Curated playlist
Fictional vigilantes
- Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Marvel's Tony Stark was created in 1963 to be the quintessential capitalist. Stan Lee based him on Howard Hughes.
- Scott Lang (Marvel Cinematic Universe)A rat set Scott Lang free from the Quantum Realm in 2023. He had been trapped there after the Blip erased his allies.
- Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Peter Benjamin Parker, better known as Spider-Man, was born on the 10th of August 2001 in Forest Hills, Queens. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tom Holland plays him across six films. After the death of his Uncle Ben, Peter is raised…
- Robin HoodIn the earliest surviving Robin Hood ballad, Robin beats Little John for winning an archery contest.
- Jacen SoloJacen Solo, Han and Leia's son, became the Sith Lord Darth Caedus. His twin sister Jaina killed him in a duel.
- Connor MacLeodConnor MacLeod, the Highlander, began as a UCLA film student's class writing project.
- Max RockatanskyIn Mad Max, a highway patrolman hunts down the biker gang that killed his infant son.
- 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…
- 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…
- Omar LittleOmar Little, the stick-up man at the center of HBO's The Wire, announced himself with a whistled tune. When he stalked a target, he whistled "A-Hunting We Will Go", a melody also known as "The Farmer in the Dell". Anyone on a Baltimore…