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Alchemist: Full Metal Alchemist
"Draw circles, transmute things" = "Throw bombs and drink potions"?
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Monk: David Carradine in Kung Fu, Kevin Sorbo as HerculesI think Sorbo's Hercules would be more akin to an unarmed fighter than a monk. His buddy Iolaus, played by Michael Hurst, would be a monk.
Xena's friend Gabrielle, played by Renee O'Connor, might be a monk/bard.
As long as we're on the Hercules/Xena show, don't forget Bruce Campbell's character, Autolycus: The King of Theives. What a roguish man!
Kull the Conquerer would be another barbarian. He even used an ax as his weapon. What? No one has ever heard of Kull the Conquerer? Come on! It was fantastically horrible!
The new Snow White and the Huntsman movie has a fantastic two weapon ax fighter in it.
Kull may have sucked as a film...but it's a great book! :D
Archer: Crow the Elf from Hawk the Slayer although he may have been a little slow (If you've seen the movie, you would understand the sarcasm here.)
How about some marvel characters? :)
Hulk: Barbarian (obviously)
Captain America: Fighter
Hawkeye: Ranger
Iron Man: This one's tricky, any character wearing a construct as armor?
Thor: Fighter or Barbarian
Black Widow: Gunslinger or Monk/RangerWolverine: Barbarian or Ranger (maybe a multiclass or gestalt of those two)
Spider-Man: Rogue/Monk or maybe Ranger
Storm: Sorcerer (Elemental/Stormborn) or Oracle (Wind)
Dr. Strange: Sorcerer
Human Torch: Sorcerer (Elemental) or Oracle (Fire)
Invisible Woman: Sorcerer i think?
Jean Grey: Sorcerer (Elemental)/Psionic gestalt?___
Garnet/Dagger from Final Fantasy IX: Summoner/Cleric
Ryu from Breath of Fire: Magusok can't think of anything else atm
Ok for the most part. But I'd list Captain America as a Paladin.
Hmm, some more from my anime experience:
Sorcerer/Psion/Wilder (depending on whether Psionics is allowed): Robin from Witch Hunter Robin
Fighter: Jubei Kibagami from Ninja Scroll, Kenshin Himura from Rurouni Kenshin
Magus / Psychic Warrior: the warriors from Claymore
BTW, another vote for Iron Man being a synthesist summoner.
Why the heck no one has mentioned Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken? He's pretty much THE monk. Inhuman streng into fist, complete control over his body metabolism, extremely acute senses. And, for god's sake, don't tell me Quivering Palm doesn't have verbal component "you are alredy dead!".
Also Flurry of Blows
Ok for the most part. But I'd list Captain America as a Paladin.How about some marvel characters? :)
Hulk: Barbarian (obviously)
Captain America: Fighter
Hawkeye: Ranger
Iron Man: This one's tricky, any character wearing a construct as armor?
Thor: Fighter or Barbarian
Black Widow: Gunslinger or Monk/RangerWolverine: Barbarian or Ranger (maybe a multiclass or gestalt of those two)
Spider-Man: Rogue/Monk or maybe Ranger
Storm: Sorcerer (Elemental/Stormborn) or Oracle (Wind)
Dr. Strange: Sorcerer
Human Torch: Sorcerer (Elemental) or Oracle (Fire)
Invisible Woman: Sorcerer i think?
Jean Grey: Sorcerer (Elemental)/Psionic gestalt?___
Garnet/Dagger from Final Fantasy IX: Summoner/Cleric
Ryu from Breath of Fire: Magusok can't think of anything else atm
Actually, I had him as a Cavalier when I did my builds for superheroes in Pathfinder. Though I admit, this was largely to contrast him with Superman, who was the Paladin.
Other ones I had were:
Green Goblin: Alchemist (Goblin Bomber)
Iron Man: Wizard (in mage's Armor, with a bunch of blasty-spells)
Some I did later were done as Gestalts:
Spider-man was Rogue/Sorcerer(for web spells, mostly), I think, though honestly Bard (possibly Archaeologist) or Monk might be better to replace Rogue
Thor was Barbarian/Oracle (Wind)
I think I redid Iron Man as Wizard/Fighter
Wolverine was a Barbarian/Samurai(Ronin)
The Joker was Bard/Alchemist
And of course, Doomsday was the Tarrasque
My version
Alchemist- Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Antipaladin- Thulsa Doom fits good IMHO
Barbarian- Conan(Schwarzenegger definitivly)but also to a degree Siegfried and beowolf
Bard- Cacofonix
Cavalier-Knights in general
Cleric- the name says all
Druid- Hollywood version of druids or Getafix.
Fighter- Link.
Gunslinger- the man without name.
Inquisitor- Solomon Kane.
Magus- Elric of Meliboné
Monk- shaolin monk hollywood version
Ninja- Selfexplanatory
Paladin- Carrot Ironfunderson
Ranger- Legolas.
Rogue- Puss in boots. ROBIN HOOD
Samurai- Akira kurosawa .
Sorcerer- Circe.
Summoner- Final fantasy.
Witch- Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Wizard- Gandalf
Is Saint Seiya a Monk too (maybe some Armor-friendly archetype) ?
In the Highlander movie, the Kurgan is a wonderful Anti-Paladin. Ramirez is a Paladin or maybe a Samourai. Connor McLeod is clueless (a Fighter or a Rogue I guess).
I pretty much disagree with you highlander character.
Kurgan was a barbarianRamirez was a lore warden fighter/ rogue/ duelist
Connor was a straight fighter a ranger multiclass
Anime/Video Game Obscure Attack GO!
Sengoku Basara.
Ishida Mitsunari - iaido master archetype samurai
Tokugawa Ieyasu - a monk. A badass monk. You heard me, haters.
Shimazu Yoshihiru - old powerstriking barbarian who can and does ragepounce
Date Masamune - incredibly eccentric samurai (six claws!)
Sanada Yukimura - hot blooded monkey grip using fighter
Kuroda Kanbe - despair-filled unlucky barbarian with a flail
Takeda Shingen - most tactical barbarian leader ever
Uesugi Kenshin - ambiguously gendered magus with iaido and ice magic
Ōtani Yoshitsugu - oracle with lame curse and his floating palanquin
Saika Magoichi - gunglinger girl with a mercenary army
Tsuruhime - if ditziness was a curse, she'd be an oracle in class and title
Oichi - haunted oracle. Poor poor crazed Ichi...
Sarutobi Sasuke - the archetypical ninja, with an ironic weapon
Fūma Kotarō - the other ninja, inventor of the shuriken type that bears his name
Kasuga - the kunoichi, or token female ninja
Maeda Keiji - happy go lucky ronin
Honda(m) Tadakatsu - IS A FREAKING MECHA...or synthesist summoner.
Motochika Chōsokabe - Pirate. Rogue. Fights with an anchor-harpoon.
Mōri Motonari - callous, conniving sorcerer with a splitting chakram for a weapon
Oda Nobunaga - for this iteration, surprisingly, a musketeer to reflect gun and sword in accord
Tenkai* - CLAIMS to be a monk
Mogami Yoshiaki - weasel-y swashbuckler type
Kobayakawa Hideaki - almost worth refluffing a barbarian running on fear instead of rage
Ōtomo Sōrin - Alchemist/Artificer! Devoted Xavist! PRAISE XAVI!!!
Xavi - Gunslinger. Engineer. 'Holy' Man. Lunatic.
Mori Ranmaru - plucky little archer
Nōhime - Gunslinger
Maeda Toshiie - well meaning lovey-dovey always-hungry barbarian
Maeda Matsu - Toshiie's graceful, cooking, naginata wielding fighter wife with a dip in ranger
Itsuki - underaged cold-region hailing barbarian girl with a maul
Imagawa Yoshimoto - disco dancing idiot bard who makes his troops morale flutter
Hōjō Ujimasa - Elderly warrior with a polearm that he can barely carry anymore.
Azai Nagamasa - Paladin! Tsundere for Oichi! Tragic..
Honganji Kennyo - staff-using monk of EXTREME machoness.
Katakura Kojūrō - samurai, retainer to Masamune Date.
Matsunaga Hisahide - jerkass alchemist, possibly sorcerer or magus, thief of precious things
Miyamoto Musashi - rough and tumble ronin bordering on barbarism
Takenaka Hanbei - narcessistic blade-whip using inquisitor
Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Big Damn Totori Monk with the manliest sideburns EVER.
Tachibana Muneshige - Honorable, put upon samurai...DUAL WIELDING CHAINSAWS.
No one particularly stands out as a cavalier, excluding Date. Wizard and Clerics are in short supply.
Monk/inquisitor - Buffy the vampire slayer. (Maybe monk/pally, but without the code)
Labyrinth
Sorcerer = Jareth
Rogue = Hoggle
Druid = Ludo
Cavalier = Sir Didymus
Bard = Sarah (or maybe just a rogue with social skills emphasis)
I agree with your choices except for Jareth, his class is either just pure DM fiat or he had 20+ levels of David Bowie.
I agree with your choices except for Jareth, his class is either just pure DM fiat or he had 20+ levels of David Bowie.Labyrinth
Sorcerer = Jareth
Rogue = Hoggle
Druid = Ludo
Cavalier = Sir Didymus
Bard = Sarah (or maybe just a rogue with social skills emphasis)
How so? I think just about everything he does can be explained with illusion and transmutation spells.
Cleric - Archbishop Turpin from the Chanson de Roland.
Fighter - John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Mars" books.
Monk - Remo Williams and Chiun in Warren Murphy's "Destroyer" books.
Paladin - Ogier the Dane ("Holger") in Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions.
Rogue - Cugel the Clever in Jack Vance's Eyes of the Overworld.
Wizard - Prospero and Roger in John Bellairs' The Face in the Frost
Just about every character from Dune works.
The Bene Gesserit on Arrakis is a nature oracle, and you could argue that the Mentats are Lore Oracles with addiction curses. Alia works quite well as a haunted oracle.
Otherwise, I would put Bene Gesserit into the Cloistered Monk category, the Spacing Guild into Divining/Teleportative wizards and the Tleiaxu (sp?) into vivisectionist alchemists.
Additionally, psions would probably be a better fit for the prescience and mind altered states of most characters.
In Babylon 5, Michael Garibaldi is a Rogue, and so is Londo Mollari. Delenn is a Cleric (or maybe an Oracle). G'Kar is a Fighter. Lennier is Delenn's cohort. Alfred Bester is an Inquisitor.
And Marcus is a Ranger. :P
LOL
That's what the spell-less ranger is missing...a Whitestar.
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Here's some
Alchemist: Ace, Classic Doctor Who (maybe with some rogue levels)
Antipaladin: Darth Vader
Barbarian: Conan the Barbarian, Xena from Xena Warrior Princess
Cavalier: Most of King Arthur's knights
Cleric: The Pope, The Dalai Lama
Druid: Gandalf, Rastagan the Brown
Fighter: Lots of people
Magus: Illyana Rasputin/Magik (X-Men)
Monk: See Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Oracle: Moses (Unknown, but with cool stutter curse), Joan of Arc (Battle), Francis of Assisi (Nature), Black Elk (Time)
Ranger: Robin Hood, Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke
Rogue: Captain Jack Harkness, Ayra Stark (until she becomes an Assasin)
Samurai:Any Samurai Movie
Sorcerer: Most X-Men
Summoner: Doctor Who, companions are Eidolons
Witch: All the girls in The Craft
Wizard Prospero in The Tempest
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Alchemist: Herbert West, Cornelius Agrippa, or Bruce Banner. (Not the Hulk, just Bruce Banner).
Bard: Captain Jack Sparrow
Cavalier: Double H
Gunslinger: The hero of any classic Western.
Magus: The PC of Bioshock
Monk: Mr. Miyagi
Sorcerer: Lilith/Maya from Borderlands. (Their GM uses the "commonplace guns" rule, so they treat guns as simple weapons.)
Alchemist: Bruce Banner, Dr. Jekyll, Green Goblin, Scarecrow
Barbarian: Conan, Hulk, Mr. Hyde, Bane (cartoon and comics)
Bard:
Cavalier: King Arthur, Behmen (Season of the Witch),
Cleric:
Druid: Merlin (King Arthur 2004),
Fighter: Boromir, Gimli, Eddard Stark (Game of Thrones), Bane (Dark Knight Rises)
Gunslinger: Hellboy,
Inquisitor: Abraham Van Helsing, Blade,
Magus: Ra'a Al Ghul (comics & cartoons), Darth Sidious,
Monk: Daredevil, Goku, Yoda
Ninja: Raizo (Ninja Assassin), Storm Shadow, Snake Eyes, Batman (Bruce Wayne), Spider-Man
Oracle:
Paladin:
Ranger: Legolas, Strider, the Huntsman (Snow White and the Huntsman), Jon Snow (Game of Thrones), Link (Legend of Zelda series)
Rogue: Captain Jack Sparrow, Catwoman, Black Widow
Samurai: Katsumoto (the Last Samurai), Silver Samurai,
Sorcerer: Liz Sherman (Hellboy),
Summoner: Iron-Man,
Witch: Ravenna (Snow White and the Huntsman), Marique (Conan the Barbarian 2011)
Wizard: Gandolf, Saruman, Merlin (Most any other movie), Mandarin
The Big Lebowski featured a party consisting of two Bards and a Barbarian.
Donny is what happens when a Bard has 10 Charisma.
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Come to think of it Disney movies are a pretty good source for comparisons.
Tarzan-Ranger
Hercules-Fighter
Aladdin-Rogue all the way
Wicked Queen (Sleeping Beauty)-Witch
Maleficent (Snow White)-Sorceress
Expanding on this a bit, and trying not to take more than one character from each movie...
Alchemist Yzma from The Emperor's New Groove
Barbarian Stitch from Lilo and Stitch
Bard Snow White from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Cavalier Fa Mulan from Mulan
Cleric The Horned King from The Black Cauldron
Druid Pocahontas from Pocahontas
Fighter Hercules from Hercules
Gunslinger Gaston from Beauty and the Beast
Inquisitor Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Magus Peter Pan from Peter Pan
Monk Rafiqi from The Lion King
Oracle Mama Odie from The Princess and the Frog
Paladin Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty
Ranger Tarzan from Tarzan
Rogue Aladdin from Aladdin
Sorcerer Ursula from The Little Mermaid
Summoner Gepetto from Pinocchio
Witch Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty
Wizard Merlin from The Sword in the Stone