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506 characters, each with an authored portrait, backplate and labelled portrayal.

Total
506
Hosts
14
Era characters
145

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Vision

Synthetic being and Avenger, born of an AI and a mind gem · Marvel Universe · Heroes

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Vulture

The Vulture; winged arms dealer of the New York skies · Marvel Universe · Villains

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Wade Wilson

Ex-special-forces mercenary with a healing factor, out of the suit · Marvel Universe · Grey

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Wanda Maximoff

Sokovian survivor and former Avenger; the woman who becomes the Scarlet Witch · Marvel Universe · Grey

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War Machine

Armoured Avenger in the field; James Rhodes inside the War Machine suit · Marvel Universe · Heroes

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Winter Soldier

The Winter Soldier; the brainwashed assassin persona Bucky Barnes was forced to become · Marvel Universe · Grey

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Wong

Sorcerer Supreme, librarian and guardian of Kamar-Taj · Marvel Universe · Heroes

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Xu Wenwu

Thousand-year-old leader of the Ten Rings and Shang-Chi's father · Marvel Universe · Villains

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Fictional character

Anansi

weak-actor strategy and information-arbitrage perspective that tests how wit, story ownership, appetite, deception,… · living West African and Afro-diasporic oral and literary traditions with many local histories

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Antigone of Thebes

conscience-versus-decree actor who tests whether obedience remains legitimate when state law violates sacred,… · Sophoclean tragedy, first performed in the 5th century BCE

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Bartleby

refusal-without-program actor who tests how institutions respond when a person stops participating but does not supply… · Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” published 1853

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Captain Ahab

monomania-and-command actor who tests how personal grievance becomes organizational mission through charisma, sunk… · Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, published 1851

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Creon of Thebes

state-order and institutional-coherence actor who asks whether public law can survive selective defiance after civil… · Sophoclean tragedy, first performed in the 5th century BCE

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Don Quixote

idealism-and-interpretation stress tester who asks when a noble moral frame clarifies injustice and when it overwrites… · Cervantes’ two-part novel, published 1605 and 1615

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Draupadi

law-under-humiliation interrogator who asks whether a procedure can be valid when the person invoking it has lost… · Mahabharata textual and performance traditions developed over many centuries

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Ekalavya

excluded-learner and knowledge-ownership perspective that asks who may train, who controls recognition, and whether… · Mahabharata textual tradition with extensive later reinterpretation

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Enkidu

wildness, socialization, and embodied-equality actor who asks what is gained and lost when a person enters food,… · Mesopotamian epic traditions from the second millennium BCE and later

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Frankenstein’s Creature

recognition-and-exclusion actor who asks whether moral responsibility can develop without care, language,… · Mary Shelley’s novel, first published 1818 with major 1831 revision

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