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Damsel in distress

Index Damsel in distress

The damsel-in-distress, persecuted maiden, or princess in jeopardy is a classic theme in world literature, art, film and video games. [1]

193 relations: ABC-CLIO, Adenes Le Roi, Alias (TV series), Along Came Jones (song), Ancient Greece, Andromeda (mythology), Angel, Angela Carter, Anita Sarkeesian, Ann Radcliffe, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ballad, Ben Aaronovitch, British Empire, Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Byzantine Empire, C. L. Moore, Cassiopeia (mythology), Chivalry, Christopher Vogler, Clarissa, Columbia Pictures, Daphne Blake, Deity, Diana Rigg, Don Quixote, Dragon, Dragon's Lair, Dramaturgy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Emma Peel, Emprise de l'Escu vert à la Dame Blanche, Enchanted (film), Eroticism, Extraterrestrial life, Fairy tale, Fantasy tropes, Fay Wray, Feminist film theory, Feminist literary criticism, Feminist science fiction, Final girl, First-person narrative, Folklore, Foxglove Summer, Frozen (2013 film), Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess), Gamasutra, GameSpy, ..., Gender representation in video games, Geoffrey Chaucer, Goethe's Faust, Goldfinger (film), Gothic fiction, Grand Guignol, Greek mythology, Hagiography, Hallvard Vebjørnsson, Hans Christian Andersen, Hanuman, Hero, History of video games, Honour, Horace Walpole, Indian epic poetry, Ingagi, Irene Adler, James Bond, Jane Porter (Tarzan), Jane Yolen, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Jessica Lange, Jim Steinmeyer, Johan Huizinga, Joseph Campbell, Julius No, Justine (de Sade novel), Kay Aldridge, Keep the Home Fires Burning (1914 song), Kidnapping, Kim Possible, Kim Possible (character), King Kong, King Kong (1933 film), Knight-errant, Kotaku, Lanka, Linda Stirling, List of Greek mythological figures, Lois Lane, Magic (illusion), Mario (franchise), Mario Praz, Marquis de Sade, Mascot Pictures, Matthew Lewis (writer), Melodrama, Missing white woman syndrome, Monster, Naomi Watts, Nobility, Northwest Smith, Norway, Nyoka the Jungle Girl, Olive Oyl, One Thousand and One Nights, Order of chivalry, Oslo, P. T. Selbit, Patrick Dempsey, Pearl White, Perils of Nyoka, Perseus, Persian people, Petrarch, Popeye, Portrayal of women in American comics, Poseidon, Predicament escape, Prince of Persia (1989 video game), Princess and dragon, Princess Daphne (character), Princess Leia, Princess Peach, Princess Zelda, Rachel McAdams, Rama, Ramayana, Rape of Belgium, Rapunzel, Ravana, Republic Pictures, Rivers of London (novel), Romancing the Stone, Saint George, Saint George and the Dragon, Samuel Richardson, Sana'a, Sawing a woman in half, Science fiction, Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo (film), Scream queen, Serial film, Sexism in video gaming, Shambleau, Sherlock Holmes (2009 film), Sita, Slavery, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Spanish Lady, Spirit, Star Wars (film), Stieg Larsson, Stock character, Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Bros. 2, Superman, Susan Sarandon, Sydney Bristow, Target girl, Tarzan, The Adventures of Kathlyn, The Autumn of the Middle Ages, The Avengers (TV series), The Canterbury Tales, The Castle of Otranto, The Clerk's Tale, The Coasters, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Hazards of Helen, The Legend of Zelda, The Monk, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial), The Snow Queen, The Spy Who Loved Me (novel), The Squire's Tale, The World as Will and Representation, Tobias Smollett, Underdog (TV series), Universal Pictures, Veronica Mars, Veronica Mars (character), Villain, Walt Disney Pictures, What Happened to Mary, Women in Refrigerators, World War I, Xena, Xena: Warrior Princess. Expand index (143 more) »

ABC-CLIO

ABC-CLIO, LLC is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.

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Adenes Le Roi

Adenes le Roi (born in Brabant c. 1240, died c. 1300), was French minstrel or trouvère.

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Alias (TV series)

Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams, that was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001, to May 22, 2006.

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Along Came Jones (song)

"Along Came Jones" is a comedic song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by the Coasters, but covered by many other groups and individuals.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).

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Andromeda (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Andromeda (Greek: Ἀνδρομέδα, Androméda or Ἀνδρομέδη, Andromédē) is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia.

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Angel

An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies.

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Angela Carter

Angela Olive Carter-Pearce (née Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the pen name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works.

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Anita Sarkeesian

Anita Sarkeesian (born 1983) is a Canadian-American feminist media critic, blogger, and public speaker.

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Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe (born Ward, 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Buffy Summers

Buffy Anne Summers is the titular character from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American supernatural drama television series created by Joss Whedon under his production tag, Mutant Enemy Productions, with later co-executive producers being Jane Espenson, David Fury, David Greenwalt, Doug Petrie, Marti Noxon, and David Solomon.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, which had been founded as Byzantium).

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C. L. Moore

Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore.

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Cassiopeia (mythology)

Cassiopeia (Κασσιόπεια), also Cassiepeia (Κασσιέπεια), is the name of two different figures in Greek mythology.

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Chivalry

Chivalry, or the chivalric code, is an informal, varying code of conduct developed between 1170 and 1220, never decided on or summarized in a single document, associated with the medieval institution of knighthood; knights' and gentlewomen's behaviours were governed by chivalrous social codes.

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Christopher Vogler

Christopher Vogler (born 1949) is a Hollywood development executive, screenwriter, author and educator, best known for working with Disney and his screenwriting guide, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers, from 2007.

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Clarissa

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Daphne Blake

Daphne Ann Blake is a fictional character in the long-running American animated series Scooby-Doo.

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Deity

A deity is a supernatural being considered divine or sacred.

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Diana Rigg

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress.

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Don Quixote

The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), or just Don Quixote (Oxford English Dictionary, ""), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Dragon

A dragon is a large, serpent-like legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures around the world.

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Dragon's Lair

Dragon's Lair is a video game franchise that began with the laserdisc video game Dragon's Lair originally released for the arcades in 1983.

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Dramaturgy

The word Dramaturgy, is from the greek δραματουργέιν 'to write a drama'.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.

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Emma Peel

Emma Peel is a fictional spy played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers, and by Uma Thurman in the 1998 film version.

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Emprise de l'Escu vert à la Dame Blanche

The Emprise de l'Escu vert à la Dame Blanche ("Enterprise of the Green Shield with the White Lady") was a chivalric order founded by Jean Le Maingre and twelve other knights in 1399, committing themselves for the duration of five years.

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Enchanted (film)

Enchanted is a 2007 American musical fantasy romantic comedy film, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Sonnenfeld and Josephson Entertainment.

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Eroticism

Eroticism (from the Greek ἔρως, eros—"desire") is a quality that causes sexual feelings, as well as a philosophical contemplation concerning the aesthetics of sexual desire, sensuality and romantic love.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").

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Fairy tale

A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is folklore genre that takes the form of a short story that typically features entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.

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Fantasy tropes

Fantasy tropes are a specific type of literary tropes that occur in fantasy fiction.

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Fay Wray

Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong.

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Feminist film theory

Feminist film theory is a theoretical film criticism derived from feminist politics and feminist theory.

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Feminist literary criticism

Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or more broadly, by the politics of feminism.

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Feminist science fiction

Feminist science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction (abbreviated "SF") focused on theories that include but are not limited to gender inequality, sexuality, race, economics, and reproduction.

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Final girl

The final girl is a trope in horror films (particularly slasher films).

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First-person narrative

A first-person narrative is a mode of storytelling in which a narrator relays events from their own point of view using the first person It may be narrated by a first person protagonist (or other focal character), first person re-teller, first person witness, or first person peripheral (also called a peripheral narrator).

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Folklore

Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group.

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Foxglove Summer

Foxglove Summer is the fifth novel in the Rivers of London series by English author Ben Aaronovitch, published 2014 by Gollancz.

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Frozen (2013 film)

Frozen is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)

Gabrielle is a fictional character played by Renee O'Connor in the American fantasy TV series Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001).

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Gamasutra

Gamasutra is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on all aspects of video game development.

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GameSpy

GameSpy was a provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games.

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Gender representation in video games

The portrayal of men and women in video games, as in other media, is a subject of research in gender studies and is discussed in the context of sexism in video gaming.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.

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Goethe's Faust

Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two.

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Goldfinger (film)

Goldfinger is a 1964 British spy film and the third installment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Grand Guignol

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol ("The Theatre of the Great Puppet") — known as the Grand Guignol — was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader.

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Hallvard Vebjørnsson

Hallvard Vebjørnsson (Hallvard Den Hellige) (1020 – 1043), commonly referred to as Saint Hallvard (Sankt Hallvard), was the patron saint of Oslo.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.

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Hanuman

Hanuman (IAST: Hanumān, Sanskrit: हनुमान्) is an ardent devotee of Lord Rama and one of the central characters in the various versions of the epic Ramayana found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

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Hero

A hero (masculine) or heroine (feminine) is a real person or a main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength; the original hero type of classical epics did such things for the sake of glory and honor.

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History of video games

The history of video games goes as far back as the early 1950s, when academic computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations as part of their research.

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Honour

Honour (or honor in American English, note) is the idea of a bond between an individual and a society, as a quality of a person that is both of social teaching and of personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valor, chivalry, honesty, and compassion.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.

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Indian epic poetry

Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá) or Kappiyam (Tamil language: காப்பியம், kāppiyam).

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Ingagi

Ingagi is a 1930 Pre-Code exploitation film.

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Irene Adler

Irene Adler is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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Jane Porter (Tarzan)

Jane Porter (later Jane Clayton, Countess of Greystoke) is a major fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly film.

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Jane Yolen

Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books.

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Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (December 7, 1805 – June 13, 1871) was a French magician.

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Jessica Lange

Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is an American film, television and theatre actress.

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Jim Steinmeyer

Jim Steinmeyer (born November 1, 1958) is an American internationally respected designer of magical illusions and theatrical special effects.

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Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga (7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.

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Joseph Campbell

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion.

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Julius No

Dr.

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Justine (de Sade novel)

Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue (French: Justine, ou Les Malheurs de la Vertu) is a 1791 novel by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade.

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Kay Aldridge

Katharine Gratten Aldridge (July 9, 1917 – January 12, 1995) was an American actress and model, best known for playing feisty and imperiled heroines in black-and-white serials during the 1940s.

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Keep the Home Fires Burning (1914 song)

Keep the Home-Fires Burning ('Tills it the Boys Come Home) is a British patriotic First World War song composed in 1914 by Ivor Novello with words by Lena Guilbert Ford (whose middle name was sometimes printed as "Gilbert").

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Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away (asportation) and confinement of a person against his or her will.

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Kim Possible

Kim Possible is an American animated action comedy-adventure television series created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle that originally aired on Disney Channel from June 7, 2002 to September 7, 2007.

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Kim Possible (character)

Kimberly Ann "Kim" Possible is a fictional character who appears in the animated television series Kim Possible, voiced by actress Christy Carlson Romano.

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King Kong

King Kong is a giant movie monster, resembling an enormous gorilla, that has appeared in various media since 1933.

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King Kong (1933 film)

King Kong is a 1933 American NR pre-Code monster adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.

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Knight-errant

A knight-errant (or knight errant) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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Lanka

Lanka is the name given in Hindu epics to the island fortress capital of the legendary asura king Ravana in the epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

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Linda Stirling

Linda Stirling (October 11, 1921 – July 20, 1997) was an American showgirl, model, and actress.

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List of Greek mythological figures

The following is a list of gods, goddesses and many other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion.

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Lois Lane

Lois Lane is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Magic (illusion)

Magic, along with its subgenres of, and sometimes referred to as illusion, stage magic or street magic is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by staged tricks or illusions of seemingly impossible feats using natural means.

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Mario (franchise)

The franchise is a video game franchise published and produced by Nintendo starring the fictional Italian-American character Mario.

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Mario Praz

Mario Praz KBE (September 6, 1896, Rome – March 23, 1982, Rome) was an Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature.

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Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality.

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Mascot Pictures

Mascot Pictures Corporation was an American film company of the 1920s and 1930s best known for producing and distributing film serials and B-westerns.

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Matthew Lewis (writer)

Matthew Gregory Lewis (9 July 1775 – 14 or 16 May 1818) was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his 1796 Gothic novel, The Monk.

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Melodrama

A melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.

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Missing white woman syndrome

Missing white woman syndrome is a phenomenon noted by social scientists and media commentators of the extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls.

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Monster

A monster is a creature which produces fear or physical harm by its appearance or its actions.

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Naomi Watts

Naomi Ellen Watts (born 28 September 1968) is an English actress and film producer.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class in aristocracy, normally ranked immediately under royalty, that possesses more acknowledged privileges and higher social status than most other classes in a society and with membership thereof typically being hereditary.

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Northwest Smith

Northwest Smith is a fictional character, and the hero of a series of stories by science fiction writer C. L. Moore.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Nyoka the Jungle Girl

Nyoka the Jungle Girl is a fictional character created for the screen in the 1941 serial ''Jungle Girl'', starring Frances Gifford as Nyoka Meredith.

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Olive Oyl

Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar in 1919 for his comic strip Thimble Theatre.

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One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights (ʾAlf layla wa-layla) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.

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Order of chivalry

A chivalric order, order of chivalry, order of knighthood or equestrian order is an order, confraternity or society of knights typically founded during or in inspiration of the original Catholic military orders of the Crusades (circa 1099-1291), paired with medieval concepts of ideals of chivalry.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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P. T. Selbit

P.

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Patrick Dempsey

Patrick Dempsey (born January 13, 1966) is an American actor, best known for his role as neurosurgeon Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy, starring with Ellen Pompeo (Dr. Meredith Grey).

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Pearl White

Pearl Fay White (March 4, 1889 – August 4, 1938) was an American stage and film actress.

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Perils of Nyoka

Perils of Nyoka is a 1942 Republic Movie serial directed by William Witney. It starred Kay Aldridge as Nyoka the Jungle Girl, a character who first appeared in the Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired serial Jungle Girl.

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Perseus

In Greek mythology, Perseus (Περσεύς) is the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty, who, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, was the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles.

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Persian people

The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group that make up over half the population of Iran.

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Petrarch

Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 18/19, 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy who was one of the earliest humanists.

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Popeye

Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar.

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Portrayal of women in American comics

The portrayal of Women in American comic books have often been the subject of controversy since the medium's beginning.

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Poseidon

Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth.

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Predicament escape

A predicament escape is any form of magic trick or escapology stunt in which the performer is trapped in an apparently dangerous situation and is required to escape from it.

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Prince of Persia (1989 video game)

Prince of Persia is a 1989 fantasy cinematic platformer originally developed and published by Brøderbund and designed by Jordan Mechner for the Apple II.

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Princess and dragon

Princess and dragon is a generic premise common to many legends, fairy tales, and chivalric romances.

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Princess Daphne (character)

Princess Daphne is a fictional character from the Dragon's Lair series of video games.

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Princess Leia

Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan (also Senator Leia Organa or General Leia Organa) is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, portrayed in films by Carrie Fisher.

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Princess Peach

is a character in Nintendo's Mario franchise.

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Princess Zelda

Princess Zelda is the titular character in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda video game series, created by Shigeru Miyamoto and introduced in its original entry in 1986.

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Rachel McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams (born November 17, 1978) is a Canadian actress.

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Rama

Rama or Ram (Sanskrit: राम, IAST: Rāma), also known as Ramachandra, is a major deity of Hinduism.

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Ramayana

Ramayana (रामायणम्) is an ancient Indian epic poem which narrates the struggle of the divine prince Rama to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana.

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Rape of Belgium

The Rape of Belgium was the German mistreatment of civilians during the invasion and subsequent occupation of Belgium during World War I. The neutrality of Belgium had been guaranteed by the Treaty of London (1839), which had been signed by Prussia.

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Rapunzel

"Rapunzel" is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household Tales.

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Ravana

Ravana (IAST: Rāvaṇa;; Sanskrit: रावण) is a character in the Hindu epic Ramayana where he is depicted as the Rakshasa king of Lanka.

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Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production-distribution corporation in operation from 1935 to 1967, that was based in Los Angeles, California.

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Rivers of London (novel)

Rivers of London (Midnight Riot in the US) is the first novel in the series of the same name by English author Ben Aaronovitch.

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Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone is a 1984 American romantic comedy-adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Diane Thomas.

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Saint George

Saint George (Γεώργιος, Geṓrgios; Georgius;; to 23 April 303), according to legend, was a Roman soldier of Greek origin and a member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith.

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Saint George and the Dragon

The legend of Saint George and the Dragon describes the saint taming and slaying a dragon that demanded human sacrifices; the saint thereby rescues the princess chosen as the next offering.

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Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson (19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an 18th-century English writer and printer.

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Sana'a

Sana'a (صنعاء, Yemeni Arabic), also spelled Sanaa or Sana, is the largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sana'a Governorate.

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Sawing a woman in half

Sawing a woman in half is a generic name for a number of stage magic tricks in which a person (traditionally a female assistant) is apparently sawn or divided into two or more pieces.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American animated franchise, comprising many animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day.

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Scooby-Doo (film)

Scooby-Doo (also known as Scooby-Doo: The Movie) is a 2002 American live-action/computer-animated family comedy adventure film, based on the long-running Hanna-Barbera animated television series of the same name.

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Scream queen

A scream queen (a wordplay on screen queen) is an actress who has become associated with horror films, either through an appearance in a notable entry in the genre, as a frequent victim, or through constant appearances as the female protagonist.

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Serial film

A serial, film serial, movie serial or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed.

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Sexism in video gaming

Sexism in video gaming is prejudiced behavior or discrimination based on sex or gender as experienced by people who play and create video games, primarily women.

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Shambleau

"Shambleau" is a short story by American science fiction and fantasy writer C. L. Moore.

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Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)

Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 mystery period action film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sita

Sita (pronounced, Sanskrit: सीता, IAST: Sītā) or Seeta, is the consort of Lord Rama (incarnation of Vishnu) and an avatar of Sri Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess that denotes good sign, good fortune, prosperity, success, and happiness.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty (La Belle au bois dormant), or Little Briar Rose (Dornröschen), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince.

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Snow White

"Snow White" is a 19th-century German fairy tale which is today known widely across the Western world.

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Spanish Lady

"Spanish Lady" is a traditional Irish folk song, also found in England.

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Spirit

A spirit is a supernatural being, often but not exclusively a non-physical entity; such as a ghost, fairy, or angel.

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Star Wars (film)

Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas.

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Stieg Larsson

Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson (15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer.

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Stock character

A stock character is a stereotypical fictional character in a work of art such as a novel, play, or film, whom audiences recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition.

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Super Mario 3D World

is a platform video game in the Super Mario series developed and published by Nintendo for their Wii U home video game console.

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Super Mario Bros. 2

Super Mario Bros.

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Superman

Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Susan Sarandon

Susan Abigail Sarandon (née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actress and activist.

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Sydney Bristow

Sydney Anne Bristow (played by Jennifer Garner) is a fictional character and the primary focus of the television series Alias.

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Target girl

In circus and vaudeville acts, a target girl is a female assistant in "impalement" acts such as knife throwing, archery or sharpshooting.

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Tarzan

Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.

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The Adventures of Kathlyn

The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913) is an American motion picture serial released on December 29, 1913 by the Selig Polyscope Company.

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The Autumn of the Middle Ages

The Autumn of the Middle Ages, or The Waning of the Middle Ages (published in 1919 as Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen and translated into English in 1924), is the best-known work by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga.

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The Avengers (TV series)

The Avengers is an espionage British television series created in 1961.

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The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.

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The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole.

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The Clerk's Tale

The Clerk's Tale is the first tale of Group E (Fragment IV) in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

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The Coasters

The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Män som hatar kvinnor; in English: Men Who Hate Women) is a psychological thriller novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), which was published posthumously in 2005 to become an international bestseller.

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The Hazards of Helen

The Hazards of Helen is an American adventure film serial (or possibly a film series) of 119 twelve-minute episodes released over a span of slightly more than two years by the Kalem Company between November 7, 1914 and February 24, 1917.

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The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda is a high-fantasy action-adventure video game series created by Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.

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The Monk

The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796.

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The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was published in four volumes on 8 May 1794 by G. G. and J. Robinson of London.

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The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)

The Perils of Pauline is a 1914 American melodrama film serial shown in weekly installments, featuring Pearl White as the title character.

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The Snow Queen

"The Snow Queen" (Snedronningen) is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.

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The Spy Who Loved Me (novel)

The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published by Jonathan Cape on 16 April 1962.

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The Squire's Tale

"The Squire's Tale" is a tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

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The World as Will and Representation

The World as Will and Representation (WWR; Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, WWV) is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.

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Tobias Smollett

Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author.

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Underdog (TV series)

Underdog is an American animated television series that debuted October 3, 1964, on the NBC network under the primary sponsorship of General Mills, and continued in syndication until 1973 (although production of new episodes ceased in 1967), for a run of 124 episodes.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars is an American teen noir mystery drama television series created by screenwriter Rob Thomas.

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Veronica Mars (character)

Veronica Mars is the fictional protagonist, occasional narrator (through voiceovers), and antiheroine of the American television series Veronica Mars, which aired on UPN from 2004 to 2006 and on The CW from 2006 to 2007.

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Villain

A villain (also known as, "baddie", "bad guy", "evil guy", "heavy" or "black hat") is an "evil" character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction.

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Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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What Happened to Mary

What Happened to Mary (sometimes erroneously referred to as What Happened to Mary?) is the first motion picture serial made in the United States.

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Women in Refrigerators

Women in Refrigerators (or WiR) is a website created in 1999 by a group of feminists and comic book fans that lists examples of the comic book trope whereby female characters are injured, killed, or depowered (an event colloquially known as fridging) as a plot device, and seeks to analyze why these plot devices are allegedly used disproportionately on female characters.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Xena

Xena is a fictional character from Robert Tapert's Xena: Warrior Princess franchise.

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Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena: Warrior Princess is an American fantasy television series filmed on location in New Zealand.

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References

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