They would lose any magical powers they may have had in the book, but anything they are, rather than can do, will stay. For example people from the His Dark Materials world would keep their daemons. You can take them out at any time in the story’s plot, but for all other people consuming the media, it will be shown that the character suddenly disappears, with the rest of the plot being affected accordingly. People will notice this happening. The character is not under any sort of control by you once you have taken them out of the story, although they will appear next to you to start with.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    10 months ago

    Rincewind. It’d be nice to have a lightning rod for bad luck nearby to absorb any that might be headed towards me.

  • ture@lemmy.ml
    135·
    10 months ago

    God from the bible. The whole book will just be a bunch of ancient stories nobody should care about anymore. Would be interesting to see what the world would be like without Christianity.

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    5·
    10 months ago

    Boromir. Right before the arrows start flying. We would just sit at a bar drinking after I’d calmed him down, and we’d read how the hobbits got taken by Orcs anyway and that Sam and Frodo are pretty much doing their own thing.

    (We would also have the “Seen Been”/ “Shaun Bonn” discussion, time permitting)

    Skip ahead to the last book where the King Steward of Gondor sits on the throne, and then I’ll pat Boromir encourangingly on the back, and shove him back into the book so he can connect with his dad again.

    I also might throw in some AK-47s for that last battle in the last book, but depends how much I’ve been drinking honesty

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
        4·
        10 months ago

        Oh. Well, still Boromir before the arrows. At that point he’s basically written out of the story anyway.

        I can find him work petitioning the Tolkien estate to include firearms in their final battle, which they will likely refuse because they are dicks. I guess he could go on celebrity panel shows, but I don’t think he’d be that funny.

        Pulling him out of the book really might do more harm than good. He died with courage. Now he just mysteriously vanished when he was needed the most. Probably the King Steward of Rohan would be suspicious on his son’s disappearance, and would reject any plea for aid fr the Fellowship. Might doom the story.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I don’t know if it counts, but if I had enough radiation protection, I’d say Urayne from Pokemon Uranium just after you defeat it for the last time and are given it alongside the core that allows it to essentially live forever. Though, I assume by that point you wouldn’t need radiation protection considering you never see the player character pull out the advanced radiation suit when you gain access to use him in battle.

    Don’t know if doing something like the one time Curie did that quantum leap would count as a magical power, but imagine how cool it’d be to be able to teleport anywhere (depending on if quantum leap has no limits on distance) for free.

    Also, I’m sure this would count as a magical power, but unlimited nuclear energy for free would be amazing.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    21·
    10 months ago

    JFK from right before he was shot. Timed so that the shot happens anyways. Then just let him hang out and absorb the last 60 years for a bit. Then cease to exist or something because him disappearing in the middle of a parade on live television would change history pretty drastically, likely causing me (and most others younger than that) to never be born.