Top 5 Expanded Universe Characters Of All Time

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-02-03 02:12am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Shut up, Twinkie.

Twinkie? Where'd you come up with that one?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-02-03 02:14am

For the love of God...

I just thought of it. That's not very hard, you know.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-02-03 02:15am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Jesus...

What? I was just asking. When I think Twinkies, I think of Egon's Twinkie line from Ghostbusters.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-02-03 02:18am

Twinky? That's a new one.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-02-03 02:19am

Man, are you guys like 9 years old or something?

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-02-03 02:22am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Man, are you guys like 9 years old or something?

No.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-02-03 02:23am

Than you must have been raised in the same box as Shinova.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-02-03 02:25am

Look, I don't get out that much and so there are plenty of expressions that I am not aware of.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-02-03 02:31am

Not 9, 19. And I didn't get my name from Corran anyway, its just the biggest freakish coincidence to ever happen to me. Got it from playing X-wing: Alliance and being so good at it.

They said I should be in Rogue Squadron and I picked a number. Later there was actually a sort of informal clan formed, but that's another story.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-02-03 08:23am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Shaidar Haran wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Corran Horn should be deemed retroactively an apocryphal character.
Meh, I've never ever understood why some people go so bug nuts crazy over that particular character.
Because Corran Horn is just Michael J. Stackpole with a lightsabre, an X-wing, and Force powers.

Hasn't MJS stated several times that Corran is not based on him? Didn't he base some guy that died in a Battletech novel on himself?

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2004-02-03 12:55pm

Replace Corran Horn for Kyle Katarn and that list would be accurate.

Put Jaina in a bathing suit and get a hot real world model to play her, and put her ahead of Mara Jade

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-02-03 01:52pm

Solauren wrote:Replace Corran Horn for Kyle Katarn and that list would be accurate.

Put Jaina in a bathing suit and get a hot real world model to play her, and put her ahead of Mara Jade

Here here!

Dorsk 81 · Post by **Dorsk 81** » 2004-02-03 01:53pm

That list is pretty good, Thrawn is in the right place, maybe tied with Mara. That's one thing that really fucked me off when I started reading the NJO, she was all ill and didn't do a whole lot except go to Dantoine and get a kid to stick up for her while telling him not to use the force so much.

My personal list would be (not in order):

Grand Admiral Thrawn
Mara Jade
Kyp Durron
Talon Karrde
Jagged Fell

Anakin always struck as too much the hero, which is why he need to be killed off, and not in some poncy way, but not wipping out the entire Yuuzhan Vong or something. and Nom Anor just ended up pissing me off (although I still haven't fucking read The Unifying Force so I dunno what's happened to him), his constant escapes just annoyed me.
I'm sure there's more people te deserve mentions, but I can't think who.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » 2004-02-03 01:55pm

Do video games count?

if so, HK-47 is at the top of my list.

Die, meatbags!

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-02-03 02:05pm

If video games don't count than neither does Kyle Katarn.

Unless he appeared outside the games, but if he did I missed it.

Shaidar Haran · Post by **Shaidar Haran** » 2004-02-03 02:16pm

2000AD wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Shaidar Haran wrote: Meh, I've never ever understood why some people go so bug nuts crazy over that particular character.
Because Corran Horn is just Michael J. Stackpole with a lightsabre, an X-wing, and Force powers.
Hasn't MJS stated several times that Corran is not based on him? Didn't he base some guy that died in a Battletech novel on himself?

Yes, but since when has the truth ever stopped a good bitchfest?

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-02-03 04:10pm

Rogue 9 wrote:If video games don't count than neither does Kyle Katarn. Unless he appeared outside the games, but if he did I missed it.

Kartan gets a mention in the final NJO book, also Page's commando's are named after Kyle.

I want to know why Ton Phanan or Face isn't on the list. Wes Janson also deserves to be there if only for his whole "shoot down the sun" skit he had with Wedge.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-02-03 04:14pm

Lord Pounder wrote:Page's commando's are named after Kyle.

What are they called, specifically?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-02-03 04:21pm

Lord Pounder wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:If video games don't count than neither does Kyle Katarn. Unless he appeared outside the games, but if he did I missed it.
Kartan gets a mention in the final NJO book, also Page's commando's are named after Kyle.

I want to know why Ton Phanan or Face isn't on the list. Wes Janson also deserves to be there if only for his whole "shoot down the sun" skit he had with Wedge.

Thought Page's commandoes were named for katarns, the animals.

Oh well. That works too, I suppose.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-02-03 04:22pm

Video games do count, just not their mechanics and certain aspects of the story to make them more playable.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-02-03 04:28pm

Lazy Raptor wrote:
Lord Pounder wrote:Page's commando's are named after Kyle.
What are they called, specifically?

The Kartarn Commando's

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-02-03 04:31pm

Lord Pounder wrote:The Kartarn Commando's

Then it's probably derived from a certain carnivorous reptomammal from Kashyyyk.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2004-02-03 06:20pm

Conceded.

Kyle still appeared in the final NJO book. He even got a few lines IIRC.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2004-02-03 06:27pm

I have always loved the Cloned Emperor. Although he was stupid in DE with giving Luke command of the World Devastators and for bringing Han and Luke aboard the Eclipse. If the DE II was able to be brought to an and in a good OT style then perhaps he would would've been liked more.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-02-03 08:06pm

Lord Pounder wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:If video games don't count than neither does Kyle Katarn. Unless he appeared outside the games, but if he did I missed it.
Kartan gets a mention in the final NJO book, also Page's commando's are named after Kyle.

I want to know why Ton Phanan or Face isn't on the list. Wes Janson also deserves to be there if only for his whole "shoot down the sun" skit he had with Wedge.

That was his second mention in the NJO; the first was four books earlier in Force Heretic I.