5. Don Draper
He's an Ad-man, ladies man and a Jon Hamm. It's Donald Draper a.k.a. Dick Whitman The Don perhaps deserves a subsection to this list. He is not a killer and not a hero, at least in the conventional sense. Donald Draper is an enigma as colleague Harry Crane espouses "Draper? Who knows anything about that guy? No one's ever lifted that rock. He could be Batman for all we know." As our third figure from TV he is an excellent segway into the comic book creations to come. The question of identity here is the introspective one, that of self-image in a world of the beauty and aesthetics. As the finale of season 6 proved,' the Draper creation' is a product of a twisted childhood. Son to a prostitute and a drunk of a father who died at the hoof of a horse, Dick Whitman had an inauspicious beginning. His life changed when he chose to forge a new identity by switching dog-tags with a Lieutenant in the Korean War, and so Donald Draper was reborn. The new Don, who is modern, slick-haired, an advertising genius, and serial philanderer has it all. Everyone is in awe, yet he is constantly looking over his shoulder and is never satisfied. The split in his personality is confined to his own imagination for the purposes of the Mad Men creators. To his fellow ad-men, family and lovers he is the charismatic charmer. Yet, flashbacks and drug-induced revelations slowly unveil why he slowly destroys those around him and is the one of the most self-interested characters in television. It is an amusing quirk that the name 'Whitman' is both a revealing element of Walter White's identity and the cornerstone of Draper's. They both also fall under that timeless alter-ego alliteration: Don Draper, Walter White, Peter Parker, Bruce Banner and less satisfyingly Clark Kent.