Characters in Gattaca continually battle both with the society and with themselves to find their place in the world and who they are destined to be according to their genes.

Characters who underwent these crude lobotomies ( including Sir William Gull played by Ian Holm ), were depicted with shaved heads and in vegetative states.

* Characters who are born as vampires in L. J. Smith's Night World books,

The central character is a playwright suffering from writers ' block who in his frustration recalls the foibles of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Theophrastus has found many imitators in this kind of writing, notably Joseph Hall ( 1608 ), Sir Thomas Overbury ( 1614 – 16 ), Bishop Earle ( 1628 ), and Jean de La Bruyère ( 1688 ), who also translated the Characters.

Characters from the Cornelius novels show up in much of Moorcock's other fiction: " The Dancers at the End of Time " series has a character called Jherek Carnelian who is the son of Lord Jagged of Canaria, and there are several hints in the series that Lord Jagged may be a guise of Jerry Cornelius ; the Cornelius-series character Una Persson also appears in the " Dancers " series and the Oswald Bastable books, and may also be the character Oona in the later Elric books ; Colonel Pyat has his own non-SF series of books by Moorcock, beginning with Byzantium Endures.

Characters are not limited to any particular set of skills, and a Halfling Assassin who speaks perfect Elvish is technically possible.

DQ allows a party of heroes to be surrounded and ultimately overwhelmed by large numbers of peasants, who rather than attacking singly and being cut to ribbons, will instead seek to surround and leap into Close Combat to subdue and pin down Player Characters.

Characters of somewhat lesser importance include the Pickles family dog, Spike, who has played important roles in some episodes, even starring in them at some instances, and Angelica's pet cat Fluffy.

Characters who appear in Josie and the Pussycats come from Midvale ( although in the film the characters explicitly come from Riverdale, the girls have a Muni bus pass ).

" UGO. com listed Kirby on their list of " The Cutest Video Game Characters " stating " It ’ s easy to get on board with someone who will eat anything.

Characters who are not part of a gaming group.

Characters who are killed off have their parts in the opening changed.

* Characters from real life who appeared in Carl Barks's and Don Rosa's stories

* Characters who do things because those actions are what they would expect from characters in a story.

* Characters in a film or a television series who mention and / or refer to the actors or actresses that portray themselves ( e. g. Beatrice " Betty " Pengson from I Love Betty La Fea ; Bea Alonzo, who played the role of the protagonist, also played herself as an Ecomoda model ; coincidentally in the show, Betty wants to meet Bea Alonzo in person, an act of self-reference.

Characters who have left the show often return, such as ;

Characters who support each other receive statistical bonuses, based on support level and each character's elemental affinity, that activate any time they are within three spaces of each other on the battlefield.

Pope lost no opportunity of mocking Philips, who figured in the Bathos and the Dunciad, as Macer in the Characters ; and in the instructions to a porter how to find Edmund Curll's authors, Philips is a Pindaric writer in red stockings.

Characters that appeared often were a singing lizard and a group of kids, dubbed " crazy-good kids ", who commonly frightened the Pop-Tarts and caused them to be eaten or chased away.

Characters still fondly remembered by members today included Betty the cashier, who “ knew everyone and everything ”, and Rupert the waiter, who was kept on even when he “ got the shakes ” in later life.

Characters who originated in the Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer film.

Characters with high psyche are presented as having strong telepathic abilities, being able to hypnotise and even mentally dominate any character with lesser psyche with whom they can make eye-contact.

* Director: During the game, while each of the other players typically controls the actions of one of the Player Characters, the GM decides the actions of all the NPCs as they are needed.

Characters with a very high or very low Mental Balance will start to involuntarily manifest outward physical signs of their ascent or descent, they become either detached saints or Children of the Night.

" Characters mention that they have eyes and brains like humans, and they are seen to bleed when injured ( although they can take a lot more damage than humans can ).

Characters are defined by a single attribute, " Strength ", which is used for determining all traditional role-playing elements, such as whether or not the character successfully hits in combat, how fast they can move and how much damage they can take before dying.

Characters have a much greater significance attached to their acts, especially if they are morally impure, as they risk coming under the influence of the Dark Powers ( through the game process called " dark powers checks ") and gradually transforming themselves into figures of evil.

Characters within the stories often point out that the Three Laws, as they exist in a robot's mind, are not the written versions usually quoted by humans but abstract mathematical concepts upon which a robot's entire developing consciousness is based.

Characters incorporated into the WNU are not necessarily blood relatives, descendants, or ancestors of those present at the 1795 Wold Newton meteor strike, but they all exist in the same shared fictional universe.

In response to the article, they would also make an article titled " Characters Who Don't Deserve Their Own Games ", stating that many Game Informer users voiced their disapproval, as well as stating that the characters on the list were undoubtedly worse choices than Waluigi.

Characters cannot encounter each other while in the Timescape — they have been teleported to an entire different reality, not an area as on the main board.

Characters with " bulging muscles " are rarely considered bishonen, as they are too masculine.

Characters ( with the forms they attend within the school during the series ) include:

And these pentacles do consist either of Characters of the good spirits of the superiour order, or of sacred pictures of holy letters or revelations, with apt and fit versicles, which are composed either of Geometrical figures and holy names of God, according to the course and maner of many of them ; or they are compounded of all of them, or very many of them mixt.

Characters shared by the teeth of Lavanify and Bharattherium include the presence of an infundibulum and a furrow ; they both also have large, continuous bands of matrix ( unbundled hydroxyapatite crystals ) between the prisms ( bundles of hydroxyapatite crystals ) of the enamel, and perikymata — wave-like ridges and grooves in the enamel surface.

Characters, either by accident or their own curiousness, are dragged into a dangerous conflict or situation that they are not prepared to resolve.

The chief of them are his Characters of Charles James Fox ( 1809 ) and his edited reprint of Tracts of Warburton and a Warburtonian, which caused controversy ; in his critique of Warburton, he focused on the worst written by Warburton and Hurd, which probably did not deserve to be reprinted, even if they were deliberately being suppressed by their authors.

Characters within The Whispering Vault used to be human, but after a life dedicated to protecting humanity against supernatural beings they have been recruited into the ranks of the Stalkers, the main heroes of the game.

Characters in Amber DRPG are represented by four attributes: Psyche, Strength, Endurance and Warfare.

Characters are one byte wide.

Characters are then grouped by their primary radical, then ordered by number of pen strokes within radicals.

Characters such as Sancho Panza and Don Quixote's steed, Rocinante, are emblems of Western literary culture.

Characters are stored as integers, e. g. coding ASCII -' A ' is exactly the same as coding 65.

Characters are living 2D shapes such as triangles and hexagons.

Characters in RuneQuest are not divided into magic using and non-magic using characters.

Characters are written by preceding them with a dollar sign:

Characters range from " everyday Joes in space " to crack mercenary teams, and the game often draws from pulp science-fiction for its aliens ( the Aslan are similar to Kzin, the Hivers to Pierson's Puppeteers, and so on ).

Characters in the game are survivors of the war.

Characters in Twilight 2000 games are typically representative of US and NATO military forces.

Characters outside the ASCII range are stored in 2-4 bytes.

Characters in his plays are often seen as representations of his family members.

Characters are shown activating the transporter from ordinary consoles and beaming from place to place without apparent trouble.

Characters are also used to endorse safety and educational causes.

Characters are almost always named with their fathers, i. e. Odysseus, son of Laertes.

As for the case of traditional Chinese characters, 4, 808 characters are listed in the " Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters " ( 常用國字標準字體表 ) by the Ministry of Education of ROC, while 4, 759 in the " Soengjung Zi Zijing Biu " ( 常用字字形表 ) by the Education and Manpower Bureau of Hong Kong, both of which are intended to be taught during elementary and junior secondary education.