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Which fictional characters have influenced your outlook on life or your morality?

>> No.600314

Maldoror

>> No.600310

Nothing? A board about books and there's nothing?

>> No.600319

American Psycho

>> No.600327

Starship Troopers

Too bad the movie missed the point of the book.

>> No.600336

Books in general have inspired me to be more outgoing and assertive, as I decided long ago that my life would be wasted if I didn't teach myself to doll out banter and snappy replies.

>> No.600337

>>600327
Exactly!

It pisses me off when people say "starship troopers was a great movie."

No it fucking wasn't.

>> No.600340

Jane Eyre.

I am a FtM transgender.

>> No.600361

>>600337

What I took away from the book: Why people fight.
What I took away from the movie: Explosions?

>> No.600378

>>600361
The movie was supposed to be satire of war propaganda movies.

>> No.600388

>>600378
lol so deep

>> No.600399

The director of Starship Troopers himself said that he fell asleep while reading the book, and didn't finish it.

Though I still think its a execlent sci fi film, it just tacked on the title Starship Troopers, along with the bug alien plot, and character names.

>> No.600409

>>600399

actually his words were "bored and depressed."

>> No.600410
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>>600399

I really wish they hadn't bothered.

Or at least put the powered armor in the movie.

>> No.600428

Pozdnyshev from The Kreutzer Sonata.

>> No.600429

>>600361
>>600337
>>600327
I lol'd. The book was propaganda which explicitly stated that only people who serve in the military are worthy of living. The entire point of the movie was to mock that attitude.

>> No.600431

Ned Stark. Nuff' said.

>> No.600443

>>600431
You plan to get beheaded?

>> No.600444

>>600431
So don't act like you have a rigid moral code up your ass or you'll end up being Charles the Firsted.
Good thought.

>> No.600446

In before Jesus

>> No.600456

>>600444

Actually, his rigid moral code is what got me inspired. He stuck to his principles even to the point of death. That takes balls of steel. Also his quote to his sons about execution.

>> No.600484

Meursault

>> No.600495

Jesus

>> No.600496

The Ridiculous Man from Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoevsky.

A short story, but his tale was a good one.

>> No.600519

Brandy Alexander

>> No.600523

>>600456
I'm pretty sure Tommen could politically out-maneuver Ned Stark.

>> No.600533

Death - Death Series - Discworld

Hence tripname.

I just don't go as far as to use CAPITAL LETTERS IN EVERYTHING I TYPE, AS THAT WOULD QUICKLY GET ON EVERYONE'S NERVES.

But I like his "Life is precious and short and it's not worth a damn thing if it's not cared for" speech at the end of Reaper Man. Live life at it's fullest man, no matter what!

>> No.600543

>>600533
yeah, says the guy that can't die.

>> No.600552

I've started to be more moralistic since I started reading/watching Kamen Rider.

>> No.600549

titchuba from the crucible

>> No.600557

judge holden

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>>600543
You just wish you were an ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION, like me.

>> No.600565

>>600233

Jesus

>> No.600607

Mugwump, I think his name was, from The Silver Chair. Basically, his whole speech against the Lady of the Green Kirtle when she's playing her harp trying to mind-kill Jill and Eustace. It essentially was a denial of existential nihilism, because people really can't live in that type of world and be happy.

Lewis always found a way of sneaking in surprisingly profound stuff, even with the whole obvious Christian allegory that everyone seems to not like.

>> No.600615

Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment.
Loved Dostoyevsky's characterization of nihilism

>> No.601314

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Diogenes, and a few others

>> No.601340

>>600607
I loved that character so much. He was so pessimist, yet he was the most strong-willed of the bunch.

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601348

Live by your word.