Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr. (July 1, 1899 – 1992+) – A wry, witty and sarcastic adventurer and tenured professor of archaeology [George Lucas]
Allan Quatermain (1815 – 1886) – An English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader [H. Rider Haggard]
Professor George Edward Challenger FRS, MD, DSc (1863 – ?) – An aggressive, hot-tempered, dominating figure, professor of zoology and Assistant Keeper in the Comparative Anthropology Department of the British museum. [Arthur Conan Doyle]
Lord John Roxton – A big game hunter, mountaineer, explorer, sportsman. [Arthur Conan Doyle] Clark “Doc” Savage Jr. (November 12, 1901 – ) – A doctor, scientist, adventurer, detective, and polymath who rights wrongs and punishes evildoers. [Lester Dent]
Tintin (1911 – ?) – A precocious, multitalented reporter who travels the world with his dog Snowy. [Georges Prosper Remi, aka Hergé]
Phileas Fogg (1833 – ?) – A precise, intelligent, eccentric, wealthy gentleman. [Jules Verne]
Commander McBragg, a retired British officer, would buttonhole a hapless member of his gentleman’s club, and relate some story filled with unlikelihoods and outright impossibilities (as his name, Commander McBragg, would suggest), always concluding with a hairbreadth escape. McBragg was based on English actor C. Aubrey Smith’s character, General Burroughs, from the 1939 motion pictures “The Four Feathers”.
Jonny Quest, a Tom Swift-like 11-year-old American boy, who accompanies his scientist father on extraordinary adventures. Although unenthusiastic in his schooling, he is intelligent, brave, adventurous, and generally athletic with a proficiency in judo, scuba diving, and the handling of firearms. He takes on responsibility willingly, attending to his homework (and/or household chores), telling the truth, and treating adults with respect. [Doug Wildey / Hanna-Barbera]
Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low, first drawn for Lord Beaverbrook’s London Evening Standard in April 1934.[1] Blimp is pompous, irascible, jingoistic, and stereotypically British, identifiable by his walrus moustache and the interjection “Gad, Sir!” Low claimed that he developed the character after overhearing two military men in a Turkish bath declare that cavalry officers should be entitled to wear their spurs inside tanks. The character was named after the barrage balloon, which was known as a blimp.