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Who is your most favourite fictional character ever??

209 replies

EdinaMonsoonsWardrobe · 06/04/2026 14:26

Mine is probably Ross Geller but I know not many people will agree with me! I love him.

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DeanElderberry · 08/04/2026 09:57

Miss Silver, Ivan Vorpatril, and always, always, Sam Gamgee.

DeanElderberry · 08/04/2026 09:58

I also like Stephanie Plum and Meg Langslow, so different, so similar.

DeanElderberry · 08/04/2026 09:58

I admire Flora Poste, but she is really appalling.

Jasmin71 · 08/04/2026 10:10

Humphry Appleby
Edmund Blackadder
Dana Scully

SingtotheCat · 08/04/2026 10:11

Suzie from Curb Your Enthusiasm
Malcolm Tucker
Superhans
Saul Goodman
Spongebob
Dexter Morgan

pinotnow · 08/04/2026 10:43

Adam Bede
Maggie Tulliver
Nelly Dean
Hamlet
Viola (Twelfth Night)
Baroness Schraeder

PrincessHoneysuckle · 08/04/2026 10:55

Book.
Lucky Santangelo (Jackie collins)
Tv.
Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)

Giggorata · 08/04/2026 11:17

Kai, the last of the Brunnen G, from Lexx.
Granny Weatherwax, from Discworld.
Data from Star Trek.
Will and Merriman Lyon, from the Dark is Rising books (and, I cannot stress this enough, not the film)
Dr Max Maxwell, from the Chronicles of St Mary’s.

Badballerina · 08/04/2026 11:18

Pippy Longstocking, Gilbert Blythe, Elizabeth Bennett, Nicholas Nickleby and in recent times the wonderful Bobby Mahon in Donal Ryan's Spinning Heart - the man every man wants to be and every woman wants to have ( swoon)

ThePollutedShadesOfPemberley · 08/04/2026 11:55

Elizabeth Bennett

queenceleste · 08/04/2026 14:31

ThePollutedShadesOfPemberley · 08/04/2026 11:55

Elizabeth Bennett

Me too Lizzie 💕

queenceleste · 08/04/2026 14:34

Mr Jaggers in Great Expectations and Wemmick

sadmillenial · 08/04/2026 14:54

currently I'm absolutely in love with Ilya Rozanov, im a sucker for a wounded bad boy with a heart of gold
i also love Jimmy Rabitte Sr in the barrytown trilogy of books by roddy doyle

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 08/04/2026 14:58

Ooh the main characters in Billy Summers, Stephen king book. The man and woman. Really sad at the ending. :-(

And Olivia and Etty in Invitation to the waltz and the weather in the streets. Both amazing books.

JoaoJoao · 08/04/2026 15:03

sadmillenial · 08/04/2026 14:54

currently I'm absolutely in love with Ilya Rozanov, im a sucker for a wounded bad boy with a heart of gold
i also love Jimmy Rabitte Sr in the barrytown trilogy of books by roddy doyle

Jimmy Snr is definitely kind of adorable. Especially in The Van.

burblish · 08/04/2026 15:20

I just thought of a few from TV:

Finan from The Last Kingdom (TV not books though)
Catherine Cawood from Happy Valley
The Doctor from Doctor Who (many but not all incarnations!)
JR Ewing from Dallas
Gene Hunt from Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes
Jac Naylor from Holby City

canuckup · 08/04/2026 18:57

George kostansa's mother Estelle

Arlanymor · 08/04/2026 18:59

Elinor Dashwood, even though my dad calls me Marianne!

ShodAndShadySenators · 08/04/2026 20:28

Kerr Avon, from Blake's Seven. Total bad-ass with a great line in sarcasm
Darlene Connor from Roseanne
Blackadder from series 2
Jerome K Jerome, Harris & George (to say nothing of the dog)
Lovejoy Mason - An Episode of Sparrows

ExquisiteSocialSkills · 08/04/2026 20:53

‘ShodAndShadySenators · Today 20:28
Kerr Avon, from Blake's Seven. Total bad-ass with a great line in sarcasm.’

And Servelan.

AtIusvue · 08/04/2026 21:09

Super Hans

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can't trust people”

FastFood · 08/04/2026 22:01

Lucille 2 and Gob in Arrested Development

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 09/04/2026 01:03

Father Jack!

Troublein · 09/04/2026 01:50

FitzChivalry Farseer from the Robin Hobb series of books.

Simonjt · 09/04/2026 09:33

Ilya Rozanov

Super Hans, terrible yet brilliant.

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