The most complex characters you've ever seen
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The Major from Ghost in the Shell series come to my mind.
Growing up with a cybernetic body must of been hard on her and her outlook on life. Make me think if she ever went to a normal or a special school.
Also there Kotetsu T. Kaburag for not being the usual superhero protagonist. What set him apart from the other superheroes out there is due to the fact he is a father to girl (other than Batman and Luke Cage named me another superhero who is also a mother or father?). Ok sure he's not a full family man as his daughter lived far away with his mother but I still find him quite interesting. He's a loof and yet go full out when it come to collateral damage and yet he was inspired to be a superhero from another veteran superhero given him a classic origin.
Growing up with a cybernetic body must of been hard on her and her outlook on life. Make me think if she ever went to a normal or a special school.
Also there Kotetsu T. Kaburag for not being the usual superhero protagonist. What set him apart from the other superheroes out there is due to the fact he is a father to girl (other than Batman and Luke Cage named me another superhero who is also a mother or father?). Ok sure he's not a full family man as his daughter lived far away with his mother but I still find him quite interesting. He's a loof and yet go full out when it come to collateral damage and yet he was inspired to be a superhero from another veteran superhero given him a classic origin.
Guts from Berserk, pretty much all the characters in Watchmen, and Scar and Pride from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga. IMO, they?re all multi-layered, human-feeling individuals who you?re able to emphasize with and undergo genuinely interesting character development.
I?d also say Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, although some may disagree with me on that and just write him off as ?a whiny teenager who calls people ?phonies? too much?. To those people, I would say, ?I think you?re wrong, and you?re taking his lines and unreliable narrative too much at face value?. Honestly, the guy only tells us what he wants us to hear, and more than the minimum of interpretation of his actions throughout the novel truly reveal a different side to his conflicted personality.
I?d also say Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, although some may disagree with me on that and just write him off as ?a whiny teenager who calls people ?phonies? too much?. To those people, I would say, ?I think you?re wrong, and you?re taking his lines and unreliable narrative too much at face value?. Honestly, the guy only tells us what he wants us to hear, and more than the minimum of interpretation of his actions throughout the novel truly reveal a different side to his conflicted personality.
I would say the characters from Over the Garden Wall kinda fit that category, especially Wirt, Greg, and Beatrice... which is funny since their overall complexity comes from how "simple" it's all laid out over the course of the mini-series, both showing and telling through their interactions as well as through "unintentionally" humorous moments...
Other than that, most of the cast of the Tales of series fits the bill in the complexity department... especially when it comes to some of their motives for doing certain things...
Other than that, most of the cast of the Tales of series fits the bill in the complexity department... especially when it comes to some of their motives for doing certain things...
This might seem like a pretty obvious example, but Walter White from Breaking Bad.
While his motivations are deceptively straightforward, the whole Jekyll and Hyde thing that he has going on through the series provides a constant source of inner conflict which we, the viewers see happening over the five seasons. He makes certain actions in earlier seasons that seem kinda "out-of-character" at first but upon seeing how terrible a person he eventually becomes, make complete sense in retrospect.
But in terms of being a horrible person, that's debatable when it comes to the details. He is simultaneously the protagonist and the antagonist and throughout the series he explores many shades of the morally grey part of all of us that we frequently try to avoid. Especially in many works of art, where a simple "good vs. evil" story proves to be a comfort zone for many of us. Even great works such as The Lord of the Rings rely on the "good vs. evil" dichotomy (influenced by Tolkien's service in the First World War, I believe).
While his motivations are deceptively straightforward, the whole Jekyll and Hyde thing that he has going on through the series provides a constant source of inner conflict which we, the viewers see happening over the five seasons. He makes certain actions in earlier seasons that seem kinda "out-of-character" at first but upon seeing how terrible a person he eventually becomes, make complete sense in retrospect.
But in terms of being a horrible person, that's debatable when it comes to the details. He is simultaneously the protagonist and the antagonist and throughout the series he explores many shades of the morally grey part of all of us that we frequently try to avoid. Especially in many works of art, where a simple "good vs. evil" story proves to be a comfort zone for many of us. Even great works such as The Lord of the Rings rely on the "good vs. evil" dichotomy (influenced by Tolkien's service in the First World War, I believe).