Other fictional depictions of androids fall somewhere in between.

Most fictional depictions describe a solid shell of matter enclosing a star, which is considered the least plausible variant of the idea ( see below ).

Often, fictional depictions of Poe use his mystery-solving skills in such novels as The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl.

Nineteenth-century fictional depictions of John were heavily influenced by Sir Walter Scott's historical romance, Ivanhoe, which presented " an almost totally unfavourable picture " of the king ; the work drew on Victorian histories of the period and on Shakespeare's play.

Fueled by fictional depictions in martial arts movies, this led to the ninja craze of the 1980s United States.

There have also been many fictional depictions of wrestling ; the 2008 film The Wrestler received several Oscar nominations and began a career revival for star Mickey Rourke.

There have been many incorrect depictions in comics of two-cylinder twin-hose aqualungs, showing one wide breathing tube coming directly out of each cylinder top with no regulator: see Diving regulator # Twin-hose without visible regulator valve ( fictional ).

* The French movies La Reine Margot ( 1954 ) and La Reine Margot ( 1994 ), both based on Alexandre Dumas, père's novel of the same title, are fictional depictions of the lives of Henry III's family, his sister Margot, and her Protestant husband Henry around the time of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

As well as being a sub-genre of science fiction, these kinds of books can be considered a sub-genre of Invasion literature, which also includes fictional depictions of humans invaded by other humans ( for example, a fictional invasion of England by a hostile France strongly influenced Wells ' depiction of a Martian invasion ).

These works contain one of the earliest fictional depictions of a generation ship.

Such elements may include depictions of realistic sexual interactions in a science fictional setting, a character with an alternative sexuality as the protagonist, or exploration of the varieties of sexual experience that deviate from the conventional.

However, the film is unique among fictional depictions of anarchists in that its tone is sympathetic.

According to School of Visual Arts caricature instructor Sam Viviano, the term refers only to depictions of real-life people, and not to cartoon fabrications of fictional characters, which do not possess objective sets of physiognomic features to draw upon for reference, or to anthropomorphic depictions of inanimate objects such as automobiles or coffee mugs.

As opposed to fictional depictions of the industry like Six Feet Under, Family Plots is a non-fictional and un-scripted series which gave viewers a window into a serving and hard-working family-run funeral home.

In addition to the plot of It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ), other fictional depictions of bank runs include those in American Madness ( 1932 ) and Mary Poppins ( 1964 ).

Café du Monde has appeared in multiple fictional depictions of the city including the " Dave Robicheaux " series of novels by James Lee Burke, and novels by John Connolly, Poppy Z. Brite, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Anne Rice, Kresley Cole and Nancy A. Collins.

Cozort also notes that Hancock's is one of the first fictional depictions of war to make reference to tanks.

The film was also among the first to introduce martial arts, especially hapkido to American audiences and also contained elements of Jungian psychology, and fictional depictions of American Indian beliefs, depicting a tribe that does not exist, the " Nishnobie.

The Thompson and Bywaters case has provided the basis for several fictional and non-fictional works and depictions.

Some depictions feature the oniwaban in a time period following end of the shogunate, like the manga / anime series Rurouni Kenshin ( featuring the now-unemployed Oniwabanshu group including Aoshi Shinomori, Beshimi, Han ' nya, Hyottoko, Okina, Shikijō and Makimachi Misao ) and Yokujō Climax ( Hayato ); others take place in an altogether fictional alternative worlds, even in the futuristic science fiction setting, such as in the case of the anime Chou SD Sengokuden Bushin Kirahagane ( Jyuuha Gundam ), the video game Red Earth ( Oniwabanshu leader Kenji ) and the miniatures game Inifinity.

Although some famous cinema actors such as Alan Ladd and Tom Cruise have been short in real life, in their fictional depictions they have been presented as taller.

Police determined the depictions were fictional.

Maelstrom is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Whatever his original assignment, the fictional private eye ends up by investigating and solving a crime, usually a murder.

* Austin Moon, fictional character in Austin & Ally, portrayed by Ross Lynch

* Austin Powers, fictional character in films, created and portrayed by Mike Myers

* Atlas ( DC Comics ), a fictional character published by DC Comics

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Hercule Poirot (; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ).

" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.

The Hollywood film Air Force One ( film ) starring Harrison Ford recounts the fictional story of the hijacking of the famous aircraft by six Kazakh ultra-nationalist terrorists.

* Ark ( Noon Universe ), a fictional planet in a series of novels by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

* In the 1982 film Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, the main offices of the fictional Tyrell Corporation ( a Megacorp ) resemble a hyperstructure.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

* Aba ( Dune ), a type of robe in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert

* A fictional river mentioned in the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This consisted of a mock game against the fictional player " Systemsson ", supposedly played and annotated by Nimzowitsch himself.

The poem deals with legends, was composed for entertainment, and does not separate between fictional elements and real historic events, such as the raid by King Hygelac into Frisia.

These have sometimes been identified as another, separate work, the Ezra Memorial ( EM ), but other scholars believe the EM to be fictional and heavily altered by later editors.

One of the best known poems about the battle is Casabianca, which was written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans in 1826 and describes a fictional account of the death of Captain Casabianca's son on Orient.

Previous styles have included a series of fictional flags set to music between 1997 and 1999 before the major relaunch, incorporating the new contemporary music composed by David Lowe, and graphics developed by Lambie-Nairn.