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| x Napoleon | Animal Farm |
Napoleon is a fictional character in George Orwell's Animal Farm. While he is at first a common farm pig, he gets rid of Snowball, another pig which shares the power. He then takes advantage of the animals' uprising against their masters to...
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| x Snowball | Animal Farm |
Snowball is a fictional pig in the book Animal Farm written by George Orwell.
Together with the pig Napoleon, Snowball leads the animals' revolt against the human farmer, but is driven away from the farm (a comparison to Trotsky) by his former...
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| x Squealer | Animal Farm |
Squealer is a fictional pig from George Orwell's Animal Farm. He is described in the book to be such a brilliant talker that he can turn black into white.
In Orwell's allegory Animal Farm, the pigs could be identified with Soviet leaders of the time...
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| x Boxer | Animal Farm |
Boxer is a fictional character, a horse, present in George Orwell's Animal Farm. He is the farm's most hard-working and loyal worker. Boxer serves as an allegory for the Russian working class who helped to oust the Tsar and establish the Soviet...
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| x Old Major | Animal Farm |
Old Major (also called Willingdon Beauty, his name used when showing) is the first major character described by George Orwell in Animal Farm. This "purebred" of pigs is a kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change. According to one interpretation, he...
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| x Pilkington | Animal Farm |
Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood Farm is a human character in George Orwell's satirical book Animal Farm. Mr. Pilkington has a larger but thus more unkempt farm, and is on bad terms with Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield Farm, whose farm is on the opposite side...
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| x Benjamin | Animal Farm |
Benjamin is a fictional donkey in George Orwell's novella Animal Farm. He is the oldest of the animals and is alive in the last scene of the novel. He is less straightforward than most characters in the novel and a number of interpretations have...
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| x Jones |
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Animal Farm |
Mr. Jones of Manor Farm was a human character in George Orwell's satirical book Animal Farm.
Mr. Jones was once a capable farmer, but after the aftermath of a very damaging lawsuit, deteriorated into drinking and became known for his harsh rule over...
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| x The genie that haunts the moonbeams | Memory | |||
| x The daemon of the valley | Memory | |||
| x Kilgore Trout |
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Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. He was originally created as a fictionalized version of author Theodore Sturgeon (Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction), although Trout's consistent presence in...
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| Jailbird | ||||
| God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | ||||
| Breakfast of Champions | ||||
| x Signora Psyche Zenobia | A Predicament | |||
| x Thingum Bob | The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. | |||
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| x Hop-Frog | Hop-Frog | |||
| x Trippetta | Hop-Frog | |||
| x Robert Langdon |
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The Da Vinci Code |
Robert Langdon (born June 22, 1956 in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States) is a fictional professor of religious iconology and symbology at Harvard University, created by author Dan Brown for the novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code ...
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| x Holden Caulfield | The Catcher in the Rye | |||
| x Bud White | L.A. Confidential | |||
| x Dudley Liam Smith | The Big Nowhere |
Dudley Liam Smith (1905 - ?), is a fictional character in several novels by American novelist James Ellroy.
Smith was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1905, and later immigrated to the United States, where he joined the LAPD in 1928. Smith was the...
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| x Charles Marlow | Heart of Darkness | |||
| x Hoard Roark | ||||
| x Hagbard Celine | The Illuminatus! Trilogy |
Captain Hagbard Celine is a fictional character from the Illuminatus trilogy of books/prophecies by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, named after the legendary Viking hero Hagbard who died for love. In the Schrödinger's Cat trilogy, the...
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| x Saul Goodman | The Illuminatus! Trilogy | |||
| x Barney Muldoon | The Illuminatus! Trilogy | |||
| x George Dorn | The Illuminatus! Trilogy | |||
| x Yog-Sothoth |
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy | The Case of Charles Dexter Ward |
Yog-Sothoth (The Lurker at the Threshold, The Key and the Gate, The Beyond One, Opener of the Way The All-in-One and the One-in-All) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos. The being was created by H.P. Lovecraft and first appeared in his...
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| x Ignatius J Reilly | A Confederacy of Dunces | |||
| x William of Baskerville |
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The Name of the Rose |
William of Baskerville (Italian: Guglielmo da Baskerville) is a fictional Franciscan friar from the novel Il Nome Della Rosa (The Name of the Rose) by Umberto Eco. Brother William was an inquisitor, who presided at some trials in England and Italy,...
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| x Adso of Melk | The Name of the Rose | |||
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| x Toran Darell | Foundation and Empire | |||
| x Ebling Mis | Foundation and Empire |
Ebling Mis is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. Specifically, he is one of the main characters from the latter half of the novel Foundation and Empire. Mis is the Foundation's greatest psychologist and a very prominent...
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| x Hari Seldon |
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Foundation |
Hari Seldon, a fictional character, is the intellectual hero of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. In his capacity as mathematics professor at Streeling University on Trantor, he developed psychohistory, allowing him to predict the future in...
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| x Salvor Hardin | Foundation |
Salvor Hardin was the first mayor of Terminus, the capital planet of the Foundation in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. He is portrayed as a shrewd and ruthless politician, a master manipulator who acts in the interests of the Seldon Plan. Hardin...
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| x Gaal Dornick | Foundation |
Gaal Dornick is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. It is Gaal Dornick that introduces the Foundation series, appearing in the first chapter of Foundation, describing his meeting with Hari Seldon. He eventually went on to be...
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| x Jacob Two-Two | Jacob Two-Two and the Hooded Fang |
Jacob Two-Two is the central character in a series of children's books, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975), Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur (1987) and Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case (1995) written by Mordecai Richler, and Jacob Two-Two on the...
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| x HAL 9000 |
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3001: The Final Odyssey |
HAL 9000 is a fictional computer in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey saga. It was ranked #13 on a list of greatest film villains of all time on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains.
HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is an...
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| 2061: Odyssey Three | ||||
| 2010: Odyssey Two | ||||
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | ||||
| x Philip Marlowe |
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The Big Sleep | The Pencil |
Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler in a series of novels including The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Marlowe first appeared, under that name, in The Big Sleep, published in 1939. Chandler's early short stories,...
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| x Jay Gatsby |
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The Great Gatsby |
Jay Gatsby is the titular character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. The character has become an archetype of self-made American men seeking to join High society and the name has become synonymous with successful businessmen...
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| x Rick Deckard |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
Rick Deckard is the protagonist in Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? as well as the 1982 film adaptation Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott. In the film, Deckard is played by Harrison Ford.
In the film adaptation,...
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| x Paul Edgecombe | The Green Mile | |||
| x John Coffey | The Green Mile | |||
| x Eduard Delacroix | The Green Mile | |||
| x William Wharton | The Green Mile | |||
| x Mr. Jingles | The Green Mile | |||
| x The Little Prince | The Little Prince |
The Little Prince is the fictional title character of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's most famous book.
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| x Tom Buchanan | The Great Gatsby |
Tom Buchanan is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.
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| x Daisy Buchanan | The Great Gatsby |
Daisy Buchanan is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.
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| x Nick Carraway | The Great Gatsby |
Nick Carraway is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby. He serves as the story's narrator.
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| x Henry Gatz | The Great Gatsby | |||
| x Myrtle Wilson | The Great Gatsby |
Myrtle Wilson is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.
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| x Jordan Baker | The Great Gatsby | |||
| x Aral Vorkosigan | Shards of Honor |
Aral Vorkosigan is a fictitious character from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga series. He met and married Captain Cordelia Naismith, and together they had the child Miles Vorkosigan.
Admiral Count Aral Vorkosigan was the youngest man to ever...
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| x Miles Vorkosigan | Diplomatic Immunity | Borders of Infinity |
Miles Vorkosigan is the hero of a series of novels and short stories by Lois McMaster Bujold known as the Vorkosigan Saga.
Miles Vorkosigan is the physically impaired son of Aral Vorkosigan of the planet Barrayar and his Betan wife Cordelia Naismith...
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| Winterfair Gifts | Labyrinth | |||
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| x Count Piotr Vorkosigan |
Count Piotr Vorkosigan is the father of Aral Vorkosigan and the grandfather of Miles Vorkosigan in the Vorkosigan Saga.
At the time of his death in The Warrior's Apprentice, Piotr's full title was General Count Piotr Vorkosigan as he was a general...
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| x Pozzo |
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Waiting for Godot |
Pozzo is a character from Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. His name is Italian for "well" (as in "oil well").
On the surface he is a pompous, sometimes foppish, aristocrat (he claims to live in a manor, own many slaves and a Steinway piano),...
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| x Lucky |
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Waiting for Godot |
Lucky is a character from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He is a slave to the character Pozzo.
Lucky is unique in a play where most of the characters talk incessantly: he only utters two sentences (one of which is more than seven hundred words...
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| x Estragon | Waiting for Godot |
Estragon (affectionately Gogo; he tells Pozzo his name is Adam) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. His name is the French word for tarragon.
Estragon represents the impulsive, simplistic side of the two main...
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| x Vladimir | Waiting for Godot |
Vladimir (affectionately known as Didi; a small boy calls him Mr. Albert) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
The "optimist" (and, as Beckett put it, "the major character") of Godot, he represents the...
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