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Bodie Broadus
Preston "Bodie" Broadus, fictional corner drug dealer in HBO's The Wire, played by J.D. Williams; serves the Barksdale then Stanfield organizations, killed in season four, partly inspired by Nathan Barksdale.
Body swap appearances in media
Body swap appearances in media: the body-swap trope in film, TV, and animation, from Vice Versa (1882) and Freaky Friday to Big, Face/Off, Your Name, and Freaky, covering swap mechanisms, subgenres, and criticism.
Boomhauer
Boomhauer (Jeffrey Dexter Boomhauer III) is a King of the Hill character voiced by Mike Judge, Hank Hill's fast-talking, nearly incomprehensible bachelor friend, a Texas Ranger revealed only in the finale, now a stepfather in the Hulu revival.
Boone Carlyle
Boone Carlyle is a fictional character on ABC's Lost (2004–2010), played by Ian Somerhalder; a wealthy wedding-business heir and stepsister Shannon's devoted stepbrother, he was the first main character to die, in season one's "Do No Harm".
Borg
The Borg are Star Trek's cybernetic hive-mind villains, introduced in TNG's "Q Who" (1989) by writer Maurice Hurley. They assimilate species as drones via nanoprobes, attacked Earth in First Contact (2063 incursion), and return in Picard season 3.
Breaking Bad (franchise)
The Breaking Bad franchise comprises Breaking Bad (2008-13), prequel-sequel Better Call Saul (2015-22), and the Netflix film El Camino (2019), Vince Gilligan's Albuquerque crime dramas about Walter White, Saul Goodman, and Jesse Pinkman.
Bree Van de Kamp
Bree Van de Kamp (later Hodge, Weston; née Mason) is the perfectionist homemaker of ABC's Desperate Housewives (2004–2012), played by Marcia Cross, created by Marc Cherry from his mother, ending the series elected to the Kentucky legislature.
Breen (Star Trek)
The Breen (Breen Confederacy, later Breen Imperium) are a reclusive, helmeted humanoid species in Star Trek, a major Alpha Quadrant power that allied with the Dominion in 2375 and was unmasked on screen in Star Trek: Discovery season five.
Brian Cassidy
Brian Cassidy is a Law & Order: SVU character played by Dean Winters from "Payback" (1999) to Season 27: a young SVU detective who transferred to Narcotics, went undercover, dated Benson, became a DA investigator, and revealed childhood abuse by coach Gary Dolan.
Brian Griffin
Brian Griffin is the talking white Labrador dog of the Griffin family in Family Guy (1999–), voiced by creator Seth MacFarlane in his natural voice; a martini-loving failed writer, Stewie's best friend, killed off in "Life of Brian" and revived two episodes later.
Brian Moser (Dexter)
Brian Moser, aka the Ice Truck Killer and Rudy Cooper, is Dexter Morgan's biological brother and the secondary antagonist of Showtime's Dexter franchise, created by Jeff Lindsay, played by Christian Camargo, and killed by Dexter in the season 1 finale.
Brienne of Tarth
Brienne of Tarth, the Maid of Tarth, is a fictional knight in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones, played by Gwendoline Christie; heir of Evenfall Hall, wielder of Oathkeeper, and Westeros's only woman knight.
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart) is a Doctor Who character created by Haisman and Lincoln, played by Nicholas Courtney, UNIT's UK commander and the Doctor's close friend, father of Kate.
Brother Mouzone
Brother Mouzone is a fictional enforcer for hire on HBO's The Wire, played by Michael Potts. A Nation of Islam hitman from New York hired by Avon Barksdale, he survives Omar Little's shooting, then joins Omar to kill Stringer Bell in seasons 2 and 3.
Bubbles (The Wire)
Bubbles (Reginald Cousins) is a fictional heroin addict and police informant in HBO's The Wire (2002–2008), played by Andre Royo; based on real Baltimore informants, his five-season arc ends in recovery.
Bulk and Skull
Bulk and Skull, Farkas Bulkmeier and Eugene Skullovitch, are Power Rangers' original comic-relief duo, bullies turned heroes played by Paul Schrier and Jason Narvy from 1993.
Bumblebee (Transformers)
Bumblebee (B-127, Japanese バンブル) is the yellow Autobot scout of the Transformers franchise, debuting in 1984 as a Volkswagen Beetle, absent during Beast Wars over a trademark issue, and revived by the 2007-2018 live-action films as a Chevrolet Camaro-driving fan favorite.
Burning off
Burning off (also burn-off) is the American TV practice of quickly airing unaired episodes of a cancelled or soon-to-be-cancelled series in low-profile slots like Saturday nights and summer, to meet contracts, recover ad revenue, and clear accounting inventory.
Butters Stotch
Leopold "Butters" Stotch is a South Park character voiced by Matt Stone, based on co-producer Eric Stough, debuting in "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" (1999); briefly the fourth boy in season 6, later Professor Chaos, known for naivety and harsh grounding by his parents.
C. J. Cregg
C.J. Cregg, full name Claudia Jean Cregg, is the fictional White House Press Secretary and later Chief of Staff on The West Wing (1999–2006), played by Allison Janney, who won four Emmys for the role.
Cad Bane
Cad Bane is a fictional Duros bounty hunter in Star Wars, created for The Clone Wars in 2009 and considered the top bounty hunter of his era.
Caitlin Todd
Caitlin "Kate" Todd, played by Sasha Alexander, is an NCIS fictional character: a former Secret Service agent recruited by Gibbs in "Yankee White", killed by Ari Haswari in the Season 2 finale "Twilight" and replaced by Ziva David.
Caleb (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Caleb is the defrocked-preacher villain of Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7, played by Nathan Fillion; the First Evil's misogynistic enforcer, introduced in "Dirty Girls" and killed by Buffy with the Scythe in "Chosen."
Callie Torres
Callie Torres (Calliope Iphegenia Torres) is a fictional bisexual Latina orthopedic surgeon on Grey's Anatomy, played by Sara Ramirez for 11 seasons; wife of Arizona Robbins, longest-running bisexual TV character.
Candyman (film series)
Candyman is a four-film American horror series (1992-2021) adapted from Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden" (Books of Blood, 1985), centered on a hook-handed ghost summoned by saying his name five times into a mirror, set at Chicago's Cabrini-Green.
Captain Rex
Captain Rex (CT-7567) is a Star Wars clone trooper officer leading Torrent Company of the 501st Legion under Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano in The Clone Wars; freed from Order 66, he later fights with the Rebellion.
Cara Dune
Cara Dune (Carasynthia Dune), Star Wars character in The Mandalorian: Alderaanian Rebel shock trooper turned mercenary and Marshal of Nevarro, played by Gina Carano; written out after Carano's 2021 firing and settled lawsuit.
Cardassian
Cardassians are a fictional Star Trek species introduced in The Next Generation in 1991, rulers of the Cardassian Union and occupiers of Bajor, central to Deep Space Nine through Gul Dukat, Garak, and the Obsidian Order; unrelatedly, a Cardassian cosmology model exists.
Carl Grimes
Carl Grimes is the son of Rick Grimes and a main protagonist of The Walking Dead in Image Comics and on AMC TV, played by Chandler Riggs. He survives into adulthood in the comics but dies of a walker bite in the show's season 8.
Carmela Soprano
Carmela Soprano, née Carmela DeAngelis, is Tony Soprano's wife in HBO's The Sopranos, played by Edie Falco in seasons 1–6: a Catholic mother of Meadow and A.J. defined by complicity in her husband's crimes.