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| | The Fictional 100: A Tour of the Top 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | I did say fictional persons: to be eligible, a character has to be regarded both as fictional (no historical folks such as Julius Caesar, Richard III, or Napoleon, even when they appear in fictional contexts) and as a person, thus excluding animals, machines, and gods (sorry, no Mickey Mouse, HAL the computer, or Apollo). |
 | | Seemingly fictional candidates sometimes turn out to be historical (Faust, for example, or DraculaVlad the Impaler) and sometimes the boundaries are fuzzy (Hercules is not a god but has one divine parent). |
 | | He was ultimately victorious in the war of royal succession that forms the epics action, yet on the brink of war he hesitated to battle his kinsmen. |
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