What fictional character do you most identify with?

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Semi-related to Best Movie About Your Profession , and a thread that I’m sure has been on here before, but which would you consider the closest characters to you ever to appear in:

1- fiction/literature

2- a television series

3- a movie
As for me, my literary alter-ego would be a blend of Ignatius Reilly from CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES and Newt Pulsifer from GOOD OMENS.

TV character: Will Truman from WILL & GRACE crossed with Lamont from SANFORD & SON.

Movie: Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline’s character) from IN & OUT crossed with Bob Newhart from any movie or TV show other than his character in IN & OUT (though the actor I probably most closely resemble would either be Kenneth Branagh or Burl Ives- notice that you never saw them together, btw.)

2

E.T.

And the girl from The Exorcist

3

Book: Jo, Little Women

Show:Jack, Will & Grace

Movie: Stacey, Fast Times At Ridgemont High

4

Atticus Finch. He walks a narrow road that takes a lot of courage sometimes. I guess I don’t as much identify with him as aspire to be like him.

5

I love or like many characters, but seldom see myself in any of them. I have been thinking I’m kind of like Mrs. Slocum (in the British sitcom, Are you Being Served?) – and I am unnanimous in that!

6

The Duc Jean des Esseintes, from J.K. Huysmans’ novel A Rebours.

I don’t aspire to be like him so much as identify with him.

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Hmmm, fun question…

From books, that’s easy: Arthur Dent, from the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series. Especially for this quote: “I’m very ordinary, though I’ve seen some extraordinary things. You could say I’m more differed from than differing.”

From a TV series: Tough call, but maybe Sally from “Third Rock from the Sun.” Her awkwardness and idiosyncracies are funny, but they seem awfully… familiar.

From a movie: Probably Jacob Singer, from Jacob’s Ladder. He’s tall like I am, and his relationship with his wife (the first one) reminds me of my family.

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Elizabeth Bennett from “Pride and Prejudice.”

Not originally MY idea, but enough people have told me so that I finally came around.

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  1. Jane Eyre.

  2. I’m not sure, since I don’t watch TV all that often.

  3. Somebody once told me I resembled the Emma Thompson character from Peter’s Friends, and I regret to say this is probably true. I wish it weren’t.