Like her half-brother Bobby Drake ( a. k. a. the superhero Iceman ), Lightwave is a mutant.

Like Supergirl, Mary Marvel was a teen-age female version of an adult male superhero, wearing a costume that was identical to the older character's other than substituting a short skirt for tight trousers.

Like Nite-Owl, Ozymandias ' costume was changed extensively from the purple and gilt of the graphic novel, so as to further emphasize his fascination with Egyptian royalty and to reference and parody superhero films such as Batman & Robin.

Like most teenaged heroes in the Spider-Man mold, he is often overwhelmed by the combined responsibilities of his career as a superhero and typical adolescent problems.

Like Captain Marvel he becomes a superhero after saying a magic word.

Like Samson, teenage Prince Adam turns into the adult, muscular superhero He-Man by way of a magical artifact.

Like Noble Causes, Dynamo 5 was also a monthly series by Image Comics that depicted the superhero family dynamics, but placed more emphasis on action, dividing its content between the team's battles with adversaries and its interpersonal conflicts.

Like his friend and contemporary August Strindberg he had little patience with collective mediocrity.

Like Roosevelt, he can distinguish an attitude toward a Russian leader he may share with a host of Americans from the responsibilities diplomatic convention may impose upon him.

Like Mrs. Dalloway, with her regrets about Peter Walsh, he had his moments of melancholy over a youth too well spent.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Like almost everybody else, he confused the heart, both as organ and as symbol, with the disturbed psyche, the deranged glands, and the jumpy central nervous system.

Like, for example, a man carrying a twenty-two rifle, probably with a telescopic sight attached??

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

Like an abbot, after being confirmed in her office by the Holy See, an abbess is solemnly admitted to her office by a formal blessing, conferred by the bishop in whose territory the monastery is located, or by an abbot or another bishop with appropriate permission.

Like with Tyrannosaurus, the maxillary ( cheek ) teeth of Albertosaurus were adapted in general form to resist lateral forces exerted by a struggling prey.

Like all traits, there is variability in the intensity of fears of spiders, and those with more intense fears are classified as phobic.

Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

Like many of his poems ( e. g. fr. s 38, 326, 338, 347, 350 ), it begins with a verb ( in this case " Let's drink!

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

Like the harp these instruments do not belong to the violin family and are not homogenous with the string choir.

Like Cole Porter at Yale and Richard Rodgers at Columbia, his career in musical theater began with his collegiate contributions, in Lerner's case to the annual Harvard Hasty Pudding musicals.

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

Like chess, backgammon has been studied with great interest by computer scientists.

Like von Seeckt, he concluded that France could no longer maintain the huge armies of conscripts and reservists with which World War I had been fought, and sought to use tanks, mechanised forces and aircraft to allow a smaller number of highly trained soldiers to have greater impact in battle.

Like other genera associated with the early history of microbiology, such as Pseudomonas or Vibrio, members of the Bacillus genus ( 266 species ) are found ubiquitously, and it is one of the genera with the largest 16S diversity and environmental diversity.

Like the ocean which shapes them, coasts are a dynamic environment with constant change.

Like all metal cations, Cs < sup >+</ sup > forms complexes with Lewis bases in solution.

Like many other chorded keyboards, this keyboard can be used with one hand.

Like farce, screwball comedies often involve mistaken identities or other circumstances in which a character or characters try to keep some important fact a secret.

Like Stepashin, Putin had a background in the secret police, having made his career in the foreign intelligence service and later as head of the FSB.

Like medieval Jewish groups, the Dwarves use their own language only amongst themselves, and adopted the languages of those they live amongst for the most part, for example taking public names from the cultures they lived within, whilst keeping their " true-names " and true language a secret.

Magica makes a cameo appearance in the Darkwing Duck episode " In Like Blunt " along with the Beagle Boys and Flintheart Glomgold, among the bidders for the secret S. H. U. S. H.

In the Disney series Darkwing Duck episode " In Like Blunt ", Glomgold makes a cameo appearance-along with the Beagle Boys and Magica DeSpell-as a bidder for the secret S. H. U. S. H.

Like other nature spirits, Pan appears to be older than the Olympians, if it is true that he gave Artemis her hunting dogs and taught the secret of prophecy to Apollo.

Like his father, he was inducted into the Skull and Bones secret society, where he was nicknamed " Odin ".

Like Seiwell before him, English won the job at a secret audition before McCartney.

Like Rex, the queen is chosen in the spring of the previous year, and must keep her identity secret until Lundi Gras.

Like all other citizens of the One State, D-503 lives in a glass apartment building and is carefully watched by the secret police, or Bureau of Guardians.

Like John Drake, Number Six is evidently a secret agent, but one who has resigned from his job.

Like a chef zealously guarding the recipe of a sensational dish, Nanton kept the details of his technique a secret, even from his band mates, until his premature death.

Like other European revolutionary societies, such as the Carbonari of the Italian Risorgimento, the Young Turks had their origins in secret societies of " progressive medical university students and military cadets ", driven underground along with all political dissent after the Constitution was abolished by Hamid.

Like the characters in the better-known X-Men series, these children are mutants, brought together to explore their unique abilities and study in secret at an exclusive school for gifted children, lest they be hated and feared by a world that would not understand them.

Like the US program, listeners could obtain badges, pins, and secret codes.

" Like Henry, but with less mental reservation, he ended one day by divulging a secret.

Like Gentleman and China, he has lived for hundreds of years and, because of it, Gentleman trapped him to hide the secret.

Like many Soviet secret policemen of the 1930s, Yagoda was ultimately a victim of the Purge himself.

Like other aspects of research at Porton Down, precise details of animal experiments are generally kept secret.

Like Sam, he shares in Danny's secret and often helps battle ghosts back into the Ghost Zone.

Like other secret societies at the college, the Bishop James Madison Society fell victim to the hostilities of the American Civil War when William and Mary was occupied by Union troops and was forced to close its doors.

) Like the other characters, he has a dark secret.

Like the British government, the local politicians feared that increased military activity might provoke a Boer attack, so Baden-Powell decided to obtain many of his own stores, organise his own transport and recruit in secret.

Like his great-grandfather before him, Edmund leaves behind a secret bloodline which leads to the next Blackadder to have his adventures chronicled.