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The chad-est character you've ever read?

>> No.12852023

Socrates

>> No.12852024

>>12852018
Cristo el Bastardo

>> No.12852030 [DELETED] 

Thompson's fictionalized version of himself (not just raoul duke)

>> No.12852037
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>BTFO super strength hunchback
>flirts with hot gypsy thot in front of his fiancé
>pumps and dumps gypsy, cucks poet, hunchback and priest who all have oneitis for her
>gyspy thot obsessed with him, willingly dies for a chance to see him again
>marries rich fiance just because he can
Captain Phoebus was /ourguy/

>> No.12852071
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>>12852018
Jean Valjean.

>> No.12852098

>>12852018
wolf larsen

>> No.12852102

>>12852098
fuck you

>> No.12852132

Edmond Dantes in anime-self-insert levels of perfect chad
Novikov, the colonel of the tank regiment from Life and Fate, seems like the exact gallant chiselled communist officer that Soviet propaganda wanted to create
Augustus from the John Williams novel, and probably in real life too but I don't know enough history to say how accurate that was
Gilliatt from The Toilers of the Sea is a chad in his abilities, possibly not in his devotion to Deruchette

>> No.12852149

Odysseus. Spends like a decade fucking his way home only to find a wife surrounded by beta orbiters, but she's so thirsty for him that she hasn't fucked any of them

>> No.12852363

>>12852149
>beta orbiters
And then when he comes back, he and his son slay all two hundred of them on their own.

>> No.12852370

>>12852018
Dmitri Karamazov

Only a real Chad can kick their Dad within an inch of his life

>> No.12852736

>>12852071
This

>> No.12852751

>>12852370
Alyosha is the real chad.

>> No.12852763

Henry from the secret history

>> No.12852771

nagasawa in norwegian wood is an asian chad

>> No.12853078

>>12852751
This.

>> No.12853126

>>12852018
The protagonist of my diary desu

>> No.12853195

>>12852071
Unironically this

>> No.12853223

>>12852018
Me in My Diary Desu

>> No.12853523

>>12852018
Dolokhov.

>> No.12853544
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>>12852102
wolf larsen is one of the chad-est dudes ever,he would be a total bro if he had a soul

>> No.12853568
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>>12852018
Ulrich

>> No.12853592
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12853592

I mean,

>> No.12853742

>>12852771
and a rare breed indeed

>> No.12853753

>>12852098
this

>> No.12853854

Andrei Bolkonski

>> No.12853897

>>12852018
Captain Patrick Dalroy (from Flying Inn)
>creates his own navy to fight Muslims and wins
>destroys the peace negotiations cause English politicians are corrupt and care more about Muslims than England
>Cruises around prohibition England on a donkey drawn wagon with a cask of rum and a wheel of cheese setting up a pub wherever he goes
> kicks the shit out of Muslims, puritans, vegetarians and more corrupt politicians
>constantly singing drinking songs with his buddy the bartender

>> No.12853905

>>12853854
andrei gets cucked by a pretty boy

>> No.12854139

Dolokhov from War and Peace

>> No.12854161

>>12852370
>implying the dad isn't the real chad

>> No.12854191

>>12852149
This, also Beowulf, Roland, Achilles, any hero from Homer, and any protagonists of epic poems.

>> No.12854209

Conan

>> No.12854243

>>12854139
This. I was also going to say Anatole but he kept running away from Prince Andrei like a little bitch.

>> No.12854377

>>12852018
>fictional
Odysseus
>spends ten years at war outliving Achilles, Ajax and the other heroes
>spends ten years getting back home just to remind beta orbiters who the alpha male is, and thots patrolled
>goes right back out to sea to keep kicking ass


>historical
Ernst Junger
>tried to join the French foreign Legion at 14
>officer partaking in major battles in all stages of WWI
>never fell to cowardice or ignorance
>was literally too alpha for NS politics
>not only fought bravely, gave perhaps the finest first-hand account of the great war, but also published political and social works, works on etymology, and lived to be over a century old.

>> No.12854388

>>12852132
>Edmond Dantes
>chad

Despite lucking into a massive fortune, he was so mad about getting cucked earlier that he spent his freedom as a bitter slave to his own cravings for revenge

He could've just accepted his apparent misfortune was in fact the greatest possible thing that could happen to him, and lived a life of unbelievable wealth, joy, and productivity

>> No.12854389

>>12852370
>>12854161
>falling in love with instathotties

>> No.12855527

>>12852018
But how much character can one have and still have a chad's primordial, unconscious vitality? Falstaff has loads of that, but half of it has "degenerated" into presence-of-mind, of a size able to size up anyone else's No chad could fully fathom his meanings, see what he sees.

>> No.12855921

>>12854388
But he ended up rich, getting over it and with a cute turk girl on his side.

>> No.12856272

>>12852071

Jean Valjean is 100% not a fucking chad.

Enjolras on the other hand...

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>>12854377
He was 17 when he joined the Legion, but yeah the dude is 10/10 /fit/k/lit/.

And don't forget that he tripped mad fucking balls with Albert Hoffman himself.

>reminder to read his later fiction in addition to his earlier stuff

>> No.12856321
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12856321

For me, it's Roland.

Then the italians came along and decided he had oneitis over some Saracen woman and it got kind of gay.

>> No.12856373

Meursault walks the rope between chad and autist.

>> No.12856392

>>12856373
The only difference is a juicy natty physique.

>> No.12856449

Probably Judge Holden

>> No.12856476

>>12852751
>>12852370
Can someone make a virgin vs chad for the Karamazovs? It would work both ways, but I like the chad Alyosha.

>> No.12856827

>>12854191
Achilles is not a chad.

Spends the majority of the Illiad throwing a tantrum, and cries to his mom for help

>> No.12856928

>>12852018
Plutarch's Parallel Lives is filled with those. You could literally see it as how to be a chad: the book.

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>>12852018
frank chambers, fucks the greeks wife so hard and makes out with her until she bleeds. im on a noir binge right now and im loving it, some of the easiest and fluid reading ive ever read.

>> No.12856969

He's not even a character: Benvenuto Cellini

>> No.12857075

I don't know about most chad, but the least Chad character is Pyotr Verkhovensky. How the fuck did he ever manage to conceive a kid?

>> No.12857084 [DELETED] 

>>12857075
>implying it's chad to conceive a child
My friend, losers have kids at early ages. :3

>> No.12857207

>>12852018
Don Juan in Byron's great narrative poem, which is as easy to read as as a novel fwiw.

>> No.12857233

The Underground Man

>> No.12857531

>>12852018
Nobody mentions José Arcadio of 100 years of solitude!

>> No.12857558

John Galt. But also Rearden, Ragnar, D’anconia and the rest of the over the top heroic alphas that hypocrite cunt Rand wrote while at the same time preaching against hero worship.

>> No.12857596

my diary desi

>> No.12857602

Jesus in the bible

>> No.12857624
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>>12852018

>> No.12858033

>>12852763
the question was who is the chad-est character, not who is the biggest bitch

>> No.12858039
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12858039

Why was Marx such an asshole with his fellow Young Hegelians?

>> No.12858048

>>12852018
don juan

>> No.12859520

>>12852018
Howard Roark

>> No.12859642

Prince Myshkin

>> No.12859757

Henry Miller

>> No.12859784

>>12858039
He seemed a little autistic. The way he wrotes Critique of the Gotha Program is so neckbeardish.

A lot of "well acshually" and stuff.

>> No.12859807

Marcus Aurelius, Josef K., Santiago (Old Man)

>> No.12859814

>>12856449
Liked.

>> No.12860456

>>12852018
Me in the fanfiction I wrote about myself.

>> No.12861361

Zarathustra was pretty based.

>> No.12861375

The Martian.

I read that thing and fuck that guy. I'd rather see a mouth-breathing POS overcome the odds than some astronaut cunt.

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>>12852018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cizia_Zyk%C3%AB

I ve only read pic related but it's damn fun, this part of his autobiography si about how he was exploiting costa rican bad guys to find gold, how corrupted the country was, and how you don't fuck with Cizia Zyke.

>> No.12861751

>>12852018
Cu Chulainn
Such a Chad that he openly fucked other women aside from his wife and she was ok with it barring one exception. This is of course on top of being an indomitable warrior.

>> No.12861769

rich piana

>> No.12861777

>>12852751
And Ivan the real virgin?

>> No.12861800

Michael strogoff expert rus

>> No.12861812

>>12861769
Books on leaving humanity behind?

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>>12858039
They all criticized each other in their works, though. I'd say that's a cool setup.

>> No.12861930

Henry from horrid Henry

>> No.12862076
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>not Childe Harold

>> No.12862112

>>12852018
Geralt of Rivia

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>>12852018
Any main character in a James clavell book

>> No.12862224

>>12853523
Dolokhov was a male thot, Andrei Bolkonsky was the chad.

>> No.12862333

>>12856969
Why?