Among the tracks he recorded was an early version of " That'll Be The Day ", which took its title from a line that John Wayne's character says repeatedly in the 1956 film The Searchers.

Set to music by John Lanchbery with choreography by Frederick Ashton and performed in character costume by members of the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera House orchestra.

According to Hippolytus of Rome, John Mark is not Mark the Cousin of Barnabas, and Barnabas did not dispute with Paul because of personal favor to a blood relative, but due to his character as his nickname Barnabas (" Son of Encouragement ") indicates.

* Cyrus " The Virus " Grissom, a character in the 1997 film Con Air, played by John Malkovich

* John Constantine, a fictional character appearing in DC Comics including Hellblazer

This character is based on Long John Silver from the book Treasure Island.

In 1986, during John Byrne's revamping of the character, the emphasis was on Superman being the manufactured persona of Clark Kent, the side of the character he most identifies with.

This fact was one of the main inspirations for the 1980s reboot of the Clark Kent half of the Superman character, according to writer and artist John Byrne in the article " Super-Discussions " published by Attic Books in Comics Values Monthly Special # 2 ( 1992 ).

* ABC aired a short-lived television series in 1964, Destry, based on the first two films, starring John Gavin as the son of the movie's title character.

* In some of the manuscripts written by Dr. John Dee, the character of delta is used to represent Dee

Instead of reviving the old character, Schwartz had writers Robert Kanigher and John Broome, penciler Carmine Infantino, and inker Joe Kubert create an entirely new super-speedster, updating and modernizing the Flash's civilian identity, costume, and origin with a science-fiction bent.

John Brown played the character " Broadway ," who doubled as host and narrator.

* John Cleland's early erotic novel Fanny Hill ( 1748 ) is written as a series of letters from the titular character to an unnamed recipient.

Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare.

In a documentary chronicling the making of the first three Indiana Jones films, John Rhys-Davies stated that his character of Sallah was meant to be a cross between his character in Shogun, Portuguese Pilot Vasco Rodrigues, and Falstaff.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Horace Round and Frederic William Maitland, both historians of medieval Britain, arrived at different conclusions as to the character of English society before the Norman Conquest in 1066.

The 1994 Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump while not presented as a documentary of a real character, does contain several sequences that feature the Hanks character inserted into archival newsreel footage of John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Apollo 11 astronauts, and others, to realistic effect.

* Fauna, a female character in Sweet Thursday, a novel by John Steinbeck.

In 1963, Merian C. Cooper attempted to sue John Beck claiming that he outright owned the King Kong character, but the lawsuit never went through as it turned out he was not Kong's sole legal owner as he had previously believed.

When he began his collaborative film work, he was influenced by Robert Alton and John Murray Anderson, striving to create moods and character insight with his dances.

The repertory system ensured that the comic patter character who performed the role of the sorcerer, John Wellington Wells, would become the ruler of the Queen's navy as Sir Joseph Porter in H. M. S.

The Eighth Council of Toledo ( 653 ) recorded its admiration of his character in these glowing terms: " The extraordinary doctor, the latest ornament of the Catholic Church, the most learned man of the latter ages, always to be named with reverence, Isidore ".

Here Mirbeau featured the character of Isidore Lechat, predecessor of the modern master of business intrigue, a product of the new world, a figure who makes money from everything and spreads his tentacles out over the world.

After losing the rights to Oswald, Disney felt the need to develop a new character to replace him, which was based on a mouse he had adopted as a pet while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio in Kansas City.

Spot is Data's pet cat and a recurring character in the show.

The asteroid was named by discoverer James B. Gibson after his pet cat, " Mr. Spock ", said feline indeed being named after the Star Trek character.

In 2008 Smiffy gained a pet pebble called Kevin, this character even had his own feature in the Beano issue 3604 entitled Where's Kevin.

Bluto was replaced by an ape, which Miyamoto said was " nothing too evil or repulsive ", and the pet of the main character.

In the version from the film And Now For Something Completely Different, it follows on from the " Dead Parrot " sketch with Palin's character leaving the pet shop as Eric Praline asks " I'm sorry, this is irrelevant, isn't it?

Two examples were Fraidy Cat, a timid feline who has lost 8 of his 9 lives, which come back to haunt him ; and Wacky and Packy, a caveman and his pet mammoth (" Packy " refers to the latter character being a " pachyderm ") who enter the modern age through a time warp.

Walt once said that he was inspired by a pet mouse he once had at the old Laugh-O-Grams studio, but more commonly said that he chose a mouse because a mouse had never been the central character of a cartoon series before.

In fiction, pet brown rats tend to be depicted as tamed rather than domesticated, akin to when a character befriends a wolf.

Rather than portraying pet brown rats as thoroughly domesticated, they are often cast as a wild brown rat which a character tames.

In Final Fantasy XIII, the character Sazh Katzroy has a baby chocobo for a pet.

* In an episode of " iCarly ", Spencer, older brother to the title character, invented an elaborate Goldberg like machine to feed the fish they had, only to have pointed out to him that he would then have to set the whole thing back up every day and that it would just be easier to remember to feed the fish, causing him to return the fish to the pet store.

During this story arc the Gnasher's tale strip was replaced with Foo Foo's Fairy Story, Foo Foo being the pet poodle of Walter the Softy ( another character from the Dennis strip ).

A minor character, a relationship between her and Raymundo is implied numerous times in the show, usually by means of pet names.

If the interaction is not goal oriented, the user can explore the character of the pet and enjoy the feeling of building a relationship with it.

In 1992, Chunsoft's role-playing game Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride featured an influential monster-collecting mechanic, where monsters can be defeated, captured, added to the party, follow the player character around as a pet, and gain their own experience levels.

The character Mametchi makes an appearance in Namco Bandai / Nintendo's Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 as a playable character, along with his pet, Bagubagutchi, as an item.

* Ron Stoppable, lead male character in the TV series Kim Possible, has a pet Naked Mole Rat named Rufus.

A new character was added to the Polka Dot Door family-Polkaroo's pet, named Bibble.

Mr. Squiggle ( the character ) was a marionette with a pencil for a nose, who visited his friends from his home at 93 Crater Crescent on the Moon, flying in his pet rocket ( named Rocket ).

His dog ( Pug ) from Pup Parade, and a new character called Chunkee the Monkey ( Plug's pet monkey ) accompanied him.

* In a scene near the end of the 2005 Vin Diesel action comedy The Pacifier, Diesel's character attempts to communicate with a pet duck to help him escape his captors, for which one of the film's villains sarcastically addresses Diesel as " duck whisperer ".

" In a Far Side strip, two characters styled like Mary Worth characters are seen at the door of a typical Far Side character ( with a pet cow and snake ), who remarks that they must be looking for " Apartment 3-G or Mary Worth or one of those other serious cartoons.