If you could be any three fictional characters...

[Reprimand]

If you could have the powers of any three fictional characters in real life which three would you pick? However you have to take the good that comes with the bad. i.e. Superman is still responsible for saving the world all day everyday while watching all the people he loves die of old age. I am including character you've created but only one per universe/game/etc.

Basically think of a 3 person gestalt from D&D 3.5

Mine would be Roland the Gunslinger, The Red Mage from the final fantasy series, and a D&D character I made rogue 4/wiz 1/Unseen Seer 10/Abjurant Champion 5 who has survived a head-on encounter Five-headed-prismatic-demi-dracolich.

I like them because they're all resourceful characters that can do a bit of everything. And they mostly cover each others weaknesses. However none of them can do any one thing very well on their own expect for Roland who's major weakness is his people skills.

EDIT: I was trying to sort of do this for an exercise to figure certain personality traits follow-up and see how accurate I was. Godmode style just sort of defeats the point though so could we just say no mary-sue dues-ex or godlike character combos? also if you could list some reasoning behind why you chose your 3 that would be great too.

[noparlpf]

Misaka Mikoto's electrokinesis (Toaru universe by Kamachi Kazuma), Musujime Awaki's teleportation (Toaru universe), and...hmm...some character who can read animals' minds (but not humans, ew).

[TheThan]

Easy mode:

Indiana Jones
Allan Quatermain
Doc Savage

My adventures would be EPIC!

[Cantalooping]

Hmm, mine would be:

Sherlock Holmes (smart, observant, also quite decent in a fight)
Commander Shepard (cause he/she is just that damn cool, hands down)
Violet, from The Incredibles movie (invisiblity and force fields - why wouldn't I want them!)

[Aedilred]

Tony Stark
Dorian Gray
D'Artagnan

Can't go too far wrong there, I think.

[Jaycemonde]

I'm assuming I can't pick characters I've created, so I'll find close analogies.

Hoxton
Pros: Demolitions, ability to be sneaky-peaky, extremely acute sense of time. Sprinting backwards.
Cons: Kinda-sorta wanted by the FBI. But that's under an alias or twenty, so I think I'd be good.

Dorian
Pros: He's an ANDROID. Armored chassis, emulated emotions, ability to connect to computer systems.
Cons: Needing to recharge. Not being able to heal if damaged/injured; needs repair facilities or at least spare parts.

Olivia Dunham
Pros: Photographic memory, marksman, crazy mind powers, lapsing into alternate universes.
Cons: Potentially vulnerable familial ties, prone to panic attacks as a side-effect of Cortexiphan treatment, lapsing into alternate universes. Also has a job that involves looking at horrible things.


The end result is apparently some kind of high-end robotic or cybernetic assassin that is adept at evading people and carrying out destructive tasks in a variety of ways, but that can't trust anybody and has to go for long periods of time without interacting with any colleagues or loved ones, and who can get into other universes--for better or worse--to cause havoc or hide. Also, no proper support network, which acts as a force of attrition over the long run. On the up side, crazy good combat skills and all the expected perks of being a machine (particularly where memory is concerned.
Stick some fur and horns on that weird mash-up and I'm good to go.

EDIT: Didn't see the bit about personal characters being allowed.
In that case, just replace Dorian with my android character 42a-209 (who is also an android and essentially identical aside from being less armored and more fluffy-looking):


Basically the same effect either way.

EDIT EDIT: Am I the only one to get that there need to be cons as well as pros?

[enderlord99]

Both of the last timelords (The Doctor and The Master) plus Melifleur (also known as the Lord of Lichdom)

Immortality out the wazoo, IIRC.

EDIT: If I need to replace one of the timelords with something else, I choose a character I came up with myself, named Chuck. His main drawback is that there is always someone trying to kill him... but that weakness is easily rendered irrelevant by the other characters in the fusion.

[Mystic Muse]

Only going to choose one here.

My goddess of death character I made for a personal setting.

Omnipotent, omnipresent, Omnibenevolent, and omniscient, while still having plenty of time for her hobbies, and being able to micromanage death down to the tiniest detail to make sure things go like they're supposed to.

I think that's pretty much all I'd ever need.

[Eldan]

Let's see. I want immortality (invincibility a bonus), that's just a starter. So, a Timelord, probably? Unless I can think of something better. Then super-intelligence is nice. Then something that totally breaks physics, just to annoy some scientist friends of mine. And a mobility power, that's always nice. Mnd control if I can fit it in.

So, let's see. The Doctor: immortality, regeneration, telepathy, resistance to psychics, a ton of extra senses and probably some kind of enhanced intelligence. And a body that does a lot of amazing things and is difficult to hurt conventially.

D&D epic spellcasting. It's powerful, but still requires time, effort and research so things don't get too easy, but in the end, if you don't save the world with it, you either don't want to or you really suck at it. I'll go with Mordenkainen, his name is cooler than Elminster's. It also covers pretty much the entire spectrum of traditional superpowers.

That leaves a certain weakness with technology that needs to cover, though the Doctor isn't bad at it. I'll add Dragon, one of my favourite characters from Worm. As a distributed AI who also got superpowers from an interdimensional godlike entity, that gives me amazing processing speed and multitasking, backups in case I'm killed and the ability to pull new technology out of nowhere, as well as the ability to build and understand it.

I'd say five to ten years to world domination, if I'm careful. Another twenty years for solving the basic problems like climate change, hunger and poverty, then we can start on the complicated stuff. Less than a century to transhumanity and the singularity.

[Jon_Dahl]

Garrett from Thief
Red Viper from the Game of Thrones (specifically the TV series, if there's any conflict with the books)
Forge from Marvel

[Gnomvid]

Captain America, Thor and the Submariner

[The_Ditto]

Bugs Bunny
Speedy Gonzalas.
Tweety Bird.

:)
I'm INVINCIBLE!!!!!
MWAAHAAHAHAHAHA

[edit]
oh wait, Road Runner .. I need Road Runner in there ..
Ok, scrap Speedy Gonzalas ... Road Runner's better :)
[/edit]

[edit2]
And responsibilities? Well, all 3 just sit around and relax and eat all day!

WOOHOOO!!

[/edit2]

[Jay R]

My first thought was to open with Casanova, Don Juan, and James Bond.

My second thought was to go for survivability, with Lazarus Long, Woodrow Wilson Smith, and Aaron Sheffield, but somebody would complain that I wasn't meeting the "three fictional characters" rule.

The big problem is that I wouldn't want to live like most fictional characters. We don't tell stories about happy, contented lives.
Eternal fun and immortality like Peter Pan? Yes. Never grow up? No!
Near-infinite riches and abilities like Edmond Dantes? Yes. Betrayed by my friends and fifteen years in prison first? No!
Brilliant fighting skills and strategy like D'Artagnan? Yes. Losing my lover to Milady's vengeance? No!
Perfect shooting like Kid Curry, or poker skills like Hannibal Hayes? Yes. Wanted by the law? No!
Incredible physical skills like Captain America? Yes. Frozen until everybody I know is gone? No!
Incredible inventiveness of Tony Stark? Yes. Heart that doesn't work? No!

I think I'd go with Gomez Addams, Captain Blood, and Tarzan, each of whom married the woman he loved and stayed married from then on.

[Gnomvid]

Bugs Bunny
Speedy Gonzalas.
Tweety Bird.

:)
I'm INVINCIBLE!!!!!
MWAAHAAHAHAHAHA

[edit]
oh wait, Road Runner .. I need Road Runner in there ..
Ok, scrap Speedy Gonzalas ... Road Runner's better :)
[/edit]

[edit2]
And responsibilities? Well, all 3 just sit around and relax and eat all day!

WOOHOOO!!

[/edit2]

That's Speedy Gonzales not Gonzalas

[The_Ditto]

That's Speedy Gonzales not Gonzalas

And yet you knew who I was talking about

[Killer Angel]

I'm tempted to just say "Mary Sue"...

[Reprimand]

I'm tempted to just say "Mary Sue"...

Certainly you have some favorites? Books, TV shows, movies, whatever?

[Jay R]

I'm tempted to just say "Mary Sue"...

Mary Sue, Pun-Pun, and ... we need a third one

[Zmeoaice]

God from Futurama
God from South Park
God from Bruce Almighty

I like omnipotence. Omnipotence is cool. And so is onpipresence. I'd be able to view everything everywhere forever.

Although I'm not sure if South Park's God is forced to look like a hippo cat thing.

[Jaycemonde]

Certainly you have some favorites? Books, TV shows, movies, whatever?

I think the problem is that everybody here is minmaxing and powergaming, trying to find the easiest way to literally become the whole focus of the world. Somebody saying "Mary Sue" without context is likely commenting on that.

[Asta Kask]

I would definitely think you would include a goat or two among your choices, Jayce.

[Alex12]

Let me see.

Simon (TTGL)
Any Culture GSV (from the Culture series)
Darkseid (DC comics)

I am now fundamentally indistinguishable from a god.

[Cuthalion]

Count of Monte Cristo?
Iron Man?

[Mystic Muse]

I think the problem is that everybody here is minmaxing and powergaming, trying to find the easiest way to literally become the whole focus of the world. Somebody saying "Mary Sue" without context is likely commenting on that.

No no, I'd specifically go out of my way not to be the focus of the world. I just think being literally all-powerful prevents shenanigans from anybody else trying to put me under their thumb.

[Asta Kask]

Someone who was happy. I would very much like that.

And not in a fool's paradise either.

[Jay R]

I think the problem is that everybody here is minmaxing and powergaming, trying to find the easiest way to literally become the whole focus of the world.

The point of the exercise is to find out what people would do.

If some people want to powergame, why not? That answered the question of what they would do.

Meanwhile, it's certainly not true that "everybody here" is min-maxing, powergaming, or literally becoming the focus of the world. My suggestion of Gomez Addams, Captain Blood, and Tarzan certainly doesn't qualify, especially given that my reasoning was that they all marry the woman they love, and stay married from then on.

[Reprimand]

The point of the exercise is to find out what people would do.

If some people want to powergame, why not? That answered the question of what they would do.

Meanwhile, it's certainly not true that "everybody here" is min-maxing, powergaming, or literally becoming the focus of the world. My suggestion of Gomez Addams, Captain Blood, and Tarzan certainly doesn't qualify, especially given that my reasoning was that they all marry the woman they love, and stay married from then on.

Well what would people pick if you still had to have a reasonable weaknesses or at least be mortal in someway. If everyone answers "perfect" or "god" you don't exactly get much out of the answer other than "I'm not currently perfect, but if I could be I would be!

I just made myself well rounded in most things I'm still definitely mortal, A sword through my heart would still kill me.

[Jaycemonde]

I would definitely think you would include a goat or two among your choices, Jayce.

That's what the "add horns" bit is there for. The only really easily recognizable probably-fictional character I could think of as far as goats go is Baphomet, but that's straying near stuff we can't talk about.
Oh, and there's me, myself, but I wasn't sure if that would count. If it did, why would I need to even add two other people? That, and 42a-209 exists in the same "setting" (to give a vague definition) as my actually physically goatly self.

Meanwhile, it's certainly not true that "everybody here" is min-maxing, powergaming, or literally becoming the focus of the world. My suggestion of Gomez Addams, Captain Blood, and Tarzan certainly doesn't qualify, especially given that my reasoning was that they all marry the woman they love, and stay married from then on.

It's called a generalized statement. If I was being really specific, I would have listed the three or four examples of people who weren't godmoding, including you and myself.

If everyone answers "perfect" or "god" you don't exactly get much out of the answer other than "I'm not currently perfect, but if I could be I would be!

That's my problem with threads like this in general. People don't like the idea of not being perfect in a way that could easily afford them control over everyone else's lives, so that shows through in most of the answers. It's unacceptable in storywriting and most roleplaying circles and if everybody was perfect there would be no reason to having a social life--our flaws and our lack of omnipotent knowledge are what define us as people.

The ones that are actually creative or that have a decent limit on them (such as ensuring a happy life with a loved one but not much beyond that) are a joy to read.

[Reprimand]

Let's go ahead and just go with no godmode sort of characters or at least not mary sue-isque characters

I'll change the OP.

[Aedilred]

EDIT EDIT: Am I the only one to get that there need to be cons as well as pros?

No. But it's pretty vague what those cons are. You pick up the attributes of the characters, including anything negative, so, sure, Tony Stark has a busted heart and a liver working overtime.

But the line between innate attribute and just something that happens to the characters as part of the plot is pretty ill-defined. In the example given, Superman is doomed to watch his loved ones grow old and die by dint of being Superman; it's just something that's inevitable with the character being how he is. But what if instead we look at Batman? Seeing his parents get murdered is pretty much a defining feature of the character: if that doesn't happen, he's not Batman. But having his back broken by Bane - that's just something that happens to him much later. You can be Batman and remain in possession of a functional spine.

It's also open to question to what extent the attributes of the characters interact with each other. Taking my selections - I mentioned above about the physical problems Tony Stark suffers, but if he also has the attributes of Dorian Gray, all that goes into the painting, so it doesn't matter. Stark's a loner; D'Artagnan is largely defined by his friends, so how does that shake out? Is the death of Constance a defining feature of the character, or just something that happens? (Given it happens fairly late on in the book, probably the latter).