Favorite Discworld Character

Click here and disable ads!

There are a lot of characters I've probably missed here, so feel free to post them, if the poll doesn't suit your taste.

My favorite characters are The Luggage, Mustrum Ridcully and Vetinari

YOU FORGOT GASPODE

You could also have added the various Lancre characters besides the Witches (King Verence, Jason and Shawn Ogg), although they aren't really important enough to be anybody's favorite characters.

Oh, and the Canting Crew.

Death as a character, The Watch as a subject for books, and Rincewind as a mascot.

Vetinary of course. One Man, One Vote. He's the Man, he got the Vote.

Death, too cool.
Rincewind, strategic running away is always better than nonstrategic painful death. Also fear is healthy.
Cohen the barbarian and the silver horde. The Last hero and his gang - best book of them all. Taking over whole counter-continent empire and going against gods. You cant get more epic than that.
Tiffany as a witch and her Nac mac Feegle. Helped a Hiver, she did.
Vetinary. Coolest character after Death.

Death and the Watch.

The Watch books are the only ones I've actually gotten far in, so I'm probably not the best opinion on this.

And Death is, well, Death.

One of these days. ONE OF THESE DAYS, I'll make a perfect poll which nobody'll complain about afterwards. :p

Edit: eh... okay, the tongue emoticon is overly pink.

Rincewind 4eva. He's like the Yossarian of heroic fantasy.

I'm a little disappointed that Vimes isn't disentangled from the Watch, given how much he is focused upon. But given that he watches the watchmen, I guess he is pretty much the watch. Interesting Times is one of my favourites so I had to vote for Cohen and the Silver Horde.

And of course Death.

There's hardly any Pratchet character I don't love.

But Vimes and Death are my two favorites.

Granny Weatherwax

Interesting Times? Really?

Go read The Last Hero. GO READ IT NOW.

That's the book that confirmed The Silver Horde as the best group of characters on Discworld for me. It helps that it has awesome illustrations throughout the book (get a hardcover version for maximum awesomeness)

Noted. I probably never got it as I would see the short story in illustrated form and not think too much about acquiring a copy. I'm going through the works chronologically (by release) and filling in the blanks as I go so I will get to it relatively soon.

It's pretty much the same as the in-universe chronology and also the best order to read them. Sadly it means you go through his mid-years and his best books, then have to trudge through his much inferior later ones (after Night Watch). Though even then there's still the occasional gem, like Monstrous Regiment and Thud.

I thought Thud was pretty boring. Way too serious and without much of a plot, like the rest of his recent books.
Monstrous Regiment is good.

IMO, the decline started somewhere between Going Postal and Making Money.

Didn't like Going Postal and later; first DW book I didn't like.
Alzheimers ftl.

The last hero is IMO the worst of all xD
I think it's decent and very funny but everything seems out of place. It's almost as if it were written by another author. It's not even always listed under the book list.

Anyways I have wondered about the original question so often.. It's impossible to answer. I usually pick granny weatherwax simply because she is a female character that I think is cool and that does NOT happen often. But this isn't to say that shes cooler then really anybody else in the series. Shes just more unique

Vetinari gets my vote, and I reached this conclusion after seeing this thread several times and pondering the question.

People can call The Last Hero whatever they may (it comes off sometimes as being bad fan fiction) but the part where Cohen has to roll higher than the gods in the dice game... absolutely worth reading the whole thing for. Especially if you've studied dice in any manner at all.

I'm hoping for one final Rincewind story before Pratchett quits writing more Discworld.

<3 Vimes

vimes went dumbshit after Guards! Guards!
he was p good in that, tho

granny weatherwax is fave, the other old witch is cool, agnes/margarita are p laem

WHATEVER ROOT

It's really just a fan service comic book.

Going Postal was already decline incarnate. I'll never understand why so many people like it... though I suspect that's because a lot of US readers got introduced to Pratchett through this.

Pretty much. And it's awesome.

Why would they be introduced via Going Postal, of all books?

Was the first one to get its own US publisher and wide marketing in the US, IIRC.