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Christopher "Maverick" Blair is a fictional character in the science fiction franchise ''Wing Commander'', first appearing in the video game ''Wing Commander'' in 1990, although he was only given a canonical name years later. He is a protagonist player character throughout much of the ''Wing Commander'' game series and also appears in several ''Wing Commander'' novels, notably the novelizations of ''Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger'' and ''Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom'', and in the film ''Wing Commander''. In ''Wing Commander III'', ''Wing Commander IV'', ''Wing Commander: Prophecy'' and animated television series ''Wing Commander Academy'', Blair was played and voiced by veteran actor and ''Star Wars'' legend Mark Hamill. Blair was one of the best received characters in PC gaming during the 1990s. ==Appearances== Blair has no official name for the first two installments of the series; the player is allowed to personalize the character's name and call sign. In ''Ultimate Strategy Guide for Wing Commander I & II'', the character is named Carl T. LaFong, nicknamed "Prankster" (Carl T. LaFong become a separate character in Star *Soldier the manual for ''Wing Commander Arena''). In ''Super Wing Commander'' (a remake of the first game made for Macintosh and 3DO), the character is named Jason Armstrong (Jason Armstrong becomes a separate character in Star *Soldier the manual for ''Wing Commander Arena''), and in the Sega Mega-CD version of ''Wing Commander'', he does not have a name, only a call sign, "Hotshot". Origin Systems' in-house "bible" referred to him as "Bluehair", and when the full motion video cut scenes in ''Wing Commander III'' required the character be given a name, this tag was shortened to "Blair". "Christopher" is the first name of series creator Chris Roberts. In ''Wing Commander III'' and ''IV'', the player is still allowed to assign Blair a call sign, but William R. Forstchen's novelizations describe him as using the call sign "Maverick". This is confirmed in ''Wing Commander: Prophecy''. The series "bible" indicates that other candidates for Blair's call sign included "Falcon" and "Phoenix", the latter of which saw print in the novel ''End Run''. The "Maverick" call sign is widely used in later publications. Throughout the series Blair was portrayed as competent and cool-headed, though not unemotional, and in the animated TV series his "rebellious" cockpit moniker is assigned him as an ironic reference to his " by-the-book" personality.〔Cobbett, Richard (April 16, 2011). (Saturday Crapshoot: Wing Commander Academy | PC Gamer )〕 Finally, during the course of ''Wing Commander III'', Blair finds out that he is the game's titular "Heart of the Tiger", and in the ''Wing Commander IV'' novelization uses this as a public call sign. In the second novelization in an abortive trilogy based on the film, Blair adopts the call sign "Pilgrim" in an acknowledgment of his ethnic roots. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Blair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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