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 RenIn March 2014, the production team for Star Wars: The Force Awakens knew their main antagonist only as Jedi Killer. That name hid a character who had gone…
- 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 LeiaGeorge Lucas wrote and refined the Star Wars screenplay over several years, changing Princess Leia's identity multiple times before settling on her final…
- Poe DameronIn 2015, the character that would become Poe Dameron was referred to as John Doe. Early script drafts envisioned him as a black man in his 30s or 40s.
- 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.