Rypro 525

well folks, let the bitching begin I debated where to put this, if this belongs in otter, move it there
1) Homer Simpson
2) Harry Potter
3) Buffy
4) Tony Soprano
5) The Joker
6) Rachel Green (Friends)
7) Edward Scissorhands
8) Hannibal Lecter
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. Rosanne 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

RyoHazuki

Lara Croft is #17? Hmmmmm

majorjoe23

By "of the past 20 years" I'm assuming they don't mean "created in the last 20 years"? Otherwise some of their choices should be eliminated. Including #1.

Charlie Goose

Did they say the last 20 years or the last 70 years?

MLBFan24

I find Robert Langdon more compelling than most of those one-hit wonders. I'm looking at you Hancock.

Boba Fett

If they wanted to go for all of pop culture (which is what this list looks like), omitting Wolverine, is epic fail at the least.

Rypro 525

my guess is its purly based on Heath Ledger's performance (same with Tony Stark and RDJ

Ash Ketchum

It's a bogus list. No Ash Ketchum from Pokemon, no Pikachu, no Naruto, no Jason Statham characters (Frank Martin/Chev Chelios), no one from PRINCESS MONONOKE (I'd put Lady Eboshi in there), no John Woo characters (Tequila from HARD-BOILED or the villainous one in FACE/OFF), no Wong Fei-Hung (Jet Li in the ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA films), no Asia the Invincible (Brigitte Lin in SWORDSMAN III: THE EAST IS RED), no Spike Spiegel from "Cowboy Bebop" (who just got referenced on "The Young and the Restless"), and worst of all, no Saki Asamiya from YO YO GIRL COP.

(Oh, all right, I'll admit my choices would be just a tad too...eclectic?... for EW.)

The only ones they had on their list that I would agree with are the Tarantino ones--Vinnie and Jules from PULP FICTION (listed as one character) and the Bride from KILL BILL.

dhmac

I assume EW means characters who, in the past 20 years, took on another life in the pop cultural zeitgeist outside of the movie(s), tv show(s) or book(s) they appeared in.

Some of these are good picks for that, but others are really head-scratchers (Hancock? Really?!??), and there are far too many omissions (for example, the other main characters from Seinfeld).

OldBoy

not sure how Tony Stark gets in there, but not Batman or Spider-Man (2002). and as mentioned Wolverine. SM and Wolverine (X-Men) broke the comic book movie genre wide open and have significantly changed the landscape of these genre movies forever.

whoopdido

This was already mentioned in the 24 tv thread, but Jack Bauer at only #44?

You're telling me Harold/Kumar, Ron Burgendy, Cher from Clueless, Roseanne, Ally McBeal, Bridget Jones, Carrie from Sex and the City are all better characters than Jack Bauer? And I didn't even mention like 10 characters that I'd never even heard of.

coli

Buffy # 3 ?????? OK, that list lost credibility.....

Moleman1138

Anton Chigurh, Hans Landa, Terminator, Palpatine, The Bride and this guy ... "do the roar"

William Fuld

Heh.

adrenaline78

Like with any "best of" list there are some definite head scratchers. Agree that to not have Batman on there is ridiculous..

a character from Glee Apparently is better most of the characters created in the last 20 years. laughable.


It almost seems that whomever came up with this list was just flipping through the channels to see what was on and wrote them down.

the big train

At first I thought it was mostly about cultural significance, but there are many characters on there that I have never heard of before. If it's not about cultural significance, then I wouldn't exactly call the upper part of the list accurate. It's kind of ridiculous that it looks like it's limited to only one character per book/show/movie.

Eric D.

I can't stand EW. It was never a great magaizine, but every once in a while they would have a pretty cool article. Now all they do is cater to pop-culture loving tweens. I've been getting that magaizine for free for the past year because of some promotion and it goes right in the trash. It's a half step away from being OK! or People.

/Rant

dhmac

Given these few multiple character listings (12. Fox Mulder & Dana Scully - The X-Files, 29. Vincent Vega & Jules Winnfield - Pulp Fiction, 65. Lorelai & Rory Gilmore - Gilmore Girls, 86. Karen Walker & Jack McFarland - Will & Grace), it's clear they allow multiple characters for each position on the list, but are rather arbitrary about actually doing that (even when it's clearly called for).
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dolphinboy

You're right. She should be #2. Can't really argue with Homer.

I didn't even watch 24 often and I think Bauer is too low.

I take these kinds of lists for what they are, just silly fun. Hancock, though? I expected Ally, Fox and Dana, but it was nice to see Lorelai and Rory and, especially, Felicity!

Rypro 525

Jane Lynch does make that show btw. her presence takes it far above just 'that damn singing show)

AnonomusBob15

replace Edward Cullen from Twilight with Jewel from Deadwood and i'm cool with it.

Rypro 525

fixed

Michael Corvin

I'd drop:
Frasier, Sarah Conners & Elmo since they have all been around longer than 20 years. I wouldn't call, slight character tweaks worthy of inclusion. It's not like Elmo was a lime green T-rex before 1990.
Stephen Colbert is a person not a character
Harold & Kumar
Tim Riggins (FNL)
Edward Cullen - who composed this list?
Gorillaz - a band?

I'd add*:
Andy Sipowicz - NYPD Blue
Mark Greene - ER
Gil Grissom - CSI
Coach Taylor - FNL
William Wallace - Braveheart
Leonard - Memento
Léon - Léon
Kronk - Emperor's New Groove

*just quick, off the top of my head notable omissions

mjwhitay

Unless I missed them....

Al Swearengen - Deadwood
Josh Lyman - The West Wing

Those are pretty big misses IMO.

Shannon Nutt

I'd add:

Dale Cooper (TWIN PEAKS)
Jean-Luc Picard and/or Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Gil Grissom (CSI)