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character and Ada
* Ada ( Castlevania ), character in Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
* Ada Wong, character in the Resident Evil franchise
* Van Veen, the main character of Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor
Vineland may be a play on the word " Hollywood ", a reference to the first Viking settlement in North America, Vinland, or a reference to Andrey Vinelander, a character in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.
* Ada Wong, female character in the Resident Evil video game series
* The 19th century mathematician and early computer programmer, Lady Ada Lovelace, is a character in the Valentine's Day episode " Hugs and Witches ".
When Ford died in New York City the following year from cancer, aged 69, the character of Ada also died off-screen and the show had a tribute to her that featured many vintage flashbacks.
Fanny was hugely popular, and allegedly inspired Les Dawson to create the character of Ada "
Ada, who also appears as a player character in the video games Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, and will return in Resident Evil 6, is a mysterious and ambiguous antiheroine figure, working for the series ' villains but also helping the protagonist Leon S. Kennedy.
[...] In addition to being an extremely talented actor, she ’ s sharp, sexy and smart — all qualities that the Ada Wong character had to have.
Ada is primarily armed with a crossbow with normal and explosive arrows and using a grapple gun, and is aided by ( or " using ") Leon and a new character, Helena Harper.
: For the character Ada Clare in the novel by Charles Dickens see Bleak House

character and her
Of more importance to the West than Poland's boundaries was the character of her government.
Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.
The Sealab 2021 character Jodene Sparks references A Modest Proposal when trying to convince Debbie DuPree to eat her own baby.
Christie wrote that Poirot is a Roman Catholic, and gave her character a strong sense of Catholic morality later in works.
The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's grandmother and her cronies, but there is no definitive source for the derivation of the name ' Marple '.
When Michael Morton adapted Roger Ackroyd for the stage, he removed the character of Caroline replacing her with a young girl.
She presented the character as a bold and eccentric old lady, different from the prim and birdlike character Christie created in her novels.
Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.
This often means that the only individuals who are capable of opposing a character are from his or her family, a fact that leads to much suspicion and intrigue.
Plutarch states it to have been fear of her husband, together with hatred of his cruel and brutal character, and ascribes these feelings principally to the representations of Pelopidas, when she visited him in his prison.
She watched over the development of her son's character and improved the tone of the administration.
The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").
It is such a character that she portrays in Edward Weston, and that her heroine Agnes Grey finds deeply appealing.
It was from her that Bret Harte took his famous character of Cherokee Sal in The Luck of Roaring Camp.
" In terms of her moral character, Abraham Kuyper argues that Abigail's conduct indicates " a most appealing character and unwavering faith ," but Alice Bach regards her as subversive.
Then comes her one solo, " Liaisons ", in which her character thinks back on the art of love as a profession in a gilded age, when sex ' was but a pleasurable means to a measurable end.
The scene in which, returning to her apartment, Bardot's character is harangued in the elevator by a middle-aged cleaning lady calling her offensive names, was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century.

character and home
Selkirk's story aroused great interest at home, and Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based in part on him.
The home of Williams ' character was shot not far from Sacks ' actual City Island residence.
However, some home computer manufacturers extended the ASCII character set to take advantage of the advanced color and graphics capabilities of their systems.
Northern Ontario is home to a wide array of mines, while the fishing industry has long been central to the character of the Atlantic provinces, though it has recently been in steep decline.
In addition to the development and publishing of home, online, mobile, arcade, pachinko, and pachislo games, the company publishes strategy guides, maintains its own arcade centers, and licenses its franchise and character properties for use in tie-in products, movies, television series, and stage performances.
" Generally, comics are not allowed to include such words as " damn ", " sucks ", " screwed " and " hell ", although there have been exceptions such as the September 22, 2010 Mother Goose and Grimm in which an elderly man says, " This nursing home food sucks ," and a pair of Pearls Before Swine comics from January, 2011 with a character named Ned using the word " crappy ".
The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".
A sampler of the book has indicated some inspiration from Charles Dickens life and literature, but it also contains a character called Henry Mayhew: a gentleman who concerns himself with the well-being of the poor, even going so far as to take people in to his home to nurse and feed them on some occasions.
The film extracted both pathos and cruel humor from the scenes of Zoolander's return home, when he entered the mines alongside his father and brothers and Voight's character expressed his unspoken disgust at his son's chosen profession.
The following year she was the voice of the title character, Kiki, a 13-year-old apprentice witch who leaves her home village to spend a year on her own, in the anime movie Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1998 ).
The Martian is a favorite character of classical science fiction ; he was frequently found away from his home planet, often invading Earth, but sometimes simply a lonely character representing alienness from his surroundings.
The character of David Sumner, taunted and humiliated by the town locals, is eventually cornered within his home where he loses control and kills several of the men during the violent conclusion.
For instance, whenever Star Movies ( a popular Asian movie channel ) plays the film, Connery's line in which he says to Cage " winners go home and fuck the prom queen " is replaced with " winners go home and date the prom queen ", while in another scene where Connery's character is described as a " son of a bitch " the line is replaced with " son of a Brit " in the censored cut.
If the key corresponding to a particular character was pressed at the home station, it actuated the typewheel at the distant station just as the same character moved into the printing position, in a way similar to the daisy wheel printer.
On September 10, Robards ' character was filmed returning to what is left of Kansas City to find his home.
The Unionist support for ( trade ) protection in the early twentieth century under Joseph Chamberlain ( probably the least Whiggish character in the party ) further alienated the more orthodox Whigs, however, and by the early twentieth century Whiggery was largely irrelevant and without a natural political home.
The town is the home of the fictional character Ali G, and indie rock band Hard-Fi.
Janet Maslin, in a review of an Addams biography for The New York Times, wrote, " Addams's persona sounds cooked up for the benefit of feature writers ... was at least partly a character contrived for the public eye ," noting that one outré publicity photo showed the humorist wearing a suit of armor at home, " but the shelves behind him hold books about painting and antiques, as well as a novel by John Updike.
His first several films were mostly set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, they frequently feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon in what is known by fans as the " View Askewniverse ", named after his production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier.
His sociopathic tendencies are made the subject of humour in " Burns ' Heir ", where he can be seen in his own home preparing a dialogue for some kind of confrontation in front of a mirror, and using a home-made sliding action pistol holster ( which comically smashes the mirror ) in a parody of Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle character from Taxi Driver.
The character is a humanoid mass of vegetable matter who fights to protect his swamp home, the environment in general, and humanity from various supernatural or terrorist threats.

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