Tell me about your characters you've made based off pre existing characters, pic related

Tell me about your characters you've made based off pre existing characters, pic related.

In a dark heresy game, I essentially played Rainn Wilson from Super. I was an accountant by day for a massive banking firm and a psychopathic autistic vigilante by night. It was a good time.

With a 13 to my dex mod I can fool a god

My current character is basically a young and inexperienced Alan Quartermain.

Good taste.

The things we did would be considered war crimes but by god did we get the job done. Great session all around.

>"Philanthropist" who uses unsanctioned/secret tech to basically have superpowers
>Gives zero shits and goes along with it for the ride

"He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man. There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say he did this out of a sense of justice? Whose justice, then? Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: "I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough."
-From "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan.

I am, in Pathfinder, currently playing a character that is literally just an extra Blues Brother.

Recently released from prison after holding up a fruit merchant with a crossbow in order to feed starving orphans, he is looking to get the band back together. Or he would be, if the adventure arc weren't serious and getting in his way.

To go along with this nonsense, the DM decided to put Jake and Elwood in as NPCs. Since he did, they were the people that my character first started looking for in order to reunite the group. Unfortunately, Jake got killed by the darker side of the plot. We found Elwood hanging out helping a charity cause, but we have decided not to have him around us for now in order to keep him out of danger.

My character does wear sunglasses and what is effectively the fantasy equivalent of a business suit. He plays mandolin/guitar. During an issue with some legal things and a race, we beat the other group to the courthouse, whereupon I proceeded to barricade the door from the inside with everything I could find to slow down our opposition.

Made a character based off of Night Lords Talonmaster Zso Sahaal from the Lord of the Night book. Played him full edge(massive hateboner for betrayal, playing the long game, torture, molding the NPCs to my way of war) and somehow wound up the party's fave character. Was this close to having an entire army of cold-blooded killers when the campaign collapsed from GM ADHD.

Made a female Griffith.
She ended up deviating significantly from that original concept and now only shares a few similarities with him.
>White hair.
>Presented as a good guy, actually a very bad guy.
>Did nothing wrong.

Made a Dark Heresy Scholar who was basically a knockoff Thufir Hawat and also parodied the bombastic and overblown narrator from the Dawn of War games.

My Rogue Trader in RT started out as an emulation of Errol Flynn pirate movies.

Honestly its my favorite way to make characters. I mean, you'll rapidly diverge and become your own thing anyways, it just gives you a good starting off point.

Mish-mashed these two together. Awful fun to play.

I made a rogue based off the Highwayman from Darkest Dungeon recently

I made a guardsman who was basically sarge from red vs blue, but replace the shotgun with a lasgun and "Dirty Blues!" to "Dirty Xenos!"

Once made a fighter based off of Arnold Schwazenegger.
His battle cry was NYAAAAAAAA

Basically imagine Alucard from Hellsing meets every jackass with a heart of gold in fiction. Now make him essentially an Arrancar with the powers of the Thing, and make him have several centuries worth of PTSD.

Was fucking amazing.

My Hound in Blades in the Dark is based on him, visually at least.

Edgy.

Yes but the whole party was "edgy".

You had a skeleton knight who was turned into one when he interrupted a lich's transformation ritual.

A chinese businesswoman who controlled shadows.

A former paladin who worked for Hell and carried around his dead wife's soul in a ring.

An antipaladin hedonist trying to redeem himself.

And a shota druid.

And yet ironically it was the most cohesive party I've ever been in, since everyone just acted like relaxed mercenaries. And it wasn't even on purpose, we just all came to the table with really edgy ideas for some reason.

being a selfish bastard is fun but also a good excuse to play murderhoboey in my pathfinder campagin

I don't care if the movie was shit, Sean Connery is fucking Alan Quartermain.

LoEG is one of my father's favorite movies, we watched it a shit ton when i was a babby

haven't seen it since I was like 12, afraid to see it because I have only fond memories for it

Played an Otter version of Bronn for an Ironclaw game. Ended up bringing down the main nation in-setting due to shenanigans...but at least I got paid.

It's pretty shit, but don't let some jackoff on the internet stop you from liking a thing. Just enjoy it. Nostalgia's a hell of a drug.

>The Last Kingdom

I came here to tell you you're my nigger.

To answer your question, I did once play a character strongly based off Agent Mulder. Was pretty great.

Literally Pollyanna, but with visual illusion magic as a result of secret experiments.

Sliced into gory chunks by another magical girl.

Came back as a ghost to haunt another girl whose power was seeing ghosts and getting posessed by them.

Became an angelic superbeing with at the end of the campaign by doing THAT.

It was a fun and very anime campaign.

Made a female version of Jayne Cobb from Firefly.
The social aspects were the best, those sweet sweet peasant always took the NE Fighter for the hero who saved their town.

Scruff Mcgruff meets a scanner darkly.

Also made a Grunt from ME 2 expy in an Hawkmoon game, who later shifter into full Big Boss mode.

We each received land and gold as part of our big campaign mission, I planned to go full MSF there, rebuild the castle there and fill it with mercenaries to dispatch around the whole of nuked-to-middle-age Europe

good taste user

>Wanted to make a grizzled warrior that's seen some shit
>Turns into a bizarre portmanteau of Geralt of Rivia, Hugh Glass from The Revenant, and Big Boss

Basically, he's an aging warrior and former mercenary. Years ago, he was left for dead by his company after getting mauled by a bear, but his desire for vengeance kept him going.

Once he finally had his vengeance, he officially called it quits and settled into a relatively normal, quiet life in the mountains...that is, until a group of adventurers hired him to escort them through the relatively uncharted land. His fighting ability earned him a spot in their group, and though he loathes to admit it, he's actually happy to be back in the action.

I also had a half-elf warrior alchemist that was plagued by drug addiction, but I'll leave him for another day.