Which fictional character has impressed you the most?

Well....somebody asked this question and I had to catch my tongue before the answer escaped. Because instead of being from some critically acclaimed, prize winning novel, it was the protagonist of a complete masala mercenary novel. It may be because I had read it at a very impressionable age.

Most of the books that I read in college or before that are fresh in my memory....I remember almost every detail (some of them verbatim) as if they were telecast before my eyes. That's not the case anymore. May be because many things have taken precedence over reading or I don't have ant spans of time when I have absolutely nothing to do or may be it's just my age showing it's effects.