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Xavier seeks a peaceful co-existence between mutants and humans. With the renegade mutants willing to cause trouble, Xavier creates the School for Gifted Youngsters, which teaches but also moulds X-men to fight against Magneto and his Evil Mutants'.

Magneto is a villain that it is often hard to hate. One of the most powerful of all mutants he is supervillain, anti-hero and hero at various stages of his life. Initially he is the supervillain fighting the X-men, and using terrorism to improve life for mutants. His motives though are relatively pure, having survived Auschwitz; Magneto wants to ensure that mutants do not face the same kind of holocaust

HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY Arthur Dent and the White Mice
Arthur Dent may not necessarily be famous but he is a cult character. Arthur was the human lead from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', originally a 26 episode 1970's BBC radio production, Arthur soon became the lead character in a series of 5 books, a television series and finally a Hollywood movie.

Arthur escapes the destruction of earth, dressed in his dressing gown with the help of Ford Prefect, an alien from Betelgeuse and not Guildford as he claimed. Travelling through space with Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Marvin the paranoid android, Arthur has a series of adventures in time and space, where everything seems to be a result of the spaceship improbability drive. It is far too complex to explain, but if you get the chance take the time to read the trilogy of five', all will become clear, well at least as clear as a cup of tea.

Arthur doesn't really have enemies, he is chased by the Vogons, but he is mainly fleeing the attention of Frankie and Benjy Mouse. Part of a pan-dimensional race, Frankie and Benjy are after Arthur's brain to obtain the question to the ultimate answer of 42.

The list is of course in no way exhaustive, and everybody will have their own opinion on whether those listed are famous at all, or how they relate to characters from other series. There is so many television series, comics or novels that each person will have to make their own minds up.

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