# You may quantum leap into a fictional character's life for one week. Who do you choose? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990 "2010-01-14T21:28:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [January 14, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/21 "2010-01-14T23:08:13Z")
Han Solo. Advanced interstellar civilization, cool spaceship, married to a Hot Princess. Pals with a Wookie & a Jedi Master. Nifty. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/22 "2010-01-14T23:12:27Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Han Solo. > Advanced interstellar civilization, cool spaceship, married to a Hot Princess. Pals with a Wookie & a Jedi Master. > > Nifty. interesting you wouldn’t have picked episode 2 anakin who had a cool spaceship, married to a hot princess, pals with a gungan, and WAS a jedi master. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/23 "2010-01-14T23:18:09Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > interesting you wouldn’t have picked episode 2 anakin who had a cool spaceship, married to a hot princess, pals with a gungan, and WAS a jedi master. Anakin was never a Jedi master. He was, at best, a knight. That said,he had the hotter princess, as his was played by Earth’s hottest woman. On the other hand, leaping into Anakin means living with the memories of being the galaxy’s biggest wanker for a week. I’m not sure even sex with Natalie Portman is worth that, particularly as one could just as simply leap into the Toby Mcguire character from BROTHERS during the week before he shipped out to Afghanistan. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/24 "2010-01-14T23:29:20Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > interesting you wouldn’t have picked episode 2 anakin who had a cool spaceship, married to a hot princess, pals with a gungan, and WAS a jedi master. Who the F\*CK wants to pal around with Jar-Jar?:mad:;)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/25 "2010-01-14T23:33:27Z")
Simon Tam from _Firefly_. Granted, you’re a clueless dork, but you get to follow along with Mal & Co., and the hottest mechanic in the known universe lusts for you. Believe me, if I was in Simon’s shoes, Kaylie wouldn’t be just dreaming about me… ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/26 "2010-01-14T23:34:58Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Who the F\*CK wants to pal around with Jar-Jar?:mad:;)😃 True. Dat. ---
**Author:** ![This\_Just\_In\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/27 "2010-01-14T23:35:33Z")
Why bother with Superman, his powers pale to the most powerful fictional character of all - \<\<\\>\> And if I was \<\<\\>\> then my all encompassing power would surely allow me to stay on longer than a week. Please welcome your new omnipresent overlord… ---
**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:** [January 14, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/28 "2010-01-14T23:42:19Z")
> [@This\_Just\_In\_2](#): > > Why bother with Superman, his powers pale to the most powerful fictional character of all - \<\<\\>\> > > And if I was \<\<\\>\> then my all encompassing power would surely allow me to stay on longer than a week. I haven’t tried it out myself, but I seriously doubt the QLA is going to work on God, and I also suspect that even trying at best amuse him and at worst seriously piss him off. Anyone wishing to prove me wrong is invited to steal and/or invent his/her/its own leaping chamber. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/29 "2010-01-14T23:51:13Z")
John Horatio Malkovich ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/30 "2010-01-15T00:03:23Z")
I’ll take Lawrence Newton from **Fallen Dragon** , but specifically after he gets his own ship from the aliens, goes through the wormhole, then reunites with his love in the past on Amethi. Meeting giant space aliens, getting new patternform body construction, flying a custom spaceship through a wormhole into the past, then sleeping with an energetic young hottie as a wealthy young guy on an alien planet until my week runs out. Just before it does, it’s back to the wormhole to do it again and again until I get bored. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/31 "2010-01-15T00:09:19Z")
Later answers will likely include [any of these](http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_characters), if I know my fellow Dopers. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/32 "2010-01-15T00:11:11Z")
Jerry Seinfeld the character ---
**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:** [January 15, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/33 "2010-01-15T00:14:18Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Later answers will likely include [any of these](http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_characters), if I know my fellow Dopers. 😃 The hell they will. Only a madman would want to live through any of the interesting part of any of Tolkien’s work. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/34 "2010-01-15T00:16:45Z")
We can specify the point in the fictional timeline, right? If so, then Ultimate Reed Richards, from well before Ultimatum. Young, brilliant, a very exciting life, a very cool power (even better than the original), and one hot (and smart) girlfriend. Plus, I think, given a week and the idea, I/Reed could reverse engineer the Quantum Leap Accelerator… ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/35 "2010-01-15T00:32:29Z")
Pick a Mary Sue, any Mary Sue. I’d be beautiful and perfect and wonderful and do everything right. And everyone would think I’m awesome. ETA: Not that I’m not already perfect and wonderful and the [del]secret[/del] master of the universe, you understand. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/36 "2010-01-15T00:34:15Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > We can specify the point in the fictional timeline, right? If so, then Ultimate Reed Richards, from well before Ultimatum. > Young, brilliant, a very exciting life, a very cool power (even better than the original), and one hot (and smart) girlfriend. > > Plus, I think, given a week and the idea, I/Reed could reverse engineer the Quantum Leap Accelerator… Since trapping Ultimate Reed Richards for a week in my quantum leap accelerator is logically equivalent to giving him the quantum leap accelerator for his own use, with the added bonus of having a pissed-off Sue Storm and Ben Grimm track me down and beat the crap out of me, I will have to suggest that you steal his life your ownself. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/37 "2010-01-15T00:39:28Z")
Tony Stark, early Michelinie era. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/38 "2010-01-15T00:47:00Z")
You didn’t specify _science_ fiction, did you? ::Checks spoilered rules to verify:: Whew! O.K. then: Harriet Vane, for the week of _Busman’s Honeymoon_. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/39 "2010-01-15T00:59:09Z")
Being me, I’ll just stretch **Skald** ’s rules a little bit, and leap into the fictional character of pro wrestler “Cowboy Bill Watts” (coincidentally played by a real person also known as Cowboy Bill Watts), during his run against Hotstuff Eddie Gilbert and the Russians. IIRC, Watts was allegedly sleeping with Dark Journey (a really hot female valet), smoking lots of really good weed, and pretending to kick Russian ass around the territory to the cheers of wildly enthusiastic crowds. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/40 "2010-01-15T01:22:13Z")
Marvin. I’d like to experience a brain the size of a planet. The depression I can handle, it would make normal life look good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990.md?page=3)