The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

The main character, Dr. Bernard Rieux, lives comfortably in an apartment building when strangely the building's concierge, M. Michel, a confidante, dies from a fever.

In novels such as Taken at the Flood, After the Funeral and Hickory Dickory Dock he is even less in evidence, frequently passing the duties of main interviewing detective to a subsidiary character.

Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.

A passage in Voltaire's Candide has the book's eponymous main character meet the deposed Ahmed III while on a ship from Venice to Constantinople.

In modern literature, Aeneas appears in David Gemmell's Troy series as a main heroic character who goes by the name Helikaon.

Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.

Portrayed by Steve Reeves, he was the main character in the 1961 sword-and-sandal peplum Guerra di Troia ( The Trojan War ).

In Baxter's novel, Aurelianus is a minor character who interacts with the book's main Roman-era protagonist, Regina, founder of an ( literally ) underground matriarchal society.

* Titus Andronicus, main character in the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, possibly named after one of the above-listed emperors

* Alfred Brooks, the main character in The Contender, created by Robert Lipsyte

The main character, Père Heb, was a blunderer with a huge belly ; three teeth ( one of stone, one of iron, and one of wood ); a single, retractable ear ; and a misshapen body.

In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus.

Paul of Tarsus, also known as Saul, is the main character of the second half of Acts.

* Ark, the main character of the video game Terranigma

Paul Bäumer is the main character and narrator.

* Alexandra Mack, aka Alex Mack, main character in the popular American Television series The Secret World of Alex Mack

In the center is the house of Senex, who lives there with wife Domina, son Hero, and several slaves, including head slave Hysterium and the musical's main character Pseudolus.

The 2007 Ubisoft game, " Assassin's Creed ," features Altaïr ibn-La ' Ahad as the main character.

Housman is the main character in the 1997 Tom Stoppard play The Invention of Love.

The six main cast members participated on a 1963 Columbia soundtrack album which featured original song numbers in character.

Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts.

The term is often attributed to Rudolf Erich Raspe's story The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, where the main character pulls himself out of a swamp by his hair ( specifically, his pigtail ), but the Baron does not, in fact, pull himself out by his bootstraps.

Yahweh, as the main character in the book, takes the initiative in conquering the land, and it is Yahweh's power that wins battles ( for example, the walls of Jericho fall because Yahweh is fighting for Israel, not because the Israelites show superior fighting ability ).

Goswell argues that while Naomi is the central character of the book, Ruth is the main character, and so the book " can be considered aptly named.

* The movie Far and Away, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, centers on the main characters ' struggle to " obtain their 160 acres.

Peeping Tom ( 1960 ) shows people driving out through the main gate and has various shots in the studios ( showing things behind the camera ), offices & corridors.

After its first year, a journalist, Tom Thackrey, suggested that the main event of this tournament should be no-limit Texas hold ' em.

* Polyhymnia is one of the main characters in the 1955 Tom Puss story De Muzenis.

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West struck back at this practice in Comic Book: The Movie, in which the entire main cast comprises voice actors, including Jess Harnell, Lori Alan, Daran Norris, Mark Hamill and Tom Kenny.

Several Tom and Jerry cartoons directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera featured a third main character, a duckling named Little Quacker.

Forming much of the border is the main building, which contains the garden known as the Main Octangle and the Clock Tower housing Old Tom, the University's tongueless octiron bell whose strikes silence everything briefly.

In the television series Boss, a multiepisode story arc involves the main character, Mayor of Chicago Tom Kane ( Kelsey Grammer ), being damaged by a scandal in which he authorized the dumping of carcinogenic chemicals that soak into the groundwater of Bensenville.

* Guthrie's main street can be seen briefly in the movie Rain Man ( 1988 ) starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.

* The 2002 film Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg and with Tom Cruise as main actor, was based on the story.

* Series 1: The first series of the programme saw DCI Tom Adams ( John McGlynn ) as the main investigator.

While the Regulators at various times consisted of dozens of American and Mexican cowboys, the main dozen or so members were known as the " iron clad ", including McCarty, Richard " Dick " Brewer, Frank McNab, Doc Scurlock, Jim French, John Middleton, George Coe, Frank Coe, Jose Chavez y Chavez, Charlie Bowdre, Tom O ' Folliard, Fred Waite ( a Chickasaw ), and Henry Newton Brown.

Until 1957, screen credits were very sparse, listing only the writer ( until 1950, solely John Foster, then Tom Morrison thereafter ), director ( Terry's three main directors were Connie Rasinski, Eddie Donnelly and Mannie Davis ), and musician.

The main theme of the novel is the contrast between Tom Jones ’ good nature, flawed but eventually corrected by his love for virtuous Sophia Western, and his half-brother Blifil ’ s hypocrisy.

Steven Spielberg, who with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen had established DreamWorks SKG, was the main executive producer of the film, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Tom DeSanto and Don Murphy serving as co-executive producers.

The series ' two main voice actors each previously played major roles in Doctor Who ; Sophie Aldred ( who voices the animated Tom ) as Seventh Doctor companion Ace and David Tennant ( who voices Twigs ) as the Tenth Doctor.

In Star Trek: Voyager the holodeck was used extensively because ( 1 ) a crew isolated from their homes required more frequent diversion, ( 2 ) the holographic Doctor could, in the early seasons, be located only in the Sick Bay or one of the holodecks, ( 3 ) one of the main characters, Tom Paris, was by nature and calling a writer ( holonovelist ) -- he only joined Star Fleet because his father, Admiral Paris, forced him to.

During 1964, he served as the main driver of the bus Further on the iconic first half of the journey from San Francisco to New York, which was immortalized by Tom Wolfe's book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

Having beaten Harry Poulson the previous year, Sayers is now the main contender for the Championship of England title disputed by William Perry and Tom Paddock.

* McCoole is now generally regarded as the champion by default, his main challenger being Tom Allen who was defeated by McCoole in 1869.

LaMarche is promoted to main cast and Tom, LaMarr and Herman to supporting cast in Season 5, and promoted again to main cast in Season 6.

First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly sole artist ( Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story " Broken Ritual " is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black-and-white version of the story " Return to Adachi Plain " that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paperback edition of Usagi Yojimbo ).