Beginning with the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Q became a recurring character, with pronounced comedic and dramatic chemistry between himself and Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

He is best known for his comedic sketches on Late Night with David Letterman, starring in the cult comedy series Get a Life and for his recurring role as Peter MacDougall on Everybody Loves Raymond.

Kenny appeared regularly on NBC's music video show Friday Night Videos, in a recurring comedic Music News segment.

Eventually however, Stephen Fry suggested " Darling " would be a more comedic alternative ; the series makes use of a recurring joke where his name is used or referred to for comedic effect.

Other recurring comedic bits arise during games.

A recurring joke on the show took place in the General Store, in which Weiner would sell comedic props similar to those of Carrot Top.

Boyd showed he had comedic talents in recurring roles in the television series Bachelor Father ( as Howard Meechum, the boyfried of the Noreen Corcoran character ), Date with the Angels, The Betty White Show, Broadside ( in the role of Marion Botnik ), and My Three Sons.

* Carnac the Magnificent, a recurring comedic role played by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Carnac the Magnificent was a recurring comedic role played by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Claudia Black wished to broaden her horizon in comedic acting and agreed to the recurring role, but declined the producers ' offer of a permanent role for personal reasons.

The show also incorporates a variety of recurring comedic elements within the show as well.

A recurring theme in this work is the radical amazement that people feel when experiencing the presence of the Divine.

In the Middle Ages, regicide was rare in Western Europe, but it was a recurring theme in the Eastern Roman Empire.

In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future ( this is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future ).

Lois ' affection for Superman and her rejection of Clark's clumsy advances have been a recurring theme in Superman comics, television, and movies.

A recurring theme on the show WKRP in Cincinnati was a hostile attitude towards disco music.

Another significance of the structural problematic for Derrida is that while a critique of structuralism is a recurring theme of his philosophy this does not mean that philosophy can claim to be able to discard all structural aspects.

Tolstoy's War and Peace features criticism of Great Man Theories as a recurring theme

One recurring theme is loyalty.

Cloning is a recurring theme in a wide variety of contemporary science fiction, ranging from action films such as the 2000 film The 6th Day to comedies such as Woody Allen's 1973 film Sleeper.

The main recurring theme in his works is a comparison of the readers ' gloomy, hopeless situations to what may happen in a space environment if we carry totalitarian ideas and habits into space worlds: Red Space Republics or Space Labour Camps, or both.

However, the most significant for the development of the Arthurian legend are Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which introduces Lancelot and his adulterous relationship with Arthur's queen ( Guinevere ), extending and popularizing the recurring theme of Arthur as a cuckold, and Perceval, the Story of the Grail, which introduces the Holy Grail and the Fisher King and which again sees Arthur having a much reduced role.

The impact of inventions and technology on society is a recurring, if not central theme in Niven's work: for example, addiction to electric brain stimulation resulting in " wireheads ", or the secondary and tertiary effects of an invention such as teleportation on social behavior, problems, and mores.

During this time, Miyazaki drew airplanes and developed a lifelong fascination with aviation, a penchant that later manifested as a recurring theme in his films.

However, while globalization appears frequently as a recurring theme, Klein rarely addresses the topic of globalization itself, and usually indirectly.

Hospitality ( xenia ) is also a recurring theme as fundamental as the heroic code in the Odyssey.

There is also the recurring theme of duality, Adamists vs Edenists, Tyrathca vs Mosdva, Residents vs Ivets, Edenists vs Serpents, ESA vs ISA, even the Tyrathca have an internal divide.

The various realms consist of a number of gothic, medieval, as well as " fire and brimstone "- style caves and dungeons with a recurring theme of hellish and satanic imagery reminiscent of Doom ( such as pentagrams and images of demons on the walls ).

A recurring theme was the ethical aspects of an artificial, yet apparently sentient, being.

One recurring theme in the Doctor's life was his lack of a name.

A recurring theme in his writings is the history and development of evolutionary, and pre-evolutionary, thought.

Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.

This idea of a superficial contrast between characters ' individual linguistic style, tone and sphere of interest, leading to an understanding of the deeper unity between the ancient and modern, is a recurring theme in The Hobbit.

His long-time co-writer Charles McKeown comments about Gilliam's recurring interests, " the theme of imagination, and the importance of imagination, to how you live and how you think and so on [...] that's very much a Terry theme.

Elected archon in 493 BC, he took steps to increase the naval power of Athens, which would be a recurring theme in his political career.

* Atlas ( Astro Boy ), the brother and recurring rival of Astro Boy in the Anime and later TV series

In the FX animated series Archer, the titular protagonist's mother mourns the death of her Afghan Hound " Duchess " as a recurring gag throughout the show.

His voice acting credits include Marlin the clownfish in Finding Nemo, and recurring guest voices for the animated television series The Simpsons, including Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie.

* The Boomer, a recurring Special Infected in the Left 4 Dead series

The Metal Gear Solid series of video games has a recurring character known as Grey Fox or the " Cyborg Ninja " who is a person wearing a cybernetic exoskeleton ( either worn as a suit or grafted directly to the character's body ) and wielding a high-frequency blade.

He has had recurring roles in television series such as The X-Files playing Brad Follmer and Psych playing Pierre Despereaux.

Despite only five appearances throughout the entire show, Vicious is arguably the series ' main antagonist, or at any rate the only recurring one.

This is a consequence of the fact that the recurring part of a decimal representation is, in fact, an infinite geometric series which will sum to a rational number.

She is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups.

The series featured six main characters throughout its run, with many other characters recurring throughout all ten seasons.

The series launched Tim Allen's acting career and also was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the recurring cast for the first two seasons.

In 1995, Marrow had a recurring role as vengeful drug dealer Danny Cort on the television series New York Undercover, co-created by Dick Wolf.

Additionally, Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.

Pit was a recurring character in the American animated television series Captain N: The Game Master, and made cameo appearances in Nintendo games such as Tetris, F-1 Race and Super Smash Bros. Melee.

* Kirin, a recurring creature in the novel and anime series The Twelve Kingdoms ; the creature is based on qilin.

* A modified ( block style ) Lambda is used as a recurring symbol in the Valve computer game series Half-Life, referring to the Lambda complex of the fictional Black Mesa Research Facility.

* In the 2D fighting game series BlazBlue, a recurring character named Lambda-11 appears in the various games ' story modes and as a playable character.

* A recurring enemy in the Castlevania video game series

* Legion, a recurring demon / persona in the Megami Tensei series

Ned Grossberg is a recurring villain on the series, played by former SNL cast member Charles Rocket.

Mecha-like bipedal tanks called Metal Gears are a recurring element in the Metal Gear series.

* Nemesis ( Xena and Hercules ), a recurring character in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

They are mentioned over 250 times, the majority in the Deuteronomistic history ( the series of " history " books from Joshua to 2 Kings ), and are depicted as the archenemies of the Israelites, a serious and recurring threat before being subdued by David.

New games frequently referred to previous entries in the series, often in the form of cameos from recurring characters.