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Male characters in television

  • Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes never says "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of the sixty Conan Doyle stories.
  • Peter Pan (character)Peter Pan began as a seven-day-old baby in a 1902 novel for adults. He first flew into Kensington Gardens.
  • Gus FringGustavo Fring sells fried chicken in the American Southwest, and the chicken is the least dangerous thing he sells. He is a fictional character played by Giancarlo Esposito in the Breaking Bad franchise. He is one of the main antagonists…
  • Sam Weller (character)A servant named Sam Weller lifted The Pickwick Papers from about a thousand copies to forty thousand.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (character)Sonic the Hedgehog, the blue hero of Sega's video games, was tested on strangers in New York City's Central Park before most of the world had heard of him. The designer Naoto Ohshima carried several of Sega's internal character sketches on…
  • Billy ButcherBilly Butcher hunts gods, and he does it with no superpowers of his own. He is a fictional character, one of the two main protagonists of the comic series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. He leads a group of…
  • Flash GordonGeorge Lucas made Star Wars after he could not get film rights to Flash Gordon. Producer Dino De Laurentiis refused.
  • Sam & MaxSam & Max is an American media franchise built around a dog and a rabbity creature who work as vigilante private investigators. In 2007, their creator Steve Purcell admitted he was somewhat surprised by how far they had travelled. Their…
  • Bruce Banner (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Bruce Banner, the scientist behind the Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, holds seven PhDs and is also a medical doctor. When his heart rate climbs above 200 beats per minute, his body swells into a green giant. Anger or mortal danger…
  • Mother's Milk (character)Mother's Milk, known to his teammates as M.M., is a character in the comic series The Boys, created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. His name sounds like a crude joke. It is closer to a medical record. Cut off from one particular…
  • GroguGrogu is a small green infant from the Star Wars series The Mandalorian. Once, a puppet of him made an actor plead with the show's filmmakers. Dave Filoni began to remove the puppet from a scene, planning an alternate take that could use…

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