# What fictional characters would make great Dopers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045 "2010-07-26T14:29:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/1 "2010-07-26T14:29:56Z")
Also, what forums or sort of posts would they prefer? Bonus points for writing the sorts of posts the character would write. I don’t care if you want to talk about characters from literature, theatre, cineama, or television: only that you restrict yourselves to imaginary personages. I’ll open the bidding with [Ducky](http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/ducky.png) from NCIS. He’d be an absolute star in General Questions – handling not only medical questions, but history and politics as well. Anybody else? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/2 "2010-07-26T14:47:49Z")
Elizabeth Bennett: I’d love to see her comments on modern etiquette, not to mention Cafe Society. Queequeeg: “So you’re saying that I, as a Pacific Islander, have a genetic predisposition to being able to throw a harpoon and kill a whale, and it’s not just that I have guts and have been on the water since I was a baby? I can’t buy that.” ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/3 "2010-07-26T14:53:24Z")
The trick is finding interesting characters from fiction who would be willing to spend a lot of time sitting in front of a computer. I’d submit Barbara Gordon aka Oracle. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/4 "2010-07-26T14:59:01Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > The trick is finding interesting characters from fiction who would be willing to spend a lot of time sitting in front of a computer. I think you’ve got a good point there. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/5 "2010-07-26T15:06:44Z")
Sheldon and Leonard, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/6 "2010-07-26T15:26:49Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Sheldon and Leonard, of course. Because…? You realize not everyone on the board knows what series you’re referring to, no? ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/7 "2010-07-26T15:29:44Z")
Elvis Cole from Robert Crais’ books. He’d totally rock MPSIMS. I also second Ducky. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/8 "2010-07-26T15:32:45Z")
Well… [Glen Bateman would make an outstanding Doper. Harold Lauder, on the other hand, would make a vile (but very, very proficient) Doper.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Bateman#Characters) (Again, the link I posted contains spoilers concerning **The Stand**.) ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/9 "2010-07-26T15:49:44Z")
Willow Rosenberg from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” would be a good doper. She liked to surf the net for info back in high school, and as she matured and blossomed sexually she would take an interest on the gay-rights debates. As she became evil Dark Willow though, maybe we’d have to ban her. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/10 "2010-07-26T15:53:12Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > As she became evil Dark Willow though, maybe we’d have to ban her. Although it would be tempting to make her a moderator, with powers like those. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/11 "2010-07-26T16:00:09Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > Willow Rosenberg from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” would be a good doper. She liked to surf the net for info back in high school, and as she matured and blossomed sexually she would take an interest on the gay-rights debates. > > As she became evil Dark Willow though, maybe we’d have to ban her. Banning Dark Willow does not end well. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/12 "2010-07-26T16:22:58Z")
I could totally see Cliff Clavin hanging around General Questions. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/13 "2010-07-26T16:23:56Z")
Jubal Harshaw, Lazarus Long, Maureen, Hazel Stone from Heinlein. Doc Webster, Jake, Mike Callahan, and most of the gang from Spider Robinson’s _Callahan_ Series. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/14 "2010-07-26T16:24:34Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I could totally see Cliff Clavin hanging around General Questions. While he’d be an _entertaining_ doper, I have a hard time seeing him as a “good” one. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/15 "2010-07-26T16:25:43Z")
Greatness is subjective, but I submit that many currently active dopers _are_ fictional characters. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/16 "2010-07-26T16:28:05Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Jubal Harshaw, Lazarus Long, Maureen, Hazel Stone from Heinlein. Maureen, definitely. She had readeritis. Lazarus, occasionally, certainly in his anti-social moods. Jubal, definitely not. He has too much contempt for the hoi polloi to tolerate us. Not sure about Hazel. I mostly think of her as Gwen from The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and in that book she simply never had time. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I could totally see Cliff Clavin hanging around General Questions. DON’T EVEN JOKE ABOUT THAT! ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/17 "2010-07-26T16:29:12Z")
I think that Patricia Savage would be a good Doper. Her cousin Clark, on the other hand? Too boring. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/18 "2010-07-26T16:30:58Z")
I don’t remember her name, but Felicia Day’s character from “The Guild”…for that matter, just about ALL of the people from “The Guild.” ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/19 "2010-07-26T16:54:18Z")
Christian Slater’s character in _Heathers_ would probably fit right in with the Pit and Great Debates. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/20 "2010-07-26T16:59:48Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I don’t remember her name, but Felicia Day’s character from “The Guild”…for that matter, just about ALL of the people from “The Guild.” Now that you’ve said that, I’ll probably visualize **AClockworkMelon** as \*\*Bladezz \*\*from now on. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045.md?page=2)