MY LIST: The Five Best Fictional Characters Ever (in no particular order)

MY LIST: The Five Best Fictional Characters Ever (in no particular order)

1. Temperance Brennan

- Fictional character created by Kathy Reichs.

- There are 9 books about her (I have 6, so far) Deja Dead, Death du Jour, Fatal Voyage, Bare Bones, Monday Mourning, Cross Bones, Break No Bones*, Grave Secrets*, and Deadly Decisions*, and one TV series (Bones) with three seasons so far (Brennan is portrayed by Emily Deschanel.)

- Kathy Reichs, like her book character, is a forensic anthropologist who works for both the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciares et de Medicine Legale for the province of Quebec. She consistently commutes between the two places.

- The book character differs from the TV series character in almost every way except that they’re both forensic anthropologists. Brennan in the book: works in North Carolina and Quebec, is divorced from the lawyer Pete, has a sister named Harry, has a daughter named Katy, has a boyfriend named Andrew Ryan, and is more human than the TV character. Brennan on the series: works in Washington DC for the Jeffersonian Institute, has a crew of four extremely talented people, has an FBI agent partner named Seeley Both (played by David Boreanaz from Dark Angel), has a brother and a father both in jail, is a complete atheist and extremely emotionless.

- I like her because she’s witty, intellectual, strong and independent.

2. Robert Langdon

- Fictional character created by Dan Brown.

- There are two books about him (Angels and Demons & The Da Vinci Code) and one movie (The Da Vinci Code.)

- Of the two books, I favor Angels and Demons. It’s actually still my favorite book even though I read it three years ago. The Da Vinci Code lacked the level of excitement and suspense that A&D had, although it was certainly more controversial.

- Langdon is an unlikely hero, a professor of religious iconology at the Harvard University. He got swept up in the story when he was called on by CERN (that’s in Geneva, Switzerland) to help with the case of a murdered scientist branded with the symbol of the Illuminati, an old cult, and the robbery of the antimatter substance from their lab.

- He was so cool because he knew so much! The setting was in Vatican City, and he was so informed about all the artworks and artists etcetera. I also like him because he was completely unbiased about the things he came across, which I imagine would be hard since he was dealing with an age-old cult, Christianity in the Vatican City, and a product of science (the antimatter.)

3. Lincoln Rhyme

- Fictional character created by Jefferey Deaver.

- In my opinion, the best criminalist in all of “fictiondom.”

- There are 8 novels about him and his partner Amelia Sachs: The Bone Collector, The Stone Monkey, The Coffin Dancer, The Empty Chair, The Vanished Man, The Twelfth Card, and the Cold Moon*. There’s also a short story in the book Twisted, and a The Bone Collector movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.

- During one of his crime scene investigations, a beam fell onto him and injured his C4 vertebrae, thus paralyzing him from the shoulders down. But he can move his left ring finger. He became a paraplegic.

- Injured like that, he continued forensic work employing all his resources (machines and his partner Amelia Sachs.)

- He’s amazing because he’s so smart. His eye for details, clues and subtle hints is incredible. If he were a real person, he would be working for Interpol. He’d probably be the chief of Interpol.

- He’s the best criminalist because he always knows where to find the perpetrators. He always knows exactly what they did. He knows what they’re going to do. He is able to think like them. And, being disabled, he uses his mind more. He’s usually right, and when he makes mistakes, he finds a way to make up for it.

- Criminals who know him fear him, and all the police and detectives still ask him for help, even though he retired when he got injured. Pretty amazing for a paraplegic.

4. Freddy Krueger

- Fictional character from the series Nightmare on Elm Street.

- I think there are around ten movies about him.

- In a nutshell, he’s creepy. Ok, that’s an understatement. He was a pedophile who preyed on children in Elm Street. The parents eventually hunted him down and burned him in a boiler room. But his soul was so evil that he came back, years later, in the dreams of the children of Elm Street who were then grown up already. He became a severely burned man in a green sweater and filthy hat, with razors for fingers. But what are a few nightmares, right? There was a catch. If he got to you in the dream, then you really do die. He made the nightmare realm his world, and when you were there, the only escape was to wake up... If you can.

- In the movies, there were three girls in white, playing jump rope, who sang this in the creepiest voice possible: 1,2 Freddy’s coming for you, 3,4, better lock your door, 5,6, grab your crucifix, 7,8, stay up late, 9, 10, never sleep again.

- There was a movie, Freddy vs. Jason , that featured the face-off of the century. I loved that movie. Jason Voorhees was a young boy who drowned in a lake, and came back years later as a zombie in a hockey mask, controlled by the voice of his mother, ordering revenge. That was seriously creepy. A literal clash of the worlds.

5. Harry Potter

- Fictional character created by Joanne Kathleen Rowling.

- If you haven’t heard of him then you must have been living in some remote mountain for the past decade.

- There are 7 books in the Harry Potter Series: The Sorcerer’s Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix, The Half-Blood Prince, and The Deathly Hallows, and 5 movies so far for the first five titles.

- Do I really have to say why I’m such a fan? It’s obvious. Hahaha.

- I actually converted one shelf in my closet to a shrine to the HP series.

- I LOVE HARRY POTTER!!!

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*Books I haven’t read yet.