Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

* Kennedy ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer ), fictional character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The only character injured in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Older and Far Away " ( 2002 ) wears a red shirt ; writer Drew Greenberg confirmed that this " redshirt " reference was intentional.

This archetype has been widely exemplified, notably by such characters as Countess Zaleska in the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter, Barnabas Collins in the TV soap opera Dark Shadows, Mick St. John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire, Nick Knight in the TV series Forever Knight, Angel from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, and Bill Compton in Charlaine Harris ' The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

Willow Danielle Rosenberg is a fictional character created for the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1997 – 2003 ).

Willow appears in every Buffy episode ( making her the only character besides Buffy herself to do so ), is featured in three episodes of the spinoff Angel, an animated series and video game — both of which use Hannigan's voice, and the comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007 – 2011 ), which uses Hannigan's likeness and continues Willow's storyline following the television series.

Willow is malleable, in continuous transition more so than any other Buffy character.

* Pike ( Buffyverse character ), a character in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie

Buffy Anne Summers is a fictional character from Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise.

Giselle Loren has lent her voice to the character in both the Buffy video games and an unproduced animated series.

The character of Buffy first appears in the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer film, played by Kristy Swanson.

Following the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the character maintains a presence in the fifth season of Angel ( 2003 – 2004 ), but does not appear onscreen.

Sarah Michelle Gellar was approached to appear as Buffy in Angel < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s one hundredth episode, but declined, so the character of Cordelia Chase ( Charisma Carpenter ) was used instead.

As the main character of the franchise, Buffy appears in almost all Buffy the Vampire Slayer literature.

Volume II of the similar series of novels Tales of the Slayer ( 2003 ) features two stories about Buffy ; the character battles a mummified spirit in Todd A. McIntosh's " All That You Do Comes Back Unto Thee ," while Jane Espenson's " Again Sunnydale " sees a season six-era Buffy sent back in time to high school, when her mother is still alive but Dawn does not exist.

The character of Buffy was conceived by Joss Whedon as a way of subverting the cliché of " the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror film ".

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

After the collapse of that desperate and ill-fated campaign the character of the king degenerated for a time into a futility that was not merely pitiable but often ridiculous.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

The audience was fond of Harry Hawk, he was a dear, in or out of character, but he was not particularly funny.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

Of more importance to the West than Poland's boundaries was the character of her government.

Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.

What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

At the other extreme in character was the half-hour excerpt from the Petipa-Minkus ballet `` Bayaderka '', which opened the evening.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Susan was an active character ; ;

It was the kind of thing that could ruin a man's life, and it was a tribute to John's strength of character and very real business ability that it hadn't ruined his.

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.