In 1612, the English language version of the phrase appeared in the book " Essays and Characters of a Prison " by English writer Geffray Mynshul ( Minshull ) originally published in 1618, and probably based on the author's experience while held at Gray's Inn, London, when imprisoned for debt.

Rather than the traditional format established by Dungeons & Dragons, which often involved the characters wandering randomly through caves or tunnels and fighting different types of monsters, Sandy Petersen introduced the concept of the Onion Skin: Interlocking layers of information and nested clues that lead the Player Characters from seemingly minor investigations into a missing person to discovering mind-numbingly awful, global conspiracies to destroy the world.

Characters in Gattaca continually battle both with the society and with themselves to find their place in the world and who they are destined to be according to their genes.

Marvel Characters, Inc. and DC Comics share ownership of the United States trademark for the phrases " Super Hero " and " Super Heroes " and these two companies own the vast majority of the world ’ s most famous and influential superheroes.

Characters in Absurdist drama may also face the chaos of a world that science and logic have abandoned.

Characters within the world can talk to one another and have almost the same interactions people would have in reality.

Most of the available choices reflect the four clans mentioned above, and some of the Special Characters are mentioned at length in the Army book as major powers in the Skaven world.

Characters exploring the world

Characters take the roles of psionic individuals, working for one of the many organizations in the gaming world, and tackling troubles when they arise.

As the name suggested, Pansy Potter no longer lived in what we can safely call Beanotown, but instead was living in this fantasy world called Wonderland which was also home to Humpty Dumpty and other nursery rhyme Characters.

Though his theories gained popularity in Germany in the 1880s, his work was not widely known in the English-speaking world until 1890 when his work Die Entstehung der Arten auf Grund von Vererben erworbener Eigenschaften nach den Gesetzen organischen Waschsens ( 1888 ) was translated by Joseph T. Cunningham as Organic Evolution as the Result of the inheritance of Acquired Characters according to the Laws of Organic Growth.

Characters who have appeared in the Judge Dredd world ( including the various spin-off series ).

Characters from DC Comics were originally suggestive of each existing in their own world, as superheroes never encountered each other.

Inspired by Sherlock, Jr., Hellzapoppin ', and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, it is the tale of a film character who leaves a fictional film of the same name and enters the real world.

In later adventures, collected in the graphic novels An Author in Search of Six Characters, Dies Irae, Perchance to Dream, and To See the Stars, Bergman ’ s frustrating adventures take him through Africa, India, and the world of European art.

Characters ( five-bit Baudot characters, of course ) could be stored three to a 15-bit word, but this representation is impossible to handle except by library routines.

Characters had attributes rated from 1-100 ( usually in the 25-75 range ) which could be rolled against for raw-attribute actions such as lifting items or getting out of the way of falling rocks.

The instruction Move Characters to Record or Group Mark could be used to assemble a block of records.

Characters were said to have their own agendas and allegiances in addition to randomization of various settings of the game upon startup in order to make it less predictable ; a character who was allied with the player in one game could be their enemy in the next.

Characters could easily end up with wounds that would last for months or suffer the loss of digits, or limbs.

Characters were created with a point-based system, and could be either humans, mutants, one of several alien species presented in the core books, or original aliens created by the GM.

Characters could be switched at any time ( for the cost of one bar from the special attack meter ) and players would need to use each character's strengths to successfully complete the game.

Characters have a certain number of spell usages per " spell level "; for instance, a character with 4 level 1 spell slots and a Fire Rune could cast " Flaming Arrows " ( the level 1 Fire Rune spell ) 4 times.

The most commonly suggested reason is that the Wacky Races Characters ( including Dastardly and Muttley ) were created as a co-production with Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley Productions, meaning that they were not fully owned by Hanna-Barbera, and thus could only be used with permission.

Characters have a certain number of spell usages per " spell level ;" for instance, a character with 4 level 1 spell slots and a Water Rune could cast " Kindness Drops " ( the level 1 Water Rune spell ) 4 times.

Characters had access to psionic powers and could come from a wide variety of sources ( e. g., natural mutation or man-made experiments ), as well as a variety of educational backgrounds.

Characters, enemies, and objects could now be created with much more detailed animations, without requiring that they be designed by hand.

A player could earn credits, purchase them in one of Disney's Parks ( the game's currency ) also by visiting the Disney Characters ( see Disney Characters above ) or by playing minigames.

Characters from Looking for Group have appeared in the background of a May 7, 2008 Least I could Do strip.

* No evil Characters could not have an evil alignment, nor could they worship an evil deity.

Characters must hit a dice block to move forward on the board ; the mushroom represents an Item Shop.

Characters cannot encounter each other while in the Timescape — they have been teleported to an entire different reality, not an area as on the main board.

" UGO. com listed Kirby on their list of " The Cutest Video Game Characters " stating " It ’ s easy to get on board with someone who will eat anything.

Characters discuss its existence and manipulation, while only superficially describing its exact physics, which result in a field being projected around a ship or other body, deflecting or dispersing projectiles and energy weapons.

* Characters in the Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O ' Brian frequently stay in Deal waiting for their ship to be ordered to sea.

Characters may find themselves trapped in a routine or, in a metafictional conceit, trapped in a story ; the titular characters in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, for example, find themselves in a story ( Hamlet ) in which the outcome has already been written.

Pope lost no opportunity of mocking Philips, who figured in the Bathos and the Dunciad, as Macer in the Characters ; and in the instructions to a porter how to find Edmund Curll's authors, Philips is a Pindaric writer in red stockings.

Characters can find bags of gold scattered around the dungeon.

This module requires the Player Characters, as the rulers of Bloodstone Pass if following the series, to find the true power behind the Witch-King and defeat it.

Characters explore Ancient ruins and strange post-apocalyptic societies to gain knowledge of the Ancients and social status for themselves.

Characters have a much greater significance attached to their acts, especially if they are morally impure, as they risk coming under the influence of the Dark Powers ( through the game process called " dark powers checks ") and gradually transforming themselves into figures of evil.

* Characters in a film or a television series who mention and / or refer to the actors or actresses that portray themselves ( e. g. Beatrice " Betty " Pengson from I Love Betty La Fea ; Bea Alonzo, who played the role of the protagonist, also played herself as an Ecomoda model ; coincidentally in the show, Betty wants to meet Bea Alonzo in person, an act of self-reference.

Characters can be seen escaping, or even dodging those bolts, and the blaster bolts themselves can be seen flying in a moderate-fast speed.

Characters in Kindred of the East ( or Kuei-jin, as they call themselves ) are vampires as depicted in classical Japanese, Chinese, and Indian Hindu, Taoist, Shinto and Buddhist mythology.

" Revoltingly suggestive and blasphemous .... Characters either contradictory in themselves, uninteresting or abhorrent.

In China, the Wu Wei Characters themselves resonate with old Taoist stories.

The Father begins another argument with the Director over the realism of the Actors compared to the Characters themselves.