The second series was the first to establish the familiar Blackadder character: cunning, shrewd and witty, in sharp contrast to the bumbling Prince Edmund of the first series.

Another significant difference is that the character of Prince Edmund presented in the pilot is much closer to the intelligent, conniving Blackadder of the later series than the snivelling, weak buffoon of the original.

Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).

If Macbeth, rather than Malcolm, is Prince of Cumberland then Macbeth would be next in line to the throne and no coup would be needed, effectively removing this ambiguity from Banquo's character.

** Prince Valiant ( a fictional comic book / graphic novel character )

According to director Gus Van Sant, the character of Bob in My Own Private Idaho was based upon Falstaff, and the character of Scott was based on Prince Hal.

In Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, the idiocy of the main character, Prince Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin, is attributed more to his honesty, trustfulness, kindness, and humility, than to a lack of intellectual ability.

Moses appears as the central character in the 1998 DreamWorks Pictures animated movie, The Prince of Egypt.

He is also a character in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and was the hero of James Hill's UK TV movie Owain, Prince of Wales, broadcast in 1983 in the early days of Channel 4 / S4C.

The different appearance of the character is either ignored ( as was done with the character of Darrin Stephens on the television show Bewitched, Vivian on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, or Claire on My Wife and Kids ), or explained within the series, such as with " regeneration " in Doctor Who, or the Oracle in The Matrix Revolutions.

Subsequent rulebooks added " advanced " character generation for Army and Marine characters ( Mercenary ), Navy characters ( High Guard ), Scouts ( Scouts ), and Merchants ( Merchant Prince ).

The original audiences would thus have already been familiar with the title character, who was depicted in the Henry IV plays as a wild, undisciplined lad known as " Prince Harry " and by Falstaff as " Hal ".

In the fifth season, the character of Dan Humphrey is gifted a copy of The Stranger by Louis Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco, in exchange for keeping a secret.

The main character is Lucas Lovat, a spy in the Court of Henry VII, and a subplot of the novel is his indecision as to whether Warbeck is, or is not, Prince Richard.

" The 19th century biographer Agnes Strickland condemned Anne's actions to regain custody of Prince Henry as irresponsible: " It must lower the character of Anne of Denmark in the eyes of everyone, both as a woman and queen, that she ... preferred to indulge the mere instincts of maternity at the risk of involving her husband, her infant, and their kingdom, in the strife and misery of unnatural warfare.

* Prince Megiddo, a fictional character in the Japanese television series Kagaku Sentai Dynaman

Edward the Black Prince features prominently as a character in Edward III, a sixteenth-century play possibly partly attributable to William Shakespeare.

* The character Pyle in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American has a dog named Prince after The Black Prince.

It features Burt Lancaster as the eponymous character, the Prince of Salina.

The fennecs he had known in these two contexts are considered to have inspired the fox character in Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.

Another possible influence was thought to be a character in the Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel H. R. H. The Rider which features a " Prince Boris of Karlova ", but as the novel was not published until 1915, the influence may be backward, that Burroughs saw Karloff in a play and adapted the name for the character.

Moleman first appeared as a character model for the season two episode " Principal Charming ", but he looked so shriveled and unrealistic that someone proclaimed to look like a " mole man ".

* Prince Charming, a stock character in fairy tales, due to Andrew Lang ( 1889 ), mostly used ironically ( after Oscar Wilde, 1890 )

In an early 1991 episode, " Principal Charming ", Carl's name is spelled " Karl ", the same spelling seen for an unrelated character of the same season.

The main character, Dorian, is supposed to be a young actress's " Prince Charming ", but he abandons her and in despair she commits suicide.

Prince Charming is a prominent character in the Fables comic book.

The Prince Charming character has become a modern ( 1928 ) young and forceful woman, and Mr. Cinders is a menial.

In the story, no character is without their flaws, including Snow White, Prince Charming, and the narrator herself.

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.

Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

The Agreeable Autocracies is an attempt to explore some of the institutions which both reflect and determine the character of the free society today.

This is what necessitates the nonsystematic character of his astronomy.

One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.

Trevelyan is militantly sure of the superiority of English institutions and character over those of other peoples.

I have said before how difficult it is to make any precise statements with regard to the character of the Greek and Elizabethan public.

Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.

I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.

For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.

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 ''.

The theory behind this is, of course, fundamentalist in character.

The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say, `` That is good '', we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking.

The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

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.

No one seriously contends, of course, that the domineering wife is, sexually speaking, a new character in our world.