Angel

Both the super-hot vampire-with-a-soul and the super-troubled X-Man (except not the one from The Last Stand. Ew.)

Battle School

Orson Scott Card’s best-selling, award-winning Ender’s Game would have been nothing without this awesome place.

Chuck

Both the show and the eponymous character in the show.

Daredevil/ Deadpool

The Man Without Fear is my fave comic book hero. The Merc with a Mouth is my fave comic book anti-hero.

Emily the Strange

Love that creepy little kid.

Frodo

Poor wee put-upon hobbit. In both the books and the movies, he is heart-breakingly heroic – though, in the movies, mercifully less naked.

Gambit

The very best X-Man, and the only comic book character on whom I have ever had a real crush. Not the Gambit in the Wolverine movie, though. I mean, what was he even doing there? Where was his accent? And he didn’t even steal anything!

Honor Harrington

David Weber’s best-selling heroine is the kick-assiest of all kick-ass combat commanders.

Inigo Montoya

You killed his father. Prepare to die.

Jack O’Neill

Love the whole of Stargate SG-1, but O’Neill made that show extraordinary for its first eight seasons. (He’s kind of lame on SGU, though.)

Korval

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Liaden series is a masterpiece of romance-ish space opera, but no facet is more so than the creation of the genetically-blessed Clan Korval.

Leeloo

Not only in The Fifth Element, she is the fifth element. Mad fighting skills, a towering intellect, and she rocks bright orange hair unlike anyone else possibly could.

Moya

Farscape’s living ship transported Crichton, Aeryn and the rest with an ever-steadfast loyalty, except when she had to protect her son. Her son! Moya’s fricken cool.

Neo

Woah.

Opal Koboi

This narcissistic evil genius appears in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series. She is one seriously diabolical, mixed-up, ruthless and self-obsessed pixie… and very, very funny.

Powerpuff Girls

Little girls who save the day, in between coloring, playing tag and learning the alphabet at Pokey Oaks Kindergarten? Come on! What’s not to love?

Quark

The profit-focused Ferengi from DS-9, not the particle.

Raphael

The best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, bar none! (Finest in his cartoon incarnation, but comic-and-movie Raph still kicks all kinds of shell.)

Severus Snape

J. K. Rowling’s complex and intriguing love-to-hate character… and then BAM! He’s kind of a decent guy. Nicely played, J.K.

Twilight

Yes, okay, I know! I know! I can’t help it, alright?

U.S.S.

Enterprise-D

All the Enterprises are great, but the Enterprise-D is just the prettiest spaceship ever created, carrying the finest crew ever to traverse the Alpha Quadrant.

Valdemar

Mercedes Lackey’s fantasy land is beyond wondrous.

Winchesters

Sam and Dean rule the Supernatural world.

Xander Harris

Loyal, brave, sarcastic, self-deprecating, flawed, funny and not a little geeky… Buffy’s sidekick was anything but the Zeppo of the Scooby Gang.

“Yowsers!”

Go go Gadget Copter!

Zords

 “Saber-tooth tiger!”