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Don Draper is the protagonist of Mad Men (2007-2015), an AMC television series created by Matthew Weiner. He is the creative director (later partner) at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madis...
Read article →Don Draper is not Don Draper. He is Dick Whitman — a poor, neglected boy from a whorehouse who stole a dead man's identity during the Korean War and reinvented himself as the most brilliant advertisin...
Read article →James Bond (007) is a fictional British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) agent created by writer Ian Fleming. Bond first appeared in the novel Casino Royale (1953) and has since appeared in 12 novels...
Read article →James Bond has been killing people and sleeping with women onscreen for over sixty years. He has been played by six actors, appeared in twenty-five official films, and generated over seven billion dol...
Read article →Jesse Pinkman is a main character in Breaking Bad (2008-2013) and the protagonist of the sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). Played by Aaron Paul (who won three Emmy Awards for the rol...
Read article →Jesse Pinkman starts Breaking Bad as a small-time meth cook, a dropout, and the last person you would expect to be a show's moral center. He says yo and bitch in every sentence. He wears oversized pan...
Read article →Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was an Italian painter considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western art. He is known for his revolutionary use of chiaroscuro (d...
Read article →Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio killed a man in a brawl, fled Rome with a murder warrant, and spent the last four years of his life on the run. He was violent, drunk, and had a record of assaults, i...
Read article →Trinity is a main character in The Matrix franchise (1999-2021), played by Carrie-Anne Moss. She is a hacker and resistance fighter who operates within the Matrix — a simulated reality created by mach...
Read article →Trinity is introduced in The Matrix's opening scene by outrunning police, leaping between rooftops, and disappearing into a phone line. She is the most wanted hacker in the world. She is also, accordi...
Read article →Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr, also known as Max Eisenhardt) is a Marvel Comics supervillain and antihero, and the primary antagonist of the X-Men. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, he first appeared in X...
Read article →Erik Lehnsherr was a child in Auschwitz. He watched his family murdered by the Nazis. He survived because he could bend metal — a mutation that the guards found interesting enough to exploit. After th...
Read article →Ron Swanson is a fictional character on Parks and Recreation (2009-2015), an NBC sitcom. He is the director of the Pawnee Parks and Recreation Department, a staunch libertarian who believes government...
Read article →Ron Swanson is the director of the Parks and Recreation Department in Pawnee, Indiana. He is also a libertarian who believes that government should not exist. He took the job specifically to prevent i...
Read article →Deadpool (Wade Wilson) is a Marvel Comics antihero created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza, first appearing in New Mutants #98 (1991). He is a mercenary with a regenerative healing factor that makes...
Read article →Wade Wilson is a mercenary with a healing factor, a face that looks like an avocado had sex with an older avocado, and full awareness that he is a fictional character in a comic book. He breaks the fo...
Read article →Walter White is the protagonist of Breaking Bad (2008-2013), a television series created by Vince Gilligan. He is a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who, after being diagnosed...
Read article →Walter White is a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque who is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and starts cooking methamphetamine to leave money for his family. That is what he tells himsel...
Read article →Bathsheba is a figure in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament who appears primarily in 2 Samuel 11-12 and 1 Kings 1-2. She was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, a soldier in King David's army. David saw her...
Read article →The story is told as David's. A king sees a beautiful woman bathing on a rooftop, summons her to the palace, sleeps with her, discovers she is pregnant, and arranges for her husband Uriah to be killed...
Read article →Ra's al Ghul (Arabic for Head of the Demon) is a DC Comics supervillain and one of Batman's most significant enemies. Created by Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams, he first appeared in Batman #232 (1971)....
Read article →Ra's al Ghul — the Demon's Head — is a six-hundred-year-old ecoterrorist who has been trying to save the Earth for longer than most nations have existed. His method is simple and horrifying: reduce th...
Read article →Jiro Horikoshi (1903-1982) was a Japanese aerospace engineer who designed the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, the fighter aircraft used by Imperial Japan during World War II. He is the protagonist of The Wind Ri...
Read article →Jiro Horikoshi designed the Mitsubishi A6M Zero — the fighter plane that attacked Pearl Harbor and dominated the Pacific in the early years of World War II. He was an engineer who loved aircraft the w...
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