The Best Main Character Ever

In terms of most popular main character, it usually is someone with comic relief(Deadpool), some sort of intelligence and compassion(Dumbledore+Hermine), or some sort of incompetent villain or villain's assistant(Kronk).

In terms of actual best main character, growth and overcoming obstacles are your best bet. Hope that helped!

 

I like characters who aren't happy about their pasts but keep going anyway. Remind me of me.

 

This is so, so standard, but I really like Captain America in his movies (although I haven't seen Civil War yet). I think he's adorable!
I'm not sure if I'd call him my favourite main character ever - I've read a lot of books so I'd have to spend a long time thinking, anyway, someone will come to me later, I'm sure - and he definitely isn't my favourite character ever, but I can't remember the last time I saw a popular film and actually liked the main protagonist, let alone liking them more than other characters.

 

Tidus from FFX

 

In my opinion, the best main characters are those, who make mistakes and learn from them. Their desicions affect them in both ways, good and bad and they don't give up, when things get a little hard.

My personal favourites are Octavia, Clarke and Monty from The 100. They are brave and strong-willed, but still they are just humans

 

Link, from Legend of Zelda. 'Nuff said.

 

DAMMIT, DAMMIT, DAMMIT! I spent ages writing a reply only to lose it because I timed out and I forgot to save it by copying it and then pasting it after logging back in! NOW I'VE LOST MY WHOLE DAMN REPLY! ALL THAT TIME AND EFFORT FOR NOTHING! Ugh, I'll try and rewrite it later. Or maybe I won't, I'm pretty annoyed that it wouldn't let me go back and copy it after I went off it. Why do I even bother? :bang:

Screw this, I'm going to bed. :dry:

 

Calm down. Here. (*hug*)

 

I meant wouldn't. You've no idea how long that thing was. Ugh. :icon_sad:

But, I appreciate the hug.

 

Glad I could help.

 

My favorite characters would be Rodya Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment, Turtle from The Westing Game, and Sherlock Holmes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Rodya's my personal #1 favorite, primarily because of Dostoyevsky's masterful writing. I like him so much because he seems so human--his flaws, his aspirations, his thinking. What he does is what a human would do, not what logically makes sense. Hell, he's mentally ill. It's a psychological novel, and the main focus is of Rodya's development as a character. The events that happen and characters that he meets very clearly make an impact on his actions and development, so that Rodya, in the end, chooses redemption for his crimes instead of walking scot-free. He made mistakes. He has people that he loves and would do anything for. Even murder.

Finally, I think having a main character that reflects you in some way definitely helps. Like Rodya, Dostoyevsky had poor nerves, lived in poverty, and generally was not psychologically healthy. His behavior was similar to Rodya's.

So yeah. I hope that was a tiny bit helpful. I think I just needed a reason to babble about how good that book was.

 

Adam Jensen was pretty cool from Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

For a book it'd probably be Artyom from the Metro series, though I'm not sure if it was just the book I liked or both that and the character. The Narrator from Fight Club is up there, too.

For a movie/TV show, I'd say Cullen Bohannon from Hell on Wheels.

 

Dean Winchester from Supernatural. That guy is simply AWESOME. Best guy character on TV.

One of my favorite Dean Winchester quotes, from Season 9 of Supernatural:

Sam and Dean are leaving a mini-mart, Dean is eating a store bought pie.
SAM: "Did you read the list of ingredients, all of the chemicals that are in this?"
DEAN: "I read the word 'pie'. The rest is just 'blah, blah.'"

 

I can't decide between, Deadpool, Sakata Gintoki and Gasai Yuno. And it's kinda hard to explain why xd

 

Hmm...

Po from Kung Fu Panda is really cool. I like the modest hero.
I also like Nitori Shuuichi and Takatsuki Yoshino, the two trans kids in Hourou Musuko. And Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist. And... many others from anime. :3

 

The main character of Battle Royale. XD Can't remember his name.

 

ruby rose.......shes hawwwwwttttttttt.......I could me some stella anyday

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but on a serious note I think ema stone. ...she funny

 

I really loved reading the book The Catcher in the Rye bc reading it as a teenager, the message felt especially relevant to my life. Another thing was that the main character Holden was/still is very relatable to me. He seems so real. He makes silly, impulsive decisions, is driven mostly by his own idealistic values, and feels a sense of being alienated from his peers/displays an inability to relate to a lot of them - and that's something that I relate a lot to. So yeah, I guess being relatable, flawed, & very human are what make a main character great. I think I'm gonna reread the book sometime, it's been a while since I read it.

I liked Jodie Foster's character in Silence of the Lambs too. Again, her character is similar to me in the way that she is also very idealistic. So she was sort of relatable to me ig. Not to mention how great of a job Jodie Foster did playing her. Tbh my emotional connection to the book Catcher in the Rye and the character of Holden is a lot stronger than my appreciation of Jodie Foster and her work in Silence of the Lambs. Nonetheless it is a great film, and her character Clarice makes a pretty rad main character.

 

My all-time favorite female TV lead character is Veronica Mars. So smart, tough, witty, and played wonderfully by Kristen Bell.