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.

These themes are played out in the stories of the three main characters, Samuel, Saul and David.

* The novel is mentioned and referenced by some of the other characters in the 2011 movie The Moth Diaries ; Carmilla also seems to have inspired the main antagonist Ernessa, played by Lily Cole.

The main notes are either played normally or by pulling the string away from the fingerboard and releasing it so that it bounces off the fingerboard, producing a distinctive percussive attack in addition to the expected pitch.

In the season four finale, Davros returned, played by Julian Bleach, revealed to be the main antagonist of the season.

The main types of football that are played are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, Rugby league, and Rugby union.

Capra returned to Harry Cohn's studio, now renamed Columbia Pictures, which had then been producing short films and two-reel comedies used as " fillers ", which played between main features.

This famous portrait was the main inspiration of Luchino Visconti in creating the character played by Burt Lancaster in his film The Leopard ( film ) | Il Gattopardo.

His twin, Stewart Lord also played with the club and has been credited as the main reason his brother won the award given their similarities in appearance, both played significant roles in the club's premiership win.

Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.

To be sure, the Bulgarians and the Serbs played an important role in the defeat of the main Ottoman armies.

The main emphasis is on the vocals as most compositions are written to be sung, and even when played on instruments, they are meant to be performed in a singing style ( known as gāyaki ).

At the end of the lute's evolution the archlute, theorbo and torban had long extensions attached to the main tuning head in order to provide a greater resonating length for the bass strings, and since human fingers are not long enough to stop strings across a neck wide enough to hold 14 courses, the bass strings were placed outside the fretboard, and were played " open ", i. e. without fretting / stopping them with the left hand.

He played an English surfer with a fear of sharks, who interrupts a conversation between two main characters to ask whether there were any sharks in the sea.

* The other track between Katha and Bhamo ( 152 km ) is also under construction, which will be played main roll over the Burmese – Chinese border.

The fictional game Calvinball, played by the main characters in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, is sometimes compared to Nomic.

* Nanna, is Telugu movie name released in 2011, with main role played by Vikram.

Cricket is the main sport played in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The game is played in general first-person shooter paradigms, in which the player shoots enemies from the perspective of the main character.

Port Charles used the practice of running 13-week " story arcs ", in which the main events of the arc are played out and wrapped up over the 13 weeks, although some storylines did continue over more than one arc.

Worf, played by Michael Dorn, is a main character in Star Trek: The Next Generation and in seasons four to seven of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

B ' Elanna Torres () is a main character in Star Trek: Voyager played by Roxann Dawson.

Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge is a main character in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and its feature films, played by LeVar Burton.

The Bahian Samba de Roda ( dance circle ), which became a UNESCO Heritage of Humanity in 2005, is the main root of the samba carioca, the samba that is played and danced in Rio de Janeiro.

The main characters were played by Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, who had already cooperated as hero pair in the " old style " Spaghetti Westerns God Forgives ...