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.

The character's popularity has spread from Nickelodeon's original demographic of two to eleven year olds, to teenagers and adults, including college campuses and celebrities such as Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis.

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.

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.

This allows voice actors to release CDs in their character's name with different companies.

The European release of the Mega Drive and the Windows PC versions of the game included the Sega Tunes: Comix Zone soundtrack, which contains ' enhanced ' music taken from the game's soundtrack and played by a full rock band with vocals named ' Roadkill ' ( the main character's pet rat, as well as a playable item ; see above ).

In the theatrical cut she appeared as only a dead body, although the DVD release contains deleted scenes of her before her character's death.

The English localization of Street Fighter 2010 differs from the original Japanese release, changing the main character's identity and backstory in order to imply that he is the same Ken from the original Street Fighter, having retired from his martial arts career after winning the tournament.

The characters travel into the Sanctuary and the Main Character claims the Mana Sword ; however, it is soon discovered that the Main Character's adversaries ( Koren and the Darkshine Knight for Angela and Duran ; Jagan and Bigieu for Riesz / Lise and Hawkeye ; or the Deathjester and Heath for Kevin and Carlie / Charlotte ) ( the villains that aren't the main character's primary enemies are killed by whoever the main villain is ) has captured the Faerie and will only release her in exchange for the Mana Sword.

Animator Grim Natwick initially designed Willie for The Air Race and the subsequent Play Ball, the character's first theatrical release.

One release, a gold-selling album called Watch it, Sucka !, was titled after one of her Aunt Esther character's catchphrases to capitalize on her newfound TV fame.

Following this was a release of ' Full Armor Knight Gundam ' ( depicting the character's upgraded form ), with figures of Satan Gundam and Command Gundam announced for later in 2009.

According to an interview with Nelson included on the 2008 DVD release of the series, she developed the character's Valley speak and personality prior to the Zappa recording becoming popular.

In 2006, the Canadian Red Cross issued a press release asking video game makers to stop using the red cross in their games ; it is an especially common sight to see first aid kits and other items which restore the player character's health marked with a red cross.

For example, if two characters are wrestling the relevant attribute is Strength ; a character could reveal a weapon, changing it to Warfare ; they could try to overcome the other character's mind using a power, changing it to Psyche ; or they could concentrate their strength on defense, changing it to Endurance.

Unlike D & D, however, the first two editions of Gamma World do not use a concept of character class, and increases in Rank do not affect the character's skills or combat abilities.

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

Carrie Fisher, in an appearance on the UK TV show Bring Back Star Wars, said she hated her character's hairstyle ; she felt it made her face look rounder, and it took two hours every day to style.

Despite two years of widespread publicity about Fett's appearance in The Empire Strikes Back, script rewrites significantly reduced the character's presence in the film.

Morris also appeared in two episodes of the revival series, in which the character's son, Grant Collier ( played by Morris's real-life son, Phil Morris ), is also an IMF agent.

In the final two films of the prequel trilogy, Christensen was the only actor portraying a Jedi who was not allowed to customize his character's lightsaber.

Bakula also guest starred in seasons two and three of NBC's Chuck as the title character's father Stephen Bartowski.

( The latter two do not appear in Friday, but are mentioned as two of the title character's genetic progenitors.

Hugo depicts the character's 19-year-long struggle with the law for stealing bread, so he could feed his sister's children ( 5 years for the theft, 14 years for four attempted escapes and two years for fighting back during one escape attempt ) during a time of economic depression.

In 2007, Rossellini guest starred on two episodes of the television show 30 Rock, playing Alec Baldwin's character's ex-wife.

Alongside Kane and Finger, Fox contributed to the evolution of the character, including the character's first use of his utility belt, which " contain choking gas capsules ," as well as writing the first usages of both the Batarang and the Batgyro ( an autogyro precursor to the Batcopter ) two issues later.

Between Thomas and Gaiman, the character's existence was revealed to be a sham created by two nightmares who had escaped to a pocket of the Dreaming, who would later attempt this again on Sanderson Hawkins, sidekick to Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman ( who himself made several appearances in the Gaiman series ).

Fast cutting is also frequently used when shooting dialogue between two or more characters, changing the viewer's perspective to either focus on the reaction of another character's dialog, or to bring to attention the non-verbal actions of the speaking character.

Her other major film roles include David Niven's character's love interest in the film A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), and Zira, the sympathetic chimpanzee scientist in the 1968 film Planet of the Apes and two sequels.

Two references are drawn from the title character's lines in King Henry V (" Once more onto the breach "/" The game's afoot "), while two more quotations are from Julius Caesar (" I am as constant as the Northern Star "/" Cry ' havoc!

At least two different books about the Major League Baseball club known as the " Dodgers " have used this character's name as a play-on-words for their titles: The Artful Dodgers, edited by Tom Meany ; and The Artful Dodger, by Tommy Lasorda with David Fisher.

Gambit has starred or co-starred in four mini-series-Gambit Volumes One ( released in 1993 ) and Two ( released in 1997 ), explored the character's mysterious past and his ties to the New Orleans Thieves ' Guild ; Wolverine / Gambit: Victims, which teamed the two popular X-Men on a mystery involving what appears to be a modern-day Jack the Ripper ; and Gambit and Bishop, which was advertised as a sequel to the character's first series and involves the two X-Men in Stryfe's return.