Characters That Have Appeared in Fiction

This list contains only franchise characters that have appeared in officially endorsed materials, and does not contain any characters which have appeared exclusively in fanfiction. For a list of characters that have only appeared in fanfiction, see:

Characters which have appeared in self-published and original works, however, can be found here.

This list includes only characters that existed in the canon of the work in which they appeared, and not characters who were mentioned in non-fictional material (such as instruction manuals.)

Some characters may be listed twice, though under different names. This will be most often used for superhero characters.