Zaphod Beeblebrox. Just because.
I’d probably go for someone like Data - benevolent, would find a productive way to help modern society, and has encyclopedic knowledge of all sorts of future tech.
Downside is that Data might decide to preserve the Prime Directive and refuse to give any future tech. Can anyone think of a similar option without that drawback?
Lore.
Durkon from Order of the Stick.
Hopefully NOT Durkula, AF.
Non-benevolent. He’d try to take over Earth and make himself Emperor.
Doctor Strange.
Daneel Olivaw.
If robots are included, then 1 vote for Marvin the Paranoid Android. I want him as a pet.
Tom Sawyer. Or, anybody from that group.
Then, Alvin Fernald. http://www.amazon.com/Marvelous-Inventions-Alvin-Fernald/dp/1930900724
The Tenth Doctor.
Or the protagonist of my own series, just because I’d like to meet him in real life.
Data has shown that he is willing to break the prime directive when he befriends a little girl
shouldn’t be too hard to get information out of him
Too many people know the Three Laws. Some jackass would shout, “Destroy yourself! That’s an order!” You’d have to keep him in very strict isolation.
Definitely, Data. At least he could restore his name to its proper pronunciation.
Ziggy Stardust.
My first thought was Hannibal Lechter. I’m really really warped.
The Interesting Times Gang from Ian Banks’ Culture novels. They would get shit handled.
A gluten-free samosa.
It’d be kind of weird to eat this thing that I’d just brought to life, but I miss samosas, and you can’t find them gluten-free.
Superman is nothing. Pantywaist.
- Superpowered.
- Willful
- Utterly committed to a better world and willing to do whatever it takes (obsolete governments that don’t represent the greater good, destroying oligarchies, killing evil leaders) to acheive that goal.
The only comic book character I’ve actively been in love with.
Brainiac 5, from the Legion of Superheroes. Of course, you would have to persuade him not to build a time machine to get back to the 30th Century.
I would go with one of the genius/inventors: Braniac 5, Mister Fantastic, Henry Pym, Iron Man. Preferably from the 1960s or 1970s, before Marvel decided to turn all of their major characters into psycho cases.