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Fictional stick-fighters

  • Dick GraysonDick Grayson, the DC Comics hero who first appeared in Detective Comics #38 in April 1940, has changed more often than almost any character in superhero comics. He began as a child performer in a circus family. Since then he has carried at…
  • Nebula (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Thanos made Nebula fight Gamora and replaced her body parts with machinery each time she lost.
  • Barbara GordonBarbara Gordon is a DC Comics heroine who has worn two very different identities, Batgirl and Oracle. The artist Carmine Infantino helped create her, and he summed up her beginnings with a boast. In Infantino's words, "Julie and I came up…
  • GokuSon Goku, the hero of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, made his debut on the 3rd of December 1984. The first chapter, titled Bulma and Son Goku, ran in Japan's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. On the page stood an eccentric boy with a monkey's…
  • 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…
  • Scrooge McDuckScrooge McDuck is a cartoon duck known for a top hat, pince-nez glasses and an enormous fortune, but he began as a bitter recluse. In his first story, he sat in a huge mansion and grumbled, "Here I sit in this big lonely dump, waiting for…
  • Daredevil (Marvel Comics character)Daredevil is a Marvel Comics hero who first appeared in an issue with an April 1964 cover date. He is a blind lawyer by day and a costumed fighter by night, dressed in a devil-like outfit. His series sold modestly for years, and it came…
  • Rey (Star Wars)Rey began as a scavenger on Jakku and ended by naming herself Rey Skywalker. She says it near Luke's childhood home.
  • Gambit (Marvel Comics)Remy LeBeau, known to readers as Gambit, is a Cajun thief from New Orleans who became one of Marvel Comics' X-Men. Writer Chris Claremont and artist Jim Lee created him. When he joined the team, few of his new colleagues trusted him, and…
  • AangAang is twelve years old by the count of his body and 112 by the count of the calendar. That gap is the first strange fact about the hero of Nickelodeon's animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Two young people named Katara and Sokka…

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