Oh My God It's __________

[Faiien]

Who's your favorite fictional character ever created? It can be from a book, show, movie, or game; Also, don't forget to tell why you like that specific character.

[masterofhobbiton]

http://www.warboards.org/showthread.php?t=34969&highlight=favorite+character


I suppose it is a bit old, but I doubt people's favorite characters have changed so much in a month or two.

[VigilanteV]

Gravemind.
I HAVE BEATEN FLEETS OF THOUSANDS! COMSUMED THE GALAXY OF FLESH AND MIND AND BONE!

[DarkMirror]

Candlejack. I mean, come on, you just cant beat someone who can just steal you away at the mention of his nam

[kongurous]

Either The Kid (he bested fruit, spike, and moon!) or Spider-Man.

[Lithium]

Maddilox.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/maddilox6.jpg

[Blackright]

Right now it's IRONMAN. He's probably one of the best super heroes I've seen in years.

(And not to exclude the extremely awesome visual effects used on the film!)

~Blackright

[Vezer]

Lobo.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/images/lobo_kickass.jpg

Ed: He's the fuckin anti-christ. Coolest anti-superhero ever. Him and Hancock. But I'd still say Lobo is way cooler, times a thousand.

[Black.Ice]

Point of Order: Please add more substance to your posts. Don't just list your favorite character and move on, explain why it's your favorite. Remember folks, discuss, don't just post and leave.

[Ubergopher]

Aslan. Partly because he's a bad ass lion, but mostly because he always showed up when you need him, and even though he isn't safe, he is good.

[West]

http://robocrow.googlepages.com/newsauerbraten2.png
Iron Snout(red), the Ogre that could open a can of whoop-ass.
It's the best looking character in Sauerbraten, It's the funnest character to pwn, and the futuristic armor looks so cool!

[Harbinger]

I can sum it up in one word: Bork.

http://thehurricanewatch.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/swedishchef2.jpg?w=271&h=361

Who else can make a salad by flinging lettuce into the air and then shooting it? Who else can sing Danny Boy so beautifully?

[IrishDutchman]

Philip Marlowe. The private eye from Raymond Chandler's detective series.
He's a tough, determined, smart, charming and straightforward guy, but he's not perfect either. He's sarcastic, bitter, lonely and pretty depressed too.
That's what I like about hard-boiled detective novels. The protagonists are real people, they're vulnerable and flawed just like all the other characters.

[anderoo]

Dr. Greg House from 'House'. He's a genius, a complete smart-ass, and unbelievably anti-social. Women also tend to find him irresistable. And can you blame them? Not all men can pull off the scraggly beard.

[kongurous]

Either The Kid (he bested fruit, spike, and moon!) or Spider-Man.

Clarifications because Black.ice is a ho.

The Kid: well, you really need to play I Wanna Be The Guy (http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/) to understand exactly why The Kid kicks so much ass. I can't really explain it.

Spider-Man: Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, always willing to lend a hand no matter what! While outclassed in power by other superheroes in the Marvel universe, he's still one of the best heroes in his "tier" (as in, ones who defend a certain city or area as opposed to a country or the world), if not the best, and he's very smart. His powers give him much more agility than a normal human, as well as the ability to shoot silk spinnerets in his wrists, and while he is stronger than most, it isn't his physical strength that makes him effective but his combination of all of his powers to work in unison.

He also began as a geeky social outcast and he didn't have an adult hero to be his mentor. He wasn't like Bucky or Robin, who had Captain America and Batman respectively; no one taught him that with great power comes great responsibility. He learned that himself and he uses his abilities responsibly (most of the time, but everyone makes mistakes. He's still human, after all) and I think that from his moral fiber to his powers, Spider-Man's awesome.

[SgtHK]

Mine is still Gordon Freeman. Overall, he's still the most original FPS player character ever created: a badass Theoretical Physicist in an orange suit.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/421px-HL2box.jpg

[IrishDutchman]

DAMNIT, Gordon Freeman is NOT a character. He never even says anything!

[kongurous]

DAMNIT, Gordon Freeman is NOT a character. He never even says anything!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_character

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/character

23. Theater.
a. (of a part or role) representing a personality type, esp. by emphasizing distinctive traits, as language, mannerisms, physical makeup, etc.
b. (of an actor or actress) acting or specializing in such roles.

Having dialogue is not a necessity for being a character. Shut up.

[IrishDutchman]

Having dialogue is not a necessity for being a character. Shut up.

Semantics. Ok, so he is officially a 'character'.
What I don't understand is why tons of people like this guy, he never says anything! He does what other people tell him to do and keeps quiet.
And don't give me that 'urr, he's a scientist who kicks ass. That's awesome'. The fact that he's a scientist is only noticable at the very beginning of HL1, after that he just goes around kicking ass.

[kongurous]

What I don't understand is why tons of people like this guy...

Wait for it...


...he just goes around kicking ass.

There you go.

[IrishDutchman]

There you go.

Every FPS protagonist goes around kicking ass. It's not special.

Srsly, fuck Gordon Freeman.

[DoctorZettabyte]

Freeman has character. It's just how well you can immerse yourself in the game, and, to a degree, how you play it.

If you play HL2 like a movie, and really get into the character, then you'll have a great time, and you'll come away with Gordon Freeman as one of the greatest characters of all time -- yourself. Dialogue is so linear. You're limited to one emotional state, one dialogue choice, an really, one playthrough on each difficulty before the game gets boring.

-DocZetta

[IrishDutchman]

Ok, so why does everyone love Gordon Freeman and does the girl from Portal hardly ever get mentioned?

[DoctorZettabyte]

Because Gordon Freeman has been in more games, longer games, more-widely-renowned games, and simply, better games at the time of release.

GLaDOS doesn't get mentioned directly, but you can't go more than a half-hour without finding an internet meme on her dialogue. The dialogue, more than the machine, is the character.

-DocZetta

[kongurous]

Because Gordon Freeman has been in more games, longer games, more-widely-renowned games, and simply, better games at the time of release.

GLaDOS doesn't get mentioned directly, but you can't go more than a half-hour without finding an internet meme on her dialogue. The dialogue, more than the machine, is the character.

-DocZetta

I think Irish meant Chell, not GLaDOS. But Zetta's point about games still stands.

[DoctorZettabyte]

Chell never interacts, simply put. Sure, you have some "oh-shit!" moments, funny dialogue, and all that sort of thing, but aside from a few lonely turrets, it's just you and a machine on a loudspeaker in those corridors.

Freeman's got a kickass gun, a crazy version of Sean Connery, a hot chick with a great T-Shirt, a guy with a peg-leg, a metal dog, and about fifty-million-bajillion zombies and Combine. Chell's got, well, a kickass gun and an insane robot.

-DocZetta

[SgtHK]

And Freeman also pioneered the use of the crowbar as a melee weapon. I mean, how neat is that? ^_^

[masterofhobbiton]

I'm just surprised nobody ever says the companion cube.

[DoctorZettabyte]

That's like saying your chainsaw in Gears of War was your favorite character.

It's just stupid.


GLaDOS gave the companion cube whatever bit of character it had -- which wasn't much. One quick level and then boom -- incineration.

-DocZetta

[kongurous]

I'm just surprised nobody ever says the companion cube.

The companion cube isn't a character, it's a named object that you use for one little bit of the game.

[Vezer]

I enjoy when you have to burn your cube.

[DarthPaul]

I enjoy when you have to burn your cube.

You, are evil.

[Jimmy_the_saint]

MUDKIPZ CUZ I LIEK MUDKIPZ ND DAY R REAL CUTE AND SHIZZ.

/ahem

Sargeant Johnson. Really you can't get much more kick ass than him. He survives a flood infection, me killing him multiple times, millions of Covvie bastards, Boren's syndrome and then takes on the biggest pest of them all, GS 343.

[IrishDutchman]

Chell never interacts, simply put. Sure, you have some "oh-shit!" moments, funny dialogue, and all that sort of thing, but aside from a few lonely turrets, it's just you and a machine on a loudspeaker in those corridors.

Freeman's got a kickass gun, a crazy version of Sean Connery, a hot chick with a great T-Shirt, a guy with a peg-leg, a metal dog, and about fifty-million-bajillion zombies and Combine. Chell's got, well, a kickass gun and an insane robot.

Ok, I'm lost. Since when is 'having a fifty-milion-bajillion zombies' considered a character trait?
Does that stuff make half-life a good game series? Yeah, it's pretty awesome.
Does stuff like that make Gordon Freeman a good character? NO! No matter how many zombies, metal dogs and hot chicks there are running around, he's still the same, bland, boring, mute henchman.

And the quality and amount of games he's been in says absolutely nothing about his character either.

[DoctorZettabyte]

But he's you. Like I said -- you choose who you want Gordon Freeman to be. If you want to look at Freeman as simply an avatar that you're playing that never says anything, that's perfectly fine. You're just not going to get the experience the developers intended for you to have out of the game.

Ok, I'm lost. Since when is 'having a fifty-milion-bajillion zombies' considered a character trait?
Perhaps it wasn't the best example. The rest of the list that I mentioned help to shape your character, but you are the one who chooses to define it.


And the quality and amount of games he's been in says absolutely nothing about his character either.
Perhaps it does. If people didn't like Master Chief, do you think Bungie would have kept him for three whole games? No, we'd see him dying in some epic battle, only to be replaced with someone else. The Arbiter wasn't particularly well-liked, and so his role was hugely diminished in Halo 3.

Aside from giving health, Half-Life's scientists weren't particularly helpful, and so you only see Dr. Kleiner (later, Dr. Magnusson) in Half-Life 2 as a scientist.

But people like Gordon Freeman. So he's staying, it seems, whether you like it or not.

-DocZetta

[MatGeo]

Ok, bitching about Gordon Freeman ends now because Duke Nukem kicks his ass.

That being said, Duke is my favorite character.

[masterofhobbiton]

But he's you. Like I said -- you choose who you want Gordon Freeman to be. If you want to look at Freeman as simply an avatar that you're playing that never says anything, that's perfectly fine. You're just not going to get the experience the developers intended for you to have out of the game.

So essentially, your favorite character is yourself if you pick Freeman? Cool!

[anderoo]

So essentially, your favorite character is yourself if you pick Freeman? Cool!


Exactly. It's like when an author just uses small amounts of strong description to show a setting. The reader gets more satisfaction because they are allowed to use their own imagination. All we know about Freeman, besides what he looks like, is that he's got strong moral values and is a hero. I think that's pretty ideal.

[IrishDutchman]

But he's you. Like I said -- you choose who you want Gordon Freeman to be. If you want to look at Freeman as simply an avatar that you're playing that never says anything, that's perfectly fine. You're just not going to get the experience the developers intended for you to have out of the game.

That's exactly my point! If he's you, Gordon Freeman himself is actually a non-entity. All the cool traits you've projected on him or imagined him to have are beside the point. How can you legitimately say Gordon Freeman your favourite character?
It's like calling your avatar from WoW your favourite character.

[9thDemon]

My favorite character right now is Asuka soryu langley from Evangelion, I feel very identified with her and makes me laugh alot and, like all other eva characters, is deep and complex.

I also love Batman and Luna Lovegood from HP, great and entertaining characters.

[Vezer]

My favortie character from a video game: Marcus Fenix.

He actually speaks, and when he does speak, it's awesome. He is completely badass. I dare you to find an FPS antagonist that is more badass.

[DoctorZettabyte]

He actually speaks, and when he does speak, it's awesome. He is completely badass. I dare you to find an FPS antagonist that is more badass.

Biggest idiot ever devised, that Marcus Fenix.

Where the fuck is his helmet? Who knows what kinds of spores and deadly lifeforms he may be breathing? Why doesn't his skull break after a few Lancer shots or a pistol hit or two? The man should have died within Act 1 or even the Prologue, realistically.

-DocZetta

[Vezer]

realistically

...You've lost me.

[DoctorZettabyte]

Hey, I call it like I see it. His skull may very well be that thick -- that explains why he just won't stop killing the same damn bugs over and over again. :rolleyes:

-DocZetta

[Thedutchjelle]

I've seen a lot of good characters lately, House, GLaDOS, the Pyro from TF2 ( <3 ), but I think I still like DURANDAL A.I. from the Marathon trilogy the most.
He's intelligent to the extreme, wins every confrontation with a landslide, he's sarcastic and he fucking owns.

[Sento]

two words for you:

Jim Raynor

you know a good character when hes the topic of much talk about SCII. Plus the fact that he just strikes me as the kind of guy i want on my side if i should ever be in a squad of marines

[Skullflower]

Yeah, he's an alcoholic too so thats even better.

[ZeratulStukov]

Uzumaki Naruto

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb53/Bosh104/NarutoUzumaki_Shippuden.jpg

Never going back on his words, never giving up... Once a lone kid everyone saw as a monster, now a true hero and powerful shinobi.
He's a great example.

[Vezer]

Uzumaki Naruto


Yeah, but... why does he have whiskers?

[Sento]

i think it's the fox thingy.. or maybe just a japanese thing like spiky white hair and 12 ft long blue hair

[atrocity3010]

Yeah, you could swear some of those female anime characters have more hair than actual body mass.

[MatGeo]

I dare you to find an FPS antagonist that is more badass.

Duke Nukem

'Nuff said

[KexMex]

The goddamn Batman, because he's so badass. Gotta hand the medal of bravery to a man who's a respected detective despite walking around in black rubber... with that kid.

...And that car.

...and that... boat, motorbike, helicopter, plane...

And the rest of his stuff.

[gamer102]

It's got to be samus aran,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/Metroidprime3_1.jpg/250px-Metroidprime3_1.jpg

Other then that, maybe John, the "Master Chief" in the Halo story.

Who else doesn't like a beam or any weapon attached to your arm in a super suit that can be upgraded?

The story for samus aran is suburb, but, MP3: Corruption sadly killed it a little.

[GroG]

Favorite: Frog (Chrono Trigger)
http://www.rpgplanet.com/chrono/images/ct/oaw-frog.jpg

He never comes off as a bad ass, he's very humble and skilled at swordplay. You come to find out this wasn't always the case. When he was a young human, he was actually a very weak, timid squire to a great swordsman, Cyrus. He served during a great war against the powerful magician, Magus, and his legions of demi-humans. During a duel, Magus tore into Cyrus, killing him, then, while laughing and making fun of Glenn, turned him into a frog (thus his name). Then Frog devoted his life to take revenge on Magus, all the while cursed as a Frog and living out in the woods so no one would see his cursed form.

Runner-up: Ziggurat 8 from XenoSaga, II, III
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z184/53RG10_0/Xenosaga/Ziggy.jpg

He's a cyborg way off in the far future, who makes a living doing special missions for the government. He actually used to be a highly trained agent while he was alive, but once he was killed they revived his brain and put it in a cyborg body - forcefully. He continously wishes he was dead, yet he continously succeeds in his missions. His "magic" element during the game is fire, he has high HP, and most of his special skills/moves only boost himself, since he's so used to working alone. He may be the last of his kind, since the government stopped making cyborgs once they discovered how to make artificial humans - called Realians. Most other cyborg agents have been killed by now. I believe they said he is over 150 years old.