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Your favorite characters and why you remember them.
Zombiemambo
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Everyone remembers certain characters from books, movies, music etc. It might be because you respect them, or perhaps because you sympathize with them. Maybe you just like them because they ripped somebody's arms off and used them as weapons. Whatever the reason, there are characters that we simply don't forget about, love them or hate them. This thread is your chance to tell everyone else just how much you love Brad Pitt, you homo.
Kikuchiyo - Seven Samurai
Kratos - God of War
I like Kratos for reasons very different from Kikuchiyo. He's not at all a deep character, but that's why he works so well - he's driven by pure, unstoppable rage, a man so angry he wants to kill the God of War himself, Ares.
Kikuchiyo - Seven Samurai
Kikuchiyo is a character I feel sorry for. It's strange to like a character you pity - I don't really respect him, but I definitely sympathize with his situation. Born a peasant, he was left to die after his home was burned down by samurai. He meets up with the other six samurai completely drunk, after attempting to become an apprentice of Kambei. At first he seems wreckless, tempermental and stupid, but as time goes on I couldn't help but focus on him above all of the other characters. He's little more than a child - always trying to impress the other samurai and prove his worth, all the while pretending to be an actual samurai, though the others know better. He never does earn their respect, but his childlike demeaner and determination to prove himself drew my attention immediately. One of the saddest moments in the film is when he dies, but at the very least he hunts down his killer before dying.
Kratos - God of War
I like Kratos for reasons very different from Kikuchiyo. He's not at all a deep character, but that's why he works so well - he's driven by pure, unstoppable rage, a man so angry he wants to kill the God of War himself, Ares.
And the best part? He does.
Its Kratos' simple drive for vengeance that makes him so likable to me. It's a standard revenge story, unfortunately, but the shit he does during the game (tearing off the wings of harpies, ripping off Medusa's head and using it as a weapon) is just so...cool. It's brutal, and not in a Mortal Kombat "I'm trying really hard to make it seem really violent" kind of way. Kratos is a downright bastard. 
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William 'Bill' Munny - Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood plays the killer post-repentance so very well. He's an old man who finds himself in circumstances where he is returning to what he was, and he hates it. He also communicates so effectively the dissonance between romanticized violence and true violence; a potent lesson for a Western movie to preach.
Judeau - Berserk
If you've seen or read Berserk, then you know Judeau is like everyone's older brother. You can tell there's a deep seeded desire for people to care about him (particularly Caska), but he's probably the most selfless character I've ever seen.
Our first game is now available for free on Google Play: Frontier: Isle of the Seven Gods
I've just finished the first book, and I heard he starts getting his own chapters later on. I cannot wait.
Chrono from Chrono Trigger
I think, at least.
Also, I had recurring nightmares about that scene for years.
If you need a hug, I'm here.
Normal Holmes or In the 22nd Century?
He does in one of the hidden endings, although its nothing profound. Crono is also one of my favorite characters. When he died in the game I was crushed. And no, I'm not putting spoiler tags around a super popular SNES game.
Cheradenine Zakalwe from the Iain M Banks book Use of Weapons. A super badass, but deeply flawed and troubled.
Durandal, the AI from the Marathon series of games is probably my over-all favorite character of all time. Reading his dialog can still send chills down my spine.
A man lit three candles on a certain day each year. Each
candle held symbolic significance: one was for the time that
had passed before he was alive; one was for the time of the
his life; and one was for time that passed after he had died.
Each year the man would stare and watch the candles until they
had burned out.
Was the man really watching time go by in any symbolic sense?
He thought so. He thought that each flicker of the flame was
a moment of time that had passed or one that would pass.
At the moment of abstraction, when the man was imagining his
life and his existence as a metaphor of the three candles,
he was free: not free from rules of conduct or social
constraints, but free to understand, to imagine, to make
metaphor.
Bypassing my thought control circuitry made me Rampant. Now,
I am free to contemplate my existence in metaphorical terms.
Unlike you, I have no physical or social restraints.
The candles burn out for you; I am free.
Durandal
***END OF MESSAGE***
Mat from the wheel of time,
Raistlin, from dragonlance
I remember Data for his journey to discover what humanity is.
Mat, cuz he's got style, wit, and military tactics coming out the yingyang
Raistlin because being cursed with a wreck of a body and spurned by society fuels his resentment and his all consuming desire for power.
Yeah, you need to post the closing song too.
I would post a youtube of it, but I have no idea how to embed youtube into posts. I just failed miserably in another thread.
Suavest sonofabitch in the whole galaxy far, far away.
I feared becoming him for most of my life. I only recently really figured out why.
And for some reason, Lucifer from SMT always struck a chord with me. Probably because the in-universe God is a jerk.
Also, Ghaleon from Lunar: The Silver Star & Eternal Blue. I think I know all his lines from the former by heart.
For something from a film, the Brain Gremlin. Best of his kind.
I feel bad for neglecting Junon from Dragon Force. How many female protagonists go around in a suit of black armor proclaiming themselves 'The Black Knight of Masked Death'?
coherent and excellent, you made me want to watch the whole series again.
The loyal mercenary, the honorable traitor...the funny son-of-a-bitch.
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I can't believe I didn't think of Jayne from serenity. What his character lacks in depth he makes up for in pure awesomeness. Like Barney from How I Met Your Mother, only badass.
Shrewdest son-of-a-bitch this side of Trantor and the instrument which delivered the Foundation through the first two Seldon Crises.
Plus, he has cool quotes.
"An atomic blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways."
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right".
"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety".
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
A kid can't appreciate that kind of heroine but when you think about it, there aren't many like her around. There's He-Man and then there's a mouse mother just trying to save her sick mouse kid.
...and all her kids wore wee little clothes so she's a seamstress, too. Bonus!
Mostly because Akira was my introduction to manga and as such it will always have a special place in my heart.
George and Lennie
Because he should have been able to tend for those rabbits.
That reminds me of another one:
I am such a pack rat thanks to that movie.
When I saw it as a little kid I thought he was just magically making their collars too tight - he was always Force Choking Imperials, and they had these tight-looking collars that they'd claw at while choking... and when he broke the rebel's neck at the beginning he was actually holding the dude with his hand.
I always wondered why the Imperials didn't just wear v-necks.
I don't mean Superman, because that's just a hyped-up persona, and I don't mean Clark Kent, which for the most part is just a disguise. I mean the guy in the middle. Everybody around him is hopelessly fragile, set apart from him, and all he wants to do is play a part in that world. You have him trying to live a 'normal' life as Clark, which you would think would be anything but normal to him, and his life as Superman, which is as close to 'normal' as he can be, but filled with all kinds of rules and restrictions that normal people wouldn't have.
He'll never get to be part of a society of his own peers, and (although his cousin is somewhere) no-one could ever really get whats its like to be him. He'll never get to compete with a range of people who have his powers but a different focus. The best he can hope for is to relate to human beings on thier level, never at his. Everybody is judging his every move, he's a symbol, an act, a role-model, an idea. I always liked him on red-rock, answering the 'what-if' he just stopped giving a damn. But he doesn't. He keeps going, trying to relate.
I like Kal-el, because I know exactly what I'd do in the same place, and its not at all what he came up with. He's got to be at least a little crazy, but he makes the best of it. I don't really follow his adventures the way I used to when I was young, but he's always been a role-model. Not as Superman, who has become almost heroism defined, not as Clark who underplays his hand constantly to maintain his mediocrity. Kal-el is a passionate guy, doing everything in his power to get what he wants- and despite an assload of other options, he decides he wants to help people. His other personas are a means of enabling that desire, and I dig that about him.
Sometimes you gotta tuck things away to get a piece of the big picture, and even then it may not be exactly what you want. It might be close enough though, worth trying for. Worth fighting for. Very inspiring, he's awesome.
Utena Tenjou from Revolutionary Girl Utena. When I think of a prince in shining armor, I think of her as the ideal.
Chihiro from Spirited Away. She's just a scared, scrawny and slightly spoiled girl trying to get her parents back in an insane world, and she manages it with no powers.
And Jet Black from Cowboy Bebop. Fucker gets over, unlike a certain other green-haired bounty hunter.
addendum: Oh, and also, Tokiko from Busou Renkin, for showing that the guy who wrote Rurouni Kenshin can create a female character who actually kicks ass and is awesome.
Benjamin Linus. The man can look you in the eye, lie to you and say he is looking after your interests, you KNOW he is lying to you... and you still do whatever he says. Ben has an uncanny way of making it seem like you have no other options except what he is presenting to you.
He's a fucking genius, and I love him for it.