New Idea: The Fantaverse Creates Our 100 favorite Movie Characters

I agree with you there, W. Everyone knows King Kong. Even if they haven't seen it. That's a rare feat.

Besides that, I think the characters we've come up with are a pretty diverse pool. I wouldn't put anywhere near as many Full Metal Jacket characters or superheroes myself, and there are some blatant omissions, but for the most part it's a good list as a whole.

W wrote:Seriously, King Kong in last? IMO, he's one of the best! He's the apepiotome of bad ass, but still has a romantic side. There aren't too many characters who are this iconic without having a single line.

I had him at 13. Come on, He's King F'n Kong

Ok I had to rush it so there are some I am not happy with but here it is.

1 Ash - Evil Dead/ Army of Darkness
2 Tyler Durden- Fight Club
3 The Dude- The Big Lebowski
4 Luke - Cool Hand Luke
5 Amelie - Amelie
6 James Bond - All of them
7 The McMannus Brothers- Boondock Saints
8 Jules - Pulp Fiction
9 Carl Spackler - Caddyshack
10 Darth Vader - Star Wars
11 Dirty Harry - The Series
12 Yoda - Empire Strikes Back
13 V - V for Vendetta
14 Indiana Jones - The Series
15 Napoleon Dynamite - Napoleon Dynamite
16 Clark Griswald - Vacation Series
17 Virgil Tibbs - In The Heat Of The Night
18 Frank Booth - Blue Velvet
19 Mad Max - Mad Max/Road Warrior
20 Gunnery Sgt Hartmen - Full Metal Jacket
21 Han Solo - Star Wars
22 Jack Burton - Big Trouble in Little China
23 Gandalf - LOTR trilogy
24 Atticus Finch - To Kill A Mockingbird
25 Jason Bourne - The Bourne Trilogy
26 Ferris Bueller - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
27 Inigo Montoya - The Princess Bride
28 Travis Bickle – Taxi Driver
29 Inspector Jacques Clouseau - The Pink Panther
30 Keyser Soze - The Usual Suspects
31 Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean
32 Hannibal Lecter – Silence of the Lambs
33 Dr Strangelove - Dr Strangelove
34 Snake Plissken - Escape From New York
35 John McClain - Die Hard
36 King Kong - King Kong
37 Anton Chigurh - No Country For Old Men
38 Andy Dufresne - The Shawshank Redemption
39 John Rambo - First Blood
40 Marv - Sin City
41 Walter Sobchak- The Big Lebowski
42 Jack Torrance - The Shining
43 ET - E.T.
44 Fletch - Fletch
45 Michael Myers - Halloween
46 Leon - The Professional
47 Vito Corleone - The Godfather
48 Alex - A Clockwork Orange
49 Jeff Spicoli - Fast Times At Ridgemont High
50 Daniel Plainview - There Will Be Blood
51 Oldboy – Oldboy
52 Batman - Batman Begins/The Dark Knight. (the other batmans suck)
53 The Man With No Name - the Man With No Name Trilogy
54 Luke Skywalker - Star Wars
55 Dr. Evil - Austin Powers
56 Morpheus - The Matrix
57 The Terminator - The Terminator
58 Forrest - Forrest Gump
59 Al Czervik – Caddyshack
60 Hellboy - Hellboy
61 Freddy Krueger - Nightmare on Elm Street
62 John Blutarski - Animal House
63 Red Redding - Shawshank Redemption
64 The Joker - The Dark Knight
65 The Frankenstein Monster - The Series
66 Peter Gibbons- Office Space
67 Wall-E - Wall-E
68 Maximus - Gladiator
69 Beetlejuice – Beetlejuice
70 Rocky Balboa - Rocky (I and IV)
71 Norman Bates – Psycho
72 Alex Murphy – RoboCop
73 Ellen Ripley - Alien
74 Michael Corleone - The Godfather
75 Danny Ocean - Ocean’s series
76 Donnie Darko - Donnie Darko
77 Jigsaw - Saw series
78 Animal Mother - Full Metal Jacket
79 Lt Frank Drebin - The Naked Gun
80 Neo - The Matrix
81 The Bride - Kill Bill
82 Vincent Vega - Pulp Fiction
83 Nick Naylor – Thank You for Smoking
84 Tony Stark - Iron Man
85 Private Pyle - Full Metal Jacket
86 The Genie - Aladdin
87 Patrick Bateman - American Psycho
88 Ratso Rizzo - Midnight Cowboy
89 Axel Foley - Beverly Hills Cop
90 Borat – Borat
91 Kirk Lazaurus- Tropic Thunder (gets lowered because I have not seen the movie)
92 Mr. Incredible - The Incredibles
93 Harry Tuttle – Brazil
94 J.J Gittes – Chinatown
95 Marty McFly - Back to the Future
96 Sarah Connor - The first two Terminator films
97 Buzz Lightyear - Toy Story
98 Juno Macguff - Juno
99 Ron Burgundy- Anchorman
100 Jason Voorhees - Friday the 13th

no love for Burgundy!!!??? Maybe u guys like the Bri-man better, he is a cooool dude

Blast u Napoleon Lovers!

Ah but it`ll level out a bit, as long as the top ten is legit ill be happy

As i suspected, Napoleon is still on the bottom. You could have ranked him first and he still would have been, Donte.

I love Napoleon but this is the greatest cinematic characters ever. It was hard to even keep him in the top 20. If I had more time to debate this list would be different. I dropped RDJ in rank in Tropic Thunder simply because I haven't seen it yet.

So I know I said I would let it go until 10 pm, but... It takes me at least an hour to put in all the data every time someone submits a list, and I've already had more than enough lists... so If you have been left out, my apologies, but I just took the additional time of actually putting the final list together, so I'd rather not change it now.

It was a very interesting process. Part of this process involved figuring out what to do in the case of ties. Well, I decided that since it doesn't make that much of a difference, I would just put whichever one I felt deserved to be higher that one spot ahead. I don't think anyone has too big of an issue with that. There were a lot of close calls, several being separated by one point.

However... there are a very clear top 2... And well.. those top two ended up... TIED!

Now I'm sure you can all guess what two characters I am referring to: Indiana Jones and Darth Vader.

If I used the same logic I did for the rest of the list, I would just give it to Vader and that would be the end of it. He topped my list and several others. But I figured since this is going to be the end all-be all master rank, the fantaverse should be allowed to vote for who comes out on top.

So I am going to put a poll up. Vote for who you want to be our greatest character of all time.

In the Meantime, here's the list numbered 100-3.

100. Napoleon Dynamite- Napoleon Dynamite
99. J.J. Gittes- Chinatown
98. Harry Tuttle- Brazil
97. Donnie Darko- Donnie Darko
96. Al Czervick- Caddyshack
95. The McMannus Brothers- The Boondock Saints
94. Private Pyle- Full Metal Jacket
93. Juno MacGuff- Juno
92. Jason Voorhees- Friday the 13th
91. Alex Murphy- Robocop
90. Oldboy- Oldboy
89. The Genie- Aladdin
88. Nick Naylor- Thank You For Smoking
87. Jack Burton- Big Trouble in Little China
86. Kirk Lazarus- Tropic Thunder
85. Mr. Incredible
84. Virgil Tibbs- In the Heat of the Night
83. Fletch- Fletch
82. Marty McFly
81. Lt. Frank Drebin- The Naked Gun
80. Danny Ocean- Ocean's 11
79. Animal Mother- Full Metal Jacket
78. Clark Griswald- The Vacation Series
77. Borat- Borat...
76. Vincent Vega- Pulp Fiction
75. Peter Gibbons- Office Space
74. Daniel Plainview- There Will Be Blood
73. Ratzo Rizzo- Midnight Cowboy
72. Marv- Sin City
71. Patrick Bateman- American Psycho
70. Ron Bergundy- Anchorman
69. Gunnery Sgt. Hartman- Full Metal Jacket
68. John Blutarski- Animal House
67. Walter Sobchack- The Big Lebowski
66. Buzz Lightyear- Toy Story
65. Red Redding- The Shawshank Redemption
64. The Frankenstein Monster- Frankenstein
63. Sarah Conner- The Terminator Series
62. Frank Booth- Blue Velvet
61. Dr. Evil- The Austin Powers Series
60. Snake Plissken- Escape From New York
59. Ash- the Evil Dead Series
58. Inigo Montoya- The Princess Bride
57. Wall-E- Wall-E
56. Jeff Spicoli- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
55. Freddy Krueger- A Nightmare on Elm Street
54. Hellboy -the Hellboy Series
53. Michael Myers- the Halloween Series
52. Jigsaw- the Saw Series
51. Beetlejuice- Beetlejuice
50. Vito Corleone- The Godfather
49. Tony Stark/Iron Man- Iron Man
48. The Man With No Name- the Man With No Name Trilogy
47. Maximus Decimus Meridius- Gladiator
46. The Bride- Kill Bill
45. Leon- Leon the Professional
44. Ellen Ripley- the Alien Series
43. Forrest Gump- Forrest Gump
42. Axel Foley- the Beverly Hills Cop Series
41. Inspector Jacque Clouseau- The Pink Panther Series
40. Anton Chigurh- No Country for Old Men
39. Michael Corleone- The Godfather
38. Andy Dufresne- The Shawshank Redemption
37. ET- ET
36. Alex- A Clockwork Orange
35. Jules Winnfield- Pulp Fiction
34. Amelie- Amelie
33. Jason Bourne- the Bourne Series
32. Jack Torrance- the Shining
31. Mad Max- the Mad Max series
30. Luke- Cool Hand Luke
29. Dr. Strangelove- Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
28. Norman Bates- Psycho
27. Carl Spackler- Caddyshack
26. Morpheus- The Matrix Series
25. Harry Callahan- the Dirty Harry Series
24. King Kong- King Kong
23. John Rambo- the Rambo Series
22. Neo- The Matrix Series
21. Rocky- The Rocky Series
20. Ferris Beuller- Ferris Beuller's Day Off
19. Atticus Finch- To Kill a Mockingbird
18. Travis Bickle- Taxi Driver
17. The Terminator- the Terminator Series
16. Gandalf- the Lord of the Rings Series
15. Luke Skywalker- Star Wars
14. John McClain- the Die Hard Series
13. V- V for Vendetta
12. Keyser Soze- The Usual Suspects
11. The Dude- The Big Lebowski
10. Captain Jack Sparrow- the Pirates of the Caribbean Series
9. Tyler Durden- Fight Club
8. Han Solo- Star Wars
7. Yoda- Star Wars
6. The Joker- The Dark Knight
5. Hannibal Lector- The Silence of the Lambs
4. James Bond- the James Bond series
3. Batman- the Batman Series

W wrote:Seriously, King Kong in last? IMO, he's one of the best! He's the apepiotome of bad ass, but still has a romantic side. There aren't too many characters who are this iconic without having a single line.

King Kong is freakin monkey.He has no character arc. He just a creation of bad special f/x.

I voted Indiana Jones. I might get some crap for this but i hate darth vader. throughout the first trilogy he is this badass formidable opponent, then at the end its basically SPOILERS (doubt anyone here hasnt seen it yet, but just in case, i dont like to be a spoiler, i hate it when people dont put a spoiler warning, it has to be one of the biggest pet peeves of mine)















at the end he turns into whiny 'im sorry i was bad, it made me be bad'. ok i might be over exaggerating a bit, but i see it as a cop out, 'he's about to die so lets make him good again'.

JackO wrote:

W wrote:Seriously, King Kong in last? IMO, he's one of the best! He's the apepiotome of bad ass, but still has a romantic side. There aren't too many characters who are this iconic without having a single line.

King Kong is freakin monkey.He has no character arc. He just a creation of bad special f/x.

He's an ape from an age before the age where f/x meant chocolate syrup instead of blood. Much better than most of the people on this list.

Actually, <edit> undeadmonkey <end edit>, he was never "good" during the original trilogy, which none of the background was done beforehand. He overcame the dark side and saved his "soul" by returning to the light side. During the three films, he goes from bad to good and its not really just all of a sudden. If he were only a bad guy, he'd have killed Luke when he first had the chance.

Darth Vader represents every individual on the planet. We all have a dark side, a little evil, a yin to our yang. Now, granted, the lines between evil and good are much more defined and therefore easily visible in Star Wars. Someone great once said that evil inpart is defined by what side of the battlefield you are standing. Not the case in Star Wars.

Vader is the character you love to hate, until he redeems himself. Then he becomes the hero, cape and all. This was one of the best underlying twist in cinema, because until the end of the final chapter, we the audience did not realize that the story had been about Vader and his evolution within the force all along.

Indiana Jones is basically a comic book hero not based on a comic book. Professor and lectuerer by day, world travelling adveturer and saviour of all things dusty and/or buried by night. He's a great character who provided audiences with omigosh moments with all the stuntwork and some of the SFX, but the character is just not as strong as Vader. I don't know that any other character can or will ever have as big an impact on film as Darth Vader.

Geezer, I got with jackburton last night and he is currently without internet after moving. He would like to 1) vote for Vader, and 2) declare shenanigans for the character that landed at #87. He thinks he should be higher. His words not mine.

I have to disagree about Indiana Jones not being as strong a character...He might be a little less iconic than Lord Vader, not too much less, but he's definitely just as relatable for the most part. I mean, he's smart, funny, good-looking, brave, adventurous, kind of a jerk, afraid of snakes...Name one kid from the 80s who didn't want to be Indiana Jones. I sure as hell did. I still do to a certain extent. He's the epitome of a Man's Man in my opinion.

I have to vote for Vader. I love Indiana Jones but Vader is the first bad guy I idolized. And since I had him at 10 and Indy at 14 I have to stick with my guns.

Ash should still be higher and the McMannus Brothers in the lower 5 is crap. Some of you people are too nice and voting for ET and Wall-E instead of cool killers.

Donte,

I love cool killers. That's why I had Anton Chygurh rated as high as I did. The McMannus Brothers, in my opinion, couldn't even carry his cow killer.

I had Vader rated as #1 so I guess that beats whereever I had Indiana Jones rated.

I voted for Indy. The prequels kind of ruined any kind of respect I had for Vader as a character.

See JackO, that is where you made a mistake. The prequels do not count since they aren't even star wars movies. LOL I am not even sure if they actually exist.

Yeah, the prequels don't count as there is only the actual character of "Darth Vader" in the last few minutes of episode 3. It's kinda like saying Anakin was a character in the original's although you don't actually see "Anakin" until Luke removes Vader's mask in Jedi and then a few minutes later as a spirit along with Obi Wan and Yoda.

Yeah but Anakin IS Darth Vader, you cant just overlook that. The same person is the same charcater, thats like saying Bruce Wayne and Batman are two different people. And cause Anakin is vader i couldn`t give him a high rating, though Vader is badass, anakin just sucks balls

Im happy with the most of the list, but i agree with Donte as with the ET comment

I guess we are waiting till Barca gets back to implement this. I'm really dissapointed I'll never get my chance to be Napoleon Dynamite though......

That disappoints you????

Yeah, don't worry Surfer -- we'll just make sure that the first 1,000 posts don't count so that we're all Napoleon Dynamite for weeks.

Woohoo!!

Damn it! Who voted for Indiana Jones to tie this up! I should have deleted the poll. Now its a tie. I think I'm going to leave the final deciding factor in the hands of Barca. It is his site afterall.