Girl Talk Thursday’s topic this week is “Fictional Five“. Drop by, leave your thoughts, and please, if you like — participate!

1) Spike from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.  I waffled back and forth between him & Angel, but Spike’s sense of humour and the whole not being cursed thing let him win out in the end.

2) James Bond.  Then again, who WOULDN’T do James Bond?  Seriously.  International Man of Mystery & Sex Appeal.

3) Matrim Cauthon from Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series.  This character’s development from mischievous farmboy to reluctant hero has been really fun to read.  As a secondary character, he has a relatively realistic view of what’s going on — it makes me laugh when he rolls his eyes at a damsel being in distress yet again, or when he thinks about how he’d love to help his friend win the battle that might end the world — but from a distance, to improve his chances of getting out alive.  (PS: This image is from someone else’s list of actors they’d like to see portray the WoT characters, which I thought was awesome and mostly spot-on).

4) Aragorn from Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” series.  Totally do-able.  I am all about the scruffy woodsman type (see also Richard from Terry Goodkind’s “Sword of Truth” series, until he becomes not-a-woodsman and also? the dude they chose to play him in Legends of the Seeker? Doesn’t look REMOTELY like how I picture him to be).

5) Captain Kirk.  AS IF YOU WOULDN’T.

Honourable mentions: Han Solo, Leonidas from 300, Maximus from Gladiator, Tyler Durden from Fight Club, Mal Reynolds from Firefly, Enjolras from Les Miserables, Wolverine from X-Men, Sawyer from LOST, Sylar from Heroes, and Arthas from the Warcraft universe.  So much for being unable to come up with enough dudes to fill this list!