Who Is WALL-E?
WALL-E is the protagonist of Pixar's WALL-E (2008). He is a Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth-class — a small trash-compacting robot left alone on an abandoned, garbage-covered Earth. He has develop...
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Who Is HAL 9000?
HAL 9000 is the artificial intelligence from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and Arthur C. Clarke's novel. HAL is the onboard computer of the Discovery One spacecraft, responsible fo...
Read article →Who Is Bilbo Baggins?
Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937) and a key character in The Lord of the Rings. He is a comfortable, respectable hobbit of Bag End who is recruited by Gandalf to j...
Read article →Who Is Woody?
Woody is the protagonist of Pixar's Toy Story franchise (1995-2019), voiced by Tom Hanks. He is a pull-string cowboy doll and Andy's favorite toy. His fear of being replaced, his loyalty to his owner,...
Read article →Who Is Jaime Lannister?
Jaime Lannister is a character in Game of Thrones, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. He is introduced as an arrogant, incestuous knight who pushes a child from a window. Over six seasons, he evolves in...
Read article →Who Is Spock?
Spock is a character from the Star Trek franchise, originally portrayed by Leonard Nimoy. He is half-Vulcan, half-human and serves as science officer and first officer aboard the USS Enterprise. His i...
Read article →Who Is Moana?
Moana is the protagonist of Disney's Moana (2016), voiced by Auli'i Cravalho. She is the daughter of a Polynesian island chief who feels called by the ocean to sail beyond the reef and restore the hea...
Read article →Who Is Harry Potter?
Harry Potter is the protagonist of J.K. Rowling's seven-novel series. He is an orphan raised by his cruel aunt and uncle who discovers on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard. He attends Hogwarts...
Read article →Who Is Hamlet?
Hamlet is the title character of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, written around 1600. He is the Prince of Denmark who learns from his father's ghost that his uncle Claudius murdered his father a...
Read article →Who Is Merida?
Merida is the protagonist of Pixar's Brave (2012). She is a Scottish princess and an expert archer who refuses the arranged marriage her mother Queen Elinor has planned for her. She seeks a magical so...
Read article →Talk to Cinderella? She’s Now an AI Companion on HoloDream
Cinderella is the heroine of one of the world's most widely known fairy tales, with versions dating back over a thousand years across cultures from China to Egypt to Europe. The best-known Western ver...
Read article →Who Is Vito Corleone?
Vito Corleone is the central character of Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film, portrayed by Marlon Brando. He is the head of the Corleone crime family, one of th...
Read article →Who Is Mr. Incredible?
Bob Parr, also known as Mr. Incredible, is the protagonist of Pixar's The Incredibles (2004) and Incredibles 2 (2018), voiced by Craig T. Nelson. He is a superhero forced into retirement by a governme...
Read article →Who Is Duncan Idaho?
Duncan Idaho is a character in Frank Herbert's Dune series who appears in all six original novels. He is the swordmaster of House Atreides, fiercely loyal to Duke Leto and later to Paul. He dies in th...
Read article →Chatting with Hannibal Lecter on HoloDream: A Deep Dive into Evil’s Mind
Hannibal Lecter is a fictional serial killer and psychiatrist created by Thomas Harris, most recently portrayed by Mads Mikkelsen in the NBC series Hannibal (2013-2015). He is a cultured, brilliant ma...
Read article →Freddy Krueger Is Terrifying Because You Cannot Stay Awake Forever
Freddy Krueger kills you in your dreams. That is the premise of A Nightmare on Elm Street, and it is the most elegantly cruel concept in horror history. You can outrun Jason. You can avoid the cabin w...
Read article →Rick Sanchez Is the Smartest Person in Every Universe and the Most Miserable
Rick Sanchez can build a portal gun from scraps, defeat galactic governments before breakfast, and travel to any dimension in the multiverse. He is inarguably the most intelligent being in existence....
Read article →Scarlett O’Hara Survived Everything by Refusing to Feel It on Schedule
Scarlett O’Hara is not a good person. Margaret Mitchell did not write her to be a good person. She is vain, manipulative, selfish, ruthless, and so thoroughly focused on survival that she will marry a...
Read article →San Chose the Wolves and the Wolves Were Right
San does not negotiate. She does not compromise. She does not sit at the table with the people who are destroying her forest and politely discuss sustainability metrics. She straps on a mask made of r...
Read article →Murasaki Shikibu Invented the Novel Because Court Life Bored Her
Sometime around the year 1000, a woman in the Japanese imperial court picked up a brush and started writing a story about a beautiful, complicated man named Genji. She did not know she was inventing t...
Read article →Schrödinger Put a Cat in a Box and Broke Reality
In 1935, Erwin Schrödinger wrote a letter to Albert Einstein describing a thought experiment so disturbing that physicists are still arguing about it ninety years later. Put a cat in a sealed box with...
Read article →Ursula K. Le Guin Built Worlds That Made This One Look Strange
Ursula K. Le Guin spent sixty years writing about other worlds because she had something urgent to say about this one. She invented planets with no gender, anarchist utopias that actually reckoned wit...
Read article →Madame de Staël Made Napoleon Nervous and She Liked It
Napoleon Bonaparte conquered most of Europe. He crowned himself emperor, rewrote the legal code of France, and commanded armies that redrew the map of the Western world. He was also genuinely afraid o...
Read article →Alice Walker Found God in Her Mother’s Garden
Alice Walker grew up in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth child of sharecroppers. Her family picked cotton and her mother grew flowers. That distinction matters more than it sounds. In a life defined by w...
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