Fiscal's Top 50 Favorite Characters

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50. Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart)

My favorite smooth talking big tobacco lobbyist!



"After watching the footage of the Kent State shootings, Bobby Jay, then seventeen, signed up for the National Guard so that he, too, could shoot college students."


49. General 'Buck' Turgidson (George C. Scott)



"I know how it is, baby. Tell you what you do: you just start your countdown, and old Bucky'll be back here before you can say "Blast off!" "


48. Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)

I love Clint riding on his trail of vengeance.



"Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."


47. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon)

Bourne is just fun to watch. Some of the best modern day action sequences!




46. Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

Makes me wish I could do high school over again, this time as a student detective



"Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you. "

45. Rorschach/Walter Kovacs (Jackie Earle Haley)

The ultimate vigilante powerless superhero



"You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way. We do. "
 
24. Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen)



"If you keep talking like a bitch, I'm gonna slap you like one."

23. Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem)



"What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?"

22. Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe)



"At my signal, unleash hell."

21. "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood)



"I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"

20. Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell)



" It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van. "
 
19. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale)



"I want to stab you to death, and then play around with your blood."

18. Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg)



"You're not the boss of me, Jack. You're not the king of Dirk. I'm the boss of me. I'm the king of me. I'm Dirk Diggler. I'm the star. It's my big d**k and I say when we roll."

17. Ash (Bruce Campbell)



"Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick!"

16. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)



" I think I must have one of those faces you can't help believing."

15. Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell)



" I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator."
 
44. Harry Lime (Orson Welles)



Harry Lime: Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we? They talk about the people and the proletariat, I talk about the suckers and the mugs - it's the same thing. They have their five-year plans, so have I.
Martins: You used to believe in God.
Harry Lime: Oh, I still do believe in God, old man. I believe in God and Mercy and all that. But the dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here, poor devils.

43. The Dude (Jeff Bridges)



"God d*mn you Walter! You f*ckin' asshole! Everything's a f*ckin' travesty with you, man! And what was all that **** about Vietnam? What the F*CK, has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the f*ck are you talking about?"

42. John McClane (Bruce Willis)



"Yippee-ki-yay, motherf*cker."

41. Captain Quint (Robert Shaw)



"Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women. "

40. Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand)



"...And I guess that was your accomplice in the woodchipper. "
 
Love the choices so far, especially those last five. I'm intriged to see the 40 characters you think are better.
 
14. Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)



"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

13. The Joker (Heath Ledger)



"Oh, you. You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You are truly incorruptible, aren't you? Huh? You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won't kill you because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever."

12. Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles)



"You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man."

11. Blondie (Clint Eastwood)



"The way I figure, there's really not too much future with a sawed-off runt like you."

10.William 'Bill the Butcher' Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis)



"You see this knife? I'm gonna teach you to speak English with this f*cking knife!"
 
39. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman)



Royal: Baby, I'm dying. I'm sick as a dog. I'll be dead in six weeks. I'm dying.
Ethel: What are you talking about? What happened? Oh, my God. I'm sorry. I didn't know. What'd they say? What's the prognosis?
Royal: Take it easy, Ethel. Hold on. Hold on.
Ethel: Where's the doctor? Let's get...
Royal: Wait a second. Listen. I'm not dying. But I need some time. A month. Maybe two. I want us to...
Ethel: What's wrong with you?
Royal: Ethel.
Ethel: Are you crazy?
Royal: Baby. I am dying.
Ethel: Are you or aren't you?
Ethel: Dying? Yeah.

38. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)



"When I get a hold of the son of a bitch who leaked this, I'm gonna tear his eyeballs out and I'm gonna suck his ****ing skull. "

37. Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)



"I'll organize revolt, exact a death for a death, and I'll never rest until every Saxon in this shire can stand up free men and strike a blow for Richard and England."

36. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)



"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. "

35. Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner)

Jessica would be the sexiest woman to ever live if she wasn't a cartoon, and some would still vote for her anyway



Jessica Rabbit: You don't know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do.
Eddie Valiant: You don't know how hard it is being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do.
Jessica Rabbit: I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
 
Love the choice of Brendan, though I also hate it because it'll make my choice seem less original/surprising if I ever sit down and do one of these lists, cuz he'd definitely be on it.

Nice start.
 
It may be something I might attempt in the future , but I think it will be 10 x harder than making the movies list.
 
I like the selections so far, especially Hannibal Lector and Marge Gunderson. And of course Jason Bourne as well.
 
This is a great list Fiscal, you and I seem to have very similar taste when it comes to movies. I'm sure at least half your characters would make my top 50 list. When I find some time I really want to sit down and bash out a list and get it up on here.
 
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