Best Character from Entertainment Weekly's Best Character Poll Poll

Rachel Green? She's not even in the top 3 Friends characters!
I didn't think Edward Scissorhands was that popular at the time never mind good enough to make a top ten a decade later.
I think Homer will walk this but I'm voting for Big Tony.

The Joker over Batman? Weird. Anyway, voted for Carrie. Homer is cool, but I think he got kinda overexposed when they made him the main character of Simpsons. I liked him more when they didn't emphasize his dumbness and gluttony so much.

It's Heath Ledger's Joker in particular, which is WAAAAAY better than Christian Bale's Batman.

I was happy for Homer's character to come forward a bit from the first couple of series but I agree he ended up far too prominent - probably because there wasn't as much mileage in Bart as the main character.

Bad guys are always way more interesting and charismatic than Batman (in film, at least) and Ledger's Joker was very recent and highly acclaimed so I can understand him beating Batman here.

I don't remember exactly where House fell in the list (I want to say somewhere in the 40s), but he should've been higher. In fact, most of the list is more interesting outside of the top 10.

My heart wants to vote Ledger's Joker, because it's one of my favorite performances ever, but my head knows that Homer Simpson was rightly positioned at #1.

Rachel Green? She's not even in the top 3 Friends characters!

Was going to say this about Buffy, possibly not even top 10.

WAAAAAY better than Christian Bale's Batman

I should clarify that I actually like Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne. It's his Batman that sucks out loud.

Full list here: http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/06/01/100-greatest-characters-of-last-20-years-full-list/

House was 84th

63. John Locke from Lost

^only Lost character to make the List - I'd have pre-S6 Ben above Locke.

30. “Stephen Colbert” from The Colbert Report

ha

yeah there's some pretty lazy "central character from a popular show" shit going on here

there's also some t0tal randomness:

43. Cal Stephanides from Middlesex

i mean, im aware of the novel, but this is kind of obscure for a list that puts rachel from friends in the top ten

93. Game Boys: Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series; Kratos from the God of War series; and Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV

undoubtedly the greatest game characters of the last 20 years

write in vote for omar little

write in vote for Special Agent Dale Cooper, who far as i can tell didn't even make their top 100. way to fuck that one up ew.

Write in vote for Withnail and Conan the Cimmerian.

72. Kara “Starbuck” Thrace from Battlestar Galactica

Gaius Baltar was robbed.

I've never heard of these, or the things they are in:

97. Violet Weston from August: Osage County
28. Madea from several Tyler Perry films and plays
24. Felicity Porter from Felicity

out of these, Tony Soprano easy (sorry Homer)

I don't even know who Rachel Green is

Homer Simpson - hasn't been good for over 10 years
Harry Potter - lol
Buffy - eeh
Tony Soprano - fine in a first among equals sense
The Joker - yawn
Rachel Green - likeable but Joey and Ross were better characters
Edward Scissorhands - go cry emo kid
Hannibal Lecter - ffs
Carrie Bradshaw - nay

Spongebob wins by default

Tim Riggins over Coach Taylor? I don't think so.

39. Gob Bluth from Arrested Development

hmph.

Actually love Gob, so I'm into that.

problem is Homer is the only character who's actually been around for 20 years and never gone away. who else is in that category? a few UK soap characters

and Clegg from Last Of The Summer Wine somehow

based on my limited hulu sampling, mustache-guy from parks & recreation should have been an option. he's funny!

the 'hmph' was at GOB being at 39 rather than 1 where he belongs

I think some of these choices are great, particularly:
96. Bernie Mac from The Bernie Mac Show
84. Dr. Gregory House from House, M.D.
82. Tracy Flick from Election
76. Tyler Durden from Fight Club
75. David Brent from The Office (original version)
56. Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mothe
51. Omar Little from The Wire
39. Gob Bluth from Arrested Development
34. Cher from Clueless
18. Sue Sylvester from Glee
14. Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski from The Big Lebowski
4. Tony Soprano from The Sopranos

Characters, who in my mind, totally nailed ways of being / personalities in really interesting or innovative ways. A lot of their other choices seem really bland to me.

Also don't know how they missed Charlie Day.

The most criminally omitted characters on the EW list are Hank and Artie from Larry Sanders. Two of the best characters of the 20th Century, forget the last 20 years.

Also, Kramer was the worst character on Seinfeld.

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91. Hancock from Hancock

really????????

Also, Kramer was the worst character on Seinfeld.

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