# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/81 "2010-01-16T01:28:42Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’m not going to disappoint the LOTR fans: > > Faramir, post ROTK. Who wouldn’t want to get their hands on Eowyn? 🙂 > > King Elessar Telcontar, post ROTK: Arwen. 'Nuff said! Oh come on! If those were my base motives, I would want to be Celeborn, husband of Galadriel, the Noldor princess and fairest of all elves! (excepting maybe Luthien). If I were to be in Lord of the Rings, I’d like to be Treebeard for a week, right before and after the invasion of Isengard - one of most satisfying occurrences in fiction of a villain getting his just deserts. Other possibilities: Louis Wu, flying over the Ringworld. As previously mentioned, Sherlock Homes, while solving one of the thornier cases, maybe the mystery of Silver Blaze, which offers a nice little trip to the countryside. Or the man who proved himself smarter than Herlock Sholmes, french gentleman-adventurier Arsene Lupin. Finally, d’Artagnan, _the_ most famous of the musketeers (yes I know he wasn’t really a musketeer at the beginning hence the title). Perhaps around the time of his duel with the 4 englishmen and subsequent seduction of Milady, though of course I would sneak out without revealing myself, instead of stupidly sticking around until the morning after and making her my deadly enemy. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/82 "2010-01-16T06:28:15Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I will bet all the money in my IRA against all the nickels in your piggy bank that June insists on making love with the lights off, while wearing a flannel nightgown with a very small hole in the groin. Also that she spends the entire time staring at the ceiling and thinking of England. > > Well, the Mid-west. Trust me, it’s amazing what you can do with a bottle of wine. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/83 "2010-01-16T23:11:04Z")
Easiest question I’ve ever seen. **Bullitt**. As in the Steve McQueen character in the film of that name. Because Cathy, his gf, was played by [Jacqueline Bisset](http://bit.ly/8wNAGt). She’s still the perfect woman, even now, but back in 1968 she was even perfecter. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/84 "2010-01-16T23:41:40Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > Riker aboard the Enterprise D or E. He seemed like the one that would have some fun and it would be neat to be on the ship for a week. This makes me want to be Tom Paris for a week so I could kill Janeway in the 23rd hour of the 7th day. ---
**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 16, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/85 "2010-01-16T23:44:15Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > This makes me want to be Tom Paris for a week so I could kill Janeway in the 23rd hour of the 7th day. Admittedly that would probably be for the betterment of the galaxy, but.. You know, I can’t actually think of a counter-argument. Except for Janeway’s hotness, about which I am sure many of y’all disagree. And even that doesn’t make up for the swath of suffering and murder that was her career. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/86 "2010-01-16T23:52:20Z")
Chuck Bartowski. Getting to hang out with Adam Baldwin and have a bunch of sexual tension with Yvonne Stravhardtospellname? SCHWING! ---
**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:** [January 17, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-may-quantum-leap-into-a-fictional-characters-life-for-one-week-who-do-you-choose/524990/87 "2010-01-17T00:41:31Z")
Dexter, or Berty Wooster. Whoa, that disturbed even me. [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=4)