They would lose any magical powers they may have had in the book, and you can take them out at any time in the story’s plot, but for all other people consuming the media, it will be shown that the character suddenly disappears, with the rest of the plot being affected accordingly. People will notice this happening. The character is not under any sort of control by you once you have taken them out of the story, although they will appear next to you to start with.
JFK from right before he was shot. Timed so that the shot happens anyways. Then just let him hang out and absorb the last 60 years for a bit. Then cease to exist or something because him disappearing in the middle of a parade on live television would change history pretty drastically, likely causing me (and most others younger than that) to never be born.
I’m pretty sure he was real, not from a piece of media.
You said “media” not “fictional media” :p
Rincewind. It’d be nice to have a lightning rod for bad luck nearby to absorb any that might be headed towards me.
Oof in that same vein, we could use a Samuel Vimes sort wandering around dispensing justice…
I was thinking Vimes, but I’m not sure I could handle the guilt of taking him from young Sam.
Jack Slater from Last Action Hero.
God from the bible. The whole book will just be a bunch of ancient stories nobody should care about anymore. Would be interesting to see what the world would be like without Christianity.
Great answer… But now you’ve caused God to actually exist IRL!
The same or worse, because other religions would’ve taken Its place instead
Or maybe better
Probably not as long as people are going around devoting their lives to make-believe. That never ends well.
Less bad is still better, which is a possibility that wasn’t mentioned.
I’m not one to weigh the terribleness of degrees of being a slave. I just don’t want to be one.
There are other ancient religions that are not as awful as the Abrahamic ones.
Not really
Bizarrely, God is the main antagonist in the Old Testament in terms of plot.
So the stories would be more boring but also a lot calmer.
Wait, I can remove them from the story but then I have to deal with them?
I was going to say Jar Jar Binks, but now I won’t.
I mean…you can kill him once you take him out of the story.
“Yousa wants me dead-dead? Oh pooie!”
proceeds to trip over your furniture and inadvertently set your house on fire
It’s funny when the title of the post and the topic of the post posit two completely different scenarios, lol
Shirley Fenette from Code Geass, because she deserves so much better.
F*cking JaJaBinks… There, I said it!
I wouldn’t have gone with fucking, but whatever floats your boat
He’s really a Dark Lord of the Sith you know…
I’m surprised this comment is all the way down!
Scrappy Doo
Thank you, for taking one for the team.
I would just hand him over to that terrible Republican VP pick for Trump. She would know what to do.
Top comment, I don’t care what the votes say.
Beat me to it-doobie-doo
Pyro.
Do Pokémon count?
Sure
Togepi.
Did you know
I hadn’t considered the question until asked
Sorry I’m really tired and also sick, is this a response to the question “Did you know”, or a response to the Vaporeon copypasta I was referencing?
Didn’t realise three words could be a copypasta, and I’d never heard this one before.
I understood it.
Corny as fuck, but here goes… Superman. Very powerful, very ethical. His abilities are specifically not magical, but a natural product of his Kryptonian physiology reacting to our sun.
The world could use someone incorruptible who has the strength to back up their words.
Seems like someone doesn’t know the plotline of Injustice.
lol, it said ONE character! I’m not bringing over Lois or the Joker
So instead of killing Lois, you instead remove Superman from interacting with everyone he knows and loves, but he can still see what happens to his world without him…
Yeah, that’ll end well!
I guess I should take this hypothetical question about fictional characters more seriously.
Of course you should!
The Internet is serious business! 🤣
You want supervillains? Because that’s how you get supervillains.
Already got em
Lassie
Wait so when they appear next to me does that mean they are now real IRL instead of in the piece of media?
If so I’m going to pick Neo from The Matrix.
Single handedly destroys the need for sequels and gives me a Keanu-esque friend.
Boromir. Right before the arrows start flying. We would just sit at a bar drinking after I’d calmed him down, and we’d read how the hobbits got taken by Orcs anyway and that Sam and Frodo are pretty much doing their own thing.
Skip ahead to the next book where the Mad king of Rohan sits on the throne, and White Gandalf drives the evil out, and then I’ll pat Boromir encourangingly on the back, and shove him back into the book so he can connect with his dad again.
I also might throw in some AK-47s for that last battle in the last book, but depends how much I’ve been drinking honesty
You can’t return them to the book, taking them out is permanent.
Oh. Well, still Boromir before the arrows. At that point he’s basically written out of the story anyway.
I can find him work petitioning the Tolkien estate to include firearms in their final battle, which they will likely refuse because they are dicks. I guess he could go on celebrity panel shows, but I don’t think he’d be that funny.
Pulling him out of the book really might do more harm than good. He died with courage. Now he just mysteriously vanished when he was needed the most. Probably the King of Rohan would be suspicious on his son’s disappearance, and would reject any plea for aid fr the Fellowship. Might doom the story.
I am terribly sorry to brung this up, but you’ve now suggested twice that Boromir is connected to the king of Rohan which isn’t the case. I believe you mean to say Steward of Gondor because Gondor has no king and Gondor needs no king.
goddammit I knew that too
Sean Bean is a stage name. His birth name? Shaun Bean.
Pronounced “Seen Been”
Caillou, because unlike everyone in his universe I’m not afraid to punch the shit out of a 4 year old.
