Best Characters List

Dr. Strangelove
media: Dr. Strangelove (1964)
why I like them: He is just so absurd and over the top.
quote: I may have an idea.

King Louie
media: The Jungle Book (1967)
why I like them: He is the king of the swingers. The jungle VIP.
quote: I wanna be a man, mancub. And stroll right into town. And be just like the other men. I'm tired of monkeyin' around!

The Count
media: Sesame Street Season 4 (1972)
why I like them: He has brain. He has class. He is the perfect man.
quote: ONE, TWO, THREE! MUHAHAHAHA!

Eddie
media: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
why I like them: Meatloaf.
quote: Hot patootie, bless my soul!

Signor Rossi
media: Mr. Rossi Looks For Happiness (1976)
why I like them: Relatable. He’s lost, flawed, but good at heart.
quote: I get up in the morning when people tell me I have to get up. I eat when people tell me I have to eat. I think when people tell me to think. And always what they want me to think. I am a person with a secure future that has already been planned by others. But when you get right down to it, I’m nobody, a nothing!

Kermit the Frog
media: The Muppet Show (1976)
why I like them: Iconic. I love the voice. I love his role as the manager of the muppet show.
quote: It’s not always easy being green.

Mandy Cohen
media: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
why I like them: So many hilarious lines. A great side character.
quote: Go on. Get crucified. See if it bothers me.

Ashley Williams
media: The Evil Dead (1981)
why I like them: You have to go watch evil dead (if you are the appropriate age) to understand it. I apologize in advance for the tree scenes.
quote: GROOVY.

Special Agent Dale Bartholomew Cooper
media: Twin Peaks (1990)
why I like them: This man is so charming. When I was younger and watched the series, I bought my own tape recorder because of him.
quote: Diane, 7:30 am, February twenty-fourth. Entering town of Twin Peaks. Five miles south of the Canadian border. Never seen so many trees in my life. Lunch was $6.31 at the Lamplighter Inn. That was a tuna fish sandwich on whole wheat, a slice of cherry pie and a cup of coffee. Damn good food. Diane, if you ever get up this way, that cherry pie is worth a stop.

Captain Bluebear
media: Käpt’n Blaubärs Seemannsgarn (1991)
why I like them: He tells charming and humorous little stories. Even if they aren't always completely true.
quote: You kids better believe me. That really happened. Sailors word of honour!

Charlie Meadows
media: Barton Fink (1991)
why I like them: The suffering. The heat, the stress, the itch, the yuckiness.
quote: Sometimes it gets so hot I want to crawl right out of my skin.

Mr. Pink
media: Reservoir Dogs (1992)
why I like them: He is reason surrounded by insanity. Therefore he is literally me, if I say so myself. /s
quote: I don’t tip.

Oogie Boogie
media: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
why I like them: I like the design.
quote: NOOO, MY VERMIN!!!!

Judge Claude Frollo
media: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
why I like them: Hellfire.
quote: It’s not my fault, if in God's plan. He made the devil so much stronger than a man!

The Little King
media: Our Little Sandman (1998)
why I like them: He taught me how to plant money-trees when I was younger. I also really like the cute and charming animation and voice acting.
quote: They are wonder-trees (="miracle -trees", because in German “wonder” also means “miracle”) because everyone wonders about them.

Jeffrey „The Dude“ Lebowski
media: The Big Lebowski (1998)
why I like them: Sometimes, there’s a man. And I’m talkin’ about the Dude here. Sometimes, there’s a man, well, he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that’s the Dude, in Los Angeles. And even if he’s a lazy man – and the Dude was most certainly that.
quote: That rug really tied the room together!

Huxley
media: The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
why I like them: The fit. The eyebrows. The morals. The henchmen. This is the perfect villain, but y’all aren’t ready for that conversation yet.
quote: MIIIIIIINEEEEEE!!!

Patrick Bateman
media: American Psycho (2000)
why I like them: First off: I liked him before the weird sigma people claimed him. And I just always found this dualism of a man being in complete control by physical dominance, while simultaneously being completely powerless, having no identity and yearning for a higher conclusion, very fascinating.
quote: There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. You can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, but I simply am not there.

Bernd the Bread
media: KiKA late night loop programme (2003)
why I like them: He’s a depressed bread. What more can I say?
quote: I’ve had enough.

Captain Jack Sparrow
media: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
why I like them: Funny guy. Only the first three movies are canon.
quote: CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow.

Bibble
media: Barbie: Fairytopia (2005)
why I like them: Completely carries the three fairytopia movies. The mariposa movies suck.
quote: BEEDEEBADOODAPOOF

Harry Waters
media: In Bruges (2008)
why I like them: A good character. I enjoyed how his moral code worked to enhance the movie.
quote: You can’t just do that and continue like nothing happened.

The Comedian
media: Watchmen (2009)
why I like them: My online persona is named after this man. I honestly can’t quite put into words all the ways this character fascinates me. Morally very bad, but there is a moment in his story arc that makes his “I don’t care, it’s all evil anyways” mask slip and reveals a deeply sad and traumatized person.
quote: Forgive me, mother.

Rorschach
media: Watchmen (2009)
why I like them: Typical anti-hero with a little twist. Love his idealism.
quote: Never compromise, not even in the face of armageddon.

Knives Chau
media: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
why I like them: She deserves better than Scott. She is so genuine and non-cynical that I can’t help but love her.
quote: Oh my God! He's dating a fatass hipster chick! I hate her stupid guts! He only likes her because she's old. She's probably like 25!

Rango
media: Rango (2011)
why I like them: The need for identity outweighs the importance of health.
quote: Who am I? I’m nobody.

Buck
media: Mountain Monsters (2013)
why I like them: The only bad actor in the series, due to no one else in the series being an actor at all. He's funny, he’s charming and most importantly he has no idea what’s going on.
quote: Queen of the blood wolves? Isn’t that Huckleberry's wife?

Senator Steven Armstrong
media: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2013)
why I like them: STANDING HERE I REALIZE YOU WERE JUST LIKE ME TRYING TO MAKE HISTORY
quote: We’re making the mother of all omelettes here. America is rotten to the core.

Detective Rustin Cole
media: True Detective Season 1 (2014)
why I like them: My esoteric antisocial king. Full of regrets and flaws.
quote: You are looking at it the wrong way. The night sky might look like the dark is winning. But once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light is winning.

Jimmy McGill
media: Better Call Saul (2015)
why I like them: He is a very well written character, pretty much always balancing between being evil and being relatable and good-hearted.
quote: It’s all good, man.

Chuck McGill
media: Better Call Saul (2015)
why I like them: Chuck is treated very unfairly by a lot of viewers. He is also very well written and to be honest if you asked me which of both brothers was more in the right, I couldn’t tell you. I love their dynamic as siblings.
quote: I am doing this for your own good, Jimmy.

Luisa Madrigal
media: Encanto (2021)
why I like them: Surface pressure is a cool song and I can relate in some of the situations I’ve been in.
quote: I got a rough indestructible surface!