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Charon and game
The game progresses through the Solar system, from the Moon to Mercury, then outbound towards Pluto's moon Charon.
When both the hero and his partners are dead, the game over screen consists of the underworld ferryman Charon picking up a soul.

Charon and Dead
In the second century, Lucian employed Charon as a figure in his Dialogues of the Dead, most notably in Parts 4 and 10 (“ Hermes and CharonandCharon and Hermes ”).
He also appeared in Peter Shaffer ’ s The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( with Robert Stephens ), Charley's Aunt, Tom Stoppard ’ s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Congreve's The Way of the World, Georges Feydeau ’ s A Flea In Her Ear ( directed by Jacques Charon of the Comédie Française ), The Crucible, Luigi Pirandello's The Rules Of The Game, Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot and George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.
The Way to Write History ; The True History ; The Sale of Creeds ; Alexander the Oracle Monger ; Charon ; The Sale of Lives ; The Fisherman ; Dialogue of the Gods ; Dialogues of the Sea-Gods ; Dialogues of the Dead )

Charon and who
* Charon ( mythology ), in Greek mythology, the ferryman who ferried the dead to the underworld
* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.
The Charon zoetrope stands at 32 feet high, weighs 8 tons and features twenty rowing skeleton figures representing the mythological character, Charon, who carries souls of the newly deceased across the river Styx.
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon ( or ; Greek Χάρων ) is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.
Other Latin authors also describe Charon, among them Seneca in his tragedy Hercules Furens, where Charon is described in verses 762-777 as an old man clad in foul garb, with haggard cheeks and an unkempt beard, a fierce ferryman who guides his craft with a long pole.
Elsewhere, Charon appears as a cranky, skinny old man or as a winged demon wielding a double hammer, although Michelangelo's interpretation, influenced by Dante's depiction in Inferno, canto 3, shows him with an oar over his shoulder, ready to beat those who delay (“ batte col remo qualunque s ' adagia ”, Inferno 3, verse 111 ).
On the journey he meets the ferryman ( similar to Charon ), a girl, Tuonen tytti, or Tuonen piika ( Death's maid ), who takes him over the river of Tuoni.
The Hierarchy vigorously prosecutes Puppetry, both due to the Code of Charon and out of compassion for the mortals who are abused by Puppeteers ; still, the ability to " skinride " and reclaim some semblance of life and feeling is too much for many ghosts to pass up.
In Greek mythology, Charon was the ferryman who carried the dead in his boat.
Core Negation, the initial group who followed Charon during his occupation of the " negation " universe, and themselves acquired differing degrees of power ; Kryzzor's power recognized by the aquamarine energy taking up the top half of his head.
The custom was explained by the myth of Charon, the ferryman who conveyed the souls of the newly dead across the water — a lake, river, or swamp — that separated the world of the living from the underworld.
Sir Charon once described him as the person who can back stab others at anytime.

Charon and for
* Charon ( web browser ), a web browser for the Inferno operating system
* Charon ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a lord of the Yugoloths whose primary function is to provide passage across the River Styx for a steep price
Modern historians regard the chronology as uncertain but, according to the ancient account, these predecessors included for example Dionysius of Miletus, Charon of Lampsacus, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Xanthus of Lydia and, the best attested of them all, Hecataeus of Miletus.
* July 14 – NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly by Pluto and Charon at 50, 000 kilometers per hour and explore the area for five months, until the distance becomes too great.
A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person.
His name was imported from Greek Charon, although it is uncertain whether Etruscans had a native name for a god of the underworld before this.
His songs often make references to Greek and Roman mythological characters such as the ferryman Charon and the God of wine and pleasure, Bacchus, brought for comic effect into Stockholm's surroundings.
The Last Judgment, a fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo ( 1534 – 41 ), came under persistent attack in the Counter-Reformation for, among other things, nudity ( later painted over for several centuries ), not showing Christ seated or bearded, and including the pagan figure of Charon.
The deceased were buried with an obolus, placed in the mouth of the corpse, in order that, once a dead person's shade reached the underworld of Hades, it would be able to pay Charon for passage across the river Acheron.
They were supported during the attack by fire from Charon and Lowestoffe, the latter being badly damaged when she grounded for a while as she tried to get closer.
In the original draft proposal, an exception was made for Pluto and its largest satellite, Charon, which possess a barycenter outside the volume of either body.
He had a fake duplicate of the gauntlet created and then switched it for the real one during a duel with the Charon Claw's former wielder.
* Category II: Any mission to the Earth's Moon, Venus, comets, Jupiter, Pluto / Charon, Kuiper Belt Objects, other locations of interest for studying prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life but for which there is an insignificant probability of contamination with Earth life.
He was imprisoned by Charon for some time before being freed by the group as they rescued Zaida's baby Memi.
“ You are the ‘ spiritual intersection ’ of all these particles ,” continues Charon “ Your eons will remember you, your ‘ I ,’ for all their lives.
Other members of The First were exiled ( Animora-exiled by Ingra ) or captured ( Evinlea-captured by Charon, see Negation for more details ).

inmate and game
At first he puts his own interests before that of the team's, playing quite badly but as the final moments of the game tick down, he redeems himself, and uses a square-ball to fellow inmate ' Billy the Limpet ' ( Danny Dyer ) to win the game for the cons.
The highlight of her film career arguably was her turn as the repulsive Nazi female prison commandant in Lina Wertmüller's Pasqualino Settebellezze ( 1975 ) ( Seven Beauties ), in which she plays a cat and mouse game of seduction with the concentration camp inmate played by Giancarlo Giannini.
When the authorities set up a basketball game against the inmates, Tim McManus appoints Busmalis as Jackson Vahue's teammate, since Vahue made a bet to McManus that he could take the best CO and Vahue would take the worst inmate and he'd still beat McManus.

inmate and Dead
* Matthew Poncelet, the character played by Sean Penn in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking, based on real-life death-row inmate Elmo Patrick Sonnier
Notable executions in the chair were those of Elmo Patrick Sonnier ( the inmate on whom the film Dead Man Walking was based ) and Willie Francis.
He also suggested Sean Penn as being ideal for the role, based on his performance as a violent death row inmate in Dead Man Walking saying that Penn had the eyes of a " caged animal, a fucking killer ," even though Superman is known for refusing to ever kill.

inmate and Island
Luggenemenener died on 21 March 1837 as an inmate at the Flinders Island settlement.
Mannalargenna died of pneumonia as an inmate on the Flinders Island Aboriginal settlement.
As corrections commissioner, he was responsible for an annual budget of $ 835 million, a civilian and uniformed workforce of 13, 000 and 133, 000 annual inmate admissions in the Department's 16 jails, 15 court detention pens, and four hospital prison wards, including Rikers Island.
A drawing by artist Salvador Dalí, done as an apology because he was unable to attend a talk about art for the prisoners at Rikers Island, hung in the inmate dining room in J. A. T. C.
Luggenemenener died on 21 March 1837 as an inmate at the Flinders Island settlement.
Luggenemenener died on 21 March 1837 as an inmate at the Flinders Island settlement .< ref > Kristyn Harman, Send in the Sydney Natives!
Mannalargenna died of pneumonia as an inmate on the Flinders Island Aboriginal settlement.

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