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Characters who started on the page before they reached the screen.
Aslan
The Chronicles of Narnia
Aslan is the most openly allegorical major character in children's fantasy.
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Curious George
Picture Book Classics
The manuscript survived the fall of France on a bicycle.
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Daenerys Targaryen
Game of Thrones
Daenerys begins the first novel as a thirteen-year-old sold into marriage by her brother to buy an army.
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Frodo Baggins
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo is a protagonist who fails at the last moment.
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Gandalf
The Lord of the Rings
Gandalf is the template every fantasy mentor since has been measured against.
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Geralt of Rivia
The Witcher
Geralt is a monster hunter who keeps discovering the monster is not the problem.
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Harry Potter
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a deliberately ordinary protagonist surrounded by extraordinary people.
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Hermione Granger
Harry Potter
Hermione is the character who actually solves the books.
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Jon Snow
Game of Thrones
Jon Snow is the series' most conventional fantasy protagonist.
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Matilda Wormwood
Roald Dahl
Matilda is a five-year-old genius in a family that resents her for it.
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Miffy
Picture Book Classics
Dick Bruna invented Miffy in 1955 to entertain his one-year-old son during a rainy holiday.
Paddington Bear
Picture Book Classics
Michael Bond bought a single unsold bear from a shop near Paddington station on Christmas Eve 1956 as a…
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Pennywise
Horror Icons
Pennywise is a shape the creature wears rather than the creature itself.
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Peter Rabbit
Picture Book Classics
Peter Rabbit began in 1893 as a picture letter Beatrix Potter wrote to entertain the sick five-year-old…
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed literary character in film and television history.
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The Gruffalo
Picture Book Classics
The Gruffalo is a monster invented by a mouse to frighten off predators, who then turns out to be real.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Picture Book Classics
Eric Carle's book began as an entirely different animal.
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Thomas the Tank Engine
Picture Book Classics
The Reverend Wilbert Awdry invented these stories to entertain his son Christopher through measles in 1943.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Disney Animation
Winnie-the-Pooh began as a set of stories A. A. Milne told about his son Christopher Robin's actual toys.
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