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  2. Screenwriters Taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Character (consisting of the types of central characters, those characters’ goals, and stock characters that support the story) Story (consisting of central themes, the rhythm of how the story is told and the classic tent pole scenes that the audience expects)

  3. List of fictional child prodigies - Wikipedia

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    In Breakout Kings, Lloyd Lowery (Jimmi Simpson) is a former child prodigy who graduated high school at 12, college at 16, and medical school at 20. He has an IQ of 210. [35] In Doogie Howser, M.D., the title character is a child prodigy who has graduated from medical school and practices medicine. [36]

  4. Man vs. Technology - Wikipedia

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    "Man vs technology" is a type of conflict in fiction, [1] of which The Terminator and The Matrix are popular examples. See also. Conflict (narrative) ...

  5. List of fictional robots and androids - Wikipedia

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    "Maschinenmensch" from the 1927 film Metropolis. Statue in Babelsberg, Germany. This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared in more than one form of media are not necessarily listed in each of those media.

  6. List of fictional dictators - Wikipedia

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    Comstock is capable of seeing the future with the help of technology developed in his city. [35] Dr. Wallace Breen: City 17: Half-Life 2: Former administration of Black Mesa Research Facility, Dr. Breen is the appointed chancellor of City 17, while Earth is ruled by the Combine and serves as the main antagonist of Half-Life 2. Breen is presumed ...

  7. Conflict (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    One example of the "man against man" conflict is the relationship struggles between the protagonist and the antagonist stepfather in This Boy's Life. [13] Other examples include Dorothy's struggles with the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Tom Sawyer's confrontation with Injun Joe in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. [1]

  8. List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    This movie follows the titular character as he interacts with a community based around a small oil refinery and a group of marauding bandits. Starring Mel Gibson. Film 1981 War Malevil: Film version directed by Christian de Chalonge. Starring Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc and Jean-Louis Trintignant: Novel series 1981 War The Survivalist series

  9. Artificial intelligence in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Another of the earliest examples is in the 1920 play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, a race of self-replicating robot slaves revolt against their human masters; [25] [26] another early instance is in the 1934 film Master of the World, where the War-Robot kills its own inventor. [27] HAL 9000 is the lethal onboard computer of 2001: A Space Odyssey.