Popularity of Lead Characters

[Bahamut - Envoy of the End]

Can only make three official questions, stupidly, so same again for the His Dark Materials Trilogy (main character Lyra) and Lord of the Rings (main character Frodo), same basic questions. You can comment on the lead characters of other books if you so wish, although please state who and why.

If you answered Yes to the above questions and feel inclined to say why, then by all means.

Am doing this for a reason. And that is because I'm genuinely interested in the results. Especially regarding title characters.

[Professor Strawberry]

Harry: Snape because he must be one of the best spies I've ever seen. His mastery of magic (and Sectum-Sempra) were also highly impressive. Finally, he was played in the films by none other than Hans Gruber from Die Hard!

Inheritence: Haven't read.

Percy Jackson: Percy was my favorite, mainly because the sea is the least understood place on our planet, yet he can freely swim around without worry of getting attacked by most underwater beasties.

[DARKPLANT RISING]

I read Harry Potter, and back then I thought it was good. Now I don't like it anymore, but the only character in it I can stand is Sirius Black. He's the only character that I believe can exist.

I hated Eragon, and didn't get myself to like anyone. None of the characters seemed worth remembering.

As a character, I like Percy Jackson, but I like Ares even more. The way he's portrayed as a simple bad guy just stands out cool. PJ's got a good lot of nice characters, but.

On another, completely different note, the best main character I've seen has GOT to be Bartimaeus from the Bartimaeus Trilogy. The story itself is a masterpiece, but what makes it so different from the other fantasies is the character of Bartimaeus himself. He's the mirror of all fantasy literature main characters - he's got multiple dimensions (which is pretty hard to do sucessfully), an incomplete personality (much different from most main characters), and you can believe he's real. Not only that, he's also got a good sense of humor and the intelligence it takes to makes the story overall much worth the read.

A good character is either so utterly one-dimensional (on purpose) that he/she's a complete fantasy (as in Lawliet, Hirasaka Yomotsu, Rei Ayanami etc. - not many appear in literature, but a lot appear in anime and manga), OR like a prism (as in Bartimaeus and others - preferred overall in literature). It takes all a good writer's skills to make these characters, and when it's done, it becomes so dazzlingly epic it makes every other story look dull.

[Catterjune]

Books that aren't Percy Jackson: Haven't read

Percy Jackson: No. The little girl that was a Hermione ripoff was my favourite. Daughter of Athena. I don't know her name.

[Bahamut - Envoy of the End]

13 votes excluding abstainances so far.

Only 3 votes indicate the title character of the book was the persons favourite character.

Hmm... more results are needed, but this is going as I suspected.

[Shalltear Bloodfallen]

Harry Potter: No, not by any stretch was Harry my main character since he allways appeared as the f***ing messiah of magic.
My favourite character, simply put, is a tie between Sirius Black and Severus Snape because Sirius actually has a complete personality unlike most other HP characters and Sirius because he is by far the best the best spy I've ever seen.

Inheritance: Sort of but it is mostly "having watched him grow to what he is now".
Not counting Eragon and Roran, I actually quite like a lot of the characters in the books because they allways seem to have a fitting ammount of development for the amount of time they'll be sticking around, but by far, I like Brom the most because his personality is very much multi layered and his story is very interesting.

Percy Jackson: Haven't read