Right Wing News emailed more than a 180 mostly conservative bloggers and asked them to send us a list of who they considered to be their "Favorite Fictional Characters". Representatives from the following 56 blogs responded...

A Little More To the Right, Aaron's Rantblog, Abode Of Amritas, Absinthe & Cookies, Ace of Spades HQ, Barking Moonbat Early Warning System, Being American in T.O., Belmont Club, Betsy's Page , Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love, Blogs For Bush, Cathy's World, The Chicago Report, Considerettes, The Conspiracy To Keep You Poor & Stupid, Cox & Forkum, Croooow Blog, Crush Kerry, D-42, Daily Pundit, Daniel Drezner, Democrats Give Conservatives Indigestion, Dissecting Leftism, Dodgeblogium, Drumwaster's Rants, Fraters Libertas, Ghost of a Flea, Guardian Watchblog, Heretical Ideas, Hud's Blog-O-Rama, I Love Jet Noise, IMAO, INDC Journal, Jay Solo's Verbosity, Joanne Jacobs, Joyful Christian, The LLama Butchers #1, The LLama Butchers #2, Noodlefood, Patio Pundit, The Patriot Blog!, PoliBlog, The Politburo Diktat, Protein Wisdom, QandO, Rantburg, Right Side Redux, Right Wing News, Sheila A-Stray's Redheaded Ramblings, Sine Qua Non, The SmarterCop, The Spoons Experience, This Blog Is Full Of Crap, Trying To Grok, Viking Pundit, Whacking Day

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-25 selections. Rank was determined simply by the number of votes received.

The bloggers were told they could select any fictional character from TV, the movies, books, comics, fairy tales, you name it. As you'd expect, there were a large number of different characters chosen (more than 600 that received at least one vote as a matter of fact).

Here are the selections that were made with the number of votes received following each choice in parentheses...

Honorable Mentions: Superman from the comics, movies, cartoon, & TV show of the same name (4), Spider-Man/Peter Parker from the comics, movies, cartoons, & TV show of the same name (4), Mike the Computer from "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (4), Holden Caufield from "Catcher in the Rye" (4), Howard Roark from "The Fountainhead" (4), Harry Potter from the Harry books & movies (4), Hank Rearden from "Atlas Shrugged" (4), Darth Vader from the "Star Wars" movies & books (4), Atticus Finch from "To Kill a Mockingbird" (4)

13) Wolverine: From the X-Men comics & movies: (5)
13) Rick Blaine: Humphrey Bogart's classic character from "Casablanca" -- (5)
13) Merlin: From Arthurian Legend -- (5)
13) John Yossarian: from "Catch-22" -- (5)
13) John McClane: The Bruce Willis character from the "Die Hard" trilogy -- (5)
13) James T. Kirk: William Shatner's character from the original "Star Trek" series -- (5)
13) Jack O'Neill: The Colonel from "Stargate SG1" -- (5)
13) Inigo Montoya: 'Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." From "The Princess Bride" -- (5)
13) Homer Simpson: From "The Simpsons" -- (5)
8) The Man With No Name: Clint Eastwood's character from a trio of Sergio Leone Westerns -- (6)
8) Samwise Gangee: From J.R.R Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy -- (6)
8) Lazarus Long: A hero from a number of Robert Heinlein books -- (6)
8) Elizabeth Bennett: From the Jane Austen book "Pride and Prejudice" -- (6)
8) Dr. Who: Scarf wearing TV star -- (6)
7) Batman: The DC Comics Super-Hero from comics, TV, & on the big screen -- (7)
5) Jack Ryan: The hero from a variety of Tom Clancy books and movies -- (9)
5) Gandalf: From J.R.R Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy -- (9)
3) Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective -- (10)
3) Han Solo: From The "Star Wars" Movies & Books -- (10)
2) James Bond: Secret Agent 007 from a variety of different books & movies -- (11)
1) Indiana Jones: From the Indiana Jones Movies -- (14)

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