# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/41 "2010-07-27T09:03:56Z")
I have always thought that the character from whom I have taken my username would have been a wonderfully entertaining (and probably short-lived) troll somewhere on these boards. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/42 "2010-07-27T14:06:58Z")
Wow. Outside of House, Peter Venkman, Sherlock Holmes, and Frasier, I have no clue who any of you are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/43 "2010-07-27T14:08:49Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > Wow. Outside of House, Peter Venkman, Sherlock Holmes, and Frasier, I have no clue who any of you are talking about. Mycroft Holmes is Sherlock’s brilliant, couch potato brother. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/44 "2010-07-27T14:11:14Z")
What’s the name of Adrian Monk’s brother? Can’t google it, but he’d be a good candidate. His responses in GQ might get a tad encyclopedic, but nobody would be able to accuse them of being incomplete. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/45 "2010-07-27T14:14:08Z")
Dr Temperance Brennan (from BONES TV show) Peter Wimsey (from Dorothy Sayers’ novels) ---
**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 27, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/46 "2010-07-27T14:16:06Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > > [@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. > > Mycroft Holmes Technically not “in front”. ---
**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 27, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/47 "2010-07-27T14:18:48Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > Wow. Outside of House, Peter Venkman, Sherlock Holmes, and Frasier, I have no clue who any of you are talking about. Barbara Gordon is Commissioner Gordon’s daughter (Commissioner Gordon being Batman’s connection and occasionally friend in the Gotham police force). She was formerly Batgirl, until she took a bullet to the spine which she has somehow not miraculously recovered from. Instead, she became a superhero-level computer hacker named Oracle. She basically knows everything about everything and could out-tough-guy the Internet Tough Guys as well. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/48 "2010-07-27T14:25:40Z")
Hagbard Celine ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/49 "2010-07-27T14:31:22Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > I’d nominate **Adrian Monk**. “You missed a comma.” “What?” “Right there, after the clause. You should have a comma.” “Oh all right. Anyway, who do you think is the killer, **OCDdetective**?” “Not until you go back and change the original post to add the comma.” \ **OCDdetective** : “What? _What did that say?_” > [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Sherlock Holmes. Doctor Watson could do regular MMP updates: “You’ll never believe our weekend with the Giant Rat of Sumatra!” ---
**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:** [July 27, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/50 "2010-07-27T14:47:42Z")
Hamlet, of course! The Diet of Worms joke alone is proof enough. ---
**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 27, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/51 "2010-07-27T14:52:04Z")
NM ---
**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 27, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/52 "2010-07-27T14:55:38Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > > [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > > > Wow. Outside of House, Peter Venkman, Sherlock Holmes, and Frasier, I have no clue who any of you are talking about. > > Barbara Gordon is Commissioner Gordon’s daughter (Commissioner Gordon being Batman’s connection and occasionally friend in the Gotham police force). She was formerly Batgirl, until she took a bullet to the spine which she has somehow not miraculously recovered from. Instead, she became a superhero-level computer hacker named Oracle. She basically knows everything about everything and could out-tough-guy the Internet Tough Guys as well. I don’t think she’d bother out-toughing internet tough guys. I mean, she used to be a superhero; her best friend is Black Canary; she used to sleep with Dick Grayson and, in some continuities, Bruce Wayne; and she has Clark Kent’s home phone number. Virtual tough guys would at best amuse her. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/53 "2010-07-27T15:19:42Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Peter Venkman, probably. Oh come on. Once Venkman (Bill Murray’s character from _Ghostbusters_ to those who don’t recognize the name) discovered internet porn do you really think he’s going to spend any time here on the Dope? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/54 "2010-07-27T15:27:31Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > Wow. Outside of House, Peter Venkman, Sherlock Holmes, and Frasier, I have no clue who any of you are talking about. Adrian Monk is a Sherlock Holmes type character with OCD and a ton of phobias on a show called **Monk**. Cliff Clavin was a blow hard know-it-all mailman in the series **Cheers**. ---
**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 27, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/55 "2010-07-27T15:56:22Z")
Chiun. Font of knowledge, and destroyer of trolls. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/56 "2010-07-27T17:42:18Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Doctor Watson could do regular MMP updates: “You’ll never believe our weekend with the Giant Rat of Sumatra!” I was reading about a new BBC series called Sherlock, where the characters are updated to modern day. In it Watson is still a military doctor wounded in Afghanistan. He posts their adventures to his blog. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/57 "2010-07-28T03:41:43Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > > > I could totally see Cliff Clavin hanging around General Questions. > > Some of our members do a pretty good impersonation. 🙂 I was going to say “So… which of the GQ posters ISN’T Cliff Clavin?” But you sorta beat me to it… Cliff. ---
**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 29, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/58 "2010-07-29T13:51:56Z")
In Cafe Society: [Statler and/or Waldorf](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statler_and_Waldorf) [Jay Sherman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Critic) Rob, Dick, and Barry from [High](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Fidelity_(novel)) [Fidelity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Fidelity_(film)) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/59 "2010-07-29T14:29:29Z")
Mr. Universe in Cafe Society or The Pit would be a blast. “There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there’s the puppet theater the Parliament jesters foist on the somnambulant public.” ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-characters-would-make-great-dopers/548045/60 "2010-07-30T21:23:52Z")
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