He was heavily injured both physically and psychologically, and the " Armitage " personality was constructed as part of experimental " computer-mediated psychotherapy " by Wintermute ( see below ), one of the artificial intelligences seen in the story ( the other one being the eponymous Neuromancer ) which is actually controlling the mission.

The term " Russian Roulette " originated in an eponymous 1937 short story by George Surdezof:

The Marvelous Orange Tree trick was used by the eponymous conjurer in Steven Millhauser's short story, " Eisenheim The Illusionist ", subsequently filmed as The Illusionist ( 2006 ), where a more complex variant is shown.

Examples of this include the 1960 Danger Man episode " View from the Villa " starring Patrick McGoohan, the 1976 four-episode Doctor Who story entitled " The Masque of Mandragora " set in Renaissance Italy, and an episode of Citizen Smith in which the eponymous hero visits Rimini.

Walt Disney Pictures used the story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice as a basis for its eponymous fantasy-adventure film in 2010.

The most traditional of his novels, made into an unsuccessful cult film, it tells the story of a bright, egotistical teenager ( which Amis acknowledges as autobiographical ) and his relationship with the eponymous girlfriend in the year before going to university.

The story begins with the birth of the eponymous Titus, as the heir to the throne of the House of Groan, and finishes just over a year later with his " Earling " or formal investiture as the seventy-seventh Earl of Groan, after the untimely death of his father Sepulchrave.

Pratt continued to produce new stories over the next two decades, many first appearing in the eponymous comics magazine Corto Maltese, until 1988 when the final story Mu was serialised, ending in June 1989.

In common with Fleming's other Bond stories, he used the names of people he knew, or knew of, throughout his story, including the book's eponymous villain, who was named after British architect Ernő Goldfinger.

So they organize a raffle and Gladstone Gander wins a fishing trip to Canada, where he recovers The Golden Helmet from Barks's eponymous story, allowing Azure Blue to resume his plans of owning North America.

In this short story, written in August 1921 and first published in November 1933, Atal, now an adult, becomes an apprentice to Barzai the Wise and travels with him to seek out the tale's eponymous deities.

A. Emerton notes that it is “ widely agreed ” that the story of Judah and Tamar “ reflects a period after the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan .” He also suggests the possibility that it contains “ aetiological motifs concerned with the eponymous ancestors of the clans of Judah .” Emerton notes that Dillman and Noth considered the account of the deaths of Er and Onan to “ reflect the dying out of two clans of Judah bearing their names, or at least of their failure to maintain a separate existence .” However, this view was “ trenchantly criticized ” by Thomas L. Thompson.

That embedded story itself contains a third tale, the eponymous Blind Assassin, a science fiction story told by Alex's fictional counterpart to the second novel's protagonist, believed to be Laura's fictional counterpart.

Prodosh Chandra Mitter, popularly known by his nickname Feluda, first appeared in the eponymous short story Feludar Goyendagiri ( Feluda's Investigation ) in 1965.

The French equivalent is the story of Jeannot's knife, where the eponymous knife has had its blade changed fifteen times and its handle fifteen times, but is still the same knife.

The story follows the exploits of seven children as they are terrorized by the eponymous being, which exploits the fears and phobias of its victims in order to disguise itself while hunting its prey.

In the collection's eponymous story " Axiomatic ", the protagonist enters a store selling mods not only for every variety of psychedelic experiences, but for altering one's personality traits, sexual orientation, and even religion.

At the time of his death Blitzstein was at work on Idiots First, a one-act opera based on the eponymous story by Bernard Malamud – intended to be part of a set of one-acters called Tales of Malamud – which Ned Rorem has called " his best work ".

In the story, written by Judd Winick, Walsh aided the eponymous superhero team in going public on America's Most Wanted with information regarding a child slave trader, which eventually led to a solid lead gained from the tips that poured in.

Also included were Al Anders ' Western hero the Masked Raider ; the jungle lord Ka-Zar the Great, with Ben Thompson adapting the story " King of Fang and Claw " by Bob Byrd in Goodman's eponymous pulp magazine Ka-Zar # 1 ( Oct. 1936 ); the non-continuing-character story " Jungle Terror ", featuring adventurer Ken Masters, drawn and possibly written by Art Pinajian under the quirky pseudonym " Tohm Dixon " or " Tomm Dixon " ( with the published signature smudged ); " Now I'll Tell One ", five single-panel, black-and-white gag cartoons by Fred Schwab, on the inside front cover ; and a two-page prose story by Ray Gill, " Burning Rubber ", about auto racing.

In 1981, Lucélia posed naked for Playboy again, in order to promote the film Luz del Fuego, which tells the story of the eponymous ballet dancer which shocked the Brazilian society of the early 1950s by founding the a naturist political party and creating the first clothes-free area in Brazil at an island in Baía de Guanabara.

The historical sign tells its story, but nothing gets interest across as well as some of the original historical items or places themselves which still have the character of the period covered.

In the story, Professor Laban Shrewsbury ( a recurring Derleth character ) and his assistant at the time, Nayland Colum, discover Alhazred's burial site.

Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.

This story is told through the character Rieux.

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

The story of Ratoncito Pérez has been adapted into further literary works and movies since then, with the character of Alfonso XIII appearing in some.

Selkirk's story aroused great interest at home, and Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based in part on him.

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

An apocryphal story says that Thespis stepped out of the dithyrambic chorus and spoke to them as a separate character.

The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.

It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.

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.

Bayezid ( spelt Bayazid ) is a central character in the Robert E. Howard story Lord of Samarcand.

The character of God in the story is progressively revealed through the use of irony.

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.

* In the manga / anime Gintama, the main character, Gintoki Sakata, wields a bokken as opposed to a katana, as the story takes place in an Edo period of an alternate timeline where a weapons ban has been imposed by imperialistic aliens.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

* Mandarin Chinese children's story in simplified Chinese showing the stroke order for every character.

This is a frequent occurrence in sitcoms, where networks may agree to continue a show, but only if a certain character is emphasized, leading other minor characters to become victims of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, while the emphasized character ( usually a Breakout Character ) ( as in the case of Frasier Crane ) develops a more complete back story that ignores previous, more simplified back stories.

Often when a fan does not agree with one of the events in a story ( such as the death of a favorite character ) they will choose to ignore the event in question so that their enjoyment of the franchise is not diminished.

The main character from the Namco game for the PlayStation Portable Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception who remains unnamed in the story but rather goes by his codename Gryphus-1 ( as he is the leader of the Gryphus Squadron ) is known as the " Southern Cross ", and his squadron's emblem is an Andean Condor with the Southern Cross in its beak.

* Cyborg, a film featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, tells the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth due to a nuclear disaster, and has a female cyborg as a central character.

Writers of post-colonial fiction interact with the traditional colonial discourse, but modify or subvert it ; for instance by retelling a familiar story from the perspective of an oppressed minor character in the story.