Curated category
Male characters in film
- Company of the RingIn the dark lands of Mordor, nine shadowy figures known as Black Riders or Ringwraiths ride in silence. They are the enemy that demands a counterforce. J.R.R.
- Erik SelvigErik Selvig was a professor of Theoretical Astrophysics who grew up hearing stories about Asgard before he ever had reason to believe any of it was real.
- Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Tony Stark first appeared in 1963. His creators later said they wanted him to be the quintessential capitalist, a character built to go against Marvel's own…
- Scott Lang (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Scott Lang is a fictional character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, portrayed by Paul Rudd across five films between 2015 and 2023.
- 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…
- Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887, tucked inside a Christmas annual called Beeton's, in a novel titled A Study in Scarlet.
- King ArthurA warrior on the field of Y Gododdin has just slain three hundred enemies, and the poet praising him still cannot offer the highest compliment.
- 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.
- James Bond (literary character)James Bond, Commander, Royal Naval Reserve, code number 007, was born on the page on the 17th of February 1952. That morning, Ian Fleming sat down at his…
- 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…
- Qui-Gon JinnGeorge Lucas created the character Qui-Gon Jinn for the 1999 film The Phantom Menace. He originally envisioned an American actor in the role but ultimately…
- Peter Pan (character)Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up, stepped onto a London stage on the 27th of December 1904 at the Duke of York's Theatre, and he has never quite left.
- Merry BrandybuckMeriadoc Brandybuck, the hobbit the world knows simply as Merry, begins The Lord of the Rings as a conspirator. Long before Frodo Baggins set foot on the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sam Weller (character)Sam Weller is the fictional Cockney bootblack who turned a struggling serialised novel into one of the great publishing phenomena of the nineteenth century.
- 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…
- Connor MacLeodConnor MacLeod, known to audiences as The Highlander, was born in 1518 in Glenfinnan, Scotland, near the shores of Loch Shiel.
- Max RockatanskyMax Rockatansky begins the Mad Max franchise as a quiet, capable highway patrolman who ends it as a ghost haunting the wasteland.
- Flash GordonFlash Gordon first appeared in print on the 7th of January 1934, and within a few years, 50 million people were reading his adventures every week.
- Samwise GamgeeIn the dark mountain pass of Cirith Ungol, a hobbit named Samwise Gamgee hoisted his master onto his broad shoulders. Frodo Baggins could no longer walk…
- Gimli (Middle-earth)Gimli, son of Glóin, is a fictional Dwarf warrior in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and one of the primary characters in that story.
- LegolasLegolas, a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm, appears in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as one of nine companions chosen to carry out the most…