Captain Mal Reynolds wins the SFX poll

[Moscow Watcher]

http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/95049/

Captain Mal Reynolds, star of cult TV series Firefly, unexpectedly beat The Doctor to top spot in a poll for sci-fi authority SFX.co.uk, which asked the public to vote for their favourite sci-fi hero.

More than 10,000 people took part and TV heroes, not film stars, emphatically came out on top.

Small screen stars including Torchwood's enigmatic Captain Jack Harkness at number three, dominate the list. While Hollywood's summer box office bankers Captain America, Green Lantern and Transformers' Optimus Prime only just scrape into the top 100.

Iconic vampire slayer Buffy is the highest-ranked woman at number four, beating the likes of Amy Pond (Doctor Who), Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) and The X-Files' Dana Scully.

Surprise omissions from the top 10 include Spider-Man (at 12), Darth Vader (13), Captain Kirk (17) and Batman (19).

Seven Doctor Who characters "“ and five from Harry Potter "“ make the top 100. Star Trek also gets five spots on the list, but Star Wars only two.

"Few people would have bet against Doctor Who topping this poll, but the surprise win for Mal Reynolds shows how much love there still is for Firefly," says SFX Editor-in-Chief Dave Bradley. "Putting the top 100 icons to the vote really caught people's imagination "“ sci-fi is more popular than ever before."

The Top 10 Sci-fi Icons Of All Time

1 Captain Mal Reynolds (Firefly)
2 The Doctor (Doctor Who)
3 Captain Jack (Torchwood)
4 Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
5 Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
6 Ianto (Torchwood)
7 Harry Potter
8 Mr Spock (Star Trek)
9 Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
10 Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica)

Here's the cover:
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/07/25/new-sfx-special-top-100-21st-century-sf-icons/

 

[zobothehobo]

How did Ianto beat out Harry Potter? I don't do Harry Potter... but huh?! How was Ianto a hero? Who did he save? And if someone answers Jack, I will bite their heads off.

Overall, I'm SO pleased with this list. I mean Mal, The Doctor, Jack, Buffy, Spike... AWESOME top 5!

 

[OhWow]

That's a damn good list. Two people from BtVS and Dean at #9! And of course Mal is at the top. Sorry Spock...Browncoats win. 😎

 

[wickedtiger86]

Wow that is a totally surprising list!

He beat The Doctor? Holy crap. I mean I love them both, but I never would have thought.

And Angel is nowhere in the top ten? And Spike is?

That surprising to me even given how much I love Spike.

 

[FetalPig]

Is this the first time they've done this? It sounds like it. I doubt anyone would have beaten the Doctor last year, but i have to say ... Mal at number one! There's just something right about that 😀

 

[BuffyElevated]

WOOHOO! Go Mal! 😀 I'm a little surprised that he beat out some of those characters, but WELL DONE.

 

[Kean]

IANTO GOT IN??? This is a travesty!!

As great as it is to see the whedonverse placing so strongly I can't say this a real represenation of SciFi as a whole. There was clearly a very specific age bracket voting.

 

[Icarium]

Kind of sad there is not a single character from a book except for Harry Potter and even he is also a movie character. And of course, Mal winning is quite weird but then again Firefly seems to have a far higher popularity in the Internet (cough, TV Tropes) than it does in general.

 

[Hale Caesar]

It's a good day to be a Browncoat 😀

 

[Washburne]

I'm mostly happy for Nathan. Mal wouldn't have been the same played by anyone else. And everything positive about something Firefly related is obviously a plus.

Even though I like Ianto he's of course too high up on the list. But since I'm surprised that Jack finished that high it makes more sense. All the "Save Ianto" love spreading the web the last few years probably didn't hurt a lot either.

 

[Fool4Love]

Wow, Mal, Spike and Dean Winchester in the top 10! They're like my 3 favourite characters 😀

 

[Whirlwind]

Glad Spike got so high (he's my fave), and I'm glad for the Mal fans, but I am shocked he beat The Doctor! I would have thought he'd be a shoo-in.