Charles Marlow
Marlow's name may be inspired by the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Conrad's father was a translator of William Shakespeare who doubtless would have known of Marlowe's work as well. Some intertextual interpretations of "Heart of Darkness" have suggested that Marlowe's "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" may have influenced Conrad. Charles Marlow describes a character as a "papier-mache Mephistopheles", a reference to the Faust legend. Marlow's and Kurtz's journey up the Congo River in "Heart of Darkness" also has similarities to another work by Marlowe, "Dido, Queen of Carthage", in which Aeneas is stranded on the shore of Libya and meets the African queen Dido.
Characters of Kingdom Hearts
is the foremost antagonist of the "Kingdom Hearts" series. He is indirectly introduced in the original game as a Heartless researcher named , revealed in "Kingdom Hearts II" to have assumed the identity of his mentor Ansem the Wise. The prequel "Birth by Sleep" would formally introduce Xehanort as an elderly Keyblade Master who acquired the means to transplant his heart into the bodies of others and orchestrated the events of the games up to "Kingdom Hearts III" to suit his agenda.