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The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the skin (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to into a gray, stone-like form. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane. Hanahaki disease, or hanahaki byou. Hanahaki Otome (花吐き乙女) by Matsuda Naoko.
Leonard of Quirm ( Discworld) – super-intelligent clockpunk engineer. Col John "Renny" Renwick ( Doc Savage) – civil engineer, associate of Doc Savage. Maj Thomas J. "Long Tom" Roberts ( Doc Savage) – electrical engineer, associate of Doc Savage. Dr. Clark Savage, Jr., a.k.a. Doc Savage ( Doc Savage) – surgeon, scientist, adventurer ...
Title of a French aristocrat and the fictional author of Cultes des Goules, inspired by the ancestral form of Mythos author August Derleth's name. The fictional writer is first mentioned in Robert Bloch's 1935 story "The Suicide in the Study", which calls his book "ghastly". Lovecraft uses the name in two 1935 stories, "The Shadow Out of Time ...
For more information about fictional characters in other parts of the LGBTQ community, see the lists of lesbian (with sub-pages for characters in anime and animation), bisexual (with sub-sections for characters in anime and animation), gay, non-binary, pansexual, asexual, and intersex characters. The names are organized alphabetically by ...
Cathbad — Ulster cycle. Gwenc'hlan —6th century Breton. Merlin —from the Arthurian legends. Mug Ruith —blind druid in Irish mythology. Tadg mac Nuadat —Fenian cycle. Tlachtga —daughter of Mug Ruith. Bé Chuille —One of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology featured in a tale from the Metrical Dindshenchas.
Attributing the profession of journalist to a fictional character allows many possibilities for the author: reporters may travel extensively and face adventures (like Tintin), are among the first to have news of disasters and crimes (like Clark "Superman" Kent and Peter "Spider-Man" Parker), and are supposed to be good at establishing communication.
Dick Tracy. Dynamo, Thunder Agents. Jimmy Olsen. John Stone, agent of S.T.O.R.M. in Wildstorm 's comic Planetary. KGBeast in DC Universe. Lord Peter Flint in Warlord. Lorraine Broughton in The Coldest City graphic novel. Modesty Blaise. Mortadelo and Filemón Pi, Spanish secret agents of the T.I.A.
Maintained to separate fiction - While some may argue that the category of Fictional Shapeshifters is superfluous, this category is maintained to separate shapeshifters appearing in works of fiction (i.e. characters created by a specific author in specific work) and those from legend, mythology or folklore (for instance, the trickster gods of various mythologies).