EW 100 Greatest Characters

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To celebrate Entertainment Weekly‘s 20th anniversary the writers and editors have carefully curated a list of the 100 greatest characters in pop-culture over the last 20 years

100. Tim Riggins from Friday Night Lights
99. The Bride from Kill Bill
98. Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels
97. Violet Weston from August: Osage County
96. Bernie Mac from The Bernie Mac Show
95. Wilhelmina from Ugly Betty
94. Truman from The Truman Show
93. Game Boys: Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series; Kratos from the God of War series; and Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV
92. Christopher Boone from The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time
91. Hancock from Hancock
90. Marge Gunderson from Fargo
89. Wikus van de Merwe from District 9
88. Napoleon Dynamite from Napoleon Dynamite
87. Tony Stark from the Iron Man series
86. Karen Walker and Jack McFarland from Will & Grace
85. Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood
84. Dr. Gregory House from House, M.D.
83. Jen Yu from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
82. Tracy Flick from Election
81. Amanda Woodward from Melrose Place
80. Gorillaz, the animated rock band
79. Elphaba from Wicked
78. Patty Hewes from Damages
77. Mimi Marquez from Rent
76. Tyler Durden from Fight Club
75. David Brent from The Office (original version)
74. Don Draper from Mad Men
73. Catherine Trammell from Basic Instinct
72. Kara “Starbuck” Thrace from Battlestar Galactica
71. Det. Alonzo Harris from Training Day
70. Mary Katherine Gallagher from Saturday Night Live
69. Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada
68. Effie White from Dreamgirls
67. Borat from Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
66. Allie and Noah from The Notebook
65. Lorelai and Rory Gilmore from Gilmore Girls
64. Maximus from Gladiator
63. John Locke from Lost
62. Jimmy Corrigan from Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
61. Vic Mackey from The Shield
60. Mary Jones from Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Saphhire
59. Master Chief from the Halo series
58. Thelma and Louise from Thelma & Louise
57. Clayton Bigsby from Chappelle’s Show
56. Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother
55. Tracy Jordan from 30 Rock
54. Juno from Juno
53. Edward Cullen from the Twilight saga
52. Annie Wilkes from Misery
51. Omar Little from The Wire
50. Pearl the Landlord from FunnyorDie.com
49. Vivian Ward from Pretty Woman
48. Red from The Shawshank Redemption
47. Corky St. Clair Waiting for Guffman
46. Jerry Maguire from Jerry Maguire
45. Stewie Griffin from Family Guy
44. Jack Bauer from 24
43. Cal Stephanides from Middlesex
42. Sydney Bristow from Alias
41. Harold and Kumar from the Harold & Kumar series
40. Ron Burgundy from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
39. Gob Bluth from Arrested Development
38. Elmo from Sesame Street
37. Keyser Söze from The Usual Suspects
36. Gollum from The Lord of the Rings
35. Dexter Morgan from Dexter
34. Cher from Clueless
33. Sarah Connor from Terminator 2: Judgment Day
32. Beavis and Butt-Head from Beavis and Butt-Head
31. Forrest Gump from Forrest Gump
30. “Stephen Colbert” from The Colbert Report
29. Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction
28. Madea from several Tyler Perry films and plays
27. Frasier from Frasier
26. Kavalier and Clay from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
25. Woody from the Toy Story series
24. Felicity Porter from Felicity
23. Austin Powers from the Austin Powers series
22. Eric Cartman from South Park
21. Roseanne Conner from Roseanne
20. Ally McBeal from Ally McBeal
19. Morpheus from The Matrix series
18. Sue Sylvester from Glee
17. Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider franchise
16. Bridget Jones from the Bridget Jones series
15. Shrek from the Shrek series
14. Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski from The Big Lebowski
13. Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean series
12. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from The X-Files
11. Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld
10. SpongeBob SquarePants from SpongeBob SquarePants
9. Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City
8. Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs and its sequels
7. Edward Scissorhands from Edward Scissorhands
6. Rachel Green from Friends
5. The Joker from The Dark Knight
4. Tony Soprano from The Sopranos
3. Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Harry Potter from the Harry Potter series
1. Homer Simpson from The Simpsons[/COLOR]

Do you agree?

S.M.B.

That's a terrible list.

Shane10

pointless. edward scissorshands at 7?? pointless exercise.

grimm2005

Where's Larry David?

Shane10

grimm2005 wrote: »

Where's Larry David?

hes not really a charater as such..hes himself. wouldnt that be it?

tvnutz

Where's Omar Little? 51! feck off!

terrible list!

Cookie33

john locke? from lost?

no way

why not put the likes of jack or sawyer instead from lost

and stewie griffin should be in top ten at least

Mr.Nice Guy

Cookie33 wrote: »

john locke? from lost?

no way

why not put the likes of jack or sawyer instead from lost

Because John Locke is far more popular than those two.

These lists are never going to get 100% approval but even so it's a pretty bad list. No iconic characters like Superman, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula etc who have tons of longevity yet they have Harry Potter and Buffy at 2 and 3 respectively.

KeithM89_old

Jack Bauer at 44!? Crazy - should be in the Top 10 at least...

S.M.B.

Well it is celebrating the last 20 years.

I'm quite a big BtVS fan but even I have enough common sense to realise that Buffy ain't near top 3 status. The Buffy character was actually one of the poorer aspects of the show I thought.

krudler

No Bill Adama? pffft.

Mark Hamill

So you have characters from Halo, Uncharted , GTA and God of War but no Mario, the most well known video game character ever? List nonsense, just the first one hundred fictional characters to come to mind.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Where the f**k is Alan from the Hangover? He should definitely be in there...

qwertplaywert

No Bill Adama, no Waltar White, Lorelai Gilmore only in the 60s, fail list is fail

MisterAnarchy

That list is abominable.

grimm2005

Shane10 wrote: »

hes not really a charater as such..hes himself. wouldnt that be it?

not really, hes playing a different version of himself, (the larry david he would LIKE to be in real life as he's once said).
Anyway, if this was an issue then why is "Stephen Colbert" in that list?

K4t

No Al Swearengen = Fail

amacachi

6. Rachel Green from Friends


Nuff said.

Reginald P. DuM

Glaring omission #1: Alan Partridge.

I could go on, but I won't.

civis_liberalis

How the hell is Shergar in the top 10?

Venom

Which ever hack wrote that list should be sacked :rolleyes:

pickarooney

It's a great list. Take an utterly impossible concept and make a list. If you even agree with 5 of the 100 they've gone a good job.

If I were to make a similar list (and it would be damn hard) I'd say there are at least 15 of the above that would make it in there.

minister poxbottle

homer simpson no1. no way

cjmcork

way, speaking of where are Wayne and Garth??? and hello, President Bartlett???? what's next?