While " animation " designates any style of illustrated images seen in rapid succession to give the impression of movement, the word " cartoon " is most often used in reference to TV programs and short films for children featuring anthropomorphized animals, superheroes, the adventures of child protagonists and related genres.

Historically, one of the most important protagonists of the movement was Walter Martin ( 1928 – 89 ), whose numerous books include the 1955 The Rise of the Cults: An Introductory Guide to the Non-Christian Cults and the 1965 The Kingdom of the Cults: An Analysis of Major Cult Systems in the Present Christian Era, which continues to be influential.

Where Chandler, like Hammett, centered most of his novels and stories on the character of the private eye, Cain featured less heroic protagonists and focused more on psychological exposition than on crime solving ; the Cain approach has come to be identified with a subset of the hardboiled genre dubbed " noir fiction ".

For the most part of the book, each chapter introduces a different denizen of the Wilderland, some helpful and friendly towards the protagonists, and others threatening or dangerous.

So too the nature of the heroes ; most sword-and-sorcery protagonists, travellers by nature, find peace after adventure deathly dull.

The last couple of minutes of the movie contain animation, as most of the cartoon characters show up in a live-action world to meet the live-action characters ( a combination of live-action and animation ) as they all sing " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah ", and in the last seconds of the movie, the real world is slowly merged into an animated variation as the main protagonists walk off into the sunset.

Like most of his works these are executed on a small scale and feature protagonists whose eyes are fixed in a peculiar, unfocused stare.

Also, the protagonists usually acted out of more selfish motives ( money or revenge being the most common ) than in the classical westerns.

" He suggests that because Allen's films blur the protagonist with " past and future protagonists as well as with the director himself ", it " makes a difference as to whether we are most responsive to the director's or the character's framing of events ".

" Such concealment of character identity has resulted in some disparity as to how critics identify the book's main protagonists ; for example, while most find consensus that Festy King, who appears on trial in I. 4, is a HCE type, not all analysts agree on this – for example Anthony Burgess believes him to be Shaun.

The influence of Döblin's novel can be seen in many of Fassbinder ’ s films most of whose protagonists are named Franz, some with the surname Biberkopff like the naïve working class lottery winner in Fox and his friends, who is played by Fassbinder himself.

A great portion of Blue Mars is concerned with the effects of extreme longevity on its protagonists, most of whom have lived over two hundred years as a result of repeated longevity treatments.

While many criticized Bolt for focusing more on the personal aspects of his protagonists than the broader political context ( particularly with Lawrence and Man ), most critics and audiences alike praised his screenplays.

Thus, while numerous traditional Catholics opposed voting rights for women, the Pope was in favour, arguing that, unlike the feminist protagonists, most women would vote conservative and thus support traditional Catholic positions.

Unlike Doctorow, Coover uses real names for most protagonists of the case, and uses a fictionalized Richard Nixon as his narrator for half of the chapters.

The most famous of Thurber's inept male protagonists, the character is considered " the archetype for dreamy, hapless, Thurber Man ".

As with most of Alexander Key's stories, the embattled protagonists find that most of the people they meet are untrustworthy, greedy, and hateful — making the decency of the few all the more poignant.

It is said that Wallace was the first British crime novelist to use policemen as his protagonists, rather than brilliant amateur sleuths as most other writers of the time did.

The town of Nagi was the inspiration for the village of Konoha, where most of the protagonists of Naruto live.

The filmmakers retained the names of most of the real-life protagonists.

The character is often considered as one of the best female protagonists of all time: it was heralded for challenging gender roles, particularly in the science fiction, action and horror genres, gave world recognition to Weaver and remains her most famous role to date.

Rabbi Akiva and his contemporary Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha are most often the protagonists of later merkabah ascent literature.

The mountain is one of the most famous sites of Iceland, primarily due to the novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth ( 1864 ) by Jules Verne, in which the protagonists find the entrance to a passage leading to the center of the earth on Snæfellsjökull.

The plots vary from writer to writer, but there are distinct similarities between wuxia protagonists and characters from the modern Western fantasy genre.

* Xuzhu ( 虛竹 ), one of the three protagonists of the wuxia novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils by Jin Yong

Before Neuromancer, Gibson had written several short stories for prominent science fiction periodicals – mostly noir countercultural narratives concerning low-life protagonists in near-future encounters with cyberspace.

In other stories which are found in One Thousand and One Nights, protagonists who had to leave their homeland and travel to the unknown places of the world saw signs which proved that Solomon had already been there.

Sentinels are designed to hunt mutants who often represent the protagonists of Marvel stories ; therefore, the sentinels are usually employed as supervillains or as the tools of other villains.

Earlier, some works were published which constituted " future history " in a more literal sense — i. e., stories or whole books purporting to be excerpts of a history book from the future and which are written in the form of a history book — i. e., having no personal protagonists but rather describing the development of nations and societies over decades and centuries.

Numerous stories depict Jinns, Ghouls, Apes, sorcerers, magicians, and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography, not always rationally ; common protagonists include the historical Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, his Grand Vizier, Jafar al-Barmaki, and his alleged court poet Abu Nuwas, despite the fact that these figures lived some 200 years after the fall of the Sassanid Empire in which the frame tale of Scheherazade is set.

Bradley encouraged female writers and protagonists: the stories feature skillful swordswomen and powerful sorceresses, working from a variety of motives.

They are the protagonists of what are probably Leiber's best-known stories.

" The Stone Pillow " offers the rise of the rebellion which the protagonists of " If This Goes On -" later join ; it is noteworthy that the Rebellion ( styled the " Second American Revolution " in later stories of the Future History ) includes Mormons, Catholics, and Jews, groups suppressed by the Theocracy, working in concert with Freemasons.

She had Welsh ancestry, and many of her short stories and books ( both fictional and non-fictional ) are set in Wales and its borderlands, and / or have Welsh protagonists.

In Lola Rennt fast cutting is used to quickly tell stories about minor characters to show how the casual actions of the protagonists have profound impact on what happens to them.

Whereas Corwin of the first series was a product of the late 1960s and 1970s and was more of a cross between a hardboiled detective in the vein of Raymond Chandler and a Highlander-like immortal with centuries of experience fighting his way through the stories, Merlin ( a product of the late 1980s and early 1990s when computers had become commonplace ) is a youthful hacker / magician finding himself in increasingly complex situations in the vein of modern hacker protagonists.

Some are linked to the preceding stories by their Parisian setting and artistic protagonists.

These titles reveled in a gruesome joie de vivre, with grimly ironic fates meted out to many of the stories ' protagonists.

Some works were published which constituted " future history " in a more literal sense-i. e., stories or whole books purporting to be excerpts of a history book from the future and which are written in the form of a history book-i. e., having no personal protagonists but rather describing the development of nations and societies over decades and centuries.

Like It's a Wonderful Life, The Big Time, and many other time travel stories using this concept, it is clear that these alternative presents / futures are mutually exclusive with the protagonists ' own — so, strictly speaking, the universes are not parallel in that they cannot co-exist, rather they oscillate between one or the other.

When the non-cannibalized stories were republished years later in the short story collection The Simple Art of Murder, Chandler changed the names of the protagonists to Philip Marlowe.

In the early 1990s, Moore and Gebbie began collaborating on Lost Girls, a story in which the female protagonists of Peter and Wendy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz meet and share sexual stories and experiences.

The female protagonists in such stories are driven to suicide as if dying for a cause of freedom from various oppressions of marriage.

Many of the stories he published were set on Earth in the present day or near future, with ordinary people as protagonists.

One of the appeals of the Almanack was that it contained various " news stories " in serial format, so that readers would purchase it year after year to find out what happened to the protagonists.

Her stories tend to have twists reminiscent of Twilight Zone episodes, hinting that the protagonists of her stories have not yet escaped danger.

Kiarostami has a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras.