Meh, something to pass the time?

Pick one fictional character. We will then do a bracket, and vote for 404's Greatest Fictional Character of all time.

I would pick U2k...but since he is real...

I am going to get behind the man right now, and say Spiderman.

I nominate a man made of pure awesome and psychopath, Kefka.


There's a joke to be made about gay clowns at this conjecture but I choose not to.

in before some edgy atheist says JESUS

also i nominate:

dirty harry
sam fisher
the great mouse detective
john elway
mac tonight

I'm gonna go with Pratchett's depiction of Death. Also, Samuel Vimes.

Ender Wiggin

The character, not the user.

Detective Lennie Briscoe (Law & Order)

gaimans death is much better


and ender wiggin is the poster child for young white males who think they are special

Show me the link to this manga, and he's in!



Sorry can only pick one!

Ender Wiggin is for 10 year olds, that whole series is aimed at grade schoolers.

Philip Marlowe for me

Yeah, I'll go with that. He is pretty bad ass.

What, any fictional character? From anything? Ever?

I'll nominate, um... Doctah Jones.

Ellen Ripley

jean luc picard

Strike my nomination.

I vote for fucking Captain Marvel.

Shazam.

Optimus Prime

Tek Jansen.

James Bond.


Thread over.


EDIT: The only other possible consideration at all is Solid Snake.

Han Solo.

motherfucking seconded.

Only thing I've read of Gaiman's is Good Omens, which has effectively the same Death as Discworld. But in the Discworld novels, Death has an awful lot of character development for an anthropomorphic personification.

He's refering to Death in the Sandman comic series.

This topic got nerdy as fuck all of a sudden. Took a really long time considering the subject though.

Okay, that reminds me...

The top 3 greatest fictional characters ever:
1. James Bond
2. Solid Snake
3. Boba Fett

Obscure choice

Palmer Joss

Unless we get some criteria down for "greatness", I don't think this competition is gonna go anywhere.

mayor mccheese

How about:
Odysseus/Ulysses
Jack Bauer
Ash (from Evil Dead/Army of Darkness)

Dirty Harry

fukkin win!

but really, nominations are going to be open til around 12 PST tomorrow, and you only get one choice.
As for criteria...I guess it would all boil down to popularity.

ninja edit: Darth Vader pwnz James Bond.

Onslaught was pretty large, if that's what you mean by great.

Tommy from Goodfellas.

Spike.

Lonnie from Deliverance.

Spike

Changing my vote to THOR

Humbert Humbert.

The Flash (Wally West)

or

Captain America

One choice! I can't choose between them!

Black Adam

For evidence, I of course point you to this amazing comic scan:

Samus

Couldn't think of anyone. :/

Andy Dufresne.

BTW did we ever decide who would win: Magneto, or Darth Vader?

Turin Turambar, aka Mormegil or The Black Blade

He:

• Had a cursed magic sword
• Killed orcs like Kefka kills straight
• Slew Glaurung, the greatest of Morgoth's dragons
• Fucked his own sister without knowing she was his sister
• Was so badass the only one who could kill him was himself

plz don't ban me if he loses...

You've made your bed....

Solid Snake. I would do him in a heartbeat if he materialized in front of me just for the chance to be filled with his awesomeness.

I bet Knobs thanks god he's fictional.

magneto is way more powerful than vader

he could turn vader into a tin can

Ok, no more entries. we have 30 entries, I will start Darth Vader, and Magneto as 1st, and 2nd seeded. Let's do this!