CHARACTER REFERENCES

Eleven Twelve Thirteen---a once-in-a-century occurrence---once in a lifetime for most.  

Five years ago today, my very first post went floating out into the vastness that is the THERE of things.   It seems that there should be a little remembrance or plan for commemorating the moment, but nothing comes to mind.

You know I’ve been a reader all my life, with books such a great part of the Who I Am, and though I DO know fiction from fact most days, I’m just posting a list of the folks who, by dint of character or spirit or heroic dedication or plain old good company or sheer brain power---though I think I might not LIKE a few of them, I’d still want on MY SIDE, when I needed them.   They’re all IN IT, Banner and Blade:

Charlie Allnut

Samwise Gamgee
Those are the two linchpins of Literature, without whom . . .

Briene of Tarth

Samwell Tarley, Merry and Pippin 
Ree Dolly
Reacher
Gus and Woodrow
Mal Reynolds and Serenity crew

Ziva
Tyrion
Chuck Norris (and would HE not have made a splendid REACHER, for all 20+ movies, had the time been right)
Quigley--Orrin Sackett--Jesse Stone--Frank Reagan-Thomas Magnum
Poirot
Joe Kenda 
Catniss Everdeen  
Lisbeth Salander

Hodor, Yara, Bronn and Pod

Ripley

Leon the Professional

Gibbs, Abby, Ducky

Neville Longbottom  
Spock, Picard, Data, Seven-of-Nine, Worf & Neelix
Jack Ryan
Walt, Henry, Vic, Ferg, and {Hector} 
Alan Shore, Red Reddington, Dembe Zuma, Mr. Kaplan
Ilya Kuryakin
Reese and Finch, Shaw, Root, Elias, and Marconi
John Wick
 Billy Jack
Eliot, Nate, Parker & Hardison
Jessica Jones & Foggy Nelson
Miss Shambala Green 
Barney, Christmas, Trench, Gunnar 'n' 'em
NCIS, NOLA crew
Boo Radley and Atticus Finch
Tom Joad

Marge the Cop 
Jaqen H'ghar
Opie Winston & Edgar Roy
Wile E. Coyote
Gunny Bricker
J.B. Fletcher

Golly

Raylan Givens (or maybe just his hat)   Boyd Crowder

Jason Bourne
Emma Peel   Lady Olenna Tyrell
Penelope Garcia

Dr. Spencer Reid

Andy Dufresne, Red Redding

John Coffey--Paul Edgecombe--Brutal
Nero, Jax, Bobby-Elvis, Tig, Chibs, and Miss Venus van Dam

Frank Castle
Vincent/Hellboy/Clay Morrow
Marjorie
Ben Matlock/Andy Taylor
Lt. Dan 
Aibilene Clark

Sipowicz and Simone
Vergil Tibbs

Louis Litt
Bobby Goren
The Hound
Cobra Cobretti
Selene
Murdoch and Crabtree
Christian Wolff
Inigo Montoya
Menolly
Idgie Threadgoode
Molesley  
Rooster Cogburn

Michael Westen and Fi

Clarice and Hannibal

Mags Bennett

Randall McMurphy
Jack Burton
The Goonies and Sloth
Joe West
Luke Danes

Jo March

Mammy at Tara

Edgar Roy

Rumpole
Arya

Mozzie

Clete Purcell
Ignatius J. Reilly
Tarzan
Peter and Elizabeth Burke-best marriage on TV

Lorelai Gilmore

Frank Drebbin

Elizabeth Bennet

Jeeves, though in our last days, we'd hope for the comfort of a Hoke 

 Anybody played by Lorraine Toussaint, David Morse, Clancy Brown, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Roberts, Jonny Harris,
J. K. Simmons, Summer Glau, Kiefer, John Corbett, Duval, Zabriskie, Beckinsale, Smits, Dafoe, Braugher, Todd or Robb, Momoa, Butz, Woodbine, Walken, Keitel, Orbach, Spader, Bill Cobbs, Bronson, McRaney, Plowright, Fichtner, Mensah, Lois Smith, Reddick, Oswalt, Haysbert, Mirren, Sarah Ramirez, Wentworth Miller, Jesse L. Martin,  or the two Grand Masters: Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones. 

Those four teenage boys, strangers to me, who surrounded me suddenly on a silent Eighties street, emerging from the dimness, walking around me like a phalanx of Palace Guards as I passed barred stores and grim faces in the dark, then melted away when I was safely locked in my car and on my way.

And, of course, the realest “Character” there is.   Chris.