[Shaun]

before Novo gets to it

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 first come first served

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: 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)