An unfortunate episode in fanzine history occurred in 1981 when Star Wars director George Lucas threatened to sue fanzine publishers who distributed zines featuring the Star Wars characters in sexually explicit stories or art.

Lucas shot new footage for the film, computer-generated imagery was used to modify scenes by expanding crowds, settings and backgrounds and adding digital characters, and audio / video restoration techniques were applied to the film.

IGN editor Lucas M. Thomas discussed him as a possible, yet unlikely, candidate for a " second banana " character to be playable in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, commenting that Waluigi, amongst other sidekick characters, are not well-liked.

Burger King was a pioneer in the advertising practice known as " product tie-in ", with a successful partnership with George Lucas ' Lucasfilm, Ltd., to promote the 1977 film Star Wars in which BK sold a set of glasses featuring the main characters from the movie.

Haim was nominated for an Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor in a Feature Film – Comedy or Drama at the Young Artist Awards for his performance as Lucas, and film critic Roger Ebert gave him a glowing review: " He creates one of the most three-dimensional, complicated, interesting characters of any age in any recent movie.

George Lucas has acknowledged influence of The Hidden Fortress on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, particularly in the technique of telling the story from the perspective of the film's lowliest characters, C-3PO and R2-D2.

IGN editor Lucas Thompson included Porky on a list of five characters who may be included in Super Smash Bros. Brawl based on what he described as one of the more credible proposed rosters, describing his bed-mech as an intimidating sight to see.

Following the completion of filming, Lucas decided to revisit the end of the movie to better establish the characters ' final locations, requiring a section of the frigate to be built that corresponded to the scale of the Millennium Falcon model.

The concept of killing such a character was the decision of the book editors ( said to include Randy Stradley, a then-editor at Dark Horse Comics ), who sent a list of characters they would like to kill to George Lucas, with Luke Skywalker at the top of the list.

In 2007, Matt Lucas and David Walliams announced that there would be no more of the British Little Britain, but they filmed an American continuation of the show entitled Little Britain USA, which featured both returning characters from the British series as well as new American characters.

Matt Lucas and David Walliams play all the main characters in the show.

In 1976, Mattel's CEO Ray Wagner declined a request to produce a toyline of action figures based on the characters from the George Lucas film Star Wars.

In the opening chapter of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's The Club Dumas, two characters discuss their favorite novel by Sabatini, with book dealer Lucas Corso preferring Captain Blood.

In March 2007 they recorded a new version of " I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles )" with television comedy characters Andy Pipkin ( played by Matt Lucas ) and Brian Potter ( Peter Kay ) for the Comic Relief charity.

* Star Wars: Before the first movie was finished, Fox underestimated the toyetic potential of the characters and allowed George Lucas to keep the rights of what became a new toy phenomenon.

Stock characters besides Tabarin, with his famous felt hat that could be rolled into a variety of shapes to aid his characterizations ( see " Chapeaugraphy "), were two old men Lucas and Piphagne whose echoes still resound in the Barber of Seville, and the witty and self-reliant ladies Francisquine and Isabella.

In 2007, The Krankies appeared in the video for the Comic Relief remake of The Proclaimers ' song I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles ), which featured Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin ( fictional characters portrayed by Peter Kay and Matt Lucas respectively ).

There are six main characters in Mother 3: Lucas, a young boy ; Flint, a livestock farmer and father of Lucas and his brother Claus ; Kumatora, a princess ; Duster, a thief ; Boney, Flint's dog ; and Salsa, a performing monkey.

The game frequently switches perspective between the characters as the story progresses, but the later chapters of the game focus on Lucas, Boney, Kumatora, and Duster.

Because the player can talk to Lucas, who is the playable character for most of the game, it seems that the player is interacting with the characters directly ( instead of through another character.

Felicia had affairs with the characters Cass Winthrop and Carl Hutchins, and eventually married Louis St. George, Zane Lindquist, Mitch Blake, and Lucas Castigliano ; Lucas was, out of all the men she married, the true love of her life.

The Main characters included an archaeologist, Dr. Eric Leidner, as well as his wife, multiple specialists, assistants and the men working the site.

* Douglass, his wife, and his mistress, Ottilie Assing, are the main characters in Jewell Parker Rhodes ' Douglass ' Women, a novel ( New York: Atria Books, 2002 ).

Private Eye parodied Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, age 13¾ to write The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as a naive nincompoop ( e. g. keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his " Bastards Book ") and featuring " my wife Norman " and " Mr Dr Mawhinney " as recurring characters.

He and his wife Carla were depicted as the main characters ' next-door neighbors.

He also played timid, socially inept characters such as Arthur Putey, the man who sits idly by as a marriage counsellor ( Eric Idle ) makes love to his wife ( Carol Cleveland ), and Mr. Anchovy, a chartered accountant who wants to become a lion tamer.

The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army ; his wife, Desdemona ; his lieutenant, Cassio ; and his trusted ensign, Iago.

Desdemona is the only named character in Cinthio's tale, with his few other characters identified only as " the Moor " ( Othello ), " the squadron leader " ( Cassio ), " the ensign " ( Iago ), and " the ensign's wife " ( Emilia ).

The tendency toward authorial self-reference begun in Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love becomes even more evident in novels such as The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, whose first-person protagonist is a disabled military veteran who becomes a writer, and finds love with a female character who, like many of Heinlein's strong female characters, appears to be based closely on his wife Ginny.

Historian and biographer Edmund King, whilst painting a slightly more positive picture than Davis, also concludes that Stephen, while a stoic, pious and genial leader, was also rarely, if ever, his own man, usually relying upon stronger characters such as his brother or wife.

Firmin designed the characters, and his wife knitted and ' dressed ' the Clangers.

His wife Poppa and his son William are also minor characters.

It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal father, ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. The name Ramayana is a tatpurusha compound of and (" going, advancing "), translating to " Rama's Journey ".

One of the point of view characters is Arthur Gordon, a scientist who, with his wife Francine and son Martin is among those rescued from the destruction of Earth.

* Warbeck and his wife are characters in the novel The Crimson Crown by Edith Layton ( 1990 ).

Such people, who may be real but impersonated people or fictitious characters played by the con artist, could include, for example, the wife or son of a deposed African or Indonesian leader or dictator who has amassed a stolen fortune, or a bank employee who knows of a terminally ill wealthy person with no relatives or a wealthy foreigner who deposited money in the bank just before dying in a plane crash ( leaving no will or known next of kin ), a US soldier who has stumbled upon a hidden cache of gold in Iraq, a business being audited by the government, a disgruntled worker or corrupt government official who has embezzled funds, a refugee, and similar characters.

Other characters, including Guignol's wife Madelon and the gendarme Flagéolet soon followed, but these are never much more than foils for the two heroes.

They view the physical description of women as evidence of a more farcical intention when considered alongside both the historical context of the Elizabethan theatre ( where female characters were always played by prepubescent boys ) and the Induction in which Sly is attracted to the page disguised as his wife ; thus Shakespeare is satirising gender roles.

He does on occasion even help various other characters, such as helping Homer find his wife in " Marge on the Lam ", helping Lisa Simpson find Mr. Burns ' assailant in " Who Shot Mr. Burns?

Howerd played a slave, Lurcio ( pronounced Lurk-io ); the other main characters were Lurcio's bumbling old master, Senator Ludicrus Sextus ( initially Max Adrian and then Wallas Eaton ), the senator's promiscuous wife Ammonia ( Elizabeth Larner ), his daughter Erotica ( Georgina Moon ) and his eternally virginal son Nausius ( Kerry Gardner ), along with the Cassandra-esque Senna the Soothsayer ( Jeanne Mockford ) and Plautus ( Willie Rushton ).

In the foreword to the recent re-release of the books, Emma Thompson explains that her father had felt that he was most like Brian of all the characters and that Ermintrude was in some respects based upon his wife, Phyllida Law.

The names themselves come from Edmondson's and Mayall's own nicknames for each other ; many of Mayall's characters are referred to by some variation of the name " Richard " and " Eddie " is taken from " Eddie Monsoon ", Edmondson's nickname since University, which is a play on his then stage name, Ade Edmondson ( compare Edina Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous, who is called " Eddie " by her friend Patsy, and is played by Edmondson's Comic Strip fellow and wife Jennifer Saunders ).

As the farmer Ezra " Penny " Baxter in The Yearling his good-humored warmth and affection toward the characters playing his son and wife confounded critics who had been insisting he was a lifeless performer.

Richard and his first wife, Isabel Marshall, appear as characters in Virginia Henley's historical novels, The Marriage Prize and The Dragon and the Jewel, and in Sharon Kay Penman's historical novel Falls the Shadow.

Streatham Park later passed to Ralph's son Henry Thrale, who with his wife Hester Thrale entertained many of the leading literary and artistic characters of the day, most notably the lexicographer Samuel Johnson.