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Which stock Science Fiction Character do you relate to the most (choose all the apply):

1. The 1950s scientist hero who used his brain to outwit the enemy and seemed to know everything about everything
2. The screaming, out of control woman who loses her head and faints when confronted with a B.E.M. (Bug-Eyed Monster)
3. The screaming, out of control man who loses his head when confronted with a little tension (Think about the "Hudson" character in Aliens. "Game over man"!!)
4. The bald sexy captain
5. The bald (but toupe wearing) womanizing and forever typecast captain
6. Second in command who is always telling the captain to stay on board
7. The ball-busting female captain with a chip on her shoulder
8. The mad warrior who is obsessed with honour
9. The ship's engineer
10. Cooky (works in the galley)
11. The lone wolf who has a beater of a ship, but he can really fly/fight
12. The mercenary
13. Former military, who operates by the book but is carrying a secret burden
14. The touchy feely ship's counselor/doctor
15. The space siren who gets what she wants
16. The bounty hunter
17. The quirky, bug-eyed, renegade brain from a powerful race of people who have mastered time and space who has a penchant for soft candy
18. The devilish looking renegade brain from a powerful race of people who have mastered time and space and has a penchant for shrinking people
19. The android who yearns (in it's own programmed way) to understand what it is to be human.
20. The android who doesn't know it's an android
21. The young "chosen one" who doesn't know that he's the "chosen one" but somehow has supernatural powers as his birthright that are revealed to him by someone else
22. The young whiz kid who invents/discovers something that has escaped generations of geniuses before him. And he does it in his basement with no grant money
23. The slightly insane but lovable time/space traveller who can have a very dark side when needed
24. The unlikeable, overexcitable, puppy dog teen kid who wants to pal up with the hero
25. The guy wearing the red shirt who is doomed to die
26. The stoic female character who has been through a lot and is wise beyond her years
27. The captain who grew up on a farm as a kid and dreamed of becoming a ship's captain and succeeded
28. The purely religious/philospical character who reveres his heritage and traditions with a great deal of respect
29. The jar head with a heart of gold
30. The megalomaniacal scientist who wants to rule the universe
31. Cowboy Neal

OK, OK, so they're not all stock characters. So sue me!

I'll start: 1, 4, 9, 17, 19, 31

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Poll: SciFi Stock Characters

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  • 1,9,11,19,22
    • I just had to comment on your.sig:

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      I have wondered the same exact thing myself. Somehow lying about getting a blowjob from a consenting adult is worse than a lie that is costing the lives of our troops and billions of dollars, not to mention straining relations with our allies? Granted the case against Clinton was more than just the bj, but how damaging to the United States were his lies compared to Bush's lies? Par

  • Someone has to carry the torch, now that Antony Ainsley (sp?) is no longer with us, as is Roger Delgado, the original Master. (I'm just about old enough to remember seeing him in action alongside Jon Pertwee. w00t!)

    -MT.
  • ...make that the evil space siren!
  • 1, 3, 14, 18, 19, 23, 25*, 26, 28.

    * and i bet they specifically told him to stay away from the bullfights.

  • by js7a ( 579872 )
    When I was a teenager I had the scarf.
  • The warrior species, the spiritual species and the sneaky species. Those are my favorites.
  • The slightly insane but lovable time/space traveller who can have a very dark side when needed.

    One out of every four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think about three of your closest friends, if they're alright, then you're the one!

  • 25,11,12,30,26,20,18,1,31 vaguely in that order.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire

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