# What fictional characters would fit in best (or worst) with the culture of the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610 "2008-03-17T02:46:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/41 "2008-03-18T22:12:36Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] If he were fictional, yes. [/QUOTE] I suspect this was a whoosh. Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Clemens and therefore _is_ technically a fictional character. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/42 "2008-03-18T22:21:10Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Actually, Batman would be **un** -prepared: he is too certain that he is Right to enjoy debate or dissent. Superman, being a journalist & author, would be a fine choice. [/QUOTE] OTOH, Lois Lane would inspire all sorts of pittings. Jimmy Olsen could be amusing (I’ve been turned into some kind of alien freak. Need help fast!) Spider Jerusalem would be great until his first meltdown (which would probably be as soon as he noticed GD) then instant bannination. His filthy assistants might do better, especially Yelena. Oracle and Robin would be awesome. (oh, you’re having computer trouble? Hold on a second. How’s it now?) I’d love to see the Riddler in some of the game threads. How about Death of the Endless? Or any of them. Well, Destiny would probably be insufferable. Deadpool. Hell, I’d pay for his membership. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/43 "2008-03-18T22:28:09Z")
I think Wesley from _Angel_ would be a great addition. He’s well-read, and could contribute on a wide variety of topics. But he’s also a bit unstable, and so there’d be very entertaining meltdowns on occasion. The mention of Tim from _Spaced_ made me think that Shaun from _Shaun of the Dead_ would be a fun addition in Cafe Society. And Danny from _Hot Fuzz_. You’d never have an unanswered question about a cop movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/44 "2008-03-18T22:28:39Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] Journalist? Author? Say what? [/QUOTE] Clark Kent is a well-respected journalist & author. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/45 "2008-03-18T22:29:59Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Clark Kent is a well-respected journalist & author. [/QUOTE] Clark Kent? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/46 "2008-03-18T22:39:48Z")
[QUOTE=coffinjumper] I suspect this was a whoosh. Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Clemens and therefore _is_ technically a fictional character. [/QUOTE] 😕 Well, then, sir, unless “ **Coffinjumper** ” is your given name, so are you. Or am I being whooshed too? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/47 "2008-03-18T22:53:08Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] Clark Kent? :eek: [/QUOTE] \ ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/48 "2008-03-18T23:17:37Z")
Best: Walter Mitty Madame DeFarge Victor Frankenstein Worst: Scarlett O’Hara Dr. Abraham Van Helsing Indiana Jones ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/49 "2008-03-18T23:35:13Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Clark Kent is a well-respected journalist & author. [/QUOTE] What does that have anything to do with Superman though? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/50 "2008-03-18T23:43:02Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] What does that have anything to do with Superman though? 😕 [/QUOTE] It’s been done. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/51 "2008-03-18T23:47:29Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] It’s been done. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Answer the question, dammit! What does Clark Kent have to do with Superman? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/52 "2008-03-18T23:53:09Z")
[QUOTE=GargoyleWB] And I’m sure any of Heinlein’s verbose, flirty, cerebral, plunging-necklined women would be most welcomed. [/QUOTE] Jpgs! Okay, to make an actual contribution, how about the old man himself: Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois, instructor of History and Moral Philosophy in _Starship Troopers_. I can see him making quite a stir in GD. ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/53 "2008-03-19T00:02:39Z")
[QUOTE=Peak Banana] 😕 Well, then, sir, unless “ **Coffinjumper** ” is your given name, so are you. Or am I being whooshed too? [/QUOTE] If Coffinjumper is a “sir” than I sure the hell am! Sweet. And yeah, that would be part of the joke on that. I’m assuming, of course. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/54 "2008-03-19T00:30:10Z")
[QUOTE=Creaky] Best: Victor Frankenstein Worst: Dr. Abraham Van Helsing [/QUOTE] I’d think it’d be the other way around. Can you explain? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/55 "2008-03-19T01:08:04Z")
I can see Professor Snapecoming in with the zingers. I would love to see Dr. Greg House start a Pit thread about Dr. Perry Cox. That would be epic. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/56 "2008-03-19T01:11:53Z")
Adrian Monk would flee in horror ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/57 "2008-03-19T03:22:43Z")
[QUOTE=Creaky] Best: Worst: Dr. Abraham Van Helsing Indiana Jones [/QUOTE] I dunno, I think both of those could be very interesting. How about Dr. Van Helsing’s great-granddaughter Sir Integra? At least as long as we could keep Alucard off. (He might make interesting posts but a massive flaming as soon as someone slighted his mistress would be inevitable) Or Seras (ask the new vampire with newly enormous boobs) ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/58 "2008-03-19T03:25:48Z")
Tim Drake would fit in pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/59 "2008-03-19T13:21:37Z")
> [@Creaky](#): > > Indiana Jones Signature line: **PLEASE. _NO MORE QUESTIONS_ ABOUT MY HAT, SHIRT, JACKET, etc. etc. I’M A BUSY GUY. GO TO MY WEBSITE.** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610/60 "2008-03-20T05:02:40Z")
Shasti. Five wildly unstable personalities, a mean streak, self pity, and the Admins could NEVER ban her 'cause she’d hack any efforts to do so. She’d fit any forum. Might be hard to keep her on topic. There shall be no further clues given as to who Shasti is. WILL BE, technically. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441610.md?page=4)