# Which character's life do you want? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2001, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735 "2001-08-29T16:28:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/21 "2001-09-01T03:10:55Z")
Steve from The Tao Of Steve. And if we’re allowed to pick a non-fictional character - Pablo Picasso. Everything I’ve heard about him just suggests he had a voracious appetite for life. ---
**Author:** ![Daboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@Daboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daboman)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/22 "2005-06-08T22:21:12Z")
Roland the gunslinger. He kicks ass and can kick anyone elses too ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/23 "2005-06-08T22:30:51Z")
Inspired by [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320097) thread, how about a list of the best TV sidekick characters? Ethel Mertz - “I Love Lucy” Ed Norton - “the Honeymooners” Maynard G. Krebbs - “the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” Robin / Dick Grayson - “Batman” Emma Peel - “the Avengers” Agent 99 - “Get Smart” Dr. Julia Hoffman - “Dark Shadows” Rhoda Morgenstern - “the Mary Tyler Moore Show” Tattoo - “Fantasy Island” Bosley - “Charlie’s Angels” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/24 "2005-06-08T22:32:22Z")
HUH?? :eek: How’d that happen? I meant to start a whole new thread, but my post got added onto the end of this thread. MODERATER - HELP!! ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/25 "2005-06-08T22:32:51Z")
Most of these people go through major peril and tribilations. My choice, even if I could be Superman, I’d be Archie. Archie Andrews. The biggest problem in that guy’s life is deciding who he’d rather shag this weekend: Betty, Veronica, or, for a change of pace, Cheryl Blossom. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/26 "2005-06-08T22:38:54Z")
I’d be Zack Allen from Babylon 5. He gets the ringside seat at the most thrilling war in human history, and ultimately ends up as special assistant to the Centauri Emperor Kotto. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/27 "2005-06-08T22:44:48Z")
I’d like to be Buttercup, from _The Princess Bride_. Life would be exciting, I would have perfect breasts, and I would get a happy ending, but just barely. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/28 "2005-06-08T23:00:46Z")
I want to be Goldberry. I’d get to frolick in the river, get all kinds of nifty water plants, live in a groovy house, and Eru willing, I’d know the mystery behind my fictional husband. . . ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/29 "2005-06-08T23:02:15Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > HUH?? :eek: > > How’d that happen? I meant to start a whole new thread, but my post got added onto the end of this thread. > > MODERATER - HELP!! I don’t think your TV sidekicks spinoff is getting much traction here. You might think about doing a C&P and attempting to start the thread again. P.S. Patrick Star, _Spongebob Squarepants_ Carl, _The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron_ ---
**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:** [June 8, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/30 "2005-06-08T23:07:04Z")
Ron Stoppable has a cool date for the Prom. And Fry, from Futurama, lives in a cool future. And being one of Doc Savage’s team would be cool. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/31 "2005-06-08T23:09:22Z")
Then again, call me Bond, **Bosda** Bond. And ya gotta ask why, you need to get more sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/32 "2005-06-08T23:11:40Z")
Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. He’s a great Dad. MiM ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/33 "2005-06-08T23:24:01Z")
I want to be Zoe from _Firefly_. Live on a spaceship, be an awesome kickass, have an adorable wise-cracking husband. And the hair. She’s got awesome hair. Or Lina Inverse (_Slayers_). Life as one long D&D game has its appeal, as does blowing shit up whenever the whim strikes me. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/34 "2005-06-09T00:36:43Z")
In LOTR , an unwritten character … Whatever chick gets to get Elfed by Legolas . 😃 Oh yeah , ELF ME BABY !!! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/35 "2005-06-09T00:45:44Z")
**The Joker.** Always a smile on his face, his days filled with laughter… ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/36 "2005-06-09T01:32:19Z")
Death of the Endless. She seems to have such a good philosophy of…err…life. And she always seems to be enjoying herself. Actually my first thought was that it would be fun to be Dream of the Endless but then he _never_ seems to be enjoying himself. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/37 "2005-06-09T01:35:33Z")
**Which character’s life do you want?** Indiana Jones’. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/38 "2005-06-09T01:42:46Z")
Harriet Vane’s. I mean, the getting arrested for murder thing would suck, but beyond that. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/39 "2005-06-09T02:04:12Z")
Lazarus Long. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-characters-life-do-you-want/78735/40 "2005-06-09T02:13:08Z")
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