Fictional character you'd bring to life if you could?

[Flaxbee]

I'm thinking mostly literature, but I won't shriek if a movie or tv character gets thrown into the mix.

I absolutely adore Horace Rumpole, from the JOhn Mortimer "Rumpole of the Bailey" stories. A smart, acerbic, wise, funny, wine-swilling, kind old man whom I'd love to talk to. I'm sure there are others, but right now I'm re-reading "The First Rumpole Omnibus" and I'm just in love with Rumpole, I can't help myself.

What's your choice?

[2Design]

1. superman to fight BFEE

[Hokie]

2. Jesus Christ

He sounds like a really cool guy. You know, turning water into wine is a great trick...

[Mr. Blonde]

34. Tyler Durden

After all he looks like I want to look, fucks like I want fuck, he is smart capable and most importantly free in all of the ways I am not.

[Guy Fawkes]

3. Cthulu Ftharg!!

[FranzFerdinand]

4. Willow Offgood

you KNOW that d00d would be sweet to smoke a joint with...

[DontBlameMe]

5. Corwin of Amber.

Or Brand. :)

[King Of Paperboys]

6. Tough one.

Spock of Vulcan
Sherlock Holmes
The Reagan I Saw Last Week
(Not to be confused with the REAL Reagan.)

[FloridaPat]

7. Doc Savage - super hero and could do anything.

[jayavarman]

10. Wow

I used to read all of those books from the library when I was like 9 years old.

I've never met ANYONE who knew what was up with Doc Savage!!

This is really cool!

[dflprincess]

8. Murphy Brown

I'd love to see her take on Bush. I remember one episode where she nearly ran Bush Sr. over with a bicycle to get to him.

[Zorba607]

9. yossarian

of the fighting 256th, or 2 to the fighting 8th power, if you're thinking of writing a symbolic poem.

and zorba the greek of course

[HornBuckler]

11. I Think I'll Go With Zoidberg

I'd Hang Out With Him. Maybe Homer Simpson Too - Have Some Doughnuts, Drink Some Beer - You Know, Good Times.

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[m-jean03]

12. Sherlock Holmes, of course.

:loveya:

What a fascinating person to meet!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

19. Elementary, my dear m-jean

Holmes was not only a fictional character that seemed to many to literally 'come to life', many of the techniques he used were adopted by law enforcement, thanks to Dr. Bell, who was Conan Doyle's inspiration for the character.

[m-jean03]

21. I have read a little bit about Dr.Bell

It's great that Sherlock was based on a real person! What a genius.

[flamingyouth]

13. Mick Kelly

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

[LowerManhattanite]

16. Roy Hobbs from "The Natural"...

I'd love to see him play...

[LiberalVoice]

14. Jessica Rabbit

:evilgrin:

[GOPFighter]

15. Lou Grant

The kind of guy I'd like to work for.

[mrsadm]

17. Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock!

And Scotty, for those times when we need manual override!

[madaboutharry]

18. Huckleberry Finn

would be my choice.

[Elidor]

20. Spider Jerusalem and Gandalf

We'd be boon companions. And nobody would fuck with us, either.

[Spider Jerusalem]

30. I'll second your choice of Spider.

I'd like to see him use his bowel disruptor on a certain trained chimpanzee. Heh.

And my other choice would probably be Enoch Root, who appears in Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" (and his "Baroque Cycle" as well). An immortal(?) alchemist (maybe) who is, in my opinion, anyway, one of the coolest and most interesting characters to ever grace a page.

[Delano]

65. Ian McKellen Gandalf, HELL YES!

It must be confusing for homophobes who are at once put off by his homosexuality and totally in awe of his elderly coolness. I can't think of any movie character I'd rather have on my side. His portrayal was SPOT ON.

[blackcat77]

22. Jubal Harshaw from Stranger in a Strange Land

My all time favourite fictional character.

[Lefty48197]

23. Bartleby the scribner

Oh wait he's President. Nevermind.

[saracat]

24. Scarlett O'Hara

one of the first feminists, she took care of herself, ran her own business and took care of her people.Granted ,she hid her brainsunder a couquette exterior, but Rhett was always on to her!

[King Of Paperboys]

27. No.

Married first husband out of spite.

Married second husband out of greed and desperation.

Loved two men while marrying two others.

Made a fortune by way of murder, prisoner abuse and her sexuality.

This is NOT a feminist. This is a manipulative opportunist.

Scarlett had some qualities, but integrity was not among them.

[Parrcrow]

28. Dunstan Ramsay, Paul Dempster and Liesl Vitzliputzi

from the Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies.

on edit; oops this was supposed to be a reply to the original message.

[saracat]

29. No, what?

I want to talk to her and it's my choice!And what makes you think feminists can't have flaws. She stood up for herself in a man's world(and looked good doing it!LOL) and thats what counts.She managed the mill and didn't pretend otherwise.Ashley was an idiot and kept man. And what murder? The union soldier? Please.It was war, and that was self defense.And feminists can't be manipulative opportunists?And I suppose men can't be either. Ya know what?If Scarlett were running the Dem Party, I betcha we'd"never lose an election again"!

[King Of Paperboys]

32. No.

We would never lose another election again.

All we would lose is our soul, and our souls.

Scarlett O'Hara is not a woman I admire as a feminist. She achieved naught on her merits as a person. She took money from men in exchange for sex, and she turned that money into a fortune by dint of abusing prisoners to the point of starvation and death. She was an indifferent parent to her children, and a "friend" only to those who could advance her socially, save Mrs. Wilkes, whom she did not choose as her friend. Her love for Mrs. Wilkes, long-resisted, was one of her few redeeming features.

I am not saying Scarlett O'Hara was not a strong woman, a woman worthy of respect; I am saying she was not a feminist. She degraded herself and her sex by her actions. Nevertheless, she had many admirable qualities, evinced in her single-handedly saving her ancestral home and directing her own life and the lives of many of those around her. However, no person can be a true feminist who sexualizes commerce, who makes love a matter of money, who makes romance a pecuniary consideration.

Love is love and sex is sex and money is money. Anyone who tries to confuse the matters is no feminist.

[saracat]

68. Many feminists would disagree with you.

Love and sex don't have much to do with feminism.Equality between the sexes does.Scarlett did what she had to do to level the playing feild in the era inwhich she was born. It isn't as though she could practice law, medicine or run for office.Marriage was the only option for a woman of her generation, and she played the hand she was dealt.
Most marriages were not for"love" but arranged for alliances and bloodlines. Scarlett just arranged her own to her own advantage which was a tremendous step in those days.

[Red State Rebel]

58. I'm with you - Scarlett is my hero!

Her blatant manipulation and abuse of men is something most of us women only dream of :)

[Guy Fawkes]

25. The Hebrew Hammer (oem)

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. Daisy Buchanan.

Because I love her. :loveya:

[LuminousX]

31. Joan of Arc

oh wait... she really did exist.

How about King Arthur? Oops, he did also.

Then I guess I'm left with uh, Bugs Bunny?

[AVID]

33. OWEN MEANY

From "A Prayer for Owen Meany" John Irving

[King Of Paperboys]

35. Nice.

Oh. Very nice.

If I could meet Owen Meany, I could die a happy man.

[Pale Blue Dot]

37. Thumbsup on that one. nt

[texas1928]

36. SPAWN

[Pale Blue Dot]

38. As a kid, I had a massive crush on the lead character from

"A Wrinkle in Time". Now I don't even remember her name. I'm such a typical male!

[Pithlet]

52. Meg

I loved those books.

[Pale Blue Dot]

57. That's her!

I had it bad for her!

[BBradley]

39. Mersault <nt>

[jobycom]

40. Jean ValJean or Atticus Finch

Well, if it was for me alone I'd pick any Haley Berry or Cate Blanchette character, but I assumed you were thinking higher than I was.

[jobycom]

41. Or Nancy Drew

I loved that character.

[AVID]

43. Boo Radley

[Enraged_Ape]

42. Superman

As f---ed up as this world is, it's definitely going to take a benevolent alien with superior powers, raised with empathy towards humans, to straighten it all out.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

44. Anne of Green Gables.

n/t

[No2W2004]

45. Bender Bending Rodriguez

A Unit 22 Bending robot with attitude.

[PittPoliSci]

49. Second for Bender!

GO Bender! Go Bender! Go Bender!

[Wilber_Stool]

46. Godzilla

or Mothra. I can't decide.

[Unperson 309]

47. Hannibal Lector. But ONLY If I Could Convince Him Repubs Taste GOOD!

Imagine being able to control Hannibal the Cannibal!

<BillCosby> "Here, eat that Bush! Growfrowfrowf!" </BillCosby>

Republicans taste like chicken......hawks!

Well, I WAS going to say something else.........

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[Insider]

48. law & order: lt. anita vanburen

i'd work for her

[NightTrain]

50. The Monkey Wrench Gang

George Washington Hayduke, Seldom-Seen Smith, Doc Sarvis, and a woman whose name, alas, eludes me right now.

THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG is a novel from the '70s whose title characters go around the American Southwest knocking down billboards, sabotaging construction sites, and performing other types of mischief to fight the the environment. I'd say we really need people like that in this day and age!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

69. you mean Ellie, the blond beauty, or the black-haired one?

I can't remember either, Ellie might not be right.

Love those books.

[Brother Buzz]

51. Ned Ludd

[Lestat]

53. Vampires.

It doesn't matter who, just vampires in general.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

54. Bartleby the Scrivener

I'd love to cheer him up so he wouldn't waste away in his life of solitary resignation.

[NightTrain]

55. You might want to bring him to life, but I would prefer not to.

;)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

56. Mr. Peabody

[Red State Rebel]

59. Pippi Longstockings

My favorite when I was young. Free to do whatever she wanted with all those wonderful powers :)

[Egalitarian]

60. Robbin Hood!

[Rowdyboy]

61. Ignatius J Reilly

from "A Confederacy of Dunces"

[ScreamingMeemie]

62. Please see here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=1279644&mesg_id=1279979


and I really need to sleep I guess. :hi:

[jus_the_facts]

63. Daneel Olivaw....

.....from the Isaac Asimov ROBOT stories! :)

[traco]

64. Shrek

He's such a cute Ogre!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

66. Jack Ryan, he could clean up government single-handedly

[clyrc]

67. No question. Nicholas de Fleury from Dorothy Dunnett's

novels. He is the only (imaginary) man on earth who could make me consider dropping my husband to run off with him. Very tall and devilishly clever, he's actually kind of like my husband, but more so.

[TrogL]

70. Jubal Harshaw

[RFKHumphreyObama]

71. My list

BOOK CHARACTERS
Carolyn Langdon (In All The Wrong Places)
Caroline Masters (the heroine in the various Richard North Patterson books)
Atticus Finch
Most of Jane Austen's characters
Most of the characters from Othello and Hamlet

TV/MOVIE CHARACTERS

Alex Forrest (Fatal Attraction)
Zelda Spellman (Sabrina The Teenage Witch) but only as portrayed by Beth Broderick
Jackie Harrison (Stepmom)
President Jed Bartlett-The West Wing. In fact most of the West Wing team from the days before Aaron Sorkin departed

There are so many others I could list here