Is not the present world crisis a race between things we have created which can now destroy us and between populations of sufficient wisdom and character to forestall the tragedy.

* Austin Powers, fictional character in films, created and portrayed by Mike Myers

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

She presented the character as a bold and eccentric old lady, different from the prim and birdlike character Christie created in her novels.

* Alfie Atkins, known as Alfons Åberg in Swedish, character created by Gunilla Bergström from Sweden

* Alfred Brooks, the main character in The Contender, created by Robert Lipsyte

Because the characters were 8 x 12 pixels this meant that video resolutions of 512 x 192 pixels ( in 64x16 character mode ), or 640 x 300 pixels ( in 80x24 character mode ) were created, which was quite high for the time.

" ( In fact, Fisher's brutish hillbilly character — Big Leviticus, created by Capp in Fisher's absence — bore little resemblance to Li ' l Abner.

She was the only character created at the request of MTV, who wanted a female character who could tolerate and handle the duo.

The Daria character had been created for Beavis and Butt-Head by Glenn Eichler and originally designed by Bill Peckmann of J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. Eichler then became a producer for Daria.

The Bastard Operator From Hell ( BOFH ), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users ( often referred to as lusers ), colleagues, bosses, and anyone else who gets in his way.

The style and setting of the game, in a relatively modern time period, created an emphasis on real-life settings, character research, and thinking one's way around trouble.

The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

Clark Kent is a fictional character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

The Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

Piter De Vries is a fictional character from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert.

In the hauntingly re-enacted opening portion of the film concerning the background that McNamara and his pro-nuclear-war adversary U. S. General Curtis LeMay had shared together during World War II, director Morris brought out complexities in the character of McNamara, which the public had not previously recognized, but which largely shaped McNamara's positions regarding both the missiles-in-Cuba issue and the Vietnam War issue, and which therefore created the historical figure that McNamara turned out to be as the U. S. Secretary of Defense.

Other key members of the development team included Bill Trost, who created the history, lore and major characters of Norrath ( including Everquest protagonist Firiona Vie ), Geoffrey " GZ " Zatkin who implemented the spell system, and artist Milo D. Cooper, who did the original character modeling in the game.

Once a character is created, it can only be played on that server unless the character is transferred to a new server by the customer service staff, generally for a fee.

Volstagg, a comic book character that appears as a supporting character in Marvel Comics ' version of Thor, was created as a Falstaff-type character.

He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.

In response to the question “ Which side does Abner part his hair on ?," Capp would answer, “ Both .” Capp said he finally found the right " look " for Li ' l Abner with Henry Fonda's character Dave Tolliver, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ( 1936 ).

During the game, players describe their PC's intended actions, such as punching an opponent or picking a lock, and converse with the DM in character – who then describes the result or response.

The choice of switch technology affects key response ( the positive feedback that a key has been pressed ) and travel ( the distance needed to push the key to enter a character reliably ).

In most such games, the player character has no onscreen dialogue and non-player characters will typically address the player as though they don't expect a verbal response.

Because of the inversion of order created by a devious or witty slave, this stock character was perfect for achieving a humorous response and the traits of the character worked well for driving the plot forward.

An early famous example in popular culture is the return of Sherlock Holmes: writer Arthur Conan Doyle killed off the popular character in an encounter with his foe Professor Moriarty, only to bring Holmes back, due in large part to audience response.

* In telecommunications, a negative-acknowledge character ( NAK or NACK ) is a transmission control character sent by a station as a negative response to the station with which the connection has been set up.

:( b ) the instant at which the first character of the response is received at a terminal.

Over the decades the character has evolved in response to changes in US culture and tastes.

It is the response that conscious beings make to their Creator, to the Eternal Reality from which they came forth ; to God, however they may think of Him or recognize Him, and whether He be realized through religion, through nature, through history, through science, art, or human life and character.

In an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, an Oscar-like character emerges from a dustbin and instructs the viewer that it's " not cool " to play with scythes ( in response to Irwin's stealing and misuse of Grim's scythe ) and instructs viewers to " tell an adult immediately " if they find one.

Ernestine often snorted when she let loose a barbed response or heard something salacious ; she also wore her hair in a 1940s hairstyle with a hair net, although the character was contemporary.

The needless bitterness of his attacks upon Plato ( in the Comparatio Aristotelis et Platonis ), which drew forth a powerful response from Basilios Bessarion, and the manifestly hurried and inaccurate character of his translations of Plato, Aristotle and other classical authors, combined to ruin his fame as a scholar, and to endanger his position as a teacher of philosophy.

In response, Saban counterbalanced Zedd's character by bringing back Rita Repulsa.

In response to his critics, he posted a 6, 500-word essay on National Review Online, and NRO subsequently published a litany of responses from conservative authors who accused D ' Souza of character assassination, elitism and pseudo-intellectualism.

After casting Koenig, Roddenberry wrote a letter to Mikhail Zimyanin, editor of Pravda, informing him of the introduction of a Russian character, and an NBC press release announcing the character at the time stated that it was in response to a Pravda article.

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 male black character was, in contrast educated and sophisticated, although stubborn and also capable of using insulting phrases, such as the terms " Honky ", " Snowflake ", " Paleface " or " Big White Chief " to describe his white neighbour ( often in response to being called " nig-nog " or " Sambo ").

In response to fans and critics who accused the writers of being motivated by homophobia, Stafford comments, " they seem to forget that it was those same writers who created such an amazing, gentle, and realistic portrait in the first place ; that Tara is certainly not the first character to be killed off on the show ; and Tara was a lot more than just ' the lesbian ', and her character deserves better than that.

The character was murdered by Dr. Dooom on Thornton's 1999 album First Come, First Served, and was briefly revived before once again being killed on Thornton's 2008 album Dr. Dooom 2, in response to the release of The Return of Dr. Octagon, an album largely produced without Thornton's involvement.