Much like in Airplane !, Nielsen portrayed a serious character whose one-liners appeared accidental next to the pratfalls and sight gags around him.

The gritty black-and-white film uniquely portrayed heroin as a serious literary topic as it rejected the standard " dope fiend " approach of the time.

In a 1977 made-for-television movie, Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night, Dey portrayed a disturbed young mother with serious psychological problems, who begins to take them out on her toddler daughter.

In some cases, however, his relationship with girls is portrayed in a more serious light.

In the manga she is portrayed as calm, serious, and practical, distrusting most men and discouraging her friends from developing romantic relationships.

Storm, portrayed as a serious, humourless heel, was in The Alliance and was their first WCW superstar ever to invade a WWF program, on the May 28, 2001 episode of Raw.

This version of Dr. Robotnik was initially portrayed as a fearsome dictator, darker and more serious than his much sillier counterpart in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.

The Panther was portrayed as a clever, serious and responsible character, quite similar to the Bagheera in the novel, except that in the novel Bagheera spoiled Mowgli more.

Randolph was often portrayed as the black sheep of the Churchill family — irascible, spoiled by his father, and with a serious drinking problem.

Due to the grotesque, unsettling mood effect peculiar to wide-angle lenses, films making use of such perspective distortion can often be placed in one of two categories: Grotesque and surreal satire and fantasy, also to some extent black comedy ( Gilliam, Jeunet & Caro, Orson Welles, Dr. Strangelove ) on the one hand, and serious, more realistic films with a particular edge for social criticism on the other, whereas social conventions, collective society, and / or the motives and acts of leaders are portrayed as grotesque and absurd, and often also feature tyrannical characters with conformist values who act out in an extremely hostile and prejudiced way towards individualism and outsiders ( Paths of Glory, Straw Dogs, The Offence ).

Arjen has stated that he wanted this particular album to be a more flight-and-fancy-free record, or " pure escapism " than the previous albums ' more serious tones, and portrayed his characters in more of a B-Movie light.

Light, a long-time enemy of the Teen Titans and the Justice League, has been portrayed both as a serious menace and as a company in-joke for incompetent supervillains.

Actors such as Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Henry Fonda, and John Wayne portrayed serious roles in various dialects of American English speech, and the export of American cinema familiarized the rest of the world with its features.

Often one of the duo members, the straight man, feed, dead wood, or stooge is portrayed as reasonable and serious, and the other one, the funny man, banana man or comic is portrayed as funny, less educated or less intelligent, silly, or unorthodox.

* Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, begun in 1983, includes characters who manifest more than one personality ; this is portrayed as a mere idiosyncrasy, not a serious psychiatric disorder.

Later Joanna has an affair with Françoise's brother David ( Georges Descrières ), which is portrayed as much more serious than Mark's and threatens to end the marriage ; however, while Joanna dines with David and they witness a couple eating together without saying a word, David asks, offhandedly, " What kind of people can eat an entire meal together and not talk?

Communists for Kerry was falsely portrayed as a serious pro-Kerry group several times in the mass media.

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Fox News portrayed the group as a serious organization which actually supported Kerry.

Having quickly made a name for herself-Toulouse-Lautrec portrayed her on a magazine cover in 1895-Polaire briefly visited New York, appearing there as a " chanteuse " at various venues, but without achieving major success .. On her return to Paris she extended her range and went on to act in the serious theatre.

The series was inspired by Jack Webb's Dragnet and used a similar format to that series, with Jones being portrayed as a serious, by-the-book, yet sympathetic cop with no personal life outside of her job.

The journey becomes fascinating because the traveler shares with his readers the knowledge of the less and more serious history of the places, items and people portrayed in the essays.

The character was portrayed more serious in this story, suffering heavily from the loss of his family.

Ugo Foscolo, who met Parini in Milan, portrayed him as a serious, dignified person in Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis and accused the rich and corrupt town which had forgotten him, in Dei sepolcri.

Alongside Hercule Poirot, she is one of the most loved and famous of Christie's characters and has been portrayed numerous times on screen.

Völuspá, the first poem of the work, mentions many of the features and characters of Asgard portrayed by Snorri, such as Yggdrasil and Iðavöllr.

During the latter part of his career, Lancaster left adventure and acrobatic movies behind and portrayed more distinguished characters.

It was reportedly his idea that Rick Blaine be portrayed as a chess player, which also served as a metaphor for the sparring relationship of the characters played by Bogart and Rains in the movie.

Private Eye parodied Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, age 13¾ to write The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as a naive nincompoop ( e. g. keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his " Bastards Book ") and featuring " my wife Norman " and " Mr Dr Mawhinney " as recurring characters.

He moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanor that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles .” A repeated theme in roles he has portrayed is that of saving the world, including the characters of Ted Logan, Buddha, Neo, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine and Klaatu.

After this, thousands of Vitaphone shorts ( 1926 – 30 ) were made, many featuring bands, vocalists and dancers, in which a musical soundtrack played while the actors portrayed their characters just as they did in silent films: without dialogue.

As a straight man he was often a foil to the rising ire of characters portrayed by John Cleese.

The characters portrayed in the game are referred to as mages, and are capable of feats of magic.

She also appeared in a number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Although the characters would be portrayed in hundreds and even thousands of adventures over the decades, they have been portrayed as having aged little or none at all.

The Death of Klinghoffer, Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic by John Adams, Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie, and Anna Nicole by Mark-Anthony Turnage exemplify the dramatisation on stage of events in recent living memory, where characters portrayed in the opera were alive at the time of the premiere performance.

The characters and storylines portrayed by a successful promotion are seen to reflect the current mood, attitudes, and concerns of that promotion's society ( and can, in turn, influence those same things ).

More recently during the filming of Scott's 2012 film, Prometheus, Charlize Theron praised the director's willingness to listen to suggestions from the cast for improvements in the way their characters are portrayed on script.

Crusher is often depicted as intelligent, compassionate, caring, and strong willed ; she is occasionally portrayed as defiant, occasionally siding with characters who seem to play the role of underdog and often plays devil's advocate in the senior staff meetings.

That is, his characters are portrayed as being prisoners of their fates and their own failings who nonetheless seek redemption and meaning in an absurd and violent world.

The characters are rendered as sprites portrayed from sixteen different angles.

The characters he portrayed in the films were usually very similar to the wise-cracking, sly, lecherous Cockney he was famed for playing on television, and in six cases bore the name Sid or Sidney: Sidney Fiddler, Sid Carter, Sid Plummer, Sidney Bliss, Sidney Boggle and Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond.

Many books ended unsatisfactorily and drastically, often with suicide, and writers portrayed their gay characters as alcoholics and deeply unhappy.

While the film portrayed the events of the " Hundred Days " quite faithfully, including some allusions to and scenes from the Battle of Ligny and of Quatre Bras, there were a few mistakes, presumably made for artistic purposes, and some characters act as ciphers for others.

The show features a wide assortment of recurring characters, many of them portrayed by New Zealand actors.

The X-Men exist in the Marvel Universe with other characters portrayed in Marvel Comics series.

* January 12 – Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio program Sam ' n ' Henry, in which the two white performers portrayed two black characters from Harlem looking to strike it rich in the big city.

" Gay characters had been portrayed before on television, and at the time the popular sitcom Will & Grace was on the air.