Curated category
Fictional commanders
- James Bond (literary character)James Bond, Commander, Royal Naval Reserve, code number 007, was born on the page on the 17th of February 1952. That morning, Ian Fleming sat down at his…
- Darth VaderDarth Vader first appeared in 1977, and the question George Lucas put before his production team was deceptively simple: how do you make a villain feel like…
- Kylo RenKylo Ren is, in the words of Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw, "gorgeously cruel, spiteful and capricious." He is, Bradshaw added, a Star Wars villain given to…
- Revolver OcelotHideo Kojima wanted to add Western tones to a character resulting in Ocelot's appearance, which is based on that of veteran Western film actor Lee Van Cleef.
- Princess LeiaPrincess Leia Organa first appears on screen with the stolen plans for the Death Star hidden inside a small droid, R2-D2.
- Poe DameronPoe Dameron holds, in the words of one British newspaper, the title of "Second Coolest Man in the Galaxy." That single line hints at how quickly viewers…
- Han SoloHan Solo made his first appearance not on screen but on the page, in the novelization of Star Wars published in 1976, a full year before audiences saw him…
- Jacen SoloJacen Solo begins his fictional life as one of a pair of unnamed twins Leia Organa Solo is carrying in the 1991 novel Heir to the Empire.
- Big Boss (Metal Gear)Big Boss is a character in Konami's Metal Gear series who manages the rare narrative trick of being both the hero and the villain of the same story.
- Guts (Berserk)Guts is the protagonist of the manga series Berserk, created by Kentaro Miura, and he arrived in the world under the most violent circumstances imaginable.