Best sci-fi character of all time

Archeron

So who would you nominate as the best sci-fi character of all time and why? From Dr Who to Dr zoidberg and anybody in between? I guess a lot of favorites will be potentially not well known but would be good to get to know some of the favorite characters. TV, cartoons, comics, games, whatever you're having yourself.

For me, a possibly not well known one, but Pree from red dwarrf series ten. Cold, calculated, oddly attractive but logical to a complete fault. Brilliant character and she didn't once blink! She created a great storyline.

Who's your favourite?

Kylta

Buzz lightyear

Rodney Bathgate

Rick Sanchez (the one from dimension C-137, NOT Doofus Rick who eats poop).

Central Services

Mr. Spock. A fount of knowledge.

odyssey06

Spock. Because his character is so tied up into scifi setting.

Kirk is a great character but he could be a hero on earth or space.

Conall Cernach

Sci-fi is a huge genre but a few characters off the top of my head:

Aiken Drum - The Saga of the Exiles
James Bolivar DiGriz - The Stainless Steel Rat
Adam Reith - Planet of Adventure
Judge Dredd
Louis Wu - Ringworld
Han Solo - Star Wars

odyssey06

Also considered...
Deckard from Bladerunner.

Thelonious Monk

Ripley

Central Services

Angus Thermopyle.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Ming the Merciless, simple as.

SEPT 23 1989

Darth Vadar

Rodney Bathgate

Han Solo.

odyssey06

As it is scifi, thinking outside the box... the narrator in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Odhinn

Conall Cernach wrote: »

Sci-fi is a huge genre but a few characters off the top of my head:

Aiken Drum - The Saga of the Exiles
James Bolivar DiGriz - The Stainless Steel Rat
Adam Reith - Planet of Adventure
Judge Dredd
Louis Wu - Ringworld
Han Solo - Star Wars

Blake of Blakes Seven
Avon of same
Aiken Drumm of the Many Coloured Land
Kirk and Spock of Star Trek


Goebbels, Sir Richard Burton and lothar von ricthofen from the Riverworld books.

kowloon

Raylee Loose Stockyard wrote: »

Ming the Merciless, simple as.

This is Sci-Fi characters, not politicians.

Anyway:



Vader as a second place.

Lyan

Data from TNG. He has the sci-fi look by being an android, more character depth than most humans in the genre, and his rationality and lack of emotions brings an interesting viewpoint to many situations. He is quirkier, funnier, and more likable than the Vulcans, including Spock (and ironically less robotic and boring).

Gooey Looey

The terminator, the first one

TuringBot47

G'Kar, Londo, Kosh, Bester (who also played Chekov in original star Trek) from Babylon 5 so many from B5

Picard from Star Trek next gen

Garek and Dukat from Star Trek Ds9

Avon from Blake's 7

Your Face

KHAN!!!!!

Kylta

The Martians from mars attack

Chiark-Gevantsa Jernau Morat Gurgeh dam Hassease from Iain M Banks’ The Player of Games

Necro

Mod:

Folks I think this might get more traction in the TV forum. Thread moved and just a reminder to read the charter here before posting.

degrassinoel

Central Services wrote: »

Angus Thermopyle.

with the involuntary upgrades, yeah, absolute badass! Pity he was a rapist though

Unearthly

Colonel Tigh - probably my favourite character from one of my favourite ever shows

arcticmonkeys

Don't know how popular Mass Effect is outside of the gaming world but Garrus Vakarian holds the top spot for me and probably Quark from Star Trek DS9.

Retro.

Jesus

Troyaferd

Spike.

JP Liz V1

Mal Reynolds

racersedge

John Crichton from Farscape.

“I am not Kirk, Spock, Luke, Buck, Flash or Arthur frelling Dent. I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas.”

While I’m at it, Scorpius from the same show. For myself when I was younger on the first watch, was the first real example of a multi layered villain in a show.

Relikk

Central Services wrote: »

Scarlett Moffatt would be more suited to horror, IMO.

Homelander

Probably Darth Vader. What a rich, deep and multi-layered story that guy had, covering the entire spectrum of the human condition. Youth, hope, love, failure, disappointment, rage, anger, violence, hate, redemption.

And what a complete **** up George Lucas made of telling it.

ixoy

From the TV world, it's the Doctor from 'Doctor Who' , with his (now her) many and varied stories and the way the Doctor's always used brains over brawn.

Honourable mentions to the SG1 team, Avon from Blake's 7, Avasarala from the Expanse (books too), G'kar / Londo from B5, TNG's Data, Scorpius from Farscape, Baltar from BSG

Films, it's Ellen Ripley because of how she transformed herself to fight back against the alien.

Books - Many out there, including my current read of Miles Vorkosigan. Then there's say Penny Royal from the Polity universe, Paula Mylo from the Commonwealth series, and more that I'd have to think about.

Welsh Megaman

Penn

ixoy wrote: »

From the TV world, it's the Doctor from 'Doctor Who' , with his (now her) many and varied stories and the way the Doctor's always used brains over brawn.

Would probably have to agree. The whole idea about The Doctor is genius. I love Steven Moffat's description of him:

"When they made this particular hero, they didn't give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn't give him a tank or a warship or an x-wing fighter, they gave him a call box from which you can call for help. And they didn't give him a superpower or pointy ears or a heat ray, they gave him an extra heart. They gave him two hearts. And that's an extraordinary thing; there will never come a time when we don't need a hero like the Doctor."

Mr.Nice Guy

If we're talking movies, I just recently watched RoboCop and thought it held up well so I'll nominate Murphy. ("Nice shootin', son")

If we're talking TV, Sam Beckett came to mind.



I'm still not over that show's ending.