Entertainment Weekly‘s Greatest Film/TV characters

[sglowrider]

100. Tim Riggins from Friday Night Lights
99. The Bride from Kill Bill
98. Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels
97. Violet Weston from August: Osage County
96. Bernie Mac from The Bernie Mac Show
95. Wilhelmina from Ugly Betty
94. Truman from The Truman Show
93. Game Boys: Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series; Kratos from the God of War series; and Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV
92. Christopher Boone from The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time
91. Hancock from Hancock
90. Marge Gunderson from Fargo
89. Wikus van de Merwe from District 9
88. Napoleon Dynamite from Napoleon Dynamite
87. Tony Stark from the Iron Man series
86. Karen Walker and Jack McFarland from Will & Grace
85. Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood
84. Dr. Gregory House from House, M.D.
83. Jen Yu from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
82. Tracy Flick from Election
81. Amanda Woodward from Melrose Place
80. Gorillaz, the animated rock band
79. Elphaba from Wicked
78. Patty Hewes from Damages
77. Mimi Marquez from Rent
76. Tyler Durden from Fight Club
75. David Brent from The Office (original version)
74. Don Draper from Mad Men
73. Catherine Trammell from Basic Instinct
72. Kara “Starbuck” Thrace from Battlestar Galactica
71. Det. Alonzo Harris from Training Day
70. Mary Katherine Gallagher from Saturday Night Live
69. Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada
68. Effie White from Dreamgirls
67. Borat from Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
66. Allie and Noah from The Notebook
65. Lorelai and Rory Gilmore from Gilmore Girls
64. Maximus from Gladiator
63. John Locke from Lost
62. Jimmy Corrigan from Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
61. Vic Mackey from The Shield
60. Mary Jones from Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Saphhire
59. Master Chief from the Halo series
58. Thelma and Louise from Thelma & Louise
57. Clayton Bigsby from Chappelle’s Show
56. Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother
55. Tracy Jordan from 30 Rock
54. Juno from Juno
53. Edward Cullen from the Twilight saga
52. Annie Wilkes from Misery
51. Omar Little from The Wire
50. Pearl the Landlord from FunnyorDie.com
49. Vivian Ward from Pretty Woman
48. Red from The Shawshank Redemption
47. Corky St. Clair Waiting for Guffman
46. Jerry Maguire from Jerry Maguire
45. Stewie Griffin from Family Guy
44. Jack Bauer from 24
43. Cal Stephanides from Middlesex
42. Sydney Bristow from Alias
41. Harold and Kumar from the Harold & Kumar series
40. Ron Burgundy from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
39. Gob Bluth from Arrested Development
38. Elmo from Sesame Street
37. Keyser Söze from The Usual Suspects
36. Gollum from The Lord of the Rings
35. Dexter Morgan from Dexter
34. Cher from Clueless
33. Sarah Connor from Terminator 2: Judgment Day
32. Beavis and Butt-Head from Beavis and Butt-Head
31. Forrest Gump from Forrest Gump
30. “Stephen Colbert” from The Colbert Report
29. Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction
28. Madea from several Tyler Perry films and plays
27. Frasier from Frasier
26. Kavalier and Clay from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
25. Woody from the Toy Story series
24. Felicity Porter from Felicity
23. Austin Powers from the Austin Powers series
22. Eric Cartman from South Park
21. Roseanne Conner from Roseanne
20. Ally McBeal from Ally McBeal
19. Morpheus from The Matrix series
18. Sue Sylvester from Glee
17. Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider franchise
16. Bridget Jones from the Bridget Jones series
15. Shrek from the Shrek series
14. Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski from The Big Lebowski
13. Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean series
12. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from The X-Files
11. Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld
10. SpongeBob SquarePants from SpongeBob SquarePants
9. Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City
8. Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs and its sequels
7. Edward Scissorhands from Edward Scissorhands
6. Rachel Green from Friends
5. The Joker from The Dark Knight
4. Tony Soprano from The Sopranos
3. Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Harry Potter from the Harry Potter series
1. Homer Simpson from The Simpsons

 

[Mockney]

I'd agree with Homer as No1...and almost none of the others

 

[sglowrider]

I think they forgotten Hank Moody from Californication.

 

[R.N7]

There's so much wrong on that list. I don't even know where to start.

...Forget it the whole list is crap.

 

[Wibble]

No Darius Jedburgh?

The English one in the new film is a travesty.

 

[Wittmann45]

There's one Harry on this list, and it isn't this guy:

 

[I_live_cement]

Where's the Man with No Name?

Edit: ^^I guess they just don't like Clint Eastwood?

 

[Brocky]

Not even on the list??

 

[I_live_cement]

It must be from the last 20 years.

A bit more info and a link would be helpful next time, Slog.

 

[The_Red_Hope]

Shit list. How do they decide the rankings anyway?

 

[Ixion]

They got the top position right at least.

 

[DouLou]

Oh feck what a shit list.

I mean sometimes you get a list like this and you can debate bits of it due to opinion... but not this one. It's just a complete mess.

 

[jveezy]

Honestly there's some of them where you can just look at the people they have ranked previous and next and wonder how the hell anyone could choose to rank it that way.

Madea v Jules and Vincent for example.
Pearl the Landlord and Omar Little is another one.

 

[Alex]

Shit list

 

[Adzzz]

Tony Stark FFS. Bridget Jones? Lol what a fecking shite list.

 

[Wonder Pigeon]

It must be from the last 20 years.

A bit more info and a link would be helpful next time, Slog.

Even with that criteria it's still a load of bobbins.

 

[Decotron]

Worst list Ive ever seen, for idiots with no independent thought process.
fecking Glee? Ask my arse

No characters from the West Wing, The Shield, Oz, Generation Kill
One character from the Wire

Wheres Randy Marsh?
Wheres Norm from Cheers?
Wheres Ari gold?



Baaaaaaah

 

[Uncle Junior]

Shit list. No Ralphie Cifaretto? No Christian Troy? Maximus at #64?

 

[kps88]

Rachel from Friends? Really? She wasn't even the best character on the show.

 

[Ivor Ballokov]

93. Game Boys: Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series; Kratos from the God of War series; and Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV
92. Christopher Boone from The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time

Thought it was just TV/Film? If it's open to novels then where's Sal Paradise. Or Jesus.

Shit list.

 

[olesmyhero]

Rachel from Friends? Really? She wasn't even the best character on the show.

Would have gone with Chandler over Rachel.

That is a pretty poor list.

 

[Girish II]

Worst list Ive ever seen, for idiots with no independent thought process.
fecking Glee? Ask my arse

No characters from the West Wing, The Shield, Oz, Generation Kill
One character from the Wire

Wheres Randy Marsh?
Wheres Norm from Cheers?
Wheres Ari gold?



Baaaaaaah

Vic @ 61. Still though, that show was teaming with them.

 

[Girish II]

92. Christopher Boone from The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time

Didn't realise a film adaptation was made. Anyone seen it care to review?

 

[Count Duckula]

No Neytiri?

List fail.

...

 

[FlawlessThaw]

Didn't realise a film adaptation was made. Anyone seen it care to review?

It's not even been made yet, still in production.

 

[Rado_N]

What a horrific list, there are so many names that don't belong anywhere near it that it's not even worth debating.

 

[decorativeed]

There's so much wrong on that list. I don't even know where to start.

...Forget it the whole list is crap.

Nail on the head. I especially take issue with bloody Elmo being the one Sesame Street character - the annoying bastard. Grover is where it's at - surely everyone knows that.

Also: 80. Gorillaz, the animated rock band. In a list of greatest film and TV characters.

 

[maldini]

No Lennie Briscoe from Law&Order? Ridiculous. Longest running character in the longest running show FFS.

 

[SirAF]

Shit list,

no Bagwell, Locke or Ari Gold.