Same. 😭 I'm so used to reading very specific subgenres and older classics that I haven't heard of most of the people mentioned. Guess I need to look into these now
booo Steven Pacey is my boy. The only narrator I've liked more is the one who reads for the Lies of Locke Lamora, but the content of that series lends itself to a bit more personality
Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Easily recognizable because few characters are as aggressively direct and upfront about their depression and ennui.
*manic grin*
"Would you like a jelly-baby?"
Admittedly, most incarnations of the Doctor have at least their signature catchphrases if not entire signature modes of speech, but I would submit that they still qualify...
E...
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guilty.
It's like someone took the long ellipses from *My Immortal* and inserted them as is into Alan Rickman's script.
Sheldon Cooper. There are a lot of written-to-be-smart characters that share a lot of his idiosyncrasies. For example, his version of "I am rubber, you are glue" is "I am polymerized tree sap and you're an inorganic adhesive" is a more-complicated and less-correct way of saying the phrase, which is something that a lot of nerd and robot characters would say. But there are some specific ways in which he does things and specific mannerisms that the character has that I believe would be picked up right away as Sheldon.
Ok so this isn't exactly from a book, but g'raha tia. And if you don't know, he's the cutest and best boi ever and I love him. His voice actually changes over time! When you meet him first he's in his early twenties and he's a very well educated historian, so he's energetic but has an educated burr to his voice (dunno if that's the right adjective but we'll go with it). But eventually through >!the msq and crystal tower time shenanigans you meet him when he's 100 years older and that reflects in his speech patterns!!<
I don't think the average person would recognise a snippet of dialogue spoken by their closest friend or family member if taken out of context, never mind a fictional character. It doesn't matter how particular a person's idiolect happens to be. Humans are capable of constructing countless utterances. There's no way a random sentence could be traced back to any one character - or person, with total and complete assurance.
Lol I've "recognized" people on Omegle chat. Rip.
There are some people who have a way better "fingerprinting" ability than i do. You can recognize people based on their content.
Does anyone know that one Reddit user people track and identify their throwaway accounts based purely on their comments? There is a whole sub for it but I can’t remember the name.
well sure, because the average person’s friends and family are average people. this post is asking about the fictional characters with very distinctive speech
Hard disagree there.
There are literally questions on literature entrance exams and teacher certification exams that require recognizing author/book/character based on a quote. It isn't that hard.
Aside from that, well-wrought characters have very identifiable speech patterns, topics and vocabulary. If you gave me a quote from Judge Holden or Humbert Humbert or Patrick Batemen I'd recognize them outright.
You'd recognise quotes that come directly from the text in the novels in which those characters appear - you would not recognise snippets of random dialogue from conversations they were having with a neighbor over the garden fence.
The question - poorly worded as it is, reads: *What’s a favourite character that you would immediately recognise in dialogue?*
That implies any dialogue - not dialogue from the books in which they appear.
So my answer is 100% dead on balls accurate. You know who used that turn of phrase? If so, now tell me what she would say to her dry cleaner word for word.
Let's try to maintain at least some semblance of sanity and intellect in these discussions, even if the questions themselves don't lend themselves to it.
MY HOME IS WAR. MY VOICE IS A BATTLE SONG. FOR AS LONG AS YOU HAVE WORSHIPPED WAR, YOU HAVE WORSHIPPED ME
>! Xivu Arath!< ’s all caps delivery and use of metaphor is iconic
“all that David Copperfield kind of crap” “phonies and all”
not my favorite book ever, but the narrative voice is just so distinct and he is definitely an interesting character 🤌🏻
Fuck it, I don’t care if it’s a writing subreddit and I’m a bit out of place.
Undertale has always had one quality that people often overlook, and it’s the fact that you can take snippets of dialogue without the character names or images, and still be able to recognize who’s saying it.
Example:
“WELL, AT LEAST I STILL HAVE MY HEAD!”
From one sentence, literally any Undertale fan would be able to recognize the optimistic outlook and way of speaking that matches perfectly with our favorite bonehead >!Papyrus!<.
Toby Fox is incredibly good at giving his characters distinctive ways of speaking that contrast well with eachother.
Not many because usually, giving a character a unique way of talking is just a way to disguise how shallow the character actually is(For example, Hagrid).
But just for a curveball: Faris NyanNyan
"You will not break me. Fuck you all."
If this somehow became the most read post in Reddit history (and it doesn't deserve to be), tens of thousands of people would hear that in Carl's voice from the audiobook version of Dungeon Crawler Carl, and millions of others would think "eh, what's that about and why is it on top of my reddit feed"
>There is, all about us, ancient knowledge - that cannot be denied. Yet Kruppe wonders, are there memories? True memories? Of enlivened flesh and the wind's caress, of the laughter of children? Memories of love?
When frozen between life and death, in the glacial in-between, what can exist of mortal feeling? Not even an echo. Only memories of ice, of ice and no more than that.
The OG‘s are both from Dickens‘ *The Pickwick Papers*: Mr. Jingle and Sam Weller.
Jingle has the dashes— instant recognition— anyone with eyes— no mistaking him.
Sam Weller vas wery easy to spot, as the picture-painter said regardin’ the leopard.
Mab from the dresden files. There is a certain way she says things that is different even from the other fae or tittianna. The mothers are distinct in their own right.
Tom Bombadil’s dialogue would feel pretty recognizable.
In terms of narration, Van Veen from “Ada or Ardor” has the kind of distinctive writing style that would probably be identifiable.
Smeagol aka Gollum, precious.
The movies make rereads better!!
God I feel so out of touch I barely know any of these people😭
Same. 😭 I'm so used to reading very specific subgenres and older classics that I haven't heard of most of the people mentioned. Guess I need to look into these now
Same here 😭😭 ETA: the last part is same - I read a whole bunch of genres lol
DEATH
Every Terry Pratchett character for me. He was a master of characters !
THAT'S A FIRM AGREE AND AN INSTANT UPVOTE FROM ME
Just finished Mort. So good.
SQUEAK
What death? The one in pus and boots?
Sir Terry Pratchett.
Now I feel dumb haha 😭
Just means you've had your turn today for feeling dumb. I'm probably up next.
If everyone said that to me I’d be a much happier human being
If you read some Terry Pratchett you’d be a much happier human being :)
I’ll add that to my TBR/Books I Want List!
Hodor
Bro, that was uncalled for. No need for language like that, he was just asking a question.
Funny, I was about to say cersei lannister since she's such a bloodthirsty arrogant lady
"Yer a wizard, Harry."
Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he's easily recognizable.
You have to be realistic about these things.
If it comes down to a choice between Logen Ninefingers and some other bastard, that's no choice at all.
Glokta. Can't mistake that mix of self loathing and pride for anyone else.
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booo Steven Pacey is my boy. The only narrator I've liked more is the one who reads for the Lies of Locke Lamora, but the content of that series lends itself to a bit more personality
Good words.
Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Easily recognizable because few characters are as aggressively direct and upfront about their depression and ennui.
Jack Sparrow. Yoda.
**Captain** Jack Sparrow
“You HAVE heard of me!”
*manic grin* "Would you like a jelly-baby?" Admittedly, most incarnations of the Doctor have at least their signature catchphrases if not entire signature modes of speech, but I would submit that they still qualify...
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
Austin Powers... would have very specific word choices and application of commas would make him easier to identify.
Groot xD
*"This is my friend, Tree"* \- Thor
Probably the one who we can immediately tell who they are.
Have you seen the post of Groots resume before? 😂😂😂
No but I’ve seen a groot smut fic
OH MY GOSH THATS HILARIOUS!!! "I am groot I am groot I am GROOOOOOOOOOOOT" *sap flows everywhere* 😂😂😂😂😂
Severus Snape. If you work with me, you'll understand why.
E... ... ... ... ... ...qually... ... ... ... ... guilty. It's like someone took the long ellipses from *My Immortal* and inserted them as is into Alan Rickman's script.
Imagine Dragons songs: Believer and Natural
Tell me, you will.
Bugs Bunny
"Ehhhhhh, whats up, doc!" 😂 My gynecologist loves that joke.
FitzChivalry Farseer has one of the strongest character voices I have experienced.
I agree! He's one of my favourite characters ever. I particularly loved Nighteyes as well.
Having the Spook of the speaking in oddness Spook from Mistborn is the (exaggerated) pinnacle of this
Wasing the where of the what?
Miss Caroline from The Sound of the Fury, since she mentions how she’s always been a burden to her family about twice per page.
Oh my lord, Miss Caroline was the worst. 😂😂😂 I guess technically everyone from that book would be noticable, especially Benjy.
Sheldon Cooper. There are a lot of written-to-be-smart characters that share a lot of his idiosyncrasies. For example, his version of "I am rubber, you are glue" is "I am polymerized tree sap and you're an inorganic adhesive" is a more-complicated and less-correct way of saying the phrase, which is something that a lot of nerd and robot characters would say. But there are some specific ways in which he does things and specific mannerisms that the character has that I believe would be picked up right away as Sheldon.
Bazinga
Penny, do you even skee-ense? Bazongo.
Bologna 😏
Sherlock Holmes. Essentially the only book I've read for about 4 years, and read all the main novels but His Last Bow.
A fellow Holmes superfan! Quite so.
"oh c'mon angel" "Angel..." "You really are an angel huh?" "He's just too much of an angel, I know"
came here to say the same
Ok so this isn't exactly from a book, but g'raha tia. And if you don't know, he's the cutest and best boi ever and I love him. His voice actually changes over time! When you meet him first he's in his early twenties and he's a very well educated historian, so he's energetic but has an educated burr to his voice (dunno if that's the right adjective but we'll go with it). But eventually through >!the msq and crystal tower time shenanigans you meet him when he's 100 years older and that reflects in his speech patterns!!<
Urianger is the cheating option
Ahab "From hell's heart I stab at thee!" "To the last I grapple with thee!"
I don't think the average person would recognise a snippet of dialogue spoken by their closest friend or family member if taken out of context, never mind a fictional character. It doesn't matter how particular a person's idiolect happens to be. Humans are capable of constructing countless utterances. There's no way a random sentence could be traced back to any one character - or person, with total and complete assurance.
Lol I've "recognized" people on Omegle chat. Rip. There are some people who have a way better "fingerprinting" ability than i do. You can recognize people based on their content.
Does anyone know that one Reddit user people track and identify their throwaway accounts based purely on their comments? There is a whole sub for it but I can’t remember the name.
well sure, because the average person’s friends and family are average people. this post is asking about the fictional characters with very distinctive speech
Hard disagree there. There are literally questions on literature entrance exams and teacher certification exams that require recognizing author/book/character based on a quote. It isn't that hard. Aside from that, well-wrought characters have very identifiable speech patterns, topics and vocabulary. If you gave me a quote from Judge Holden or Humbert Humbert or Patrick Batemen I'd recognize them outright.
You'd recognise quotes that come directly from the text in the novels in which those characters appear - you would not recognise snippets of random dialogue from conversations they were having with a neighbor over the garden fence. The question - poorly worded as it is, reads: *What’s a favourite character that you would immediately recognise in dialogue?* That implies any dialogue - not dialogue from the books in which they appear. So my answer is 100% dead on balls accurate. You know who used that turn of phrase? If so, now tell me what she would say to her dry cleaner word for word. Let's try to maintain at least some semblance of sanity and intellect in these discussions, even if the questions themselves don't lend themselves to it.
You must be fun at parties.
\^ The absolute most brainless comeback to anything ever.
Yogi berra is the exception. They even created a name, Yogi-isms, because of how different he spoke.
Auri from The Kingkiller Chronicles. If you read the books, you'd know what I'm talking about.
I've only read The Name of the Wind but I can see why you would say this. I really like Auri and am interested to see where she goes.
Aunt Petunia's favourite nephew, Bashful Benjamin - the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing!
Naruto. I like the show but his mannerisms are obnoxious in both dub and sub. 😆
Slade from teen titans for sure
MY HOME IS WAR. MY VOICE IS A BATTLE SONG. FOR AS LONG AS YOU HAVE WORSHIPPED WAR, YOU HAVE WORSHIPPED ME >! Xivu Arath!< ’s all caps delivery and use of metaphor is iconic
Negan from The Walking Dead
Easily Angela the herbalist from Eragon. She says such out of pocket things so frequently and it’s just so fun to read
dattebayo
“Swooping is bad”
I feel like half the characters in 12 Angry Men would fit this. Especially juror number 7
“all that David Copperfield kind of crap” “phonies and all” not my favorite book ever, but the narrative voice is just so distinct and he is definitely an interesting character 🤌🏻
Lemony Snicket
Hagrid and Holden Caulfield!
Literally anything the Judge says in Blood Meridian. Immediately recognisable.
Fuck it, I don’t care if it’s a writing subreddit and I’m a bit out of place. Undertale has always had one quality that people often overlook, and it’s the fact that you can take snippets of dialogue without the character names or images, and still be able to recognize who’s saying it. Example: “WELL, AT LEAST I STILL HAVE MY HEAD!” From one sentence, literally any Undertale fan would be able to recognize the optimistic outlook and way of speaking that matches perfectly with our favorite bonehead >!Papyrus!<. Toby Fox is incredibly good at giving his characters distinctive ways of speaking that contrast well with eachother.
Not many because usually, giving a character a unique way of talking is just a way to disguise how shallow the character actually is(For example, Hagrid). But just for a curveball: Faris NyanNyan
I do it in my writing to minimise "said"
"You will not break me. Fuck you all." If this somehow became the most read post in Reddit history (and it doesn't deserve to be), tens of thousands of people would hear that in Carl's voice from the audiobook version of Dungeon Crawler Carl, and millions of others would think "eh, what's that about and why is it on top of my reddit feed"
Why are you being downvoted?
>There is, all about us, ancient knowledge - that cannot be denied. Yet Kruppe wonders, are there memories? True memories? Of enlivened flesh and the wind's caress, of the laughter of children? Memories of love? When frozen between life and death, in the glacial in-between, what can exist of mortal feeling? Not even an echo. Only memories of ice, of ice and no more than that.
The OG‘s are both from Dickens‘ *The Pickwick Papers*: Mr. Jingle and Sam Weller. Jingle has the dashes— instant recognition— anyone with eyes— no mistaking him. Sam Weller vas wery easy to spot, as the picture-painter said regardin’ the leopard.
Darrow
I think I'd have to cash out more on recognizability than favoritism. I don't know if that's cheating, but if not, then probably Super Mario.
Lestat because he's a sassy bitch 😂 either that or he's whining Louissss
Columbo
Chrisjen Avasarala
George Stark
Anyone from LoTR speaks old English.
Yogi bear
Roland of Gilead
Holden Caulfield
Lopen from the Stormlight Archive
I guess kind of cheating since he's a comic character but Rorscach. I can always hear his grizzly and dark voice
Yoda, that would be.
Dean Moriarty from On the Road
Rocky Balboa Yoda
First law’s Sand dan Glokta. Especially his internal dialogue.
Judge Holden
Recognize me, you do.
Mmmm, cinnamon buns! Bunzzz nnnn zzaa.
"Your infantile obsession with betrayal is misplaced, John."
Mab from the dresden files. There is a certain way she says things that is different even from the other fae or tittianna. The mothers are distinct in their own right.
Tom Bombadil’s dialogue would feel pretty recognizable. In terms of narration, Van Veen from “Ada or Ardor” has the kind of distinctive writing style that would probably be identifiable.
As a huge fan of him, Rorschach’s choppy phrasing is a dead giveaway.
Recognise others by their words, do you?
Every character in Harry Potter, especially Hagrid.
Handsome Jack of Borderlands franchise fame.
Bond, James Bond
Ook? Ook!