Narile that’s just… just… shudders Look at this
I can write better then that! Actually I have written better deaths then that (considering
I have lost c’s in roleplay to random killers) winces I couldn’t go on past that.
The Eye of Argon has also been MSTed: http://pinky.wtower.com/mst3k/cgi/mstdisplay.pl?htmlmode=off&filename=argon.01.AC.txt.
And here’s the official Stephen Ratliff Marrissa Storys [sic] MSTing Archive: http://www.crosswinds.net/~mblackwl/mst2.htm.
Eposia, you and I need to start our own McCaffrey/Lackey fan club. You covered most of my faves.
I’d like to meet Anita Blake from Linda K. Hamilton’s ongoing series. (Guilty Pleasures and Lunatic Cafe to name two of the series.)
Anita is one tough lady who winds up going through hell each book.
Also I’d love to live with a tribe of Tayledras (sp?) from Lackey’s Valdemar series. What’s not to like about a group of people whose favorite pastime is sitting naked in a hot spring with all one’s friends? 
Chrisbar
Chrisbar, are you a Richard or Jean-Claude fan?
Personally, I’m a dog lover, so I’m rooting for Richard. Vampires suck.
I think Galadriel is intriguing. Beautiful, good but defiant, and married to an idiot. I keep wondering why? I am intrigued that she seems to be able to spot evil and defy it, yet marched forth after Feanor and his lot. She also seems to defy the stereotype that people who seek power should not be allowed to have it. She wanted a place of her own to rule, got it and made a beautiful, peaceful land of it.
I also am intrigued by Vampire Hunter D. I really want to know the story behind that talking hand of his. I don’t know about you, but i am quite glad my hand isn’t capable of arguing and doesn’t talk!
John Crichton from Farscape on the Sci Fi channel.
Look, I don’t mind the threads about bad movies, horrible songs or even anal sex, but there will be no more quoting from The Eye Of Argon!
My ghod, have you people no decency??
tracer…How the hell do you MST3K the Eye of Argon I mean, I can see the methodology, but where is the difficulty in that? Somethings are just to easy to try. (And yes, I know, it wasn’t you whom MST3K’d it, you have more respect for your skills than that.)
Slythe, you want to hear the really scary part, at one of the cons I attend, C.J.Cherryh mentioned that the publisher whom received the original manuscript, has received sequels to the eye, from the same person…
As for how I could do it? As I’ve said before, being Chaotic evil means never saying ‘I’m Sorry’… mwhahahahahahaha!!!
James Bond has got to be in here, of course. Bond is da man! He drives cool cars, carries a gun, and gets all the women.
Monique, God, and Satan from the comic strip Sinfest. Monique is hot (for a cartoon), God is funny, and Satan wears bad-ass suits.
Yeah, Gandalf is cool (Quite literally two steps below God), and Frodo’s important, sure, but the main character in LotR is Samwise. I mean, Frodo goes to Mordor because it’s his high-and-mighty destiny… Sam goes because he’s loyal to a friend in need. It seems to me that he had more of a choice in what he did, and should be respected the more for it.
Prospero, from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. My dream role to play sometime. He commands the very elements, brings together all of his enemies in one place, and then… releases them and gives up his art.
Natty Bumppo, AKA Deerslayer, AKA Hawkeye, AKA Pathfinder, AKA Leatherstockings, AKA… from the books by James Fenimore Cooper. I’m not sure how to put him through in writing, just read the books. You’ll be glad you did.
Buck Godot - Living in a rather interesting reality, fun but twisted. Remember, in New Hong Kong, there are No Laws, but that doesn’t mean there are No Rules
Sorry slythe I just had to share that little bit of mutilation of the art of story telling.
Narile SEQUELS? I would have died just reading the first one completely through. I wonder what it would take the guy to learn that his writing wasn’t all that good. (He could try to improve. Maybe he needs writing classes) I’m just thankful we have editors who aren’t gonna print that kind of thing.
I’m glad someone mentioned Jean-Luc, but let’s not forget Data. The TNG writers really did a great job exploring the consequences of a wholly logical mindset in a nonetheless moral being. A corollary to Data, of course, is Spock, but he’s not positronic, so he takes second place.
Take Data and remove the morality module, and you have Wolf Larsen of Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf. I have never encountered a more fascinating character in literature, although I hear that one of the characters in Blood Meridian is far better. Hopefully this will prove to be the case.
I’m restricting myself to the characters no one has mentioned yet. Ford, Rimmer, Raistlin… what better characters can be conceived?
I’m with you 100% on Raistlin. He’s interesting, alright. has one of those pleasurable shudders
I nominate Clete Purcell from the novels by James Lee Burke.
Another interesting one: Willy Wonka.
From the sublime to the . . . well, have you ever read Mark Twain’s “The Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper”? You’ll never read a Deerfinderstockingeye book with straight face (if at all) again.
Since my first and second choices have already been mentioned (Woodrow Wilson Smith and Mycroft Holmes from Heinlein, a 4000 year old man and a sentient computer with a sense of humor), I’d probably go with Jubal Harshaw(Stranger in a Strange Land).
Hannibal Lecter would definitely qualify as interesting. Exceedingly well-educated, a man of passions and a love of the arts, it would be interesting to share a meal with him, so long as he did not prepare it.
I just realized another interesting, or in this case, cool, fictional character: Chili Palmer. All of Elmore Leonard’s characters have great lines but none embodies coolness like Chili Palmer. Definitely the coolest guy in fiction.
For those who’ve never heard of Elmore Leonard, Chili Palmer was John Travolta’s character in Get Shorty.