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

[Hypersmurf]

Ooh, Zahn's Blackcollar Comsquare Damon Lathe definitely gets honorable mention on my SF list.

And Simon Green's Hawk and Fisher... aren't my favourites, but they're pretty cool, on the fantasy list...

-Hyp.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Science fiction: Gully Foyle, Tiger, Tiger!/The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. The novel is basically The Count of Monte Cristo in the future, with psychic teleportation, but Gully Foyle is a pretty compelling antihero.

Fantasy: Charles Beauregard, Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron and Dracula Cha Cha Cha/Judgement of Tears by Kim Newman. James Bond wishes he were this cool and this competent.

 

[ddvmor]

Jar Jar Binks is my all time favourite sci-fi character. He has style, he's good looking, the ladies love him, he's sassy, witty and he's the unequivocal hero of the Star Wars series.

er... I'm kidding, of course.

I actually think Roy Batty was a great character in Blade Runner as were Sam Vimes and Gaspode the Wonder Dog from Pratchett lore. Speaking of Lore... I always kinda liked him, too!

Of course my all time favourites have to be Ford Prefect and Tom Baker's Doctor Who.

 

[Aesmael]

Of course my all time favourites have to be Ford Prefect and Tom Baker's Doctor Who.

Is he the one with the strange expressions? He'd have to be my favourite Doctor so far too, but I am not really familiar with Doctor Who

For my own choices, off the top of my head and in no particular order:
Fantasy - Roose Bolton, Davos and Syrio Forel. Mystique (From the X-Men movies at least, have not read the comics but I LOVE an effective minion). Too many Pratchett characters to count Better stop there. Guts too, I guess, as a symbol of the series. He's cool an' all, but I just feel so damn sorry for him. Elwood P. Dowd, for reaons that should be obvious if you know who he is. How could I almost forget him twice?

Science Fiction - Much tougher. If we could count the settings as characters, then it would be easier. Shmeh, I'll cop out for now and say Yoda and Boba Fett

 

[Hypersmurf]

Of course my all time favourites have to be Ford Prefect and Tom Baker's Doctor Who.

Tom Baker rocks! But he does suffer from one small imperfection.

... he's not Jon Pertwee.

-Hyp.

 

[Tonguez]

Tom Baker rocks! But he does suffer from one small imperfection.

... he's not Jon Pertwee.

-Hyp.

Please Worzel Gummidge may have been OK (though not helped by being trapped on Earth) but Tom Baker was the greatest Doctor EVAR!

My list of fave Doctors goes
Tom Baker
Sylvester McCoy
Patrick Troughton
Jon Pertwee
Peter Davidson wasn't bad, Colin Baker sux, and the others pfft (although I haven't seen the new guy)

 

[Mallus]

Current favorites, subject to whim...

Film:
HAL 9000
Roy Baty
Exeter

Television:
Londo Mollari, G'Kar, Vir Cotto
Benjamin Sisko, Gul Dukat, Elim Garak, Weyoun
The 4th Doctor
Ker Avon
Spock

Print SF:
Severian the Torturer
Gerrald Tarrant
Case
Louis Gridley Wu
Kid
Horselover Fat --edit: damn, totally neglected my Dick...

Print F:
Kruppe, Itkovian, Quick Ben
Nakor the Isalani, Jimmy the Hand
Tyrion Lannister, Davos Seaworth
Sparrowhawk/Ged

 

[barsoomcore]

Wow, the boys are sure winning this one.

Some ladies I love:

From Steven Brust's Dragaera
Sethra Lavode (She's the bravest, smartest woman in the world)
Keira the Thief (ditto)
Aliera e'Kieron (crazy and bad-tempered. What's not to like?)
Tazendra Lavode (crazy and good-natured. What's not to like?)

From Steven Erikson's Malazan:
Kilava (Tool's sister -- sexy AND two hundred thousand years old)
Lady Envy (Whee! Psycho super-powerful women ALWAYS amuse me)
Tavore Paran (dedicated and ruthless without being (as so often happens in this genre) beautiful and romantically wistful)

From The Lord of the Rings
Eowyn ("Begone, foul dwimmerlaik! I shall smite you if you touch him." I think that says it all)
Galadriel (no clever quote, just to say she TERRIFIED me the first time I read the books and I kept trying to figure out how a good guy could be so scary. He's clever, that Professor Tolkien)

And just to say Belit rocks my world. "There's a ruined city, my love, that no one's ever returned alive from. Let's go sack it! But first, let me dance naked for you."

From SF (slim pickings here. Hm)
Alia IS very cool. And I always liked the Princess, whatsername, who wrote the book.
Ripley, of course, if we're veering into film.

 

[MaxKaladin]

Fantasy:
Prince Arutha, Jimmy the Hand, Nakor, FitzChivalry, Paksenarrion

SF:
G'Kar, Garibaldi, Lester, Han Solo

 

[Fast Learner]

Lots of good ones listed, I'll add a couple that haven't been mentioned.

Merlin of Amber/Chaos (not the best of the two series, maybe, but a great character!)

Jack of Shadows

Sam (from Lord of Light)

Hmm, all Zelazny. A pattern?

Also, Louis Wu (Ringworld, etc.)