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Fictional henchmen

  • Birdie (Street Fighter)Birdie, a Street Fighter character, went from pale to Black between games. Capcom said he had been ill.
  • Grand Moff TarkinGrand Moff Tarkin wears a rank that baffled even the actor who first gave it a face. Peter Cushing joked that he had no idea what a "Grand Moff" actually was, and that the phrase sounded like "something which infests a clothes closet". The…
  • Kylo RenKylo Ren kills his own father, Han Solo, on Starkiller Base. He later turns back and becomes Ben Solo again.
  • Stormtrooper (Star Wars)In 2019, biologists named a Colombian spider genus after Star Wars stormtroopers.
  • Boba FettBoba Fett first appeared in public on the 24th of September 1978, at the San Anselmo Country Fair parade. The armor was worn by Duwayne Dunham, then an assistant film editor and later a film and television director. Fett is a Star Wars…
  • Gríma WormtongueGríma Wormtongue was captured by the Nazgûl and told them where the Shire was.
  • Rhino (character)The Rhino, whose real name is Aleksei Sytsevich, carries a reputation that writer Mike Conroy summed up in a single phrase: "famously one of Spider-Man's dimmest villains." Writer Stan Lee and artist John Romita Sr. created him, and he…
  • Balrog (Street Fighter)Street Fighter's boxer Balrog is called M. Bison in Japan, where the M stands for Mike.
  • Supreme Leader SnokeAndy Serkis first played Snoke without knowing what Snoke looked like. He stood on a 25-foot podium for his first day.
  • Shadow the HedgehogShadow the Hedgehog speaks his first line in Sonic Adventure 2, released in 2001 for the Dreamcast. The line is “Hmph, aren't you the fake one here?” It lands in a scene where Sonic confronts a black hedgehog who has been posing as him.…
  • Vega (Street Fighter)Street Fighter II's Vega never removes his mask, and a Shakespeare character helped explain why.
  • Sandman (Marvel Comics)The Sandman, a Marvel Comics character who can turn his whole body into sand, lost one of his early fights to a household vacuum cleaner. His opponent was Spider-Man, the hero who would shadow his life for decades. The man inside the sand…
  • F.A.N.G. (Street Fighter)F.A.N.G promised to beat his opponent in exactly two minutes. The Street Fighter V villain still ranked near the bottom.

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