Favorite player character

[Moritz]

I started a like thread on the Fantasy Forums, so figured I'd put one here too since I'm such a massive fan of heroic games.

So, tell us, who was your favorite character that you played or created as a GM in a heroic setting game. Tell us about that character and what made them so geek-out cool.

[Mudgrubber]

My all time favorite D&D character has to be Mudgrubber. His full name is Thorak Mudgrubber. I loved him because he was obsessed with gold, no matter the form. When the wizard cast lightning bolt at too short of a distance and it caught him in the backlash, his gold was melted to slag, so he tossed it into the swamp bogs. Mudgrubber dove into the muck, splashing and thrashing around in the grime, and came up out of that mess, covered head to toe in filth, but he had that melted lump of gold.
He also had to learn how to ride a horse, and role-playing learning how to ride a horse, much less learn how to stop without being thrown 20 feet in front of the horse, was a fantastic time! Thus he became my namesake, and I maintain his character sheet in 3E D&D for NPC use only, and then only when playing the Forgotten Realms.

[Moritz]

Hey Mud,

I think you got carried away and missed the fantasy section with your answer. This thread was focusing on the Super Heroic genre and your favorite PC Super Hero.

[PhishStyx]

I've had several favorite characters; some I got to play a lot, and others not so much.

One that I never really played as much as I wanted was Citadel, a guy whose life was essentially ruined by gaining super powers.

http://www.penandpapergames.com/userpages/showentry.php?e=45

From the Character Sheet of Citadel
Doran spent nearly a year wandering the country attempting to do good deeds, as he
thought he should, but due to a series of mishaps and accidents, his hoped for heroic reputation
never came about. Doran also spent some time in the asteroid field surrounding Earth, working
as an asteroid miner, breaking up huge chunks of rock and iron into manageable sized pieces
for transport to Earth.
Currently, Doran works as a human bulldozer, moving and breaking up stone in a quarry
in rural Western Virginia. Doran feels that his life is a horrible mess, and his depression shows
up in the form of anger, much of which he releases at work breaking up the rock. Doran realizes
how the public must view his ultimate form, a 27 tonne (59,500 lbs), 13.3m tall stone monstrosity