In fictional television or other episodic media, a character who becomes the most popular, talked about, and imitated, helping to establish the narrative's popularity.

(computing) A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other action to occur, such as a transition to a new line.

A complex literary character with fully developed and dynamic traits.

(role-playing games, video games) A character in a role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player.

(role-playing games) One of a number of pre-determined groups into which characters in role-playing games are grouped, based on the focus of their skills.

A software-based list of characters and sometimes their codepoints, for searching and copying.

plural of character map

(intransitive, acting) To fail to act as a certain character; to be or act out of character.

(writing, theater, film) A stock character, especially one that is overused.

The main protagonist in a work.