# Your favourite TV/film character? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072 "2016-07-16T20:06:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/21 "2016-07-18T14:59:12Z")
Malcolm Reynolds The Doctor ---
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Blair Waldorf (Gossip Girl) Jarod (The Pretender) Arvin Sloane (Alias) Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls) MacGyver (MacGyver) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/23 "2016-07-18T19:48:37Z")
Thomas Magnum, for the free rent on the estate and the free use of the cool car. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/24 "2016-07-18T20:25:04Z")
Lt. Columbo ---
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Since several people within this thread have listed more than one, I’ll list some of mine: Lt. Frank Ballinger (_M Squad_) Captain Barney Miller of the 12th Precinct Dr. Bob Hartley (_The Bob Newhart Show_) Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, and Max (_Hart to Hart_) Detective Joe Mannix and his secretary Peggy Fair (_Mannix_) Perry Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake (_Perry Mason_) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/26 "2016-07-19T16:32:39Z")
Raylan Givens ---
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Captain America Ralph Hinkley/Hanley Adam Goldberg The Doctor Pre jerkass Homer Simpson Rowdy Roddy Piper Han Solo Indiana Jones Rocket Raccoon Sgt. Johnny Gallagher Ash ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/28 "2016-07-19T18:57:23Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Thomas Magnum, for the free rent on the estate and the free use of the cool car. Magnum would be in my top 10. He had to put up with Higgins, but still a pretty sweet deal. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/29 "2016-07-19T19:00:59Z")
Bill Adama ---
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Cosmo Kramer ---
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Chili Palmer (_Get Shorty_, _Be Cool_) Karen Sisco (_Out of Sight_) Raylan Givens (_Justified_) Jackie Brown (_Jackie Brown_) I miss Elmore Leonard. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/32 "2016-07-19T19:54:58Z")
Indiana Jones / Han Solo ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/33 "2016-07-20T15:08:05Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > Indiana Jones / Han Solo Same here, for movies. For TV I’d have to say: Harvey Specter (Suits) Tig Trager (Sons of Anarchy) Daryl Dixon (The Walking Dead) ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/34 "2016-07-20T22:56:36Z")
Charlie Eppes (Numb3rs) Dr. Rogers and Lennie Brisco (Law and Order) I started watching Community because I wanted to see the actress play Dr. Rogers again, even in a parody. Jeff Winger (Community) Constable Benton Fraser (Due South) Link (Monsters vs. Aliens) Det. Arthur Dietrich (Barney Miller) and some of the Doctors (Doctor Who) ---
**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:** [July 20, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/35 "2016-07-20T23:08:39Z")
Spock Yoda ---
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Paul Bryan. Who? You know. _Run For Your Life_. Ben Gazarra. _You have at least nine months to live. Perhaps as much as eighteen. The first doctor told me I’d have one to two years. I hope he’s right. Where will you go, what will you do? Well I haven’t taken a day off since law school. Perhaps I’ll try to squeeze thirty years of living into one… or two._ Never say die (ironic) playboy living a fantasy. Plus, he got to fuck Claudine Longet. I was seventeen. Couldn’t take it. ---
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/37 "2016-07-21T05:25:16Z")
Runners Up: Wesley Wyndham-Price (Buffy/Angel) BMO (Adventure Time) Lennie Briscoe (Law & Order) Troy Barnes (Community) Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad) Toph Beifong (Avatar) ‘Stephen Colbert’ (The Colbert Show) Tim Gutterson (Justified) Winner: Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) Classic era Homer Simpson is a brilliant characterization. The writers skate a very, very fine line making him selfish, ignorant, and lazy, yet still give him a core of decency. When prodded by friends and family, he can be relied on to do the right thing in the end and that’s why we can cheer him on in his destructive, chaotic hijinks. He’s thoughtless, not nasty, and that distinction keeps the viewers rooting for him. That’s also why ‘jerkass Homer’ of the latter seasons is so galling, they lost track of that decency that kept him sympathetic. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/38 "2016-07-21T06:11:14Z")
Robert Roy MacGregor in Rob Roy (1995) Lot of liberties taken in this film, historically , but a great character nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072/39 "2016-07-21T14:53:27Z")
Movie characters: -Luke Skywalker (Star Wars) -The Joker (both Nicholson & Ledger) -Lenny (That Thing You Do) -Quint (Jaws) -Indiana Jones TV characters: -Walter White & Gustavo Fring (Breaking Bad) -Nikki Nickels (Orange is the New Black) -Saul Goodman & Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul) -Daryl Dixon & Carol Peletier (The Walking Dead) -Tulip (Preacher) ---
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The xenomorph from _Alien_ was pretty cool: > [@](#): > > Ripley: How do we kill it, Ash? There’s gotta be a way of killing it. How? How do we do it? > > Ash: You can’t. > > Parker: That’s bullshit. > > Ash: You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. > > Lambert: You admire it. > > Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor… unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. > > Parker: Look, I am… I’ve heard enough of this, and I’m asking you to pull the plug. > > [Ripley goes to disconnect Ash, who interrupts] > > Ash: Last word. > > Ripley: What? > > Ash: I can’t lie to you about your chances, but… you have my sympathies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-tv-film-character/760072.md?page=3)