Who are your favorite characters from fantasy & sci-fi stories?

[Krug]

What? No characters from RPG books? 'Tis must be remedied!

Fantasy - Gotrek and Felix
Thomas Covenant

SF - Gaunt from Gaunt's Ghost

 

[PhoenixDarkDirk]

I feel I must add that I, too, think Discworld is great.

A good science fiction character is Ax from K. A. Applegate's Animorphs series. According to him, the cinnamon roll is humanity's greatest achievement.

I also think Squee from Magic: the Gathering is quite funny.

 

[haiiro]

I also think Squee from Magic: the Gathering is quite funny.

I wonder if there's any connection to Squee from Jhonen Vasquez' JTHM comics...?

 

[Krieg]

Fantasy:

Paksennarion Dorthansdottir - The only paladin I ever believed.

Tiger (Sword Dancer et al.) - Cocky machismo done right. (Although you have to have Del's Yang to Tiger's Ying.)


Sci Fi:
Raul Endymion - Endymion & Rise of Endymion
Jack Brennan - Protector & Ringworld Engineers/Throne

 

[Mad Hatter]

Man, favorite characters are hard because they change often, especially if I'm in the zone of a particular author. However, my favorites seem to have come full circle for I have rediscovered my obsession with Frank Herbert. Thus my favorites are Muad'Dib, St. Alia of the Knife (she gets cool points from her name alone), and Leto II.

For fantasy, I'm diggin' on Kirsten Britain's Karigan from her Green Rider series.

 

[Pants]

Fantasy:
Samwise Gamgee - LotR
Icarium and Mappo - Malazan Books by Steven Erikson
Whiskeyjack - Malazan Books by Steven Erikson
Tayschrenn - Malazan Books by Steven Erikson
Jon Snow - A Song of Ice and Fire by GRRM
Tyrion Lannister - A Song of Ice and Fire by GRRM
Bronn - A Song of Ice and Fire by GRRM
Fitzchivalry Farseer - Farseer and Tawny Man books by Robin Hobb
The Brucolac - The Scar by China Mieville

 

[exile]

Sci-fi...I was glad to see someone else mention Paul Atreides (though by his alternate name) from Dune and must agree with him.

Fantasy...Solomon Kane comes to mind (maybe because that's what I'm reading at present). I also like Robert Jordan's female characters (they're all pretty much the same woman).

Chad

 

[Krieg]

Tyrion is by far the most interesting character in the series (with Jaime second strangely enough).

 

[greymist]

Fantasy:
Frodo Baggins, FitzChivalry Farseer, Vlad Taltos, Hanse Shadowspawn, Silk (Belgariad), Grey Mouser, Edmund Blackadder (series II especially)

Sci-Fi:
Han Solo, Arnold Rimmer, Spock

 

[Enforcer]

Fantasy:
-Tyrion Lannister, Jon Snow, Daenarys. Honorable mentions to Gregor Clegane and Cirsei Lannister--two of my most hated characters in fantasy, in a good way.
-al'Lan Mandragoran...at least when he's in the freaking books...grumble, grumble.
-Artemis Entreri. Yep, I mentioned an R.A. Salvatore character, sue me. The Bouldershoulder brothers are also favorite minor characters.
-Brashen Trell, FitzChivalry Farseer (same author, different series)
-Conan (the Howard original...not that I'm a purist, I just haven't read the other stuff)

Sci-Fi:
I got nothing, not a big sci-fi fan. I've read Aasimov, Dune, Arthur Clarke, and Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy, but I didn't really care for any of the characters in these books.