- Sam Gamgees - for loyalty to Frodo, courage and a determination to see things through.
- Elizabeth Bennet - for wit, determined to marry for love and not just for financial security in an era where that would been considered odd.
- Sam Vimes - for going from a drunken failure to a brave, honourable and all round good guy (though he'd hate that term!). For overcoming his own prejudices to work with dwarves, werewolves and vampires. Now there's a calling if ever there was one...
- Scout Finch - for showing life through a child's eyes without being twee.
- Ebenezer Scrooge - for the redemption story and for giving us the wonderful We are Marley and Marley in the Muppet adaptation with Michael Caine. Easily my favourite bit of that film. I always did like those two old hecklers.
- Alan Grant - for investigating Richard III in The Daughter of Time despite being confined to a hospital bed and using his analytical skills to show there is no case against the king when it comes to who "killed" the Princes in the Tower (if they did - disappearance is not necessarily the same thing).
- Treebeard - one of my favourite stories within The Lord of the Rings is the March of the Ents, which is so wonderfully brought to life in the Peter Jackson film adaptations.
- Sherlock Holmes (and Watson) - the detective's detective and the assistant's assistant. The stories are fabulous but Holmes would be nothing without Watson. Geniuses need someone to bring that side out in them. (It was why Poirot had Hastings as a sidekick).
- Cinderella - my favourite fairy tale character. I am a sucker for the hopeless case to magical transformation and justice being done in the end kind of story.
- Jeeves (and Wooster) - The finest comic creations in English literature and, as with Holmes, Jeeves needs Wooster. Jeeves has to have someone to be brilliant for.
These are in no particular order but their stories are just fantastic (even when they're not written in that genre!).
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