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Which fictional character do you most resemble?

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uncle retrospective

22:37 / 07.08.04

My life is currently falling apart, as a result I'm either Manny or Bernard from Black Books depending on how drunk I am.

Now get out of my shop!

sine

00:37 / 08.08.04

I hate to say this, but: Ignatius Reilly.

*sigh*

sine

00:41 / 08.08.04

Holy Shit...I just noticed someone posted Reilly upthread. How do you feel about that, Papi?

Papess

21:45 / 08.08.04

A *sigh* from me too, with the realization I feel like I am a whole lot like the Vampire Louis.

Reluctantly dangerous yet coupled with an ironic regard for life, much to my own detriment.

unheimlich manoeuvre

01:44 / 09.08.04

as toksik said way above, i also can relate to most of the cast of shaun of the dead.

right this moment, i'd like to say i resemble jesus, in a deluded-sado-masochist-with-paternal-affection-issues sort of way... but then i'd just sound like a idiot.

other days i'm more like candide.

Saint Keggers

01:50 / 09.08.04

I've been told on numerous occasions, by Maytricks, that im just like Jimmy Nutron.

I dont see it.

Triplets

02:38 / 09.08.04

I've been told on numerous occassions that I look like Jimmy Neutron.

And Harry Potter.

Or that I am some kind of terrible love-child spewed from the hellwomb of a thousand aborted fanfictions.

Apparently because I'm short, wear glasses and pretty cute. But, you know, whatever.

Tryphena Absent

03:18 / 09.08.04

You know I do have days when I feel like some strange and twisted child of Brian, Daisy and Twist. Particularly in the Daisy throws a party episode.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

06:43 / 09.08.04

Inchoate- Jesus was in Shaun of the Dead? Fuuuck.

Based on Haus's description of him, I'm afraid I might be Ultra Magnus. Otherwise I might be the Butler from that issue of The Invisibles, the one time he makes a grand gesture it turns out to be the wrong time. I like to think that if I work at it, I could be a Sam Gamgee (book, definitely not the movie version) though if it all goes wrong I'll probably end up as Gollum.

John Octave

14:11 / 09.08.04

King Mo--oh, wait, not him at all.

I'd go with Wally West, the current Flash. Or at least when Mark Waid was writing him. Romantic but practical. Very grounded, good coping skills. Not above self-criticism, has a good sense of perspective, but with the tendency to beat himself up over things not really his fault. Annoying habit of changing the subject or making a joke when faced with something difficult. Secretly likes flattery. Takes too much on himself just to spare other people the trouble. Couldn't wait to get out of his hometown as a kid, had a sense that better things were in store for him. Etc, etc. There were very few of the narrative captions that I couldn't imagine myself saying (excepting, I suppose, the ones about him having superspeed. For now).

Now that Geoff Johns is writing it, I don't see me in there at all and now it just seems to read like an everyman-Batman. "Look at my psycho Rogue's Gallery, blah blah."

Kit-Cat Club

15:04 / 09.08.04

Thanks all for your responses. See? This is is a good and interesting thread now.

(My outburst was not aimed at anyone in particular, btw).

I did that smashing test, thank you Deva, and ended up with Mig from Black Maria, which I think (though I haven't read that one all that recently) is not such a bad match on the whole... though I always thought I was rather like Millie/the Goddess, but perhaps I was misled by a mutual interest in school stories. She is, IIRC, stuck being something she doesn't really want to be, but manages to extricate herself from the situation despite being a bit over-emotional, and ends up with her own power in her own right, which she didn't know she had, and being happily plump and comfortable despite being married to a powerful enchanter. And she likes cats, and school stories, as I mentioned...

The Strobe

20:19 / 19.08.04

It has been recently pointed out to me that I am, essentially, Josh Lyman from The West Wing: a big, pedantic, lovable, dork.

I'm fairly OK with this. It is, especially given Josh's rendition of pedantry, entirely accurate. Though deep down I see myself as a slightly more boring Tim Bisley.

Ganesh

21:51 / 19.08.04

Three parts Scarlett O'Hara to one part Hannibal Lecter.

Cato.the.Elder

14:13 / 21.08.04

Maybe Marco Stanley Fogg, from Paul Auster's Moon Palace. I'm not sure how good can be to resemble an Auster's character, but...

wembley can change in 28 days

17:04 / 21.08.04

I've been thinking about this since the thread started, and I think I have it. Janeane Garofalo's character in The Truth About Cats and Dogs. Why? She's smart, has a great low sarcastic radio voice, is witty, laughs a lot, is single, has matronly upper arms, works in media/performance, is uncomfortable with femininity but incurably romantic, feels incapacitated by insecurity in the presence of beautiful people, is good at phone sex, goes to ridiculous lengths to avoid rejection by the opposite sex, and doesn't wear (much) makeup. And is a dog person. Although I also have been known to sing to cats.

The only difference really is that she's short. But we're both cute in that intellectual kinda way.

TeN

17:16 / 21.08.04

[Sadly,] I'm going to have to say the semi-fictional character of Charlie Kaufman from Adaptation. I'm a highly sefl-critical, struggling writer (occasionally screenplays), with all the same nuerosis.

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17:19 / 21.08.04

Laney from The Idoru and All Tommorrow's Parties.

Not because i have a skill for finding nodal points, but because i'm obsessed with finding connections between things that could be called nodes. I've become totally obsessed with this for long periods of time in the past, even to the degree that it could have been seen as an illness and my life has come down around me.

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