Several other fictional books were invented by the same author, including an entire bibliography for the fictional author Pierre Menard, as well as an imaginary novel, purportedly written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali, entitled " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ," which was " reviewed " by Borges in his story of the same name.

* Several works of the fictional author Fanshawe appearing in Paul Auster's The Locked Room in The New York Trilogy.

" Several of the later operas are similarly set in foreign or fictional locales, including The Gondoliers, Utopia Limited, and The Grand Duke.

Several protagonists come to the realization that they are merely fictional characters, or at least begin to question the reality of their situation.

Several inventions, including the taser, have been directly inspired by the fictional inventions.

Several other books have been written to take place in the same fictional world:

Several episodes feature a fictional show-within-the-show called The Valley, an in-show equivalent to The O. C.

Several episodes blurred the distinction between performer and fictional character: In a few episodes ( such as " Is This Murder "), Ernest Chappell portrayed a man named " Ernest ".

Several fictional ( or fictionalized ) characters are also included, notably television newscaster Emmett Seaborn ( Lane Smith ) who appears in 9 of the 11 episodes.

Several events in the life of Ennis Cosby were intentionally mirrored by the events in the life of his father's fictional son, Theo Huxtable, portrayed by Malcolm Jamal Warner on NBC's The Cosby Show ( 1984 – 1992 ).

Several treacle mines have been claimed in Britain, notably in Wem ( Shropshire ), Talskiddy, Bisham, Nuneaton, Chobham, Tongham, Tadley, Skidby, Ditchford, Crick, Burtle, Somerset and Dunchideock ; in several northern towns including Natland and Baggrow in Cumbria ; in Croftamie, Scotland ; and in the fictional village of Wymsey.

Several fictional airplanes were introduced in the fourth playing scenario ( 2000 – 2020 ).

Several situations in the novel are drawn from the author's own early political career in the British House of Commons, and the fictional characters interact with actual political figures from the UK and elsewhere including Winston Churchill, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, Douglas Hurd, Colonel Gadaffi, Gary Hart and Queen Elizabeth II.

Several Three Stooges shorts, the first being You Nazty Spy ( 1940 ), the very first Hollywood work lampooning Hitler and the Nazis in which the boys, with Moe Howard portraying " Moe Hailstone ", as the Hitler character, are made dictators of the fictional country Moronica.

Several fictional retellings of the events surrounding the Jack the Ripper murders have cast Abberline in a central role.

Several of the original actors from the 1937 production were included as characters in the film, notably Olive Stanton, John Adair, and Will Geer, while others were replaced by fictional characters.

* Several fictional mobile suit from the Universal Century and Cosmic Era continuities of the Gundam franchise:

Several fictional works explored the clandestine machinations and conspiracies beneath the orderly fabric of political life.

Several descendants of Pal played the fictional Lassie character following their progenitor's death.

* Several fictional characters have also been called mathemagicians, such as Martin Gardner's " Victor Eigen.

Several spoof TV commercials are featured, including a few for the fictional Uranus Corporation ( pronounced with the stress on the second and third syllables ).

* Several of MicroProse's Formula One racing games in the late 1990s replaced 1997 Formula One World Champion Jacques Villeneuve with the fictional John Newhouse ( an approximate translation of his name ), as licensing restrictions prevented his name from being used.

Several popular characters of the period received the cartoon treatment.

* Several characters in Spriggan such as the Trident Corporation's agents ( except Iwao Akatsuki ), including ex-Machiner's Platoon agent Ironarm, have prosthetic limbs.

Several single packs and multi-figure sets by Jesco ( later Trendmasters ), as well as a 50th anniversary collection, have been made of the Gumby characters.

Several of the characters spoke in stereotypical German-accented English.

Several characters are never named during the film but do have names that are used in the tracklisting for the soundtrack album and elsewhere.

Several later Revelation Space novels add additional details of history of groups and characters on Mars.

Several characters, including Hamlet and Bertram ( in All's Well that Ends Well ), were, he believed, self-portraits.

Several Cardassian characters, including Elim Garak and Gul Dukat, are prominently featured.

Several characters who are former SCA members attribute their survival to their SCA experience.

Several characters become addicted to viewing their own dreams, while Claire's estranged lover, a novelist, remains unaffected.

Several games have also featured modes that involve teams of characters ; players form " tag teams " to fight matches in which combat is one-on-one, but a character may leave the arena to be replaced by a team mate.

Several historical characters listed in the credits do not actually appear in the film, they are said to have been in scenes cut before release.

Several of the characters from Illuminatus !, for example, Markoff Chaney (" The Midget ") and Epicene Wildeblood, return in Wilson's Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, which also carries on some of its themes.

Several of the characters appear in the two previous books, including Armand, Daniel ( the " boy reporter " of Interview with the Vampire ), Marius, Louis, Gabrielle and Santino.

* Several heroes of the 1990s, including Cable and many Image Comics characters, rejected the traditional superhero outfit for costumes that appeared more practical and militaristic.

Several new characters were added to the series in this sequel: A thief called Paul " Lupin " Toledo, a dog called Whiskey and Wilson, a shot down pilot claiming to be from the Light Brigade.

Several characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were also featured, played by the original television series actors.

Several other Western styles use the same tools and practices, but differ by the characters set, and by stylistic preferences.

" Several additional characters are referred to regularly throughout the series, but are mostly unseen.

Several Abenaki characters and much about their 18th-century culture are featured in the Kenneth Roberts novel Arundel ( 1930 ).

Several recurring characters include Naomi Wildman, the " Captain's Assistant " and daughter of Ensign Samantha Wildman, and the Borg children, Icheb, Mezoti, Azan, and Rebi.

Several regular symbols are conventionally used in ASCII-only text or another environments where bullet characters are not available, such as * ( asterisk ),-( hyphen ),.

* Several related characters in the Philip K. Dick novel The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Several characters are based on real country music figures: Henry Gibson's Haven Hamilton is a composite of Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, and Porter Wagoner ; Ronee Blakely's Barbara Jean is based on Loretta Lynn ; the black country singer Tommy Brown ( played by Timothy Brown ) is based on Charley Pride ; and the feuding folk trio is based on Peter, Paul and Mary ; within the trio, the married couple of Bill and Mary were inspired by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, who later became Starland Vocal Band .< ref >