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Best illustrated fictional characters (all time)
A ranking of fictional characters from written or illustrated works such as books, animated films, cartoons, or comics. Does not include characters created in films (not animated) and characters from video games.
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Mikasa Ackerman
(2012)Mikasa Ackerman is a fictional character in the Attack on Titan franchise. She is Eren Yeager's adopted sister. She is a quiet and withdrawn girl and maintains a stoic expression, except when Eren is in danger. When Mikasa's paren...
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Goku
(1984)Son Goku (Japanese: 孫 悟空) is a fictional superhero and the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. He is based on Sun Wukong, a main character in the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West...
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Vegeta
(1988)Vegeta (Japanese: ベジータ Bejīta) is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. Vegeta first appears as a major antagonist in chapter #204 Goodbye Son Goku (さようなら孫悟空 Sayōnara Son Gokū), published...
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Gandalf
(1937)Gandalf is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He is a wizard, member of the Istari order, as well as leader of the Fellowship of the Ring and t...
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Ryuk
(2003)Ryuk (Japanese: リューク Ryūku) is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is a bored Shinigami that drops a Death Note, a notebook that allows you to kill anyone simply by k...
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Eren Yeager
(2009)Eren Yeager (エレン・イェーガー Eren Yēgā), spelled Eren Jaeger in the Funimation dub, is a fictional character appearing as the protagonist from the manga series Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama. Eren is a teenager who swears revenge on...
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Kakashi Hatake
(2000)Kakashi Hatake (はたけ カカシ Hatake Kakashi) is a fictional character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. Kishimoto originally planned to introduce Kakashi in the manga to the series' titular character, N...
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Albus Dumbledore
(1997)Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. For most of the series, he is the headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts. As part of his backstory, it is reve...
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L
(2003)L Lawliet (Japanese: エル・ローライト Eru Rōraito), exclusively known by the mononym L, is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is an eccentric genius and international privat...
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Sasuke Uchiha
(2000)Sasuke Uchiha (うちは サスケ Uchiha Sasuke) is a fictional character from the manga and anime franchise Naruto, created by Masashi Kishimoto. Sasuke is one of the several surviving members of the Uchiha clan, an infamous and powerful ex...
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Naruto Uzumaki
(2000)Naruto Uzumaki (うずまき ナルト Uzumaki Naruto) is a fictional character in the anime and manga franchise Naruto, created by Masashi Kishimoto. The eponymous protagonist of the series, he is a teenage ninja from the fictional village of...
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Light Yagami
(2003)Light Yagami (Japanese: 夜神 月 Yagami Raito) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the manga series Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. He is a bored young genius who finds the Death Note dropped by the...
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Armin Arlert
(2012)Armin Arlert (Armin Arlelt in the english dub) is a fictional character in the Attack on Titan franchise. He is Eren Yeager's childhood friend who joins him in the Scouts. He has an inferiority complex, believing he barely passed...
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Harry Potter
(1997)Harry James Potter is the title character of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The majority of the books' plot covers seven years in the life of the orphan Potter, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard. Thus, he...
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Spider-Man
(1962)Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, Spider-Man first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962). Lee a...
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Sakura Haruno
(2000)Sakura Haruno (春野 サクラ Haruno Sakura) is a fictional character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. In the anime and manga, Sakura is a kunoichi affiliated with the village of Konohagakure, and part of...
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Deadpool
(1991)Deadpool (real name Wade Winston Wilson) is a fictional antihero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Fabian Nicieza and artist/writer Rob Liefeld, the character first appeared in The New...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn
(1991)Grand Admiral Thrawn (full name: Mitth'raw'nuruodo) is a fictional character and a major antagonist in the Star Wars universe. He first appeared in Timothy Zhan's Thrawn trilogy — Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last...
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Batman
(1939)Batman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, as well as its associated media. The character was created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and first appeared in Detective Comics...
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Lord Voldemort
(1997)Lord Voldemort (born Tom Marvolo Riddle) is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Voldemort first appeared in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was released in 1997. In the series, Voldemort i...
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Lucy
(2002)Lucy (ルーシー Rūshi) is a fictional character in the Elfen Lied manga and anime series. She is a diclonius girl, a mutant human sub-species. She is assumed to be fifteen but never explicitly stated (eighteen in the anime), and the ce...
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Superman
(1933)Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, as well as its associated media. The Superman character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, high school students li...
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Jack Torrance
(1977)John Daniel Edward "Jack" Torrance is the main antagonist of Stephen King's horror novel The Shining (1977). He was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the novel's 1980 movie adaptation and by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries. He is...
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