The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

The main character, Dr. Bernard Rieux, lives comfortably in an apartment building when strangely the building's concierge, M. Michel, a confidante, dies from a fever.

In novels such as Taken at the Flood, After the Funeral and Hickory Dickory Dock he is even less in evidence, frequently passing the duties of main interviewing detective to a subsidiary character.

Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.

A passage in Voltaire's Candide has the book's eponymous main character meet the deposed Ahmed III while on a ship from Venice to Constantinople.

In modern literature, Aeneas appears in David Gemmell's Troy series as a main heroic character who goes by the name Helikaon.

Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.

Portrayed by Steve Reeves, he was the main character in the 1961 sword-and-sandal peplum Guerra di Troia ( The Trojan War ).

In Baxter's novel, Aurelianus is a minor character who interacts with the book's main Roman-era protagonist, Regina, founder of an ( literally ) underground matriarchal society.

* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors

* Alfred Brooks, the main character in The Contender, created by Robert Lipsyte

The main character, Père Heb, was a blunderer with a huge belly ; three teeth ( one of stone, one of iron, and one of wood ); a single, retractable ear ; and a misshapen body.

In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus.

Paul of Tarsus, also known as Saul, is the main character of the second half of Acts.

* Ark, the main character of the video game Terranigma

Paul Bäumer is the main character and narrator.

* Alexandra Mack, aka Alex Mack, main character in the popular American Television series The Secret World of Alex Mack

In the center is the house of Senex, who lives there with wife Domina, son Hero, and several slaves, including head slave Hysterium and the musical's main character Pseudolus.

The 2007 Ubisoft game, " Assassin's Creed ," features Altaïr ibn-La ' Ahad as the main character.

Housman is the main character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love.

The six main cast members participated on a 1963 Columbia soundtrack album which featured original song numbers in character.

Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts.

The term is often attributed to Rudolf Erich Raspe's story The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, where the main character pulls himself out of a swamp by his hair ( specifically, his pigtail ), but the Baron does not, in fact, pull himself out by his bootstraps.

Yahweh, as the main character in the book, takes the initiative in conquering the land, and it is Yahweh's power that wins battles ( for example, the walls of Jericho fall because Yahweh is fighting for Israel, not because the Israelites show superior fighting ability ).

Goswell argues that while Naomi is the central character of the book, Ruth is the main character, and so the book " can be considered aptly named.

The Ghana Air Force is headquartered in Burma camp Accra, and operates from bases in Accra ( main transport base ), Tamale ( combat and training base ), Takoradi ( training base ), and Kumasi ( support base ).

The main settlement of Dagombas is Tamale, which also serves as the Northern Regional capital.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

His main book on social reform is Toward Social Renewal.

* Specifically, a text added to the end of a book or an article, containing information that is important to, but is not the main idea of, the main text

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

The main themes of the book are introduced in the opening poem ( the " Song of Hannah "): ( 1 ), the sovereignty of Yahweh, God of Israel ; ( 2 ), the reversal of human fortunes ; and ( 3 ), kingship.

In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city.

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.

He wrote one Uncle Scrooge story, three Donald Duck stories and from 1970-1974 was the main writer for the Junior Woodchucks comic book ( issues 6 through 25 ).

Piron is the author of a book in French, Le bonheur clés en main ( The Keys to Happiness ), which distinguishes among pleasure, happiness and joy.

He invented the Labyrinth, the main setting of the book, and has a pet Hell Hound called Mrs. O ' Leery.

The book is narrated by an unnamed first-person narrator who claims to have known and served with the main character.

The main speaker in the book, identified by the name or title Qoheleth ( usually translated as " teacher " or " preacher "), introduces himself as " son of David, king in Jerusalem.

These scholars argue that the book does not attempt to claim that Qoheleth / Solomon wrote the book, but rather to use Qoheleth / Solomon as the main character in a book of wisdom literature.

* The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova purports to be a book by the main character, and further contains a number of other letters, books, and maps relating to Dracula and the main character's friends and family.

Rosenberg claimed that the book was based upon a manuscript that he found in the main library in Metz.