top five movie characters

5. Rob, "High Fidelity"
4. Juno, "Juno"
3. Sonny, "The Apostle"
2. Ulysses Everett McGill, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou"
1. Alex, "Everything is Illuminated"

Top five Homeric characters

5. Hector
4. Nausicaa
3. Eumaus
2. Odysseus
1. Penelope

top five

Top five characters in American literature:

5. The Grandmother ("A Good Man is Hard to Find")
4. Huck Finn
3. Willy Loman
2. Humbert Humbert
1. Scout