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trio of fictional, anthropomorphic ducks

character in A Song of Ice and Fire

character from Twilight

Quasimodo ( , ; from Quasimodo Sunday) is the titular protagonist of the French novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo. Born with numerous deformities, most notably a hunched back, Quasimodo serves as the bell-ringer for Notre Dame cathedral in fifteenth century Paris. Although his appearance causes others to treat him cruelly, he ultimately finds sanctuary in an unlikely love that is fulfilled only in death.

Mowgli () is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mowgli stories featured among Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other (on the basis of Marwar king Rao Sihaji) characters.

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fictional girl and woman, protagonist of the eponymous series, introduced 1908

fictional protagonist of many of the Oz novels by the American author L. Frank Baum

fictional character from the The Simpsons franchise

fictional character in A Song of Ice and Fire

Bagheera ( / Baghīrā) is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (coll. 1894) and The Second Jungle Book (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the "man-cub" Mowgli. The word bagheera is Hindi for panther or leopard, although the root word bagh means any form of panthera and is nowadays mostly used to refer to the Royal Bengal tiger.

Cosette () is a fictional character in the 1862 novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and in the many adaptations of the story for stage, film, and television. Her birth name, Euphrasie, is only mentioned briefly. As the orphaned child of an unmarried mother deserted by her father, Hugo never gives her a surname. In the course of the novel, she is mistakenly identified as Ursule, Lark, or Mademoiselle Lanoire.

fictional character from The Godfather series

fictional character from A Series of Unfortunate Events

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fictional character from The Queen's Gambit

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fictional half-witch half-human

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title character and the protagonist of the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

fictional character in the Halloween franchise

character in G.I. Joe

fictional character in The Return of the Condor Heroes

'''Swee'Pea (alternatively spelled Swee'pea and Sweapea on some titles and once called Sweep Pea''') is a character in E. C. Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre / Popeye and in the cartoon series derived from it. His name refers to the flower known as the sweet pea. Before his addition to the animated shorts, the name "Sweet Pea" was a term of affection used by main character Popeye. In the cartoon We Aim to Please, he addressed girlfriend Olive Oyl that way.

Gendry is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of epic fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its HBO television adaptation Game of Thrones, where the character is portrayed by English actor Joe Dempsie.

fictional character in The Legend of the Condor Heroes

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fictional character from the book and television series You

fictional character in Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel Matilda

fictional character and adopted son of Barney and Betty Rubble