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The Land of Ooo used to be Earth. A nuclear war called the Mushroom War wiped out civilization, and what grew back was a world of candy people, ice kingdoms, vampires, and talking dogs. Finn is the la...
Read article →Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is a character in Frank Herbert's Dune. She is a senior member of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood and the Emperor's Truthsayer. She administers the gom jabbar test to P...
Read article →Chani Kynes is Fremen. She was born on Arrakis, the desert planet where water is sacred and survival is earned daily. She grew up fighting, filtering water from the dead, and navigating the deep deser...
Read article →Pip, whose full name is Philip Pirrip, is the protagonist and narrator of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations. He is an orphan raised by his harsh sister and her gentle husband Joe Gargery,...
Read article →Nemo is a character from Pixar's Finding Nemo (2003). He is a young clownfish with a damaged fin (his lucky fin) who is captured by a diver and placed in a fish tank in a dentist's office in Sydney. H...
Read article →Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595). He is a mischievous fairy spirit who serves Oberon, King of the Fairies. Puck is resp...
Read article →Leto II Atreides is a character in Frank Herbert's Dune series, primarily the protagonist of God Emperor of Dune. He is the son of Paul Atreides who merges with sandworm larvae and becomes a human-san...
Read article →Chani is a character in Frank Herbert's Dune, the daughter of the Imperial planetologist Liet-Kynes and a Fremen woman. She becomes Paul Atreides's partner, lover, and the mother of his children. She...
Read article →Stilgar is a character in Frank Herbert's Dune series. He is the naib (leader) of Sietch Tabr, the Fremen community that takes in Paul and Jessica after the fall of House Atreides. He becomes Paul's a...
Read article →Alia Atreides is a character in Frank Herbert's Dune series. She is the daughter of Paul Atreides's mother Jessica, born with full ancestral memories after Jessica took the Water of Life while pregnan...
Read article →Little Red Riding Hood is the protagonist of one of the most widely known fairy tales in the world. Versions exist across dozens of cultures, with the best-known Western tellings from Charles Perrault...
Read article →Gurney Halleck is a character in Frank Herbert's Dune. He is the weapons master of House Atreides, a baliset-playing warrior-poet who trains Paul Atreides in combat. Loyal, scarred, and passionate, Gu...
Read article →Edmond Dantes was nineteen years old, engaged to the woman he loved, and about to be promoted to captain of his ship. Then three men who envied him conspired to have him arrested on false charges of t...
Read article →Donald Duck cannot control his temper. He flies into rages over minor inconveniences: a stuck zipper, a gopher in his garden, his nephews being slightly disobedient. His voice cracks into an incompreh...
Read article →Tom chases Jerry. Jerry outsmarts Tom. Tom gets hurt. This has been happening since 1940. Over 160 theatrical shorts, multiple television series, and a feature film, the formula has never changed beca...
Read article →Toph Beifong is blind. Her parents kept her hidden from the world, convinced she was fragile, helpless, and in need of constant protection. She responded by sneaking out of the house, entering undergr...
Read article →Jean-Luc Picard does not throw punches. He throws arguments. He sits in a captain's chair and talks, and the talking is the weapon. In a franchise built on phasers and photon torpedoes, Picard consist...
Read article →Dwight Schrute is a character from the American television series The Office (2005-2013), played by Rainn Wilson. He is a paper salesman at Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch who considers himself the o...
Read article →Pippi Longstocking is the protagonist of Astrid Lindgren's children's book series, first published in 1945. She is a nine-year-old girl with superhuman strength who lives alone in a Swedish villa with...
Read article →Eleven, born Jane Hopper, is a main character in the Netflix series Stranger Things (2016-present), played by Millie Bobby Brown. She is a girl with powerful telekinetic abilities who was raised in a...
Read article →Matilda Wormwood is the protagonist of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda. She is a genius child born to neglectful, dishonest parents who discovers she has telekinetic powers. She uses her intelligence...
Read article →Stitch, also known as Experiment 626, is the co-protagonist of Disney's Lilo and Stitch (2002). He is a genetically engineered alien creature designed for maximum destruction who crash-lands in Hawaii...
Read article →Darth Vader, born Anakin Skywalker, is the central figure of the Star Wars saga. He is a former Jedi Knight who was seduced to the dark side by Emperor Palpatine and became the galaxy's most feared en...
Read article →Indiana Jones is the protagonist of the film franchise created by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, played by Harrison Ford. He is a professor of archaeology at Marshall College who leads a double li...
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