Character meme stolen from various

[mothwing]

The Rules:
Don't take too long to think about it.
Fifteen fictional characters (television, films, plays, books, comics) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

1. Granny Weatherwax
2. Minerva McGonagall
3. Ms Hardbroom (from the Worst Witch series)
4. Elphaba
5. Ronja Robbersdaughter
6. Sherlock Holmes
7. Hazel (from Watership Down)
8. Spock
9. Alfred J. Prufrock
10. Severus Snape
11. Brutha (from Small Gods)
12. Pater Brown
13. Havelock Vetinari
14. Dirk Matthies (from Großstadtrevier, a German series about a team of police officers fighting crime in Hamburg's red light district)
15. Jane Eyre

Given the fact that I disliked reading books about female characters until my late teens because of the abundant and inescapable love plots (after that I realised they were inevitable because female characters Have. To fall. In love.) it's great to see that there are so many female characters who do make the list.

EDIT: characters I can't believe I forgot to mention or wanted to mention but didn't due to space: 

• Agnes Nitt
• Willow from the Buffyverse
• Spike
• Hiccup
• Atreju
• Inigo Montoya
• Indianer Jones (how could I ever forget about you)
• Han Solo
• Mrs Marple
• the Phantom of the Opera
• Bagheera
• Katsa
• Polgara
• Johnny Maxwell
• ...