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This is probably the hardest lone of these lists to do

1- Omar Little (The Wire)
2- David Brent ( The Office UK)
3- Michael Scott (The Office US)
4- Stringer Bell ( The Wire)
5- Tony Soprano ( The Sopranoes)
6- Jimmy Mcnulty ( The Wire)
7- Ari Gold ( Entourage)
8- George Costanza (Seinfeld)
9- Bunk Moreland (The Wire)
10- Jay Cartwright ( The Inbetweeners)
 
(1) Basil Faulty (Fawlty Towers)
(2) David Brent (The Office UK)
(3) Dennis Reynolds (Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
(4) Frank Underwood (House of Cards)
(5) Doug Stamper (House of Cards)
(6) Josh Limen (West Wing)
(7) Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
(8) GOB Bluth (Arrested Development)
(9) Major Richard Winters (Band of Brothers)
(10) Lorne Malvo (Fargo)

Honourable Mentions - Manuel (Fawlty Towers), Tobias Funke (Arrested Development), Gareth Keenan (Uk Office) and Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
 
1. Randy Marsh (South Park)
2. Michael Schofield (Prison Break)
3. Homer Simpson ( Simpsons )
4. Spencer Reid ( Criminal Minds )
5. Chief Wiggum ( Simpsons )
6. Raymond Reddington ( Blacklist )
7. Theodore Bagwell ( Prison Break )
8. Zapp Brannagan ( Futurama )
9. Hal ( Malcolm in the Middle )
10. Butters ( South Park )
 

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Can't believe nobodies mentioned Emma Peel from The Avengers, now that lady could karate chop me any time she felt like it.

An almost impossible task really, but just a (very) small sample that would have to go on any list ..........

Walter White (Breaking Bad)

Rust Cohle (True Detective)

Lorne Malvo (Fargo)

Molly Solverson (Fargo)

Cleaver Greene (Rake)

Debra Morgan (Dexter)
 
1. Riggins (Friday Night Lights)
2. Raylan Givens (Justified)
3. Darren Lamb (Extra's)
4. Mat Saracen (Friday Night Lights)
5. Ruxin (The League)
6. Rafi (The League)
7. Boyd Crowder (Justified)
8. Taystee (Orange is the New Black)
9. Lorne Malvo (Fargo)
10. Desmond/Charlie (Lost)
 
1 Basil Fawlty
2 Ari Gold (entourage)
3 Costanza
4 Swearengen (deadwood)
5 Homer
6 Thad (blue mountain state)
7 Randy (south park)
8 Gannicus (Spartacus)
9 Corporal Josh Ray Person (Generation Kill)
10 Jermaine (flight of Conchords)

Dexter close, and Walter White...Hmm could be number 1 actually depending how I interpret the gist of the thread. Underwood, Omar and Cohle in the mix too. Hard to rate but I guess I was drawn to the comedians mainly.
 
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1. Dennis Reynolds
2. George Costanza
3. Frank Reynolds
4. Gob Bluth
5. Jessie Pinkman
6. Mr Burns
7. Johnny Drama
8. Ari Gold
9. Moe Szyslak
10. Milhouse
 
No order but 10 of my favourite characters of all time

Andy Dwyer (Parks and Rec)
John Luther (Luther)
Cumberbatchs Sherlock (Sherlock)
Tyrion Lannister (Game Of Thrones)
Randy Marsh (South Park)
Ron Swanson (Parks and Rec)
Nathan Young (Misfits)
Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
Jake Perolta (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
Opie (Sons of anarchy)
 
1.Al Swearengen (Deadwood)
2.Homer Simpson (Simpsons)
3.George Costanza (Seinfeld)
4.Walter White (Breaking Bad)
5.Tyrion Lannister - (Game of Thrones)
6.Alan Partridge (I'm Alan Partridge)
7.Tony Soprano - (The Sopranos)
8.Maxwell Smart (Get Smart)
9.Eric Cartman (South Park)
10.Bunk Moreland (The Wire)
 
I am incredibly bored but thought I would give this a crack.

I cannot simply limit it to single characters from my favourite shows so some of them will overlap and I can’t limit it to 10.

1. Costanza: the man is simply amazing. His deception, his neuroses, his self loathing, but arrogance that goes with it, and his willingness to do just about anything he can to achieve the smallest victory.

2. Mark Corrigan from Peep Show: he’s like a Costanza with a conscience. He will tell any lie necessary but will avoid hurting people if he can, loathes himself in a way no other character ever has, accepts defeat with the resignation that only a poor, fat, middle aged Englishman can. His mixture of sarcasm and intelligence is superb.

3. Finchy from The Office. He’s the worst human alive, he’s simply awful, but he owns every scene he’s in.

4. Mike Milligan - Fargo: he’s probably not quite as evil incarnate as Lorne Malvo but he’s nearly as deadly, plus he’s just as cool as f**k. His prose as he’s about to top someone, his love of old school organised crime, his willingness to put a ball in the head of anyone even those seemingly on his own side of the equation is first rate. Plus his backstory is fascinating.

5. Kramer: it was cliched to like him because of the sliding into Jerry’s apartment but so many of his idiosyncrasies make him a great character. The fact that he seems to have an unbending loyalty to Jerry (a photo of the pair of them next to his bed, a photo of him on his wall, he tells Jerry he loves him when Jerry is going through his emotional phase). His ‘looks’ of transformation when he is getting into character as Pennypacker or Van Nostrand. His work at Brandt-Leland and philosophies on business…

6. Tywin Lannister - GoT: sees through everyone, exudes menace, if you can find the deleted scene of him fishing at King’s Landing and talking to Pycelle where he calls out his act as a doddering old fool it is outstanding. Like a better version of the scene with Arya at Harrenhall.

7. Negan - Walking Dead: Overtly violent at times but as everyone grudgingly comes to accept, he did his version of what Rick did - kept his people alive the way he felt he needed to. And he was badass at doing it. His relationship with Judith was probably the most endearing aspect of the show to me as it started to wane somewhat later on.

8. Tim Canterbury - The Office: Loved his self deprecation, his little spiel about ‘loving ballet, the novels of Proust, the work of Alain Delon… I think that’s what led my mother to buying me HatFM. I like the radio too’ is one of the greatest pieces of sarcasm about the futility of even having any hope in your life that you will ever receive anything good if you aren’t in the chosen few who are blessed with good looks, a good job and a rich family.

9. Jay’s Dad - The Inbetweeners: ‘and Simon? Try not to rape anyone on the way out.’ Best line in the show and though he doesn’t feature a lot, basically everything he says is perfect.

10. The Hound - GoT: don’t really need to explain this one.

11. Doakes - Dexter: Loved that he was the only one that could actually work out what was going on and managed to put the pieces together, and he was pretty tough.

12. Super Hans - Peep Show: owns every scene he’s in. His assertion that he’s clean and off the gear when he’s having his stag party at a juice bar before whetting the whistle, only for the most brilliant Gilligan Cut to then show him after one sip of beer coked off his head singing ‘I just wanna f**k and suck, f**k and suck, f**k and suck’ is too good

13. James ‘Sawyer’ Ford - Lost: had a great story arc, was a mixture of badass with a decent enough nature and some often well hidden intelligence
 
JR Ewing (Dallas)
Kevin Amold (The Wonder Years)
Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
Niles Crane (Frasier)
John Becker (Becker)
Claire Fisher (Six Feet Under)
Norman Bates (Bates Motel)
Lexie Patterson (Prisoner)
Mr Bean (Mr Bean)
Nicolette Grant (Big Love)
 

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JR Ewing (Dallas)
Kevin Amold (The Wonder Years)
Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
Niles Crane (Frasier)
John Becker (Becker)
Claire Fisher (Six Feet Under)
Norman Bates (Bates Motel)
Lexie Patterson (Prisoner)
Mr Bean (Mr Bean)
Nicolette Grant (Big Love)
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Kevin Amold?

 
PhatBoy said:
I am incredibly bored but thought I would give this a crack.

I cannot simply limit it to single characters from my favourite shows so some of them will overlap and I can’t limit it to 10.

1. Costanza: the man is simply amazing. His deception, his neuroses, his self loathing, but arrogance that goes with it, and his willingness to do just about anything he can to achieve the smallest victory.

2. Mark Corrigan from Peep Show: he’s like a Costanza with a conscience. He will tell any lie necessary but will avoid hurting people if he can, loathes himself in a way no other character ever has, accepts defeat with the resignation that only a poor, fat, middle aged Englishman can. His mixture of sarcasm and intelligence is superb.

3. Finchy from The Office. He’s the worst human alive, he’s simply awful, but he owns every scene he’s in.

4. Mike Milligan - Fargo: he’s probably not quite as evil incarnate as Lorne Malvo but he’s nearly as deadly, plus he’s just as cool as f**k. His prose as he’s about to top someone, his love of old school organised crime, his willingness to put a ball in the head of anyone even those seemingly on his own side of the equation is first rate. Plus his backstory is fascinating.

5. Kramer: it was cliched to like him because of the sliding into Jerry’s apartment but so many of his idiosyncrasies make him a great character. The fact that he seems to have an unbending loyalty to Jerry (a photo of the pair of them next to his bed, a photo of him on his wall, he tells Jerry he loves him when Jerry is going through his emotional phase). His ‘looks’ of transformation when he is getting into character as Pennypacker or Van Nostrand. His work at Brandt-Leland and philosophies on business…

6. Tywin Lannister - GoT: sees through everyone, exudes menace, if you can find the deleted scene of him fishing at King’s Landing and talking to Pycelle where he calls out his act as a doddering old fool it is outstanding. Like a better version of the scene with Arya at Harrenhall.

7. Negan - Walking Dead: Overtly violent at times but as everyone grudgingly comes to accept, he did his version of what Rick did - kept his people alive the way he felt he needed to. And he was badass at doing it. His relationship with Judith was probably the most endearing aspect of the show to me as it started to wane somewhat later on.

8. Tim Canterbury - The Office: Loved his self deprecation, his little spiel about ‘loving ballet, the novels of Proust, the work of Alain Delon… I think that’s what led my mother to buying me HatFM. I like the radio too’ is one of the greatest pieces of sarcasm about the futility of even having any hope in your life that you will ever receive anything good if you aren’t in the chosen few who are blessed with good looks, a good job and a rich family.

9. Jay’s Dad - The Inbetweeners: ‘and Simon? Try not to rape anyone on the way out.’ Best line in the show and though he doesn’t feature a lot, basically everything he says is perfect.

10. The Hound - GoT: don’t really need to explain this one.

11. Doakes - Dexter: Loved that he was the only one that could actually work out what was going on and managed to put the pieces together, and he was pretty tough.

12. Super Hans - Peep Show: owns every scene he’s in. His assertion that he’s clean and off the gear when he’s having his stag party at a juice bar before whetting the whistle, only for the most brilliant Gilligan Cut to then show him after one sip of beer coked off his head singing ‘I just wanna f**k and suck, f**k and suck, f**k and suck’ is too good

13. James ‘Sawyer’ Ford - Lost: had a great story arc, was a mixture of badass with a decent enough nature and some often well hidden intelligence
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Ever watched the Detectorists, Andy and Lance , quality , classical deepening as it goes on!
Got to let it get to you! Its a ripper.
 
Lot of names already listed so a couple that haven't
Lord/General Melchant and George/Prince George in Blackadder

Peggy, Don and Pete in Mad Men (could name a few more, **** what a great character based show).

Elaine was my favourite in Seinfeld

Al getting a lot of love but Seth Bullock was pretty great in Deadwood too (and Dan/ Wu as side characters).

Benson and Stabler are an iconic duo admit it :D

Mike and Kim were the best characters in the BB/Saul universe.

Like some have mentioned you could just name all the Wire characters but some key soldiers were Wee Bey, Bodie and Chris Paltrow. Prop Joe was always great in his cameos too.

similarly with Sopranos could name most but Christopher/Adriana's arcs were the most heartbreaking.

Oh and Jane Tennison from Prime Suspect. Wrote the playbook for the "tough as nails" stone cold female cop.
 
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Could literally have named every main character in Seinfeld including the main ‘minor’ characters like:
Newman - his way with words was amazing particularly when he went on a rant like when he was interrogating Jerry for mail fraud
Frank Costanza - he wore sneakers in the pool. This alone was incredibly awesome
Steinbrenner
Peterman - absolutely superb. Particularly his outright lying about things like his ‘relationship’ with Susie who never even existed
 
PhatBoy said:
Could literally have named every main character in Seinfeld including the main ‘minor’ characters like:
Newman - his way with words was amazing particularly when he went on a rant like when he was interrogating Jerry for mail fraud
Frank Costanza - he wore sneakers in the pool. This alone was incredibly awesome
Steinbrenner
Peterman - absolutely superb. Particularly his outright lying about things like his ‘relationship’ with Susie who never even existed
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Elaine's collection of bosses were great. Mr Pitt had some great moments (the magic eye painting, eating his chocolate with a knife and fork etc).
Curbs support cast was elite too, ted danson, suzie, richard lewis, funkhauser etc
 
joey_jo_jo said:
Elaine's collection of bosses were great. Mr Pitt had some great moments (the magic eye painting, eating his chocolate with a knife and fork etc).
Curbs support cast was elite too, ted danson, suzie, richard lewis, funkhauser etc
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One of my all time favourite moments which just highlighted the brilliant absurdity of the Seinfeld universe so perfectly was the muffin top storyline when Mr Lipman agrees to give Elaine a cut of the earnings from the business and she starts advising him.

‘Also the name, with the exclamation point - it’s not, ‘top of the muffin, TO YOU!!’
‘No no, it is.’
 
HeathySure said:
If you dont count the troll list, there are 30 or so lists and only a total of 8 females named...no judging, just interesting..
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Yeah I noticed that too and , as you say, interesting. One obvious female lead that I didn’t see named was Buffy.
 
HeathySure said:
If you dont count the troll list, there are 30 or so lists and only a total of 8 females named...no judging, just interesting..
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If I named anymore GoT characters Arya would have been on mine, and Kim was my favourite BCS character so they could have easily been in the running.

Special mention also to Lady Olenna who delivers easily the best line in GoT

‘What did he name his sword again?’
‘Widow’s Wail.’
‘Sigh: he really was a c**t wasn’t he.’
 

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