenge finally comes, he decides to side with Willow and fight along his side. He can be stubborn and cocky with a wry sense of humor, but his courage and determination make him a true hero in the end.

 

[Yellow Sign]

50. Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who made his first published appearance in 1887. He was devised by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is famous for his prowess at using logic and astute observation to solve cases. He is perhaps the most famous fictional detective, and indeed one of the best known and universally recognisable literary characters.



If your posting a picture can you please watch the image size. Some of the picks are way too big. Thanks.

 

[johnsemlak]

51 Allan Quartermain

Sean Connery as Quartermain

Stewart Granger as Quartermain

From the pen of H Rider Haggard (King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quartermain, et al.), Allan Quartermain is the prototype for the wandering adventurer treasure hunter who would eventually become Indiana Jones. But Quartermain is a star in his own right. The character has been played by Sean Connery, Stewart Granger, Richard Chamberlain, and others on the big screen, and Quartermain has made appearances in comics and other media.

Inspired perhaps by the real-life 19th century adventurer Richard Burton and other explorers, Quartermain is the quintessential outdoorsman extraordinaire. He's an expert on the outdoors, he knows (and respects) the local people, he speaks their languages, he's an accomplished traveller and hunter, he's a rugged individualist with a moral sense of what's right.

In most stories in which he appears, Quartermain is a well-known safari-guide based in Africa, who gets involved in an improbable search for the legendary King Solomon's mines (which he believes are a myth), and other adventures.

 

[Talgian]

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 in The Godfather). He becomes the new Godfather of the Corleone crime family towards the end of Part I, when his father passes away.

-Talgian

 

[ThirdWizard]

53. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin (Ender's Game)

Ender is a brilliant military strategist of only age six in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.

Growing up an outcast, he was then recruited and trained to be a tactician in a grueling environment. While at school, he was often at odds with other students. In order for his militarty conditioning to be complete, his teachers weren't allowed to aid him. Even in the zero gravity team combats which he excelled at, they kept stacking the game against him.

Eventually he graduated and moved onto fleet combat training, where he, along with others, took place in battle simulations as fleet commanders.

Ender's Game is the first in a series of novels. There is also an Alternate Universe series of novels.

 

[ThirdWizard]

54. Adrian Monk (Monk)

Adrian Monk is the star of the TV series Monk. He is impaired socially by his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and many phobias and quirks such as a compulsion to touch every street lamp he passes. However, his catch phrase of "It's a gift. And a curse." is shown to be true because his job as a police consultant is a perfect match. His OCD allows him to notice things others would miss and he is a brilliant detective.

 

[Brakkart]

55. Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds

Captain Malcolm Reynolds (Mal to his friends/crew) is a character from the shortlived Tv Series Firefly and its follow-up movie Serenity. A vateran of the Unification War, he fought on the side of the Independants who ultimately lost. He was one of only a handful of Browncoats who walked out of the pivotal battle of Serenity Valley, and the memory of the loss his side suffered there still haunts him. After the war he invested what money he had in an old 03-K64 Firefly-class transport and brought a crew together to stay one step ahead of the Alliance. Mal has no qualms about commiting criminal acts, his main interest being to keep flying and to this end he takes on (almost) any job, legal or not. He does however have a strong moral code and tries to do what's right. He is also unfailingly loyal to his crew and he expects the same in return.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer (played by Keifer Sutherland) is the main protagonist from Fox's 24. Jack Bauer was a former member of the US military's Delta Force strike team, a field operative for the Central Intelligence Agency, and was once the Director of Field Operations for Los Angeles's Counter Terrorism Unit.

 

[Starman]

57. Raistlin Majere

Raistlin Majere is a mage in the world of Dragonlance. His health shattered while taking the Test to join the Order of High Sorcery, Raistlin's skin turned a golden hue and his pupils became shaped like hourglasses. Raistlin was a troubled person and desired power above all else. His humanity came out on occassion such as when he took pity on the gully dwarf, Bupu. Raistlin became the Master of Past and Present and pursued his desire for power which led him to challenge the goddess, Takhisis.

 

[johnsemlak]

58 Gil Grissom

Gil Grissom is a charcter on the TV show CSI. He is the lead Crime Scene Investigator at the night shift of the Las Vegas crime lab. Besides being an expert in crime forensics, he's one of the world's leading experts on insects, and often is able to use them in his investigations.

He knows sign language, in part because he suffered from partial deafness for a period. He has a nerdy encyclopedic intelligence. He's well-read and often quotes Shakespeare. Hobbies of his include cockroach racing and riding roller coasters. He's a bit of a loner.