Your favourite Non WOT characters

[Scarloc99]

So everyone talks about who their fav WOT characters are but I wondered what are peoples from other IP's. 

This can be fantasy, sci fi, comics, TV, Animation, Good Guy or Bad Guy and for any reason. 

I will start 

Lucius the Eternal - Warhammer 40K, take the most evil sadistic but very very vain being you can think of and ramp it up to 11. Lucius loves causing pain, suffering and just being a bit of a troll. But, he can't ever die. If someone kills him (and they have), then if they gain any satisfaction from his death, even for a microsecoond, the demonic god that Lucius serves starts the process of brining him back, inside them. It starts with dreams, then they start carving or getting strange scars, replicating the ones Lucius has given himself, then eventually he just posses them completely and they morph into him, the only sign sits on his armour, where an image of their face appears, screaming as their soul is forever tortured. 

This doesn't have to be a direct killing either, there is a fantastic short story where a guy, who works in a factory, building landmines, slowly goes crazy, kills his family and then becomes Lucius, all because one of the landmines he built blew him up a galaxy away. 

 

Why do I like him, the character just defines the Grim Dark of Warhammer 40K, there have been inordinate debates online about the ways you might be able to finally kill him, but also the story of his descent form arrogant but fairly good space marine to crazy chaos champion is told really well, and, he is just really really over the top cool :). 

 

Death - Discworld Need I say anymore, the ultimate in dry wit, the master manipulator while also being inept and sometimes very very lucky. I like him early on when he has a very different personality "Isn't it dark in here" still brings a smile to my face, and I like him later on when Terry P changed his personality and made him more of a distinct character. 

 

So 2 to get us going ? 

Edited December 30, 2021 by Sir_Charrid

[wotfan4472]

My favourite characters outside WoT, include Ender Wiggin after Enders Game.

I always found him awesome to read once he left the first book.

[Lethira the second]

Glokta from the First Law Trilogy.  He's great to read, blurs the line between good and bad.  Deliciously witty

[Lilredpanda]

Samwise Gamgee... favorite series, favorite character, and I see myself in him. Gardener, cook, quiet hero.. check, check, you decide. 

[flinn]

 Bloody Nine

Jimmy the Hand

Vin

[Elder_Haman]

Andross, Gavin and Kip Guile

[redarm]

Loved Tyrion from ASoIaF, Ender Wiggin from the Ender's Saga, Lightsong from Warbreaker, Tavi from Codex Alera.   So many great characters out there. 

[spectralballadeer]

Sabran Berethnet from Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. She's such a well layered character and deserves none of the bad things that happen to her. As someone who is very anxious it's refreshing to have a character display what it's like living with it day to day

[Mailman]

  On 12/30/2021 at 10:32 AM, Sir_Charrid said:

So everyone talks about who their fav WOT characters are but I wondered what are peoples from other IP's. 

This can be fantasy, sci fi, comics, TV, Animation, Good Guy or Bad Guy and for any reason. 

I will start 

Lucius the Eternal - Warhammer 40K, take the most evil sadistic but very very vain being you can think of and ramp it up to 11. Lucius loves causing pain, suffering and just being a bit of a troll. But, he can't ever die. If someone kills him (and they have), then if they gain any satisfaction from his death, even for a microsecoond, the demonic god that Lucius serves starts the process of brining him back, inside them. It starts with dreams, then they start carving or getting strange scars, replicating the ones Lucius has given himself, then eventually he just posses them completely and they morph into him, the only sign sits on his armour, where an image of their face appears, screaming as their soul is forever tortured. 

This doesn't have to be a direct killing either, there is a fantastic short story where a guy, who works in a factory, building landmines, slowly goes crazy, kills his family and then becomes Lucius, all because one of the landmines he built blew him up a galaxy away. 

 

Why do I like him, the character just defines the Grim Dark of Warhammer 40K, there have been inordinate debates online about the ways you might be able to finally kill him, but also the story of his descent form arrogant but fairly good space marine to crazy chaos champion is told really well, and, he is just really really over the top cool :). 

 

Death - Discworld Need I say anymore, the ultimate in dry wit, the master manipulator while also being inept and sometimes very very lucky. I like him early on when he has a very different personality "Isn't it dark in here" still brings a smile to my face, and I like him later on when Terry P changed his personality and made him more of a distinct character. 

 

So 2 to get us going ? 

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Death is great but for mine Sam Vimes is the ultimate character from the Discworld.

[Chivalry]

Fitzchivalry from the Farseer series, as you can see by my username. Probably my second favorite series next to WOT. 

[whiskey delta]

Wax & Wayne

 

Sazed

[Zander?]

Annomander Rake and WhiskeyJack Malazan Book of the Fallen

 

Arthur Dayne, Oberyn Martel, Ramsay Bolton and Bron Game of Thrones

 

And just because I wanna list my Wheel of Time favs too, Lan and Mat

[DojoToad]

Ender Wiggin

Paul Atreides

[Elder_Haman]

Harry Dresden. Man, am I loving the Dresden Files (books, not awful tv show).

[DojoToad]

Hearing good things about Dresden. Might look at those after my run through Eddings

[Delirium]

Murderbot!  

All of Bobs from the Bobiverse....

Sam Vimes from Discworld (everyone else too, but Vimes is my favourite.  Death is wonderful, but Vimes has character growth)

The Bridgeburner crew from Malazan.  They are all a special sort of messed up.

Vasher from Warbreaker.  

Raoden and Hrathen from Elantris.

Paragon, Reyn and Brashen from The Liveship Traders

Isana and Bernard from Codex Alera

Waldo Butters from The Dresden Files

[HeavyHalfMoonBlade]

Druss the Legend, so cheesy that he should be awful but is so wonderful. 

[Cerena alKamryn]

Morpheus and Death from Sandman

Capt Mal from Firefly

Spike from Cowboy Bebop

Grim from grim adventures of Billy & Mandy

Sophia from Golden Girls

[Dan G]

Here are some of mine -

Teal'c from Stargate 

The Doctor 

Garek from Star Trek DS9

Ahsoka Tano

[loki redfern]

Breq from the Ancillary series - just very cool

Tom bombadill -they always seemed so mysterious and I wanted to know more of their story 

And Locke Lamora - love a good heist/heist adjacent grifter

[Figs and Mice]

Corum Jhaelen Irsei from Michael Moorcock's "Swords" trilogy . He has a few things in common with Rand , (apart from losing a hand quite early in the story - he also loses an eye , but gets "magical" replacements for both)  being something of a reluctant hero.

And I have perhaps an even greater affection for his companion in much of his saga ,  Jhary a Conel - who also appears accompanying other heroes in Moorcock's multiverse.  An always cheerful and self deprecating "companion to heroes" who wears a hat similar to Mat's but disdains any armour or military garb...oh and always carries a small cat (with flying abilities) on his shoulder 🙂

 

A fun pair to follow.

[Aarenis]

Too many, tbh. Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars. Very EU-based rather than based on the new material released, though. Jedi Apprentice was pretty iconic for me. I felt a lot of what's interesting to me is how he tried to stay a nominal 'good guy' despite how much crap went down over the course of his lifetime.

 

I guess I'm obligated to mention some Cosmere. I've really found myself liking Adolin Kholin more and more over time. With Adolin, it's how this guy is the chad meme. He's a solid bro and sticks to it no matter what.

 

Faramir from Lord of the Rings. I used to be more of an Aragorn fan but I've liked Faramir the older I get. Faramir's relationship with his family, his sense of duty (defending the way to Minas Tirith - Osgiliath and the Causeway Forts despite consensus this was dangerous). He also gives us so many good quotes, from the one about loving what he defends rather than war, and refusing to take the Ring even if he found it by the highway. Similar love for Samwise Gamgee's groundedness.

 

Otherwise I think what comes to mind is at the mercy of what I've read most recently. I've liked most of the lead POV characters in RJB's Divine Cities (Shara, Sigrud, Mulaghesh), Harry Dresden, Michael Carpenter, both from the Dresden Files, Paksenarrion, Cinder from the Alex Verus series...

 

Edited to add:

If we're counting pro-wrestling characters now, I've really begun to enjoy Drew McIntyre's work right now.

Edited April 3 by Aarenis

[Turin Turambar]

Do I gotta say? But also Fingolfin. Courageous to a fault. He knew what Morgoth was and still challenged him to single combat. That he managed to wound a near God was incredible. 

[Aarenis]

  On 4/3/2025 at 1:33 PM, Turin Turambar said:

Do I gotta say? But also Fingolfin. Courageous to a fault. He knew what Morgoth was and still challenged him to single combat. That he managed to wound a near God was incredible. 

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I liked Finrod too. Kept his oath despite the cost.

 

Fingolfin giving Morgoth PTSD ftw.

[DigificWriter]

From Fantasy Literature, I love Nest Freemark and John Ross from Terry Brooks' Word/Void series (the Prequels to his Shannara Universe) and Merriman Lyon and Jane Drew from Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence.

 

In the Fantasy Television sphere, I'm a huge fan of Matthew De Claremont and Diana Bishop from A Discovery of Witches and Kirito and Asuna from Sword Art Online.