Who's Who in Literature?
This young and tragic character from Shakespeare’s iconic play falls in love with Juliet despite their families’ feud.
Romeo Montague
This ancient city became the legendary battleground of a 10-year war after a prince’s abduction of Helen; Homer made its fall one of the most famous events in epic literature.
Troy
In the 1st episode of Lanterns, veteran hero Hal Jordan uses a clever pop-culture question to expose a shape-shifting alien hiding in Nebraska when it fails to name this particular magical school attended by Harry Potter.
Hogwarts
In Noli Me Tángere, this arrogant friar slams his silverware down in a bitter rage after being served the bony neck and hard wing of a chicken tinola soup.
Friar Damaso
On the big screen, he is a stressed-out, overprotective dad trying to stop his teenage daughter from dating a human. However, his dark legacy truly began in an 1897 British novel inspired by a rugged clifftop fortress in the Carpathian Mountains.
Count Dracula
Though it masks itself as a colorful high school dating simulator, this 2017 psychological horror visual novel famously breaks the fourth wall when its club president begins deleting the game files of other characters.
Doki Doki Literature Club
Though he successfully carried the One Ring all the way to Mount Doom, this Hobbit ultimately succumbed to its corruption at the very edge of the cracks of doom, refusing to cast it into the fire.
Frodo Baggins
This brilliant detective solves Victorian London's toughest cases right from his famous quarters at 221B Baker Street.
Sherlock Holmes
This silver-haired demon hunter from Capcom's Devil May Cry shares his name with the 13th-century Italian poet who famously penned the Divine Comedy.
Dante Alighieri
In Graciano López Jaena’s propaganda satire, this corrupt and big bellied Spanish friar represents the abuses and greed of the clergy during Spanish rule.
Fray Botod
In Homer’s epic, this island serves as the long-awaited destination of King Odysseus, whose journey home from the Trojan War becomes the central adventure of the story.
Ithaca
In a season 9 episode of Family Guy, this anthropomorphic canine writes the bestselling self-help guide Wish It, Want It, Do It in just three hours after his debut novel, Faster Than the Speed of Love, completely flops.
Brian Griffin
Created by Mars Ravelo in 1947 originally known as Varga, this heroine activates her powers by swallowing a magical stone and shouting her name.
Darna
This novel, set during the final years of Spanish rule, mentions the real-life Panciteria Macanista de Buen Gusto, once located in Manila’s historic Binondo district.
El Filibusterismo
In this year, Apple launched the original Macintosh computer, while the “Big Brother is watching” meme references the surveillance state depicted in George Orwell’s dystopian novel of the same name/year.
1984