5 characters who've found an author
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Comment on this post. I will give you a letter. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
I was given the letter D.
Death of the Discworld. Tall, thin, likes curry. Generally well-meaning towards humanity and fascinated by how complicated they make their lives. Fond of cats. The only character who appears in every book (except Wee Free Men), he's gotten a lot more complex as the series progresses.
The Doctor is one of the most brilliant characters ever. A pacifistic action hero, who (usually) makes a point of giving the villains a chance to surrender if the only way to defeat them is to destroy them. A man who thinks his way out of trouble with a few neat tricks, despite occasional hints he has vast powers he chooses not to use. A sort of cross between McGuyver, Father Christmas and Bhudda.
Daffy Duck has always been one of my favourite cartoon characters. Unlike Bugs Bunny, who has pretty much the same personality throughout the Looney Tunes oeuvre, Daffy is portrayed very differently in different cartoons. In the earliest cartoons he's just plain nuts, but later he alternates between being a greedy conniver and an incompetent hero (usually playing a role such as Duck Dodgers or Dripalong Daffy). In later, less good, cartoons, the "greedy conniver" version is made into an out-and-out villain and pitted against Speedy Gonzales.
Dennis the Menace - no, not the blond American kid, the spikey-haired British one-boy wave of terror. The Beano was one of my favourite comics growing up, and even though I was naturally a good kid, at the age of eight I wanted to be a catapult-toting tearaway. The Beano, oddly, was also my first introduction to the concept of the "shared universe", all the main characters lived in Beanotown and would often cross-over into each others' strips - or even visit Dandytown.
When you get down to it, Dennis was basically a bully ... but it didn't seem that way. I assume he's been radically reinvented these days, and quite right too.
Arthur Dent is the main character in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. A permenantly bewildered galactic traveller, whose desire to return to Earth, or somewhere very like it, mostly manifests as a craving for tea. Part of the reason So Long And Thanks was so ... odd was that it was the wrong way round; Arthur was now the experienced galactic traveller back on Earth. Mostly Harmless put him back in space and gave him brand new things to be bewildered about ... and then killed him off.
silly_swordsman.Comment on this post. I will give you a letter. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
I was given the letter D.
Death of the Discworld. Tall, thin, likes curry. Generally well-meaning towards humanity and fascinated by how complicated they make their lives. Fond of cats. The only character who appears in every book (except Wee Free Men), he's gotten a lot more complex as the series progresses.
The Doctor is one of the most brilliant characters ever. A pacifistic action hero, who (usually) makes a point of giving the villains a chance to surrender if the only way to defeat them is to destroy them. A man who thinks his way out of trouble with a few neat tricks, despite occasional hints he has vast powers he chooses not to use. A sort of cross between McGuyver, Father Christmas and Bhudda.
Daffy Duck has always been one of my favourite cartoon characters. Unlike Bugs Bunny, who has pretty much the same personality throughout the Looney Tunes oeuvre, Daffy is portrayed very differently in different cartoons. In the earliest cartoons he's just plain nuts, but later he alternates between being a greedy conniver and an incompetent hero (usually playing a role such as Duck Dodgers or Dripalong Daffy). In later, less good, cartoons, the "greedy conniver" version is made into an out-and-out villain and pitted against Speedy Gonzales.
Dennis the Menace - no, not the blond American kid, the spikey-haired British one-boy wave of terror. The Beano was one of my favourite comics growing up, and even though I was naturally a good kid, at the age of eight I wanted to be a catapult-toting tearaway. The Beano, oddly, was also my first introduction to the concept of the "shared universe", all the main characters lived in Beanotown and would often cross-over into each others' strips - or even visit Dandytown.
When you get down to it, Dennis was basically a bully ... but it didn't seem that way. I assume he's been radically reinvented these days, and quite right too.
Arthur Dent is the main character in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. A permenantly bewildered galactic traveller, whose desire to return to Earth, or somewhere very like it, mostly manifests as a craving for tea. Part of the reason So Long And Thanks was so ... odd was that it was the wrong way round; Arthur was now the experienced galactic traveller back on Earth. Mostly Harmless put him back in space and gave him brand new things to be bewildered about ... and then killed him off.
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Date: 2008-09-26 10:25 am (UTC)But if you want to give me another letter, JonB, I wouldn't say no 8-).