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Companion (Doctor Who)
Companion (Doctor Who): the Doctor's traveling partner in the BBC series Doctor Who, from Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton, and Barbara Wright to Rose Tyler, Clara Oswald, and the Whittaker-era 'fam', serving as audience surrogate and moral counterweight.
Continuity (fiction)
Continuity (fiction): internal consistency of events, characters, and details across a narrative and sequels; distinct from canon, tracked by script supervisors and story bibles, breached by goofs, repaired by retcons and reboots.
Cookie Lyon
Cookie Lyon is the fictional matriarch of Fox's Empire (2015-2020), played by Taraji P. Henson; ex-wife of Lucious Lyon, she served 17 years in prison, helped fund Empire Entertainment with $400,000, and won Henson a Golden Globe.
Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster, known in German as Krümelmonster and in Dutch as Koekiemonster, is a blue Muppet character on Sesame Street, famous for his frenzied appetite for cookies.
Cordelia Chase
Cordelia Chase, Charisma Carpenter's character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, a mean-girl cheerleader who becomes a visions-bearing hero, is possessed in Angel season 4, and dies off-screen in season 5.
Count von Count
Count von Count is the vampire-like Sesame Street Muppet, a Bela Lugosi Dracula parody created by Norman Stiles, first seen in 1972, voiced by Jerry Nelson then Matt Vogel, who compulsively counts everything.
Cousin Itt
Cousin Itt (also spelled Cousin It) is the hair-covered, sunglasses-wearing Addams Family relative created for the 1964 ABC sitcom at David Levy's suggestion, debuting February 5, 1965 as played by Felix Silla, later portrayed by John Franklin, Roger Arroyo, Phil Fondacaro, and voiced by Snoop Dogg.
Cricket Green
Cricket Green (Cricket Ernest Green) is the 10-year-old protagonist of Disney's Big City Greens, voiced by co-creator Chris Houghton; a mischievous country boy in Big City with Tilly, Bill, and Gramma Alice.
Cristina Yang
Cristina Yang is a fictional cardiothoracic surgeon on Grey's Anatomy, played by Sandra Oh in seasons 1-10 (2005-2014). Known as Meredith Grey's "person," she left for Zurich in the 2014 finale and Oh has declined to return.
Cutie mark
Cutie mark: the unique flank symbol of My Little Pony characters, named in 2003 as a pun on beauty marks, signaling talent or destiny; central to Friendship Is Magic and the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
Cyberman
Cyberman: fictional cyborg species from Doctor Who, first seen in The Tenth Planet (1966), created by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis; Mondasian origin, emotionless, seeks conversion of all organic life, with later Cybus parallel-universe and parallel-evolution versions.
Cylons
Cylons are the fictional artificial race of Battlestar Galactica: robot servants of a reptilian empire in the 1978 series, and human-created synthetic life forms with thirteen humanoid models, resurrection, and monotheism in the 2003 re-imagining.
D'Angelo Barksdale
D'Angelo Barksdale is a fictional mid-level drug dealer in HBO's The Wire, played by Lawrence Gilliard Jr.; nephew of kingpin Avon Barksdale, acquitted of murder in the series' opening episode, later imprisoned, and killed in season two's "All Prologue."
D'Vana Tendi
D'Vana Tendi is the Orion Starfleet science officer, voiced by Noël Wells, in Star Trek: Lower Decks; a former Syndicate pirate called the Mistress of the Winter Constellations aboard the U.S.S. Cerritos.
Dale Cooper
Dale Cooper is the fictional FBI Special Agent and protagonist of Twin Peaks, created by David Lynch and Mark Frost and played by Kyle MacLachlan from 1990, known for intuitive, dream-based detection, coffee, cherry pie, and his split into Dougie, Mr. C, and Richard in The Return (2017).
Dale Horvath
Dale Horvath is The Walking Dead character, an RV-owning elderly widower and moral compass of the Atlanta survivors, created by Robert Kirkman and played on TV by Jeffrey DeMunn, who dies in season 2's "Judge, Jury, Executioner".
Damon Salvatore
Damon Salvatore is the vampire antihero of L.J. Smith's The Vampire Diaries novels and the 2009–2017 CW series, played by Ian Somerhalder; he begins as the villainous brother of Stefan and ends the series human.
Dana Scully
Dana Katherine Scully is the fictional FBI agent and medical doctor, played by Gillian Anderson, who serves as the scientific skeptic to Fox Mulder on The X-Files (1993-2002, revived 2016); known for the Scully Effect on women in STEM.
Daniel Jackson (Stargate)
Daniel Jackson is the fictional archaeologist and linguist of the Stargate franchise, played by James Spader in the 1994 film and Michael Shanks in Stargate SG-1; he opens the Stargate, joins SG-1, and ascends in "Meridian."
Danny Pink
Danny Pink (Rupert Henry Pink) is a Doctor Who character played by Samuel Anderson in Series 8 (2014): a Coal Hill maths teacher, ex-army sergeant, Clara Oswald's boyfriend, killed in Dark Water and revived as a Cyberman in Death in Heaven.
Daria Morgendorffer
Daria Morgendorffer is the protagonist of the animated sitcom Daria, created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis. Voiced by Tracy Grandstaff, she is a sardonic misanthrope.
Daryl Dixon
Daryl Dixon is a fictional survivor in AMC's The Walking Dead, played by Norman Reedus. Created for TV by Frank Darabont after Reedus auditioned for Merle, absent from the comics, and lead of the Daryl Dixon spin-off ending in 2027.
Data (Star Trek)
Data (Star Trek): Soong-type android with a positronic brain, created by Dr. Noonian Soong, activated 2335 at Omicron Theta; portrayed by Brent Spiner in TNG and films; sought humanity, won personhood in "The Measure of a Man," died in Nemesis, returned in Picard.
David Rossi
David Stephen Rossi, BAU senior profiler on Criminal Minds (2007– ), played by Joe Mantegna, introduced to replace Jason Gideon; named for the real LAPD sergeant of the Simpson trial.
Davros
Davros is the fictional Chief Scientist of the Kaleds in Doctor Who, creator of the Daleks, first seen in Genesis of the Daleks (1975); played by Michael Wisher, David Gooderson, Terry Molloy, and Julian Bleach, and redesigned as able-bodied in 2023.
Dawn Summers
Dawn Summers is a fictional character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy's younger sister, created by Joss Whedon and played by Michelle Trachtenberg (2000–2003). Introduced in season 5 as a retcon, she is revealed to be the mystical Key made human by monks to hide her from the hellgod Glory.
Dean Winchester
Dean Winchester is a fictional hunter and co-protagonist of Supernatural (2005-2020), played by Jensen Ackles. Born 1979, in Lawrence, Kansas, he is Sam Winchester's older brother, drives a 1967 Chevrolet Impala, and dies in the series finale.
Death Race (franchise)
Death Race franchise: dystopian racing media starting with Death Race 2000 (1975, Roger Corman/Paul Bartel), Exidy's controversial 1976 arcade game, Paul W.S. Anderson's 2008 remake with Jason Statham, and the prequels, Death Race 2050, and comic Death Race 2020.
Deathbird
Deathbird (Cal'syee Neramani) is a Marvel Comics Shi'ar royal, exiled for murdering her mother and sister, recurring X-Men and Captain Marvel foe, throne usurper, Kree viceroy, and Horseman of Apocalypse, debuting in Ms. Marvel #9 (1977).
Deathclaw
Deathclaw: the giant reptilian bipedal apex predator of the Fallout games, engineered pre-war by the US government from chameleon stock, with variants from hairy to intelligent, and a live-action debut in Fallout season 2.