* Ajax ( comics ), the name of two fictional characters from the Marvel Universe

* Ai ( given name ), various fictional characters

Lists of people include the following ( fictional characters are excluded ):

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.

There are frequent fictional crossovers between Beano characters, with most of the characters living in the fictional Beanotown.

Boece's work is the first known record of Banquo and his son Fleance ; and scholars such as David Bevington generally consider them fictional characters invented by Boece.

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The same phenomenon is true for fictional characters.

According to Barks, this period of his life would later influence his best known fictional characters: Walt Disney's Donald Duck and his own Scrooge McDuck.

Moll Flanders and Defoe's final novel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress ( 1724 ) are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional ( yet " drawn from life ") characters, not least in that they are women.

During the Gerald Ford administration, characters would be shown speaking to Ford at press conferences, and fictional dialogue supposedly spoken by Ford would be written as coming " off-panel ".

Dartmouth has served as the alma mater for a number of fictional characters, including:

A further problem is that human beings seem to process information about fictional characters in much the same way that they process information about real people.

However, common sense suggests the non-existence of such things as fictional characters or places.

Johnny Fedora achieved popularity as a fictional agent of early Cold War espionage, but James Bond is the most commercially successful of the many spy characters created by intelligence insiders during that struggle.

* Kairi Sanjō and Yukari Sanjō, fictional characters from the manga series Shugo Chara!

Fictional languages are intended to be the languages of a fictional world and are often designed with the intent of giving more depth and an appearance of plausibility to the fictional worlds with which they are associated, and to have their characters communicate in a fashion which is both alien and dislocated.

The problem of alien language has confronted generations of science fiction writers ; some have created fictional languages for their characters to use, while others have circumvented the problem through translation devices or other fantastic technology.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is named for a fictional galactic encyclopedia that one of the main characters works for.

* The comic book limited series Watchmen makes extensive use of the technique, including one character's autobiography, magazine interviews with several characters, psychiatric reports and even a fictional comic book within the comic book.

Moreover, much of the book consists of false quotations by famous musicians, intermingled with actual quotations and with quotes by fictional characters.

The village is a popular tourist resort, especially because the TV series Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle, was filmed there, substituting for the fictional Lochdubh.

* John Hamish Adler Holmes, fictional character

In M. C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth mystery series, the fictional towns of Lochdubh and Strathbane are located in Sutherland.

Hamish Macbeth is a fictional police officer who serves as his town's ' bobby ' in a series of mystery novels created by M. C. Beaton ( Marion Chesney ).

Set on the remote fictional Craggy Island off Ireland's west coast, the show starred Dermot Morgan as the eponymous Father Ted Crilly, alongside fellow priests Father Dougal McGuire ( Ardal O ' Hanlon ) and Father Jack Hackett ( Frank Kelly ).

* Cartoon Network's Adult Swim show, Squidbillies, is set in Dougal County, a fictional area in the north Georgia mountains.

The fictional Dougal County, located in the North Georgia mountains, is the setting for the Adult Swim cartoon Squidbillies.

Conan the Barbarian ( also known as Conan the Cimmerian ) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films ( including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer ), television programs ( cartoon and live-action ), video games, role-playing games and other media.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

First introduced in the 1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Wounded ", the species originated on the fictional Alpha Quadrant planet Cardassia Prime.

The Compact Oxford English Dictionary states that the word may have originated from the surname of a fictional rowdy Irish family in a music hall song of the 1890s.

* Hatter, a fictional character in the 1970s Hatter Fox franchise originated by Marilyn Harris

The name " Chorley FM " originated as the name of a fictional radio station featured in comedy programmes That Peter Kay Thing and Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere.

This potent fictional technology ("... two kilos of the stuff give you a ten-kiloton explosion ") is said to have originated in the Soviet Union.

While many feuds in professional wrestling are entirely fictional, there have been successful feuds that actually originated from a real life rivalry and / or animosity between wrestlers.

R. A. Salvatore's novels about the fictional character Drizzt Do ' Urden originated much of this development.

The Dopefish is a fictional fish that originated in the fourth Commander Keen video game, Secret of the Oracle, released in 1991.

The term originated in the United States, and was coined in the early 1980s when intense public interest in fictional soap opera couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber from General Hospital made the pair a popular culture phenomenon.

Within the story, the terms are said to have originated from the Norwegian language of the fictional planet Trondheim ; however, they are actually based on Swedish words.

* Him Who Is Not to be Named, fictional character Hastur originated by H. P. Lovecraft

* He Who Must Not Be Named, fictional character Cthulhu originated by H. P. Lovecraft

" The Wabash Cannonball " is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated in the late nineteenth century.

Some of Koechner's recurring skits included Bill Brasky, the British Fops ( playing Fagan, opposite Mark McKinney ), Gary Macdonald ( the fictional younger brother of Weekend Update anchor / SNL castmember Norm Macdonald, based on " Jokey ", a character he originated at Second City ), Will Ferrell's " Get Off the Shed " sketches ( playing his neighbor, Tom Taylor ), and Gerald " T-Bones " Tibbons.

He sired a line of descendants who continued to play the fictional character he originated.

The fictional Whitehills originated from London.

Morgus the Magnificent, also known as Momus Alexander Morgus, is a fictional character on television shows that originated in the New Orleans, Louisiana television market.

Smurfing is a term that originated with vernacular used by the fictional characters known as The Smurfs.