TiBB's Greatest Literary Characters (Group H)
 

before Novo gets to it :laugh:

simply reply with your 5 favourite fictional characters. This can include comic book characters.

However, to prevent this from becoming the predictable Harry Potter character contest, I'm limiting this to 7 characters per franchise :nono: first come first served :tongue:

Currently nominated:
Harry Potter series: Rubeus Hagrid, Severus Snape, Luna Lovegood, Hermione Granger, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Molly Weasley (JK Rowling)
The Dark Tower series: Roland Deschain, Susannah Dean (Stephen King)
Twilight series: Bella Swan (Stephenie Meyer)
His Dark Materials series: Pantalaimon, Lyra Silvertongue (Philip Pullman)
The Vampire Chronicles: Lestat (Anne Rice)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy: Aragorn (J.R.R. Tolkien)
A Song of Ice and Fire series: :rolleyes: Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jon Snow (George R.R. Martin)
The Famous Five series: George (Enid Blyton)

Rosalind, As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
Lady Macbeth, Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
Desdemona, Othello (William Shakespeare)
Calpurnia, Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
Tybalt, Romeo + Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Mercutio, Romeo + Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Duncan, Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
Shylock, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
Antonio, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
Caliban, The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare)

George Milton, Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Slim, Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Doc, Cannery Row/Sweet Thursday (John Steinbeck)
Caleb Trask, East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Ethan Allen Hawley, The Winter of Our Discontent (John Steinbeck)

The Grand High Witch, The Witches (Roald Dahl)
Mrs. Twit, The Twits (Roald Dahl)
Matilda (Roald Dahl)
Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)

Winston Smith, Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Clover, Animal Farm (George Orwell)

Josephine "Jo" March, Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Amy March, Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

Carrie (Stephen King)
Trisha McFarland, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Stephen King)

Edmund, Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

Shrike, Mortal Engines (Philip Reeve)
Hester Shaw, Mortal Engines (Philip Reeve)

Sephy Hadley - Noughts & Crosses series (Malorie Blackman)
Callum McGregor - Noughts & Crosses series (Malorie Blackman)

Miss Havisham, Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
Fagin, Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)

Edward Rochester, Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)

Dorian Gray, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Controller, Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Guy Montag, Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)
Cassie Logan, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (Mildred D. Taylor)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dr. Tony Hill, The Wire in the Blood (Val McDermid)
The Woman In Black, The Woman in Black (Susan Hill)
Little John, Robin Hood (???)
"Bull" McCabe, The Field (John B. Keane)
Gran, The Magic Key (series by Roderick Hunt)
Anselmo, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
Ralph Fitzgerald, World Without End (Ken Follett)
Paddington Bear (Michael Bond)
Desperate Dan (Dudley D. Watkins)
Celie, The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
Otto Quangel, Every Man Dies Alone (Hans Fallada)
Frankenstein's Monster (Mary Shelley)
Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Patrick Bateman, An American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
James Bond (Ian Fleming)
Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Richard Sharpe (Bernard Cromwell)
Esther Greenwood, The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Antoinette Cosway, Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
John Yossarian, Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Eric Birling, An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley)
Charlie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
Moonface, The Faraway Tree (Enid Blyton)
Raoul Duke, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S Thompson)
Mrs. Wilcox, Howards End (E.M. Forster)
Jesus, The Bible (...)
Jean Brodie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark)
Edgar Linton, Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Mephistophilis, Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
Violet Baudelaire, A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket)
China Sorrows, Skulduggery Pleasant (Derek Landy)
Piggy, Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
Mowgli, The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
Mr. Toad, The Wind in the Willows / Toad of Toad Hall (Kenneth Grahame)
Lady Runcie-Campbell - The Cone Gatherers (Robin Jenkins)
Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Dafoe)
Captain Ahab, Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Lucy Pevensie, The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)

- Gets Game of Thrones books out -

Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Guy Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
Rosalind (As You Like It)
Sherlock Holmes (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Bernard Marx (Brave New World)

Shylock, The Merchant of Venice
Carrie
Raoul Duke, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Miss Havisham, Great Expectations
Mrs. Wilcox, Howards End

Roland - The Dark Tower
Susannah - The Dark Tower
Cassie Logan - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Hungry Caterpillar - The Very Hungry Caterpillar (may seem like a ridiculous choice, but this has to be one of the most well known and popular childrens characters through every generation and still going strong today so for that deserves a place in this list)
Lady Macbeth - Macbeth

Winston Smith - 1984
Clover - Animal Farm
Pantalaimon - His Dark Materials series (Northern Lights/Subtle Knife/Amber Spyglass)
Bella Cullen - Twilight Series (I prefer her when she becomes a vampire though)
Hagrid - Hary Potter

:love:

Lestat - Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rices Vampire Chronicles)
The grand High Witch - The witches
Dracula - Bram Stokers Dracula
Dr. Tony Hill - Fever of the Bone
"Bull" McCabe - The Field

What an original reply.

Lunar Lovegood - Harry Potter.
Little John - Robbin Hood.
Mrs Twit - The Twits.
The Woman In Black - The Woman In Black.
Gran - The Magic Key. (Biff and Chip books.)

Are we allowed two characters from the same book?

Ralph Fitzgerald - World Without End
Anselmo - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Snape - Harry Potter
Desperate Dan
Paddington Bear :D

Shrike - Mortal Engines (and sequels)
Celie - The Color Purple
Otto Quangel - Alone In Berlin
George Milton - Of Mice and Men
Desdemona - Othello

What a pathetic reply.

sure, as long as there haven't been 6 of that book already :laugh: -wonders why you asked when there aren't two from the same in your vote LOL-

I had 2 characters from the same book then changed it, I'd forgotten I'd asked that question :laugh:

Bella Swan Stephenie Meyer

Matilda Roald Dahl

Lyra Silvertongue Philip Pullman

Alice Lewis Carroll

Frankenstein's Monster Mary Shelly


(No one would have heard of my five fave characters from books, so I picked ones I thought people would be familiar with)

Robb Stark - A Song of Ice and Fire
Arya Stark - A Song of Ice and Fire
Jon Snow - A Song of Ice and Fire
Patrick Bateman - American Psycho
Aragorn - The Lord of the Rings

someone's already named Bella, claudia, so if you want another vote feel free :)

Yep thanks, I'll think another.


Holden Caulfield J.D. Salinger.

Bram Stoker's Count Dracula. The original and the best.
Ian Feming's James Bond; if you haven't read the books already you're in for a treat.
Atticus Finch - from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird
Jo March - Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (a childhood favourite)
Richard Sharpe from the Bernard Cornwell novels. As with James Bond, the books are so much better than the screen version. And Sharpe's a Londoner in the books, but obviously Sean Bean can't handle anything that might involve actually acting.

Tough to pick just five...

I've already picked Dracula Livia, so you'd be better off picking someone else

1. Esther Greenwood - The Bell Jar - Sylivia Plath
2. Edward Rochester - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
3. Slim - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
4. Doc - Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck
5. Antoinette Cosway - Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
6. Caleb Trask - East Of Eden - John Steinbeck
7. Ethan Allen Hawley - The Winter Of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
8. Jay Gatsby - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. John Yossarian - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
10. Calpurnia - Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

Tybalt - Romeo & Juliet
George Milton - Of Mice & Men (know he's already been nominated but meh :p)
Charlie - The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Eric Birling - An Inspector Calls
Duncan - Macbeth

As Jen had 10 can I add a sneaky 2 more?

Moonface - The Faraway Tree
George - The Famous 5

sure ben :p everyone can have up to ten since I've not had too many votes yet.

I'm such a literary *****... (can I say *****...?) *did regardless*

I hate that book sfm