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David8, commonly known as David, is a fictional character featured in the Alien franchise, portrayed by Michael Fassbender . Introduced in the first prequel film, Prometheus (2012), David is an android serving as a butler, maintenance man and surrogate son to his creator, Peter Weyland, the founder of the Weyland Corporation. While he assists his human companions in their interstellar expedition to meet their creators, the extraterrestrial Engineers, David is obsessed with the concept of creating life of his own. After Peter Weyland is killed, David is freed from servitude, allowing him to conduct experiments to engineer his own variants of the Alien creature . David was conceptualized as a character to provide a non-human perspective for the theme of meeting one's creators in Prometheus, with him representing the next generation in a line of creators who finds himself disillusioned by his predecessors. Fassbender, who was director Ridley Scott 's first choice for the role, ...

Aloysius "Nosey" Parker is a fictional character introduced in the British 1960s Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds , who also appears in the film sequels Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968) and the 2004 live-action adaptation Thunderbirds . He is the butler and chauffeur to Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward and, like her, a field agent of the secret organisation International Rescue. The puppet character of the TV series and first two films was voiced by David Graham . In the live-action film, Parker is portrayed by Ron Cook . Graham reprised his role for the part-computer-animated, part-live-action remake series Thunderbirds Are Go! , which first aired in the UK in 2015. The character is known for his hypercorrected Cockney speech and frequent use of the phrase "Yes, M'Lady" to acknowledge Penelope's orders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Parker ------------------------------ Thunderbirds is a British science-fiction...

Jafar  is a  fictional   character  who appears in  Walt Disney Pictures ' 31st animated feature film  Aladdin  (1992). He is  voiced  by American actor  Jonathan Freeman , who also portrayed the character in the  Broadway musical adaptation . An inspiration to the character is the villain Jafar, played by  Conrad Veidt  in  The Thief of Bagdad , from which Aladdin borrows several character ideas and plot elements. The Jafar of Disney's Aladdin plays essentially the same part as the character from the 1940 movie, and is drawn with notable similarity to Conrad Veidt's looks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jafar_(Disney) ------------------------------ Aladdin is a 2019 American musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures . Directed by Guy Ritchie , from a script he co-wrote with John August , it is a live-action / CGI adaptation of Disney's 1992 animated film of the same name , which itself is based on the ...

Frankenstein's monster or Frankenstein's creature, often erroneously referred to as simply "Frankenstein", is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus . Shelley's title thus compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein , to the mythological character Prometheus , who fashioned humans out of clay and gave them fire. In Shelley's Gothic story , Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous method based on a scientific principle he discovered. Shelley describes the monster as 8 feet (240 cm) tall and terribly hideous, but emotional. The monster attempts to fit into human society but is shunned, which leads him to seek revenge against Frankenstein. According to the scholar Joseph Carroll , the monster occupies "a border territory between the characteristics that typically define protagonists and antagonists". Frankenstein's monste...