Favorite Fictional Character?
 

Can be from book, movie, comic, whatever. Someone who's life you'd like to live.

I'll go fist:

Simon Templar, AKA The Saint. (not the t.v. movie Saint, but the Leslie Charteris novel version).

The robin hood of modern crime .

Althalus from The Redemption of Althalus by David and Leigh Eddings.

I love the character. I love the concept of the house and the doors. He was a thief and a good one too until his luck ran out.

I have too many I relate to.

Slippery Jim DiGritz - The Stainless Steel Rat series
Pug - Raymond E. Fiest sagas
Drizzt DoUrden - RA Salvatore stories
Polgara - Edding's Belgarion sagas
Vlad Taltos - Steven Brust's series
Raistlin - The Dragonlance sagas
Ford Prefect - The Hitchhiker series
Peter Parker - Spiderman
Bruce Banner - The Hulk

James Bond! duh... Though his life would be painful, but oh so pleasurable as well....

Bender from Futurama

Edmund Dantes from the Count of Monte Cristo...one badass, vengeance driven man.

Alex De Large from A Clockwork Orange

Tender Brandson
Tyler Durton
Raistlin and Caramon From Dragonlance
Drizzit Do'Urden
Artemis Entreri
Jarlaxle (Dark Elf Series)

Skeeve (and Az) from the M.Y.T.H. books by Robert Asprin

That's a tough one..

I'm going to have to say at this current moment it's Repairman Jack.

Anomander Rake from Steven Erikson's series Malazan Book Of The Fallen...
An ascendant...or deity, an arrogance that is overwhelmed by the power he posesses. The complexity of his character is fantastic too, love how Erikson reveals small aspects of him in the new books.

YES!! Glorius! Ditto! (another F. Paul Wilson fan)

George W. Bush?

Actually, Croaker from the Black Company books, or Morrolan from the Taltos books.

Andrew Wiggin, "Ender's Game."

Mr. Wizard......drizzle,drazzle,dradle,drone..time for this one to come home.

Han Solo, Brodie Bruce, and Hannibal Lecter

World's King (TFP)

There can be only one: Jim Rockford.

At the tone, leave your name and message and I'll get back to you.

Micheal Corleone from The Godfather 1 & 2. The writer of the 3rd movie changed him too much

As far as classics I'd have to say James Bond and Micheal Corleone.

The cool fictional character of the here and now I think is Jack Bauer. That guy kick major ass.

I'm gonna stress at the beginning of this that I am talking about the books (there's about ten of them), not the movie.

Not the movie. Not the movie.

The answer is Fletch. Does his own thing, endlessly quick on his feet and creative. Compassionate and does what feels right. Often gets shat upon because he is so much his own person, but he doesn't let it get him down. At all.

Am still upset about the movie. Can't even bring myself to see the second one.

Also a big fan of Jake from Silverado (the Costner role). Childlike, but completely capable when the chips are down. "Jake fell off his horse???"

barry burton - resident evil
jack - fight club
tommy vercetti - GTA3

Homer Simpson!!

but seriously, who doesn't want to be James Bond!

and bookwise, i'd have to say Rand al'Thor from WoT...

I'd say it's a tie between Gerald Tarrant (Cold Fire Trillogy) and Thomas Covenant (The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant).

Tyler Durden - looks like I wanna look, fucks like I wanna fuck, plus I love how he doesn't chase the american dream.

first off, this is hardhardHARD to answer and i cannot pick just one. characters that have hhelped me live are......

Rand alThor - wheel of time. this guy has been to hell and back and still fights for the good of all. you really can't get much of a more be-damned scenario than Rand.

Drizzit Do'Urden - drow from Dragonlance, mainly the Dark Elf Trilogy
he is born in a place as evil as hell... but he's good. he goes through so much, everybody hates him but her perseveres.

Cecil - Final Fantasy 4 this guy goes from a some-what evil black knight to a holy Paladin

Im gonna have to go with the nerdy answers of Goku and Vegeta from DBZ. And to be even more nerdy I will throw in an obscure character from ff7 by the name of Vincent Valentine.
OOO and that irish guy from Braveheart, Stephen is my name!!!

Admiral Thrawn - Star Wars novels
Drizzt Do'Urden
Fitz - Robin Hobb's Farseer novels

I was thinking about this the other day, and I have got to chance my answer to Vito Corleone. It would be wonderful to be a "man of respect" to that degree.

Hiro Protagonist from Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash

LESTAT - the Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles series. Not the movie version, but the real book version.

Holy cow, if there wasn't another guy who was as messed up but so freaking great as Lestat, then I don't know what. He is the one guy I know who can sleep for years, go to heaven, go to hell, switch bodies, and still suck a few necks with gusto.

Marius from the Vampire Chronicles for me, something about his doomed existance entralls me, he's beautiful, he's talented, he's powerful but he is still subject to human emotions, more often than not pain.

Blood and Gold is my favourite novel though many Anne Rice fans will disagree with me.

Batman!

I have to go with Bond...James Bond.

I've been watching him for years....and we have all wished to be him at some point.

Lazarus Long
Jim DiGriz
Retief
John Blackthorne
Edmund Dantes
Remo Williams

that's more or less for starters . . .

Who else? Sherlock Holmes, the worlds first consulting detective; all others stem from him.

Neo from the Matrix. Dodges bullets, knows Kung-Fu, gets the girl, and does it in style. :D

comic character: Spiderman

movie character: Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China)

book character: The Grey Mouser or Conan

i love Venom, extremely powerful, a lil insane, doesnt mind killing to make a point, and has all of spidermans powers.

i also love lightsaber battles, so any sith or jedi were great characters, especially Darth Maul, one of the greatest fight scenes ever

Ender from Ender's Game.