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* In ''[[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1991 Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody]]'' by Creator/AndrewLang (1890), the letter from Herodotus is an addendum to the story of Rhodopis of Thrace in ''Literature/TheHistories'', in which he is told that Rhodopis is still living, some hundred years after the events he documented, and is queen of a hidden land in Africa. From the description (and Lang spells it out in a footnote) it's pretty clear that this is Ayesha, who was evidently ''more'' than 2000 years old during the events of ''Literature/{{She}}''.
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* In ''[[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1991 Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody]]'' by Creator/AndrewLang (1890), the letter from Herodotus is an addendum to the story of Rhodopis of Thrace in ''Literature/TheHistories'', in which he is told that Rhodopis is still living, some hundred years after the events he documented, and is queen of a hidden land in Africa. From the description (and Lang spells it out in a footnote) it's pretty clear that this is Ayesha, Ayesha of Kor, who was evidently ''more'' than 2000 years old during the events of ''Literature/{{She}}''.
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* In ''[[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1991 Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody]]'' by Creator/AndrewLang (1890), the letter from Herodotus is an addendum to the story of Rhodopis of Thrace in ''Literature/TheHistories'', in which he is told that Rhodopis is still living, some hundred years after the events he documented, and is queen of a hidden land in Africa. From the description (and Lang spells it out in a footnote) it's pretty clear that this is Asheya, who was evidently ''more'' than 2000 years old during the events of ''Literature/{{She}}''.
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* In ''[[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1991 Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody]]'' by Creator/AndrewLang (1890), the letter from Herodotus is an addendum to the story of Rhodopis of Thrace in ''Literature/TheHistories'', in which he is told that Rhodopis is still living, some hundred years after the events he documented, and is queen of a hidden land in Africa. From the description (and Lang spells it out in a footnote) it's pretty clear that this is Asheya, Ayesha, who was evidently ''more'' than 2000 years old during the events of ''Literature/{{She}}''.
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* In ''[[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1991 Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody]]'' by Creator/AndrewLang (1890), the letter from Creator/{{Herodotus}} of Halicarnassus is an addendum to the story of Rhodopis of Thrace in his ''Histories'', in which he is told that Rhodopis is still living, some hundred years after the events he documented, and is queen of a hidden land in Africa. From the description (and Lang spells it out in a footnote) it's pretty clear that this is Asheya, who was evidently ''more'' than 2000 years old during the events of ''Literature/{{She}}''.
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* In ''[[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1991 Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody]]'' by Creator/AndrewLang (1890), the letter from Creator/{{Herodotus}} of Halicarnassus Herodotus is an addendum to the story of Rhodopis of Thrace in his ''Histories'', ''Literature/TheHistories'', in which he is told that Rhodopis is still living, some hundred years after the events he documented, and is queen of a hidden land in Africa. From the description (and Lang spells it out in a footnote) it's pretty clear that this is Asheya, who was evidently ''more'' than 2000 years old during the events of ''Literature/{{She}}''.
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* Dame Alice from ''The Gallows in the Greenwood" by Phyllis Ann Karr is a composite of three different characters from the RobinHood stories and ballads. She starts off as the Sheriff's Wife (a minor character in some ballads), takes her husband's place when Robin and his outlaws murder him (becoming the Sheriff for the events of several famous stories) and finally [[spoiler: retires to a convent, becoming the Prioress who ultimately kills Robin Hood in some versions.]]
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* Dame Alice from ''The Gallows in the Greenwood" by Phyllis Ann Karr is a composite of three different characters from the RobinHood Myth/RobinHood stories and ballads. She starts off as the Sheriff's Wife (a minor character in some ballads), takes her husband's place when Robin and his outlaws murder him (becoming the Sheriff for the events of several famous stories) and finally [[spoiler: retires to a convent, becoming the Prioress who ultimately kills Robin Hood in some versions.]]
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* ''Literature/HereLiesArthur'' is a {{Deconstruction}} of Mythology/ArthurianLegend, based largely on the earliest Welsh[=/=]Romano-British versions of the tale. Lancelot doesn't appear as he was added to the legends many centuries after the period the story is set by Franco-Norman writers, so his role as Gwenhyffar's (Guinevere) lover is given to Arthur's nephew Bedwyr (Bedivere).
** The protagonist Gwyna ([[SweetPollyOliver or]] [[LazilyGenderlippedName Gwyn]]) is depicted as the basis for the legends of Nimue, but also fulfils Bedivere's role as the one who throws Caliburn (Excalibur) into the water after the final battle, as Bedwyr is already dead by this point. Her name suggests she may also be the origin of Gawain (the version of ''[[Literature/SirGawainAndTheGreenKnight The Green Knight]]'' told InUniverse is about Arthur and not one of his men).
** The protagonist Gwyna ([[SweetPollyOliver or]] [[LazilyGenderlippedName Gwyn]]) is depicted as the basis for the legends of Nimue, but also fulfils Bedivere's role as the one who throws Caliburn (Excalibur) into the water after the final battle, as Bedwyr is already dead by this point. Her name suggests she may also be the origin of Gawain (the version of ''[[Literature/SirGawainAndTheGreenKnight The Green Knight]]'' told InUniverse is about Arthur and not one of his men).
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* ''Literature/HereLiesArthur'' is a {{Deconstruction}} of Mythology/ArthurianLegend, Myth/ArthurianLegend, based largely on the earliest Welsh[=/=]Romano-British versions of the tale. Lancelot doesn't appear as he was added to the legends many centuries after the period the story is set by Franco-Norman writers, so his role as Gwenhyffar's (Guinevere) lover is given to Arthur's nephew Bedwyr (Bedivere).
** The protagonist Gwyna ([[SweetPollyOliver or]][[LazilyGenderlippedName [[LazilyGenderFlippedName Gwyn]]) is depicted as the basis for the legends of Nimue, but also fulfils Bedivere's role as the one who throws Caliburn (Excalibur) into the water after the final battle, as Bedwyr is already dead by this point. Her name suggests she may also be the origin of Gawain (the version of ''[[Literature/SirGawainAndTheGreenKnight The Green Knight]]'' told InUniverse is about Arthur and not one of his men).
** The protagonist Gwyna ([[SweetPollyOliver or]]
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* ''Literature/HereLiesArthur'' is a {{Deconstruction}} of Mythology/ArthurianMyth, Mythology/ArthurianLegend, based largely on the earliest Welsh[=/=]Romano-British versions of the tale. Lancelot doesn't appear as he was added to the legends many centuries after the period the story is set by Franco-Norman writers, so his role as Gwenhyffar's (Guinevere) lover is given to Arthur's nephew Bedwyr (Bedivere).
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** The protagonist Gwyna is depicted as the basis for the legends of Nimue, but also fulfils Bedivere's role as the one who throws Caliburn (Excalibur) into the water after the final battle. Her name suggests she may also be the origin of Gawain.
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** The protagonist Gwyna ([[SweetPollyOliver or]] [[LazilyGenderlippedName Gwyn]]) is depicted as the basis for the legends of Nimue, but also fulfils Bedivere's role as the one who throws Caliburn (Excalibur) into the water after the final battle. battle, as Bedwyr is already dead by this point. Her name suggests she may also be the origin of Gawain.Gawain (the version of ''[[Literature/SirGawainAndTheGreenKnight The Green Knight]]'' told InUniverse is about Arthur and not one of his men).
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** The protagonist Gwyna is depicted as the basis for the legends of Nimue, but also fulfils Bedivere's role as the one who throws Caliburn (Excalibur) into the water after the final battle. Her name suggests she may also be the origin of Gawain.
** The protagonist Gwyna is depicted as the basis for the legends of Nimue, but also fulfils Bedivere's role as the one who throws Caliburn (Excalibur) into the water after the final battle. Her name suggests she may also be the origin of Gawain.
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* ''Literature/TheSquiresTales'' series does this a lot with characters and sequences from Myth/ArthurianLegend. For example, Lorie is a combination of two {{Love Interest}}s that Gawain has in the legends: Lorie, who is a fairy, and Ragnelle, given her [[BeautyToBeast particular appearance]].
** In the third book, retelling the story of Sir Gareth, the dwarf ([[NamedByTheAdaptation Roger]]) is combined with [[spoiler:Gaheris]].
** In the third book, retelling the story of Sir Gareth, the dwarf ([[NamedByTheAdaptation Roger]]) is combined with [[spoiler:Gaheris]].
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* ''Literature/TheSquiresTales'' series does this a lot with characters and sequences from Myth/ArthurianLegend. For example, Lorie is a combination of two {{Love Interest}}s that Gawain has in the legends: Lorie, who is a fairy, and Ragnelle, given her [[BeautyToBeast particular appearance]]. She's also introduced fulfilling a role that Nimue had in ''Literature/LeMorteDArthur,'' though Nimue shows up later as a separate character.
** In the third book, retelling the story of Sir Gareth, the dwarf ([[NamedByTheAdaptation Roger]])is combined turns out to be [[spoiler:Gaheris under a curse]], and also replaces the unnamed knight who attacks Gareth when he's with [[spoiler:Gaheris]].Lyonesse.
** In the third book, retelling the story of Sir Gareth, the dwarf ([[NamedByTheAdaptation Roger]])
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** There's also a more convoluted example where the book starts off being clear that Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbuck (two men who claimed to be [[RightfulKingReturns the rightful heir]] during the reign of Henry VII) both existed, but becomes utterly confused as to which of them was which, calling them both by a variety of composite names, and finally suggesting that maybe there was only one of them after all.
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** In the third book, retelling the story of Sir Gareth, the dwarf ([[NamedByTheAdaptation Roger]]) is combined with [[spoiler:Gaheris]].
** In the third book, retelling the story of Sir Gareth, the dwarf ([[NamedByTheAdaptation Roger]]) is combined with [[spoiler:Gaheris]].
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* In the ''Literature/{{Orion}}'' novels by Creator/BenBova, the [[{{Precursors}} Creators]] take different names when they're interfering with different cultures. Orion's love Anya is also known as Athena, and in the Arthurian stories becomes the Lady of the Lake. Aten, Orion's creator who seeks to rule alone, is the god of the same name from Ancient Egypt's flirtation with monotheism, but also calls himself Ohrmazd, one of the names of the Zoroastian god (and in the first book is fighting Arihman). In the Arthurian stories, the Creators who called themselves Aphrodite and Hades in Greece take the names Morganna and Merlin, and Morganna's lover in some sources, Ogier the Dane, takes the role of her husband Urien.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Orion}}'' novels by Creator/BenBova, the [[{{Precursors}} Creators]] take different names when they're interfering with different cultures. Orion's love Anya is also known as Athena, and in the Arthurian stories becomes the Lady of the Lake. Aten, Orion's creator who seeks to rule alone, is the god of the same name from Ancient Egypt's flirtation with monotheism, but also calls himself Ohrmazd, one of the names of the Zoroastian god (and in the first book is fighting Arihman). In the Arthurian stories, the Creators who called themselves Aphrodite and Hades in Greece take the names Morganna and Merlin, and Morganna's lover in some sources, Ogier the Dane, takes has the role of her husband Urien.
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** The [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelisation]] of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''The Invasion of Time'' combines the characters of Jasko and Ablif into a single character. The character in the book is named, appropriately enough, "Jablif".
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** The [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelisation]] of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''The Invasion of Time'' combines the characters of Jasko and Ablif into a single character. The character in the book is named, appropriately enough, "Jablif". Oddly, he's also a DecompositeCharacter: Ablif appears in the scenes at the Outsiders' camp, only to be replaced with Jablif when they return to the citadel.
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* The Literature/SherlockHolmes novel ''The Beast of the Stapletons'' by Creator/JamesLovegrove ends with the reveal that [[spoiler: Dr Stapleton from ''The Hound of The Baskervilles'' is Moriarty's stepbrother, and it was he who wrote letters to the papers defending his brother under the name "Colonel James Moriarty", as mentioned at the start of "The Final Problem".]]
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* ''Literature/OldMortality'': John Balfour is one of Sharp's assassins and is identified as John Balfour of Burley (sic). Historically there ''was'' a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour,_3rd_Lord_Balfour_of_Burleigh John Balfour of Burleigh]], who wasn't a covenanter and had nothing to do with the assassination. The real assassin was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balfour_of_Kinloch John Balfour of Kinloch]]. Sir Creator/WalterScott appears to have been confused by the [[NamesTheSame identical names]] rather than actually combining the two historical figures into one character.
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* Elenn in Creator/JoWalton's Literature/{{Sulien}} series is a composite of Guinevere from the Myth/KingArthur mythos and Fionnbharr from the ''Literature/TheCattleRaidOfCooley''.
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* Elenn in Creator/JoWalton's Literature/{{Sulien}} series is a composite of Guinevere from the Myth/KingArthur mythos Myth/ArthurianLegend and Fionnbharr from the ''Literature/TheCattleRaidOfCooley''.
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* In Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer's Wold Newton family, he sometimes does this to tie characters together. Most notably, the Duke of Holdernesse and his illigitimate son James Wilder, from the Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Adventure of the Priory Road School", are combined with John Clayton, Earl of Greystoke and Clark Savage Sr, to make Franchise/{{Tarzan}} and Franchise/DocSavage cousins. It is also a standard part of Wold Newton lore than [=MacReady=] from ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' is Savage and Professor William Dyer from ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'' is his associate William "Johnny" Littlejohn. The composition of [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Captain Nemo]] with [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Professor Moriarty]] has proved more controversial among Woldian scholars, despite it being a key point in Farmer's ''Other Log of Phineas Fogg''.
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** ''The Wonderful Doctor of Oz'' is, as the title suggests, a ''Literature/LandOfOz'' mashup. Melissa, Queen of the Metal Mice, who rescues the fam from the poppy field and [[spoiler: turned her fiance into a Cyberman]] is the Queen of the Fieldmice, and Nick Chopper's lost love Nimmie Amee, and the tinsmith. The Doctor's new friend from thirties New York [[spoiler: shares the role of Dorothy with the Doctor herself, including having "Dorothy" as her chosen name, but her ultimate role as a trans woman who becomes Queen of the Land of Fiction is explicitly compared to Tip/Ozma.]]
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** ''The Wonderful Doctor of Oz'' is, as the title suggests, a ''Literature/LandOfOz'' mashup. Melissa, Melinda, Queen of the Metal Mice, who rescues the fam from the poppy field and [[spoiler: turned her fiance into a Cyberman]] is the Queen of the Fieldmice, and Nick Chopper's lost love Nimmie Amee, and the tinsmith. The Doctor's new friend from thirties New York [[spoiler: shares the role of Dorothy with the Doctor herself, including having "Dorothy" as her chosen name, but her ultimate role as a trans woman who becomes Queen of the Land of Fiction is explicitly compared to Tip/Ozma.]]
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** ''The Wonderful Doctor of Oz'' is, as the title suggests, a ''Literature/LandOfOz'' mashup. Melissa, Queen of the Metal Mice, who rescues the fam from the poppy field and [[spoiler: turned her fiance into a Cyberman]] is the Queen of the Fieldmice, and Nick Chopper's lost love Aimee, and the tinsmith. The Doctor's new friend from thirties New York [[spoiler: shares the role of Dorothy with the Doctor herself, including having "Dorothy" as her chosen name, but her ultimate role as a trans woman who becomes Queen of the Land of Fiction is explicitly compared to Tip/Ozma.]]
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** ''The Wonderful Doctor of Oz'' is, as the title suggests, a ''Literature/LandOfOz'' mashup. Melissa, Queen of the Metal Mice, who rescues the fam from the poppy field and [[spoiler: turned her fiance into a Cyberman]] is the Queen of the Fieldmice, and Nick Chopper's lost love Aimee, Nimmie Amee, and the tinsmith. The Doctor's new friend from thirties New York [[spoiler: shares the role of Dorothy with the Doctor herself, including having "Dorothy" as her chosen name, but her ultimate role as a trans woman who becomes Queen of the Land of Fiction is explicitly compared to Tip/Ozma.]]
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** The ''New Series Adventures'' novel ''The Ressurection Casket'' is ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' RecycledInSpace. The character of Kevin is Ben Gunn, and the parrot, and [[spoiler: the Black Spot -- ItMakesSenseInContext]].
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** The ''New Series Adventures'' ''Literature/NewSeriesAdventures'' novel ''The Ressurection Casket'' is ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' RecycledInSpace. The character of Kevin is Ben Gunn, and the parrot, and [[spoiler: the Black Spot -- ItMakesSenseInContext]].ItMakesSenseInContext]].
** ''The Wonderful Doctor of Oz'' is, as the title suggests, a ''Literature/LandOfOz'' mashup. Melissa, Queen of the Metal Mice, who rescues the fam from the poppy field and [[spoiler: turned her fiance into a Cyberman]] is the Queen of the Fieldmice, and Nick Chopper's lost love Aimee, and the tinsmith. The Doctor's new friend from thirties New York [[spoiler: shares the role of Dorothy with the Doctor herself, including having "Dorothy" as her chosen name, but her ultimate role as a trans woman who becomes Queen of the Land of Fiction is explicitly compared to Tip/Ozma.]]
** ''The Wonderful Doctor of Oz'' is, as the title suggests, a ''Literature/LandOfOz'' mashup. Melissa, Queen of the Metal Mice, who rescues the fam from the poppy field and [[spoiler: turned her fiance into a Cyberman]] is the Queen of the Fieldmice, and Nick Chopper's lost love Aimee, and the tinsmith. The Doctor's new friend from thirties New York [[spoiler: shares the role of Dorothy with the Doctor herself, including having "Dorothy" as her chosen name, but her ultimate role as a trans woman who becomes Queen of the Land of Fiction is explicitly compared to Tip/Ozma.]]
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** "The memorable Dutch King Williamanmary."
** There's also a more convoluted example where the book starts off being clear that Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbuck (two men who claimed to be [[RightfulKingReturns the rightful heir]] during the reign of Henry VII) both existed, but becomes utterly confused as to which of them was which, calling them both by a variety of composite names, and finally suggesting that maybe there was only one of them after all.
* ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfStrongVanya'': The main character combines traits of the folk hero [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Muromets Ilya Muromets]], who gained super-strength after spending several years lying on a stove, and several different fairy tale heroes named Ivan (see: "Literature/TsarevitchIvanTheFireBirdAndTheGrayWolf" who married Princess Vasilissa, or "Literature/TheDeathOfKoscheiTheDeathless", who got a horse out of Literature/BabaYaga)
* In most modern adaptations of ''Literature/AladdinOrTheWonderfulLamp'', the BigBad, usually named [[UsefulNotes/GrandVizierJafar Jaf(f)ar]] as in ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940'', is a composite of the original tale's unnamed Vizier, his son whom the princess is betrothed to, and the EvilSorcerer. Disney's adaptation also combines the Genies of the Ring and Lamp.
* Many adaptations of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' conflate the Queen of Hearts with the Red Queen. The first is from "Adventures in Wonderland" and is a playing card; the second is from "Through the looking glass" and is a chess piece.
* ''Literature/AnnoDracula'':
** In the short story "Castles in the Air", the vampire hippy guru Khorda from the 1973 film ''Deathmaster'' turns out to be one of Dracula's hangers-on from the earlier books, General Iorga. This is a gag on the fact that Robert Quarry, who played Khorda, had previously played the title character in ''Film/CountYorga, Vampire'' and ''The Return of Count Yorga'', and many people consider ''Deathmaster'' to be a SpiritualSuccessor.
** "Flattop" in the ''Film/JamesBond'' pastiche sections of ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'' is a composite of the ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' villain of the same name, FrankensteinsMonster, and Bond [[TheDragon Dragons]] [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Oddjob]] and [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws]].
** Dracula himself, constantly reinventing himself and shapeshifting to match, is a composite of every portrayal of the Count.
** Kit and Holly in "You'll Never Drink Blood in This Town Again" are the main characters of the film ''Film/{{Badlands}}'', but have a string of aliases suggesting they're every OutlawCouple in 20th century fiction.
** Similarly to Dracula, Hamish Bond in ''Cha-Cha-Cha'' is a composite of Creator/IanFleming's Literature/JamesBond and Creator/SeanConnery's Film/JamesBond, before [[spoiler: Mother Roma's influence turns him into Creator/RogerMoore's Bond]].
** In ''One Thousand Monsters'', Albert "Smiler" Watson, the ShellShockedVeteran with a Victoria Cross, is based on the title character in the 1966 ''Sergeant Cork'' episode "The Case of Albert Watson V.C.", but his nickname comes from "Smiler" Washington in the 1962 play ''Chips With Everything''. Both parts were played by Ronald Lacey.
** Also in ''One Thousand Monsters'', the Satanist Portuguese missionary who fathered (and, in the ''Anno Dracula'' version, also sired) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemuri_Ky%C5%8Dshir%C5%8D Nemuri Kyōshirō]] is, [[AdaptationalVillainy incongruously enough]], the very devout Sebastião Rodrigues from ''Film/{{Silence}}''.
** O-Ren "Cottonmouth" Blake in ''Dakaiju'' is mostly [[Film/KillBill O-Ren "Cottonmouth" Ishii]], but her surname and vampirism nod to another Creator/LucyLiu character, [[Film/RiseBloodHunter Sadie Blake]]. (In a further gag, when discussing her codename, she says that if she had to have a snake name, at least it wasn't "[[Franchise/KungFuPanda Viper]]".[[note]]Which in the ''Anno Dracula'' universe is a nasty FantasticSlur for vampires.[[/note]])
** In the same book, the Haitian [[FantasticDrug drac]] dealer Georgia Rae Drumgo is named after two drug dealers played by Hazelle Goodman: [[Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet Georgia Rae Mahoney]] and [[Film/{{Hannibal}} Evelda Drumgo]].
* The title character in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' was based on two different girls whom Creator/StephenKing went to school with growing up, both of whom had difficult lives and died young.
* In Arthur Miller's ''Theatre/TheCrucible'', the utterly vile Danforth stands for several different judges who presided over the witch trials. Miller initially worried that he had made Danforth too one-dimensional ... only to find that the real judges were even worse.
* Creator/JosephConrad's ''Literature/UnderWesternEyes'' begins with the assassination of a Tsarist official, [[SpellMyNameWithABlank de P___]], who is a composite of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Pobedonostsev Konstantin Pobedonstev]] and another P-named official who really was assassinated. The implication was that Conrad hoped that the fate of the latter would happen to the former.
** Also by Conrad, Kurtz of ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' is a combination of a number of sadistic EvilColonialist types in the Belgian Congo, although his name in particular references Georges Antoine Klein (Kurtz is German for short and Klein is German for small) who had just died when Conrad was in the Congo.
* Sultan Mehmed of ''Literature/CountAndCountess'' is a mix of the real-life Sultan Mehmed and his father.
* ''Literature/DarknessAtNoon'':
-->"The life of the man N. S. Rubashov is a synthesis of the lives of a number of men who were victims of the so-called Moscow Trials. Several of them were personally known to this author. This book is dedicated to their memory."
* ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]
** The [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelisation]] of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''The Invasion of Time'' combines the characters of Jasko and Ablif into a single character. The character in the book is named, appropriately enough, "Jablif".
** The ''New Series Adventures'' novel ''The Ressurection Casket'' is ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' RecycledInSpace. The character of Kevin is Ben Gunn, and the parrot, and [[spoiler: the Black Spot -- ItMakesSenseInContext]].
* Dame Alice from ''The Gallows in the Greenwood" by Phyllis Ann Karr is a composite of three different characters from the RobinHood stories and ballads. She starts off as the Sheriff's Wife (a minor character in some ballads), takes her husband's place when Robin and his outlaws murder him (becoming the Sheriff for the events of several famous stories) and finally [[spoiler: retires to a convent, becoming the Prioress who ultimately kills Robin Hood in some versions.]]
* ''Literature/KingArthurAndHisKnightsOfTheRoundTable'': Percivale's sister combines traits of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%27s_sister two different characters known as that]] -- she has the role of the Grail heroine, but the name of Dindrane.
* In the Dramatic Audio version of the Literature/LeftBehind book ''Armageddon'', GC officer Anita Sanchez is one for two female officers (a Hispanic and an African-American) working in the San Diego headquarters where Chloe Williams was incarcerated.
* Nellie Oleson in the ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' books was a composite of three different girls Laura Ingalls Wilder knew growing up: Nellie Owens, Genevieve Masters and Stella Gilbert. There is some speculation that Mr. Edwards was a composite, as well, since pinning down his historical personage has proved confusing.
* DI Jack Spratt in the ''Literature/NurseryCrime'' books by Creator/JasperFforde is every fairy tale Jack. Although he insists he [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten didn't kill many giants]].
* From the preface to ''Literature/TomSawyer'':
-->''"Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture."''
* Elenn in Creator/JoWalton's Literature/{{Sulien}} series is a composite of Guinevere from the Myth/KingArthur mythos and Fionnbharr from the ''Literature/TheCattleRaidOfCooley''.
* In Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer's Wold Newton family, he sometimes does this to tie characters together. Most notably, the Duke of Holdernesse and his illigitimate son James Wilder, from the Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Adventure of the Priory Road School", are combined with John Clayton, Earl of Greystoke and Clark Savage Sr, to make Franchise/{{Tarzan}} and Franchise/DocSavage cousins. It is also a standard part of Wold Newton lore than [=MacReady=] from ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' is Savage and Professor William Dyer from ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'' is his associate William "Johnny" Littlejohn. The composition of [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Captain Nemo]] with [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Professor Moriarty]] has proved more controversial among Woldian scholars, despite it being a key point in Farmer's ''Other Log of Phineas Fogg''.
* ''Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheFourthCloset'', the third novel of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' book trilogy, combined [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Funtime Foxy]] and [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 Mangle]], both white and pink colored versions of [[EnsembleDarkhorse Foxy]] with an AmbiguousGender, into one animatronic. The result is a Funtime Foxy that resembles the Sister Location character, but can change form into the more broken-looking Mangle from the second game.
* In A.C. Gaughen's retelling of Robin Hood ''Scarlet'', the titular character is a combination of Will Scarlet and [[spoiler: Maid Marian]]
* The protagonist of Dorothy Dunnett's ''King Hereafter'' is a combination of the historical [=Macbeth=] with a contemporary ruler, Thorfinn Sigurdsson.
** Similarly, his wife, Groa, is both Thorfinn's wife Ingibjorg and [=Macbeth=]'s wife Gruoch.
* InUniverse examples: in the kid's book ''I Funny TV,'' the protagonist, Jamie, is making a sitcom pilot based on his own life. The writers decide to simplify things by fusing his best friends, TeenGenius Pierce and cool-guy Gaylor, into one character named Bob. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when stage fright keeps Bob's actor from going on, so his real friends are PushedInFrontOfTheAudience]]. Likewise, in his real life Jamie deals with two bullies, his cousin Stevie and another boy named Lars; the writers like Lars better, so they [[RelatedInTheAdaptation make him Jamie's cousin]] in the show.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** ''Literature/WyrdSisters'' parodies ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' simultaneously. Duke Felmet is Macbeth and Claudius; King Verence is Hamlet's father, King Duncan and Banquo; and Tomjon is Hamlet and Malcom. (And then [[spoiler: the Fool turns out to be Fortinbras and ''actually'' Malcom]].)
** Blind Io, the TopGod, is mostly Zeus with a bit of Odin (he used to have two ravens who would go forth and bring him news of the word. However, as his eyes are floating around him all the time, and ravens are famous for getting at the juiciest parts of corpses...)
** Hoki the Jokester, the Disc's main TricksterGod, looks like Pan, but his name and the fact he was banished from Dunmanifestin for "the old exploding mistletoe trick" suggest Loki.
** ''Literature/SoulMusic'': Imp y Celin, whose name translates to Music/BuddyHolly, while he's repeatedly stated to look a little like ElvishPresley. In addition, the Band With Rocks In has similarities to Music/TheBeatles with Imp as Music/JohnLennon (especially in the AnimatedAdaptation where he says they're [[BiggerThanJesus bigger than cheeses]]). The animated series also ran with the idea the Band were ''every'' major rock group in composing the songs. And ''Discworld'' comics artist Graham Higgins draws Imp as looking kind of like a cross between Music/MickJagger and Music/JimiHendrix.
* In-universe in ''Literature/WolfHall'', when Henry VIII tells Thomas Cromwell and the Archbishop of Canturbury, Dr. [[PlanetOfSteves Thomas]] Cranmer, that the French have taken to referring to them as the single entity "Dr. Cranmuel." Then the ''narration'' shortly thereafter says "Dr. Cranmuel left the room."
* ''Literature/{{Sandokan}}'': Lord Guillonk's character is often fused into James Brooke's in retellings.
* ''Literature/QuantumDevilSagaAvatarTuner'': Downplayed with the protagonist Serph, who got "recomposed" from being a DecompositeCharacter in the game. He takes name, appearance and Atma powers from the game Serph, however, since the game Serph was a HeroicMime, he got most of the dialogue that was spoken by Gale in the game. Justified: in the original story draft, Yu Godai had conceived Serph to be a speaking character with a role in the plot, however Atlus made him a HeroicMime to be more in line with the rest of the games, thus Gale was created to have his personality. Serph's personality in the books, however, has been rewritten to be in stark contrast with Gale's one (being less cold and calculative and more idealistic and compassionate), and Gale was included in the book without making Serph HeroicMime, AdaptedOut or DemotedToExtra.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/Opus100'': On page 222, [[WordOfGod Dr Asimov tells readers]] that Cleon II and General Bel Riose of "Literature/TheDeadHand" are mostly based on Justinian and Belisarius from sixth century Rome, but also had bits of Tiberius and Sejanus from first century Rome. These characters were chosen based on his interest in history, covered in "Part 8".
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** "The memorable Dutch King Williamanmary."
** There's also a more convoluted example where the book starts off being clear that Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbuck (two men who claimed to be [[RightfulKingReturns the rightful heir]] during the reign of Henry VII) both existed, but becomes utterly confused as to which of them was which, calling them both by a variety of composite names, and finally suggesting that maybe there was only one of them after all.
* ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfStrongVanya'': The main character combines traits of the folk hero [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Muromets Ilya Muromets]], who gained super-strength after spending several years lying on a stove, and several different fairy tale heroes named Ivan (see: "Literature/TsarevitchIvanTheFireBirdAndTheGrayWolf" who married Princess Vasilissa, or "Literature/TheDeathOfKoscheiTheDeathless", who got a horse out of Literature/BabaYaga)
* In most modern adaptations of ''Literature/AladdinOrTheWonderfulLamp'', the BigBad, usually named [[UsefulNotes/GrandVizierJafar Jaf(f)ar]] as in ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940'', is a composite of the original tale's unnamed Vizier, his son whom the princess is betrothed to, and the EvilSorcerer. Disney's adaptation also combines the Genies of the Ring and Lamp.
* Many adaptations of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' conflate the Queen of Hearts with the Red Queen. The first is from "Adventures in Wonderland" and is a playing card; the second is from "Through the looking glass" and is a chess piece.
* ''Literature/AnnoDracula'':
** In the short story "Castles in the Air", the vampire hippy guru Khorda from the 1973 film ''Deathmaster'' turns out to be one of Dracula's hangers-on from the earlier books, General Iorga. This is a gag on the fact that Robert Quarry, who played Khorda, had previously played the title character in ''Film/CountYorga, Vampire'' and ''The Return of Count Yorga'', and many people consider ''Deathmaster'' to be a SpiritualSuccessor.
** "Flattop" in the ''Film/JamesBond'' pastiche sections of ''Dracula Cha-Cha-Cha'' is a composite of the ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' villain of the same name, FrankensteinsMonster, and Bond [[TheDragon Dragons]] [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Oddjob]] and [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws]].
** Dracula himself, constantly reinventing himself and shapeshifting to match, is a composite of every portrayal of the Count.
** Kit and Holly in "You'll Never Drink Blood in This Town Again" are the main characters of the film ''Film/{{Badlands}}'', but have a string of aliases suggesting they're every OutlawCouple in 20th century fiction.
** Similarly to Dracula, Hamish Bond in ''Cha-Cha-Cha'' is a composite of Creator/IanFleming's Literature/JamesBond and Creator/SeanConnery's Film/JamesBond, before [[spoiler: Mother Roma's influence turns him into Creator/RogerMoore's Bond]].
** In ''One Thousand Monsters'', Albert "Smiler" Watson, the ShellShockedVeteran with a Victoria Cross, is based on the title character in the 1966 ''Sergeant Cork'' episode "The Case of Albert Watson V.C.", but his nickname comes from "Smiler" Washington in the 1962 play ''Chips With Everything''. Both parts were played by Ronald Lacey.
** Also in ''One Thousand Monsters'', the Satanist Portuguese missionary who fathered (and, in the ''Anno Dracula'' version, also sired) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemuri_Ky%C5%8Dshir%C5%8D Nemuri Kyōshirō]] is, [[AdaptationalVillainy incongruously enough]], the very devout Sebastião Rodrigues from ''Film/{{Silence}}''.
** O-Ren "Cottonmouth" Blake in ''Dakaiju'' is mostly [[Film/KillBill O-Ren "Cottonmouth" Ishii]], but her surname and vampirism nod to another Creator/LucyLiu character, [[Film/RiseBloodHunter Sadie Blake]]. (In a further gag, when discussing her codename, she says that if she had to have a snake name, at least it wasn't "[[Franchise/KungFuPanda Viper]]".[[note]]Which in the ''Anno Dracula'' universe is a nasty FantasticSlur for vampires.[[/note]])
** In the same book, the Haitian [[FantasticDrug drac]] dealer Georgia Rae Drumgo is named after two drug dealers played by Hazelle Goodman: [[Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet Georgia Rae Mahoney]] and [[Film/{{Hannibal}} Evelda Drumgo]].
* The title character in ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' was based on two different girls whom Creator/StephenKing went to school with growing up, both of whom had difficult lives and died young.
* In Arthur Miller's ''Theatre/TheCrucible'', the utterly vile Danforth stands for several different judges who presided over the witch trials. Miller initially worried that he had made Danforth too one-dimensional ... only to find that the real judges were even worse.
* Creator/JosephConrad's ''Literature/UnderWesternEyes'' begins with the assassination of a Tsarist official, [[SpellMyNameWithABlank de P___]], who is a composite of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Pobedonostsev Konstantin Pobedonstev]] and another P-named official who really was assassinated. The implication was that Conrad hoped that the fate of the latter would happen to the former.
** Also by Conrad, Kurtz of ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' is a combination of a number of sadistic EvilColonialist types in the Belgian Congo, although his name in particular references Georges Antoine Klein (Kurtz is German for short and Klein is German for small) who had just died when Conrad was in the Congo.
* Sultan Mehmed of ''Literature/CountAndCountess'' is a mix of the real-life Sultan Mehmed and his father.
* ''Literature/DarknessAtNoon'':
-->"The life of the man N. S. Rubashov is a synthesis of the lives of a number of men who were victims of the so-called Moscow Trials. Several of them were personally known to this author. This book is dedicated to their memory."
* ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]
** The [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelisation]] of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''The Invasion of Time'' combines the characters of Jasko and Ablif into a single character. The character in the book is named, appropriately enough, "Jablif".
** The ''New Series Adventures'' novel ''The Ressurection Casket'' is ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' RecycledInSpace. The character of Kevin is Ben Gunn, and the parrot, and [[spoiler: the Black Spot -- ItMakesSenseInContext]].
* Dame Alice from ''The Gallows in the Greenwood" by Phyllis Ann Karr is a composite of three different characters from the RobinHood stories and ballads. She starts off as the Sheriff's Wife (a minor character in some ballads), takes her husband's place when Robin and his outlaws murder him (becoming the Sheriff for the events of several famous stories) and finally [[spoiler: retires to a convent, becoming the Prioress who ultimately kills Robin Hood in some versions.]]
* ''Literature/KingArthurAndHisKnightsOfTheRoundTable'': Percivale's sister combines traits of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival%27s_sister two different characters known as that]] -- she has the role of the Grail heroine, but the name of Dindrane.
* In the Dramatic Audio version of the Literature/LeftBehind book ''Armageddon'', GC officer Anita Sanchez is one for two female officers (a Hispanic and an African-American) working in the San Diego headquarters where Chloe Williams was incarcerated.
* Nellie Oleson in the ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' books was a composite of three different girls Laura Ingalls Wilder knew growing up: Nellie Owens, Genevieve Masters and Stella Gilbert. There is some speculation that Mr. Edwards was a composite, as well, since pinning down his historical personage has proved confusing.
* DI Jack Spratt in the ''Literature/NurseryCrime'' books by Creator/JasperFforde is every fairy tale Jack. Although he insists he [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten didn't kill many giants]].
* From the preface to ''Literature/TomSawyer'':
-->''"Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture."''
* Elenn in Creator/JoWalton's Literature/{{Sulien}} series is a composite of Guinevere from the Myth/KingArthur mythos and Fionnbharr from the ''Literature/TheCattleRaidOfCooley''.
* In Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer's Wold Newton family, he sometimes does this to tie characters together. Most notably, the Duke of Holdernesse and his illigitimate son James Wilder, from the Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Adventure of the Priory Road School", are combined with John Clayton, Earl of Greystoke and Clark Savage Sr, to make Franchise/{{Tarzan}} and Franchise/DocSavage cousins. It is also a standard part of Wold Newton lore than [=MacReady=] from ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' is Savage and Professor William Dyer from ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'' is his associate William "Johnny" Littlejohn. The composition of [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Captain Nemo]] with [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Professor Moriarty]] has proved more controversial among Woldian scholars, despite it being a key point in Farmer's ''Other Log of Phineas Fogg''.
* ''Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheFourthCloset'', the third novel of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' book trilogy, combined [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Funtime Foxy]] and [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 Mangle]], both white and pink colored versions of [[EnsembleDarkhorse Foxy]] with an AmbiguousGender, into one animatronic. The result is a Funtime Foxy that resembles the Sister Location character, but can change form into the more broken-looking Mangle from the second game.
* In A.C. Gaughen's retelling of Robin Hood ''Scarlet'', the titular character is a combination of Will Scarlet and [[spoiler: Maid Marian]]
* The protagonist of Dorothy Dunnett's ''King Hereafter'' is a combination of the historical [=Macbeth=] with a contemporary ruler, Thorfinn Sigurdsson.
** Similarly, his wife, Groa, is both Thorfinn's wife Ingibjorg and [=Macbeth=]'s wife Gruoch.
* InUniverse examples: in the kid's book ''I Funny TV,'' the protagonist, Jamie, is making a sitcom pilot based on his own life. The writers decide to simplify things by fusing his best friends, TeenGenius Pierce and cool-guy Gaylor, into one character named Bob. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} when stage fright keeps Bob's actor from going on, so his real friends are PushedInFrontOfTheAudience]]. Likewise, in his real life Jamie deals with two bullies, his cousin Stevie and another boy named Lars; the writers like Lars better, so they [[RelatedInTheAdaptation make him Jamie's cousin]] in the show.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** ''Literature/WyrdSisters'' parodies ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' simultaneously. Duke Felmet is Macbeth and Claudius; King Verence is Hamlet's father, King Duncan and Banquo; and Tomjon is Hamlet and Malcom. (And then [[spoiler: the Fool turns out to be Fortinbras and ''actually'' Malcom]].)
** Blind Io, the TopGod, is mostly Zeus with a bit of Odin (he used to have two ravens who would go forth and bring him news of the word. However, as his eyes are floating around him all the time, and ravens are famous for getting at the juiciest parts of corpses...)
** Hoki the Jokester, the Disc's main TricksterGod, looks like Pan, but his name and the fact he was banished from Dunmanifestin for "the old exploding mistletoe trick" suggest Loki.
** ''Literature/SoulMusic'': Imp y Celin, whose name translates to Music/BuddyHolly, while he's repeatedly stated to look a little like ElvishPresley. In addition, the Band With Rocks In has similarities to Music/TheBeatles with Imp as Music/JohnLennon (especially in the AnimatedAdaptation where he says they're [[BiggerThanJesus bigger than cheeses]]). The animated series also ran with the idea the Band were ''every'' major rock group in composing the songs. And ''Discworld'' comics artist Graham Higgins draws Imp as looking kind of like a cross between Music/MickJagger and Music/JimiHendrix.
* In-universe in ''Literature/WolfHall'', when Henry VIII tells Thomas Cromwell and the Archbishop of Canturbury, Dr. [[PlanetOfSteves Thomas]] Cranmer, that the French have taken to referring to them as the single entity "Dr. Cranmuel." Then the ''narration'' shortly thereafter says "Dr. Cranmuel left the room."
* ''Literature/{{Sandokan}}'': Lord Guillonk's character is often fused into James Brooke's in retellings.
* ''Literature/QuantumDevilSagaAvatarTuner'': Downplayed with the protagonist Serph, who got "recomposed" from being a DecompositeCharacter in the game. He takes name, appearance and Atma powers from the game Serph, however, since the game Serph was a HeroicMime, he got most of the dialogue that was spoken by Gale in the game. Justified: in the original story draft, Yu Godai had conceived Serph to be a speaking character with a role in the plot, however Atlus made him a HeroicMime to be more in line with the rest of the games, thus Gale was created to have his personality. Serph's personality in the books, however, has been rewritten to be in stark contrast with Gale's one (being less cold and calculative and more idealistic and compassionate), and Gale was included in the book without making Serph HeroicMime, AdaptedOut or DemotedToExtra.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/Opus100'': On page 222, [[WordOfGod Dr Asimov tells readers]] that Cleon II and General Bel Riose of "Literature/TheDeadHand" are mostly based on Justinian and Belisarius from sixth century Rome, but also had bits of Tiberius and Sejanus from first century Rome. These characters were chosen based on his interest in history, covered in "Part 8".
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