# What fictional characters have you fallen most in love with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 2, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227 "2004-10-02T20:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/101 "2004-10-05T17:01:27Z")
Speaking of wrong on so many levels, is there anyone else here who thinks that Tenniel’s Alice would be world-level amazing upon reaching majority? Alice Pleasance, herself, didn’t turn out to be as stunning upon adulthood, but her photograph still shows the strong personality that Alice in Wonderland had (or maybe it was just having to keep still for a Victorian-era photo :)) ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/102 "2004-10-05T17:38:11Z")
How this thread managed to make three pages with no mention of Kitty Pryde is beyond me. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/103 "2004-10-05T18:09:39Z")
Could one of the Nymphadora Tonks fans please explain to me the appeal? I don’t get it. All we see of her in the book thus far amounts to “Oh, and this is Nymphadora Tonks, and she’s another member of the Order. Tonks, this is Harry.”. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/104 "2004-10-05T18:32:33Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Could one of the Nymphadora Tonks fans please explain to me the appeal? I don’t get it. All we see of her in the book thus far amounts to “Oh, and this is Nymphadora Tonks, and she’s another member of the Order. Tonks, this is Harry.”. Not at all. For example, we know she’s clumsy. And something of a troublemaker back in her school days. And she has a playful, whimsical personality. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/105 "2004-10-05T18:39:41Z")
And can change her appearance. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/106 "2004-10-05T19:39:28Z")
> [@Hot Buttered Toast](#): > > Movies: > Abe Sapien from Hellboy. :eek: And I thought I was the only one! He makes me melt. Fishy, yet so elegant and articulate. Sigh. Oh, and sorry, but…he already asked _me_ out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/107 "2004-10-05T19:48:30Z")
From TV: Spike - BTVS Giles - BTVS Grissom - CSI Jack Malone - Without a Trace Movies: Benedick (a la Kenneth Branagh) Severus Snape (not the book Snape–only the movie Snape!) Ron Weasley if I were a LOT younger Books: Rhett Butler (Scarlett had no taste whatsoever. Ashley Wilkes was a wimp!) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/108 "2004-10-27T17:17:25Z")
**Marcus Didius Falco** ---
**Author:** ![furthur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@furthur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furthur)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/109 "2004-10-27T21:40:24Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > **Marcus Didius Falco** I’ll second you on Marcus. I’d want Marcus for a husband/life partner, but first I’d want to bang his friend Lucius Petronius until he was powerless to move. Same goes for Legolas, although elves might have a lot more staying power than I do. 😃 Haldir would be gorgeous for a fling, too. I’d also second Tim Canterbury from The Office. Tasty. Can’t believe no one’s mentioned Xander Harris from BtVS – what can I say? OMG! I love geeky guys. 😉 I dunno exactly _why_ they’re both hot, but they are just _smoking_. I’ll third Joe Morelli. Give-me-some-of that. Not too sure if I could put up with his chauvinist BS for more than a fling, though. Also, a big vote for Nate Fisher on Six Feet Under. I’ve only seen the first couple of seasons, but he’s yummy and oh-so-sensitive. A keeper. I’ll third Indiana Jones, Wesley from the Princess Bride, and Darcy from either Pride & Prejudice (movie or book) and Frederick Wentworth from Persuasion (movie). You can keep your Weasleys – okay, I’d have a fling with either of the twins, but Ron’s not my type. I’d want Harry Potter all to myself, thanks, even though he’s hopeless with girls. Maybe more of the geeky attraction thing. Also, Cameron Crowe from Almost Famous. Fox Mulder from the X-files. Love dem geeky men. 😃 Mrs. Furthur ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/110 "2004-10-27T22:34:58Z")
Two very different characters from _Babylon 5_. Michael Garibaldi, or Marcus Cole. And if Vir Cotto wasn’t a different species, I’d consider him too. ---
**Author:** ![Ezekiel25\_17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@Ezekiel25\_17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ezekiel25_17)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/111 "2004-10-27T23:06:53Z")
I find it extremely gratifying that Han Solo is the only character that has no need of explaination or introduction. I love Fred from Angel, but not as much as Illyria. Kaylee from Firefly is a given and in that same vein, Gadget from Rescue Rangers. Early Willow, or as I like to think of her: Oz Willow. Oh hell, throw Oz on the list too. Jania “Sticks” Solo from the Star Wars Books (I mean look at the pedigree: Amidala, Leia…cough\* Han\* cough) And Topanga Lawrence from Boy Meets World. Again the early one, before she went all mainstream. Sweet, sweet Topanga. This list is qucikly becoming somehting I need to bring to my next therapy session. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![parsnip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parsnip/32/4564_2.png) [@parsnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parsnip)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/112 "2004-10-30T05:41:28Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Lucky Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, from O’Brien’s series of novels. I dig those guys. I know the way they talk, what they like to eat, the music they play together, and how they manage to get along even though they are very different people. > > I’ve also been on their ship. 🙂 Ditto, without the ship visit. I do have the cookbook, though. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/113 "2004-10-30T06:54:19Z")
# 1 of all time anywhere, no contest: My Spiky from Buffy. In literature, OWEN MEANY! ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/114 "2004-10-30T10:10:28Z")
Hmmm.I shall be locked away soon but… Hermione Granger(HP) Pandora Braithwaite(Adrian Mole) Lisa Simpson ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/115 "2004-10-30T16:26:27Z")
Farscape; Chiana; love her independent “i don’t take dren from anyone” attitude, and her sense of humour is offbeat and quirky Aeryn Sun; strong, independent, powerful P’au Zotoh Zhann; calm, serene, spiritual i also loved Troi in my younger days, part of it was her unidentifiable accent also from Trek; Khey’ler; loved the Klingon temper mixed with offbeat human humor B’Elanna Torres; i guess it’s that Klingon independent streak that gets me Kes; such a passsion for life aside from the obvious…points…i never really got into liking “The Comfy Borg” (7 of 9) ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/116 "2004-10-30T17:52:35Z")
What? No one’s mentioned Rosemary Shanahan from [the Greatest Movie of the Millennium](http://home.netcom.com/~rogermw/ShallowHal.html) yet? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/117 "2004-10-30T18:04:33Z")
Obi-Wan Kenobi-maybe it’s just because Ewan McGregor is so yummy? Colonel Brandon from _Sense and Sensibility_ ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/118 "2004-10-30T19:05:01Z")
My first crush was Luke Skywalker, but I think that’s because my sisters were all already fighting over Han, Now I’m definitely going for Han Solo. Luke’s a little too whiny for me. Mr. Rochester(in any version, book, movie, I don’t care) Q (It hadn’t really occured to me, but yeah, he’s definitely up there on the list, just my type.) Rupert Giles Jack O’Neill from Stargate SG-1(and I think I’m the first one to mention him too. He’s my latest crush, and what a fun one it is.) -Lil ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/119 "2004-10-31T02:24:31Z")
Edward Fairfax Rochester Master Robinton John Steed Remington Steele Duncan Macleod Michael from “La Femme Nikita” Vincent from “Beauty and the Beast” (and possibly Father, shut up) ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227/120 "2004-10-31T03:21:33Z")
Emma Peel was a good call. Bailey is right up there too. But the discussion is over with the mention of [Jessica](http://gil.formosa.free.fr/galerie/Disney_warner/images/DISNEY%20JESSICA%20RABBIT.jpg) 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-have-you-fallen-most-in-love-with/267227.md?page=7)