The 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years

[_____V_____]

...according to Entertainment Weekly,


...are -


1. Homer Simpson - The Simpsons

2. Harry Potter

3. Buffy Summers - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

4. Tony Soprano - The Sopranos

5. The Joker - The Dark Knight

6. Rachel Green - Friends

7. Edward Scissorhands

8. Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs

9. Carrie Bradshaw - Sex and the City

10. Spongebob Squarepants

11. Cosmo Kramer - Seinfeld
12. Fox Mulder & Dana Scully - The X-Files
13. Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean
14. Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski - The Big Lebowski
15. Shrek
16. Bridget Jones
17. Lara Croft
18. Sue Sylvester - Glee
19. Morpheus - The Matrix
20. Ally McBeal

21. Roseanne Conner
22. Cartman - South Park
23. Austin Powers
24. Felicity Porter
25. Woody - Toy Story
26. Kavalier & Clay
27. Frasier Crane
28. Madea
29. Vincent Vega & Jules Winnfield - Pulp Fiction
30. Stephen Colbert - The Colbert Report

31. Forrest Gump
32. Bevis and Butt-Head
33. Sarah Connor - Terminator 2
34. Cher - Clueless
35. Dexter Morgan - Dexter
36. Gollum - Lord of the Rings
37. Kyser Söze - The Usual Suspects
38. Elmo - Sesame Street
39. GOB Bluth - Arrested Development
40. Ron Burgundy - Anchorman

41. Harold and Kumar
42. Sydney Bristow - Alias
43. Cal Stephanides - Middlesex
44. Jack Bauer - 24
45. Stewie Griffin - Family Guy
46. Jerry Maguire
47. Corky St. Clair - Waiting for Guffman
48. Red - The Shawshank Redemption
49. Vivian Ward - Pretty Woman
50. Pearl the Landlord - Funny or Die video

51. Omar Little - The Wire
52. Annie Wilkes - Misery
53. Edward Cullen - Twilight
54. Juno
55. Tracy Jordan - 30 Rock
56. Barney Stinson - How I Met Your Mother
57. Clayton Bigsby (blind white supremacist) - Chappelle's Show
58. Thelma & Louise
59. Master Chief - Halo
60. Mary Jones - Precious

61. Vic Mackey - The Shield
62. Jimmy Corrigan - Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
63. John Locke - Lost
64. Maximus - Gladiator
65. Lorelai & Rory Gilmore - Gilmore Girls
66. Allie & Noah - The Notebook
67. Borat
68. (Jennifer Hudson's) Effie White - Dreamgirls
69. Miranda Priestly - The Devil Wears Prada
70. Mary Katherine Gallagher - SNL, Superstar

71. Det. Alonzo Harris - Training Day
72. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace - Battlestar Galactica
73. Catherine Tramell - Basic Instinct
74. Don Draper - Mad Men
75. David Brent - The Office
76. Tyler Durden - Fight Club
77. Mimi Marquez - Rent
78. Patty Hewes - Damages
79. Elphaba - Wicked
80. Gorillaz

81. Amanda Woodward - Melrose Place
82. Tracy Flick - Election
83. Jen Yu - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
84. House
85. Daniel Plainview - There Will Be Blood
86. Karen Walker & Jack McFarland - Will & Grace
87. Tony Stark - Iron Man
88. Napoleon Dynamite
89. Wilkus van de Merwe - District 9
90. Marge Gunderson - Fargo

91. Hancock
92. Christopher Boone - The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time
93. "Game Boys": Nathan Drake - Uncharted, Kratos - God of War, Niko Bellic - Grand Theft Auto IV
94. Truman - The Truman Show
95. Wilhelmina Slater - Ugly Betty
96. Bernie Mac - The Bernie Mac Show
97. Violet Weston - August: Osage County
98. Lisbeth Salander - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
99. The Bride - Kill Bill
100. Tim Riggins - Friday Night Lights

[ferretchucker]

I agree with a fair few of those, especially most of the top 20, although how Edward Cullen got in and Stewie Griffin didn't I don't know. Edward is about as interesting as a cucumber. Maybe a marrow.

[TheWickerFan]

Very interesting. I probably agreed with 31 of those choices (Top 100 lists are so difficult to make!!). I tend to find villains more memorable; just off the top of my head:

Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men)
Vern Schillinger (Oz)

Those two were awesome!!

[neverending]

how Edward Cullen got in and Stewie Griffin didn't I don't know. .

Number 45............

[Ferox13]

No Al Swearengen :(

[ferretchucker]

Number 45............

Well I'll be...

[Doc Faustus]

Rachel on Friends was one of the dullest characters in pop culture history. Number six? Hardly. Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City as well and the omission of Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks is a disgrace.

[TheWickerFan]

Hal and Lois (Malcolm In The Middle)
Steve Stifler (American Pie)
Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds)
Stuntman Mike (Death Proof)
Gil Grissom (CSI)
The Butcher (Gangs Of New York)

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

bad list imo

[Zero]

what about Zero - that loveable monkey from HDC?

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

what about Zero - that loveable monkey from HDC?

I'm sure you weren't completely left out, you lovable skank.

[Zero]

I'm sure you weren't completely left out, you lovable skank.

she likes me --- she really likes me!!

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q108/zerohdc/Monkeywink.jpg

[Doc Faustus]

Everyone knows you're a seventeenth century creation from the early plays of Christopher Marlowe. You're hardly a product of the last twenty years.

[neverending]

Many of the names on that list had their origins earlier than 1990.

[ferretchucker]

Yeah, someone in the office clearly wasn't informed of the current year.

[Elvis_Christ]

Another shitty list illustrating people's shitty taste. It does my head in how people dig mediocrity so much. Planet pedestrian :rolleyes:

[ferretchucker]

Of all the Friends characters...Rachel was easily the worst. Chandler, Phoebe, Ross. Any of them could have and should have taken her spot on that list.