ABC's of Fictional Characters

[sixwingmortal]

V from V for Vendetta.

[aeroport]

Waymarsh from The Ambassadors

[sixwingmortal]

Xena... from.. I forgot, but everyone knows her.

[crazefest456]

Yakko - Animaniacs

[it's from Xena: the Warrior Princess]

[PoeticPassions]

Yossarian from Catch-22....

Zechariah, THE BIBLE; Old Testament

[crazefest456]

Alexei - The Brothers Karamazov

[amalia1985]

Bathsheba from Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd"

[sixwingmortal]

Captain Falcon from F-Zero

[DickZ]

Charles Darnay from A Tale of Two Cities.

I was going to use the C from Charles, but sixwingmortal beat me to the C, so I had to change to the D from Darnay - not that you're all that interested in the history of how I developed my answer.

[Hira]

Ellen Olenska - The Age of Innocence

[amalia1985]

Francesca from Rosemarie Marschner's "Nacht den Engel"

[aeroport]

Garryowen the dog from the "Citizen" episode of Ulysses

[crazefest456]

Horatio - Hamlet

[aeroport]

Isabel - Measure for Measure

[kiz_paws]

jackalope ... this is a mythical creature, honest.

[crazefest456]

jackalope ... this is a mythical creature, honest.

what do you mean mythical... there was a jackalope sighting in the local 7-11...

[kiz_paws]

LoL, yeah -- I know -- the Bat Boy reported it first!! http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kiz_paws/LitNet%20Stuff/batboy.jpg

[Hira]

Karenin - Anna Karenina

[amalia1985]

Lawrence- The friar in Shakespeare' s"Romeo and Juliet"

[sixwingmortal]

Marge Simpson

[Savarucci]

Nancy Drew.

[PoeticPassions]

Oliver Twist


though I never liked that book much....

[Savarucci]

Polonius, from Hamlet. :D I love that guy.

[Hira]

Quasimodo - Hunchback of Notre Dame

[kiz_paws]

Richie Rich ... of comic stardom

[amalia1985]

Sue- from Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure"

[DickZ]

Tom Sawyer, from Mark Twain

[smartgirl]

underdog!!!

[Niamh]

vera duckworth

[amalia1985]

Wendy from "Peter Pan"

I think this one has been mentioned before...I'm stupid...

[Shurtugal]

nope and bless you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love people who mention stuff from my favorite book! lol!.

xantara from this stupid little thing i read....

[kiz_paws]

Yoda from good ol' Star Wars ;)

[aeroport]

Zann, Erich ... from Lovecraft's story.

[kiz_paws]

Ashley Wilkes ... Gone With The Wind Character

[amalia1985]

Brida- from Bernard Cornwell's "The Last Kingdom"

[kiz_paws]

Chichikov -- the main man in Gogol's Dead Souls

[Pendragon]

Doctor Satan Star of his own Pulp Magazine and now new stories released by Wildcat Books

[kiz_paws]

Elbow, the dim-witted constable in Measure for Measure (Shakey again) :p

[Lost Arts]

Faust - Goethe

[amalia1985]

Gwendolyn- from George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"

[THX-1138]

Hester Prynne-The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Pendragon]

Imogene Doctor Syn's unfaithful wife and apparent daughter in Russel Thorndyke's stories of Doctor Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

[aeroport]

Jack Chase - Melville's White-Jacet

[Hira]

Kolya - The Idiot

[kiz_paws]

Lancelot, Sir -- a Knight of the Round Table ;)

[Hira]

Myshkin - The Idiot (Has it been posted before? If yes, then Mary - The Secret Garden)

[amalia1985]

Nana- From Emil Zola's novel of the same name

[Hira]

Oin - The Hobbit

[amalia1985]

Pauline-from Jean Giono's "Le Hussard sur le toit"

[Hira]

Qui-Gon Jinn - Star Wars

[amalia1985]

Rose-from C.S.Forester's "The African Queen"

[Hira]

Sauron - The Lord of the Rings

[Pendragon]

ToTo-- The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum

[Shurtugal]

Uugi from a something i'm writing... director of O.T.

[Hira]

Vronsky - Anna Karenina

[THX-1138]

Winston Smith- 1984 by george orwell (my favorite of all times)

[Pendragon]

Xisor, Prince Head of Black Sun, from Star Wars

[kiz_paws]

Young Talbot ... King Henry VI (Shakespeare)

[Hira]

Zaphod Beeblebrox

[kiz_paws]

Alice ... From Alice In Wonderland, natch! ;)

[DickZ]

Natty Bumpo from James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales (The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder, The Last of the Mohicans, etc.)

[Logos]

Philip Carey from Maugham's Of Human Bondage

[THX-1138]

Eddie Dean from stephen king's Dark tower

[Hira]

Elrond ~ Lord of the Rings+Silmarillion etc.

[amalia1985]

Felicia- from William Trevor's "Felicia's Journey"

[aeroport]

Gilgamesh

[amalia1985]

Hera- Greek Mythology, the Queen of the gods, the Goddess of Marriage, wife of Zeus.

[NikolaiI]

is that the same one as Hertha, Amalia?

Isis, then, after Hera. ("I married Isis on the third day of May..." mm!)

[DickZ]

Jean Valjean, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

I used him for a V a few cycles back in this game.

[amalia1985]

is that the same one as Hertha, Amalia?

Isis, then, after Hera. ("I married Isis on the third day of May..." mm!)

No, it's not, I'm afraid. It is "Hera" or "Hira", if we follow the Greek scripture closely.

[NikolaiI]

No one knows that song.

[amalia1985]

Katiusha- from Leo Tolstoy's "Resurrection"

[aeroport]

Lord Warburton - Portrait of a Lady

[kiz_paws]

Myshkin ... The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Hira]

Newland Archer ~ The Age of Innocence

[DickZ]

Oliver Twist, from the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens

[Pendragon]

Peter Wimsey, Lord Dorothy L. Sayers' detective

[kiz_paws]

Queen Zenobia ... Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (film)

[amalia1985]

Rebecca - from Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"

[kiz_paws]

Sophie ... from the movie "Sophie's Choice" :thumbs_up

[bouquin]

Tom Thumb

[DickZ]

Uriah Heep from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

[Hira]

Varda Elentari ~ The Silmarillion

[Pendragon]

William Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe

[Niamh]

Xena worrior Princess:p

[kiz_paws]

Young Seyward ... the son of the Earl of Northumberland in Macbeth.

[AimusSage]

Zaphod Beeblebrox

[Hira]

Aureliano ~ One Hundred Years of Solitude

[kiz_paws]

Boo Boo ... the sidekick friend of Yogi bear :lol:

[aeroport]

Catherine Sloper - from Washinton Square

[kiz_paws]

Dopey ... One of the Nefarious Dwarves...

[aeroport]

Ea - Mesopotamian sky-god, I think...

[kiz_paws]

Falstaff ... The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare

[aeroport]

Gorath - dark elf from Feist's Krondor: The Betrayal

[kiz_paws]

Horace ... hero of Horace, by George Sand

[aeroport]

Inanna - Queen of Heaven (more Mesopotamian mythology)

[kiz_paws]

Jocasta ... mother and wife of Oedipus

[amalia1985]

Keira- from Ayn Ryde's "We, the Living"

[bouquin]

Lolita

[Oniw17]

I haven't read any books all year...

Marluxia, from Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

[Niamh]

nicholas garrigan- last king of scotland

[kiz_paws]

Oedipus ... Greek Mythology

[Anza]

parthenope-- siren of greek myth

[Sucundus]

Jean Louise " Scout " Finch, " To Kill a Mockingbird " how could u not fall in love with her?

[kiz_paws]

Queen Bavmorda ... Willow (movie)

[aeroport]

RASKOLNIKOV

[Oniw17]

Selene- The Last of the Amazons

[kiz_paws]

Tom Joad ... protagonist, Grapes Of Wrath

[amalia1985]

Uhtred- from Bernard Cornwell's "The Last Kingdom"

[aeroport]

Valentine - Two Gentlemen of Verona

[kiz_paws]

Witches (3) ... Macbeth

[aeroport]

The X-men

[bouquin]

Yeti (the abominable snowman)

[Niamh]

Zoya- from Danielle Steels book Zoya

[Hira]

Yay, Niamh got Z! I usually can't think of any Z except Zaphod Beeblebrox, lol.

Adso ~ The Name of the Rose

[Niamh]

I usually go with Zena Worrior Princess!:lol:

Benvolio-Romeo and Juliet

[kiz_paws]

Count Ilya Rostov ... War and Peace

[amalia1985]

Deinaira- The wife of Hercules, according to Greek Mythology

[Niamh]

Etain- Irish mythology

[aeroport]

Florestan - one half of Robert Schumann's split personality...

[kiz_paws]

Godzilla of movie fame...

[amalia1985]

Hades- God of the Underworld, according to Greek Mythology

[Haven]

Idril [Celebrindal aka Silverfoot]-- in The Simarillion -- J R R Tolkien

[Pendragon]

[B]JimGrim[B] by Talbolt Mundy

[Hira]

Kim ~ Kim - Rudyard Kipling

[Dori]

Lennie ~ Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck

[Hira]

Marius - Les Miserables

[bouquin]

Nana (from the book of the same name by Emile Zola)

[Dikagami]

Othello - Othello W. Shakespeare

[amalia1985]

Paulina- from Dostoyevsky's "The Gambler"

[_JadeRain_]

Jhonny Quest

[Pendragon]

Kull by Robert E. Howard

[kiz_paws]

Lippevechsel, Amalia Fyodorovna ... landlady of Marmeladov and Katerina in Crime & Punishment

[Hira]

Jhonny Quest


Kull by Robert E. Howard


Lippevechsel, Amalia Fyodorovna ... landlady of Marmeladov and Katerina in Crime & Punishment

It was supposed to be R and S after Q, lol. You've left the poor letters between R and Z!

Anyway, I'll do it with M then ...

Manwe ~ The Silmarillion

[amalia1985]

So, should I do "N" or "R"?

I'll deal with "R", then.

Rowena- from Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"

[Hira]

Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov ~ Crime and Punishment

[Bakiryu]

Tamlin from The Chronicles of Magic, NG.

[Hira]

Ulmo ~ The Silmarillion

[kiz_paws]

It was supposed to be R and S after Q, lol. You've left the poor letters between R and Z!

Anyway, I'll do it with M then ...

Manwe ~ The SilmarillionMass confusion or what! http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/kiz_paws/Smilies/smileykick.gif Kay, I'm awake now! :nod:

V for Vendetta

[Bakiryu]

William Tell....

[kiz_paws]

Xuthus ... Greek Mythology

[bouquin]

the Yahoos (from "Gulliver's Travels")

[Hira]

Ohkay, hmmm, Z ...

Zeus

[kiz_paws]

Alyona Ivanovna ... Crime & Punishment

[Haven]

Beetlejuice -- [Dir. Tim Burton.. Michael Burton as B...with Alec Baldwin, Gina Davis et al :) ]

[amalia1985]

Calypso- the legendary nymph in Homer's "Odyssey"

[Bakiryu]

Don Juan (by some spanish author or other, he's very famous anyway)

[amalia1985]

Elizabeth Swann (The amazing character from the amazing "Pirates of the Carribean" Trilogy)

[aeroport]

Finnegan

[NikolaiI]

Good one, Jamesian. :)

Guenhwyvar

[aeroport]

Good one, Jamesian. :)

Guenhwyvar

Yours too.
I'm kind of liking this use of traditional mythological names that don't really require work titles.

Hades

[Hira]

Goin with the mythological characters ...

Isis

[kiz_paws]

Jacquenetta ... Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare

[amalia1985]

Kika- from Triana's play "The Night of The Assassins"

[aeroport]

Leto, mother of Achilles

[kiz_paws]

Marmeladov ... Crime & Punishment

[bouquin]

Ned Nickerson -- Nancy Drew's beau

[Hira]

Oompa-Loompa:D

[Pendragon]

Prince Prospreo The Masque of the Red Death

[Cailin]

Quirke - Christine Falls

[Niamh]

ronan- the viking princess

[dramasnot6]

Sirius Black-Harry Potter
:p

[kiz_paws]

Tom of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

[aeroport]

Uther Pendragon - father of King Arthur

[kiz_paws]

Vassily Ivanovitch Vahrushin ... Crime & Punishment

[aeroport]

Wotan - Norse god-king (and, of course, from Wagner's Ring-cycle)

[kiz_paws]

Xayide ... The Neverending Story2

[_JadeRain_]

Yensid- Fantasia

[rachel_bookworm]

Zelie - Victor Sejour's 'Le Mulatre'

[Anza]

Zeus!! (greek myth)

[amalia1985]

Adonis- The legendary lover of Aphrodite

[Anza]

I've got B and C

Biton and Cleobis-- two brothers who yoked themselves to a carriage to carry their mother (the aging priestess of Hera) to a statue of Hera some forty miles from their home. Cydippe, their mother, asked Hera to bestow them with the greatest gift that she could. She gave them painless death.

[Amundsen]

Dijkstra - spy from Witcher (maybe I said it here, in polish Wiedźmin)

[Lady Raven]

Eliza (fromUncle Tom's Cabin

[RJbibliophil]

Father Time from the Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

[Lady Raven]

Gigi (by Colette)

[RJbibliophil]

Hans Brinker of the Silver Skates

[Lady Raven]

Jack (of Beanstalk fame).

[Sir Bartholomew]

Lily Bart

[Sir Bartholomew]

Nelly Dean

[Sir Bartholomew]

Portnoy

[kiz_paws]

Queen of Hearts -- Alice In Wonderland ;)

[amalia1985]

Radamanthes- One of the Judges of Hades, according to the Greek Mythology

(...and I am sure I didn't spell the name right...)

[RJbibliophil]

Sarah from Sarah, Tall and Plain

[Amundsen]

Tamara - woman from Lermontov's Demon

[amalia1985]

Ursus- the gladiator in Henryk Sienkiewicz's "Quo Vadis".

[aeroport]

Valmiki - the sage (and the author supposedly, I think) of the Ramayana

[Lulim]

Will Ladislaw — Journalist in "Middlemarch" and deeply in love with Dorothea …

[Amundsen]

Xardas - name from videogame Gothic (no other way)

[Amundsen]

Yennefer - witch from Witcher

[djy78usa]

Zaphod Beeblebrox - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Oniw17]

Brud Stonesifter from one of the Dragonlance books

[LadyW]

Cecilia - Atonement

[Oniw17]

Demuth Beel Zebus from Soul Caliber 3

[amalia1985]

Eowyn- from Tolkien's "The Lord Of The Rings"

[Oniw17]

Fenrir from norse mythology

[djy78usa]

Ganymede from Greek Mythology

[Oniw17]

Hubert Farnsworth from futurama

[andave_ya]

J.R. Ewing

[ben.!]

Lolita

From Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

[Pendragon]

Nativity Pettigrew from Treasure Mountiain by Louis L'Amour

[amalia1985]

Proteus- Greek Mythology

[DCD1979]

Laura Peyton Roberts

author of young adult Clearwater Crossing series

[Oniw17]

Samson from Jewish mythology

[kiz_paws]

Uncle Scrooge ... Huey Dooey and Louey's rich uncle (Disney)

[amalia1985]

Vulcan- The god of Fire, according to the Greek Mythology.

[Sir Bartholomew]

Wentworth (Persuasion)

[Niamh]

Xanatos- Character from Disneys Gargoyles

[Sir Bartholomew]

Yossarian (Catch-22)

[amalia1985]

Ariadne- Theseus' wife (Greek Mythology)

[Oniw17]

Baldur from Norse Mythology

[islandclimber]

Cincinnatus C. (Invitation to a Beheading)

[Oniw17]

Decius, from the last 2 books in Keith Taylor's Bard series

[islandclimber]

Ezra Buckley (from Borges' "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius)

[aeroport]

Madame Grandoni - from HJ's Roderick Hudson

[amalia1985]

Hannah- from Tennessee Williams' play "Night Of The Iguana"

[THX-1138]

Jack Torrance- the shining by Stephen King

[amalia1985]

Kriemhild- The Nibelungen Saga

[Sir Bartholomew]

Marie de Vionnet (The Ambassadors)

[Oniw17]

Natanleod from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

[Sir Bartholomew]

Orlando

[RJbibliophil]

That guy is hilarious

Queen of the Fairies

[djy78usa]

Santino "Sonny" Corleone - The Godfather

[RJbibliophil]

Templeton of Charlotte's web

[Sir Bartholomew]

Verver (the Golden Bowl)

[THX-1138]

winston smith -1984

[djy78usa]

Yosemite Sam, the fastest gun north, south, east, annnnnnnnnnnnnd west of the Pecos!

[amalia1985]

Arwen- Tolkien's "The Lord Of The Rings"

[djy78usa]

Captain Pajama Shark - from a SNL skit

[Virgil]

Edmund from King Lear

[Idril]

Glaurung from The Silmarillion

[amalia1985]

Helen Olenska- Edith Wharton's "The Age Of Innocence"

[amalia1985]

Jessica- William Shakespeare's "The Merchant Of Venice"

[aeroport]

Khan, from 'Star Trek' :D
Hi, Amalia. :wave:

[djy78usa]

Lysander - A Midsummer Night's Dream

[RJbibliophil]

Nelly Olson from Laura Ingalls Wilder

[aeroport]

A very clever and resourceful evasion of 'O', Antiquarian. :p

I'm sure this has been done many times before, but Queequeg.

[aeroport]

Oh dear... Well, whatever works, y'know.

Shylock from Merchant

[Sir Bartholomew]

Ursula Brangwen (The Rainbow / Women in Love)

[amalia1985]

Viola- William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"

[Sir Bartholomew]

william bankes (to the lighthouse)

[Oniw17]

Xavier Harkonnen from Brian Herbert's additions to the Dune series

[djy78usa]

Zed - Pulp Fiction... "Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead."

[kiz_paws]

Beowulf ... You know! ;)

[naomi moon]

Carmen ;)

[kelby_lake]

elizabeth bennet

[Oniw17]

Icarus- Daedalus's son

[pbmn]

Kurt Austin-Clive Cussler books

[pbmn]

Mary Jane (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

[ZaphodBeblebrox]

Night crawler