Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are you ever watching a TV show and thinking to yourself, damn, this character really can't catch a break? Like, it's just one ...

Here’s what an intense desire for a fictional character looks like. Fictophilia, fictosexuality and fictoromance refer to the intense and enduring emotional attachment, love, infatuation or desire ...

Some of the most beloved characters in literary history did not spring entirely from a writer's imagination. They were ...

The pantheon of superpowered heroes in pop culture continues to grow as the world consumes hundreds of thousands of stories across all media forms. Comic books, video games and manga have introduced ...

We tend to think that fiction authors just dream up characters out of nowhere. But writers often get their ideas from everyday life, and, being great observers, they often turn people they know or ...

But who is the woman behind the program? As Adrienne Hankin, public relations director for tech company Mindscape, told the New York Times in 1998: "Mavis is the Betty Crocker of software" Though the ...

Gemma Johnson is a Senior Contributor from the United Kingdom who writes guides, lists, and updates. Gemma's passion for video games began in the 90s, growing up with classic titles like Goldeneye, ...

Left: Zooey Deschanel (Screenshot: New Girl); Center: Bob Morley in The 100 (Photo: Cate Cameron/The CW); Right: Jared Harris in Mad Men (Photo: Everett Collection) This week’s question comes from TV ...

We know characters in fiction as well as we know many, and perhaps most, of the people around us. Yet fictional characters are often sketched remarkably lightly. In the more than 800 pages of ...