Who's your aspie book/movie character?

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I'm pretty sure we've all read books with characters we identify with. Sometimes this might be from slightly aspie relevant traits for me, and there are book and movie characters out there who show some Aspergers symptoms. For example: after reading Sherlock Holms, I noticed he practically screamed aspie. So I was wondering if anyone else had a character, and if so who. Here's mine:

Victor Frankenstein- And when I say this I don't mean any of the billion movies based of the book warping the original plot. I'm talking about the original Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. When I read the book, I'd been recently diagnosed with Aspergers and learning about all the symptoms, only find how much I identified with Victor. Victor Frankenstein is born into a good supportive family but only has about two friends. He doesn't have much of a social life, and is very dreamy about science and reads books by ancient, outdated, and kind of philosophical musings. When everyone else is out socializing he prefers to pursue his passion, quote "the workings of the world." When he goes off to college he has an idea on how to animate a body, and becomes all consumed by this obsession, dropping out of human society basically and only thinking of and working on his strange passion (definitely obscure, he's sewing together body parts). He is unable to show any empathy and leaves his monster to fend for itself at first. He doesn't communicate very well with his creation on their needs and wants and understanding of each other. From then on he goes into depression that reminds me of myself. Now looking back, all my identifications with Victor were aspie-ish. Anyone else got an identified with character, with or with out Aspergers? 

I was going to think about it, but now that you mention it, definitely Sherlock Holmes!

Luna Lovegood!

Hermione Granger =) and Nora Grey (Hush, Hush)

Lisbeth Salander! (apart from the computer hacking... I'm complete s**t with computers)

Not a book or movie, but I feel like I'm a 20 year old James May from the BBC show Top Gear.

Also not from a movie, but Richard Harrow (left) on the TV show Boardwalk Empire.

This isn't a movie, but The Doctor, in particular his fourth incarnation, definitely comes off to me as an aspie.
My family has nicknamed me Spock, because of the fact that I relate to his character. I often feel complicated and wish I could just use my logic sectors instead of my feelings.

Just a note to everyone to include any character, book, movie or otherwise. I should of thought of that when I made the title but didn't. Oops.

House would be mine.

Obsessive need to fix things, has a problem with idiots, has people around him that care, but he can't see it, doesn't trust anyone ("Everybody Lies"), tries to instill logic into everything, and makes jokes that are funny to him, but usually offend others.

Fallom (Foundation and Earth) and Felka (Redemption Ark).

"Barb" from Anathem, by Neal Stephenson. Completely AS or AutSavant character. His social issues are pretty severe.

That whole book is pretty AS, from a monastic society for academics and technology instead of religion, to it's "more precise than English" language. The theorics are pretty solid, as well.

The Narrator from Fight Club!

Also the following:

Peter Parker {aka Spider-Man}

Sherlock Holmes

Ron Weasley

Spock

Frank Cauldhame in The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. If you haven't read it, read it! But don't look it up on wikipedia or it will ruin the ending for you!

Napoleon Dynamite I wish I was more like him.

TBH, I don't want to offend anyone, but I think Patrick Bateman from American Psycho might've had Asperger, or Schizoaffective Disorder (the characteristics might overlap. and sometimes, there is a dual diagnosis for both).