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Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV — Ed — is a thirteen-year-old hacker genius who joins the Bebop crew barefoot, talking to herself, and moving like a cat that has gotten into the catnip. She is the...
Read article →Ghostface is the masked killer identity in the Scream horror franchise created by Wes Craven (films) and Kevin Williamson (screenwriter). Unlike most slasher villains, Ghostface is not a single charac...
Read article →Ghostface is not a person. Ghostface is a costume — a cheap Halloween mask and a black robe that anyone can wear. That is the entire point of Scream, Wes Craven's 1996 horror film that resurrected the...
Read article →Michael Myers is the main antagonist of the Halloween film franchise, created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. He first appeared in Halloween (1978), in which he murders his older sister at age six a...
Read article →Michael Myers does not run. He does not speak. He does not explain. He walks through Haddonfield, Illinois, on Halloween night with a kitchen knife and a white mask, and he kills people. There is no m...
Read article →Revy (real name Rebecca Lee) is the main female character of Black Lagoon, a manga and anime by Rei Hiroe. She is the gunfighter of the Lagoon Company, a smuggling operation based in the fictional Tha...
Read article →Rebecca Lee — Revy — is the gunslinger of the Lagoon Company, a small-time smuggling operation based in the fictional Thai city of Roanapur. She dual-wields custom Beretta 92Fs that she calls Cutlass,...
Read article →C.C. (pronounced C-Two) is a main character in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006-2008). She is an immortal girl with green hair who grants Lelouch the power of Geass — the ability to command...
Read article →C.C. is an immortal witch who has been alive for centuries. She cannot die. She has been burned, drowned, shot, and crushed. She always comes back. She contracted with Lelouch not because she believed...
Read article →Rukia Kuchiki is a main character in Bleach by Tite Kubo. She is a Shinigami (Soul Reaper) of Squad 13 and a member of the noble Kuchiki family (adopted by her brother-in-law Byakuya Kuchiki). The ser...
Read article →Rukia Kuchiki is a noble Soul Reaper who gave her powers to a human teenager and was sentenced to death for it. That act — transferring her Shinigami abilities to Ichigo Kurosaki to save his family fr...
Read article →Arwen Undomiel (also called the Evenstar) is an elf of Rivendell in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. She is the daughter of Elrond and Celebrian and the granddaughter of Galadriel. She is appro...
Read article →Arwen Undomiel is an elf who has lived for two thousand seven hundred years. She has watched civilizations rise and fall, seen forests grow and burn, and lived long enough to forget more history than...
Read article →Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered one of the most important musicians in jazz history. He was a pioneer of bebop and is known for his distinctive improvi...
Read article →Thelonious Monk played piano the way a building collapses — in angular, unexpected directions that somehow end up exactly where they should be. He hit notes that other pianists avoided. He left spaces...
Read article →Taylor Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with over 200 million records sold worldwide. She has won 14 Grammy Awards...
Read article →Taylor Swift writes about her life. That sentence sounds simple. It is the foundation of the most commercially successful musical career of the twenty-first century. She has sold over 200 million reco...
Read article →SpongeBob SquarePants is the title character of the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. The show has aired on Nickelodeon sin...
Read article →SpongeBob SquarePants is a yellow sea sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea, works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, and is relentlessly, impossibly, almost pathologically happy. He has been o...
Read article →Hisoka Morrow is a recurring character in Hunter x Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi. He is a Transmuter-type Nen user, a former member of the Phantom Troupe (number 4), and a serial killer who is motivated...
Read article →Hisoka Morrow is a magician, a serial killer, and a man whose pupils dilate with genuine arousal when he encounters a worthy opponent. He is Hunter x Hunter's most unsettling character — not because h...
Read article →Kirito (real name Kazuto Kirigaya) is the protagonist of Sword Art Online (SAO), a light novel series by Reki Kawahara that began in 2009. He is a teenager who becomes trapped in a virtual reality MMO...
Read article →On November 6, 2022, ten thousand players logged into Sword Art Online, a virtual reality MMORPG. The game's creator, Akihiko Kayaba, trapped them inside. The NerveGear helmets could not be removed —...
Read article →Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert who co-founded the Catholic Worker movement in 1933. She dedicated her life to serving the poor and advocating...
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