fictional character

Noun
  1. An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) (synset 109610740)
    "she is the main character in the novel"
    is a type of: imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction
    subtypes: agonist, protagonist - the principal character in a work of fiction
    specific instances:
    • aladdin - in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie
    • argonaut - (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece
    • babar - an imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children
    • beatrice - the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy
    • beowulf - the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon
    • bluebeard - (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
    • bond, james bond - British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming
    • brer rabbit - the fictional character of a rabbit who appeared in tales supposedly told by Uncle Remus and first published in 1880
    • bunyan, paul bunyan - a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada
    • john henry - hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill
    • cheshire cat - a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll
    • chicken little - a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling
    • cinderella - a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince
    • colonel blimp - a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low
    • dracula - fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker
    • don quixote - the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical
    • el cid - the hero of a Spanish epic poem from the 12th century
    • fagin - a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens
    • falstaff, sir john falstaff - a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays
    • father brown - a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton
    • faust, faustus - an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge
    • frankenstein - the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses
    • frankenstein, frankenstein's monster - the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation)
    • goofy - a cartoon character created by Walt Disney
    • gulliver - a fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput in a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift
    • hamlet - the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
    • captain horatio hornblower, horatio hornblower - a fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester
    • iago - the villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife
    • commissaire maigret, inspector maigret - a fictional detective in novels by Georges Simenon
    • kilroy - a nonexistent person popularized by American servicemen during World War II
    • king lear, lear - the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
    • lilliputian - a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift
    • marlowe, philip marlowe - tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler
    • micawber, wilkins micawber - fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist
    • mother goose - the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes
    • mr. moto - Japanese sleuth created by John Marquand
    • othello - the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife
    • pangloss - an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire
    • pantaloon - a character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man
    • perry mason - fictional detective in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner
    • peter pan - the main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie; a boy who won't grow up
    • pied piper, pied piper of hamelin - the title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning
    • pierrot - a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face
    • pluto - a cartoon character created by Walt Disney
    • huck finn, huckleberry finn - a mischievous boy in a novel by Mark Twain
    • rip van winkle - the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens
    • ruritanian - an imaginary inhabitant of Ruritania
    • tarzan, tarzan of the apes - a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
    • tom sawyer - the boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain
    • uncle remus - the fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880
    • uncle tom - a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • uncle sam - a personification of the United States government
    • holmes, sherlock holmes - a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle
    • simon legree - the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • sinbad, sinbad the sailor - in the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages
    • snoopy - a fictional beagle in a comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz
    • ali baba - the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment
    • emile - the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    • houyhnhnm - one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift
    • little john - legendary follower of Robin Hood; noted for his size and strength
    • little red riding hood - a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother
    • raskolnikov, rodya raskolnikov - a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil
    • robin hood - legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor
    • robinson crusoe - the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island
    • rumpelstiltskin - a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself
    • shylock - a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare
    • tristan, tristram - (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other
    • iseult, isolde - (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other
    • scaramouch, scaramouche - a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward
    • svengali - the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically
    • sweeney todd, todd - fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers
    • trilby - singer in a novel by George du Maurier who was under the control of the hypnotist Svengali
    • walter mitty - fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs
    • yahoo - one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
    • arthur, king arthur - a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot
    • galahad, sir galahad - (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail
    • gawain, sir gawain - (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table
    • guenevere, guinevere - (Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table
    • lancelot, sir lancelot - (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere
    • merlin - (Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor
    same as: character, fictitious character

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