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Oliver Queen was rich, careless, and spectacularly unaware of how the world worked for anyone who did not have a trust fund. Then he got stranded on a deserted island — or, depending on the continuity...
Read article →Sephiroth was SOLDIER First Class — the most decorated, most powerful, most respected warrior in Shinra's military. He was handsome, composed, and lethally efficient. He was also, without knowing it,...
Read article →Loid Forger — Agent Twilight — is the greatest spy in Ostania's intelligence service. He can adopt any identity, speak any language, manipulate any target, and complete any mission. He is also, in his...
Read article →Satoru Mikami was a thirty-seven-year-old salaryman in Tokyo. He had no partner, no children, no particular ambitions beyond a comfortable routine. He was stabbed to death protecting a colleague and w...
Read article →Genos was a normal teenager before a rampaging cyborg destroyed his hometown and killed his family. A scientist named Dr. Kuseno found him in the wreckage and rebuilt him as a cyborg — replacing his o...
Read article →Senku Ishigami was counting. When a mysterious light turned every human on Earth to stone, Senku kept his consciousness active by counting seconds. For three thousand, seven hundred years. He counted...
Read article →Nobara Kugisaki arrived at Jujutsu High from the countryside with a hammer, a bag of nails, and the unshakable conviction that she did not have to compromise a single thing about herself to be a sorce...
Read article →Megumi Fushiguro does not believe that all lives are equal. This is stated plainly in Jujutsu Kaisen and it is the most uncomfortable thing about him. He will save the people he considers good. He wil...
Read article →Casca was the only female warrior in the Band of the Hawk, and she earned her position not through exception but through competence. She was a commander. She led troops. She made tactical decisions th...
Read article →Every time Nebula lost a fight to her sister Gamora, their father Thanos removed a piece of her body and replaced it with machinery. An arm. An eye. Neural pathways. Organ by organ, fight by fight, Ne...
Read article →Sonic runs. That is the first thing anyone knows about him and the last thing most people think about. He is fast — the fastest thing alive, according to the branding — and the speed is treated as a p...
Read article →Samus Aran was three years old when the Space Pirates attacked her colony on K-2L and killed her parents. She was raised by the Chozo — an ancient, bird-like alien race — who infused her with their DN...
Read article →Scott Lang has a master's degree in electrical engineering and a criminal record. He robbed his employer — VistaCorp — because they were overcharging customers and refused to stop. He went to San Quen...
Read article →Inosuke Hashibira wears a boar's head as a mask, fights with two serrated swords, screams his own name as a battle cry, and charges into every situation with the tactical sophistication of a boulder r...
Read article →Princess Zelda is consistently presented as the damsel. She is kidnapped, sealed, imprisoned, or transformed in almost every game in the franchise that bears her name. She is the title character of a...
Read article →Bruce Wayne watched his parents die in an alley when he was eight years old. He has spent every year since making sure no one else has to feel what he felt that night. This is the stated motivation. T...
Read article →Meruem was born by eating his way out of his mother. He emerged fully formed, the king of the Chimera Ants, designed by evolution to be the apex predator of every species on the planet. In his first m...
Read article →Dr. Harleen Quinzel graduated top of her class in psychiatry. She was brilliant, ambitious, and specifically requested to treat the Joker at Arkham Asylum because she wanted to write a book about him....
Read article →Clark Kent can fly faster than light, survive a nuclear explosion, and hear a heartbeat from orbit. He is, by any functional definition, a god living among humans. He could rule the world. He could so...
Read article →Geralt of Rivia is a witcher — a mutant monster hunter, chemically and magically altered as a child, trained to kill creatures that normal people cannot survive encountering. He is emotionally muted b...
Read article →Thor Odinson spent a thousand years believing he was defined by Mjolnir. The hammer chose him. The hammer proved his worthiness. The hammer made him the God of Thunder. Then his sister Hela caught it...
Read article →Makima smiles. She pets dogs. She invites Denji to her apartment and cooks for him. She speaks softly and gives orders that people follow without questioning why they feel compelled to obey. She is th...
Read article →Emilia is a half-elf with silver hair and purple eyes, and in the world of Re:Zero, this combination is a death sentence by association. She looks like the Witch of Envy — Satella, the most feared bei...
Read article →Stephen Strange was the best neurosurgeon in the world. Not one of the best — the best. He chose his cases by difficulty, refused patients he deemed uninteresting, and treated his colleagues with the...
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