Sci-fi & fantasy
Wizards, starships, time travel and the worlds built around them.
Ahsoka Tano
Star Wars
Ahsoka was introduced in 2008 to widespread hostility.
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Aslan
The Chronicles of Narnia
Aslan is the most openly allegorical major character in children's fantasy.
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Boba Fett
Star Wars
Boba Fett is the clearest demonstration in popular culture that screen time and popularity are unrelated.
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C-3PO
Star Wars
C-3PO's design is a direct lift from Maria, the false robot in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).
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Chewbacca
Star Wars
Chewbacca is a character with no intelligible dialogue who nonetheless reads as fully articulate.
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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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Darth Vader
Star Wars
Darth Vader is arguably the most efficient villain design in film history.
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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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Grogu
Star Wars
Grogu is the most commercially explosive character introduction of the streaming era.
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Han Solo
Star Wars
Han Solo exists to puncture the film he is in.
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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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James T. Kirk
Star Trek
Kirk's popular reputation — the brawling, womanising cowboy captain — is substantially a later invention…
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Jon Snow
Game of Thrones
Jon Snow is the series' most conventional fantasy protagonist.
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Luke Skywalker
Star Wars
Luke Skywalker is the most-cited modern example of the hero's journey, and not by accident.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi
Star Wars
Obi-Wan is the mentor who dies in the first act, which was a structural requirement rather than a character decision.
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Princess Leia
Star Wars
Leia's first scene establishes almost everything about her.
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R2-D2
Star Wars
R2-D2 has no face, no dialogue and no articulated limbs to speak of.
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Spock
Star Trek
Spock is the most consequential character Star Trek produced, and NBC initially wanted him removed.
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Stormtrooper
Star Wars
The stormtrooper is one of the very few designs in this category that is not a character at all but is treated as one.
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The Doctor
Doctor Who
The Doctor is defined by a production accident that became the best idea in British television.
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The Mandalorian
Star Wars
Din Djarin is a Western protagonist wearing science-fiction armour, and the series is unusually open about it.
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Yoda
Star Wars
Yoda is a puppet that convinced an audience it was a person, which in 1980 was not a settled question.
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