Using TV characters for inspiration for your book characters?

Well darn it. The internet had a glitch and deleted my post. I'll try to summarize. All writers get their material from somewhere. I personally take traits from characters in books, on TV and in movies and match those traits up to the character in my writing that can utilize it to the fullest. I think the thing is that most writers do this subconciously. They aren't really thinking about a specific character (from a show) to model their character after. Instead, they simply think of the traits they like the best and mold those into their character. Make sense? Anyhow that's my two cents. :)

I have never used TV characters for inspiration, when I read other books I get some type of inspiration but most of the time it just comes to me. I am not a professional writer but I have written a few stories, and they came naturally to me, and most people liked them. However, I know it can be tempting to use some of the TV characters because they are bold and fun. But there's nothing like being original.

I've written fan fic, I just steal them! I also write original stories and pretty much don't.

i did some fanfic too.. and post it on fanfiction.net .. prince of tennis is the only anime that give me urge to write about this cool things... you shoukd post it too.. it was good..

Never thought about using tv characters for inspiration, or at least not consciously. I normally get my characters from a railway or bus station or an airport teminal. It is amazing the different characters and people who are found in these locations, either just ambling around or dashing for their transport. It normally ends up with my characters being a mix of 3 or 4 people I have observed and made notes about over the years.

I never try to get directly inspired, when I be too moved by one carachter I try to not write or I'll actually create someone really by that, not alike but then I think I would need this tv carachter to continue and after a while they always die cause it's not my idea. But I'm sure that everything I watched inspired me, the good thing is to watch, read stuff, put the subconscience to work and come back to write in 6 months or a year, then it's really mine you know.