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Fictional humanoids

  • Nebula (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Thanos made Nebula fight Gamora and replaced her body parts with machinery each time she lost.
  • Frankenstein's monsterFrankenstein's monster has no name of his own. Within a decade of the novel, audiences used his maker's name.
  • The Borrowers (novel)In the novel The Borrowers, tiny people take household items that vanish. It won the 1952 Carnegie Medal.
  • Grand Admiral ThrawnAs his bodyguard turned on him, Star Wars villain Thrawn said it was so artistically done.
  • Darth MaulDarth Maul was cut in half in his first film, yet he came back. George Lucas chose to bring him back.
  • Venom (character)Venom, the alien symbiote of Marvel Comics, began as a $220 purchase. In 1982, a Marvel reader from Norridge, Illinois, named Randy Schueller received a letter from Jim Shooter, the company's editor-in-chief. The letter said Marvel liked…
  • Supreme Leader SnokeAndy Serkis first played Snoke without knowing what Snoke looked like. He stood on a 25-foot podium for his first day.
  • OrcTolkien never settled where his orcs came from. He offered slime, tortured Elves, fallen spirits and more.
  • EwokThe Ewok language began with an 80-year-old Kalmyk refugee telling folk stories.
  • The SmurfsThe Smurfs, a colony of small blue creatures from Belgian comics, owe their name to a lapse of memory. The cartoonist Peyo, whose real name was Pierre Culliford, was eating a meal on the Belgian coast with his friend and fellow cartoonist…

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