# Pick 12 fictional characters to repopulate the earth?

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**Created:** [May 16, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-12-fictional-characters-to-repopulate-the-earth/356910 "2006-05-16T01:26:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-12-fictional-characters-to-repopulate-the-earth/356910/141 "2012-05-24T19:43:26Z")

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_Ahem_…

1. The Tar Man

2. Bub

3. Illeiro

4. Zombie Shakespeare

5. Big Daddy

6. Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee

7. Dead Girl

8. Nefer-Tina

9. Sylvanas Windrunner

10. Trash…

…boy, do you have any idea how hard it is to find decent undead female characters, if you exclude vampires? Lordy.

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**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-12-fictional-characters-to-repopulate-the-earth/356910/142 "2012-05-24T21:54:26Z")

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> [@Malacandra](#):
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> The major problem even with “human” Teela Brown is that what’s lucky for her isn’t necessarily lucky for her associates - and can perfectly well be hideously unlucky. Teela’s luck is like her own personal Pak protector; good for her, good for her bloodline, hell on wheels for anything that might have the least chance of compromising the welfare of either. Really, guys, learn the lesson that Nessus learnt.

Since this zombie has been raised:

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[li]Assuming an actual breeding program, 1/6 of the children are going to be Teela’s[/li][li]The survival of her bloodline is going to depend on the survival of the group for at least a few generations (although I don’t know if the luck works that way)[/li][li]Back to the first point, I guess (depending on menopause), Teela may also have kids with male offsping of other pairs. And similarly in the second generation (which would have more opportunities for multi-generation crosses (gen 3 could easily breed with gens 2 and 4 (and gen 1 men)), so I’d expect the luck gene to spread into most of the population pretty quickly.[/li][li]Too bad none of the other lucky people were named - Teela wasn’t all that lucky; IIRC, she Protectored before breeding(?) - there was a strong implication that she ended up saving that world for the other lucky people’s bloodlines.[/li][/ul]

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