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Fictional gunfighters
- 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 Goldeneye estate in Oracabessa, Jamaica, and typed out 2,000 words. He was trying to…
- Joker (character)On the 25th of April 1940, a grinning figure stepped out of the pages of Batman #1 and into comics history. The Joker arrived not as a sidekick or a supporting player, but as a full-blown serial killer who announced his victims in advance,…
- Stormtrooper (Star Wars)Stormtroopers are among the most recognized fictional soldiers ever put on screen, introduced to audiences in the original Star Wars film of 1977. In white armor that covers every inch of the body, they march in lockstep through the…
- Princess LeiaPrincess Leia Organa first appears on screen with the stolen plans for the Death Star hidden inside a small droid, R2-D2. She has just sent the droid off alone to find a Jedi named Obi-Wan Kenobi. Darth Vader boards her ship, captures her,…
- Solid SnakeFictional character from the Metal Gear series
- 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 connected this pilot to a certain smuggler from an earlier era of the same saga. Yet…
- Dante (Devil May Cry)Dante, the silver-haired, red-coated demon hunter at the center of Capcom's Devil May Cry series, was almost something else entirely. He was nearly a Western policeman. His early name was Tony Redgrave, a nod to the Resident Evil character…
- Padmé AmidalaPadmé Amidala enters the Star Wars universe as the teenage queen of Naboo, a planet under military occupation. She is fourteen years old, recently elected, and already facing a trade blockade that threatens her people's survival. The…
- Big Boss (Metal Gear)Fictional character from the Metal Gear series
- Agent JAgent J was born James Darrell Edwards III on the 19th of October, 1965, on the island of Manhattan. The organization he would eventually join erased that entire biography when he signed on. His identity documents were deleted. His…
- 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. He was born from the body of his hanged mother, cut down from a corpse before he…