Who's the biggest munchkin in fantasy?

[The Eldritch Mr. Shiny]

DMcCoy1693 wrote:

Arctaris wrote:

Ah yes, how could I forget the illustrious Harry Potter?

Agreed.

He's kind of one of those characters that everyone knows is a munchkin. An unspoken law, if you will.

[Kirth Gersen]

Watcher wrote:

Glad someone agrees with me! And you're right about Luke. Seriously folks, these two bastards are prime for the Munchkin Hall of Fame. When you end up being Emperor of Half the Multiverse, and the Powers of Order and Chaos take a personal interest in your sex life.. and your weapon of choice is a sentient garrotte that can stretch like Plastic Man to break you out of prison... you're tipping the scales a little harder than Harry Potter.

Don't forget, Luke's the one who outsmarts and blackmails God ("The Pattern"), and who can damage the structure of the multiverse at will without consequences. Merlin is served by a god that he created, and can destroy entire planes of existence as one of his "secondary" powers. Help!

[Charles Evans 25]

Harry Potter falls a long way short of being a munchkin, in my opinion. The villains that he is up against are frequently incompetent, insane, and/or inexplicably enthralled to the point of slavish obedience to a master who is both incompetent and insane. Beating them (and given the way that Harry always seems to get his mind invaded, his nearest and dearest possessed or butchered, or himself used as a hapless pawn by various parties, his victories rarely appear to be overwhelming) hardly qualifies Harry Potter for munchkin status; especially given that his friends end up taking a lot of the risks or doing the hard work for him*. I would propose that the time-travelling, know-it-all, 'seldom fails to cast the right spell' Miss. Hermione Granger deserves to be up for munchkin status ahead of Harry Potter.

*Unless, perhaps, he is being proposed for Munchkin status on the grounds of his inspirational leadership qualities???

[Zelligar]

Great thread! but-
I think people are being too flip with their suggestions.
Somebody isn't a munchkin just because they kick major a$$.
Munchkins have no flaws, every magic item they could ever want, and are better at everything than anybody else, with no coherent background to explain any of it.

Elric has the most powerful sword evar, but it kills all his friends and constantly battled his will. Plus Elric has a constitution penalty; who has ever played a fighter with a low Constitution?
Conan is the perfect physical fighting machine, but he has no magic at all; a munchkin with no magic?
All of Harry Potter's challenges were solved with well thought out solutions. He didn't just know everything, he had to rely on his friends (probably too much) and do lots of research.
Plus all 3 had excellent writers who wrote entertaining and plausible stories. I would be happy to have any of my PCs come up with these characters.

For my nominee, I choose he who lived-CONRIC of Cimmeria, wielder of the Black Blade.

Just kidding, I choose Merlin from the Amber series. I loved the first 5 books, but really had a problem with this protagonist.

[secretturchinman]

Tarren Dei wrote:

River Tam from the Firefly series ... She'd be statted up with horrible flaws but she's superpowered.

Oh, yeah, and Summer Glau is a hottie!

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