Mine's Inigo Montoya! - Lo

Marvin the Paranoid Android - Eivind

Doc, from Steinbeck's _Cannery Row_ and _Sweet Thursday_. - Stephen Mack

Reggie Dunlop - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Oooh, good one Eivind. I'm ashamed, Stephen, I've not read Steinback. Must correct this! - Lo

The Doctor from Doctor Who. - josh neff, geek at large

James Bolivar diGriz - Mark H

Vardaman from As I Lay Dying. - Derrick

Sweet, lots of new stuff for my ignorant butt to check out! - Lo

Books: Brawne Lamia & Fedmahn Kassad (Hyperion), Ilia Voyolva (Revelation Space), Pennywise the Clown (It), Takeshi Kovacs (see books by Richard K. Morgan) Movies: Biggie Shorty (Pootie Tang), Indiana Jones, & Jackie (Jackie's Back). - Admiral Anika

Anika, that's an awesome list! :) - Lo

I concur with Mark H. James Bolivar "Slippery Jim" diGriz, aka The Stainless Steel Rat from the series of books of the same name by Harry Harrison. Greatest fictional character EVAR! I grew up reading about his exploits, and he's also the inspiration for my interweb name. - Slappy Line

Papa Smurf. The Most Interesting Man in the World. Yojimbo. Nanny from Muppet Babies. Bad Santa. Nobody from Dead Man. Master Po from Kung Fu. Ogami Itto from Lone Wolf & Cub. Bugs Bunny. Homer Simpson. Zig Zag Man - Rodfather

I quite loved Morag from The Diviners. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Kilgore Trout - Brian Sullivan

Takeshi Kovacs, Hari Seldon, Henry Dorsett Case, Valentine Michael Smith, Andrew Wiggin - Ken Morley

Don Quixote de la Mancha - Victor Ganata

Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, the extended Wold Newton family. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Joe Pitt - vampire from Charlie Huston series, Bosch from the Michael Connelly books, Abe Glitsky from the John Lescroart books - Alan Simpson

Anton Chigurh - Ken Morley

The Doctor or Batman - Amber, Random Time Lord

I forgot Spike from Buffy. - Alan Simpson

Gaara, Sesshomaru, Tetsuo, Conan - Onur Gündüz

You guys are just too cool & interesting! - Lo

Atticus Finch, Pippy Longstocking, and Bridget Jones. - Jess

Atticus Finch is a great one :) - Lo

Dean Moriarty - Joe

Awesome, Joe. Now I'm trying to think of famous fictional hippies... - Lo

Inigo and Marvin are much awesomeness. <3 I'd add in Tiffany Aching (Terry Pratchet, Wee Free Men), Neville Longbottom, Gandalf, Hurley (from Lost), hmmm... possibly more later. - Heather

Ash, Housewares. - Alex Scoble

Hercule Poirot - VAL D. Zone

Oh, Atticus. - Derrick

Major Tom. - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo

Elizabeth Bennet - pea

Corbin Dallas - Mary Carmen

Billy the Kid from "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid" by Michael Ondaatje - T. Brent, technopeasant

Brent I haven't read that collection but Billy was the real deal - Melanie Reed

Anne of Green Gables, Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing, Jane Eyre, Melanie from Gone With the Wind - Melanie Reed

The narrator from Invisible Man - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Today? It's a tie between Gabriel de la Serna and Charlotte Fillion - Bren -- Making Contact from iPhone

Me! - Josh Haley

Jilly Coppercorn from Charles de Lint's Newford books (Ah, I took fiction to mean fiction BOOKS. It's different for films.) - Spidra Webster

Walter from Fringe - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Books: Oshima (Kafka on the Shore), Pocket (Fool), Biff (Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal), Unnamed daughter (The Historian), Miss Marple (Agatha Christie). Tv: Mr. Humphries (Are You Being Served), Basil Fawlty (Fawlty Towers). Movies: V (V for Vendetta) - Sarah Peterman

Death of the Endless, Thessaly the Witch, Snow White, Bigby, the Frau and Cinderella if Fables, Richard Blaine, Mr Incredible, Dave Robicheaux - RAPatton from iPhone

The Librarian from Discworld. I'm also fond of Miss Marple. Pippi Longstocking. Sophie Hatter from Howl's Moving Castle. Polly from Fire and Hemlock. Steerpike from the Gormenghast novels. Turtle Wexler from The Westing Game. The Lorax. Scheherazade from the 1001 Nights. Baba Yaga. (Of course, this could all change tomorrow. I'm fickle.) - Katy S

The Fool from Robin Hobb's books. - Lynne

huckleberry finn - chaz2b

Hiro Protaganist Neal Stephenson Snow Crash http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Cr... Hiro Protagonist follows clues from the Bible, ancient Sumer and high technology to help thwart an attempt to take control of civilization--such as it is. When he logs on to Metaverse, an imaginary place entered via computer, Hiro encounters Juanita Marquez, a "radical" Catholic and computer whiz. She warns him off Snow Crash (a street drug named for computer failure) and gives him a file labeled Babel (as in Tower of Babel). Another friend, sp ok/pk Da5id, who ignores Juanita's warning, computer crashes out of Metaverse into the real world, where he physically collapses. Hiro, Juanita, Y.T. (a freewheeling, skateboard-riding courier) and sundry other Burbclave and franchise power figures see some action on the way to finding out who is behind this bizarre "drug" with ancient roots. Although Stephenson ( Zodiac ) provides more Sumerian culture than the story strictly needs (alternating intense activity with scholarship breaks), his imaginative juxtaposition of ancient and futuristic detail could make this a cult favorite. - Robert Higgins

Harriet the Spy, Winston Smith. - Ayşe E.

Bean (from Ender's Game etc.) - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

Owen Meany - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

@Katy, OMG, I LOVED The Westing Game! - Ayşe E.

Oh I totally forgot about Miss Marple! She's another great one. - Heather

Oh! And Shakespeare: Falstaff, Hamlet, Richard III, Iago, Prince Hal, Lady Macbeth... just about the whole damned lot! :) - T. Brent, technopeasant

Brent, with the exception of Hamlet and Prince Hal these are all bad guys with various degrees of evil from the Falstaff, infamous rogue to Iago,the quintessential malignant narcissist. :O - Melanie Reed

Now I do have a bit of a soft spot for Hamlet and wish I could have taken that role on. I do understand him. - Melanie Reed

Ok, let me ask you this: would you take on the role of Razkholnikov? - Melanie Reed

Vice, Mellie... Vice. One of the reasons I even bother with the arts. Sublimation. Purgation. - T. Brent, technopeasant

Well, now think for a moment why I asked if you would play Raz.;) Remember Sonia? - Melanie Reed

If the production presented a very troubled man in a responsible way then, yes, without hesitation. - T. Brent, technopeasant

Ah, so with the others there is a part of the "man in the glass booth" at work from your perspective? - Melanie Reed

And I'd play Sonia without hesitation. I'm just better at playing the "quintessential malignant narcissists". :) - T. Brent, technopeasant

Interviewer: Mr. (Bob) Hoskins, you are often cast as characters that can best be described as "assholes." Why is that? Hoskins: Because I'm an asshole. - T. Brent, technopeasant

You could probably add Satan from Paradise Lost to this list... - T. Brent, technopeasant

Well fortunately, Raz is transformed and redeemed with the help of Porfiry and Sonia. But he's got that Cattulus thing going on inside for too long. ;) He makes Sonia really carry that cross, that's for sure. - Melanie Reed

Othello - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Hiro Protagonist is a good one, so is The Librarian. I also want to add War from Good Omens. - Admiral Anika

Odysseus. - Sean McBride

Tank Girl. The comic book version. - suzanne from iPhone

Best thread ever! - Lo

Spidra, I left it open-ended on purpose. I was thinking of books, but I know not everyone reads much. I'm actually surprised I don't see video game characters on this list. - Lo

Columbo,Banacek - VAL D. Zone

Oskar Matzerath. Because I was so impressed when I read the book at the age of 14. - Ton Zijp

Joseph Armagh one of many favs - Thomas Page