( c. 4 ), who likewise follows Hippolytus's Compendium, adds some further particulars ; that ' Abraxas ' gave birth to Mind ( nous ), the first in the series of primary powers enumerated likewise by Irenaeus and Epiphanius ; that the world, as well as the 365 heavens, was created in honour of ' Abraxas ;' and that Christ was sent not by the Maker of the world but by ' Abraxas.

This is one of a series of articles about the differences between British English and American English, which, for the purposes of these articles, are defined as follows:

The series follows the exploits of a village of indomitable Gauls as they resist Roman occupation.

The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh ( who calls himself " The Black Adder ") in his various attempts to increase his standing with his father and his eventual quest to overthrow him.

The Dark Horse comic series follows this chronology.

The series follows the fortunes of a fictional current affairs show, Frontline.

He never follows through with his plans, though, as he is called to a dying Xavier's side in the series ' final episode.

The data structure follows the skipped block with a series of volume descriptors, detailing the contents and types of information contained on the disk ( similar to the BIOS parameter block used by FAT and NTFS formatted disks ).

The story has similarities to the 2001 television series Smallville, which follows Clark Kent's life as a teenager and into early adulthood.

The global climate cooled considerably over the course of the Neogene, culminating in a series of continental glaciations in the Quaternary Period that follows.

* A French pulp fiction series OSS 117, by author Jean Bruce, follows the adventure of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, alias OSS 117, a French operative working for the OSS.

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew, led by Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), first officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), in the 23rd century.

It follows the adventures of humanity's first warp 5 starship, the Enterprise, ten years before the United Federation of Planets shown in previous Star Trek series was formed.

Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 75, 000 light-years from Earth while pursuing a renegade Maquis ship.

) and follows possible further system events through to a series of final consequences.

The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper ( Kyle MacLachlan ) of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer ( Sheryl Lee ).

The series follows a teenage high school girl named Hitomi, who finds herself pulled from Earth to the planet Gaea when a boy named Van appears on the high school track while battling a dragon.

The series follows a British former secret agent who is held prisoner in a mysterious coastal village resort where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job.

The series follows an unnamed British agent who abruptly resigns his job, apparently preparing to go on a holiday.

Using the Greek numerical prefixes, these would be as follows for series with between two and ten entries:

The series narrative follows Xena ( played by Lucy Lawless ), a warrior in a quest to seek redemption for her past sins as a ruthless warlord by using her formidable fighting skills to help people.

The series follows Xena and her traveling companion Gabrielle.

A series of reforms follows.

It follows the coming-of-age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes against a backdrop of epic events.

Like Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, The Martian Chronicles follows a " future history " structure.

It also included an innovative scene that would combine a series of on stage dances with singing from both solo protagonists and the chorus.

Each series was set in a different historical period with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for example Melchett and Lord Flashheart.

One series concerns the rogue and adventurer, Northwest Smith, and his wanderings through the Solar System ; the other is a short fantasy series about Jirel of Joiry ( one of the first female protagonists in sword-and-sorcery fiction ).

* Eve, a daughter of the Underworld film series protagonists Selene and Michael Corvin.

Names of characters also often carry puns, such as Ash Ketchum and Goku (" kakarot "), the protagonists of the anime series Pokémon and Dragonball, respectively, both franchises which are known for including second meanings in the names of many of their characters.

Many television shows and films have been produced which portray in-character professional wrestlers as protagonists, such as Ready to Rumble, ¡ Mucha Lucha !, Nacho Libre, and the Santo film series.

Skuld was one of a series of characters created by Kōsuke Fujishima, and is depicted as the younger sister of Belldandy, one of the two main protagonists of the series.

* In Season 4 episode 2 of the TV series Eureka The Novikov Self Consistency Principle is explicitly mentioned to justify the many similarities between the " alternative timeline " experienced by the protagonists and their " original timeline ".

* The manga-anime series Gunslinger Girl features an episode where two of the protagonists, Jean and Rico visit Florence.

Set in a fantasy medieval setting, the series ' protagonists are dragons who are beset by evil humans, reversing a common story convention.

< p > At deeper levels, drug users may regress to childhood as they relive their memories, or they may project themselves into the series of dreamlike images before their closed eyelids and become the protagonists of symbolic dramas enacted for the mind's eye.

In the same relation, some are protagonists ( or at least positive forces ), such as Dexter in the animated series Dexter's Laboratory, Professor Calculus in The Adventures of Tintin, Dr. Muto, Professor Farnsworth, Philo in UHF, Dr. Benjamin Jeffcoat, or Dr. Emmett " Doc " Brown from the Back to the Future movies.

Particularly significant in this respect were the Carry On series of films and the BBC radio series Round the Horne, although this humor is carried because of the apparent " nonsense " language that the protagonists use but in fact are having a " rude " conversation in Polari ( gay slang ).

The first episode of the anime series The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya consists almost entirely of a poorly made film that the protagonists created, complete with Kyon's typical, sarcastic commentary.

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.

* Finn, one of the main protagonists of the animated television series, Storm Hawks

* Finn the Human, one of the main protagonists in the 2010 animated series Adventure Time with Finn and Jake

A marketing agreement between Sega and the producers of the anime Zillion resulted in a game based on the anime series in which the protagonists use a pistol which is nearly identical to the Light Phaser, including the cable.

* Two jiangshi brothers appear in the original graphic novel The New Brighton Archeological Society who are related to the two main protagonists in the series.

* The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane-the protagonists live in Manhattan, New York, but each book in the series has a different setting ; settings include various planets within and outside of the Solar System and various alternate universes.