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Fictional alcohol abusers

  • Iron ManIron Man, the armored Marvel Comics hero, first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39, released in December 1962 with a March 1963 cover date. His creator, Stan Lee, had set himself an awkward assignment during the Vietnam War. His readers…
  • Wolverine (character)Wolverine, the Marvel Comics superhero, shares his everyday name with a mountain. Writer Chris Claremont took the name Logan from Canada's Mount Logan for an issue of X-Men in 1977. He liked the idea of the tallest mountain naming the…
  • Christopher MoltisantiChristopher Moltisanti, played by Michael Imperioli on the HBO series The Sopranos, speaks the closing line of the prequel film The Many Saints of Newark. From somewhere beyond death, his voice says that Tony Soprano is "the guy he went to…
  • Thor (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Thor Odinson, the God of Thunder, has appeared in nine films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as of 2024. Chris Hemsworth plays him. Thor was born roughly 1500 years ago to Odin, King of Asgard, and his queen, Frigga. The Asgardians are an…
  • John FalstaffShakespeare's Falstaff was first named after a real martyr. A descendant complained, so he changed the name.
  • Jessica JonesJessica Jones is a Marvel Comics superhero who spends much of her story trying not to be one. She runs a detective agency called Alias Private Investigations, and she is usually its only employee. Yet Marvel eventually placed her in a high…
  • Flash ThompsonEugene "Flash" Thompson first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15, published in August 1962 by Marvel Comics. Writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko introduced him in the very issue that launched Spider-Man. Flash starts out as the star of his…
  • Carol DanversCarol Danvers first appears in March 1968, in the pages of Marvel Super-Heroes #13, as an officer in the United States Air Force. She is the security chief of a restricted military base, and writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan give her…
  • Soldier BoySoldier Boy is a superhero name worn by three different men in the comic series Herogasm and The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and John McCrea. On television, the name belongs to a single man who combines all three. One comic version is a…
  • Tony SopranoTony Soprano, the New Jersey mob boss at the center of the HBO series The Sopranos, was nearly named Tommy. In the pilot, the name honored Tom Powers, the gangster James Cagney played in The Public Enemy. Clearance to call the character…

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