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Since I love a good nerd slap fight, I will pose the question:  Who are the best new fictional characters of 2000-2009?

1.  Ben Linus
2.  Al Swearengen
3.  Dwight Schrute
4.  Tenth Doctor
5.  Ledger's Joker
6.  Capt. Malcolm Reynolds
7.  Desmond Hume
8.  President Laura Roslin
9.  Lelouch Lamperouge
10.  Alfred Molina's Doc Oct

I want to add everyone from Venture Bro's but decided it was the ensemble that made the show great.

Clearly lacking Gregory House. Eventhough the series as a whole has been on a slippery slope for a while, it has still been driven by him since the first episode of season one.

Brock Samson

[F13]Yegolev

I  :heart: the lost characters on there, but it's missing:

Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus
Jack Bristow
Anyone Clive Owen plays

Lose Desmond and Roslin, add House and Pullo.

House
Pullo
Abed & Troy (as a pair)

and, most importantly:
Bronson

Yea, he's real, but the film one isn't even a little.

No, no, no.  I was just posting *my* list.  Make your own lists so we can aggregate them like Top10 MMO thread.  

oh

Agree on Pullo. I'd take Jayne over Mal, personally.

Cameron Phillips
Eric Northman
Aeryn Soon

I'm sure I'll think of more

Ok, I'll try to edit to top 10: ok, screw it, top 11.5:

Cameron Phillips
Ianto Jones
Aeryn Soon
Titus Pullo
Al Swearengen
10th Doctor
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
Brock Samson
Alpha (the one redemption of that show)
Jeff and Lester
Jayne Cobb

After some more thinking, I'm going to add Toki Wartooth.

Definately a good point on Aeryn Soon, she's a very strong character.  I don't get Cameron,  both Derek and Sarah were stronger and John was quickly catching up by the end.

I think Family Guy covered why House is not that strong of a character.  Like Monk, he just repeats the same shtick.

FAKE EDIT: So you still denying that you are Toki?

Oh, right, video game characters.

Maiden in Black or Crestfallen Warrior (take your pick)
Kratos
Scooter (This is where the cars live, get you some)
Tannis

Slew of others I'm probably forgetting.

Like GladOS. And more.

Yea, Patricia Tannis, just for the Journals regarding her overweight co-worker.

HK-47
Wrex
Bosco from the new Sam & Max games
Saxton Hale

Hard to settle on one single pick from DA:O, I like a lot of them a lot. Let's go with Flemeth.

Also can't decide which BG2 character to pick (that was new for BG2). Torment misses the date cutoff by like 2 weeks.

Chimay. The fat girl.

Dog.


Seriously.

Shit, I didn't even think about video game characters.

Max Payne
Fernando Martinez (GTA 3)
Smiling Jack (Bloodlines)
Jeanette/Therese (Bloodlines)
Gary Golden (Bloodlines)
Bosco (Sam & Max)
GladOS (Portal)
Dog (Half-Life 2)
Lamarr (Half-Life 2)
The Announcer (TF2)

2016.

21
House
Joker as portrayed by Heath Ledger
Riddick
GladOS
God
Dexter
John Crichton, or any of the cast of Farscape, really
Compassionate Conservatives
The Monarch

McLovin.

This covers too much.  Riddick Joker and GladOS are great picks though.

McLovin is a good pick also.

Oh, and Kamina if I'm gonna go out of the mainstream. Greatest character in the entire history of anime imo.  :grin:

McLovin for the name sure, the character, not so much.

Perhaps you're right.. He's more of a sounding board for other funny characters.

Captain Jack Sparrow..

I'd say Patrick Bateman, but Easton Ellis wrote that shit years ago.

Oh, and Edward Cullen. Bwahaha

He's not (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Swearengen) fictional.

I'm pretty sure Palin is nothing more than the collective unconscious creating something retarded. And she was almost vice president! So, Palin.

Al Swearengen
Lucius Vorenus
Deasu Oh
HK-47
Brock Lobster
Eric Northman
Jimmy McNulty
Ben Linus
Bullet Tooth Tony
Titus Pullo
Claire Fisher

Perry Cox

Carl Johnson, San Andreas.

Professor Doofenshmirtz.

Hank Moody.

Yes.

Sylar
Shale
Hoban "Wash" Washburne
Dexter
Major Motoko Kusanagi  (Stand Alone Complex)
L
Tryion Lannister (nevermind, 1996)
Brock Sampson
Ben Linus
House
GladOS

While I did love Stand Alone Complex, that character goes back to the 80's with the manga (not to mention the original anime), so I really wouldn't classify the character as being from this century.

Also:

Saxton Hale  :awesome_for_real:

For better or worse, you would have expected Harry Potter's name to have appeared before now.

Nah, it's not a character driven series. He's just an archetype.

My addition: Captain Jack Harkness

Donald Draper

and Samurai Jack

I'm seeing a few Brock votes but really I don't see it. He's awesome and kick ass but as a character? He's a one-dimensional ass kicking machine that's never really been developed. I think either the Monarch or 21 should be up there though, for different reasons but it would be wrong to have more than one Venture Bros. character.

Captain Jack Sparrow?

No, she meant Harkness. I only narrowly picked Ianto over him.

Katy Perry's boobs are more likely.

Jack Bauer.  You can't leave out the McGuyver of torture- leave him with a rubber band and two pieces of pocket lint, and he can invent a device to shock your genitals. 

I'm pretty sure just the rubber band would do.  Not that I have any experience with such a device.

I feel Bernard Black needs to be somewhere in the list.

A lot of these names have already been posted before, but I can't be arsed to find some more obscure names to pretend I'm more original than I really am.

21 and 24 together.

Jeff from Coupling (UK version of course).

Dwight Schrute (although the best stuff comes from his interaction with Jim, so they could also be entered as a duo).

Jack Sparrow

John Crichton

Jayne Cobb

Iskaral Pust and spouse

Oh, yeah. I meant it as a question to see if anyone else agreed.

Brock was a one dimensional ass kicking machine in the pilot and for a bunch of season one.  They really fleshed out the character in later episodes though.  The rage is still there, but now it's firmly rooted in things like his accidental killing of his football teammate, inability to have the woman he loves, betrayal by father figures, and his awkward father relationship with Hank.

I think the episode with the dream machine powered by a murdered orphan's heart really highlighted how he sublimates all the shit life has handed to him by using improper levels of violence.  I think season 3 and 4 have really focused around Brock identifying and trying to work past that.  It's the Venture Bros. so he will likely fail.

Honestly, there has been a huge amount of character development with all of the major characters.

Murray Hewitt
Dr. Paul Weston

Good call.

House has character?  :ye_gods:

I shall trump that with Walter Bishop.

Phoenix Wright/Godot
Garth Marenghi
If futurama counts (it started in 99 but hit its stride in the 2000s) then Fry and Bender and probably everyone else.

Uh, yes.


Joke, rite? Retarded befuddled old man savant? Really?

No joke.

I'll see your Dog, and raise you Dog, Bounty Hunter.

I was going to say Jamie Lanister, but then I looked and realized the  book has been out since fricken 1996.

I thought the drug dealers were all better characters to be honest.  Stringer Bell, Bodie and Snoop specially.

Omar!

+1 for Omar

Gob Bluth
Dennis Reynolds
Jack Donaghy
Ali G or Borat (Circa his HBO show)
Dexter Morgan

Hah, Borat is a good choice, no matter what you think of the movie.  This thread is an awesome idea for just getting me to remember characters I forgot and to think about things.

Another vote for Omar.  Arguably the best char of arguably the best tv drama ever; if we were just considering one character for a hypothetical #1, Omar would have to be on the short list.

Karsa Orlong

Edward Elric

Tommy Gavin

Vic Mackey

Joan Holloway

This, as well as Roger Sterling.

Dirk Anger

Anton Chigurh

Elvis/Sabastian Haff

Randy "The Ram" Robinson

RDJ as Tony Stark/Iron Man (if people can pick Heath Ledger's Joker, this should count also).

Kirk Lazarus (though Les Grossman should get an honorable mention)

+1 for GladOs

+1 for Heath Ledger as Joker

+1 Malcom Reynolds

And I'll have to come up with #10 later.

Edit:  A lot of peoples' lists seem to skew more towards characters from TV series.  I don't know if it's just a quantity thing (more screen time gives these characters more memorable moments), but as I'm not a huge TV fan, most of my picks are characters who appeared in one book or movie.

Can't believe i forgot Omar, he should be at the top.

How about Sparky Polastri?  :why_so_serious:



I have seen Bring It On WAAYYYYYYY too many times

Bender Bending Rodriguez! :-)

Technically futurama began in 1999 so it doesn't count but any character in that show is gold.

Harry Dresden would be on my list along with just about all the others mentioned. And while I thought both Jimmy "The fuck did I do?" McNulty and Omar were both awesome for different reasons, I prefer the guy who could kill you with a look: Lt. Daniels.

B P Q X Z @ # ^ * =

You might have worse taste than Bloodworth  :awesome_for_real:

Shane Vendrell is the correct answer.

Gene Hunt
Ron Burgundy
Chloe O'Brien
David Brent

Another vote for Glados here. I'm also going to buck the KotOR HK-47 love and pick Jolee Bindo from that. If I had to pick one character from Venture Brothers, I would probably pick Dr. Girlfriend.

/shrug

I'm cool with it.

It was a tossup between Samson, Dr. Girlfriend or Dr. Orpheus.

+1 for Vic Mackey, Don Draper and Saul Tigh.

Also, anyone mention Patty Hewes yet?  Also, does Larry David count?

Gregory House
Dr. Orpheus
Gene Hunt
Malcolm Reynolds
Capt Jack Harkness
Capt Jack Sparrow
John Crichton
Dr. Perry Cox
Dexter
Shale
Dean Winchester

Off the top of my head.  I'm sure I could mine books and games a bit more, so I may revise after a bit of though.

Paulie Walnuts.

Horatio Caine  :oh_i_see:

I'd like to add "Half-cocked" Jack Shaftoe to my list.

I thought about Gene the other day and realized I forgot to include him.

Palin, because not even Dan Quayle made me laugh so hard. :why_so_serious:
9th doctor
10th doctor
rose
donna
martha
and drawing a blank so 6 it is