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Shadowfax and Shadow fax. (From LotR) Hawkwind (From Michael Moorcock's books) Minas Tirith (OK, so not a character, but close) Save Ferris (From Ferris Bueller's Day Off [or is it "out?"...I can never remember])
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There's an Iron Maiden album called Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Incredible album. Most of you should know where the name comes from .
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Not quite a character, but a local band around here call themselves Left Pency, after Catcher in the Rye, where Holden Caulfield says he "left Pency."
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lol, that happens a lot online, even when I don't use "Mel" as a signature. I guess I just type masculinely or something Don't worry, I'm not offended.
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Er, band names. Google gave me this site, which tells me that Duran Duran was named after a character in a Jane Fonda movie titled "Barbarella."
Also, Goldfinger from James Bond.
KING MISSILE - is a popular Japanese comic book character
THOMSON TWINS - two characters in the Tintin comics by the late Belgium artist Herge.
T PAU - after a high priestess from the planet VULCAN in the American TV series STAR TREK
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I don't think you understand. I think he was asking if you were serious about thinking it was based off of Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card. Not if the album existed.
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Oh? In the thread linked to from the article the first post says this: "We all know about Seventh Son of a Seventh son being a story of someone born with such gifts". It kind of sounds like OSC's story.
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Gaal, The seventh son, and especially the seventh son of a seventh son is a extremely old and common mark of specialness, be it good or bad, in mythology and folklore. The album, which apparently came out within a year of the book, was likely supposed to be referring to the darker associations to this geneological position, such as curses or vampirism. It wasn't referring to the book.
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No worries dude. Just a little bit of information that you didn't know that now you do. I wasn't sure if you were making a joke or not.
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Squicky, I'm pretty sure I read an article somewhere where the band specifically said that they got the title from the OSC series.
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quote:There's a Dashboard Confessional song called "Ender Will Save Us All."
I thought you were kidding, but you're not!
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And the ending of another one of their songs reminds me of a scene from the Handmaid's Tale. I mean, I'm sure that's not really what it's from, but it really reminds me of it.
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A band from the '70s, Uriah Heep, is from a character in David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens.
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Icarus, Seeing as how the album came out within months of the book and that such a reference doesn't fit in with any of their other albums, I'd be amazed if this were true. Which is not to say that it isn't, just that I'd be amazed.
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Not exactly the same thing, but Toad the Wet Sprocket was taken from a Monty Python Sketch. Other than that, there are tons of bands that are named after characters.
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There's a heavy metal band called "Atreyu". I would be surprised if this wasn't from The Neverending Story.
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chris carraba, the main dashboard confessional guy...his middle name is indeed "Ender" That song is about a friend of his that he missed or something...chris and his friend always talked about 'Ender's Game' together, that's why the song is called "Ender will save us all"
i have some friends in a band that used to be called "aslan"
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