# Characters who are never a dick **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333 "2011-01-04T08:02:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/81 "2011-01-14T21:27:54Z")
Gil Grissom from CSI. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/82 "2011-01-15T11:24:11Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > Quite a few of Tolkien’s characters were pretty decent types, Galadriel and Tom Bombadil spring to mind. Tom Bombadil is totally a dick. The ultimate battle between good and evil is raging all around him. He is apparently pretty much invulnerable to the power of evil, probably has huge powers of his own, and he can’t be arsed to do a damn thing about it. ---
**Author:** ![Private\_Bin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@Private\_Bin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Private_Bin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333/83 "2011-01-15T13:46:18Z")
I started thinking of laid-back characters, because to me being a dick is being petty and uptight. Naturally the first character I thought of was The Dude. But then I considered, and he did steal the Big Lebowski’s rug (which probably got P.S. Hoffman in trouble), which is definitely a dick move. So I nominate Peter Seller’s character in The Party [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/characters-who-are-never-a-dick/566333.md?page=4)