Jinx999 Wrote:Let's set some limits then:I agree about Klaus Wulfenbach, at the least, though the problem there is how to integrate (or, at least, intersect) the worlds well enough to let it actually happen. Then again, that's a problem for a whole lot of potential crosses, and there's no reason it should be insurmountable.
1) They must be fairly well known - no obscure secondary characters from novels no one else has heard of.
2) They must be capable of acting as parents - so no young teenagers or people who would just dump the baby at the local hospital at best.
3) They must be interesting. No just ordinary families.
Jack Ryan and Klaus Wulfenbach are the best suggestions I've seen so far.
Strictly speaking Richard Castle meets points 2 at minimum, meets point 3 by some standards, and I think probably meets point 1; his series was running new on TV last season, and hasn't been cancelled yet that I know of.
The Parasite meets point 3, arguably meets point 2 (in terms of age, if not necessarily in terms of circumstances), but I'm not sure about point 1; he's a mildly obscure minor villain from Superman.
Gollum meets points 1 and 3, but almost certainly does not meet point 2 (though an author could spin it if they really wanted to make things work).
The shape-changers from the Riddle-Master trilogy, though almost all unnamed, probably meet point 1; they're the primary villains of the series, and the series itself is one of the classics of semi-modern fantasy. They do meet point 2, as far as I can judge - and by the nature of both their motivations (and/or mindset) and their abilities, which latter they almost certainly can teach him, they very definitely meet point 3. It would be fairly difficult to arrange for the whole thing to happen, though.
...and I like the suggestion of Ash Williams, though the end result there would depend very heavily on exactly when in his life Ash acquires this dependent...