Spider-Man wasn't conceived as anything special -- the character first appeared in issue 15 of the Marvel title "Amazing Fantasy" -- but his popularity quickly made the superhero the subject of his own comic book, followed by several TV series and, in the 2000s, three blockbuster movies.
They focus on the character Florentyna who later becomes the first female president of the United States when the President dies in office.
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It was totally out of character and for the first time ever I picked him up and left a restaurant.
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Since the character first appeared in 2005, there have been at least 46 "Fancy Nancy" books from publisher HarperCollins, with over 20 million in print, spawning a number of popular dolls and toys, and becoming a must-have birthday party theme for all the fanciest little girls.
Both were widely compared to Iron Man when the first film revitalized the character in 2008.
The first iconic video game character was also the highest-earning arcade game in history.
On the open plains of Texas, I first learned the character of our country: sturdy and honest, and as hopeful as the break of day.
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Jack Welch wasn t the first tough character that Kushal Pal Singh ran into.
"Lose these and slowly but inevitably you lose the character and the history that made the area special in the first place, " he said.
Yarn Yoshi: The team that created Kirby's Epic Yarn is hard at work on the first console game to feature Yoshi as the main character since 1998's Yoshi's Story for Nintendo 64.
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Hollywood star Meryl Streep's portrayal of Thatcher in the 2011 film "The Iron Lady" gave some younger viewers their first insight into the former politician's character.
The first boat was launched in 1811, still making the main character an old man.
But in the same speech, he cited the value of "truthfulness" and how it's the first pillar of good character.
At the age of 31, Whishaw is 12 years younger than Bond actor Daniel Craig, a first for the Q character.
The show will mark the first time a lead character in a television sitcom -- in this case Ellen Morgan, played by Ellen Degeneres -- announces her homosexuality.
Bryant was considered the top wide receiver in the 2010 draft, and he was originally projected to go among the first ten picks before character concerns hurt his draft stock.
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Spurs boss Harry Redknapp insists the north Londoners can mount a serious title challenge this season - and they added weight to his argument by surviving the first-half sending off of Jermain Defoe to demonstrate the character and quality required to secure three vital points.
Then, in June 1939, when Superman became the first comic-book character to star in his own self-titled publication, his background was retrofitted to become somewhat closer to the story we know today, in which the toddler of steel was raised by a kindly elderly couple named Kent.
And it's freakishly hard to pull off in a sawmill like New York, which strips apart its sports icons from the outside in, questioning first the performance, then the commitment, and then the character, almost reveling as it spits out the bones.
The first step is that the player needs to have feelings of control over character and environment.
Hugo Strange will have already been in each film as a supporting character (and as the main villain in the first film), and in this film Strange is hired by Black Mask to try to develop a psychological profile on Bruce as a way to find his weaknesses.
And it is no coincidence that one of the reasons the Steelers has been one of the most successful franchises in the history of the sport during the Rooney ownership (father then son) is due to their collective ability to judge the content of the character of its players and coaches without first filtering out candidates based on non-football criteria.
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If you want your daughter to be as happy or happier than you have been in marriage, it makes no sense that she should dumb down the colorfulness of her character, the boldness of her spirit and the fire that made her the "first African-American" this or that in order to appease those who are potentially intimidated by her.
It was the first ghetto in the world, and was the reason why Shakespeare had his character Shylock live in Venice.
With the advent of the first electrical cipher, the German Enigma machine in 1918, cryptanalysis changed its fundamental character.
First, unlike the transition from character-line to graphical user interfaces, touch user interfaces do not provide a better environment for productivity applications.
But not for the first time in his career, the 24-year-old showed real strength of character.
But she is likely to be the next president, the first woman to be president of the United States, because of the quality of her character and her work on behalf of the American people.
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