If you could take a single character out of a piece of media (book, film, TV show, video game, etc) who would it be?

They would lose any magical powers they may have had in the book, but anything they are, rather than can do, will stay. For example people from the His Dark Materials world would keep their daemons. You can take them out at any time in the story’s plot, but for all other people consuming the media, it will be shown that the character suddenly disappears, with the rest of the plot being affected accordingly. People will notice this happening. The character is not under any sort of control by you once you have taken them out of the story, although they will appear next to you to start with.

AceFuzzLord, (edited )

I don’t know if it counts, but if I had enough radiation protection, I’d say Urayne from Pokemon Uranium just after you defeat it for the last time and are given it alongside the core that allows it to essentially live forever. Though, I assume by that point you wouldn’t need radiation protection considering you never see the player character pull out the advanced radiation suit when you gain access to use him in battle.

Don’t know if doing something like the one time Curie did that quantum leap would count as a magical power, but imagine how cool it’d be to be able to teleport anywhere (depending on if quantum leap has no limits on distance) for free.

Also, I’m sure this would count as a magical power, but unlimited nuclear energy for free would be amazing.

ouRKaoS,

Caillou, because unlike everyone in his universe I’m not afraid to punch the shit out of a 4 year old.

RandomVideos,

One of the black holes from this game, assuming it keeps its ability to send people to a different galaxy since its a passive ability, not an active one.

People would probably not notice anything wrong with the game

If you use the size of the pancakes to measure the size of the black hole, you would find out that they are small, allowing me to escape in time

Buddahriffic,

JFK from right before he was shot. Timed so that the shot happens anyways. Then just let him hang out and absorb the last 60 years for a bit. Then cease to exist or something because him disappearing in the middle of a parade on live television would change history pretty drastically, likely causing me (and most others younger than that) to never be born.

JackGreenEarth,

I’m pretty sure he was real, not from a piece of media.

Buddahriffic,

You said “media” not “fictional media” :p

Jarix,

John de Lancies Q

lengau,

This raises further questions, since it seems his humanoid form is a facade provided by his magic powers. Do you get him in non-corporeal form, or do you get him like that episode where he became human?

Buddahriffic,

He’s a Q. It might be entirely up to him.

Jarix,

I was thinking full Q but honestly ide make this pick either way

tetris11, (edited )
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

Boromir. Right before the arrows start flying. We would just sit at a bar drinking after I’d calmed him down, and we’d read how the hobbits got taken by Orcs anyway and that Sam and Frodo are pretty much doing their own thing.

(We would also have the “Seen Been”/ “Shaun Bonn” discussion, time permitting)

Skip ahead to the last book where the King Steward of Gondor sits on the throne, and then I’ll pat Boromir encourangingly on the back, and shove him back into the book so he can connect with his dad again.

I also might throw in some AK-47s for that last battle in the last book, but depends how much I’ve been drinking honesty

JackGreenEarth,

You can’t return them to the book, taking them out is permanent.

tetris11, (edited )
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh. Well, still Boromir before the arrows. At that point he’s basically written out of the story anyway.

I can find him work petitioning the Tolkien estate to include firearms in their final battle, which they will likely refuse because they are dicks. I guess he could go on celebrity panel shows, but I don’t think he’d be that funny.

Pulling him out of the book really might do more harm than good. He died with courage. Now he just mysteriously vanished when he was needed the most. Probably the King Steward of Rohan would be suspicious on his son’s disappearance, and would reject any plea for aid fr the Fellowship. Might doom the story.

tallricefarmer,
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I am terribly sorry to brung this up, but you’ve now suggested twice that Boromir is connected to the king of Rohan which isn’t the case. I believe you mean to say Steward of Gondor because Gondor has no king and Gondor needs no king.

tetris11,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

goddammit I knew that too

marquisalex,

Sean Bean is a stage name. His birth name? Shaun Bean.

tetris11,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

well that’s just ridiculous now

Toribor,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

Pronounced “Seen Been”

rmuk,

Seen Baun.

Brkdncr,

Lassie

livus,
livus avatar

Wait so when they appear next to me does that mean they are now real IRL instead of in the piece of media?

If so I'm going to pick Neo from The Matrix.

Single handedly destroys the need for sequels and gives me a Keanu-esque friend.

magnetosphere,
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Corny as fuck, but here goes… Superman. Very powerful, very ethical. His abilities are specifically not magical, but a natural product of his Kryptonian physiology reacting to our sun.

The world could use someone incorruptible who has the strength to back up their words.

Thavron,
@Thavron@lemmy.ca avatar

You want supervillains? Because that’s how you get supervillains.

GBU_28,

Already got em

ouRKaoS,

Seems like someone doesn’t know the plotline of Injustice.

magnetosphere,
@magnetosphere@fedia.io avatar

lol, it said ONE character! I’m not bringing over Lois or the Joker

ouRKaoS,

So instead of killing Lois, you instead remove Superman from interacting with everyone he knows and loves, but he can still see what happens to his world without him…

Yeah, that’ll end well!

magnetosphere,
@magnetosphere@fedia.io avatar

I guess I should take this hypothetical question about fictional characters more seriously.

ouRKaoS,

Of course you should!

The Internet is serious business! 🤣

shinigamiookamiryuu,

Do Pokémon count?

JackGreenEarth,

Sure

HEXN3T,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Did you know

JackGreenEarth,

I hadn’t considered the question until asked

HEXN3T,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Sorry I’m really tired and also sick, is this a response to the question “Did you know”, or a response to the Vaporeon copypasta I was referencing?

JackGreenEarth,

Didn’t realise three words could be a copypasta, and I’d never heard this one before.

HEXN3T,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Oh. It’s a classic. Yeah…

Mesa,
@Mesa@programming.dev avatar

I understood it.

shinigamiookamiryuu,

Togepi.

brygphilomena,

Jack Slater from Last Action Hero.

TheBananaKing,

Pyro.

TheButtonJustSpins,

Wait, I can remove them from the story but then I have to deal with them?

otp,

It’s funny when the title of the post and the topic of the post posit two completely different scenarios, lol

spittingimage,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

I was going to say Jar Jar Binks, but now I won’t.

stallmer,

I mean…you can kill him once you take him out of the story.

tetris11,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

“Yousa wants me dead-dead? Oh pooie!”
proceeds to trip over your furniture and inadvertently set your house on fire

gregorum,

Scrappy Doo

Melatonin,

Top comment, I don’t care what the votes say.

Donjuanme,

Beat me to it-doobie-doo

spittingimage,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you, for taking one for the team.

gregorum,

I would just hand him over to that terrible Republican VP pick for Trump. She would know what to do.

mrmule,

F*cking JaJaBinks… There, I said it!

Melatonin,

He’s really a Dark Lord of the Sith you know…

SkaveRat,

I wouldn’t have gone with fucking, but whatever floats your boat

Railison,

I’m surprised this comment is all the way down!

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