In the commentary for the Special Edition Release of the film, George Lucas stated that had he known of the character's popularity, he would have made the death scene more impressive.

Bulloch, who has never fully understood the character's popularity, attributes it to the costume and the respect Fett garners from Vader and Jabba the Hutt.

The initial Boba Fett toy, more than Fett's actual film appearance, might be responsible for the character's popularity ; Henry Jenkins suggests children's play helped the character " take on a life of its own.

Tom Swift's adventures have been popular since the character's inception in 1910: by 1914, 150, 000 copies a year were being sold and in a 1929 study found the series to be second in popularity only to the Bible for boys in their early teens.

The character's popularity has led to him giving name to the computer programming language Frink.

Culianu viewed it as a direct reference to Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and his rise in popularity, an interpretation partly based on the similarity between, on one hand, two monikers ascribed to the Legionary leader ( by, respectively, his adversaries and his followers ), and, on the other, the main character's name ( Cucoanes ).

The director of tourism and cultural services for Walker County, Texas has attributed the character's popularity to helping boost tourism numbers to the area.

Koenig always denied the " Russian origin " story and said the character was added in response to the popularity of The Monkees ' Davy Jones, and the character's hairstyle and appearance are a direct reference to this.

Given the character's unprecedented popularity and the fact that his name was partially derived from the Latin word for " lucky ", some rather notable individuals and organizations adopted Felix as a mascot.

The character's popularity prompted Diamond Select Toys to release two unique Glory action figures in 2006 and 2007: one figure is modeled on the character wearing her trademark red dress, and the other features the character dressed in black, as seen in " The Gift ".

Bandai has capitalized on the character's popularity by licensing out the name to various products.

The character's growing popularity led to a solo, four-issue, Wolverine ( September – December 1982 ), by Claremont and Frank Miller, followed by the six-issue Kitty Pryde and Wolverine by Claremont and Al Milgrom ( November 1984 – April 1985 ).

A 12-issue miniseries by writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, again titled The Punisher ( April 2000 – March 2001 ), under the Marvel Knights imprint, revived the character's popularity.

Based on Nightwing's increasing popularity, DC Comics decided to test the character's possibilities with a one-shot book and then a miniseries.

Due to the show and the character's great popularity during the early 1990s, Erkel encountered difficulties using his own name ; he received many prank phone calls from " Laura " asking for " Steve ", and businesses found his name suspicious.

The character's popularity spawned the 1986 live-action movie Mr. Bill's Real Life Adventures.

Due to the character's popularity, he got a solo backup feature in Detective Comics, where he was redefined as a detective who loves odd mysteries and travels the United States in a convertible with his wife searching for them.

The character's popularity spread to the world after being featured on The Ed Sullivan Show in the US.

As the character's popularity increased, a film was released called Stuart Saves His Family.

In the character's first appearance, originally only intended as a one-off, Kryten was played by actor David Ross but the popularity of the character meant that Kryten was introduced as a regular in Series III.

The character's appeal to the " every man " or " every woman " led to enduring popularity with millions of fans, and was a significant factor in the show's success.

" Due to the character's popularity, White was so tightly defined by his Urkel character that it became hard for him to get other roles.

Through the years, Japanese videogame publisher and toy maker Banpresto as well as other companies have released countless other Haro products due to the character's immense popularity as a Gundam " mascot ".

He has also stated that he had no idea of Prime's popularity until the character's controversial death in the 1986 animated film, as the studio had never given him fan letters from children addressed to Optimus.

An eagle will fly in the game near an area where the player has climbed to a high enough structure and there are nearby set pieces into which the player can jump, breaking the character's fall.

The Metal Gear Solid series of video games has a recurring character known as Grey Fox or the " Cyborg Ninja " who is a person wearing a cybernetic exoskeleton ( either worn as a suit or grafted directly to the character's body ) and wielding a high-frequency blade.

Tom Wolfe, in his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, describes a character's thoughts during an acid trip: " He looks down, two bare legs, a torso rising up at him and like he is just noticing them for the first time ... he has never seen any of this flesh before, this stranger.

The relationship between Jean Grey and the Phoenix ( and the nature of the powers she has ) is portrayed in a variety of ways throughout the character's history.

The character's abrupt hair loss has been made reference to several times over the course of his history.

Each character's kart has different capabilities with differing levels of top speed, acceleration and handling.

His character has caused controversy following allegations that his character's behaviour, bag and body colour have stereotypical homosexual qualities.

However, " Repo Men " would turn out to be the character's only appearance in the entire show's run, leading to a legal dispute in the following years over the rights to characters and concepts between Rushing and Warner Brothers, although he remained on good terms with cast and crew and in recent years has made appearances at several fan conventions.

A less destructive alternative of this theory suggests the death of the time traveller whether the history is altered or not ; an example would be in the first part of the Back to the Future trilogy, where the lead character's alteration of history results in a risk of his own disappearance, and he has to fix the alteration to preserve his own existence.

Throughout the character's television and movie appearances, the shape of Spock's ears has varied, due in part to the different makeup artists applying them.

Doillon has commented that in the original screenplay her character was written to be 14 years old, he was so impressed with Binoche's audition he changed the character's age to 17 to allow her take the role.

The film highlights Lear's role as king by including his people throughout the film on a scale no stage production could emulate, charting the central character's decline from their god to their helpless equal ; his final descent into madness marked by his realisation that he has negelected the ' poor naked wretches '.

It has no connection, other than the character's name, to the earlier film Eddie Monsoon: A Life ?, a comedy play written by Saunders ' husband Adrian Edmondson in 1984 for the TV series The Comic Strip Presents ....

The character's new addiction to coffee was suggested by writer-producer David Mirkin, who has friends who stopped drinking alcohol and became addicted to coffee.

Bob has no lines of dialogue during the first half of " Krusty Gets Busted ;" the character's only communication takes the form of a slide whistle.

* The Russian power metal band Epidemia has a song entitled " Feanor ", which is about the character's campaign against Morgoth and his death.

In other 2000s-era comics the character's full name has occasionally been given as Goofus D. Dawg.

The character's look has been compared with rock musician Billy Idol ( pictured )

The character's initial haughty and often cruel manner begins to soften after his years of imprisonment at the start of the series, but the challenge of undoing past sins and changing old ways is an enormous one for a being who has been set in his ways for billions of years.

He has been credited as the character's co-creator, though this has been a topic of dispute within the comic book industry.

Film director James Cameron has said the character's name was not in fact inspired by the grave.

The slash mark itself (/), when put between character's names, has come to mean a shorthand label for a romantic relationship, regardless of whether the pairing is heterosexual or homosexual, romantic or erotic.