The film was Mabel's Strange Predicament, but " The Tramp " character, as it became known, debuted to audiences in Kid Auto Races at Venice — shot later but released two days earlier.

Ruggles predates P. G. Wodehouse's more famous manservant-hero, Jeeves, who debuted in 1915 but didn't become a central character until the 1916 story " Leave It to Jeeves.

* DiC Entertainment's Swamp Thing animated series debuted on Fox Kids in April 1991, with Len Carlson providing the voice of the title character.

Pete is the oldest continuing Disney character, having debuted three years before Mickey Mouse in the cartoon Alice Solves the Puzzle ( 1925 ).

DK debuted at the same time as Mario, and he still spars with Mario on occasion, appearing as a playable character in the Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. series, and is the primary antagonist in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong games.

Before he debuted as Griff, Adam Scott actually played another character briefly in the episode ‘ Band on the Run .’

The character next appeared in Sensation Comics # 1 ( January 1942 ), and six months later, Wonder Woman # 1 debuted.

Her character was added just months after Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones debuted.

The first incarnation of the character, Dick Grayson, debuted in Detective Comics # 38 ( April 1940 ).

Following the retirement of Dick Grayson as Robin, a new version of the character, Jason Todd, debuted in Batman # 357 ( 1983 ).

The character debuted in Friz Freleng's Life With Feathers ( 1945 ).

Another, his breakout character, was the supernatural hero Deadman, who had debuted in DC's Strange Adventures # 205 ( Nov. 1967 ).

The character debuted in the serial Una ballata del mare salato ( Ballad of the Salt Sea ), one of several Pratt stories published in the first edition of the magazine Sgt. Kirk in July.

Winnie Woodpecker, who had debuted in Real Gone Woody in 1954, became a semi-regular character as Woody's primary love interest.

Jones debuted the character in the 1939 short Naughty But Mice ( which is quite similar to Disney's " The Country Cousin " itself ) though he has nearly identical traits to the hero kitten in the 1938 short The Night Watchman.

For Sesame Street's 41st season in 2010, the character was revamped as SuperGrover 2. 0, who debuted on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, flying in and crash-landing behind the chair where he was meant to sit.

Bizarro debuted in Superboy # 68 ( Oct. 1958 ), writer Otto Binder casting the character as a Frankenstein's monster pastiche that possessed all the powers of Superboy.

He was also among the actors considered for the roles of The Skipper on Gilligan's Island and Dr. Smith in the TV show Lost In Space, as well as being the visual template in the creation of Batman foe Rupert Thorne, a character who debuted at the height of All in the Familys success in Detective Comics # 469 ( published May 1976 by DC Comics ).

The first character debuted during the Golden Age in USA Comics # 1 ( Aug. 1941 ), and was reintroduced in Giant-Size Avengers # 1 ( Aug. 1974 ).

Also that year, Zenescope Entertainment debuted Sinbad in their Grimm Fairy Tales universe having him appearing as a regular ongoing character.

Artist Frank Miller collaborated with Claremont and helped to revise the character with a four-part eponymous limited series from September to December 1982 in which Wolverine's catchphrase, " I'm the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn't very nice ," debuted.

The animated series Partridge Family 2200 A. D., which debuted in 1974, features Keith and Laurie Partridge going to a futuristic space high school called " Galaxy High ," and Laurie's friend Marion Moonglow ( a Martian ) bears a striking resemblance to the Wendy Garbo character from this series.

Described by writer Mike Conroy as " Famously one of Spider-Man's dimmest villains ", the character debuted in Amazing Spider-Man # 41-43 ( Oct .-Dec. 1966 ) as a nameless thug for hire working for an Eastern Bloc country.

Butters debuted as a background character when South Park first aired on August 13, 1997, and his role gradually increased as the series progressed, beginning with the show's sixth season ( 2002 ).

On August 13, 1997, Butters first appeared as a background character when South Park debuted on Comedy Central with the episode " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ".

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

2, with the character of Bill noting that Superman was not born into his alter ego ( Spider-Man was " Peter Parker " first, Batman was born " Bruce Wayne "), using the blanket he was wrapped in as his costume, and Clark Kent is a collage of mankind's less impressive traits meant to blend in with other humans ( as well as a device to pursue Lois Lane's affections ).

( The name of his TV role alludes to Peter Quince, a Shakespeare character who leads a company of bad actors in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

His performance proved unpopular with fans of the series, who criticised him for taking over the role from actor Peter Graves and playing the character as one of the villains.

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries ; usually, but not always, murders.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

As a footnote, Lord Peter Wimsey has also been included by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the Wold Newton family ; and Laurie R. King's detective character Mary Russell meets up with Lord Peter at a party in the novel A Letter of Mary.

The character John Morlar from Peter Van Greenaway's 1973 novel The Medusa Touch and the 1978 film version holds nihilistic beliefs as does the character Animal Mother from Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the ruthless thug O-Dog from the 1993 film Menace II Society by the Hughes Brothers.

* Peter Puck, a hockey-puck-shaped cartoon character

* In Charles Bukowski's 1978 novel Women, the main character, Henry Chinaski, vomits on Peter Stuyvesant's burial vault cover before a poetry reading at St. Mark's Church.

* In the novelization of the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, written by Peter George, an explanation is given that the title character, " Dr. Strangelove ", had been wounded, and these wounds had left him with only one hand, and wheelchair-bound, because of the bombings of Peenemünde while he worked there for Nazi Germany.

A film version under the same name was made by Gainsborough Studios in 1947, and a remake entitled The Dark Angel, starring Peter O ' Toole as the title character, was made in 1987.

" This version stars Peter Lorre as the main character ( given the name Montresor Herringbone ) and Vincent Price as Fortunato Luchresi.

# 2 Peter 3: 9 ( Goes to the character of God, in that He want's everyone to be saved.

A character called McGoonagall frequently appears in The Goon Show, alternately played by Milligan and Peter Sellers.

" Beckett said to Peter Woodthorpe that he regretted calling the absent character ' Godot ', because of all the theories involving God to which this had given rise.

Peter David has put a noir spin on the mutant series and has dealt with the former Multiple Man, Jamie Madrox, as the central character.

In Peter David's run on The Incredible Hulk in the 1990s, there was a character named Atalanta who was a member of a group called The Pantheon.

" They refer especially to the Pink Panthers Clouseau, developed with the comedic skills of Peter Sellers, as a character " perfectly consistent " with his " absurdist view of the world, because he has no faith in anything and constantly adapts.

* Chris Pepper, character played by Peter Lawford in 1969 comedy One More Time ( film ) directed by Jerry Lewis

Martin as Peter Pan, a role in which she was given a plausibly boyish look with minor costuming, equating the character with the actress in many viewers ' minds

After the show's successful first season, consultants were brought in to make suggestions for the show, including changing Janine to a more maternal character, giving every character a particular " job " ( Peter is the funny one, Egon is the smart one, and Winston, the only black character, was to be the driver ), and to add kids into the show.