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No.34381
Lord & Lady /lit/ TournamentAnonymous
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What do you think of a tournament starting /lit/ characters? Don't mind me, I thought it would be a neat concept.
No.34396
Anonymous
>>34381
It would just boil down to classic movie monsters.
No.34409
Anonymous
>>34381
Don Quijote would win.
No.34411
Anonymous
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Guaranteed Elite Eight
No.34415
Anonymous
Replies:>>86838
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>Lolita
>Alice
>Anne of Green Gables
>Pipi Longstocking
>Hermione
>Matilda
>Heidi
No.34417
Anonymous
Replies:>>86838
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It would be fun
No.34418
Anonymous
I have absolutely no idea who any of these are but I will nominate The Fizzy Wizz Kid for shits and giggles
No.34422
Anonymous
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I'd 100% back Captain Ahab
No.34424
Anonymous
Replies:>>86838
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Unironically, Filthy Frank characters such as Pink Guy, ChinChin, Filthy Frank, etc. can actually be nominated due to their debut appearance in fact being in literature called francis of the filth.
No.34429
Anonymous
Replies:>>86838
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For me, it's Lucian of Samosata as himself
No.34431
Anonymous
>>34381
Dumbledore would win, calmly
No.34458
Anonymous
>>34431

Not unless Gandalf is here
No.63163
Anonymous
My Elite Eight predication:

>Gandalf
>Captain Ahab
>Frankenstein's Monster
>Katniss Everdeen
>Cat in the Hat
>Jack Torrance
>Anne Shirley
>Paul Atreides
No.63164
Anonymous
Replies:>>86838
>>34381
>>63163
/lit/ is mostly literary patricians and psueds, and it's a meme to hate genre fiction. So the E8 would probably be like:
>Captain Ahab
>Don Quixote
>Holden Caulfield
>Lolita
>Dante
>obligatory Shakespeare rep (probably Hamlet)
>obligatory religious rep (probably Jesus/Satan)
>obligatory Greek/Homeric rep (probably Odysseus)
No.77459
Anonymous
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Predict his placement.
No.77460
Anonymous
Replies:>>86838
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Good day, gentlemen, I would like to buy dead voters. Don't ask questions why.
No.77462
Anonymous
>>77459
I’d reckon he’d get around 10-20th seed, that’s mostly due to how absolutely stacked the first 10 seeds are with iconic characters from world renowned literature. Blood Meridian is well known and recently has gained some popularity and Judge Holden is unironically one of the most vile and well written villains to ever grace literature. He actually has a good shot at making around the elite eight.
No.77497
Anonymous
>>77459
Gets an insane campaign and makes Elite Eight, but voted 7th or 8th due to the sheer competition.
No.77559
Anonymous
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>>77459
Has the chances to make it to elite eight and due to the nature of his character, he'd be hella fucking fun to campaign. His design is very easy to grasp for OC and his personality is absolutely batshit insane but intelligent at the same time.
But its very doubtful he'd be a crown holder just due to how absolutely stacked up the /lit/ lineup is.
Him facing AM in the elite eight would unironically be the best fucking event in the entire tournament history.
No.77563
Anonymous
Replies:>>77566
>>77559
Is anyone even good enough to properly mimic Corncob's writing for him?
This tourney would be a whole different level of writefag campaigning.
No.77566
Anonymous
Replies:>>77575
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>>77459
>>77563
Judge Holden is a character that is very hard to do justice in form of writefagging or campaigning because the person who wrote him is just in a whole another fucking pedestal. Yeah, we can try and we might impress a few dozen anon but it still wouldn't pay the character proper tribute on how damn vile and effective he is.
He is literally considered the 43rd best written character in fiction since the start of the 20th century.
No.77575
Anonymous
Replies:>>77578
>>77566
>43rd best written character
eh? Sounds like you have a very specific list in mind.
But yeah ol' Corncob is arguably the greatest American writer of the last 70~ years. the whole tourney would have this problem though. There's been some pretty talented /lit/fags but no one's on the level of the greats. It'd be fun to try though.
For me it'd be Leopold Bloom and HCE, cause Joyce's schizo hyper-linguistic dickery is fun and memable as fuck, and has always been over with /lit/. Alex from a Clockwork Orange too (largely influenced by Joyce).
No.77578
Anonymous
>>77575
I am basing off the official list given by the "Books Magazine" which while only made in 2002, still complies a massive amount of characters and the list is probably more so the same.
>https://legacy.npr.org/programs/totn/features/2002/mar/020319.characters.html
And, funnily enough, Leopold Bloom is listed as the 4th best fictional character in fiction.
No.86413
Anonymous
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>>34381
/lit/ used to have voting forms, not in terms of tournaments but overall highest votes (which would be kinda of a good indicator for seeds funnily enough) which I think the last ones were held in 2018. This was the overall ranking.
No.86415
Anonymous
>>86413
They make one of these every year end I believe. I think one of them got like hundreds of thousands of views on imgur and reddit and brought in a bunch of outsiders.
No.86824
Anonymous
Replies:>>86838
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>>34422
Based and same
No.86838
Anonymous
No.93595
Anonymous
>>34411
I feel like Warhammer 40k would be the touhou of a /lit/ tournament.
No.95056
Anonymous
Replies:>>95065
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ALERT!
>ALERT!
ALERT!
>ALERT!
ALERT!
>ALERT!
A random tournament proposal in /lit/ board and it seems to have positive reception.
https://boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/23021899
No.95065
Anonymous
>>95056
Seems it hardly has a reception at all.
No.95159
Anonymous
Replies:>>95160
Paul Maud'Dib, the Kwisatz Haderach and Lisan Al-giab will win
>B-but, no he won-
SILENCE!
No.95160
Anonymous
Replies:>>95164
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>>95159
>Thinks that dune will win anything
No.95164
Anonymous
Replies:>>95223
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>>95160
A mere imitation of the ORIGINAL God-Emperor. You've been entirely co-opted as reaction images by closeted zoomies afraid of "degeneracy" on the internet as they watch four hours of tik-tok a day. You're shit and finished. You can't even claim tabletop gaming to be your own thing, Dune and Dune imperium are kino as fuck and don't cost a thousand dollars to play nor need fifty ruleset revisions either, they got them right the first time around. They should call you KWAB emperor!
No.95223
Anonymous
Replies:>>95253
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>>95164
The true and proper Emperor of Mankind is the refined and more enlightened interpretation of what should truly be the master of humanity. He is a golden warrior and philosopher from an ancient past with wisdom so great, he aided humanity on conquering the stars.
He is so mighty and so taken by awe by the true master of humanity that even the common public worship him as the true master. They're so devoted that they're willing to spend thousands of dollars on his behalf on miniature toys that represent his divine army of humanity.

Shame really. Dune falls into utter obscurity as soon it resurfaces for air, like some drowning dogs.
No.95253
Anonymous
Replies:>>95259
>>95223
>TLDR: I have simps and paypigs, therefore good
No.95259
Anonymous
>>95253
The Emperor is an egotistical psychopath, of fucking course he would consider it good
No.106764
Anonymous
Bump
No.107110
Anonymous
OP here.
Just wanted express my thoughts on this proposed tournament that has gotten a popularity boast.
I'm grateful for your support and it seems that many wanted to host this tournament this year (myself included).
As of right now, there's no proper plan to host it unless there's a space for it. If that's possible, I want to see it get hosted sometime after /an/lympics since /lit/ itself is not the most active board in 4chan.
No.107442
Anonymous
Replies:>>107523
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>Proceeds to Elite Eight
No.107523
Anonymous
Replies:>>107541
>>107442
This begs the question on how well is Witcher books received in /lit/? AM and John Silver for example are very well loved even in /lit/ but I have no clue how Geralt is liked on /lit/.
No.107528
Anonymous
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Come on, we all know it's obvious that the Judge will win the entire thing. He literally has zero problems, beloved character from a beloved book, passionate campaigners, and you can't campaign against him. He'll just stomp against anyone that gets in his way. If we're lucky he may lose in the finals, but I doubt it.
No.107536
Anonymous
Replies:>>107589
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>>107528
Blood Meridian - Judge Holden Danceyoutube thumb
And they are dancing, the board floor slamming under the jackboots and the fiddlers grinning hideously over their canted pieces.

Towering over them all is the judge and he is naked dancing, his small feet lively and quick and now in doubletime and bowing to the ladies, huge and pale and hairless, like an enormous infant.

He never sleeps, he says. He says he'll never die. He bows to the fiddlers and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his throat and he is a great favorite, the judge.

He wafts his hat and the lunar dome of his skull passes palely under the lamps and he swings about and takes possession of one of the fiddles and he pirouettes and makes a pass, two passes, dancing and fiddling at once. His feet are light and nimble.

He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite.

He never sleeps, the judge.

He is dancing,

dancing.

He says that he will never DIE.
No.107538
Anonymous
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>just got reminded that /m/ couldn't even finish their first tournament because of jannies
No.107541
Anonymous
Replies:>>107685
>>107523
/lit/ absolutely adores and praises the short stories and dialogue of the witcher books. The atmosphere and realism it portrays is the main selling point, even although when the story becomes an overarching one it starts to fall apart and is why /lit/ considers witcher mediocre throughout but a masterpiece at short-stories.

But witcher has something similar to /v/ with soulsbornefags and that's with Elric of Belnibone fans seething a "plagiarized" work being better than the original work.
No.107543
Anonymous
Replies:>>108873
>>107538
Didn't it not even start, because of the guy hosting it just seemingly leaving?
No.107549
Anonymous
Replies:>>107551
Again though isn't /lit/ like 90% literary snobs, and genre fiction relegated to a general? I don't think modern scifi and fantasy characters would actually make it far.
No.107550
Anonymous
Replies:>>107589
>>107528
ehh BM and corncob has a lot of detractors and /lit/ can be as contrarian as any other board. Judge has a good shot at E8 but winning it all? Would probably be a more universal and classic character.
No.107551
Anonymous
Replies:>>107554
>>107549
people don't go to /lit/ just to shit things up without any interest. From what I know, they've read at least something in their lives and thus are interested in roaming /lit/. Most seem like illiterates who are there just to shit things up (especially for bible and blood meridian) but they're aware of other works of literacy and have read something at least but there being millions of books worth 300-500 pages makes it hard to finish a lot of books.

To not look like a literary snob in /lit/, you have to be a reading autist.
No.107554
Anonymous
>>107551
No I would still say the majority userbase are mainly literary and would relegate genre fiction. Look at their yearly top 100 charts.
No.107589
Anonymous
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>>107536
See? What can you even say to that?
>>107550
I was memeing lol. That's why I used THE doomer character. I agree with you.
No.107685
Anonymous
Replies:>>107686
>>107541
Ah damn, are the rest of the Witcher books not that good? I read The Last Wish because I love the games and thought it was great.
No.107686
Anonymous
>>107685
Only Season of Storms is considered dogshit even though I haven’t personally read it, but other books are simply considered inferior to the short story arcs that the earlier books possessed. This mostly has got to do with certain characters being cucked and ciri being a borderline whore.
No.107720
Anonymous
Replies:>>107779
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>>107528
Judge is the most prominent character from Blood Meridian for a reason but many forget the person who keeps him in his place, Glanton. He’s essentially captain Ahab but a cold motherfucking scalp hunter. He was a leader who didn’t give two shits about anything but getting his money rewards and killing. Scratch that, just the money and he was the only person who could stand up to Judge and pop a bullet through his eyes if he wanted and the Judge respected him for that.

Him alongside the Judge are definite E8 material.
No.107737
Anonymous
Dracula vs Judge when?
No.107779
Anonymous
Replies:>>107933
>>107720
Glanton's not nearly as popular a character. Also he was basically a doomed beastial human and the emblem of the Judge's philosophy. I don't think he had any real leverage or authority over the Judge. The Judge was the meta overlord and can't die.
Also Ahab was way different. He's a noble and (too) contemplative captain that becomes a maniac hunting the white whale for the metaphysical struggle it represents. The irreducible spirit against the malicious other, nature, the prison veil. A Gnostic hero. Good chance to win the tourney actually.
No.107933
Anonymous
>>107779
>A gnostic hero
The Judge is widely by scholars to be a gnostic god of death, an albino giant of a man who seeks destruction and chaos and considers it a fundamental aspect of humanity. The Judge really is the predestined opponent of Ahab.
No.108140
Anonymous
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Predict his placement.
No.108149
Anonymous
Replies:>>108305
>>108140
He's a true wildcard. He could be knocked out early, or he could be a surprise elite contender. I don't see him winning outright bar a miracle, although I guess that might be in character.

If you want a more thorough take, this is the kind of character that goes from an early jobber to a frontrunner to win in later years. Doubt we'd get to that point, but IF we did I would say that's my biggest prediction.
No.108171
Anonymous
>>108140
Classic and beloved. One of the greatest characters ever. Good chance of E8.
No.108305
Anonymous
>>108149
Quixote being a wildcard fits him perfectly.
No.108335
BallsAnon !th0DR5qBxs
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been wanting to replay FNV, so I might nominate this guy instead
No.108796
Anonymous
Replies:>>108798
Reading Wuthering Heights right now and I hate myself and Internet for making me compare Edgar, Catherine and Heathcliff to cuckjack shit not so long ago.
No.108798
Anonymous
Replies:>>108830
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>>108796
...
Although, on that note, I wonder how well characters from Wuthering Heights would do. I think Heathcliff would be the frontrunner from it but I couldn't see him making Elite Eight or even round 4.
No.108815
Anonymous
Replies:>>108818
>>107528
So what you're saying is he's a Mary Sue.
No.108818
Anonymous
Replies:>>108825
>>108815
For a character to be a mary sue, it needs to be the main protagonist. In this case, it is the main antagonist. Having read through Blood Meridian, the Judge isn't a mary sue, he's a force of nature.
No.108825
Anonymous
>>108818
Eh. Overpowered unbeatable antagonists may not be Mary Sues by strict definition, but they may share a lot of the same traits.
No.108828
Anonymous
Replies:>>108836
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I would like to see a trial of Meursault with other characters in an Ace Attourney style
No.108830
Anonymous
>>108798
I haven't finished the book yet, but so far Cathy is far more interesting character than Heathcliff
No.108832
Anonymous
>>108825
NTA but "mary sue" is dependent on narrative and purpose. Judge isn't really a man at all, more a force of nature or a cosmic principle. Him being perfect and knowledgeable in worldly things emphasizes his satanic/archon nature. "Overpowered" wouldn't even be an applicable term for him, he simply -is-. Johan from Monster is a similar antagonist that gets "mary sue" leveled at him in what I think is a fundamental misunderstanding of narrative and themes. Whether or not they're even 'antagonists' becomes questionable as it becomes more an expedition or analysis of what reality and truth they represent.
No.108833
Anonymous
>>108825
It is entirely up to how the narrative is set and how the author makes way for the character dynamics.

Main protagonist being a mary sue essentially means there aren't any flaws or odds, thus there is barely any conflict worth the stakes to care about the protagonist. When the antagonist is a "mary sue" as in overpowered and a master in all fields, the antagonist possess a genuine threat to our protagonists and they must overcome him in a way that doesn't involve going toe-to-toe with him, as that guarantees their loss.
It all comes down to conflict and stakes.
A overpowered and perfect protagonist has no conflict nor stakes which equals boring as fuck.
A overpowered and perfect antagonist however, makes for a hard conflict and high stakes in the story which is what creates an interesting narrative.
No.108836
Anonymous
Replies:>>108866
>>108828
>Phoenix has to defend a murderer again
I'd write for Meursault though. His emotional detachment from everything could be great, especially if his opponent is something crazy like AM or Satan from Paradise Lost.
No.108866
Anonymous
Replies:>>108868
>>108836
I wonder who the judge is.
No.108868
Anonymous
>>108866
Judge Holden
No.108873
Anonymous
>>107538
>>107543
It never did start because the host ultimately abandoned the tourney. Ultimately they decided that the scopedog would be declared winner
No.108878
Anonymous
Replies:>>108880
The real question is, how is Eggman going to make his way in?
No.108880
Anonymous
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>>108878
No.108975
Anonymous
Now that we know the person trying to host the cp /tnt/ tournament is a lolifag trying to host /lit/, watch lolita and alice very carefully, those are likely the characters they'd try to rig for with bias
No.108980
TheJudge !pIODlXoRZg
>>108975
Oh fuck
HE'S INTO US!
No.108981
Anonymous
>>108975
malding
No.108985
Anonymous
>>108975
>t. mindbroken Anton who fears the Judge
No.108995
Anonymous
>>108975
KWABton LOST
No.109017
Anonymous
How would a /lit/ tournament handle fictionalized versions of real-life people? I'm asking because I was thinking of supporting Dante for this but I'm not sure of his eligibility.
No.109031
Anonymous
>>109017
As long as it isn't an accurate historical account, it probably can be nominated as a /lit/ character even if it is a self-insert. In Dantes Inferno there also appear the Greek Philosophers are cameo but those are just fictionalized versions of their historical counter-parts as Dante never actually met them.
No.109032
Anonymous
Comic characters finally have a tournament they'll win
No.109035
Anonymous
Replies:>>109044
>>109017
Dante should 100% be allowed. So long as their depiction stays on the side of fictional and not (auto)biographical, and they're famous for this fictional self as a character. I'd even say Virgil qualifies.
A weird one I was thinking of working with is Walt Whitman. Technically the Walt Whitman that Walt Whitman writes in his poems is autobiographical, or autobiographical in spirit, but also meant to be character versions of one and the same entity himself, or more that there are three Walt Whitman's of a different psychological/metaphysical level that he switches between sometimes in the same poem. Many have considered Walt Whitman in general a (perhaps semi-fictional) character and one of the greatest characters in American lit in fact.
No.109037
Anonymous
I feel like the /lit/ tournaments could have high postcensal for some really well crafted OC. Since I like to believe /lit/ is filled with pretty good writers.
No.109044
Anonymous
>>109035
I'd argue that Virgil should be allowed due to how major of a role he plays in the Divine Comedy, his depiction being fictional, and said depiction being just as well-known as the poet. He could have a fun campaign too of him guiding different contestants through the circles of Hell.
No.109056
Anonymous
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How do we see the best Willy Shakes characters doing?
No.109057
Anonymous
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prepare for the Nyarlathotep (real) sweep
No.109061
Anonymous
Replies:>>109062
>>109056
I imagine Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear would all qualify, and at least one would make it to Elite Eight, probably Hamlet.
No.109062
Anonymous
>>109056
>>109061
If there's going to be some kind of three character per author limit then that's rather brutal. Hamlet's a lock but I think Falstaff could actually get in over Macbeth or Lear. Othello and Iago are also on the table.
No.109132
Anonymous
I have this dumb idea for this I might try of Jay Gatsby throwing parties for all of the losers akin to the Losers Salvation Bar in Ko/v/.
No.109685
Anonymous
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Can we make a prediction on the seeding of the characters based on the /lit/'s annual polling contest?
No.109687
Anonymous
Replies:>>109695
>>109685
Here are my predictions for the top 10 seeds.
>Jesus
>Captain Ahab
>Fyodor Karamazov
>Rodion Raskolnikov
>Achilles
>Don Quixote
>William Stoner
>Lolita
>Judge Holden
>Leopold Bloom
No.109690
Anonymous
>>109685
Not really, half the contents of these polls are either purely performative or people funposting.
No.109691
Anonymous
Replies:>>109694
>>109690
So... Like the tournaments.
No.109694
Anonymous
>>109691
Except you are a lot less likely to find people lying about their preferences in favorite characters vs literature. On a similar point, if we ever organize a /lit/ tournament on the main site, I'm certain 85% of participants will still be /tnt/ anons as opposed to lurking /lit/izens, so even these top 100 aren't a good reference for predicting seeding and rankings.
No.109695
Anonymous
>>109687
I think Odysseus would seed higher than Achilles and would have a good shot at Elite Eight too, but yeah the top seed would go to either a biblical figure or Ahab.
No.109698
Anonymous
>>109690
I think the literary preference is pretty genuine for the most part. Those books definitely preoccupy the board the most (on the fiction side).
No.109699
Anonymous
Replies:>>109700
>>109685
Seeing Bible being number 1 it's somewhat surprising to see Qur'an in top 100 still
No.109700
Anonymous
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>>109699
The one they did last year didn't have the Qur'an crack the top 100
No.109702
Anonymous
>>109700
I am honestly surprised that IHNMAIMS doesn't make an appearance here. Considering that AM seems to be regarded as a great antagonist and the book to be very influential.
No.109703
Anonymous
>>109702
Well it is just a scifi short story.
No.109704
Anonymous
Replies:>>109709
>>109700
>War and Peace got from 21 to 14
Genuinely why? This is one of the most boring books with how over detailed it is. And only Bezukhov is remarkable in it for me, everything else consists of pointless family drama. Like holy fuck, there are many much more interesting books in this list and out of this list.
No.109705
Anonymous
>>109702
IHNMaIMS often appears in some recommendation lists, but don't expect /lit/ to vote it into one of these top 100 because the only short fiction storytellers to frequently make the list at all are Borges and Kafka.
No.109706
Anonymous
>Jesus
>Captain Ahab
>Don Quixote
>A LotR rep
>Judge Holden
>Hannibal Lecter
>Jay Gatsby
>Atticus Finch
>Patrick Bateman
>AM
>Victor Frankenstein
>Adolf Hitler (If autobios count)
One of these will be the winners, calling it now.
No.109709
Anonymous
>>109704
Tolstoy is the peak of realist fiction, whether or not that's interesting aside.
No.109710
Anonymous
>>109706
>Hannibal Lecter
???
Replace him with an ancient Greek. And unless /tnt/ really is 85% of the vote I don't think AM stands a chance.
No.109712
Anonymous
>>109706
I couldn't see Bateman winning even if /lit/ does like the book. A /tv/ tournament sure, but not so much /lit/. I'd also throw in Dante and Leopold Bloom as potential heavy hitters.
No.109713
Anonymous
>>109706
AM has way less leverage in /lit/ than it has in /v/. I don't believe he'd even be a mid-carder in /lit/.
No.109940
Anonymous
What are you reading right now? When I finish Wuthering Heights I want to try At the mountains of madness or finally try Kafka's work. Or something in the similar matter, since I want to read something weird or occult.
No.109941
Anonymous
Replies:>>109942
>>109940
I'm currently rereading The Divine Comedy, although I should go back to Orlando Furioso. I put that one on hold because it's really long, although I was still liking it.
>At the mountains of madness
Nice, that's one of Lovecraft's best.
No.109942
Anonymous
Replies:>>109943
>>109941
I found Tha Call of Cthulhu completely uninspiring and Shadows over Innsmouth fine, even if hotel scene is a cacophony of action. Lovecraft, for me, is good at describing architecture yet completely falls off at describing horror itself.
No.109943
Anonymous
>>109942
I really enjoy the atmosphere of a lot of his works, but I'd agree that he's not the best at describing horror, although I suppose you can argue that's the point due to said horrors trying to be so far beyond human understanding.
No.109978
Anonymous
Replies:>>109982
I can only image just the amount of 40k characters being nominating and failing to get in
No.109982
Anonymous
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>>109978
That’s a guarantee. Warhammer 40k has an absurd amount of novels and books but they all range from mediocre to straight up trash heap with a unreadable story. Characters are the same if not worse, they’re basically the dragon ball equivalents of /lit/, seem very deep to your average joe but they’re shallow creeks compared to characters within the same media.

There’s although, three or four characters where I can see /lit/ actually liking and supporting. Ibram Gaunt is universally agreed to be one of the best written protagonists alongside the best novels in Warhammer 40k, Ciphas Cain is more comedic in tone but also surprisingly enough has a deep characters and story, and Oltyx from Twice Dead King has very depressing schizophrenic arc and story.

And finally, most kight be aware this one, Trazyn the Infinite is one of the most entertaining characters in the whole setting. His whole shtick is to solve and get rid of problems in a “humorous amount of quantity”. The book where Trazyn appears, The Infinite and Divine, is among the best books for newcomers to know about the setting as Trazyn alongside his gay boyfriend, Orikan travel around like senile old men and wreck shit for no reason.
No.110001
Anonymous
Replies:>>110012
I hope /tnt/ doesn't exert much influence on this tourney tbh.
No.110002
Anonymous
>>77459
Never would I thought the Judge ending up as a notorious character within /tnt/ and the tournaments.
No.110011
Anonymous
>>109982
What about Eisenhorn?
No.110012
Anonymous
>>110001
LOL
LMAO
No.110019
Anonymous
>>109982
If there is one 40k character I want to see get in is Trazyn. Love that fucker and The Infinite and Divine
No.110165
Anonymous
Replies:>>110176
If AM and Holden were to have their movie adaptations, who should play them? Also is there any chance it wouldn't suck? I mean in the era we live nowadays something like IHNMAIMS and Meridian will definitely get toned down given their amount of surrealism and violence, which sucks because that's what makes both books interesting. They won't run on the same luck as No Country for Old Men. However that movie came in 2007 so I could be wrong.
No.110176
Anonymous
>>110165
BM is notoriously considered an 'unadaptable' novel. iirc numerous directors including the Coen brothers over the years considered it but it didn't work out. No Country is comparatively easy to adapt as it's basically a digestible thriller on top of the philosophy.
I've always proposed BM would work best as a surrealist experimental epic animation by an indie/foreign studio and I'd fund it if I was a billionaire.
No.111143
Anonymous
Replies:>>111144
I don't think religious figures should be eligible.
No.111144
Anonymous
>>111143
I agree since the /his/ tournament allows religious figures, but I think depictions of them in other books should be allowed provided there's a clear difference between the two, such as Satan from Paradise Lost.
No.111927
Anonymous
Replies:>>112002
>>109940
I finished Wuthering Heights, finish was anticlimatic. It feels like author didn't know how to properly finish the story and kill off Heathcliff. Dunno if Heathcliff can do good in the tournament, since he is more of a force of misfortune than an actual character. Going to read At the Mountains of Madness now, hope it is better thatn Shadows over Innsmouth
No.112002
Anonymous
>>111927
I was going to reread Wuthering Heights soon because it's been a few years since I first read it, but yeah I remember Heathcliff's death not having as much impact as I hoped. I finished rereading The Divine Comedy today, and I was gonna started on Candide tomorrow. I was originally gonna go back to Orlando Furioso but I want a small break from epic poetry.
>Going to read At the Mountains of Madness now, hope it is better thatn Shadows over Innsmouth
Weren't a fan of Innsmouth? Personally I loved it for the atmosphere and the sense of decent as things get progressively crazier.
No.112025
Anonymous
>>109940
A Passage to India. I like Forster but I don't feel any of his characters would be worth nominating for me.
No.113254
Anonymous
>>34381
I wonder if any ASOIAF characters would qualify, the show infamously shat the bed and killed all of it’s cultural presence with it’s final seasons along with Winds of Winter never coming out, but the books still have a dedicated following and House of the Dragon seems to be taking good steps towards washing out the bad taste GoT’s ending left in everyone’s mouths.
No.113460
Anonymous
Replies:>>113514
>>109982
Literally who thinks Dragon Ball are very deep? I've never heard this before in my entire life. Literally the only reason anyone likes DB is because "monkey fight good".
No.113514
Anonymous
>>113460
When people say Dragon Ball isn't deep, there for some reason always jumps one out that proclaims that it is indeed deep.
No.113590
Anonymous
>>113514
The dbshitters are probably trolling you.
No.113635
Anonymous
>>113514
The dbscholars are probably enlightening you.
No.118829
Anonymous
Replies:>>118845
SHIT THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE STARTED OUT AS A BOOK SERIES
No.118845
Anonymous
>>118829
ThomasGODS…
No.127986
Anonymous
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I don't know how religious figures would be handled considering that's already covered by /his/, but if there allowed here, then I'll support Milton's Satan.
No.127987
Anonymous
Replies:>>127994
>>127986
If it's specifically a literary work's depiction of a religious figure as a character then I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed, like Lucifer from The Tragedy of Man in Mr. /co/
No.127994
Anonymous
>>127987
yeah the Tournaments have no rules for religious figures and just treats them like any other royalty free character like Alice
No.127995
Anonymous
>>109706
Swap out Bateman and AM with Beowulf and John the Savage. Also yeah, are we counting autobios?
No.128004
Anonymous
>>127986
Milton's Satan is basically not a religious figure and has a predominant legacy mainly in the realm of the secular literary despite the theological background. Same with Dante. Don't know about allowing religious figures like Christ and Buddha though.
No.128007
Anonymous
Replies:>>128022
>>109706
>Jesus
If he's allowed sure, like /his/ though I kind of feel he'd be someone that'd make it to finals but would be too off-putting to have as winner for the board.
>Captain Ahab
>Don Quixote
Sure.
>A LotR rep
/lit/ wold go '>genre fiction' at some point but Gollum or some shit could maybe crack E8.
>Judge Holden
Strong E8 contender but too-off kilter as a winner.
>Hannibal Lecter
No.
>Jay Gatsby
Midcard power jobber.
>Atticus Finch
>Patrick Bateman
>AM
No.
>Victor Frankenstein
Maybe E8.
>Adolf Hitler (If autobios count)
That's opening up way too many worms.
No.128022
Anonymous
>>128007
Jesus only lost because I forgot to vote
No.131282
Anonymous
>decide to read Don Quixote de la Mancha
>look inside
>full of cuck shit
What the fuck?! What in absolute fuck
No.155980
Anonymous
bump