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A breakout character is a character in serial fiction who becomes a more prominent, popular, discussed, and/or imitated individual. The series from which the breakout character springs may be in the form of a novel, magazine, television series, comic strip, game or combination. ==Comics== *Popeye first appeared 10 years into the run of ''Thimble Theatre'', a comic strip started in 1919 by E.C. "Elzie" Segar for the King Features Syndicate. The strip initially focused on Olive Oyl, her family, and her boyfriend Ham Gravy. Segar introduced Popeye as a sailor hired by Olive's brother Castor to facilitate a single adventure. When the sailor disappeared from the strip afterwards, fans demanded his return, and the series later became ''Thimble Theater, Starring Popeye''.〔Grandinetti, Fred M. ''Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History.'' 2nd ed. McFarland, 2004. ISBN 0-7864-1605-X〕 *Krazy Kat evolved from an earlier comic strip of Herriman's, ''The Dingbat Family'', which started in 1910 and was later renamed ''The Family Upstairs''. This comic chronicled the Dingbats' attempts to avoid the mischief of the mysterious unseen family living in the apartment above theirs and to unmask that family. Herriman would complete the cartoons about the Dingbats, and finding himself with time left over in his 8-hour work day, filled the bottom of the strip with slapstick drawings of the upstairs family's mouse preying upon the Dingbats' cat.〔McDonnell, O'Connell and De Havenon 52.〕 This "basement strip" grew into something much larger than the original cartoon. It became a daily comic strip with a title (running vertically down the side of the page) on October 28, 1913 and a black and white full-page Sunday cartoon on April 23, 1916. Due to the objections of editors, who considered it unsuitable for the comics sections, ''Krazy Kat'' originally appeared in the Hearst papers' art and drama sections.〔McDonnell, O'Connell and De Havenon 58.〕 Hearst himself, however, enjoyed the strip so much that he gave Herriman a lifetime contract and guaranteed the cartoonist complete creative freedom. * Nero from ''The Adventures of Nero'' by Marc Sleen was originally introduced as a side character in the series ''De Avonturen van Detective Van Zwam'', where Detective Van Zwam was the main protagonist. From the first Van Zwam story on, ''Het Geheim van Matsuoka'' ("Matsuoka's Secret") (1947) readers reacted more enthusiastically to the dumb, lazy, stubborn, vain and stubborn character Nero than the more noble and clever Van Zwam. So, from "De Hoed van Geeraard de Duivel" ("The Hat Of Gerard the Devil" (1950)) on the series was named after Nero instead.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Foundation Marc Sleen, Brussels )〕 * The Smurfs were originally supporting characters in Peyo's comic series ''Johan and Peewit'' in 1958. The massive popularity of the little blue men led to them getting their own series a year later, which was subsequently followed by massive merchandising, a television series and various other production. 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「List of breakout characters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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