Favorite child characters?

[Delicious Anathema]

Newt from Aliens, she's suffering from post-traumatic stress, which is wonderful which means she's quiet and cold most of the time. Also, she saves the team by guiding them through the airducts.

I don't remember Elliot from E.T. all that much but I don't think he was annoying.

Basically good children = the ones that don't talk much or don't fuck up too much.

 

[Me55enger]

Dead ones...

Okay, fun over. Im sitting here eating apple pie and custard desperately tyreing to think of a child character i like.

All I can think of is those little bastards from Little Lamplight in Fallout 3. Diddy pricks.

 

[chocolate pickles]

Its been said already, But clementine from the walking dead. When she is first introduced, she is a naive, easily frightened little girl who you feel obliged to help (It helps that, whilst she is naive, she doesn't do stupid stuff like, say, Run over a man with a tractor, attract a bunch of zombies, and then proceed to get the guy killed AKA Duck). However, from episode 3 onwards, you see how she is hardening to the loss of people around, and is aware of the fact she most likely isn't going to live long, although she still retains some childlike aspects (e.g Is determined to find her very-likely dead parents in a zombie infested city with about 7 survivors in total. Thinks trusting a random stranger on the radio who says he has her parents is a good idea). Even at the end of the game, while she is capable of defending herself and has little problem killing those who threaten her or those she cares about, you can see still see the emotional strain of death has on her, and how she still feels vulnerable in a threatening world.

 

[verdant monkai]

In no particular order

Mandy: Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy
Pure evil in a child, she is dark, witty, and cruel. Something you don't get much of from child characters.

Garion: The Belgariad series
Read about him in this weird papery thing called a book. He takes the (admittedly generic) chosen one stuff pretty well. He also really steps up to the plate near the end of the first series.

May Chang: Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
When first I saw her I thought "wow she is annoying", then when she became the protagonists friend, and you find out she is a ninja. My opinion changed cause she is just so cute.

Kid Gohan: Dragonball Z
Probably the most powerful little kid from anything, this kid can take digs from people who can blow up planets for gods sake! A bit annoying but I like his determination and his evolution from loser to most powerful character, throughout the show.

Cutie mark crusaders: MLP friendship is magic
OMG THEY R SOOO WELL RITTEN AND CUMPLEX!.... They are cute ok. They have a little club and they help each other solve problems, its just cute.



[WARNING WALKING DEAD SPOILERS]
Honourable mention to Clementine but she doesn't make the list, although cute and able to make me look after her. She is a bit of a liability and ultimately causes your demise by being stupid enough to break the number 1 rule of childhood "DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS", doesn't even consult you she just buggers off.

 

[verdant monkai]

Does Ash Ketchum count?

He's been 10 years old for way longer than any of these kids you guys are posting.

Yes Yes he does.

I forgot to mention Ash, although since his series is still going and he was training pokemon when he was 10 in the nineties, he is probably around my age, I guess 17-19 or there about.

We must however consider how awful a trainer he is. Moves to a new region and takes none of his strong pokemon from the last region. But the worst is that he forgets everything he has learned about everything. Just so the show can have an excuse for updating newcomers.
Also there is at least one scene in every film where he charges at some pokemon/force field/wall and is knocked flat on his ass.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Dead ones...

Okay, fun over. Im sitting here eating apple pie and custard desperately tyreing to think of a child character i like.

All I can think of is those little bastards from Little Lamplight in Fallout 3. Diddy pricks.

Watch My Neighbor Totoro or Kiki's Delivery Service or Ponyo or all of them and you'll have more characters to mention.

 

[etnavningenhar]

Butters from South Park has to be my favourite.

And I agree with Clementine and Arya being quite awesome as well.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Does most of the cast of South Park count? If so, I'm going with Cartman. Cartman is awesome.

And I agree with Clementine and Arya being quite awesome as well.

^ Also, this. I want to give both those characters a big tear-filled hug.

I'd say Daenerys too (she's 13 in the books) but it would be patronising to call her a child after-

Spoiler: Spoilers!

she's had a child of her own, become a queen in her own right, and liberated whole cities.

 

[Viking Incognito]

This is just a drop in the bucket but: Clementine from The Walking Dead

 

[etnavningenhar]

Does most of the cast of South Park count? If so, I'm going with Cartman. Cartman is awesome.

I tend to agree that Cartman is a well-written character, but if I look at the traits described by the OP, I find myself rooting for Butters more than I do for Cartman, who is portrayed as more of a villain than a character we are supposed to like, IMHO

 

[Raven_Operative]

*Insert entire Touhou cast here*

There is something to be said for a game series populated entirely by little girls, and if you dig deep enough into the lore, most have interesting back stories and motivations.

 

[The Harkinator]

Everyone seems to agree that Clementine is a great child character and she is. Always endearing and you really do want to keep her safe. Shes vulnerable as someone else said but she never feels like a liability. In fact there are some situations where Clementine can help out immensely.

Clementine is the only character I've every really felt proud of or properly prioritised. Whenever I got back the first thing I'd do was find Clementine and check on her. When I taught her how to shoot and she made the shot for the first time I felt a surge of pride and if she ever got in danger you better believe I succeeded at every action without fail.

No other character has made me snap to attention and drop everything when they are in danger. Not that the Walking Dead ever lets me feel anything other than extremely tense when playing.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Garion: The Belgariad series
Read about him in this weird papery thing called a book. He takes the (admittedly generic) chosen one stuff pretty well. He also really steps up to the plate near the end of the first series.

I would tend to agree, only Eddings went and wrote the same story over and over again, and that spoils the Belgariad for me.

 

[Silvanus]

Mei and Satsuki from My Neighbor Totoro manage to be both realistic portrayals of kids their age AND totally and absolutely endearing.

Spoiler

This. They're brilliant characters, endearing & realistic.


Also agree with Arya Stark. Halfway through the second book now, and she's written very believably, too.


Stephen King also writes some fantastic child characters, esp. in It, The Shining, & Under The Dome. King's child characters are one of his greatest strengths.

 

[The Hero Killer]

This was a hard one because I hate child characters and children in general.

Any of the 4 Robins from Batman, not counting Stephanie Brown.
Hit Girl from Kick-Ass
Clementine and Nanako

 

[mitchell271]

Really? I'm amazed no one has mentioned this yet.
Calvin and Hobbes

Spoiler: This will make you cry.

Calvin was a great character and hugely influential on me. I started reading Calvin and Hobbes when I was 7 years old and I've read every single one of them by now. It's my favourite comic of any kind. I prefer it literally any other comic I've ever read whether it be manga, graphic novel or webcomic. He was clever, mischievous and seemed like he would be fun to hang around (even though you'd also have to play with a stuffed tiger).

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

Is this the Arya and Clementine appreciation thread? I just want to be certain that I'm in the right place.

 

[R4ptur3]

Hope from final fantasy 13. hahahaha...NO!

Dexter from dexters lab. He was just funny. A genius who was still just a kid with one of the most annoying sisters ever. Also let's face it, everyone as a kid who watched it wanted to have a laboratory like that haha.

Also Toshiro Hitsugaya. I just like the character, his mature personality reflected by his lack of patience and getting annoyed with people who mess about, partly due to being quite young.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

My favorite child character is Scout Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird.

Unlike most other children in fiction she's not particularly precocious. She's just a kid who happens to be stuck in the middle of an adult situation that she doesn't fully understand. And it's probably the most realistic depiction of a kid I've ever seen in a work of fiction. Also, Mary Badham is truly remarkable in the movie version, giving a performance that actually rivals Gregory Peck himself.

Arya Stark is a close second, though.