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Christopher Moltisanti
Christopher Moltisanti, fictional mobster and deuteragonist of HBO's The Sopranos, portrayed by Michael Imperioli; Tony Soprano's protege, capo of the Moltisanti crew, addict and failed screenwriter killed by Tony in season six.
Christopher Pike (Star Trek)
Fictional Starfleet captain in Star Trek; first captain of the USS Enterprise in the 1965 pilot "The Cage", played by Jeffrey Hunter; later portrayed by Bruce Greenwood and Anson Mount in Discovery and Strange New Worlds.
Chuck Bass
Chuck Bass (Charles Bartholomew Bass) is a Gossip Girl character from Cecily von Ziegesar's 2002 novels and the 2007 CW series, played by Ed Westwick; a rich Upper East Side bad boy whose romance with Blair Waldorf and controversial redemption arc define him.
Chuck McGill
Chuck McGill, played by Michael McKean in Better Call Saul, is Jimmy McGill's older brother, a Georgetown-trained co-founder of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill whose psychosomatic electromagnetic hypersensitivity and feud with Jimmy end in his season 3 suicide.
Cigarette Smoking Man
The Cigarette Smoking Man, also called Cancer Man or C.G.B. Spender, is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of The X-Files, played by William B. Davis from 1993.
Civilizations in Babylon 5
Civilizations in Babylon 5: the spacefaring powers of the Babylon 5 universe, chiefly the five dominant races on the station (humans, Minbari, Centauri, Narn, Vorlons), plus the Shadows, lesser powers, and their jumpgate-based expansion.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (April 24, 2025) is a turn-based RPG with real-time parry mechanics by France's Sandfall Interactive, published by Kepler Interactive, set in a Belle Époque-inspired world against the Paintress; it won nine Game Awards 2025 prizes and all five major GOTY awards.
Claire Bennet
Claire Bennet, also called "the Cheerleader", is the regenerating cheerleader of NBC's Heroes, played by Hayden Panettiere from 2006; she revealed her powers on a Ferris wheel and died in childbirth in Heroes Reborn.
Claire Fraser (character)
Claire Fraser (Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser), heroine and narrator of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novels and the Starz series played by Caitriona Balfe: a 1918-born English WWII combat nurse who time-travels to 1743 Scotland, marries Jamie Fraser, and works as a healer and physician.
Claire Littleton
Claire Littleton, played by Emilie de Ravin, is a pregnant Oceanic Flight 815 survivor in Lost (ABC, 2004-2010). She gives birth to Aaron on the island, is Jack Shephard's half-sister, vanishes in season 4, and returns in season 6 allied with the Man in Black.
Claire Underwood
Claire Hale Underwood, played by Robin Wright, is the co-protagonist of Netflix's House of Cards (2013–2018): political wife, vice president, and the show's first woman president, a Macbeth-like antiheroine.
Clara Oswald
Clara Oswald, the "Impossible Girl", is a Doctor Who companion played by Jenna Coleman, traveling with the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, scattered across the Doctor's timeline to save him, and departing in her own TARDIS in "Hell Bent".
Clarke Griffin
Clarke Griffin is the protagonist of The 100 (CW, 2014–2020), played by Eliza Taylor. A delinquent sent from the Ark to post-nuclear Earth, she led the 100, committed the Mount Weather genocide as Wanheda, hosted Josephine Lightbourne, and was barred from transcending in the finale.
Clay Davis
Clay Davis (R. Clayton Davis) is the fictional corrupt Maryland state senator in HBO's The Wire, played by Isiah Whitlock Jr. in 25 episodes across five seasons, famous for the catchphrase "sheee-it" and acquitted of corruption in season five.
Clay Morrow
Clay Morrow (Clarence 'Clay' Morrow) is the SAMCRO president and Jax Teller's stepfather in FX's Sons of Anarchy, played by Ron Perlman; a First 9 member ousted in season 4 and killed by Jax in season 6.
Cleon (Foundation)
Cleon (Foundation): the clone emperors of the Genetic Dynasty in Apple TV+'s Foundation series, ruling as Brother Dawn, Brother Day, and Brother Dusk; a TV invention not present in Asimov's novels, ended by Cleon XXIII as Brother Darkness.
Cobb Vanth
Cobb Vanth is a Star Wars character, marshal of Mos Pelgo/Freetown on Tatooine, created by Chuck Wendig in the Aftermath novels and played by Timothy Olyphant; he wore Boba Fett's armor bought from Jawas before giving it to Din Djarin.
Colonist (The X-Files)
Colonists are the alien race in The X-Files mythology who plan to colonize Earth on December 22, 2012 via the Black Oil (Purity) virus, working through the Syndicate's 1973 hybridization deal, opposed by faceless rebel aliens and stopped by extreme cold.
Comic Book Guy
Comic Book Guy, real name Jeff Albertson, is The Simpsons' sarcastic owner of the Android's Dungeon comic shop, voiced by Hank Azaria; created in 1991 as a parody of Usenet fans who graded every episode, he gave the internet "Worst. Episode. Ever."
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.
Crossover (fiction)
Crossover (fiction): a story combining characters or settings from two or more distinct narrative worlds, from the 1906 Holmes/Arsène Lupin story to official TV shared universes and fanfiction; distinct from crossover literature, which crosses age audiences.
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.