Virtual Worlds · Digital Culture · AI Literati
Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar in January 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. She was thirty years old, living in a freezing London flat with two children under three, separated from Ted Hug...
Read article →In 1913, Carl Jung did something that would have gotten most people committed. He deliberately induced visions. He sat at his desk, let himself fall into what he called active imagination, and descend...
Read article →Princess Leia Organa's planet was destroyed in front of her. Alderaan, her home, her people, her entire civilization, was vaporized by the Death Star while she watched from a detention cell. Grand Mof...
Read article →Cersei Lannister was told by a fortune teller that all three of her children would die. She spent her entire adult life trying to prevent it and ended up creating the conditions that made it inevitabl...
Read article →Data is an android. He cannot feel emotions. He cannot understand humor. He cannot dream, or taste, or appreciate art in the way humans do. He knows this because he has spent decades cataloging exactl...
Read article →Geralt of Rivia is a mutant. The Trial of the Grasses, a brutal chemical process that kills most children who undergo it, stripped him of his ability to feel strong emotions. That is what the lore say...
Read article →Buzz Lightyear arrives in Andy's room believing he is a Space Ranger. He believes his laser works. He believes his communicator reaches Star Command. He believes he can fly. He stands on a windowsill,...
Read article →King Arthur is the central figure of Arthurian legend, a body of mythology that has been told and retold across nearly a millennium of Western literature. He is traditionally depicted as a British kin...
Read article →Forrest Gump is the protagonist of the 1994 film Forrest Gump, played by Tom Hanks. He is a man with below-average intelligence and above-average kindness who accidentally participates in many of the...
Read article →The Doctor is the protagonist of the British television series Doctor Who, which first aired in 1963 and is the longest-running science fiction series in history. The Doctor is a Time Lord from the pl...
Read article →Legolas is a character in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He is a Sindarin elf of the Woodland Realm and one of the nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring. Portrayed by Orlando Bloom in Pe...
Read article →Shrek is the protagonist of the DreamWorks animated franchise beginning with Shrek (2001). Voiced by Mike Myers, he is a green ogre who lives alone in a swamp and wants to be left alone. When fairy ta...
Read article →Luke Skywalker is the protagonist of the original Star Wars trilogy, played by Mark Hamill. He is a farm boy on Tatooine who discovers he is the son of Darth Vader and trains to become a Jedi Knight....
Read article →Morpheus is a character from The Matrix franchise (1999-2021), played by Laurence Fishburne. He is the captain of the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar and a leader in the human resistance against the machine...
Read article →Gollum, originally Smeagol, is a character in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. He is a hobbit-like creature who possessed the One Ring for nearly five hundred years. The Ring ext...
Read article →Saul Goodman, born Jimmy McGill, is a character from Breaking Bad and the protagonist of its prequel Better Call Saul. Played by Bob Odenkirk, he is a small-time lawyer in Albuquerque who transforms h...
Read article →Rafiki is a character from Disney's The Lion King (1994). He is a mandrill who serves as a sage and shaman of the Pride Lands. He presents newborn Simba to the assembled animals at Pride Rock and late...
Read article →The Bride, born Beatrix Kiddo, is the protagonist of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), played by Uma Thurman. She is a former member of the Deadly Viper As...
Read article →Obi-Wan Kenobi is a central character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed by Ewan McGregor in the prequel trilogy and Disney+ series, and by Alec Guinness in the original trilogy. He is a Jedi Maste...
Read article →Rust Cohle is a character from the first season of HBO's True Detective (2014), played by Matthew McConaughey. He is a Louisiana homicide detective investigating a ritualistic murder case over sevente...
Read article →Xena is the protagonist of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001), played by Lucy Lawless. She is a former warlord seeking redemption by using her extraordinary combat skills to help...
Read article →Bugs Bunny is an animated character created by Warner Bros., first appearing in A Wild Hare in 1940. He is a grey rabbit known for his Brooklyn accent, carrot-eating, and the catchphrase that opens ev...
Read article →Marvin is a character from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He is a robot equipped with Genuine People Personalities technology, which gave him chronic depression. He has a brain t...
Read article →Pocahontas is the protagonist of Disney's Pocahontas (1995), based loosely on the historical figure Amanute, known as Pocahontas, of the Powhatan Confederacy. In the film, she is the daughter of Chief...
Read article →
