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t. e. AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains is a list of the one hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years... series. The list was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]
Considered the most powerful of the guardians of the beams. Minn Minn of the Mississippi: Holling C. Holling: Tortoise The Grapes of Wrath [Chapter 3] John Steinbeck: A tortoise crosses the road to get to the sea. Its struggle to do so (even being hit by a car and land on its back) can be read allegorically for the struggles the Joad family has ...
They are often popularized as individual characters rather than parts of the fictional work in which they appear. Stories involving individual detectives are well-suited to dramatic presentation, resulting in many popular theatre, television, and film characters. The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. [1]
List of fictional antiheroes. This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero —a protagonist or supporting character whose characteristics include the following: imperfections that separate them from typically heroic characters (such as selfishness, cynicism, ignorance, and bigotry); [ 1 ]
Adam Ardrey: Finding Merlin (2007) A. A. Attanasio: The Dragon and the Unicorn (1994), The Eagle and the Sword (1997), The Wolf and the Crown (1998), and The Serpent and the Grail (1999) T. A. Barron: The Merlin Saga, about the life of Merlin (1996–2011). Donald Barthelme: The King (1990), in which Arthurian characters fight in WWII and the ...
Gummitch is unable to prove himself by coffee; he proves himself by saving a life in his household. Harry Cat. The Cricket in Times Square. George Selden. Friend and guide to New York City for Tucker Mouse and Chester Cricket. The novel was a 1961 Newbery Honor Book. Jellylorum. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
Lists of book characters. List of recurring Albert Campion characters. List of Alex Rider characters. List of minor characters in the Alice series. List of Amelia Peabody characters. List of Angels & Demons characters. List of minor Animorphs characters. List of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter characters.