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Characters and races of The Dark Crystal
Characters and races of The Dark Crystal: the peoples of the planet Thra in Jim Henson's 1982 film and the 2019 prequel Age of Resistance, created with Brian Froud: Gelfling, Skeksis, urRu, urSkeks, Podlings, Aughra, and the seven Gelfling clans.
Characters in Hamlet
Characters in Hamlet: the cast of Shakespeare's tragedy (Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius, Laertes, Horatio, Fortinbras), their roles and relationships, and how adaptation has recentered them.
Characters in Romeo and Juliet
Characters in Romeo and Juliet: the cast of Shakespeare's tragedy, divided between the Montagues (Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio), the Capulets (Juliet, Tybalt, the Nurse, Paris), and Friar Laurence and Prince Escalus.
Characters of Peter Pan
Characters of Peter Pan: J.M. Barrie's cast from The Little White Bird (1902), the 1904 play, and Peter and Wendy (1911), including Peter, Wendy Darling, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, the Lost Boys, Nana, and Tiger Lily.
Characters of the DC Extended Universe
Characters of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), the 2013–2023 shared DC film franchise: Superman (Henry Cavill), Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Harley Quinn, Shazam, Blue Beetle, and their recasting in James Gunn's DCU.
Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: the MCU's film and TV cast, also called MCU heroes and villains, adapted from Marvel Comics with notable divergences such as Kamala Khan's bangle powers and Mar-Vell.
Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: A–L
Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: A–L covers MCU figures from Ant-Man to Loki, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, and Phil Coulson, the connective S.H.I.E.L.D. agent with the most tracked appearances.
Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: M–Z
Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: M–Z surveys MCU characters from Mandarin, Ms. Marvel, Namor, and Nick Fury to Shang-Chi, Shuri, Thor, Vision, and Wanda Maximoff, with canon boundaries and phase context.
Charade (1963 film)
Charade (1963) is an American romantic comedy-thriller, also called a Hitchcockian caper, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Paris, with music by Henry Mancini and a 2022 National Film Registry selection.
Charak: Fair of Faith
Charak: Fair of Faith (चरक) is a 2026 Hindi thriller directed by Shieladitya Moulik, produced by Sudipto Sen, released 6 March 2026; a missing-children mystery set during the Charak Mela festival, CBFC 'A' certified.
Charan Raj
Charan Raj, born in 1958 in Belgaum, India, is an Indian actor, director, and screenwriter known for villain roles in Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada cinema since 1982.
Charan Raj (music)
Charan Raj (ಚರಣ್ ರಾಜ್) is an Indian film music composer and singer working mainly in Kannada cinema, known for Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu, Tagaru, and Sapta Sagaradaache Ello.
Charan Singh Shaheed
Charan Singh Shaheed (ਚਰਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਸ਼ਹੀਦ, 1891–1935) was a Punjabi poet, novelist, and journalist remembered as a pioneering humorist and satirist; he founded the weekly Mauji, called the first political satirical journal in the Punjab.
Charan-kabi
Charan-kabi (চারণকবি), the Bengali equivalent of minstrel, is a term for a wandering poet-singer who composes and performs ballads, most closely associated with the Swadeshi-era poet Mukunda Das.
Charand Parand
Charand Parand (چرند و پرند, "fiddle-faddle") is a series of satirical pieces of social and political criticism by Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, published in Sur-e Esrafil during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.
Charango
Charango: small Andean plucked lute with five double courses (ten strings), GCEAE re-entrant tuning, traditionally with an armadillo-shell resonator; also called quirquincho. Contested Bolivian-Peruvian origins; related to the ronroco.
Charanjit Ahuja
Charanjit Ahuja (1953–2025) was an Indian music composer and record producer who shaped recorded Punjabi music from the vinyl era and launched artists including Amar Singh Chamkila.
Charas (चरस) (1976 film)
Charas (चरस) is a 1976 Hindi action thriller written, produced, and directed by Ramanand Sagar, starring Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Ajit, and Amjad Khan, about a drug-smuggling racket spanning Uganda, India, Rome, and Malta.
Charcuterie
Charcuterie (from French chair, cuit, "cooked flesh") is the craft and trade of prepared pork products: hams, sausages, pâtés, rillettes. Covers French product categories, curing-fermentation-drying safety hurdles, and the modern board trend.
Chardee MacDennis: The Game of Games
Chardee MacDennis: The Game of Games is It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 7 episode 7 (2011), in which the Gang plays their self-invented three-level drinking game; sequel Chardee MacDennis 2: Electric Boogaloo followed in season 11.
Chardonnay
Chardonnay, white wine grape of Burgundy and Champagne, a natural Pinot × Gouais blanc cross per 1999 DNA analysis; fifth most planted wine grape worldwide, ~210,000 ha in 2017, known for malolactic buttery style and Chablis-to-oaked range.
Charge (heraldry)
Charge (heraldry): any figure borne on a coat of arms, on the field, an ordinary, or another charge. Also called bearings. Classes include ordinaries, sub-ordinaries, and common charges, governed by the rule of tincture.
Charging Bull
Charging Bull, the Wall Street Bull, is Arturo Di Modica's 1989 bronze sculpture at Bowling Green, New York, installed guerrilla-style near the NYSE after the 1987 crash; central to the 2017 Fearless Girl copyright dispute.
Charioteer of Delphi
The Charioteer of Delphi, also known as the Heniochos, is a life-size ancient Greek bronze statue of a chariot driver, made around 478–474 BC and excavated at Delphi in 1896.
Chariots of the Gods?
Chariots of the Gods? (Erinnerungen an die Zukunft), Erich von Däniken's 1968 ancient-astronaut bestseller claiming aliens built ancient monuments; over 7 million English copies sold, rejected by science, spawned Ancient Aliens.
Charisma (カリスマ) (1999 film)
Charisma (カリスマ, Karisuma) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1999 Japanese allegorical thriller starring Koji Yakusho as a suspended detective drawn into a forest conflict over a poisonous tree; Cannes 1999, Japan release 26 February 2000.
Charisma Carpenter
Charisma Carpenter (born 1970, Las Vegas) is an American actress who played Cordelia Chase on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel; in 2021 she accused Joss Whedon of toxic on-set behavior.
Charit Puthi
Charit Puthi (চৰিত পুথি), also spelled Carita Puthi, is an Assamese hagiographical manuscript recording the lives of Neo-Vaishnavite saints, written from the late sixteenth century and containing the earliest Assamese prose.
Charitha Thunak
Charitha Thunak (චරිත තුනක්, "Three Characters") is a 1963 Sinhala novel by the Sri Lankan writer K. Jayatilaka, which won the State Literary Award for the best novel of that year.
Charithra Chandran
Charithra Chandran (Charithra Surya Chandran) is a Scottish-born British-Tamil actress known for Edwina Sharma in Bridgerton season 2, Alex Rider, One Piece's Miss Wednesday, and her West End debut.