List of fictional military brats
This is a list of fictional military brats.[1][2] The term military brat refers to a person whose parent(s) were in the military while they were growing up.[1][2] These fictional people have backstories which indicate they may have shared this common culture.[1][2] Real military brats can be found at list of military brats, as can an article about American military brats and also the article about subcultures of military brats in a number of different English-speaking countries.[1][2]
Literature
- Jack Reacher - from the novels by Lee Child[3]
- Qiwi Lin Lisolet - character in the Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
- Chiasa Hikoyu Brown - character from Midnight and the Meaning of Love by Sister Souljah
Comic Books
- General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, father and grandfather both in the military. Enemy of the Hulk[4]
- Betty Ross, daughter of General Ross from the comic book The Incredible Hulk[5]
- Lois Lane - wife of Superman[6]
Film and television
- Margaret Houlihan - played by Sally Kellerman and Loretta Swit in the film MASH and television series M*A*S*H[7]
Television
- Lee "Apollo" Adama - one of the main characters in both Battlestar Galactica series; his father is Commander William "Husker" Adama
- Athena Adama - daughter of Commander Adama, Battlestar Galactica (1978 series)
- Zac Adama - Commander Adama's second son, Battlestar Galactica, both series
- Kate Austen - played by Evangeline Lilly in the television series Lost
- Bobby Briggs - played by Dana Ashbrook in the TV series Twin Peaks; his father is Major Garland Briggs
- Jay Burchell - played by Matt Bomer in Traveler
- Rev. Eric Camden - played by Stephen Collins on the series 7th Heaven[8]
- Samantha "Sam" Carter - from the television show Stargate SG-1[9]
- Sara Crewe - main character in A Little Princess[10]
- Wesley Crusher - played by Wil Wheaton in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation[11]
- Olivia Dunham — played by Anna Torv on the television series Fringe[12]
- Stephen Franklin - Chief Medical Officer of Babylon 5; was 4th generation military, and a 3rd generation brat
- Kelly Gibbs - deceased daughter of Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a former marine, in the television series NCIS
- Joey Gladstone - played by Dave Coulier in the television series Full House[13]
- Dr. Mark Greene - played by Anthony Edwards in the television series ER[14]
- Gustav Patton "Gus" Griswald - voiced by Courtland Mead in the television series Recess[15]
- Misa Hayase (Lisa Hayes) - from the anime Macross (Robotech)[16]
- Dr. Gregory House - played by Hugh Laurie in the television series House[17]
- Kathryn Janeway - played by Kate Mulgrew; daughter of Admiral Edward Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager
- Rory "Riot" Llewelyn - lead singer of The Stingers from the animated series Jem
- Special Agent Timothy McGee - played by Sean Murray in NCIS
- Brick Mac Arthur - played by Jon Cor in Total Drama Revenge of the Island
- Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie - played by Catherine Bell in JAG[18]
- Thomas Magnum - played by Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I.
- Noah Mayer - played by Jake Silbermann in the soap opera As the World Turns, 2007—2010
- Ellie Nash - played by Stacey Farber in Degrassi: The Next Generation[19]
- Tom Paris - played by Robert Duncan McNeill in Star Trek: Voyager; his father was Admiral Owen Paris[20]
- Harmon Rabb - played by David James Elliott in JAG[21]
- Bud Roberts - played by Patrick Labyorteaux in JAG[22]
- Dana Scully - from the television series The X-Files[23]
- Spencer Shay and Carly Shay - from iCarly
- AC Slater - played by Mario López in the television series Saved by the Bell[24]
- Jill Taylor - played by Patricia Richardson in the television series Home Improvement[25]
- Kara "Starbuck" Thrace - from Battlestar Galactica[26]
- Maddie Tyler - in television series NCIS
- Shane Vansen - one of the main characters of the television series Space: Above and Beyond[27]
- The Walker children: John, Susan, Titty, Roger and Bridget - in the Swallows and Amazons series; their father is in the Navy
- Poussey Washington, played by Samira Wiley in Netflix's Orange Is the New Black
- Kashif Kirmani - one of the main characters in Alpha Bravo Charlie
- Gulsher Khan - one of the main characters in Alpha Bravo Charlie
- Shahnaaz Sher - from the television miniseries drama Alpha Bravo Charlie
- Frank Reagan, his four children and grandsons - from the television show Blue Bloods
Film
- Kate Brewster - from the Terminator films; played by Claire Danes in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and Bryce Dallas Howard in Terminator Salvation
- Sean Boswell - played by Lucas Black in the film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
- Ricky Fitts - played by Wes Bentley in the film American Beauty; father is Colonel Frank Fitts
- Maddie Dolan - played by Hayden Panettiere in the Disney television film Tiger Cruise[28]
- O-Ren Ishii - played by Lucy Liu in Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill
- Ben Meecham - played by Michael O'Keefe in the film The Great Santini[29]
- Mary Anne Meecham — played by Lisa Jane Persky in the film The Great Santini[29]
- LT Pete "Maverick" Mitchell - played by Tom Cruise; cocky young United States Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot in the film Top Gun
- Brian Moreland - played by Timothy Hutton in the film Taps
- Kim (full name Kimball O'Hara) - orphaned son of an Irish soldier in British India in the novel Kim by Rudyard Kipling; filmed in 1950 (Kim) starring Dean Stockwell as Kim and Errol Flynn, and 1984 (Kim) with Ravi Seth as Kim
- Doug Masters - played by Jason Gedrick in the film Iron Eagle
Video games
- Fox McCloud - from the StarFox series of video games
- Commander Shepard - from Mass Effect; one of the three possible backgrounds (at one point, the Commander says he/she was "a regular Navy brat")
- Lucas Kane - main character from the video game Indigo Prophecy
References
- 1 2 3 4 Ender, Morton. "Military Brat: Film Representations of Children from Military Families" Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 32, No. 1, 24-43 (2005)
- 1 2 3 4 Annika Hylmö "Internationally Mobile Children in Children's Fictional Literature: Legitimate Reflection or Reflecting Legitimation?" In Military Brats and Other Global Nomads: Growing Up in Organization Families 2002
- ↑ Lee Child and Jack Reacher official website
- ↑ Defenders: Strange Heroes #1
- ↑ Marvel Universe on General Thaddeus Ross Marvel Universe on Betty Ross
- ↑ Smallville episode "Gone" and Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #13 (November 1959)
- ↑ Proudly admits that she is an Army Brat. M*A*S*H* episode "Aid Station" (Season 3: Episode 19). Father is Colonel Alvin "Howitzer Al" Houlihan M*A*S*H episode "Father's Day"
- ↑ 7th Heaven episode "Seven is Enough" introduces Eric's father Colonel John Camden.
- ↑ Stargate SG-1 episode "Threads"
- ↑ Burnett, Frances Hodgson. A Little Princess Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library p 30.
- ↑ Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Encounter at Farpoint"
- ↑ Fringe episode "Ability"
- ↑ Father is Colonel Gladstone, Full House episode "Viva Las Joey"
- ↑ ER episode "All in the Family"
- ↑ Recess episode "Parent's Night"
- ↑ Daughter of Admiral Takashi Hayase Macross Anime Net
- ↑ House episode "Daddy's Boy."
- ↑ JAG episodes "We the People" and "Rendezvous"
- ↑ Degrassi: The Next Generation episode "Whisper to a Scream"
- ↑ Star Trek: Voyager Episode 84 "Hunters", originally aired 1998
- ↑ Opening credits for seasons 2-3
- ↑ Jag episode "Wedding Bell Blues"
- ↑ Captain William "Bill" Scully The X-Files episode "One Breath"
- ↑ Saved by the Bell episode "Aloha Slater"
- ↑ Home Improvement episode "The Colonel"
- ↑ Battlestar Galactica episode "Exodus, pt II"
- ↑ Space: Above and Beyond episode "The Dark Side of the Sun"
- ↑ Disney Channel Original Movie Tiger Cruise
- 1 2 Interview with Mary Wertsch
Further reading
- Ender, Morton. "Military Brat: Film Representations of Children from Military Families" Armed Forces & Society, Vol. 32, No. 1, 24-43 (2005)
- Annika Hylmö "Internationally Mobile Children in Children's Fictional Literature: Legitimate Reflection or Reflecting Legitimation?" in Military Brats and Other Global Nomads: Growing Up in Organization Families 2002
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