Name a character on AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains list: rare answers

We accept 99 answers to “Name a character on AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains list” in our Krillion practice game. Most players reach for Gandhi, Maximus and Moses, which keeps them near the surface. Deep cuts such as Popeye Doyle, Rooster Cogburn and The Martians score up to 100 points.

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Accepted answers: 99
Category: Movies
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 35 (35%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 40 answers
First letters: 22 different; M is the most common (10)

🐙 Abyssal: 12 answers (12%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 23 answers (23%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 31 answers (31%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 27 answers (27%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 6 answers (6%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

12 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of, including Popeye Doyle, Rooster Cogburn, The Martians and Baby Jane Hudson. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Popeye Doyle, Rooster Cogburn, The Martians, Baby Jane Hudson, Frank Booth, Mrs. Danvers, Superman, Virgil Tibbs, Mr. Potter, Will Kane, Phyllis Dietrichson, Harry Powell

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Clarice Starling, Norma Rae, Lassie, The Evil Queen, Karen Silkwood, Gordon Gekko, J. J. Hunsecker, Mr. Chips, Rico Bandello, Jack Torrance, Regina Giddens, Annie Wilkes, Alex DeLarge, Harry Callahan, Travis Bickle, Regan MacNeil, Goldfinger, The Joker, Hans Gruber, George Bailey, Max Cady, Father Flanagan, Batman

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

James Bond, Terry Malloy, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Rocky Balboa, Indiana Jones, Norman Bates, Tony Camonte, Shane, Cruella de Vil, Eleanor Iselin, Michael Corleone, HAL 9000, Captain Bligh, Tom Joad, Jefferson Smith, The Terminator, Alvin York, Dr. Szell, Nurse Ratched, The Alien, The Wicked Witch of the West, Frank Serpico, Keyser Soze, Tom Powers, Philip Marlowe, Ellen Ripley, Juror 8, Atticus Finch, The Tramp, Cody Jarrett

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Rick Blaine, Robin Hood, Oskar Schindler, T. E. Lawrence, The Shark, Spartacus, Bonnie and Clyde, Hannibal Lecter, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tarzan, Noah Cross, Erin Brockovich, Alonzo Harris, Man (Bambi), Andrew Beckett, Marge Gunderson, Count Dracula, Thelma and Louise, Freddy Krueger, Lou Gehrig, Woodward and Bernstein, Han Solo, Harry Lime, Amon Göth, Alex Forrest, Eve Harrington, Zorro

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Gandhi, Maximus, Moses, Darth Vader, Joan Crawford, George Patton

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

Popeye Doyle: Jimmy Doyle
Will Kane: Marshal Will Kane
Harry Powell: Reverend Harry Powell
The Evil Queen: Queen Grimhilde
J. J. Hunsecker: JJ Hunsecker
Mr. Chips: Arthur Chipping
Rico Bandello: Little Caesar, Caesar Enrico Bandello
Alex DeLarge: Alex
Harry Callahan: Dirty Harry
Regan MacNeil: Regan, Pazuzu
Goldfinger: Auric Goldfinger
Father Flanagan: Edward Flanagan

And 28 more answers with alternate spellings.

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

Prompts that share answers with this one

Name a film on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list (1998 or 2007 edition) (4 shared, such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Shane, Spartacus)
Name a film directed by Ridley Scott (3 shared, such as The Alien, Robin Hood, Thelma and Louise)
Name a Walt Disney Animation Studios film (2 shared, such as Robin Hood, Tarzan)
Name a villain from a Disney animated film (2 shared, such as The Evil Queen, Cruella de Vil)