In his introduction to the 2003 revised edition of his novel The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Stephen King revealed that the film was a primary influence for the Dark Tower series, and that Eastwood's character specifically inspired the creation of King's protagonist, Roland Deschain.

In the opening of Don Quixote, Cervantes has the protagonist especially admiring Bernardo because he crushed Roland with his arms alone, although the context is clear that Don Quixote is placing too much credence in the fantastic stories of romance.

Roland Deschain of Gilead is a fictional character, the protagonist and antihero of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.

In Stephen King's Dark Tower novels, the protagonist, Roland Deschain, hails from a kingdom called Gilead, which was destroyed by John Farson.

He identifies Clint Eastwood's " Man with No Name " character as one of the major inspirations for the protagonist, Roland Deschain.

The main protagonist of the series, Roland Deschain, is himself a distant descendant of Eld ; this makes the Crimson King a half-uncle of Roland, albeit through many generations.

In the Armageddon's Blade campaign, the player takes command of Queen Catherine Ironfist, the main character of Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, as well as King Roland Ironfist, the protagonist of Heroes of Might and Magic II.

The name Roland, references to his slughorn ( a pseudo-medieval instrument which only ever existed in the mind of Thomas Chatterton and Browning himself ), general medieval setting and the title childe ( a medieval term not for a child but for an untested knight ) suggest that the protagonist is the paladin of The Song of Roland, the 11th century anonymous French chanson de geste, among other works.

Eddie is introduced in The Drawing of the Three when the series protagonist, Roland Deschain, enters his head from a magical door on the beach of Mid-World.

Soon, the series ' main protagonist, Roland Deschain, comes to the way-station, nearly dying of thirst, and passes out.

This is the real protagonist of the drama ; ;

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.

Andronikos is the main protagonist in Michael Arnold's Against the Fall of Night ( Garden City, New York: Doubleday 1975 ), as well as Ange Vlachos ' Their Most Serene Majesties ( Vanguard Press, 1964 ).

The main protagonist, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose great hall, Heorot, is plagued by the monster Grendel.

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (; ) or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood ( coming of age ), and in which character change is thus extremely important.

Usually in the beginning of the story there is an emotional loss which makes the protagonist leave on his journey.

In a Bildungsroman, the goal is maturity, and the protagonist achieves it gradually and with difficulty.

Typically, the values of society are gradually accepted by the protagonist and he is ultimately accepted into societythe protagonist's mistakes and disappointments are over.

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

Its protagonist is an exiled king, played by Chaplin, who arrives in New York with a plan to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

The stories are the diaries of protagonist Claudine, which outline the education and growing up of the young girl, who is aged fifteen at the beginning of the first novel Claudine à l ' école.

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

In the manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell, the protagonist Motoko Kusanagi is the fully prosthetic leader of an anti-terrorist force, who lives in a future Japan where the majority of adults are cyborgs and can connect wirelessly to the Internet for real-time communication and data research.

An example of silicon based life forms takes place in the Alan Dean Foster novel Sentenced to Prism in which the protagonist Evan Orgell is trapped on a planet whose entire ecosystem is mostly silicon-based.

Cesare is the main antagonist of the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, acting as Captain-General of the Papal army in Rome and ordering an assault on the castle-town of Monteriggioni, home to the protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze's uncle, Mario Auditore.

It is arguably more convincing if police, forensic experts or similar professionals are made the protagonist of a series of crime novels.

Alonso Quijano, the protagonist of the novel, is a retired country gentleman nearing fifty years of age, living in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and housekeeper.

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.

* Bruce Campbell as Ashley " Ash " Williams: Ash is the last survivor of the group and the main protagonist of the film.

The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist.

Ezekiel (;, Y ' ḥez ' qel, ), Arabic :< font size = 2 > حزقيال </ font > Hazqiyal, ' God will strengthen ' ( from, ḥazaq,, literally ' to fasten upon ,' figuratively ' strong ,' and, el,, literally ' God ', and so figuratively ' The Almighty ') is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.

* Haki Stërmilli's novel If I Were a Boy ( 1936 ) is written in the form of diary entries which documents the life of the main protagonist.

The story's protagonist, Vash the Stampede, is a wandering gunslinger carrying a silver revolver and a dark past.

The protagonist is a wordly knife fighter and gunslinger, John Cooper.

This was the case, for instance, in the Weapon Shop series, the Mixed Men series and in single stories such as " Heir Apparent ", whose protagonist was described as a " benevolent dictator ".

After her downfall, her affectations and excessive imaginations become eventually subdued by the voice of reason in the form of Stuart, a paternal figure, under whose guidance the protagonist receives a sound education and correction of her misguided taste

The tendency toward authorial self-reference begun in Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love becomes even more evident in novels such as The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, whose first-person protagonist is a disabled military veteran who becomes a writer, and finds love with a female character who, like many of Heinlein's strong female characters, appears to be based closely on his wife Ginny.

Raimi occasionally appears on-screen in his own movies, usually in similar fashion to the cameos made by his idol Alfred Hitchcock: A silhouette behind a projection screen ( Spider-Man, in the wrestling scene ), a passer-by with some kind of physical interaction with the film's protagonist ( Spider-Man 2, as the student whose bookbag hits Peter Parker in the back of the head ), a hitchhiking fisherman accompanied by Robert Tapert in The Evil Dead.

From this moment on, Mazzini was more of a spectator than a protagonist of the Italian Risorgimento, whose reins were now strongly in the hands of the Savoyard monarch Victor Emmanuel II and his skilled prime minister, Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour.

The 1948 Mann Act prosecution of Frank LaSalle for abducting Florence Sally Horner is believed to have been an inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov in writing his novel Lolita, whose protagonist Humbert Humbert seeks to escape watchful eyes and bind 13-year-old Dolores Haze more closely to him by taking the girl on a multistate road trip.

* Montez was allegedly the inspiration for Jennifer Wilde's historical romance novel Dare To Love ( 1978 ), whose protagonist Elena Lopez is also a British woman passing herself off as Spanish who becomes an exotic dancer.

Curtis had a similar function in both films-the main character whose friends are murdered, and is practically the only protagonist to survive.

In a private audience with the emperor on the penultimate eve of the tournament, when confronted with the seeming absurdity of the possibility that a novice with a mere two years of experience at the game could systematically defeat players ' whose whole lives were devoted to its mastery, the protagonist comes to understand that his proficiency is merely a reflection of his experience with strategic games of all sorts.

* Daniel Defoe – author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders ( whose protagonist is born and imprisoned in Newgate Prison )

The main protagonist is Mario, whose ultimate goal is to rescue Princess Toadstool from Bowser.

In Super Mario Land 2, the player assumes the role of the protagonist Mario, whose main objective is reclaim his castle, stolen by the antagonist Wario.

: The central protagonist of the series, Hibiki Amawa is a fairly typical college graduate whose goal is to become a professional school teacher.

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

He installed the apprehensive, defeatist Conrad as the protagonist, easing his fears, only to have them ultimately confirmed, and he presented the Martians as a human-like superior race whose apparent benevolence would make their climactic treachery seem even more shocking ; as well as decrease the budget that would have been expended on costumes and makeup.

Nevertheless, a protagonist agrees to help the Khor-Monsa, an alien species, in destroying books and records of their remote ancestors which were found in a drifting spaceship — since the books contained a shameful secret whose publication might have led to the present Khor-Monsa losing their social status and becoming targets of discrimination.

The Six Gallery reading informs the second chapter of Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums, whose chief protagonist is " Japhy Ryder ", Kerouac's roman à clef for Gary Snyder.

The influential medieval philosopher Maimonides maintained a skeptical ambiguity towards creation ex nihilo and considered the stories about Adam more as " philosophical anthropology, rather than as historical stories whose protagonist is the ' first man '.

* CHRISTIAN, whose name was Graceless at some time before, the protagonist in the First Part, whose journey to the Celestial City is the plot of the story.

In Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, whose protagonist Jo reads it at the outset of the novel, and tries to follow the good example of Bunyan's Christian.