Plus when you want to compare them to characters in literature throughout the years, video game characters weren't/aren't really conceptualized as symbols or to deliver morals or messages, or anything like that. Even general plots and storylines aren't created with the intellectual and lateral depth that history's classic media forms have. The game with the greatest storyline (in my opinion, anyway) is, at best, a poor man's Shakespeare story -- and that's just the best! But you also hit the nail on the head before -- fictional characters, no matter who they are, haven't interacted with the world or have done anything to change it in any way. Even actors have their place for making something an art form or just being spectacular at entertaining.

I do agree. I just can't get over the fact that a video game character was immortalized alongside movie stars and politicians. Maybe I'm too old-school and set in my ways, but for as mainstream and accepted as video games have become as a cultural entity, I still feel like there's a "loser" element to them -- and that they really aren't comparable to the rest of the stuff normally immortalized with such pomp. I just think I'm stuck behind the times, though, to be honest. ^.^;