Which fictional characters do you find yourself identifying/relating with?

[Ensign Edison]

I don't have much to offer to answer my own question, because this rarely happens for me; that's why I'm curious about others' experiences. I have many favorite characters, but few of them 'speak' to me in a way that I feel I directly identify with. I felt a great deal of connection with the little boy in Sixth Sense (no, I don't see dead people), so he can be my offering. And from books...oh, I don't know...let's say Sam Vimes. Hardly lit'rary, but there you have it.

Books, movies, TV shows, ballads, folk tales, etc are all valid character sources for the purposes of this question.

[Chronos]

Charles Wallace Murray, from A Wrinkle in Time and sequels.

Ender Wiggins, from Ender's Game.

Hermione Granger, from some book or another that I can't remember ;).

Mike Slackenerny, from the comic Piled Higher and Deeper (http://www.phdcomics.com/).

[Oakminster]

Rooster Cogburn, from True Grit.

The Outlaw Josey Wales

[davmilasav]

Daria

Menolly from the Harper Hall of Pern trilogy

[Ephemera]

Xander Harris from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, just not as funny or as lucky with women, demon or otherwise.

[Ethilrist]

Eeyore.

[Clockwork And Candy]

Neville Longbottom from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

Bastian Balthazar Bux in The Neverending Story written by Michael Ende.

Tip from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum

And, finally, Xander Harris from BtVS, but only in the first series.

Yeah, I'm a loser.

[Ensign Edison]

Bastian Balthazar Bux in The Neverending Story written by Michael Ende.

Seconded.

[gigi]

The main character in Prep. Her experiences at prep school paralleled mine at college very closely and even her motivations were similar.

[OneCentStamp]

Philip Carey from W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage
Larry Underwood from Stephen King's The Stand

...hmm...both of mine are fuckups (in their own way) who ended up making good (in their own way). No shock if you know me. :)

[JThunder]

Peter Parker, before he became a major babe magnet.

[Severiane]

The narrator in Marcel Proust's In search of lost time, especially when he's young (that would be vol. 1 and 2)

[tashabot]

Wow, someone already mentioned Pern! I was gonna say Sallah Telgar from Dragonsdawn.

Or Robinton from the later Pern series. Just sorta...connected with him. Then again, I think it's because I had a band teacher who reminded me a lot of him, so ignore that one.

~Tasha

[mack]

James Spader's character (Graham) in sex, lies, and videotape. It was almost like watching me.

Except the impotence and videotape stuff of course. :D

[pinkfreud]

As a child, I identified with Fern Arable, the little girl in Charlotte's Web. As a teenager, I identified with The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield (even though I'm female). In college, I identified with Esther Greenwood, of The Bell Jar. As a young adult, I identified with Harriet Vane, who appears in several Lord Peter Wimsey novels. Now, in late middle age, I don't seem to identify with fictional characters. I just don't find enough in them that reminds me of myself. I'm just me, and they aren't.

[Merhouse]

Walter Mitty, if I had to guess.

[Selkie]

Jane in Broadcast News is me. It's spooky.

Lately, I've been feeling very Michael Bluth.

[Miss Purl McKnittington]

Hermione Granger, from some book or another that I can't remember ;).

Ditto. I was that girl--big mouth, big brain, big hair. I'm still pretty much that girl, except I have a better conditioner and I can add big butt to the list. No redheaded boyfriend either, but, really, I think that would just be trying too hard.

I imagine there are quite a few Hermione Grangers out there on the SDMB.

[Sevastopol]

Eeyore. Tigger.

[mr. jp]

Alvy Singer from Annie Hall

Charlie Kaufman from adaptation


Im basically a short jewish guy :)

[Lissa]

Evelyn from "The Mummy".

I, too, work in the historical field and I, too, get in incredibly bizarre accidents. Remember that scene where she knocks over all the bookshelves? While we were watching that, I felt a good deal of sympathy-- that's the kind of shit that happens to me.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

Jim Halpert from The Office, J.D. from Scrubs, a dash of Michael Bluth from Arrested Development, and a handful of Buffyverse characters for their traits and habits: Wesley, Giles, Angel, Xander, Willow, and even Spike on some days.

[Tracy Lord]

Janet Carter from Pamela Dean's "Tam Lin": a short, just-curvy-enough-not-to-be-skinny redhead English major with a slight superiority complex, ear for poetry and poetic prose, and extremely high relationship standards? Oh, yes. It's a wonder either of us ever get more than two dates with the same person, if we haven't scared them off already by throwing lines from "Henry VI" at them at them and seeing what sticks.

When I catch myself associating with Diana Villiers of O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, I know I need to change some things in my life. :)

Pam Beesly from "The Office," but only at my summer job (which is over, hooray!).

Shakespearean-wise: Helena from "All's Well that Ends Well" and Julia from "Two Gents of Verona": the object may be flawed, but they pursue it anyway. Not always a good thing. "My projects may deceive me/But my intents are fixed, and will not leave me." And I associate in a wish-fulfillment way with Margaret of Anjou, at least in the first two halves of her quartet of plays. :)

My biggest fictional-character association, however, is with the lady from whom I took my username.

[Rebecca DiMwitter]

I'm nothing like the Rebecca from whom I borrowed a part of my username, but could very well be Max's 2nd wife, blonde and small and nervous. I'd have buckled under Mrs. Danvers like a threadbare rug.

I'm totally Eleanor Vance in "The Haunting of Hill House". Obsessed with the daydreams in my mind. Somewhat more extroverted, but still...daydreamy. And nervous.

Or definitely Anne Elliot in "Persuasion". Passionate at heart but mostly letting the brain win all the internal arguments.

--Beck

[MessyPaint]

Joel from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...

"Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that pay's the least bit of attention to me."

I love his kindness, sadness, his way of reasoning, and hope, toward the small world of which he chooses to focus his life in...

I enjoy relating with him and makes me feel closer to him, but couldn't say it were a definition...
It's a nice gift, the ability to admire and carry the tiny complexities which make us up- Life is good.

[MaxTheVool]

In my younger days, I strongly identified with Brian Krakow from My So Called Life: I was always raising my hand in school and getting picked on, and I was judgmental about people who acted in ways I thought were dumb, ie, drinking, going to clubs, etc. I even looked a lot like him.


These days, I can't really think of anyone... I guess maybe a bit of the title character from The 40 Year Old Virgin, although I'm neither.

[Dragwyr]

Charlie Brown from Charles Schultz's Peanuts.