List of fictional anti-heroes

List of Fictional Anti Heroes

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List of fictional anti-heroes

This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an anti-hero

Anti-hero

In fiction, an antihero is a protagonist whose character or goals are antithetical to traditional hero. The term dates to 1714, although literary criticism identifies the trope in earlier literature....
. Characteristics in protagonists that merit such a label can include, but are not limited to:

Each of these examples has been identified by a critic as an anti-hero, although the classification is somewhat subjective.

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This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an anti-hero

Anti-hero

imperfections that separate them from typically "heroic" characters (selfishness, ignorance, bigotry, etc.);
lack of positive qualities such as "courage, physical prowess, and fortitude," and "generally feel helpless in a world over which they have no control";
qualities normally belonging to villain
Villain

A villain is an "evil" character in a story, whether a history narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. The villain usually is the antagonist, the character who tends to have a negative effect on other characters....
s (amorality
Amorality

Amoralism is the disbelief in any of the concepts of morality....
, greed, violent tendencies, etc.) that may be tempered with more human, identifiable traits (confusion, self-hatred, etc.);
noble motives pursued by bending or breaking the law in the belief that "the ends justify the means."

Each of these examples has been identified by a critic as an anti-hero, although the classification is somewhat subjective. Some of the entries may be disputed by other sources and some may contradict all established definitions of anti-hero.

Literature

Character	Work	Author	First Published	Notes
Winston Smith Winston Smith Winston Smith is a Character and the protagonist of George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The character was employed by Orwell as an everyman in the setting of the novel, a "central eye ......	1984	George Orwell George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an England author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language....	1948
Alex	A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange *A Clockwork Orange* is a dystopian novel novel by Anthony Burgess.The title is taken from an old Cockney expression, "as queer as a clockwork orange", and alludes to the prevention of the main character's exercise of his free will through the use of a classical conditioning technique....	Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess John Burgess Wilson was an England author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.His Utopian and dystopian fiction satire A Clockwork Orange, widely considered to be his magnum opus, is by far his most famous novel, and was adapted into a famous, if highly controversial, A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick....	1962
Redmond Barry	The Luck of Barry Lyndon The Luck of Barry Lyndon *The Luck of Barry Lyndon* is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Ireland gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy....	William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray was an England novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satire works, particularly Vanity Fair , a panoramic portrait of English society....	1844
Patrick Bateman Patrick Bateman Patrick Bateman is a fictional character, the antihero and narrator of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and its American Psycho ....	American Psycho American Psycho *American Psycho* is a psychological thriller and satirical novel by Bret Easton Ellis. The story is told in the first person narrative by fictitious serial killer and Manhattan businessman Patrick Bateman....	Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack , which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney....	1991
Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and antihero of James Joyce's novel Ulysses , assuming the role of the 'Odysseus' character. Like the Greek hero in The Odyssey, he is absent at the beginning of the story, and does not feature until episode four of the novel ....	Ulysses Ulysses (novel) *Ulysses* is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris....	James Joyce James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....	1922
Pinkie Brown Pinkie Brown Pinkie Brown is a fictional character, the main character and antihero of Graham Greene's 1938 novel Brighton Rock .Character overview...	Brighton Rock	Graham Greene Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour was an English writer best known as a novelist, but who also produced short stories, plays, screenplays, travel writing and criticism....	1938
Holden Caulfield Holden Caulfield Holden Caulfield is a fictional character, the protagonist and antihero of J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye....	Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	1951
Conan Conan the Barbarian Conan the Barbarian is a fictional character often associated with the Fantasy subgenres sword and sorcery . This antiheroic character has been credited with being the most famous fictional barbarian, and one of the most well known iconic figures in American fantasy....	The Phoenix on the Sword The Phoenix on the Sword "The Phoenix on the Sword" is one of the original short story about Conan the Barbarian, written by United States author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine December 1932....	Robert E. Howard Robert E. Howard This article is about writer Robert E. Howard. For the Medal of Honor recipient, try Robert L. Howard.Robert Ervin Howard was an United States author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres....	1932	The archetypal "amoral swordsman" of the Sword and Sorcery Sword and sorcery Sword and sorcery is a Fantasy subgenres generally characterized by swashbuckling heroes engaged in exciting and violent conflicts. An element of Romance is often present, as is an element of Magic and the supernatural.... genre.
Thomas Covenant	The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever *The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever* is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Stephen R. Donaldson. It was followed by The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, also a trilogy, and The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, a planned tetralogy....	Stephen R. Donaldson Stephen R. Donaldson Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an United States fantasy fiction, science fiction and Mystery fiction novelist. He earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and master's degree from Kent State University....	1977	Fantasy series
Stephen Dedalus Stephen Dedalus Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, as well as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's monumental Ulysses ....	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* is a autobiography novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916 in literature....	James Joyce James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....	1914	First serialized in The Egoist The Egoist (periodical) *The Egoist* was a London literary magazine published from 1914 in poetry to 1919 in poetry, during which time it published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce and T.... from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916.
Arthur Dent Arthur Dent Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist and antihero in the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams....	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* is a Comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon.... series	Douglas Adams Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams was an England author, dramatist and musician. He is best known as the author of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series....	1979	Originally a radio comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* is a comic science fiction radio series written by Douglas Adams . It was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC Radio, and was soon afterwards broadcast on global short wave radio on the BBC World Service, in 1978.... broadcast on BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a domestic UK radio station that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history.... in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats
Roland Deschain Roland Deschain Roland Deschain of Gilead is a fictional character, the protagonist and antihero of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. He is the son of Steven and Gabrielle Deschain and is descended from a long line of "gunslingers", peacekeepers and diplomats of Roland's society....	The Dark Tower The Dark Tower (series) *The Dark Tower* is a heptalogy written by American author Stephen King between 1970 and 2004. The series incorporates themes from multiple genres, including fantasy fiction, science fantasy, horror fiction and Western fiction elements....	Stephen King Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is an United States author of contemporary horror fiction, fantasy fiction and science fiction.Having sold an estimated List of bestselling fiction authors of his books, King is best known for his work in horror fiction, in which he demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the genre's history....	1982
Raoul Duke Raoul Duke Raoul Duke was the fictional character and antihero based on Hunter S. Thompson in his autobiographical novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ....	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter S. Thompson Hunter S. Thompson Hunter Stockton Thompson was an United States journalist and author, most famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of journalism where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories....	1971
Tyler Durden and the Narrator	Fight Club	Chuck Palahniuk Chuck Palahniuk Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a Fight Club directed by David Fincher....	1996
Randall Flagg Randall Flagg Randall Flagg is a fictional character created by Stephen King. Flagg has appeared in nine novels by King, sometimes as the main antagonist and others in a brief cameo....	The Stand The Stand *The Stand* is a post-apocalyptic horror fiction/science fiction novel by Stephen King originally published in 1978. It re-works the scenario in King?s earlier short story, "Night Surf" .... , Eyes of the Dragon and The Dark Tower The Dark Tower (series) *The Dark Tower* is a heptalogy written by American author Stephen King between 1970 and 2004. The series incorporates themes from multiple genres, including fantasy fiction, science fantasy, horror fiction and Western fiction elements....	Stephen King Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is an United States author of contemporary horror fiction, fantasy fiction and science fiction.Having sold an estimated List of bestselling fiction authors of his books, King is best known for his work in horror fiction, in which he demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the genre's history....	1978
Artemis Fowl II Artemis Fowl II Artemis Fowl II is the main character of the fictional series Artemis Fowl by the Ireland author Eoin Colfer.He is currently listed as number twelve in the Forbes Forbes Fictional 15....	Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl (series) Artemis Fowl is a series of fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer, starring the teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II. The series is written in half-serious language, alternating dark moments with humorous ones, a style favoured by a number of popular children's authors.... series	Eoin Colfer Eoin Colfer Eoin Colfer is an Republic of Ireland author and comedian. He is most famous as the creator of the Artemis Fowl , but he has also achieved success with other books....	2001
Gully Foyle	The Stars My Destination The Stars My Destination *The Stars My Destination* is a science fiction novel by Alfred Bester . Originally serialized in Galaxy science fiction in four parts beginning with the October 1956 issue, it first appeared in book form as *Tiger! Tiger!* when published in England, where it remains widely known under that title....	Alfred Bester Alfred Bester Alfred Bester , known to his friends as Alfie, was an American science fiction authors, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books....	1956
Victor Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein is a fictional character, the protagonist of the 1818 novel Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley....	Frankenstein Frankenstein *Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley started writing Frankenstein* when she was 18 and finished when she was 19....	Mary Shelley Mary Shelley Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel literature, best known for her Gothic fiction Frankenstein ....	1818
Jay Gatsby	The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby *The Great Gatsby* is a novel by the United States author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922....	F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an United States writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself....	1925
Gollum Gollum Gollum is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Tolkien's legendarium. He was first introduced in the author's fantasy novel The Hobbit, and later became an important supporting character in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings....	The Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings *The Lord of the Rings* is an Epic poetry high fantasy novel written by Philology J.R.R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work....	J. R. R. Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....	1937	First appeared in The Hobbit The Hobbit *The Hobbit, or There and Back Again* is an award-winning Juvenile fantasy and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien, written in the tradition of the fairy tale.... .
Grendel Grendel Grendel is one of three antagonists, along with Grendel's mother and the dragon, in the Anglo-Saxon language Epic poetry Beowulf . In the poem, Grendel is feared by all but Beowulf ....	Grendel Grendel (novel) *Grendel* is a 1971 in literature parallel novel by United States author John Gardner . It is a retelling of the Old English language epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel....	John Gardner	1971	Originally the antagonist of the Anglo-Saxon Old English language Old English is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.... epic poem Beowulf Beowulf *Beowulf* is an Old English language heroic Epic poetry of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th to the early 11th century, and relates events described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden.... from between the 8th to the early 11th century.
Hamlet Prince Hamlet Prince Hamlet is the protagonist in Shakespeare's Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark, nephew to the usurping King Claudius and son of the previous King of Denmark, King Hamlet....	Hamlet Hamlet *Hamlet* is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle King Claudius, who has murdered King Hamlet, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude ....	William Shakespeare William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....	1601
Humbert Humbert	Lolita LOLITA LOLITA is a natural language processing system developed by Durham University between 1986 and 2000. The name is an acronym for "Large-scale, Object-based, Linguistics Interactor, Machine translation and Analyzer"....	Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Multilingualism Russian-American novelist and short story writer.Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian language, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist....	1955
Iago Iago Iago is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello . The character's source is traced to Cinthio's tale "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi ....	Othello Othello *Othello, the Moor of Venice* is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....	William Shakespeare William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....	1603
Benya Krik Benya Krik Benya Krik is a fictional Russian gangster of Jews descent, whose gang of thugs is the main subject of Isaak Babel's collection of short story The Odessa Tales....	Odessa Tales	Isaac Babel Isaac Babel Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel, was a Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer who was acclaimed by some as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry."...
Hannibal Lecter Hannibal Lecter Hannibal Lecter, Doctor of Medicine is a fictional character in a series of novels by author Thomas Harris. Lecter is introduced in the Thriller Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalism serial killer....	Hannibal Lecter series ('Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs The Silence of the Lambs (novel) *The Silence of the Lambs* is a suspense novel by Thomas Harris, starring his popular villain Hannibal Lecter, the sociopathic, cannibalistic psychiatrist.... , Hannibal Hannibal (novel) *Hannibal* is a suspense novel by Thomas Harris, the third in his series featuring his iconic character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic sociopath and psychiatriatry.... , Hannibal Rising Hannibal Rising *Hannibal Rising* is a suspense novel by Thomas Harris, a prequel to his three previous books following the misadventures of his most iconic creation, the sociopathic, murderous cannibal and ex-forensic psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter.... )	Thomas Harris Thomas Harris Thomas Harris is an United States author and screenwriter, best known for a series of novels about his most famous character, psychopathic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, who has since become a cultural icon....	1981
Lestat de Lioncourt Lestat de Lioncourt Lestat de Lioncourt is a fictional character appearing in several novels by Anne Rice, including The Vampire Lestat. He is a vampire and the main character in the majority of The Vampire Chronicles, narrated in first person....	Vampire Chronicles	Anne Rice Anne Rice Anne Rice is a best-selling United States author of gothic fiction and religious-themed books. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002....	1976
Lucifer Lucifer *Lucifer* is a name frequently given to Satan in Christian belief. This usage as a reference to a fallen angel stems from a particular interpretation of a passage in the Bible that speaks of someone who is given the name of "Day Star" or "Morning Star" as fallen from heaven.... /Satan Satan Satan is a term that originates from the Abrahamic religions, being traditionally applied to an angel in Judeo-Christian belief, and to a Genie in Islamic belief....	Paradise Lost Paradise Lost *Paradise Lost* is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century England poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books....	John Milton John Milton John Milton II was an English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his Epic poetry Paradise Lost and for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica....	1667
Macbeth Macbeth *Macbeth* is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest Shakespearean tragedy and is believed to have been written some time between 1603 and 1606, with 1607 being the very latest possible date....	Macbeth Macbeth *Macbeth* is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest Shakespearean tragedy and is believed to have been written some time between 1603 and 1606, with 1607 being the very latest possible date....	William Shakespeare William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
Randle McMurphy	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest* is a novel written by Ken Kesey. It is set in an Oregon Mental institution, and serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind....	Ken Kesey Ken Kesey Kenneth Elton Kesey was an United States author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , and as a counter-cultural figure who, some consider , was a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s....	1962
Philip Marlowe Philip Marlowe Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler in a series of novels including The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye ....	The Big Sleep The Big Sleep *The Big Sleep* is a crime novel by Raymond Chandler, widely considered to be his magnum opus, and the first in his acclaimed series about hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe.... , Farewell, My Lovely Farewell, My Lovely *Farewell, My Lovely* is a 1940 in literature novel by Raymond Chandler, the second novel he wrote featuring Los Angeles, California private investigator Philip Marlowe.... , The High Window The High Window *The High Window* is a 1942 novel written by Raymond Chandler. It is his third novel to feature Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe.... , The Lady in the Lake The Lady in the Lake *The Lady in the Lake* is a 1943 detective fiction by Raymond Chandler featuring, as do all his major works, the Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe.... , Playback Playback (novel) *Playback* is the final complete novel by Raymond Chandler, which features his iconic creation Philip Marlowe. It was published in 1958, the year before his death.... , The Little Sister The Little Sister *The Little Sister* is a 1949 novel by Raymond Chandler, the fifth in his popular Philip Marlowe series. The story is set in late 1940s Los Angeles.... , and Poodle Springs Poodle Springs *Poodle Springs* is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel. It was started in 1958 by Raymond Chandler, who left it unfinished at his death in 1959. The four chapters he had completed, which bore the working title "The Poodle Springs Story", were subsequently published in Raymond Chandler Speaking , a collection of letter excerpts and miscell...	Raymond Chandler Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler was an United States crime fiction, who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private eye story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre....	1939
Mephistopheles Mephistopheles Mephistopheles is a name often given to one representation of the devil or Satan. It is also the name used for the demon in the Faust legend....	Faust Goethe's Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragedy Play . It was published in two parts: ' and ' . The play is a closet drama, meaning that it is meant to be read rather than performed....	Goethe	1808	Based on the protagonist of a classic German legend German folklore German folklore shares many characteristics with Scandinavian folklore and English folklore due to their origins in a common Germanic mythology.... . See: Faust Faust Faust or Faustus is the protagonist of a classic German folklore who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works, such as those by Christopher Marlowe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Charles Gounod, Gu...
Mephistopheles Mephistopheles Mephistopheles is a name often given to one representation of the devil or Satan. It is also the name used for the demon in the Faust legend....	Doctor Faustus The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus *The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus* is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge....	Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe Christopher "Kit" Marlowe was an Kingdom of England Playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost English Renaissance theatre tragedy next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own mysterious and untimely death....	1604	Based on the protagonist of a classic German legend German folklore German folklore shares many characteristics with Scandinavian folklore and English folklore due to their origins in a common Germanic mythology.... . See: Faust Faust Faust or Faustus is the protagonist of a classic German folklore who makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works, such as those by Christopher Marlowe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann, Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Charles Gounod, Gu... .
Dexter Morgan Dexter Morgan Dexter Morgan is a fictional character in a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay , including Darkly Dreaming Dexter , Dearly Devoted Dexter , Dexter in the Dark and Dexter by Design ....	Darkly Dreaming Dexter Darkly Dreaming Dexter *Darkly Dreaming Dexter* is a 2004 novel by Jeff Lindsay . It has formed the basis of the Showtime television series Dexter . It won the 2005 Dilys Award.... , Dearly Devoted Dexter Dearly Devoted Dexter *Dearly Devoted Dexter* is a crime novel/horror novel novel by Jeff Lindsay , the second in his series about sociopathic vigilante Dexter Morgan, which has been adapted into Dexter .... , and Dexter in the Dark Dexter in the Dark *Dexter in the Dark* is a 2007 in literature novel written by Jeff Lindsay . This is the third book in the Dexter series, preceded by the 2004 in literature novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter - which formed the basis of the Showtime television series Dexter - and Dearly Devoted Dexter, its 2005 in literature sequel....	Jeff Lindsay Jeff Lindsay (writer) File:Jeff Lindsay.jpgJeff Lindsay is the pen name of United States playwright and crime novelist Jeffry P. Freundlich , who lives in Cape Coral, Florida with his wife, author Hilary Hemingway, daughter of Leicester Hemingway and niece to Ernest Hemingway, and his three daughters....	2004	Later adapted into a TV series Dexter (TV series) *Dexter* is an American television drama series that airs on American pay TV Showtime. It is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode.... .
Scarlett O'Hara Scarlett O'Hara Scarlett O'Hara is the protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and in the later Gone with the Wind . She also is the main character in the 1970 musical Scarlett and the 1991 book Scarlett , a sequel to Gone with the Wind that was written by Alexandra Ripley and adapted for a television mini-series in...	Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind *Gone with the Wind* is a romantic drama and the only novel by Margaret Mitchell. The story follows Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of a plantation owner in Georgia during and after the Civil War....	Margaret Mitchell Margaret Mitchell Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh , popularly known as Margaret Mitchell, was an United States of America author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind....	1936
Parker Parker (fictional criminal) Parker is a fictional character created by Donald E. Westlake. He is the main protagonist of 24 of the 28 novels Westlake wrote under the pseudonym Richard Stark....	The Parker series	Donald E. Westlake Donald E. Westlake Donald Edwin Westlake was an United States writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially Caper story with an occasional foray into science fiction....	1962
Alexander Portnoy	Portnoy's Complaint Portnoy's Complaint *Portnoy's Complaint* is American writer Philip Roth's most popular novel, with many of its characteristics having gone on to become Roth trademarks....	Philip Roth Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth is an United States novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus , cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman....	1969
Raskolnikov	Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment *Crime and Punishment* is a novel by Russian literature Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866....	Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky "An Honest Thief"* "Elka i svad'ba" ; English translation: "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding"* Belye nochi ; English translation: White Nights ...	1866
Rincewind Rincewind Rincewind the Wizzard is a fictional character appearing in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett, several of which feature him as the central character....	Discworld Discworld *Discworld* is a comedy fantasy book series by the British author Terry Pratchett, set on Discworld , a Flat Earth balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Discworld #Great A'Tuin, the star turtle.... novels	Terry Pratchett Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett, Officer of the Order of the British Empire is an England novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre....	1983	First appeared in The Colour of Magic The Colour of Magic *The Colour of Magic* is a 1983 comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, and is the first book of the Discworld series.Plot summary...
Mark Renton	Trainspotting Trainspotting (novel) *Trainspotting* is the first novel by Scotland writer Irvine Welsh. It is written in the form of short chapters narrated in the first person by various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serv...	Irvine Welsh Irvine Welsh Irvine Welsh is a contemporary Scottish novelists, best known for his novel Trainspotting . He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films....	1993
Tom Ripley	Tom Ripley series (the "Ripliad")	Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith was an United States author known for her psychological thrillers, which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Strangers on a Train has been adapted for the screen three times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951....	1955
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are fictional characters, a pair of courtiers appearing in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. They are also major characters in Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and W....	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Tom Stoppard Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....	1966
Becky Sharp	Vanity Fair	William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray was an England novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satire works, particularly Vanity Fair , a panoramic portrait of English society....	1847	First serialized in 20 parts.
Shylock Shylock Shylock is a fictional character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice....	The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice *The Merchant of Venice* is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a Shakespearean comedies in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedy, the play is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for...	William Shakespeare William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
Tyrone Slothrop	Gravity's Rainbow Gravity's Rainbow *Gravity's Rainbow* is an epic Postmodern literature novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28 1973.The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military, and, in particular, the quest undertaken by several chara...	Thomas Pynchon Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American literature based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English studies degree from Cornell University....	1973
Severus Snape Severus Snape Severus Snape is a fictional character in the Harry Potter book series written by J. K. Rowling. In the first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, he is one of the primary antagonists....	Harry Potter Harry Potter *Harry Potter* is a Heptalogy fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the eponymous adolescent wizard Harry Potter , together with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his friends from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry....	J. K. Rowling J. K. Rowling Joanne "Jo" Rowling Order of the British Empire , who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, is a United Kingdom author, best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990....	1997
Sam Spade Sam Spade Sam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese Falcon and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in three lesser known short stories written by Hammett....	The Maltese Falcon	Dashiell Hammett Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an United States author of hardboiled detective fiction novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade , Nick and Nora Charles , and the Continental Op ....	1930
Steerpike Steerpike Steerpike is a Fictional character in Mervyn Peake's novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast .In 2000 Irish actor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers potrayed Steerpike in the BBC Miniseries Gormenghast....	Gormenghast Series	Mervyn Peake Mervyn Peake Mervyn Laurence Peake was an England Modernist literature, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books....	1946
The "Underground Man"	Notes from Underground Notes from Underground *Notes from Underground* is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is considered by many to be the world's first existentialism novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator who is a retired civil servant living in St....	Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky "An Honest Thief"* "Elka i svad'ba" ; English translation: "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding"* Belye nochi ; English translation: White Nights ...	1864
Woland Woland Woland or Voland is a character in the book The Master and Margarita by the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov....	The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita *The Master and Margarita* is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheism Soviet Union....	Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian novelist and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for the novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century....	1966
Wei Xiaobao Wei Xiaobao Wei Xiaobao is the main character in Jinyong's last novel The Deer and the Cauldron ....	The Deer and the Cauldron The Deer and the Cauldron *The Deer and the Cauldron* or *The Duke of Mount Deer* is the last of Jin Yong?s Wuxia novels.The novel was initially published as a Serial , the first installment being published on October 24, 1969 in Ming Pao and running for 2 years, 11 months, until September 23, 1972....	Jinyong Jinyong Louis Cha, Grand Bauhinia Medal, Order of the British Empire , known with his pen name Jin Yong is one of the most influential modern Chinese language novelists....	1969
Yossarian Yossarian Capt. John Joseph Yossarian is a fictional character and protagonist in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing Time . In Catch-22, Yossarian is a 28-year-old Captain in the 256th squadron of the United States Army Air Forces where he serves as a B-25 Mitchell bombardier stationed on the small island of Pianosa of...	Catch-22 Catch-22 *Catch-22* is a Satire, Historical fiction novel by the United States author Joseph Heller, first published in 1961. The novel, set during the later stages of World War II from 1943 onwards, is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century....	Joseph Heller Joseph Heller Joseph Heller was an American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright. He wrote the influential novel Catch-22 about American servicemen during World War II....	1961
Harry Flashman	Flashman series	George MacDonald Fraser George MacDonald Fraser George MacDonald Fraser, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom author of both historical novels and non-fiction books, as well as several screenplays....	1969

Film

Danny Archer from Blood Diamond
Blood Diamond (film)

Blood Diamond is a 2006 in film action film/adventure film drama film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick, director of Glory and The Last Samurai, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou....

Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver is a 1976 in film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in early post?Vietnam War Era New York City and stars Robert De Niro and features a young Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris , Peter Boyle and Cybill Shepherd....
Brodie Bruce
Brodie Bruce

Brodie Bruce is a fictional character played by Jason Lee in the Kevin Smith films Mallrats and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. He is depicted as an unemployed slacker, living with his parents and lacking the motivation and maturity appropriate to his age....
from Mallrats
Mallrats

Mallrats is a 1995 in film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It is the second to be set in Smith's "View Askewniverse" series of interlocking films set mostly in New Jersey, although the movie was filmed in the Eden Prairie Center, which is located in Minnesota....
Edmond Burke from Edmond
Edmond (film)

Edmond is a 2005 in film drama/Thriller film based on the Edmond . It was written by David Mamet and directed by Stuart Gordon. It was screened at several film festivals from September 2005 to May 2006, and had a limited release on July 14, 2006....
Lester Burnham from American Beauty
American Beauty (film)

American Beauty is a 1999 in film dramedy film set in modern United States suburbia. Starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening, it was the feature film debut for writer Alan Ball and director Sam Mendes, all of whom won Academy Awards....

Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan (fictional character)

Harold Francis "Dirty Harry" Callahan is a fictional character in the films Dirty Harry , Magnum Force , The Enforcer , Sudden Impact , and The Dead Pool ....
from the Dirty Harry
Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry is a crime film thriller produced and directed by Don Siegel. It is the first film in the Dirty Harry . Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan ....
series
Jack Carter from Get Carter
Get Carter

Get Carter is a 1971 in film crime film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine as Jack Carter, a mobster who sets out to avenge the death of his brother in a series of unrelenting and brutal killings played out against the grim background of derelict urban housing in the northern English city of Newcastle upon Tyne....
Chev Chelios
Chev Chelios

Chev Chelios is the fictional character protagonist from the film Crank and its upcoming sequel, Crank 2: High Voltage. He is portrayed by Jason Statham....
from Crank
Crank (film)

Crank is a 2006 in film Action film/Thriller film, written and directed by both Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The film stars Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, and Dwight Yoakam....
Chucky from the Child's Play
Child's Play (film series)

Child's Play is a horror film series created by Don Mancini, with the independent horror film Child's Play released on November 9, 1988. The film has so far spawned 4 sequels and has gone into other media such as comic books....
series
Michael Corleone
Michael Corleone

Don Michael Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novels, The Godfather and The Sicilian. He is also the main character of the film trilogy that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which he was portrayed by Al Pacino....
from The Godfather
The Godfather

The Godfather is an Cinema of the United States crime film film based on the The Godfather by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne, who was not credited....
trilogy
John Creasy from Man on Fire
Man on Fire (2004 film)

Man on Fire is a 2004 United States Action film drama thriller film about an ex-Central Intelligence Agency operative/assassin-turned-bodyguard who takes revenge on a Mexico gang that kidnapped the child he was hired to protect....

The Dude from The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film written and directed by Coen brothers. Jeff Bridges stars as Jeffrey Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles, California slacker and avid bowling, who refers to himself as "the Dude"....

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Dante Hicks
Dante Hicks

Dante Hicks is a fictional character in writer/director Kevin Smith 's View Askewniverse, played by Brian O'Halloran. He is introduced in the feature film Clerks....
, Randal Graves
Randal Graves

Randal Graves is a fictional character in director Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse, portrayed by Jeff Anderson. He was introduced in Smith's debut film Clerks. He also appeared in Clerks , an Clerks: The Animated Series and a Clerks II to the original film....
, and Jay & Silent Bob from Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith

Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter and film director, as well as a script writer, author, and actor. He is also the co-founder, with Scott Mosier, of View Askew Productions and owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic and novelty store in Red Bank, New Jersey, New Jersey....
's "View Askewniverse
View Askewniverse

The View Askewniverse is a fictional universe created by writer/director Kevin Smith, featured in several films, comics and a television series; it is named for Smith's production company, View Askew Productions....
" films
Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United States indie film comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as the eponymous character, Napoleon Dynamite....
from the movie of the same name
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Luke Jackson
Luke Jackson

Luke Ryan Jackson is an United States professional basketball player currently with the NBA Development League's Idaho Stampede....
from Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke is a Cinema of the United States drama film starring Paul Newman and directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from the novel by Pearce....
Scottie Ferguson from Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
's Vertigo
Vertigo (film)

Vertigo is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak and featuring Barbara Bel Geddes and Tom Helmore....
The Firefly family from House of 1000 Corpses
House of 1000 Corpses

House of 1000 Corpses is a 2003 in film exploitation film horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie, and is his directorial debut. It was released in the United States on April 11, 2003 by Lions Gate Entertainment....
and The Devil's Rejects
The Devil's Rejects

The Devil's Rejects is a 2005 in film exploitation film horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie. It is the sequel to his 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses....
; Captain Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, Baby, etc.
Jigsaw
Jigsaw Killer

The Jigsaw Killer is a fictional character in the Saw . Jigsaw made his debut appearance as the primary antagonist in the first film of the series, Saw , and later Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV and Saw V....
from the Saw film series
Saw (film series)

Saw is an United States Horror fiction media franchise that currently consists of five films, one future film, and various other forms of media....
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Davy Jones
Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)

David Jones is a fictional character from the Pirates of the Caribbean and is loosely based on the old seaman's legend of Davy Jones? Locker....
from Pirates of the Caribbean

Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
Freddy Krueger
Freddy Krueger

Freddy Krueger is a fictional character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street of films. Created by Wes Craven and portrayed by actor Robert Englund in every film of the series, he is an undead serial killer, who can attack his victims from within their own dreams....
from A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States horror film directed and written by Wes Craven, and the first film in the A Nightmare on Elm Street ....
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Mickey and Mallory Knox
Mickey and Mallory Knox

This lists the major characters in the 1994 film Natural Born Killers. The characters were created by Quentin Tarantino and the film was directed and co-scripted by Oliver Stone....
from Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers

Natural Born Killers is a 1994 in film satire crime film directed by Oliver Stone about two mass murderers and the Mass media coverage given to them....

Leatherface
Leatherface

Leatherface is a fictional character and main antagonist in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror film film series. One of the first slasher film villains, he has appeared in all six of the series' films since the release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in 1974....
from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (film series)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an Cinema of the United States horror fiction franchise consisting of six slasher films, comic book and a video game adaptation of the original film....
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Léon from Léon
Léon (film)

L?on is a French 1994 drama crime films film written and directed by France director Luc Besson. It stars Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and a young Natalie Portman in her first starring role....
or The Professional

Juno MacGuff from Juno
Juno (film)

Juno is a 2007 in film Cinema of Canada-Cinema of the United States comedy-drama directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her....
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"The Man with No Name," a stock character in westerns popularized by Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He is known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in Action films and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....
in films such as For a Few Dollars More
For a Few Dollars More

For a Few Dollars More is a 1965 in film spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria Volont?....
and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Nick Naylor from the film Thank You for Smoking
Thank You for Smoking

Thank You for Smoking is a 2006 in film Golden Globe Award-nominated comedy-drama satire directed by Jason Reitman and produced by David O. Sacks....

Tony Montana
Tony Montana

ScarfaceDuring the movie Tony Montana arrives to America from Cuba with his best friend Manny Ribera. After meeting with his mother and sister he becomes an employee of drug lord Frank Lopez....
from Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma is an US film director. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie , Dressed to Kill , Scarface , The Untouchables , and Mission: Impossible ....
's Scarface
Scarface (1983 film)

Scarface is a 1983 in film epic film crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana....

Snake Plissken
Snake Plissken

S.D. "Snake" Plissken is a fictional character in John Carpenter's films Escape from New York and Escape from L.A., played by Kurt Russell....
from Escape from New York
Escape from New York

Escape from New York is a 1981 in film science fiction film/action film film director and Film score by John Carpenter. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Nick Castle....
and Escape From L.A.
Escape from L.A.

Escape From L.A. is a 1996 film directed by John Carpenter. The sequel to the action film Escape from New York, the film follows war hero Snake Plissken, played by Kurt Russell....

Richard B. Riddick from Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick
The Chronicles of Riddick

The Chronicles of Riddick is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United States science fiction film / fantasy film / Thriller film. It follows the adventures of Riddick, as he attempts to elude capture after the events depicted in the 2000 in film film Pitch Black ....
Lisa Rowe from Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted (film)

Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 in film Oscar Award-winning drama film about a teen's 18-month stay at a mental institution, and stars Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie....
Max Rockatansky
Max Rockatansky

"Mad" Max Rockatansky, sometimes referred to as The Road Warrior, is the protagonist from director George Miller 's Mad Max film trilogy, appearing in the films Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome....
from the Mad Max
Mad Max

Mad Max is a Australian films of the 1970s Cinema of Australia apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction action film thriller film directed by George Miller and written by Miller and Byron Kennedy....
series

Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 in film adventure film, based on the Pirates of the Caribbean at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts....

Ben Wade from the 2007 version of 3:10 to Yuma
3:10 to Yuma (2007 film)

3:10 to Yuma is a 2007 Academy Award nominated Western film that is a remake of the 3:10 to Yuma , making it the second adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Three-Ten to Yuma....
Dawn Weiner of Welcome to the Dollhouse
Welcome to the Dollhouse

Welcome to the Dollhouse is a 1995 in film coming of age black comedy. An independent film, it launched the career of writer-director Todd Solondz, who went on to make Happiness and Storytelling in 2001....
John Wydell from The Devil's Rejects
The Devil's Rejects

The Devil's Rejects is a 2005 in film exploitation film horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie. It is the sequel to his 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses....

Yojimbo
Yojimbo (film)

is a 1961 in film jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of a ronin , portrayed by Toshiro Mifune, who arrives in a small town where competing crime lords make their money from gambling....
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Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Angel (TV series)

Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer . The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999....
Kerr Avon
Kerr Avon

Kerr Avon is a fictional character from the United Kingdom science fiction television series Blake's 7, played by Paul Darrow. Initially one of a character ensemble, he increasingly became a lead character....
in Blake's 7
Blake's 7

Blake's 7 is a United Kingdom science fiction television series made by the British Broadcasting Corporation for their BBC One channel. Created by Terry Nation, a prolific television writer best known for creating the popular Dalek monsters for the television series Doctor Who, it ran for four series between 1978 and 1981....

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Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell from Prison Break
Prison Break

Prison Break is an American serial drama Television program created by Paul Scheuring, which premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company on August 29, 2005....
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Jack Bauer
Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer is the protagonist and anti-hero of the United States television series 24 , in which he has trained and worked in various capacities as a government agent, including US Army Delta Force, LAPD SWAT, CIA, and finally the 24 #Counter Terrorist Unit Los Angeles....
from 24
Bender from Futurama
Futurama

Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....

Edmund Blackadder
Edmund Blackadder

Edmund Blackadder is the single name given to a collection of fictional characters who appear in the BBC mock-historical comedy series Blackadder, each played by Rowan Atkinson....
from BBC's Blackadder
Blackadder

Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of an acclaimed BBC One historical British sitcom, along with several List of Blackadder episodes#See also....
series
David Brent
David Brent

David Brent is a fictional character white-collar office middle-manager and one of the principal characters from the BBC television mockumentary The Office , played by co-writer and director Ricky Gervais....
from The Office
The Office (UK TV series)

The Office is a British Academy Television Awards, Golden Globe Award winning and Emmy-nominated United Kingdom television program comedy that first aired in the UK on BBC Two on 9 July 2001....

Archie Bunker
Archie Bunker

Archibald "Archie" Bunker is a fictional character in the long-running and top-rated United States television sitcom All in the Family and its spin-off Archie Bunker's Place....
from All in the Family
All in the Family

All in the Family is an United States situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979....

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Eric Cartman
Eric Cartman

Eric Theodore Cartman , is one of the four main List of South Park characterss on the animation television series South Park, along with fellow protagonists Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick, though he is often portrayed as the series' main antagonist in opposition of his friends....
from South Park
South Park

South Park is an United Statesn animation situation comedy, notorious for its toilet humour, surrealism, and often black comedy, which satirizes Subject matter in South Park including religion, politics, violence, abuse, sexuality, and mental disorder....

JR Chandler from All My Children
All My Children

All My Children, sometimes abbreviated by fans and the press as AMC, is an United States soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the American Broadcasting Company television network since January 5, 1970, and the daily episode also airs weeknights on SOAPnet....
George Costanza
George Costanza

George Louis Costanza is a fictional character in the United States?based Television program Situation comedy Seinfeld , played by Jason Alexander....
from Seinfeld
Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Television in the United States Situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in Broadcast syndication....

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Larry David
Larry David

Lawrence Gene "Larry" David is an United States actor, writer, comedian, Television producer, and film director. Formerly a Standup comedy, David went into television comedy, writing and starring in ABC's Fridays , as well as writing briefly for Saturday Night Live....
from Curb Your Enthusiasm
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American comedy starring Seinfeld writer, co-creator, and executive producer Larry David as himself, and produced and broadcast by Home Box Office....

The Doctor
Doctor (Doctor Who)

The Doctor is the central fictional character in the long-running BBC Science fiction on television series Doctor Who, and also features in a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series....
from Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....

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Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald from Cracker
Cracker (UK TV series)

Cracker is the title of a television crime series in the United Kingdom, made by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern....

James "Sawyer" Ford from Lost
Lost (TV series)

Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....

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Tommy Gavin
Tommy Gavin

Thomas Michael "Tommy" Gavin is the main character of the FX television series Rescue Me . He is portrayed by Denis Leary. Leary was nominated for a Golden Globe and for two Emmys for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Tommy....
from Rescue Me
Rescue Me (TV series)

Rescue Me is an United States television drama series created by Denis Leary and Peter Tolan. It premiered on the FX Networks in 2004. It is produced by the Cloudland Company, Apostle , DreamWorks Television and Sony Pictures Television....

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Jack Harkness
Jack Harkness

Captain Jack Harkness is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. He first appears in the 2005 Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child" and reappears throughout the remaining episodes of the Doctor Who as a companion of the Ninth Doctor of the series' protagonist Doctor ....
from Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
and Torchwood
Torchwood

Torchwood is a United Kingdom science fiction on television drama television programme, created by Russell T Davies and starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles....
Gregory House
Gregory House

Gregory House, Doctor of Medicine, is a fictional character and protagonist of the United States medical drama House . Portrayed by Hugh Laurie, the character is a wiktionary:maverick medical genius who heads a team of diagnosis at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital....
from House
House (TV series)

House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama that debuted on the Fox Broadcasting Company network on November 16, 2004....

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Alex Krycek
Alex Krycek

Alex Krycek is a fictional character played by Nicholas Lea on the FOX television series The X-Files. Originally, the role of Krycek was offered to Callum Keith Rennie, who rejected it, but later made two guest appearances on the show....
from The X-Files
The X-Files

The X-Files is a Peabody Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning American cult following science fiction television series, created by Chris Carter , which first aired in 1993 and ended in 2002....

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Ben Linus from Lost
Lost (TV series)

Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....

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Vic Mackey
Vic Mackey

Detective Victor Samuel "Vic" Mackey, portrayed by Michael Chiklis, is a fictional character Los Angeles Police Department detective and the former leader of the Strike Team, a four-man anti-gang unit in the FX crime drama series The Shield....
from The Shield
The Shield

The Shield was an United States drama television series which aired on FX in the U.S. and other networks internationally. Known for its controversial portrayal of corrupt police officers, it was originally advertised as "Rampart, Los Angeles, California" in reference to the true life Rampart Scandal, which the show's Strike Team was loos...

Todd Manning
Todd Manning

Thomas "Todd" Manning is a fictional character from the American Broadcasting Company daytime drama One Life to Live. The role was originated in 1992 by actor Roger Howarth....
from One Life to Live
One Life to Live

One Life to Live is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network since July 15, 1968....
Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal (Character)

Allison Marie "Ally" McBeal is the central fictional character in the Fox Television show Ally McBeal played by Calista Flockhart.Ally is a Boston-based lawyer....
from the eponymous series
Ally McBeal

Ally McBeal was an United States television series which ran on the Fox Television Network network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E....

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Jimmy McNulty
Jimmy McNulty

Detective James "Jimmy" McNulty is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire , played by British actor Dominic West. McNulty is an Irish American detective in the Baltimore Police Department....
from The Wire
The Wire (TV series)

The Wire is an United States television drama series set in Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland, where it was also produced. Created, Executive producer#Television, and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon, the series was broadcast by the premium television cable television HBO in the United States....

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Jim Profit from Profit
Profit (TV series)

Profit is a short-lived United States television series that aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series was created by David Greenwalt and John McNamara , and starred Adrian Pasdar as the titular character, Jim Profit....

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Dexter Morgan from Dexter
Dexter (TV series)

Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American pay TV Showtime. It is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode....
Jonathan Randall
Jonathan Randall

Jonathan Randall is a fictional character on the television soap opera Guiding Light.He is portrayed by actor Tom Pelphrey, who has been nominated several times for the Outstanding Younger Actor Daytime Emmy, and has won the award twice, in 2006 and also in 2008....
from Guiding Light
Guiding Light

Guiding Light is an United States television program credited by the Guinness World Records as being the longest-running soap opera in production and the longest running drama in television and radio history....

Malcolm Reynolds
Malcolm Reynolds

Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds is a fictional character in the Serenity . Reynolds is played by actor Nathan Fillion in the 2002 TV series Firefly and the 2005 film Serenity ....
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Firefly (TV series)

Firefly is an American science fiction television series created by writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel , under his Mutant Enemy Productions....
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Serenity (film)

Serenity is a 2005 in film Space Western film written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is considered a continuation of the canceled Fox Broadcasting Company Science fiction on television series Firefly , taking place about two months after the events of the Objects in Space....

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Michael Scofield
Michael Scofield

Michael Scofield is the main protagonist in the United States television series Prison Break. He is portrayed by Wentworth Miller. He is 31 years old....
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Prison Break

Prison Break is an American serial drama Television program created by Paul Scheuring, which premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company on August 29, 2005....
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Michael Scott
Michael Scott (The Office)

Michael Gary Scott is a fictional character on NBC's The Office portrayed by Steve Carell, and based on David Brent from the The Office . Michael, the central character of the series, is the regional manager of the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin....
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The Office (US TV series)

The Office is an Emmy-Award winning American Situation comedy airing on NBC and developed by Greg Daniels. It is an American adaptation of the BBC series The Office and depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company....

Homer Simpson
Homer Simpson

Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons and father of the Simpson family. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show The Simpsons shorts "Good Night " on April 19, 1987....
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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....

Bart Simpson
Bart Simpson

Bartholomew "Bart" JoJo Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons and part of the Simpson family....
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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....

Zach Slater
Zach Slater

Zach Slater is a fictional character from the United States daytime drama All My Children. He has been portrayed by actor Thorsten Kaye since May 20, 2004....
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All My Children

All My Children, sometimes abbreviated by fans and the press as AMC, is an United States soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the American Broadcasting Company television network since January 5, 1970, and the daily episode also airs weeknights on SOAPnet....
Tony Soprano
Tony Soprano

Anthony John Soprano, Sr., played by James Gandolfini, is a fictional character on the HBO television series The Sopranos, created by David Chase....
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The Sopranos

The Sopranos was an United States television drama series created and Executive producer#Television by David Chase. It was originally broadcast in the United States on the premium television cable television HBO from January 10, 1999 to June 10, 2007, spanning List of The Sopranos episodes....

Luke Spencer
Luke Spencer

Lucas Lorenzo "Luke" Spencer Sr. is a fictional character on the popular American Broadcasting Company soap opera, General Hospital, and has been played by Anthony Geary since 1978....
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General Hospital

General Hospital is an United States soap opera broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network during the day and on SOAPnet each weeknight....

Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Angel (TV series)

Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer . The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999....

Al Swearengen
Characters of Deadwood

This article contains fictional character biographies from the HBO original series Deadwood ....
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Deadwood (TV series)

Deadwood is an United States Western –drama television series created, produced and almost entirely written by David Milch. The series aired on the premium television cable television HBO from 21 March 2004 to 27 August 2006, spanning List of Deadwood episodes....

Anime/Manga

Guts
Guts (Berserk)

is a fictional character of the anime and manga franchise Berserk by mangaka Kentaro Miura. He is the main protagonist of the story.Role...
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Berserk (manga)

|} is a long-running dark fantasy manga by mangaka Kentaro Miura.Berserks setting is inspired by medieval Europe. It centers around the life of Guts , an orphaned mercenary warrior, and Griffith , the leader of a mercenary band called the ....
Lelouch Lamperouge
Lelouch Lamperouge

is the Byronic hero protagonist of the Sunrise anime series Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Lamperouge is his assumed surname, while his real name is , son of the 98th Britannian Emperor....
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Vegeta
Vegeta

is a Character in the Dragon Ball created by Akira Toriyama. Vegeta first appeared in the List of Dragon Ball chapters#Dragon Ball Z #204 first published in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on December 19, 1988, and in episode 6 of its anime adaptation Dragon Ball#Dragon Ball Z , as the prince of the nearly extinct race of alien warriors call...
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Comic books

Batman
Batman

Batman is a Character , a comic book superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger , appearing in publications by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939....
Johnny C
Johnny C

Johnny C. is a fictional character starring in the comic book series Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. He also appears in the spin-offs of the series Squee! and I Feel Sick, as well as the television series Invader Zim....
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Johnny the Homicidal Maniac

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is a black-and-white comic book series written and drawn by Jhonen Vasquez. It began as a series of short strips in the Goth subculture magazine Carpe Noctem, and was later published in seven issues by Slave Labor Graphics between August 1995 in comics and January 1997 in comics....

Catwoman
John Constantine
John Constantine

John Constantine is a fictional character published by DC Comics and the protagonist of the comic book Hellblazer. The character is an "occult detective", in the tradition of Jules de Grandin or Carnacki, but with a strong element of "magical con man." The character first appeared in the horror comic Swamp Thing #37, written by Alan...
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Hellblazer

Hellblazer is a contemporary Horror fiction comic book series published by the Vertigo Comics imprint of DC Comics. Its central character is the streetwise magician John Constantine....

Jesse Custer from the Preacher
Preacher (comics)

Preacher is a comic book series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, published by the American comic book label Vertigo Comics imprint of DC Comics, with painted covers by Glenn Fabry....
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Grendel
Grendel (comics)

Grendel is a long-running series of comic books originally created by American author Matt Wagner. First published by Comico Comics, Wagner has now moved his character to Dark Horse Comics....

Spider Jerusalem
Spider Jerusalem

Spider Jerusalem is a fictional character and the protagonist of the comic book Transmetropolitan, created by writer Warren Ellis and artist Darick Robertson, published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics....
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Transmetropolitan

Transmetropolitan is a postcyberpunk comic book series written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson and published by DC Comics. The series was originally part of the short-lived DC Comics imprint Helix Comics, but upon the end of the book's first year the series was moved to the Vertigo imprint as DC Comics cancelled the Helix C...

Magneto
Magneto (comics)

Magneto is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in Uncanny X-Men #1 , and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby....
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X-Men

The X-Men are a fictional superhero team in the . In the series, Professor Xavier responds to anti-Mutant prejudice by creating a haven at his Westchester County, New York mansion to train young mutants to use their powers for the benefit of humanity....
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Marv
Marv

Marv is a fictional character in the graphic novel series Sin City, created by Frank Miller . In the Sin City , he is played by Mickey Rourke....
and Dwight
Dwight McCarthy

Dwight McCarthy is a main protagonist in Frank Miller 's Sin City fictional universe. He appears in A Dame to Kill For, List of Sin City yarns#The Big Fat Kill, List of Sin City yarns#Family Values, List of Sin City yarns#The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories and List of Sin City yarns#That Yellow Bastard....
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Frank Miller (comics)

Frank Miller is an United States writer, artist and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics....
Sin City
Sin City

Sin City is the title for List of Sin City yarns by Frank Miller , told in a film noir-like style . The first story originally appeared in "Dark Horse's Fifth Anniversary Special" , and continued in Dark Horse Presents #51-62 from May 1991 to June 1992, under the title of Sin City, serialized in thirteen parts....

Eric O'Grady
Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady)

Ant-Man is a fictional character, a superhero in the . He is the third character to use the name Ant-Man. He first appearance in The Irredeemable Ant-Man #1 and was created by Robert Kirkman and Phil Hester....

The Punisher
Punisher

The Punisher is a fictional comic book Character , an antihero in Marvel Comics' Earth-616 Shared universe Marvel Universe. Created by writer Gerry Conway and artists John Romita, Sr....

Rorschach
Rorschach (comics)

Rorschach is a fictional comic book vigilante featured in the acclaimed 1986 DC Comics miniseries Watchmen.Rorschach was created by Watchmen writer Alan Moore with artist Dave Gibbons but, as with most of the central characters in the series, he was an analog for a Charlton Comics character, in this case Question , a character crea...
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Watchmen

Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins . The series was published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form....

The Shadow
The Shadow

The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of Character vigilante The Shadow....

Spawn
Spawn (comics)

Spawn is a Character comic book character created by Todd McFarlane. Spawn primarily appears in a comic of the same name, published by , and his first appearance was in Spawn #1 ....

Sub-Mariner
"V
V (character)

V is a fictional character from the comic book series V for Vendetta, created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd . He is a mysterious Anarchism vigilante and Propaganda of the deed, easily recognizable by his Guy Fawkes mask and dark clothing....
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V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd , set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s....

Venom
Venom (comics)

Eddie Brock, also known as Venom , is a character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics and first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #299 ....

Wolverine
Wolverine (comics)

Wolverine is a Character , a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character First appearance in Hulk #180 and was created by writer Len Wein and Marvel art director John Romita Sr., who designed the character, and was first drawn for publication by Herb Trimpe....

Video games
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Agent 47
Agent 47

Appearance and capabilityAgent 47 is a fictional character and protagonist in the Hitman . Created by IO Interactive, the character was developed around David Bateson, who also provided the in-game voice....
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Hitman (computer game series)

Hitman is a stealth game series video game developer by the Denmark company IO Interactive, now a division of Eidos Interactive. The series is available on personal computer as well as several video game consoles, including the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Xbox 360....
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Altaïr from Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed is a Nonlinear gameplay Action-adventure game video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released worldwide in November 2007 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles....
Arthas from Warcraft III

Caleb from Blood and Blood II: The Chosen
Blood II: The Chosen

Blood II: The Chosen is a first-person shooter Video game developed by Monolith Productions and distributed by GT Interactive, which was later purchased by Infogrames....
Captain Qwark from the Ratchet & Clank
Ratchet & Clank

Ratchet & Clank is a platform game and shooter game video game for the PlayStation 2. Developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, it is the first game in the Ratchet & Clank ....
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Carl "CJ" Johnson from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a Nonlinear gameplay action-adventure game computer game and video game developed by Rockstar North. It is the third 3D computer graphics game in the Grand Theft Auto video game franchise and fifth original game overall....
Conker the Squirrel
Conker the Squirrel

Conker the Squirrel is a fuzzy, anthropomorphic squirrel starring in various video games. The character was created by Rare . Even though he first appeared in Diddy Kong Racing, a spinoff of the Donkey Kong , Conker is not considered an official character in the Donkey Kong universe....
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Conker's Bad Fur Day

Conker's Bad Fur Day is a Nintendo 64 video game developed and published by Rare , and distributed by Nintendo. The game stars Conker the Squirrel, a Rare character who had previously appeared in other games marketed towards children, such as Diddy Kong Racing for the Nintendo 64 and Conker's Pocket Tales for the Game Boy Color....
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Conker: Live & Reloaded

Conker: Live & Reloaded is a platform game video game released in 2005. The single player mode is a remake of the 2001 game Conker's Bad Fur Day for the Nintendo 64 game console....

Dante from the Devil May Cry series
Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem (character)

Duke Nukem is an action hero created by Video game developers Todd Replogle, George Broussard, Allen Blum and Scott Miller of 3D Realms/Apogee Software....
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Duke Nukem (computer game)

Duke Nukem is a platform game video game video game developer and video game publisher by Apogee Software , featuring the adventures of Duke Nukem ....
series

Garrett from the Thief series

Jack Carver in Far Cry
Far Cry

Far Cry is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek Studios from Germany and published by Ubisoft on March 23, 2004 for Microsoft Windows....
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Kain
Kain (Legacy of Kain)

Kain is a major fictional character and the titular character that appears in the Legacy of Kain series of video games. Depending on the game and its viewpoint, Kain has been either the central protagonist, or an antagonist, but in all his depictions he is an anti-hero, interested only in his own goals....
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Raziel (Legacy of Kain)

Raziel is a fictional character, an anti-hero that appears in the Legacy of Kain series of video games, specifically Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 and Legacy of Kain: Defiance....
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Kain

Legacy of Kain

Legacy of Kain is a series of video games developed initially by Silicon Knights in association with Crystal Dynamics. After a legal battle, Crystal Dynamics continued the series without Silicon Knights and Eidos Interactive became the publisher....
series

Kane and Lynch from Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a Cooperative gameplay third-person shooter developed by IO Interactive and published by Eidos Interactive for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and gaming platform Games for Windows....
Kratos
Kratos (God of War)

Kratos is the fictional protagonist of the God of War series. The character first appeared in God of War , released in . In the game, Kratos is on a quest for revenge, a theme continued throughout the God of War series....
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God of War (video game)

God of War is a video game for the PlayStation 2 video game console released on March 22, 2005. It is an action-adventure game based on Greek mythology....
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Marcus Fenix from Gears of War
Gears of War

'Gears of War' is a third-person shooter video game, developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was initially released as an exclusive title for the Xbox 360 in November 2006 in North America, Australia, and most of Europe, and included a "Limited Collector's Edition" with added content and an art book titled Dest...
Max Payne
Max Payne

Max Payne is a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award winning third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment, produced by 3D Realms and published by Gathering of Developers in July, 2001 in video gaming for Microsoft Windows....
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Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto IV is a Nonlinear gameplay Action-adventure game video game developed by Rockstar North. It is the ninth game in the Grand Theft Auto ....

The Prince
Prince (Prince of Persia)

The Prince is the name given to the protagonists from the Prince of Persia series of computer and video games. Throughout the games' history, names for the Prince are never explicitly stated; however, the Prince in the upcoming 2010 film, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time , is called Dastan....
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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is a video game and sequel to Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, a critically acclaimed game released in 2003....

Rayne
Rayne (BloodRayne)

Rayne, is the protagonist in BloodRayne , Terminal Reality's Third-person shooter video game franchise. She also stars in the movie franchise, based on the video game....
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Shadow the Hedgehog
Shadow the Hedgehog

is a character from the Sonic the Hedgehog , an artificially created life form in the design of a male, Anthropomorphism hedgehog. He resembles Sonic in many ways, such as how his hover skates propel him at extreme speeds to rival those of Sonic; but he distinguishes himself with greater use of his signature ability to use Chaos Control with Chaos...
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Officer Tanner
Officer Tanner

Tanner is a fictional character and protagonist in the Driver video game series. He appears in Driver: You Are the Wheelman, Driver 2, DRIV3R, and Driver Vegas....
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Driver: You Are the Wheelman

Driver , is a 1999 video game developed by Reflections Interactive , who had earlier hits with Destruction Derby on the early years of the PlayStation....
, Driver 2
Driver 2

Driver 2: The Wheelman is Back is the second installment of the Driver video game series....
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DRIV3R

Driv3r, more commonly known as Driver 3, is a racing, shooting, and adventure video game. It is the third installment in the popular Driver and was developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Atari....
Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes
No More Heroes

No More Heroes is the second album by The Stranglers, produced by Martin Rushent, and released in 1977 . It featured a photo of a wreath placed on a coffin with the tails of several rats ....
Tommy Vercetti
Tommy Vercetti

Thomas ?Tommy? Vercetti is a fictional character in the Grand Theft Auto video game series. He serves as the protagonist, anti-hero and Player character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where he emerges as the crime lord of List of gangs in Grand Theft Auto series#Vercetti Gang....
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a Nonlinear gameplay action-adventure game computer game and video game designed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games....

Wario
Wario

is a fictional Nintendo List of Nintendo characters created by Gunpei Yokoi. Wario was designed as another antagonist to Mario , and first appeared in the 1992 in video gaming Handheld game console video game Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins as the main antagonist and final Boss ....
in the Wario series
List of Wario games

Eighteen video games starring the Nintendo character Wario have currently been released, including original games, ports and remakes....
Roger Wilco from the Space Quest
Space Quest

Space Quest is a series of six science fiction computer games that follow the adventures of a hapless janitor named Roger Wilco, as he campaigns through the galaxy for "truth, justice and really clean floors."...
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