This was abandoned due to technical reasons, so he decided to come up with a new idea using his own characters. For use in his arcade game Donkey Kong, Miyamoto created a player character originally known during development as Ossan (the Japanese term for "middle-aged man"), then Jump...
Princess Leia, Jackie Brown, or Pam Poovey? All three? None of those? What’s the criteria for the fictional characters you’d leave your wife for? Is she great with a stake, have even sharper wit, or is it that she can bail you out of a mess that makes her one of your ...
Characters like Christian Grey and Lara Croft exemplify this archetype, each bringing their unique blend of charisma, intelligence, and magnetism to the table. As we explore the realm of fictional billionaires, we encounter a diverse array of personalities who thrill audiences with their larger-than...
Both were a couple of inches under six feet, but one had curly brown hair and a stocky build, while the other had straight black hair which hung in a fringe over his forehead, almost covering his eyebrows. He was slimmer, with taut, compact buttocks and a decidedly generous bulge in the...
In the game Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe he is among the characters transported to the Mortal Kombat Universe and becomes infected with the rage virus and unlike the other people who get infected he enjoys it, it also gives him enhanced fighting abilities using them he manages to defeat Sonya...
I don’t quite have any huge ambition for this debut work (if that’s the word I dunno) of mine. All I wish is that it is comprehensible and clear enough; it would be a bonus if my audience could find resonance with some of my characters, for example, family relationships, friendship...
The Matrix film series involves characters that experience life inside the world of the Matrix plus life outside the Matrix (in the so-called real world). This distinction is explicit, and it is saturated with Hollywood meanings about escape, empowerment, resistance, and revolution. Baudrillard’...
A short, brown-skinned woman with what seemed to be brilliant multi-colored feathers for hair leaned over me, hand on my shoulder. Was I not in the Prague Redoubt? Had I misdialed? I tried to push myself up but as I tried to stand, I felt tethered. My head swam as I looked ...
Through a close reading of these case studies, I examine the phenomenon of parafictional characters as extreme cases of voice appropriation. Against the background of rising international concern with cultural appropriation, and of the Israeli sociopolitical context characterized by a multiplicity of ...
The action of the Union soldier tempers the denial of personal identity through the denial of such vital personal rights as the prerogative to choose one's name. Though yet another white man arbitrarily changes her name from Ticey to Jane Brown because, as the soldier says, "...