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rawtape -> RE: Who's your favorite fictional Dom/me-esque character? (6/15/2008 8:52:53 AM)
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I find some mild sadistic tendencies in Bond (the character from Fleming's novels, not the movies), but that's not enough to make him a dominant in my book.
A somewhat more Dom/me-esque character is George Smiley from John le Carre's novels. It might not be obvious at first glance, but pay particular attention to how he both cares for and uses his subordinates, and also how his agents and juniors look up to him -- he exhibits pure dom tendencies.
One could also say similar things about Simon Templar in Charteris' Saint stories. Notice both women's reactions to him, as well as those of his "gang" in the earlier books in the series.
Many old English boarding school stories featured dom characters. In particular, Thomas Hughes' classic, Tom Brown's Schooldays, can, with the properly skewed perspective, be viewed as the training of a young dom.
A couple of my friends also view Austen's Darcy as a dom. I tend to disagree, largely because he shows himself not to be in control of himself on occasion. Instead, I find a few (by no means all) of the male protagonists in Heyer's regency romances to exhibit more controlled Dom/me-esque tendencies.
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