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Fictional telepaths

  • She-RaFor the honor of Grayskull, I am She-Ra. Those words, spoken to a sword, turn a soldier named Adora into the superheroine of the Masters of the Universe franchise. She-Ra began as a toy line and a minicomic. She then became the star of two…
  • Kylo RenKylo Ren kills his own father, Han Solo, on Starkiller Base. He later turns back and becomes Ben Solo again.
  • 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…
  • DhalsimDhalsim nearly had an elephant head in Street Fighter II. Capcom's designers modeled one draft on the Hindu god Ganesh.
  • Apocalypse (character)En Sabah Nur is the birth name of Apocalypse, a supervillain from Marvel Comics, and Marvel says the name means "The First One." That translation is considered grammatically incorrect. Broken into parts, the name joins words for "the,"…
  • Eren YeagerEren Yeager is the hero of Hajime Isayama's manga Attack on Titan, and his own creator once called him "a slave to the story". Isayama has also said that, in the past, he struggled to make Eren feel "alive" on the page. That is a strange…
  • KyubeyKyubey offers girls any wish, but leaves out that its race feeds on their emotional energy.
  • The ShadowThe Shadow is a fictional crime fighter whose catchphrase has outlived most of the stories told about him. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" Those words opened the radio adaptation and earned a lasting…
  • Spawn (character)Spawn, the antihero of Image Comics, debuted in Spawn #1 in May 1992, and that first issue sold 1.7 million copies. The hero is Albert Francis Simmons, called Al, who is better known simply as Spawn. Todd McFarlane created him. Simmons…
  • April O'NeilApril O'Neil first appeared in 1984 as a computer programmer on the run. She fled robots she had helped program.
  • GaladrielGaladriel refused the One Ring when Frodo offered it to her. She knew her own power would fade if it was destroyed.

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