Ten fictional characters (television, films, plays, books, video games) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. Don't think too hard on it. Just list the first ten you can recall.
Ahab, Moby Dick
Jesus, The Bible
Bugs Bunny
Godzilla
Billy Pilgrim, Slauhterhouse Five
Tom Joad, Grapes of Wrath
Garp, The World According to Garp
King Lear, King Lear
George Baily, It's a Wonderful Life
Alice, Alice in Wonderland
Honorable mention: HAL, 2001
Cool list!
Mine:
Sam Spade
Bugs Bunny
Hamlet
Nick Adams, (Hemingway short stories)
Caleb Trask
Ed Finnerty, (Player Piano)
Indiana Jones
Ellen Ripley
Auntie Mame
Mac Sledge, (Tender Mercies)
Oh
Jude Fawley, Jude the Obscure
Daisy Miller
Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice
William Brown, Just William
Tess Durbeyfield, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Mrs Dalloway
Lady Macbeth
Miss Havisham, Great Expectations
Emma
I know that's only nine. I lack imagination.
Oh - Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Dracula
James Bond (the Fleming original mostly, Sean Connery and Tim Dalton among the movie Bonds)
George Smiley (both Le Carre's original and Sir Alec Guiness' version from the BBC miniseries)
Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)
Yoda (from Strikes Back, The Empire Does)
King Arthur (can't pin down a specific portrayal, more the general idea of The Once and Future King, but Mary Stewart and T. H. White are probably my favorite modern versions)
James T. Kirk, Mr. Spock, "Bones" McCoy (I'm listing these as one entry because you really can't have one without the others. Needless to say I'm talking the originals here, not the reboot versions)
Godzilla
King Kong (yes, two non-human monsters)
The Man with No Name (as portrayed in various incarnations by Clint Eastwood, the Preacher in Pale Rider being a favorite)
Atticus Finch
Gandalf
Ellen Ripley
Eowyn
Buffy Summers
Hermione Granger
Alice Kingsleigh
Ania Stark
Kathryn Janeway
and recently, Rey, from Star Wars, the Force Awakens
I got a little carried away - I was starting with books only, but then I went back and had to add in television, movies.
Sara Crewe - A Little Princess
Dorothea Brooke - Middlemarch
Sheila Levine - Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York
Jane Purdy - Fifteen
Angie Morrow - Seventeenth Summer
Elizabeth Bennett - Pride and Prejudice
Undine Spragg - Custom of the Country
Johnny Tremain - Johnny Tremain
Fran Fine - The Nanny
Rhoda Morganstern - Mary Tyler Moore/Rhoda
Sally Bowles - Cabaret
Nancy Drew
Books only
Hamlet-The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Jonathan Harker-Dracula
Philip Marlowe-the fictional character created by Raymond Chandler
Edmond Dantès-The Count of Monte Cristo
Bathsheba Everdene-Far from the Madding Crowd
Heathcliff-Wuthering Heights
Dorian Gray-The Picture of Dorian Gray
Rebecca de Winter-Rebecca
Candide-Candide: or, Optimism
Ephraim Mackellar-the narrator of The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale
10.5 March-the central and most important character in The Fox
All genres:
Odysseus
Winnie the Pooh
Captain James Tiberius Kirk
Lucy Ricardo
Phillip Marlowe
Daniel Martin
Alexander Portnoy
Rodolfo (from "La Bohème")
Carmen
Jessica Rabbit
Ask me tomorrow and I'll probably have a different ten, but that's the list for today.
[EDITED]
The ones I didn't mention but wish I had, now that I've looked over the previous entries:
Ellen Ripley
The Man With No Name
HAL 9000
George Smiley
Starting with film
Holly Golightly -Breakfast at Tiffany's
Scarlett O'hara ( movie and book technically ) -Gone with the Wind
Rhett Butler ( also both movie and book )- Gone with the wind
Mrs Robinson- The Graduate
Maggie Pollitt- Cat on a Hot tin roof
June Buckridge- The Killing of Sister George
Harry Callahan - Dirty Harry
Sally Bowles-Cabaret
Michael Myers- Halloween
Zee Blakeley- X, Y and Zee
Nicholas Angel- Hot Fuzz
Rocky- Rocky
Virgil Tibbs- In The Heat of the Night
J.J. Gittes - China Town
Matty Walker- Body Heat
Helen- Candyman
O-Ren Ishii = Kill Bill
Bill- Kill Bill vol1-2
Merryweather- Sleeping Beauty
TV
Julie Cooper - The O.C
Emma Peel- The Avengers
Eric Cartman- South Park
Stan Marsh- South Park
In books
Alice - Alice in Wonderland
Winnie the Pooh- Winne The pooh
Peter Pan- Peter pan
Nancy Drew-The series
Hercule Poirot - Any Agatha Christie book that features him
Sherlock Holmes- series
Dorian Gray- The Picture of Dorian Gray
Once and Future King- King Arthur
Pippi Longstocking- Series
1 Santa Claus
2 Romeo and Juliet
3 Mickey Mouse
4 Cinderella
5 Alice in Wonderland
6 Barbie
7 Captain James Sparrow
8 Hello Kitty
9 Thor
10 Katniss Everdeen
Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
Vito Corleone, The Godfather I and II
Charlotte, Charlotte's Web
Dana Scully, X-Files
Ellie Arroway, Contact (The book)
Quint, Jaws
Sydney Carton, A Tale of Two Cities
Agent Smith, The Matrix
Louis, Interview With a Vampire
Jules Winnfield, Pulp Fiction
EDIT: Lara Croft (Tomb Raider, game series) should be in there. If I have to pull out someone, I'll make it Louis. Though he really did influence how I write tortured souls.
Mine ~
Lazarus Long, and family - The Future History series (books)
Ayla - The Earths Children series (books)
Rhett & Scarlett - Gone With the Wind (movie)
Harry, Ron, Hermione - Harry Potter series (books)
Paul Atreides - Dune series (books)
Maia - Maia, by Richard Adams (book)
Ripley - Aliens (movies)
The Terminator - Terminator series (movies)
Miguel & Tulio - The Road to El Dorado (animated movie)
God - The Bible
These are the ones off the top of my head
"insensitive prick!" – Danielle Algo
Some honorable mentions in the 'Over The Top' category:
Darth Vader - Star Wars episodes IV - VI
Frank N. Furter - Rocky Horror Picture Show
Eric Cartman - South Park
Animal - Muppets
=== Not ALL LIVES MATTER until BLACK LIVES MATTER ===
TV Show: Dr. Perry Cox (Scrubs)
Movie: Robert Prewitt (From Here to Eternity)
Book: Edmond Dantès (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo)
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