Curated category
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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Princess LeiaPrincess Leia Organa first appears on screen with the stolen plans for the Death Star hidden inside a small droid, R2-D2.
- Solid SnakeSolid Snake, real name David, was born from a government experiment designed to create the perfect soldier. He carries an IQ of 180, speaks six languages…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.