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The fictional character type is applied to any character who appears in a work of fiction, even if the character is based on a real person. For such characters, the name of the real person they are based on should be entered in the "based on"... more

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Charlie Brown CharlieBrown Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Charles "Charlie" Brown is the main character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. Charlie Brown is a loveable loser, a child possessed of endless determination and hope, but who is ultimately dominated by his insecurities and a "permanent case of bad luck", and often taken advantage of by his peers. These traits are best seen in the history of his baseball team.Charlie Brown is the manager of the team and its pitcher, but the team consistently loses (their all-time record is said...
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Lucy van Pelt Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt is a fictional character in the syndicated comic strip Peanuts, written and drawn by Charles Schulz. She is the older sister of Linus and Rerun. Lucy is a crabby and cynical eight-year-old girl, and is often mean to the other characters in the strip, particularly to Linus and Charlie Brown. She is often referred to as the world's greatest fuss-budget. Lucy was introduced into the strip on March 3, 1952 as a wide-eyed baby who constantly tormented her parents. Very early...
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Linus van Pelt Linus awaits the Great Pumpkin Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Linus van Pelt is one of the characters in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. Probably the best friend of Charlie Brown, Linus is also the younger brother of Lucy Van Pelt and older brother of Rerun van Pelt. He first appeared on September 19, 1952; however, he was not mentioned by name until three days later. He was first referenced two months earlier, on July 14. On the various specials, Christopher Shea first voiced Linus Van Pelt in 1965. His younger brother, Stephen, voiced Linus...
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Rerun van Pelt Rerun on the back of his mother's bicycle Topic  
[[Image:RerunVanPelt.jpg|thumb|320px|Rerun on the back of his mother's bicycle. Image taken from the "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown" special.]]Rerun van Pelt is Linus and Lucy's younger brother in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. Rerun was "born" into the strip in 1972, during a storyline in which Lucy threw Linus out of the house only to learn that yet another little brother had just been born (causing her to exclaim in exasperation "A new baby brother? But I just got rid of the old...
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Peppermint Patty PeppermintPatty Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. A freckle-faced brunette, she is one of a small group in the strip who lives across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends. Generally displaying the characteristics of a tomboy, she was the first female Peanuts character to wear pants. She made her first appearance on August 22, 1966. The following year, she made her animated debut in the TV special You're in Love, Charlie...
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Pig-Pen Pig-Pen Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Pig-Pen is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. Pig-Pen's gimmick is that he is always dirty. He is best-known for the cloud of dirt and dust that follows him wherever he goes. When he takes a deep breath such as to sing, the dust rises briefly around him. He sometimes refers to it somewhat nobly as the dust of ancient civilizations. He cannot and will not wash it off for more than the briefest of periods. In fact, he is referred to in an early strip as the only person...
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Sally Brown Sally Brown Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Sally Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. Sally has flipped blonde hair with a cluster of curls and sometimes a bow in front, and she wears a polka dot dress, usually pink or light blue. In the winter, and most of the time in the later years of the strip, she switched to a shirt and pants. She has a "take it easy" approach to life, preferring to slide by while doing as little work as possible. Her favorite pastime is sitting in her beanbag...
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Shermie Topic  
Shermie (シェルミー) is a videogame character in the King of Fighters series. She is recognizable in her hairstyle that covers her eyes, tied with a ponytail at the back. She wears pink one-piece tight-fitting miniskirt with a short pink jacket. Her tight skirt has criss-crossing openings that partially exposes her thighs. She has a violet belt-like wrapping, and wears pink boots as well. It is stated on KOF 10th that "L the Third" is the inspirational material for Shermie. This might mean she is...
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Franklin   Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Franklin is a character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz. Introduced on July 31, 1968, Franklin was the first African-American character in the strip. He goes to school with Peppermint Patty and Marcie. In his first story arc, he met Charlie Brown when they were both at the beach. Franklin's father was a soldier fighting in Vietnam, to which Charlie Brown replied "My Dad's a barber...he was in a war too, but I don't know which one." Franklin later paid...
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Schroeder Topic  
Schroeder is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz. He is distinguished by his precocious skill at playing the toy piano, as well as by his love of classical music and the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in particular. Schroeder is also the catcher on Charlie Brown's baseball team, though he is always seen walking back to the mound with the baseball, never throwing it—admitting in one strip he didn't want the other team to discover his lack of...
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Marcie Marcie Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Marcie is a bespectacled fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. She serves as comedic foil and best friend to tomboy Peppermint Patty, plays a supporting role in some of Snoopy's heroic fantasies, and displays a romantic interest in Charlie Brown. Marcie probably first made her appearance on the strip on June 18, 1968, even though she was not mentioned by name until October 11, 1971. Schulz refers to a bespectacled girl who was introduced on the earlier date...
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Woodstock Woodstock Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Woodstock is a fictional character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. Snoopy began befriending birds in the early 1960s, when they started using his doghouse for various purposes: a rest stop during migrations, a nesting site, or a place to play cards. None of these birds were ever given names, or even used speech balloons, they simply looked at Snoopy and he understood them. The first bird that bore a prototypical resemblance to Woodstock visited Snoopy in 1967, and this is generally...
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Frieda Frieda_animated_Peanuts Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Frieda is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. According to Schulz, Frieda's character was inspired by his longtime friend Frieda Rich, a local artist whom he met while taking classes at the Minneapolis Art Instructions School. She was a regular in Peanuts throughout the 1960s, but as newer characters were phased in towards the end of the decade she began appearing less often, and she ceased to be a featured character after 1975, making only cameo appearances since then....
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Shermy "Every Christmas it's the same - I always end up playing a shepherd." Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Shermy was one of the four original characters in the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles Schulz. Schulz named him after a friend from high school. When Peanuts made its debut on October 2, 1950, Shermy had the first line of dialogue in the series. As Peanuts matured, however, Shermy eventually became an extraneous character, and by 1969, he stopped appearing entirely. Shermy was often portrayed as Charlie Brown's superior at the things that mattered to Charlie Brown, especially athletics. Though...
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Patty Patty from a comic strip Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Patty is a character in the comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz (often confused with Peppermint Patty, a different and later character from the same strip). Her closest friend is Violet. The two appeared very early Patty even appeared in the first strip, along with Charlie Brown and Shermy but lacking the discerning characteristics of characters such as Lucy, Linus, or Sally, she became less prominent as years went by. As the only female character in the strip's very earliest...
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Snoopy Snoopy as a World War I FIying Ace Musical Artist Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Snoopy is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle. Snoopy began his life in the strip as a fairly ordinary dog, but eventually evolved into perhaps the strip's most dynamic character — and among the most recognizable comic characters in the world. The original drawings of Snoopy were based on Schulz's childhood dogs, Snooky and Spike. Snoopy, while born on October 2nd, first made his appearance on the strip on...
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Violet Violet from a comic strip Topic Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe
Violet Gray is a character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. Violet has shoulder-length dark hair, and she frequently wears green dresses (switching to pants in the winter and in later years). Schulz changed her hairstyle between braids and a ponytail in the early strips, but after a few years she dropped the braids and went exclusively with the ponytail, which became arguably her most famous trademark. It became so rare to see her without a ponytail, in fact, that when she...
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Faye Hudson   Topic  
Faye Hudson (née Willis) was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Lorraine Bayly from 1991 to 1992. Hudson, Faye
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Cameron Hudson   Topic  
Cameron Hudson was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Benjamin Mitchell from 1992 to 1993. Benjamin had previously been the first actor to portray Cameron's cousin Brad Willis. Cameron was a lawyer and he arrived in Ramsay Street to defend his aunt, Pam Willis, who was accused of murdering Garth Kirby.
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Doug Willis   Topic  
Douglas "Doug" Willis was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Terence Donovan. He first appeared in 1990 until the character's departure in 1994. Doug briefly returned to the show for several episodes in 2005.
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Pam Willis   Topic  
Pamela "Pam" Willis (née Beresford) was a fictional character in the Australia soap opera Neighbours, played by Sue Jones. She first appeared in 1990 until the character's departure in 1994. She was Erinsborough's district nurse, and highly valued by the whole community. Her marriage to Doug at one point ran into trouble when he had an affair with Jill Weir, though this was eventually sorted out. Pam briefly returned to the show in 1996 for several episodes involving aftermath of the shooting,...
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Gaby Willis   Topic  
Gabrielle Suzanne "Gaby" Willis was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Rachel Blakely. She first appeared in 1991 and ran the upmarket boutique "Gabrielle's" until the character's departure in 1994. She was a highly ambitious woman who worked in the Robinson Corporation, though this trait of hers was somewhat tempered when she had a son. In 2005, Gaby made a cameo in Annalise Hartman's documentary.
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Cody Willis   Topic  
Cody Willis was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Amelia Frid from 1989-1991 and Peta Brady from 1993 - 1996. She first appeared in 1989 until the character's death in 1996. The youngest child of Doug and Pam Willis, Cody Willis was born in 1975 in Erinsborough. Cody was always a determined young woman and the apple of her father's eye. As a teenager, she always knew how to get what she wanted, when she wanted so when she fell for Todd Landers, a...
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Brad Willis   Topic  
Bradley "Brad" Willis was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by first by Benjamin Mitchell in two episodes in 1989 as a guest character. When Brad returned to the show in 1991, Scott Michaelson took over the role. Brad was a very sporty, athletic man who was especially into surfing, and was highly popular with the ladies. As well as his future wife Beth, he also had relationships with Lucy Robinson and Lauren Carpenter. Brad remained until his departure in...
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Adam Willis   Topic  
Adam Willis was a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Ian Williams. He first appeared in 1990 until his departure in 1991. He was the local doctor before Karl Kennedy arrived.
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