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EW's Top 100 Characters of the past 20 Years (the fuck? @ some of these)

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Lijik

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How the fuck did Elmo and Tony Stark sneak their way into a list of characters from the past twenty years :lol
 
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wenis

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Speevy said:
1. Homer Simpson - The Simpsons
4. Tony Soprano - The Sopranos
5. The Joker - The Dark Knight
8. Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs
11. Cosmo Kramer - Seinfeld
12. Fox Mulder & Dana Scully - The X-Files
14. Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski - The Big Lebowski
22. Cartman - South Park
23. Austin Powers
25. Woody - Toy Story
27. Frasier Crane
29. Vincent Vega & Jules Winnfield - Pulp Fiction
30. Stephen Colbert - The Colbert Report
35. Dexter Morgan - Dexter
36. Gollum - Lord of the Rings
37. Kyser Söze - The Usual Suspects
38. Elmo - Sesame Street
39. GOB Bluth - Arrested Development
40. Ron Burgundy - Anchorman
44. Jack Bauer - 24
45. Stewie Griffin - Family Guy
47. Corky St. Clair - Waiting for Guffman MEH
48. Red - The Shawshank Redemption
51. Omar Little - The Wire
52. Annie Wilkes - Misery
55. Tracy Jordan - 30 Rock
57. Clayton Bigsby (blind white supremacist) - Chappelle's Show
59. Master Chief - Halo
61. Vic Mackey - The Shield
63. John Locke - Lost
64. Maximus - Gladiator
72. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace - Battlestar Galactica MEH
74. Don Draper - Mad Men
76. Tyler Durden - Fight Club
84. House
85. Daniel Plainview - There Will Be Blood
90. Marge Gunderson - Fargo
99. The Bride - Kill Bill MEH



There. I've cut down the list to characters Neogaf would agree with.
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nah...you still need to make some cuts.
 
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PflargBlarg

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I'm liking Tony Soprano's placement on there. I just started watching all through The Sopranos this year. He is a really amazing character in a fantastic series.

I smh at Master Chief on this list.
 
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Salazar

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BowieZ said:
Is Mario not on this list because "Of the Last 20 Years" means making their global debut after 1989?
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I would not rule out the possibility that this list was created by an EW employee cutting and pasting together an assortment of previous bullshit lists.
 
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Lijik

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BowieZ said:
Is Mario not on this list because "Of the Last 20 Years" means making their global debut after 1989?
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This theory is tossed out the window when The Joker makes the top five.
 
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Yeef

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Expected to see Homer at #1 and rightly so. Technically it should be the entire cast of the Simpsons, but he'll do as a representative. Didn't bother to read the rest of the list.

bdrob said:
/find Scorpius

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Fail :/
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I was on the verge of agreeing with you until I realized you misspelled Hank Scorpio.

Lijik said:
This theory is tossed out the window when The Joker makes the top five.
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Simpsons, as well, has been around as its own show since '89 and before that as Tracy Ulman shorts.
 
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Calcaneus

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What is the deal with Lara Croft? Was she really that iconic in the 90s?

Granted I was a kid then, but I only ever saw her in game magazines, and not with much more frequency than other big game characters.
 
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BobDylan

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I feel like this list was made up by someone who just rambled off 100 names they could think of and numbered them in the order that they thought of them.
 
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Lijik

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Yeef said:
Simpsons, as well, has been around as its own show since '89 and before that as Tracy Ulman shorts.
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Thats right.
For some reason I thought the post-shorts show started in 1990
 
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Nert

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Big Ass Ramp said:
what is it with all the top X lists recently?
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Extremely low opportunity costs and effort needed on the production side, easy to spread over multiple pages to generate extra page clicks/views, very easy for them to "go viral" with people linking to the website and sceraming about how "wrong" they are, etc.

Edit: Lists are also extremely easy to interpret and digest, for the most part, so they can reach a broader audience than a lengthy, thoughtful essay or research piece would. There are probably some other obvious reasons that I haven't included.
 
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Veidt

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Man, they must have been on crack or something.
 
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dave is ok

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I assumed this was based on some pop culture impact or some bullshit - considering Rachel Green was in the Top 10, but then I realized it contained characters from books I had never heard of and some shows that have relatively small audiences too

Stupidest list I have ever seen
 
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Decado

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Harry Potter? WTF!?! He's lame enough to be an anime character :\

I've enjoyed the movies (not so much the last one, though), but HP himself is getting pretty irritating.
 
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chase

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But...some of these aren't from the 4 shows and 10 movies that GAF says I am allowed to watch...

I don't understand?

I mean, I see characters from Larry David shows, and 30 Rock, and the Office (US version, obviously). I don't...I mean, this is weird...
 
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Lafiel

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Stupid list, but who cares, let's move along.

At least friday night lights is on there somehow. Although tami or coach taylor should have been there instead of tim riggins.:lol
 
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Jex

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I want to see the meeting where they came up with this list. It's such a stroke of genius in that offends every possible taste, therefore guaranteeing internet discussion. Masterful.
 
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Nameless

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a few notable exclusions off the top of my head

-Black Dynamite
-Bill The Butcher(Gangs of NY)
-Doc Holiday(Tombstone)
-Hank Moody(Californication)
-Ace Ventura
-Ben Linus(LOST)
-Tommy Vercetti(GTA Vice City)
 
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dvdjamm

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Rachel Green is #6???


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backflip10019

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I disagree with almost every single female that is on that list. And how Rachel from Friends is one below the Joker from The Dark Knight is just blowing my mind.
 
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BowieZ

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Nert said:
Extremely low opportunity costs and effort needed on the production side, easy to spread over multiple pages to generate extra page clicks/views, very easy for them to "go viral" with people linking to the website and sceraming about how "wrong" they are, etc.

Edit: Lists are also extremely easy to interpret and digest, for the most part, so they can reach a broader audience than a lengthy, thoughtful essay or research piece would. There are probably some other obvious reasons that I haven't included.
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People are obsessive compulsive and compartmentalists?


Calcaneus said:
What is the deal with Lara Croft? Was she really that iconic in the 90s?

Granted I was a kid then, but I only ever saw her in game magazines, and not with much more frequency than other big game characters.
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Was she iconic in the 90s? The Times UK Magazine created and published their own official Tomb Raider level. Lara was in Lucozade ads. She's had two feature films starring Angelina Jolie. Nine feature games.
 
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