Curated category
Fictional war veterans
- Obi-Wan KenobiObi-Wan Kenobi entered the Star Wars franchise in 1976, a year before the first film's 1977 release. He first appeared in that year's novelization, published…
- Frodo BagginsFrodo Baggins is a hobbit of the Shire who, on the 22nd of September, shares a birthday with his cousin Bilbo. That shared birthday is one small thread in a…
- Pippin TookPeregrin Took is the youngest of the four hobbits who walk out of the Shire and into the greatest war Middle-earth has ever seen.
- Kylo RenKylo Ren is, in the words of Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw, "gorgeously cruel, spiteful and capricious." He is, Bradshaw added, a Star Wars villain given to…
- Princess LeiaPrincess Leia Organa first appears on screen with the stolen plans for the Death Star hidden inside a small droid, R2-D2.
- Poe DameronPoe Dameron holds, in the words of one British newspaper, the title of "Second Coolest Man in the Galaxy." That single line hints at how quickly viewers…
- Othello (character)Othello, the Venetian general at the center of Shakespeare's tragedy, was first brought to life on stage on the 1st of November 1604, performed before the…
- Finn (Star Wars)Finn first appears in the Star Wars franchise as stormtrooper FN-2187, a First Order soldier without a name of his own. On his first combat assignment…
- Grand Admiral ThrawnTimothy Zahn introduced Grand Admiral Thrawn in the 1991 novel Heir to the Empire. This book marked the first appearance of an alien military leader within…
- Han SoloHan Solo made his first appearance not on screen but on the page, in the novelization of Star Wars published in 1976, a full year before audiences saw him…
- Jacen SoloJacen Solo begins his fictional life as one of a pair of unnamed twins Leia Organa Solo is carrying in the 1991 novel Heir to the Empire.
- Lando CalrissianLando Calrissian is a fictitious character in the Star Wars franchise, introduced onscreen in 1980. In a review from that year, Janet Maslin of The New York…
- AragornAragorn first appears in The Lord of the Rings as a scruffy, travel-worn stranger going by the name Strider, nursing a drink at an inn in Bree.
- Rey (Star Wars)Rey is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. In her final on-screen scene, she stands near Luke Skywalker's childhood home on Tatooine, having…
- Guts (Berserk)Guts is the protagonist of the manga series Berserk, created by Kentaro Miura, and he arrived in the world under the most violent circumstances imaginable.
- Griffith (Berserk)Griffith, the main antagonist of the manga series Berserk, is a character who began as a leader of men and ended as something far more terrible.