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Fictional prison escapees

  • Nebula (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Thanos made Nebula fight Gamora and replaced her body parts with machinery each time she lost.
  • Han SoloHan Solo was first written as a green-skinned alien with gills. George Lucas's earliest draft gave him no nose.
  • 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…
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (character)Sonic the Hedgehog, the blue hero of Sega's video games, was tested on strangers in New York City's Central Park before most of the world had heard of him. The designer Naoto Ohshima carried several of Sega's internal character sketches on…
  • Two-FaceTwo-Face, the coin-tossing enemy of Batman, makes his first appearance in Detective Comics #66, published in August 1942. Late in that issue, Batman chases him down and corners him. The hero offers a simple deal: give up and start over.…
  • Bullseye (Marvel Comics)Bullseye, the Marvel Comics assassin, once killed a man with a toothpick thrown through a window from a hundred yards away. No gun was involved, and no bomb. His menace comes from an eerie gift for turning almost any ordinary object into a…
  • ZorroZorro first rode into print in 1919, and the novel that introduced him eventually sold more than 50 million copies. That figure places The Curse of Capistrano among the best-selling books of all time. Its author, the American pulp writer…
  • Monkey D. LuffyMonkey D. Luffy is the rubber-bodied hero of the manga One Piece, created by Eiichiro Oda, and his story starts with a promise made by a small boy. In Windmill Village, in the Goa kingdom, young Luffy befriends a pirate called Red-Haired…
  • NeganNegan is a fictional survivor in The Walking Dead, a man who carries a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire and calls it Lucille. He first appears as the leader of the Saviors, a group that forces neighboring communities to hand over…
  • Bane (DC Comics)Bane, the DC Comics supervillain, got his name from an insult. At the age of eight, a boy inside the Peña Duro prison on the Caribbean island of Santa Prisca stabbed a criminal who was trying to use him to learn the prison's secrets. It…

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