In it, the character Valentine is banished from Milan and driven out through the forest where he is approached by outlaws who, upon meeting him, desire him as their leader.

The character Mai Valentine in the Yu-gi-oh series uses a card deck based around Harpies.

* Kronos ( Highlander ), a fictional character from Highlander: The Series, portrayed by actor Valentine Pelka

Program Practices requested that Valentine not refer to a girl as " a broad ... really stacked ," even though the crudity was essential to establishing the unsavory qualities of the character.

* In the 2010 romantic drama Blue Valentine, Michelle Williams's character is encouraged to work in Riverdale

Nomura has stated that Cloud's left arm was inspired by Vincent Valentine, noting that, in this game, the character was supposed to illustrate a " demon-like " appearance due to his ties to the " dark side.

Obviously Shakespeare's source for Romeo and Juliet, it features a character called Friar Laurence, as does Two Gentlemen, and a scene where a young man attempts to outwit his lover's father by means of a corded ladder ( as Valentine does in Two Gentlemen ).

In the PlayStation 2 game Shadow Hearts, Bistriţa ( where it is spelled " Biztritz ") was a major place and home to the role-playing character Keith Valentine.

He is the father of the series's central character Ender Wiggin, as well as of Ender's two older siblings Peter and Valentine.

In 2009 he was The Man in Black when BBC Radio 7 revived the character ( originally played by Valentine Dyall and Edward de Souza ) to introduce a series of five creepy audio dramas.

In Final Fantasy VI the character Umaro is said to have the strength of a gigas, and in Final Fantasy VII the character Vincent Valentine has a Limit Break in which he transforms into a monster called the ' Death Gigas '.

Valentine Wiggin is a fictional character in Orson Scott Cards Ender's Game series of novels.

* Jill Valentine, a character from the Resident Evil video games series

In Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, the main character Valentine Michael Smith is believed to have catalepsy when he is returned to Earth.

* Valentine Michael Smith, chief character in Stranger in a Strange Land

Gilbert used the technique of having the lead character speak directly to the viewer, a technique he later also used in Shirley Valentine ( 1988 ).

* This episode also contains obvious parallels to Robert Heinlein's " Stranger In A Strange Land " and the character of Valentine Michael Smith.

: In every game there has been at least one member of the Valentine family present and is always a playable character.

Beside a few returning characters ( Roger Bacon, Lenny Curtis, Joachim Valentine, Keith Valentine ( as the Silver Bat ), Hildegarde Valentine ( as the Peach Bat in Shadow Hearts Covenant, here as a playable character in Johnny's party ) and Gerard ( the shopkeeper ) as well as items ( Émigré Manuscript ), important events that took place in Shadow Hearts 2 are mentioned, such as Nicolai ( Nicholas ) Conrad's release of Malice.

The name of the novel derives from an analogy proposed by the character Dr. Valentine Pilman who compares the extra-terrestrial event to a picnic.

Archie Comics ' Melody Valentine, a character in their Josie and the Pussycats comic, has musical notes drawn into her word balloons at all times, to convey that she speaks in a sing-song voice.

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.

Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

The Agreeable Autocracies is an attempt to explore some of the institutions which both reflect and determine the character of the free society today.

This is what necessitates the nonsystematic character of his astronomy.

One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.

Trevelyan is militantly sure of the superiority of English institutions and character over those of other peoples.

I have said before how difficult it is to make any precise statements with regard to the character of the Greek and Elizabethan public.

Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.

I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.

For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

The theory behind this is, of course, fundamentalist in character.

The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say, `` That is good '', we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking.

The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.

No one seriously contends, of course, that the domineering wife is, sexually speaking, a new character in our world.