top TV characters

Autumn: when a not-so-young woman's fancy turns to thoughts of the upcoming TV season.

Name your top five favorite TV characters in each category. Feel free to make up new categories.

Mine:

Female — live
Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Laura Holt (Remington Steele)
the late Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks)
Special Agent Dana Scully (The X-Files)
Xena, Warrior Princess (Xena, Warrior Princess)

Male — live
any of the Bluth brothers (Arrested Development)
the Fonz (Happy Days)
Special Agent Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Mr. Spock (Star Trek)

Female — nonlive
Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
Wonder Woman (Justice League)

Male — nonlive
Aquaman (Justice League)
Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)

Other
the Starship Enterprise from all the Trek series
the General Lee, the car from The Dukes of Hazard
Moira, the spaceship from Farscape
Mr. Trolley from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood