ABC's of Fictional Characters

[Logos]

'Fictional' characters' can be from a novel, short story, poem, myth, legend, fairy tale, song, etc :)

I'll start with

Anna Karenina :D

[BlueSkyGB]

Billy Budd.....

Hate to post that one but a semester spent on that short story in college, burned it into my memory....haven't read any Melville since...:(

[amalia1985]

Clarissa Harlowe-Samuel Richardson

[Pendragon]

David Balfour, Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

[amalia1985]

Estella Havisham-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

[manolia]

Faramir

[amalia1985]

Oh, I love Faramir (...and David Wenham, too).
Gonoril---King Lear

[Idril]

Luthien

[Bakiryu]

Marius (From, the vampire Lestat)

[Oniw17]

Nala, from the Lion King (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nala_(The_Lion_King))

[Bakiryu]

Master! (The) from DR.WHO!

[SleepyWitch]

Nanny Ogg, the witch from the Discworld novels

grr, you guys beat me to it.

Odysseus (Ulysses)

[Idril]

Phineas Finn

[Oniw17]

(Q)-Star Trek

[Oniw17]

Riku(Kingdom Hearts Games)

[SleepyWitch]

Severus Snape

[Bakiryu]

Takeshi! from RGPX

[Oniw17]

Urahara Kisuke- from the bleach manga and anime.

[amalia1985]

Viola from Shakepeare's "Twelfth Night".

[Bakiryu]

William Tell!

[amalia1985]

"Xanadou" , from the musical with the same name.

[Logos]

Yakov Liebermann from the novel The Boys from Brazil

[Themis]

"Die rote Zora" (Red Zora) from Kurt Held's novel "Die rote Zora und ihre Bande" (Red Zora and her clique)

[Idril]

Anatoly Pavlovich from Olga Grushin's Dream Life of Sukhanov

[amalia1985]

Ben Mears from Stephen King's "Salem's Lot"

[Shalot]

Clarice Starling - The Silence of the Lambs (it must Hannibal Lector weekend on TNT - it's on right now)

[Idril]

Door from Gaiman's Neverwhere

[amalia1985]

Electra by Sophocles
Does it count as fictional?
If not, then Esther Prine from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"

[Bakiryu]

Freya, from the Bifrost Guardians

[Pendragon]

Green Lama, of Pulp Fiction and Comic Book fame

[amalia1985]

Henry Wotton from Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

[LadyWentworth]

Ichabod Crane - Legend of Sleepy Hollow

[amalia1985]

Julian Baffin from Iris Murdoch's "The Black Prince"

[Moira22100]

Kat-Casper

[amalia1985]

Lucy Manette from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of two cities"

[Niamh]

Marta- secret garden

[amalia1985]

Nimoue-Thomas Malory's "Le morte d'Arthur"

[Idril]

Oscar Matzerath from The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

[NikolaiI]

Pralinsky, Ivan Ilyich

[bluevictim]

Queequeg from Melville's Moby Dick

[Idril]

Raskilnikov from Crime and Punishment

[NikolaiI]

Timofey Semyonitch, from The Crocodile

[Idril]

Ulmo from The Silmarillion

[Shalot]

Veronica Ganz from the children's books that I used to read as a kid

[Idril]

Winston Smith from 1984

[RoCKiTcZa]

will a movie char do? Well, I'll go for Xixo, Gods Must be Crazy... :D hihi

[Logos]

will a movie char do?
sure! great movie ! :)

Yoda

[Laindessiel]

Zametoff from Crime and Punishment. :) Gosh, I'm last.

[amalia1985]

Adela Quested-A Passage to India

[Idril]

Brooke Burges from Anthony Trollope's He Knew He Was Right.

[Shalot]

Chewbacca :banana: - Star Wars

[Idril]

Dirk Gently from Douglas Adams' The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

[Bakiryu]

Esmeralda from the Hunchback of Notre Dame

[Idril]

Francis Hinsley from Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One.

[Shalot]

General Grevious - Star Wars:banana:

[Seraph404]

Hamlet (:

[Shalot]

Isildur

[Seraph404]

Jane Eyre

[Shalot]

Kenobi, Obi Wan :banana: - Star Wars

[amalia1985]

Lavinia-Titus Andronicus

[andave_ya]

Mathilda-Roald Dahl. (why not? :p)

[Shalot]

Nute Gunray - Star Wars

[Bakiryu]

Obi-Wan Kenobi!

[NikolaiI]

Pralinsky (I just can't get it out of my head)

[Idril]

Isildur

That's awesome! I love Isildur! :nod:

Quickbeam, also from Lord of the Rings.

[The Raven]

Roldan - from Roldan's song, in medieval French literature

[Bakiryu]

Saruman (c'mon y'all know where he's from :p)

[amalia1985]

Therese-Therese Raquin

[Idril]

Ubertino from Name of the Rose by Eco.

[amalia1985]

Vilette from Bronte's novel

[Idril]

Woland from Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.

[Bakiryu]

X from Mr.X by Straub.

[Shalot]

Zuckuss - Star Wars

[amalia1985]

Anne-Chrome Yellow

[Idril]

Bjartur of Summerhouses from Independent People by Halldor Laxness.

[ennison]

Cleve Connell from "The Hunters" by James Salter

[Shalot]

Dirk Diggler from Boogie Nights

[amalia1985]

Edith-Hotel du Lac

[Whifflingpin]

Fester Addams

[amalia1985]

Guinevere

[toni]

Hamlet ~

[Shalot]

Ilúvatar - The Silmarillion

[andave_ya]

Jane from Pride and Prejudice

[Shalot]

K - Men In Black

[amalia1985]

Laertes-Odyssey

[Shalot]

Moll Flanders - The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (Defoe)

[Weisinheimer]

Ned Flanders

[toni]

Othello ~

[Weisinheimer]

Pinocchio

[toni]

Quasimodo

[amalia1985]

Regan-King Lear

[toni]

Smeagol - LOTR

[Idril]

Tatyana from Pushkin's Eugene Onegin

[toni]

Umbriel from Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock

[Idril]

Varda from The Silmarillion.

[toni]

Will Stormhold - Stardust

[Reepicheep]

Xenophillius Lovegood-- Harry Potter books

[Shalot]

Yavanna: The Silmarillion

[amalia1985]

Dr.Zhivago from Pasternak's novel of the same name.
Does it count?

[Shalot]

Anna Karenina from the book by the same name

[amalia1985]

Beatrice from Dante's "Divine Comedy"

[barbara0207]

Clawdia (from "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann)

[Idril]

Dennis Barlow from Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One.

[Shalot]

Evelina from Evalina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Frances Burney

[thelastmelon]

Fuchur. He's the luckdragon from The Neverending Story by Michael Ende.

[amalia1985]

Guy of Gisborne from "Robin Hood".

[andave_ya]

Haldir from LotR.

[Idril]

Idril from The Silmarillion :D

[Pendragon]

Julian from Nine Princes In Amber by Roger Zelzany

[amalia1985]

Katia from Tolstoy's "Katia".

[thelastmelon]

Lockhart from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

[Idril]

Michael Mathew Pemulis from David Foster Wallce's Infinite Jest.

[barbara0207]

Nathan ~ from: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan der Weise

[amalia1985]

Orestes from Sophocles' "Electra", and other tragedies.

[Oniw17]

Pendor from the first book of Keith Taylor's Bard.

[Shalot]

Quinton Shively
"Designing Women" (TV show from the eighties) :lol:

[andave_ya]

Mr. Rochester (does that count?)

[amalia1985]

Sonia from "Crime and Punishment"

[Niamh]

titus for gormansghast

[barbara0207]

Uriah Heep (Dickens, Oliver Twist)

[amalia1985]

Veronica- Paulo Coelho's "Veronica Decides to Die".

[Pendragon]

Uther Pendragon, true father of King Arthur

[amalia1985]

Will Turner- "The Pirates of the Carribean".

[Pendragon]

Xena, from the TV series

[Niamh]

yorick (well.... he gets mentioned in hamlet can that count?)

[Logos]

(skipping "Z"!) :p

Abdul Alhazred (H.P. Lovecraft's character)

[Pendragon]

Baron Munchausen the famous liar created by Rudolf Erich Raspe

[Niamh]

clara- Heidi

[Zelly]

David - All American Girl/Ready or Not

I read too much pulp fiction. o.O

[Niamh]

Emma Woodhouse

[amalia1985]

Forest Gump, from the well-known film.

[andave_ya]

Galadriel! LOTR :D

[amalia1985]

Hariet from Jane Austen's "Emma"

[Pendragon]

Judex, a French Pulp Hero

[BlueSkyGB]

could not help but notice a couple were skipped....so :lol:

Ishmael ...Moby-Dick

Zaphod Beeblebrox ...The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Next poster can pick up this thread...:D

[amalia1985]

Katarina- The Taming of the Shrew

[Pendragon]

Leonites, The 300

[Oniw17]

Mickey Mouse

[thescholar]

Nemo-20,000 leagues under the sea

[Oniw17]

odin.

[thescholar]

pippy longstockings

[Logos]

Quasimodo :D

[Pendragon]

Raffles, A J, The Gentleman Burgular

[amalia1985]

Sonia- "Crime and Punishment"

[thescholar]

thor-norse mythology

[Niamh]

Uther Pendragon (always good when you cant think of another you.

[Oniw17]

Vivayne- Bard & Bard 3 by Keith Taylor

[Pendragon]

Warlord. DC Comics

[Oniw17]

Xerxes-Lagends of Dune by Brian Herbert

[Niamh]

Yeats. W.B- Murder at the Abbey Theatre

[amalia1985]

Zeus- Greek Mythology

[Pendragon]

Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe's sidekick in the Rex Stout novels

[amalia1985]

Brione from Tad Williams' Shadowmarch

[Lioness_Heart]

Claudius (from Hamlet)

[amalia1985]

Desdemona from William Shakespeare's Othello

[Bakiryu]

Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

[amalia1985]

Fanfan from Fanfan La Tulip

[toni]

Grindewald from Deathly Hallows

[Shalot]

Horace Slughorn from Half Blood Prince

[amalia1985]

Imogen from Shakespeare's Cymbeline

[Pendragon]

JimGrim from the novels by Talbot Mundy

[AuntShecky]

k
All the brothers in the Brothers Karamozov

[amalia1985]

Lavinia from Shakespeare's "Titus"

[Niamh]

Morgause- Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart

[Idril]

Orlando from Orlando by Virginia Woolf

[Bakiryu]

Peter Pan!

[AuntShecky]

Clare Quilty in Lolita

[_JadeRain_]

Severous Snape

[Niamh]

since R was skipped, Ronan in The Viking Princess

[amalia1985]

Tristan from "Stardust"

[Chava]

Samwise - you know where it's from... :)

[Idril]

Turin from either The Silmarillion or Children of Hurin.

[amalia1985]

Una from Spencer's "Fairie Queene"

[Pendragon]

Van Tassell, Cornelis from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

[Niamh]

wendy- peter pan.

[Oniw17]

Xehanort- Kingdom Hearts

[Niamh]

Yeats- Murder at the abbey theatre

[Oniw17]

Zeus- Greek Mythology

[crazefest456]

alexei karamazov

[Oniw17]

Briza Do'Urden

[LadyW]

Charlie [and the Chocolate Factory :)]

[amalia1985]

Dina from Wassmo's "Dina's Book"

[Oniw17]

Estes Atreides

[kiz_paws]

Falstaff [King Henry IV]

[amalia1985]

Gawain from the Arthurian saga

[kiz_paws]

Horatio (from Hamlet) ;)

[amalia1985]

Iago from Shakespeare's "Othello"

[kiz_paws]

Juliet (daughter to Capulet 'Romeo & Juliet')

[aeroport]

Kory-Kory from Typee

[kiz_paws]

Lex Luthor (ummmm, Superman....) ;)

[Dori]

Marius (from Les Miserables)

[kiz_paws]

Nancy (from Nancy Drew Mysteries).... yeah, I know.... :sick:

[crazefest456]

Othello

[aeroport]

Perrin from the Wheel of Time series

[kiz_paws]

Queen Gertrude (Hamlet)

[amalia1985]

Roland from the French book "La Chanson de Roland"

[aeroport]

Serena Merle from The Portrait of a Lady

[Niamh]

Titus from Gormansghast

[Idril]

Ulmo from The Silmarillion...I don't think I've used him for quite a few pages now so it's good. :D

[crazefest456]

Viola from Twelfth Night

[aeroport]

White-Jacket - from Melville's White-Jacket

[kiz_paws]

X-RAY (Dick Tracy) ;)

[aeroport]

Yoda!

[crazefest456]

Zarathustra

[aeroport]

Alexandra Aranda from Benito Cereno

[crazefest456]

Blondie (from the comic strip)

[aeroport]

Cadwallader Cuticle from White-Jacket

[crazefest456]

Don Juan

[aeroport]

Edgar Huntley

[kiz_paws]

Felix (from Felix the Cat, the Wonderful Wonderful Cat Ta Da!) :lol:

[aeroport]

Ginny from HP

[browneyedbailey]

Harry HP.

[amalia1985]

Irina from Checkov's play "The Three Sisters"

[kiz_paws]

Jaques (the melancholy lord in As You Like It)

[amalia1985]

Kriemhild from the Niebelungen Saga

[browneyedbailey]

Laurent ~ the Twilight serries.

[amalia1985]

Morgaine from "The Mists of Avalon"

[aeroport]

Nynaeve al'Meara from The Wheel of Time

[kiz_paws]

Oliver from Oliver Twist, Dickens

[aeroport]

Polonius - Hamlet

[toni]

Queen Gertrude - Hamlet


:wave: Greetings, James.

[aeroport]

Reynaldo - Hamlet :D

[toni]

Samsa, Gregor - The Metamorphosis
:p

[amalia1985]

Tosca from the famous Puccini opera.

[kiz_paws]

Urswick, Sir Christopher (Richard III)

[DickZ]

Valjean, Jean - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

With the double V, I probably get some extra points.

[Shurtugal]

bless this website! i was looking for names for a character in my book, i just might find one here! thank you!

sorry, but i don't have anynames for W.

[barbara0207]

Wilhelm Meister (J.W. Goethe)

Shurtu, why don't you go and look at the names thread? I'll see if I can find it for you.

Here you are: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=499743#post499743

[kiz_paws]

Xena, warrior Princess

[Shurtugal]

barbara, thank you, but the names i'm looking for are closer to sci-fi/fantasy. But thanks!

um... a name for Z? uh... Zeus, from, um... Herculies?

[grace86]

Arkady - Fathers and Sons

[Big Al]

Bob the Builder.

"Can he fix it?"

"Yes he can!"

[crazefest456]

Bob the Builder.

"Can he fix it?"

"Yes he can!"

I used to watch it alot, but I don't anymore because the new episodes stink..:D

Cow (of the cartoon Cow and Chicken)

[kiz_paws]

Dick ... of Dick Tracy a'course!

[crazefest456]

Eloise..of the book in the same name....

[kiz_paws]

Fang ... constable in Henry IV, part 2

[crazefest456]

Gulliver of Gulliver's travels

[amalia1985]

Heidi--from the book written by Johanna Spyri

[xlxlauraxlx]

I - isolde from tristen and isolde :)

[amalia1985]

Jane Bennet from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"

[xlxlauraxlx]

langdon - walk to remember

[amalia1985]

Oh, my God, I missed "K", sorry!!

Katrina Van Tassell from "Sleepy Hallow"

Margarita from "The Master and Margarita"

[kiz_paws]

Nell (The Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens)

[amalia1985]

Orion- A hunter-figure, taken from Ancient Greek Mythology.

[DickZ]

Peter Pan from the story of the same name, by James M. Barrie.

[xlxlauraxlx]

quazi-modo :)

[DickZ]

Robin Hood

[xlxlauraxlx]

Snape - Harry Potter

[amalia1985]

Titania from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

[Shurtugal]

Peter Pan from the story of the same name, by James M. Barrie.

bless you dear person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!! Peter PAn is the best! and welcome! goodness, i'm glad someone has some sence to put him in here!:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Uugi- from a story without a name... don't ya hate that?