I've always enjoyed the archetype of the ancient, white-bearded mage, repository of arcane wisdom and mystic power. Merlin, Gandalf, Don...

Oscar Wilde's 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest is a popular work, and for good reason. It's funny, scathing social satire,...

The star of Bill Amend's long-running comic strip Foxtrot has always been youngest son Jason, the uber-nerd and proto-genius, a sort of...

A number of heroic, lovable rogues and bad-ass outright villains have appeared throughout this list. Harry Flashman is neither of these....

In 1980, the Incredible Hulk TV show was enjoying strong ratings. At about the same time, the boob tube was given the Bionic Woman, a...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was a short story by James Thurber published in 1939, and was sufficiently seminal that the titular...