Many stereotypically " nerdy " interests, such as superhero and Sci-Fi movies, are now popular culture hits.

Many superhero franchises resemble crime fiction ( Batman, Punisher ), others horror fiction ( Spawn, Spectre ) and others more standard science fiction ( Green Lantern, X-Men ).

Many features of superhero costumes recur frequently, including the following:

Many critics expressed concern with what they saw as bigotry, with Newsweek describing the film as " a right-wing fantasy ", Variety as " a specious, phony glorification of the police and police brutality with a superhero whose antics become almost satire " and a raging review by Pauline Kael of The New Yorker who accused Eastwood of a " single-minded attack against liberal values ".

Many superhero comics have characters who might be considered parahuman, such as Beast from the X-Men, Cheetah and Mini from NEW-GEN.

Many live in refugee camps that have sprung up around the wall while the superhero Monolith helps to keep the peace.

Many of the female heroes are members of the AC Comics superhero team Femforce.

Many games, including card games, are fabricated by science fiction authors and screenwriters to distance a culture depicted in the story from present-day Western culture.

Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the last depression.

Many of the pioneers of RPG zinedom got their start in, or remain part of, science fiction fandom.

Many modern writers of horror ( or indeed other types of fiction ) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities — examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ( 1938 ) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

Many science fiction stories ( notably Ben Bova's Grand Tour stories ) feature detailed descriptions of how people could extract minerals from asteroids and energy from sources including orbital solar panels ( unhampered by clouds ) and the very strong magnetic field of Jupiter.

Many parts of Arthurian fiction include Merlin as a character.

Many classic science fiction and crime novels were originally serialized in pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and Black Mask.

Many accurate predictions of the future come from the hard science fiction subgenre, but numerous inaccurate predictions have emerged as well.

Many science fiction works have received widespread critical acclaim including Childhood's End and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Many famous works were published in installments in it originally, including the most successful fiction Three Body, written by Liu Cixin.

Many other postmodern fiction writers have been directly influenced by Surrealism.

Many of these " Literary RPGs " are fan-fiction based, such as ( most prevalently ) Tolkien's Middle-earth, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Twilight, any number of anime and manga sources, or they are simply based in thematic worlds such as the mythologies of Ancient Greece, fairy tales, the Renaissance or science fiction.

Many professional science fiction authors started their interest in science fiction as fans, and some still publish their own fanzines or contribute to those published by others.

Many science fiction books and films have imagined characters being " trapped in virtual reality ".

Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, including works by John Buchan, Le Carré, Ian Fleming ( Bond ) and Len Deighton.

Many of the earliest superheroes, such as The Sandman and The Clock, were rooted in the pulp fiction of their predecessors.

Many works of fiction and literature use Memphis as their setting, giving a diverse portrait of the city, its history, and its citizens.

Many people who tuned in without hearing the introduction of the program as fiction were concerned that the invasion was real.

Many of the non-alphanumeric characters were positioned to correspond to their shifted position on typewriters.

Many of Christie ’ s detective characters show some archaeological traits through their careful attention to clues and artifacts alike.

Many archaeological sites are visited along the way and one of the main characters is an archaeologist, Signor Richetti.

* Many of the characters and musical themes of Bubble Bobble were used by Taito in a tile-matching video game Puzzle Bobble ( a. k. a. Bust-a-Move ) and its sequels.

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

* Many of the characters of Battle Angel Alita ( also known in Japan as GUNNM ) are cyborgs, including the lead, Alita ( Gally, Yoko ).

Many detective stories have police officers as the main characters.

Many of his stories are built on characters and locations created by Carl Barks.

Many epic heroes are recurring characters in the legends of their native culture.

Many such depictions also blend in with characters from his stories, suggesting Poe and his characters share identities.

Many of her stories have a milieu reminiscent of the space opera and pulp tales she read in her youth, but typically with a much darker tone: the cosmic journeys of her characters are often linked to a drastic spiritual alienation, and / or a transcendent experience which brings fulfillment but also death.

Many of the adventures revolve around how these entities ' conflicts affect the player characters and the world around them.

Many of Niven's stories take place in his Known Space universe, in which humanity shares the several habitable solar systems nearest to the Sun with over a dozen alien species, including the aggressive feline Kzinti and the very intelligent but cowardly Pierson's Puppeteers, which are frequently central characters.

Many of her devices, however, simply give a futuristic gloss to the daily life of the distant future, as she shows characters performing ordinary tasks with unexpected tools ( e. g. sonic laundry or toilets ).

Many of the ideas about the links between rhymes and historical persons, or events, can be traced back to Katherine Elwes's book The Real Personages of Mother Goose ( 1930 ), in which she linked famous nursery-rhyme characters with real people, on little or no evidence.

Many individuals, companies, and countries defined extra characters as needed — often re-assigning control characters, or using value in the range from 128 to 255.

Many modern computing systems provide wildcard characters in matching filenames from a file system.

Many plot features are similar as well: the characters pass time by playing Questions, impersonating other characters, and interrupting each other or remaining silent for long periods of time.

Many shows featured women as the main characters with males as supporting characters.

Many of his characters are attempting to live up to their expectations of themselves even as the world they live in demands that they compromise their values.