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Napoleon   Fictional Character Animal Farm  
Napoleon is a fictional character in George Orwell's Animal Farm. While he is at first a common farm pig, he takes advantage of the animals' uprising against their masters to eventually become the tyrannical "President of Animal Farm," which he...
Snowball   Fictional Character Animal Farm  
Snowball is a fictional pig in the book Animal Farm written by George Orwell. Together with the pig Napoleon, Snowball leads the animals' revolt against the human farmer, but is driven away from the farm (a comparison to the Russian government) by...
Squealer   Fictional Character Animal Farm  
Squealer is a fictional pig from George Orwell's Animal Farm, primarily inspired by Joseph Stalin's aide Vyacheslav Molotov also figuratively as propaganda. In the allegorical form chosen by Orwell for Animal Farm, the pigs are easily identified...
Boxer   Fictional Character Animal Farm  
Boxer is a fiction horse from George Orwell's Animal Farm, he is the farm's most hard-working and loyal worker. He serves as an allegory for the Russian working class who helped oust the Czar and establish the Soviet Union, but were eventually...
Old Major   Fictional Character Animal Farm  
Old Major (also called Willingdon Beauty, his show name) is the first major character described by George Orwell in Animal Farm. This "purebred" of pigs is the kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change; an obvious metaphor for Karl Marx, though some...
Pilkington   Fictional Character Animal Farm  
Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood Farm is a human character in George Orwell's satirical book Animal Farm. Mr. Pilkington has a more unkept farm, and is on bad terms with Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield Farm, whose farm is on the opposite side of Animal Farm....
Benjamin     Animal Farm  
In George Orwell's novel Animal Farm, Benjamin is a donkey that represents the aged population of Russia. It has also been suggested that he represents the Menshevik intelligentsia: as intelligent, if not more so, than the novel's pigs. He is very...
Jones Pete Postlethwaite played Jones in the 1999 film adaption of Animal Farm Fictional Character Animal Farm  
Mr. Jones of Manor Farm was a human character in George Orwell's satirical book Animal Farm. Mr. Jones was once a capable farmer, but after the aftermath of a very deadly lawsuit, deteriorated into drinking and became known for his harsh rule over...
The genie that haunts the moonbeams       Memory  
The daemon of the valley       Memory  
Kilgore Trout Fictional Character Breakfast of Champions  
Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. He was originally created as a fictionalized version of author Theodore Sturgeon (Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction), although Trout's consistent presence in...
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Jailbird
Timequake
Slaughterhouse-Five
Signora Psyche Zenobia       A Predicament  
Thingum Bob       The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.  
Doctor Tarr          
Hop-Frog       Hop-Frog  
Trippetta       Hop-Frog  
Robert Langdon Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu (Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou) in the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code Fictional Character The Da Vinci Code  
Robert Langdon (June 22, 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States) is a fictional professor of religious iconology and symbology at Harvard University who appeared in the Dan Brown novels Angels & Demons (2000) and The Da Vinci Code (2003)....
Holden Caulfield   Fictional Character The Catcher in the Rye    
Bud White     L.A. Confidential    
Dudley Liam Smith     L.A. Confidential  
Dudley Liam Smith (1905 - ?), is a fictional character in several novels by American novelist James Ellroy. Smith was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1905, and later immigrated to the United States, where he joined the LAPD in 1928. Smith was the...
The Big Nowhere
Charles Marlow   Fictional Character Heart of Darkness    
Hoard Roark          
Hagbard Celine   Fictional Character The Illuminatus! Trilogy  
Captain Hagbard Celine is a fictional character from the Illuminatus trilogy of books/prophecies by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, named after the legendary Viking hero Hagbard who died for love. In the Schrödinger's Cat trilogy, the...
Saul Goodman     The Illuminatus! Trilogy    
Barney Muldoon     The Illuminatus! Trilogy    
George Dorn     The Illuminatus! Trilogy    
Yog-Sothoth 요그-쇼토스 Fictional Character The Illuminatus! Trilogy The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Yog-Sothoth (The Lurker at the Threshold, The Key and the Gate, The Beyond One, Opener of the Way The All-in-One and the One-in-All) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos. The being was created by H.P. Lovecraft and first appeared in his...
Ignatius J Reilly     A Confederacy of Dunces    
William of Baskerville A poster of The Name of The Rose, depicting James Bond actor Sean Connery as Brother William of Baskerville Fictional Character The Name of the Rose  
William of Baskerville is a fictional Franciscan friar from the novel Il Nome Della Rosa (The Name of the Rose) by Umberto Eco. Brother William was an inquisitor, who presided at some trials in England and Italy, where he distinguished himself by...
Adso of Melk     The Name of the Rose