Whether your favorite characters are from a movie, a book, or a song, name 3 of your favorite characters that stuck out in your brain, or that you just plain fell in love with. I'll start:

1) "Michael Corleone" as portrayed by Al Pacino - (movie) "The Godfather"

2) "Rocky Balboa" as portrayed by Sylvester Stallone - (movie) "Rocky Parts I, II, III, IV, V, & VI)

3) "Mouse" as portrayed by Don Cheadle in the movie - (movie & book) "Devil in a Blue Dress"

now your turn...

Vera, Chuck and Dave.

The Three Stooges.
The Three Musketeers.
The Three Amigos.

I can't think of any more...

mcmeekle said:

The Three Degrees.

The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Cloudbuster said:

The Matrix
The Matrix Revisited
The Matrix Re-part-III

Three Blind Mice

1.) Robert Deniro- Ronin
2.) Brad Pitt- Se7en
3.) Kevin Spacey- The Usual Suspects

Honorable mention goes to; Gabriel Byrne (End of Days) and Guy Pearce (Memento)

mcmeekle said:

Alien 3.

Three Men and a Baby

mcmeekle said:

Ralph Kramden
George Costanza


and right now, Ari Gold.

Cloudbuster said:

...and who are they...?

missfee said:

Characters from a Beatles song.

Cloudbuster said:

oh okay, cool

Ren, Stimpy and Mr. Horse!!!

Arthur Penhaligon, main character of Garth Nix's Keys To The Kingdom series. Books.
Rudolf van Amstelveen, main character of Thea Beckman's Kruistoch In Psijkerbroek (Crusade In Jeans). Book, don't even go near the movie. ( )
Frannie McCabe, main character in Jonathan Carroll's The Wooden Sea. Also a book.

What can I say? I real alot.

I wanted to put in Frodo Baggins, but Peter Jackson and Elijah Wood forever ruined that character for me. What a whack movies.
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Tony Soprano
Nate, the oldest brother in "Six Feet Under"
Al Bundy

out of books, movies, tv, music, comics....It's hard to pick just 3!

thekidsgirl said:

No it isn't. Just do it.

Hannibal Lecter

Ziggy Stardust

<- and That Cat

Henry Fitzroy ~ Blood Ties Books
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The first that come to my mind and not necessarily in any order:

Michael Corleone

House

Charlie Chaplin's tramp

Gatsby

Batman

Garp

Justaphase said:

You're into scummy men, eh?

i'll go with characters from nick hornby's books:


- Maureen from A Long Way Down. good grief

"he asked me if i had an e-mail. i thought it was one of those unnecessary letters we get in the mail"


- Hope from How To Be Good. (can't get over how ugly she is in the mom's eyes)



- Rabbit from Slam:

'What was she doing at the party?'
'She lives there'
'She lives at a party? How does that work?'

ThirdandFinal said:

Good one!

EmeraldSkies said:

Chowder's my HOMIE!!! I effin' LOVE that toon!!!

Cool question. More than any 3 individual characters, I tend to have 3 favorite archetypes...

1) Folk blessed (or cursed) with immortality - the Wandering Jew, Comte de Saint-Germain, Dorian Gray or the Flying Dutchman, for example.
2) Artificial women, children and animals that come to "life" (and for some reason I especially like defenseless ones) - Pygmalion's Galatea, Pinnochio, the Velveteen Rabbit, the child android David and his robot teddy bear from Supertoys Last All Summer Long (and eventually the movie A.I.).
3) Supernaturally transsexual characters - Caeneus/Caenis or Iphis from Greek mythology, Virginia Woolfe's Orlando

BUGS BUNNY
PEEK-A-BOO
and CHOWDER
for humans i'll have to get back to you..
oh! doug heffernan...the rest??