WTF? Harry Potter? Gimme a break!

Plus, notice how no Sci-Fi or Fantasy characters are on the list? They're not talking about plot nor dialog, which is one of the places some SF/F falls flat...but characters. And there are PLENTY of characters that are friggin awesome in Sci-Fi. Tasselhoff or Haplo from the worlds of Weis/Hickman? Any protagonist out of Guy Gavriel Kay?

No Bilbo FRICKIN' Baggins?!? This list is a sham, ivory-tower literati list. Bah.

What? no Reverend Damien Kilcannon Vryce

Where's Superman?

They better have the Silver Surfer...

Case from Neuromancer!!

I didn't actually read the list, nor do I plan to. However, I just wanted to drop in and thank everyone for managing to take a swipe at Hubbard in the headline.

Cheers.

My mentor, Humbert Humbert #3 !!!

What a biased and lame list.

farkin' fanboys.

So many excluded, and so many lamers included...

Quite sad..

One of the many that should have made the list...

Okay, theres no Homer Simpson!!!!

This list is offically CRAP!!!

Lots of good ones in there, including some I'd forgotten, but....


Where the HELL is Patrick Bateman?

No Louden Swain from Vision Quest?

I want my 10 minutes back.

I read the article that this came from and while I agree that Harry Potter is on there as a crows pleaser and really doesn't belong, I can't find a lot of fault with most of the rest on the list.


Oh, and...fark Bilbo Baggins. LOTR (the book) is on of the most over-rated pieces of tripe writing in history.

Alex from A Clockwork Orange is not on the list.

Thus the list does not achieve maximum victory.

Bob_Justice: There is a dearth of SF characters, but you'd have to put Grendel and Big Brother in there. Some would also toss in Little Prince, but that's pushing it.

Lemme just say Grand Admiral Thrawn from the Timothy Zahn Star Wars novels better be on here...

Dammit, people, we need Ford Prefect on the list...

Of course many Farkers will be upset over this list considering they haven't head of almost 3/4 of the names mentioned

read: crowd pleaser

Right on, Boomslang!

For those who don't know, that's Drizzt Do'Urden, created by Bob Salvatore.

Drat! Foiled by Gatsby yet again! He thwarted my urge to read last year in class and now he beats the Silver Surfer to top #1, darn you Gatsby and your yellow car, why if I had the time I'd come to your big house and pop you one...wait that's how the book ended, never mind...
*sits contently, knowing the silver surfer lived and Gatsby is dead dead dead...*

Oh and the book wasn't that bad, I just had to sit in class with morons that asked questions that went something like this:

Student: Was Gatsby the old russian woman?

Teacher: There are no old russian women in the book!

Student: So who killed the whale? Was it Gatsby!?

Teacher: ARGH! You idiot! That was 3 assignments ago, now sit in the corner and don't talk until you graduate!

Pffft. 100 greatest fictional characters? What makes a character great? The story he's in!

A list of 100 greatest fictional writers or 100 greatest stories would have been better. Bahh. Where's Garfield?!?

No James Bond? For shame.

JokeV: Little Prince is on there, 40-something.

Oh wait, I misread the headline.... I thought it said SCIENCE fiction... I guess I should stop drinking the shampoo samples I see by the side of the roa.. *OBB stares blankly at the wall*

ford prefect, such a good call Geddysciple.

By the way:

"17 - Ignatius Reilly, A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980"


Possibly one of the funniest books I've ever read.

(probably late...)

Suitcoat Avenger: He's there. Casino Royale

Right. He was a hoopy frood who knew where his towel was.

Most of those books are gay as fark. Eeyore was the only one up there who deserved it.

Damn right there should be Science Fiction/Fantasy characters up there! Best...genre...ever.

Obviously nobody from Book magazine has been to a bookstore in the last 50 years

Yea, I definitely agree on Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, Alex from A Clockwork Orange, and of I really can't believe they left out Beloved from (obviously) Beloved.

Beloved is probably the most studied and complicated works of fiction in the last century. But why should that concern me when the very interesting and very influential Harry Potter made the list.

Of course, i have to give kudos to the list makers for putting Meursault from The Stranger in there. Maybe should have been higher than 52, but I'm glad he's on there.

i can think of a lot of characters missing...







to name a few

and Suitcoat Avenger:


66 - James Bond, Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953

No one from Animal Farm was on the list?!?!?! As with any Top-# list, this was a total crock.

They left out Guy Montag (F451). That book was great, but the NPR bordom drones must have misse dit in an attempt to not enrage or educate the masses. Possibly they just burnt the books they didn't like isnce they were to radical or biased...

Thanks JoKev, must have skimmed right past that one by accident.

Victoly I saw him, but phrased it poorly. I wanted to say "The Little Prince, who is on the list, would be considered by some to be a SFF character."

Thanks for the catch.

The problem, Thorin, is that you can't get most of the books on this list free when you subscribe to Dragon Magazine, so it may not be your cup of tea.

my favorite is 32

WTF is this list supposed to be? Jesus Christ, Heinlein wrote better known, well developed characters and he's not even on the farking list. This is bullshiat.

My nomination is: Valentine Michael Smith.

I'll say it again

Valentine Michael Smith, The Man from farking Mars


GRRRRRRR rant, rant, rant.
fark.

*OBB stares blankly at the wall*
Taking a time travel session? (see somethingawful, yesterday's article)

Suitcoat, James Bond is on the list (he's #66)... I think a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals made this list up, and didn't look at which characters were people's favourite. Why isn't John Galt from 'Atlas Shrugged' on the list?

Oedipa Maas would've been a good addition.