The games follow the adventures of a hapless janitor named Roger Wilco as he campaigns through the galaxy for " truth, justice and really clean floors ".

Roger Wilco, a perpetual loser, is often depicted as the underdog who repeatedly saves the universe ( often by accident )-only to be either ignored or punished for violating minor regulations in the process.

The first two Space Quest games allowed the player to choose the character's name, which defaulted to Roger Wilco if left blank.

It is revealed in the time travel tomfoolery that is Space Quest IV that Roger would eventually marry Beatrice and that they would have a son ( Roger Wilco Jr .) As Wilco now owes his life to his son, this must happen.

It was remade and re-released in 1991 as " Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter ".

Having defeated the diabolical pukoid mutants in Space Quest V, Captain Roger Wilco triumphantly returns to StarCon headquarters-only to be court-martialed due to breaking StarCon regulations while saving the galaxy.

( This segment also provided the game's original subtitle, Where in Corpsman Santiago is Roger Wilco ?, which was not used due to legal threats from the makers of the Carmen Sandiego products.

He took over the planet and is sending his minions back in time to kill Roger Wilco.

An underground resistance is formed against him, including his nemesis ' son, Roger Wilco Jr.

Roger Wilco appears as an opponent in Hoyle's Official Book of Games, Volume I.

Roger Wilco is trapped in the Hoyle game, and is trying to find a way to escape back to his game world.

Roger Wilco returns in Hoyle 3, along with bad guy characters, Arnoid and Vohaul, but the characters are limited to talking about the game itself.

The game was planned as a departure from the main Space Quest series, rumors it starred a new character named " Wilger ", although Roger Wilco was playable ( as seen in a production video ).

* Roger Wilco: The Other World Series ( 1992 )-a collection containing Space Quest VGA, Space Quest II and Space Quest III on floppy disks.

* Roger Wilco Unclogged ( 1995 ) – All the above, plus a humorous " Inside Space Quest " video, but without the Two Guys video

Space Quest merchandise included the Space Quest III VHS tape and pin, Space Quest 6 mug, calling card and patch and an autographed picture of Roger Wilco.

It was written from the perspective of Roger Wilco sending journals on disks back into the past, so that his adventures could be made into video games so that his great grand parents ( x-times removed ) would have a chance to meet each other and fall in love through their mutual love of the games.

The book contains two interviews with Roger Wilco ( one just after events of SQIV, and the other after SQV ).

Adventure Comics ( a division of Malibu Comics ) released three issues in 1992 of a comic based on Space Quest I under the name The Adventures of Roger Wilco.

* Space Quest IV. 5: Roger Wilco And The Voyage Home set between the fourth and fifth game.

Thy Dungeonman II, a text adventure game from the creators of Homestar Runner, uses cover art that depicts the title character holding a mop in the same way Roger Wilco does on the Space Quest box art.

The latest and, significantly, greatest fruit of this theatrical vine is The, an adaptation of Basho's classic frog-haiku by Roger Entwhistle, a former University of Maryland chemistry instructor.

Mrs. Roger Mead is head of the luncheon table decorations.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

The trump picture of Corwin is executed in a subtly different style-and has features very similar to Roger Zelazny's.

The current leader is Roger Chartier, who is Directeur d ' Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Professeur in the Collège de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

A modern form of this argument is given by Sir Roger Penrose.

* 1139 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

One consequence of this is that in standard general relativity, the universe began with a singularity, as demonstrated by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose in the 1960s.

In order to work, and as pointed out by Roger Penrose from 1986 on, inflation requires extremely specific initial conditions of its own, so that the problem ( or pseudoproblem ) of initial conditions is not solved: “ There is something fundamentally misconceived about trying to explain the uniformity of the early universe as resulting from a thermalization process.

Likewise, Roger Cohen, in an op-Ed for the New York Times propounded that, " captive minds ... resort to conspiracy theory because it is the ultimate refuge of the powerless.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

Cy Young is tied with Roger Clemens for the most career wins by a Boston Red Sox pitcher.

In the novel Man Plus by Frederick Pohl, an able-bodied astronaut, Roger Torraway, is surgically altered in order to augment his fragile human body and allow him to function in the harsh climate of Mars.

* French director Roger Vadim's Et mourir de plaisir ( literally And to die of pleasure, but actually shown in England as Blood and Roses, 1960 ) is based on Carmilla and is considered one of the greatest of the vampire genre.

The full line goes along the pattern of, for example, " And even though Roger Clemens stabs his radio with a syringe whenever he hears us say it, this is NPR: National Public Radio ( later just '... this is NPR ').

Christie also used material from her fictional creation, spinster Caroline Sheppard, who appeared in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Roger the Dodger is a fictional character featured regularly in the UK comic The Beano.

Anecdotes remained popular in Europe well into the 18th century, when the fictional anecdotal letters of Sir Roger de Coverley were published.

The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on actual crew member Peter Heywood.

In the 1990s Roger MacBride Allen wrote a trilogy which was set within Asimov's fictional universe.

Roger Mellie (" The Man on the Telly ") is a fictional character featured in Viz magazine.

In 2010, Keaton starred alongside Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford in Roger Michell's comedy Morning Glory, playing the veteran TV host of a fictional morning talk show that desperately needs to boost its lagging ratings.

The story is centred around specialist registrar Rob Lake ( Max Beesley ), who starts the first series in a new post in the Obstetrics and gynaecology Department at the fictional South Central Infirmary, under the guidance of consultant obstetrician Roger Hurley ( Patrick Baladi ).

He has been the subject of four notable biographies: the first, Man o ' War, by Page Cooper and Roger Treat, was published in 1950, and is a classic of its kind ; Walter Farley, author of The Black Stallion series, also wrote a slightly fictional biography of Man o ' War ; in 2000, Bowen, Edward L. wrote a biography called Man o ' War: Thoroughbred Legends from Eclipse Press ; and in 2006, Dorothy Ours wrote a new, extensively sourced biography entitled Man o ' War: A Legend Like Lightning.

In 2007, producer Roger Elsgood and director Willi Richards adapted the play into a radio play called The Two Gentlemen of Valasna, setting it in two fictional Indian princely states called Malpur and Valasna, in the weeks leading up to the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

Roger Ebert, in his audio commentary for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ( 1970 ) gives the film credit for inspiring all-female rock bands, with the fictional band Carrie Nations created for the film, stating that such bands were quite rare at the time, but started to spring up in the film's wake.

In his 1969 review, Roger Ebert wrote " In Medium Cool, Wexler forges back and forth through several levels ... There are fictional characters in real situations ... there are real characters in fictional situations.

* Roger Davies ( Harry Potter ), fictional character in the Harry Potter book series

He appeared once again in the 2009 annual in " Reservoir Dodge ", where after discovering a Weather-Predicting device Roger and Walter sold him is fake, he tries to kill them and invites a group of other fictional villains over, like the Joker, a Dalek, a devil, and Bully Beef.

Jessica Rabbit is a fictional character from the Roger Rabbit film-and-novel franchise.

* Sir Roger de Tourneville: Roger, Baron de Tourneville is fictional.

Vinea is a fictional planet that appears in the Yoko Tsuno graphic novel series by Roger Leloup.

In 1987, Ladd appeared on Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters ' second solo album Radio K. A. O. S., portraying a fictional disk jockey named " DJ Jim ".

Carlos Vallerte, portrayed by Roger Velasco, is a fictional character in the Power Rangers universe, first appearing in the television series Power Rangers Turbo.

), Roger the Alien, fictional character from American Dad!

* Roger Chillingworth, the fictional antagonist in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter