Who is the most awesome character from a book?
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David Xanatos [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Xanatos], from Gargoyles [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Gargoyles] (graphic novels, too, so related).
He's just straight awesome. A millionnaire who got his fortune by exploiting time travel to use the illuminati (!) as couriers to deliver a coin given to him by the king (in the past) to himself in the future where it would be worth thousands, along with a letter with stock advice, then using them to deliver a second letter to himself a few years later, telling himself what would happen and what to do - and topping it all off with a smarmy 'See father? I told you I was a self-made man.'
And he had a Scottish castle airlifted stone by stone to the top of his new york skyscraper, just to see if the rumours of a curse were true (they were - the get-out clause was that the stones of the castle rise above the clouds...).
Did I mention that he had the gall to invite his arch nemesis to be his best man at his wedding? And that said invitation was designed precisely to lead to a series of reactions which would cause the whole time-travel situation above, thus allowing him to get his startup money...
Yeah. About half the pages [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosPlannedThisIndex] on Tvtropes are named after him, too.
He's just straight awesome. A millionnaire who got his fortune by exploiting time travel to use the illuminati (!) as couriers to deliver a coin given to him by the king (in the past) to himself in the future where it would be worth thousands, along with a letter with stock advice, then using them to deliver a second letter to himself a few years later, telling himself what would happen and what to do - and topping it all off with a smarmy 'See father? I told you I was a self-made man.'
And he had a Scottish castle airlifted stone by stone to the top of his new york skyscraper, just to see if the rumours of a curse were true (they were - the get-out clause was that the stones of the castle rise above the clouds...).
Did I mention that he had the gall to invite his arch nemesis to be his best man at his wedding? And that said invitation was designed precisely to lead to a series of reactions which would cause the whole time-travel situation above, thus allowing him to get his startup money...
Yeah. About half the pages [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosPlannedThisIndex] on Tvtropes are named after him, too.
Its been said before and I'll say it again ...
Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield and Gena "Mother" Newman (she just will not die)
Jack West
[Matthew Reilly's Scarecrow and Jack West Books respectively]
'Mad' Hlaine Larkin
Cherubael (daemonhost)
[Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts and Eisenhorn Respectively]
Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield and Gena "Mother" Newman (she just will not die)
Jack West
[Matthew Reilly's Scarecrow and Jack West Books respectively]
'Mad' Hlaine Larkin
Cherubael (daemonhost)
[Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts and Eisenhorn Respectively]
The coolest zombie ever.SendMeNoodz84 said:
Mine is probably Death from Discworld.
If comics count it's almost definitely Dream, the Sandman
EDIT: Mentions go to:
-Snape (Harry Potter)
-Professor Umbridge (Harry Potter)
-William (His Dark Materials)
-Todd Hewitt (The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer)
-Brian Jackson (Starter for 10)
-Arse Face (Preacher)
-Dr Manhattan (Watchmen)
-Death (The Sandman)
-Charlie (Flowers for Algernon)
Artemis was awesomerific; I preferred his butler though.Odd that his name was Butler, but anyone that can roundhouse kick a man in the face and be a Cordon Bleu chef is pwntastic.thebobmaster said:
Apologies if he's already been mentioned, but Richard Sharpe gets my vote.
He fights Bonaparte's Frenchies, seduces wenches/ noble ladies/ schoolteachers, outsmarts devious enemies, blows shit up and saves the day. With a musket. And an Irishman with an 8 barrel musket for a sidekick.
Additionally, Harry Flashman gets an honorable mention, because he's everything Sharpe isn't. Cowardly, selfish, rouguelike, savage, and a total cad. But still an amazing character.
He fights Bonaparte's Frenchies, seduces wenches/ noble ladies/ schoolteachers, outsmarts devious enemies, blows shit up and saves the day. With a musket. And an Irishman with an 8 barrel musket for a sidekick.
Additionally, Harry Flashman gets an honorable mention, because he's everything Sharpe isn't. Cowardly, selfish, rouguelike, savage, and a total cad. But still an amazing character.
God damn I forgot about Kage. The author pulled him off really well from a first person perspective, especially in the last book where the shit really hits the fan and he gets possessed. Gotta love a semi-psychotic criminal Lieutenant leading a bunch of other psychotic criminals on suicide missions around the 40k universeSteve Dark said: