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== Emotion ==
=== Film ===
* FBI Agent Karen Sympathy ([[Piper Perabo]]) in the 2000 live-action film ''[[The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle ]]''.
 
=== Live-Action TV ===
* On ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'', Dharma once ran for public office against a woman named [[Punny Name|Karen Love]].
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== Heroes (as in, named after other famous heroes) ==
 
=== Multiple Examples ===
* [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Roland Roland] was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as ''The Matter of France''. His name is used several times in fiction for heroic characters, including:
** The fairy tale ''Childe Rowland'', the most popular version being by Joseph Jacobs in his ''English Folk and Fairy Tales'', published in 1892.
** English poet [[Robert Browning]]'s epic poem, ''Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came''; the title of which comes from a line in [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[King Lear]]''.
** The protagonist of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]''.
** King Roland II from ''[[Sofia the First]]''.
** Roland from ''[[Borderlands]]'', the first Vault Hunter to open the vault on Pandora and later the founder and leader of the Crimson Raiders.
** Several heroic characters in ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' are named after characters from ''The Matter of France'', including Roland.
 
=== Fan Works ===
* [[The Teraverse]] has the Order of Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, a community of Catholic nuns founded (and named) by a superheroine.