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Asterix, Obelix and Dogmatix are the first characters with short descriptions usually listed at the beginning of each of the Asterix books (after the map of Gaul). They each have separate articles containing more information. Unless otherwise stated, this article uses the names chosen for the English translations of the books.
To maintain the spirit and flow of the story the translators change the joke in the name to a comment on the character. Thus in the English language edition the bard's name is Cacofonix which is an allusion to the term cacophony (a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds), since the central trait of the bard character is that the Gauls all ...
A list of lists of characters in fictional works, broken down by medium and sorted alphabetically by the name of the fictional work. Lists of book characters [ edit ]
1994 Japanese animated film adapted from a side story of the Sailor Moon manga series, The Lover of Princess Kaguya, which is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Snow Queen". The name "Princess Kaguya" comes from the Japanese legend The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Voiced by Eiko Masuyama in Japanese and Linda Ballantyne in English.
The following characters appear in H. P. Lovecraft's story cycle — the Cthulhu Mythos. Overview: Name. The name of the character appears first. Birth/Death. The date of the character's birth and death (if known) appears in parentheses below the character's name. Ambivalent dates are denoted by a question mark. Description. A brief description ...
Family Tree and Interfamilial relationships of the characters featured in Władysław Reymont's novel The Peasants. Based on the "List of Selected Character Names" appendix on Anna Zaranko's 2023 English translation of the book.
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
Achilles (Ἀχιλλεύς), the leader of the Myrmidons (Μυρμιδόνες), son of Peleus and Thetis, and the principal Greek champion whose anger is one of the main elements of the story. Agamemnon ( Ἀγαμέμνων ), King of Mycenae , supreme commander of the Achaean armies whose actions provoke the feud with Achilles; elder ...