# What fictional character do you most identify with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-do-you-most-identify-with/145411 "2002-12-28T22:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-do-you-most-identify-with/145411/1 "2002-12-28T22:59:08Z")
Semi-related to [Best Movie About Your Profession](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152475&pagenumber=2) , 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-do-you-most-identify-with/145411/2 "2002-12-29T00:19:14Z")
E.T. And the girl from The Exorcist ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-do-you-most-identify-with/145411/3 "2002-12-29T00:27:15Z")
Book: Jo, Little Women Show:Jack, Will & Grace Movie: Stacey, Fast Times At Ridgemont High ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-do-you-most-identify-with/145411/4 "2002-12-29T00:27:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-do-you-most-identify-with/145411/5 "2002-12-29T00:31:31Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-do-you-most-identify-with/145411/6 "2002-12-29T01:00:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-do-you-most-identify-with/145411/7 "2002-12-29T01:37:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-do-you-most-identify-with/145411/8 "2002-12-29T02:25:35Z")
Elizabeth Bennett from “Pride and Prejudice.” Not originally MY idea, but enough people have told me so that I finally came around. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-character-do-you-most-identify-with/145411/9 "2002-12-29T03:01:09Z")
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.