Personally, I would have put Neo higher up the list. The full list is here, it’s an interesting mix of literary, fan-boy fantasy and hero worship movie characters. Takes a while to go through them (why don’t they just make it a text list, argh) but it’s worth reading I think.
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it's back, no better than before
They need to get a better web service. S-l-o-w. Your desired text list is relatively easy to grab, but takes forever because their pages load so slowly:
$ for (( i=100; i; –i )); do curl -s http://www.empireonline.com/100-greatest-movie-characters/default.asp?c=$i | sed -ne ‘s,^.*[^|]*|\([^|]*\).*$,\1,p’; done | tee empire100.txt
But definitely an interesting mix. Equal parts old and new school (Charles Foster Kane and Wall-E)…
that should be c=$i at the end.. not sure where the dollar sign went.