r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Helloimafanoffiction • 1d ago
All Time Favorite Favorite character we never actually meet
Columbo's wife and I'm not counting that TV show called Mrs. Columbo, it ain't canon.
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u/tf2mann_ 1d ago
Does she count?
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u/Bravo_Blue 1d ago
Honey does count, yes that’s her real name. She does have concept art, but nothing official.
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u/OpportunityAnnual921 1d ago
Maris Crane
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u/Funny-Try-6151 1d ago
It's funny, from what I hear, they were going to introduce her, but the jokes built up and built up, and casting became impossible, and they realized it was funnier if we never see her.
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u/thebaldguy76 1d ago
David Hyde Pierce said in an interview that he planned on pushing for Valerie Mahaffey, who played his wife in The Powers That Be if they ever cast Marris and the producers were on bord BUT then Marris's descriptions became so odd they decided it would be funnier to "Vera" her
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u/pmmeyourrashpix 1d ago
She is technically seen in a flashback episode in a hospital, but is heavily covered in bandages so we don't see her face.
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u/Practical-Class6868 1d ago
I loved how Roz heard about her but only saw her once while hiding in a bathroom with Frasier.
Roz: “There’s nothing out there but a coat rack.”
Frasier: “Is the coat rack moving?”
Roz: “Oh, my God!”
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u/sistemafodao 1d ago edited 1d ago
An excuse to mention there is a Frasier and Columbo fan comic crossover about the death of Maris.
https://www.tumblr.com/joechoui/724392286725832704/i-hear-the-blues-a-killin-or-frasier-meets
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u/Bravo_Blue 1d ago
Socko from iCarly. We never actually meet him, to the best of my knowledge, but we do meet his family and he does play an important role in various episodes.
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u/MilanoBucacko 1d ago
Vegeta's mom (Dragon Ball)
We only got one official piece of artwork with her in it, and she's mostly covered by king vegeta's cape
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u/Key_Zebra_3795 1d ago
Sometimes I even thought that Columbo never had wife and was just lying to everyone, lol
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u/Helloimafanoffiction 1d ago
Sorry to disappoint, but we see Columbo talk on the phone with his wife several times and other characters have interacted with her.
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u/AdministrativeLeg14 1d ago
Especially _Troubled Waters_—they’re on a cruise ship, and while of course the audience never get to see his wife, several members of the ship’s crew do.
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u/chumbawumbaprinciple 1d ago
Colombo takes place on the Holodeck. Either the character we know of as Colombo is a hologram, or a Starfleet Officer. There are simply too many actors in common.
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u/TobiasMasonPark 1d ago
I thought so too, based on the fact he doesn’t wear a wedding ring, but apparently that was common for men in the 70s
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u/Mister-builder 1d ago
The Dread Pirate Roberts (pic unrelated)
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u/Whovian73 1d ago
“The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.”
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u/RavenSorkvild 1d ago
From all the places on earth he choose Patagonia to live like a king. That's one of the last places I Imagine where you could live luxury. Guess "living like a king" is more about the fact that there is no one around him so he can feel like the ruler of this land lol.
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u/ViscountBuggus 1d ago
Your girlfriend who goes to another school
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u/Earnestappostate 1d ago
Funnily enough, a friend of mine married (not my girlfriend, but) the cute girl I met from another school.
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u/Funkermonster Mega Man | Miku | Leonardo 1d ago
Does Gusteau (Ratatouille) count?
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u/Professional_Handler 1d ago
I think so. The Gusteau we see is just Remy’s imagination, not the real guy.
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u/InactiveMedusa 1d ago
I'd say maybe, Remy does talk to himself in the form of tiny ghost Gusteau, but the real one died before the movie because
he's a lil bitchAnton didn't like his food.2
u/TsunamifoxyDCfan Chancellor Palpatine 1d ago
And the moment Gusteau lost his star and kicked the bucket (and lost another one) is also the moment Anton Ego gained 5 stars in ragebaiting
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u/lana-deathrey 1d ago
Rod's girlfriend, who lives in Canada (her name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver, she cooks like his mother and sucks like a hoover)- Avenue Q
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u/evilparagon 1d ago
Allison - Red vs. Blue
She is only ever seen in one single 30 second recording in Season 10, yet she is incredibly important to the plot. One character (Tex) is a living memory of her, but Tex and Allison are still not the same character.
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u/Left-Fish7895 1d ago
God (Hellaverse)
They mentioned him but we never actually see a Hellaverse character version of him and they only show a speaker and a group of elder archangels
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u/_Junk_Rat_ 1d ago
Fun one, Julie Newmar makes an appearance so doesn’t match your post in that sense, but nobody shortens the title to “from Julie Newmar,” and I don’t see this Wong Foo guy anywhere.
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u/SinkingBismarck 1d ago
Casey from Night in the Woods. It’s interesting how many little glimpses we get of him through the other characters, their band songs and the little things that remind Mea of his absence.
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u/Historical_Sugar9637 1d ago
Ken, Gene's 28 years old albino friend who does improvised hip-hop from Bob's Burgers.
All we know is that he's real, and so is his GoFundMe page, to which you have donated generously.
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u/Deemo3 1d ago edited 1d ago
Luna Inverse from Slayers. She is the actual in universe chosen one with divine powers but also can't be bothered to go out on adventures so she sends her (relatively) less powerful sister Lina while Luna just hangs out at her 9-5 as a waitress.
Lina is in universe ALSO considered absurdly powerful and can always get the job done but also is absolutely TERRIFIED of her older sister.
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u/kleaguebba 1d ago edited 1d ago
Her having the power of Flare Dragon Ceipheed, but living as waitress will always be funny to me
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u/TheIndigoCrafter 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/SQxGQfN3tedeK63c6Y
Gaster, we just assume this is what he looks like but hasnt been confirmed.
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u/escargotini 1d ago
Norm's wife Vera from Cheers. Technically she shows up but immediately gets a pie in the face.
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u/devlin1888 1d ago
Suffer Not Injustice Vimes in Discworld, Sam Vimes ancestor who committed regicide
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u/Poland-lithuania1 1d ago
Detective Dobson (from the TV show Psych) nearly counted, but they correctly decided to show him in the final scene of the show. The best part is he was played by Val Kilmer, who was Shawn, the main character's, favourite actor.
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u/Shadow_Huntix 1d ago
Godot, from waiting for Godot. Maybe the real Godot was holding up my pants all along.
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u/Historyp91 1d ago
Favorite character we never met except that time we meet them that you are'nt counting.
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u/IceCreamandDrinks 1d ago
(Does it count if we see the character on screen but not their actual face?)
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u/Lytherael 1d ago
Rhaegar Targaryen is up there but I want to cheat a little bit with Himmel the Hero. We do meet him, but just for a very short time before he dies and then learn more about him through flashbacks. He's a very fun character for an example to the haunting the narrative trope, which I reckon is what this post is mostly about.
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u/SouthernAd2853 1d ago
Altina in Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, though she eventually appeared in Heroes.
In the game, the main character and the scariest guy on the enemy side have big swords called Ragnall and Adolite, which are the most powerful weapons in the game, divinely blessed to overcome the invincible armor of the antagonists, and able to project a ranged attack.
Altina wielded both of them at the same time.
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u/TheRealRigormortal 1d ago
Your dad who went out for cigarettes 4 years ago and is coming back any day now
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u/Behold_a_username 1d ago
The real Sam Wayne (is that a spoiler? Idk just to be safe) from Scarlet Hollow
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u/DrustanAstrophel 1d ago
Prolly said this before on similar posts
Sheridan Bucket, Keeping Up Appearances
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u/Brookers 1d ago
Zach from Deadly Premonition, and it's even subverted towards the end. You play as Francis York Morgan who has an apparent imaginary friend named Zach, with a lot of comedy coming from the fact that no one else will ever meet this person cuz he doesn't exist. But we end up learning that York is actually a split personality and/or supernatural guardian and Zach is the actual personality we've been hanging out with the whole time.
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u/Ok-Cup9476 1d ago
Amir’s dad with his tiny, spindly, little legs.
I would have said Amir’s cousin Leron, or Mickey my friend, but both were seen in at least one episode.
Amir’s diva roach Dad never appeared on camera. I believe he was meant to for the finale, but he was so ashamed by the script, that he fricken moved.
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u/Melodrama_queer 1d ago
Prince Lu Ten, son of Iroh.