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.

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

ture,

God from the bible. The whole book will just be a bunch of ancient stories nobody should care about anymore. Would be interesting to see what the world would be like without Christianity.

livus,
livus avatar

Bizarrely, God is the main antagonist in the Old Testament in terms of plot.

So the stories would be more boring but also a lot calmer.

davidgro,

Great answer… But now you’ve caused God to actually exist IRL!

gregorum, (edited )

The same or worse, because other religions would’ve taken Its place instead

friend_of_satan,

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    gregorum, (edited )

    Not really

    ripcord,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    Or maybe better

    gregorum,

    Probably not as long as people are going around devoting their lives to make-believe. That never ends well.

    ripcord,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    Less bad is still better, which is a possibility that wasn’t mentioned.

    gregorum,

    I’m not one to weigh the terribleness of degrees of being a slave. I just don’t want to be one.

    xmunk,

    Rincewind. It’d be nice to have a lightning rod for bad luck nearby to absorb any that might be headed towards me.

    Sammy,
    @Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Oof in that same vein, we could use a Samuel Vimes sort wandering around dispensing justice…

    Protoknuckles,

    I was thinking Vimes, but I’m not sure I could handle the guilt of taking him from young Sam.

    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.

    magnetosphere,
    @magnetosphere@fedia.io avatar

    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! 🤣

    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.

    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!

    ouRKaoS,

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

    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,
    @tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz avatar

    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.

    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

    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.

    ogmios,
    @ogmios@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Shirley Fenette from Code Geass, because she deserves so much better.

    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

    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

    Brkdncr,

    Lassie

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