Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon ( Tommy Hambledon ) is the fictional protagonist of many spy novels written by the British author " Manning Coles " ( actually the two-person writing team of Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles ) from 1940 through 1963.

Mary Frances " Francie " Nolan is the protagonist.

Both types of cannibalism are visible in Como Era Gostoso o Meu Frances (" How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman ," 1971 ), in which the protagonist is abducted and eaten by literal cannibals at the same time it is " suggested that the Indians ( i. e., Brazil ) should metaphorically cannibalize their foreign enemies, appropriating their force without being dominated by them.

In Scrubs episode " My Best Friend's Baby's Baby and My Baby's Baby ", protagonist J. D.

He starred in the Boston crime thriller Gone Baby Gone as the protagonist, Patrick Kenzie.

She also starred in Gone Baby Gone receiving excellent notices for her performance as the female protagonist, Angie Gennaro, opposite Casey Affleck.

Tonally similar to Rosemary's Baby and The Haunting, the film tells its story from the vantage point of a female protagonist of doubtful sanity, and emphasizes story and atmosphere rather than excessive gore and violence.

Padilla is both a matinee idol and cultural icon ; he is sometimes referred to as " James Dean " and dubbed as " Bad Boy " of the Philippine Cinema ; as he portrayed ' protagonist gangster roles ' in his films Anak ni Baby Ama, Grease Gun Gang, Bad Boy 1 & Bad Boy 2.

Runyon's short stories are told in the first person by a protagonist who is never named, and whose role is unclear ; he knows many gangsters and does not appear to have a job, but he does not admit to any criminal involvement, and seems to be largely a bystander.

Initially named Hans und Fritz after the two naughty protagonist brothers, Dirks ' feature was called The Captain and the Kids from 1918 on.

Heinlein reveals near the end of Starship Troopers that the novel's protagonist and narrator, Johnny Rico, the formerly disaffected scion of a wealthy family, is Filipino, actually named " Juancita Rico " and speaks Tagalog in addition to English.

Fighting Fantasy books typically feature a system whereby the protagonist is randomly assigned scores in three statistics ( named Skill, Stamina, and Luck ) which, in conjunction with the player rolling a six-sided die, are used to resolve combats and test the protagonist's success in certain situations.

Other sources include Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel The Bell Jar, in which the protagonist, Esther, reacts with horror to the " perpetual marble calm " of a lobotomized young woman named Valerie.

is a central protagonist in the Illuminatus trilogy of books by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, named after the legendary Viking hero Hagbard who died for love.

Again however the lead protagonist is never named at any point, although they are clearly the same character in all of the books.

The protagonist, who is unnamed, travels to Berlin to arrange the defection of a Soviet scientist named Semitsa, this being brokered by Johnny Vulkan of the Berlin intelligence community.

Umberto Eco ’ s The Island of the Day Before, set in the 1640s, features a swashbuckling Cyrano-like character named Saint-Savin, who dictates the shy protagonist ’ s love letters.

* Leo Bloom is named for the protagonist of James Joyce's classic novel Ulysses, Leopold Bloom.

In Wyndham Lewis ' 1930 satirical novel The Apes of God, there is a character named Horace Zagreus who serves as mentor of the hapless protagonist, Daniel Boleyn.

The novel is based on his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, with an American protagonist named Robert Jordan who fights with Spanish soldiers for the Republicans.

In his works, a character named Yoshio Kobayashi of " Shōnentanteidan " ( Junior Detective Group, similar to the Baker Street Irregulars of Sherlock Holmes ) forms a deep dependency with adult protagonist Kogoro Akechi.

In the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque the protagonist, a surgeon named Ravic, often drinks Calvados.

* Os Maias or " The Maias ", a realist novel by Eça de Queirós, named after the protagonist family

The 1992 novel China Mountain Zhang has a protagonist named Zhongsan of Chinese and Puerto Rican ancestry in a world dominated by the Communist party.

* The protagonist ( Gnossos Pappadopoulis ) in Richard Fariña's 1966 novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me believes his best friend to be named Heffalump for the majority of the novel, although Gnossos discovers in Cuba that Heffalump's birth name was Abraham Jackson White.

The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house.

In 2006 the SciFi Channel launched the original series Eureka in which the main protagonist is a United States Marshal named Jack Carter, and set in the fictional town of Eureka.

* In Helen Oyeyemi's 2007 novel The Opposite House, the frame narrative character is Yemaya or Aya for short, and the protagonist of the novel, who is of African and Cuban descent, is named Maja.

He is referenced in Philip K. Dick's novel Dr. Futurity, in which the protagonist is named Jim Parsons.

On his album, The Gold Experience, Prince sings a song about a female protagonist named Pussy Control.

* The Lulu plays by Frank Wedekind, whose protagonist is named Lulu.

( This may have been Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem Lord of the Isles, in which the protagonist is named Ronald.

In some works, the protagonist is able to reach out and help others after having achieved maturity.

First appearing in Chapter XIV, he becomes friends with the protagonist after they save each other's lives.

Philip Roth titled the second chapter of his novel " The Ghost Writer " Nathan Dedalus, after the novel's young protagonist Nathan Zuckerman.

* The protagonist of Stephen King's novel Duma Key exhibited symptoms of a condition similar to receptive aphasia after suffering brain damage in an industrial accident.

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

Corvus, the protagonist of the first game, is forced to flee his hometown of Silverspring after the infected attack him, but not before he is infected himself.

) frequently attempt to kill the protagonist Dante after he is pulled into Limbo when caught in the sight of one of the city's demonic cameras.

It was lip-synched by an effeminate drug dealer played by Dean Stockwell, after which Booth demanded the song be played over and over, once beating the protagonist while the song played.

It beat the opening record for a film featuring a female protagonist ($ 40. 1 million for Charlie's Angels ), and is the second most successful video game adaptation to date ( after Prince of Persia ), grossing $ 274, 703, 340 worldwide.

The protagonists of most wuxia stories usually have beautiful maidens to accompany them on their adventures and the story typically concludes like a fairy tale, in which the protagonist and his lover are married and live happily ever after.

However, the play was usually known simply as " Hieronimo ", after the protagonist.

There will be a female protagonist, an investigative journalist who, thirty years after the conference, sets out to locate Édouard Daladier, the former French Council president.

The first book, Tarnsman of Gor, opens with scenes reminiscent of scenes in the first book of the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs ; both feature the protagonist narrating his adventures after being transported to another world.

The unnamed protagonist travels to Helsinki to deliver a package after receiving instructions from a mysterious mechanically operated telephone message.

In Vincent Clark's novel Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, the protagonist ( a world-weary criminal lawyer ) has a drunken outburst of anger at Perry Mason: " It's all fine for Mister Perry Mason to go off and find the real culprit, in book after book after book.

In a half-hour radio drama, Butter in a Lordly Dish ( 1948 ), Agatha Christie has her protagonist drug a lawyer's coffee ; after revealing her true identity, she hammers a nail into his head.

The strip had no recurring characters, but only a recurring concept: after eating a Welsh rarebit, the day's protagonist would be subject to the underside of his or her psyche.

* Emma Evans, protagonist of Margaret Drabble's novel The Garrick Year ( 1964 ), lives, after she has married her husband David, in " an ordinary nineteenth-century terrace house in Islington, and on either side of the front door stood a small stone lion.

The film has also been compared to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol in that the protagonist is a greedy man who cares little about anyone except himself and then has his life outlook completely changed after a series of real-life " what if?