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Sam Vime,Nobby Nobbs and Sgt Colon. even Death rocks.

Samwise Gamgee. The linchpin of LOTR (IMO)

Severus Snape. I dunno why people hate JK Rowling so much she does what she does and Snape was great.

Patrick Bateman.

I also love Centurion Macro from Simon Scarrow's 'Eagle' series - who knew Romans swore so much?

Captain of the Axe, Druss The Legend for being Druss the muthalovin Legend.

The Brucolac for being the coolest vampire ever (The Scar by China Mieville).

Molly Millions for being so hot it should be illegal (The Sprawl Trilogy-Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero- by William Gibson).

Dimitri "Raven" Ravinoff for being perhaps the most badass of badass villains and for having his heart hotwired to a nuke in his bike's sidecar (Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson).

darkkt wrote:Roland the Gunslinger +1
Gurney halleck was fine, but he's no Duncan.

Duncan? He was just an analog? Plus his last name is Idaho, IDAHO!?!? I'm not sure what that means

Harry Keogh! Ah yeah. I forgot about him, I haven't read any Necroscopes for a while.

And I am ashamed to admit I initially forgot the one, the only (and arch type for Judge Dredd, who is also a favorite) Harry Callahan.

You mean Dirty Harry? That was a movie. There was a book?

If we're listing multiple...



Conan. The original, not that butchered Arnold crap.



Jig Dragonslayer, the most kick ass goblin our times have seen.

Apparently he has minis too! Whoo!

Frazzled wrote:You mean Dirty Harry? That was a movie. There was a book?

Oops, it is supposed to be Literary characters. My mistake.

Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov

Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov

Atticus Finch

Ah Authors I struggle with (plenty I like, just no faves) but actual characters from novels I can pick.

Drizzt Do'Urden - aye, not everyones cup of tea but I always liked the character and have read all but a couple of the most recent novels.

Raistlin Majere - tbh I could name half a dozen Dragonlance characters, they where the reason I got into fantasy as strongly as I did back in the late eighties. However I'll just pick the one, and in my mind the best is Raistlin just because of the changes he goes through as a character.

Susan Sto Helit - One of my fave Discworld characters, tbh anything featuring Death jumps quite high on my list of good Discworld books.

Chief Scout Sergeant Oan Mkoll - fave character in the ghosts just for some of the most memorable moments in the series. Why GW or even Forgeworld haven't seen sense to do a load of the characters from the Tanith, Gortrek and Horus Heresy books is beyond me.

William Denbrough - from Stephen King's novel It, one of my fave books and he's one of the reasons for that.

Zhang Liao - also called Wenyuan, a warrior General of the Wei kingdom in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Although its based on factual events, he's still a very interesting character. The fact he was a living bogeyman to one of the three Kingdoms (Wu) due to his actions at He Fei has always amused me.

Solomon Demeter, from the Fulgrim Book -

Linda (the blue team sniper if I recall correctly) from the Halo Novels:

Engleby, from the rather impressive Engleby book. Ok he was a murderer, but he had character!

And finally Ruby from Behind The Scenes at The Museum, I had a lot in common with that girl:


Kudos to anyone who has read the final two books!

Oh, yeah. Deadpool +1

Jean Val Jean. The Man. The incredible character trying to be a good man. Just... just...
It's freaking Jean Val Jean from the Miserables: why am I explaining this...

The little prince. You know: the prince, who happen to be little, in the book titled " The litle prince".

Harry Haller, from Steppenwolf.

Frazzled wrote:
*Aiken Drum/Felice

Are they from 'The Many Coloured Land'?

*Thomas Covenant/Mhoram/Lord Foul

Why does Stephen Donaldson make his central characters such fethers? Same goes for Nick Succorso, Angus Thermopyle and Warden Dios in his Gap Series.

Vlad Taltos, being the best assassin ever.
Smoky Barnable, willing to die for the fantastic even though he never got to experience it.

Locke Lamora, the master thief:


Seriously, if you're in need for a nice piece of fantasy, read this!


I didn't think of comics at first when I read "literature" but technically they are. But since I like a LOT of comic characters I'll refrain from posting them all and leave it at:
Deadpool +1

and Hellboy.


Also:
Counting the Discworld characters I like would also need a lot of space, but Moist Lipwig, or whatever he's called in English is pretty cool.

The original Captain Nemo.

Also, Jack Ryan.

Thorin Oakenshield from the Hobbit

Spooky.

Jimmy the Hand, Theif of Krondor
Arutha, Prince of Krondor
Calis, the Eagle of Krondor
Druss the Legend
Regnak, Earl of Bronze
Skillgannon the Damned
Lujan, Strike leader of the Acoma, Later Lord of house Lujan
Martin the Warrior
Gonff, Mousetheif
Tanis Half-Elven
Matthew Hawkwood, Bow Street Runner

Guess my favourite authors