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Character name: Russell Hammond
Appears in:
Almost Famous
Date(s): 2000
| | Character back story: Russell Hammond is the classic rock guitarist personified. Irresistable to women and effortlessly cool, he's a mysterious rogue who lets his guitar do the talking. A guitarist of great aplomb, Hammond was the Richards to Bebe’s Jagger, the Page to his Plant, the Duane to his Greg Allman. Sadly, however, as it became more apparent that Hammond was vastly more talented than Bebe, there was a paradigm shift in the band’s media persona. Ever the fan’s favourite, Hammond was the subject of jealousy from his other bandmates, particularly Bebe who saw himself as the face of the band. Rather than reconcile this position however, Hammond enflamed it as his creativity reached new heights, penning the track Feverdog and putting in some truly epic performances on stage. At this point, as he drew further apart from his bandmates, Hammond became the poster boy for excess, famously hurling himself from a fan’s rooftop into a pool at a party whilst on an acid trip decreeing, “I am a Golden God!” However after the events of 1973’s Almost Famous Tour died down, he rekindled his affirmation for his bandmates, particularly Bebe who he was particularly at odds with after the news broke that Bebe had in fact slept with Hammond’s girlfriend. They had survived ups and downs in their careers and personal lives, and remained the core of the band until its ultimate demise. | | Inspiration for character: | | Occupation: Rockstar | | Personality type: | | Signature look: Long hair, moustache | | Resides: | | Character connections: | | Fun facts/trivia: |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - And you can tell Rolling Stone magazine that my last words were... I'm on drugs!
- Your mom kind of freaked me out.
- You, Aaron, are what it's all about. You're real. Your room is real. Your friends are real. Real, man, real. You know? Real. You're more important than all the silly machinery. Silly machinery. And you know it! In eleven years its going to be 1984, man. Think about that!
- From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it, that's all I'm interested in.
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Character name:
Doctor Manhattan aka Jon Osterman
Appears in:
Watchmen
Date(s): 2009
Award(s): | | Character back story: Due to an accident involving a nuclear physics experiment, Dr. Osterman was taken outside the physical realm and returned with god-like powers, including superhuman strength, telekinesis, the ability to teleport himself or others over planetary, interplanetary and Intergalactic distances, control over matter at a molecular level, and near total clairvoyance. | | Inspiration for character: Dr. Manhattan was created by Watchmen writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons but, like many main characters of the series, he is a modified version of a Charlton Comics character, in this case Captain Atom, created by Steve Ditko. | | Age/Occupation: | | Personality type: | | Signature look: Hairless, Blue-skinned | | Resides: | | Character connections: | | Fun facts/trivia: The only character in the Watchmen world to explicitly possess superhuman abilities |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?
- We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
- This world's smartest man means no more to me than does its smartest termite.
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Character name:
Will Bloom
Appears in:
Big Fish
Date(s): 2003
Award(s): | | Character back story: Edward's son, who struggles with separating fact from fiction in his father's constant fanciful tales. | | Inspiration for character: | | Occupation: Journalist | | Personality type: | | Signature look: | | Resides: Paris | | Character connections: Son of Edward and Sandra Bloom, Husband of Josephine Bloom | | Fun facts/trivia: |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | - You're like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny combined - just as charming, and just as fake.
- In telling the story of my father's life, it's impossible to separate fact from fiction, the man from the myth. The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me. It doesn't always make sense and most of it never happened... but that's what kind of story this is.
- You become what you always were - a very big fish.
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