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** As is Walter Hartwright (i.e. heart-right) from [[Wilkie Collins]]' ''[[The Woman in White]]''.
** There is also the Rev. Farebrother in [[George Eliot]]'s ''[[Middlemarch]].''
 
== Animals (Shepherd) ==
* Any character named 'Shepherd'. Plenty of them in the military, for some reason. May be a nod to '[[Messianic Archetype|The Good Shepherd]]'.▼
** Military Shepherds:
*** ''[[Command & Conquer]]'': General Sheppard.▼
*** ''[[Half Life]]: Opposing Force'': Corporal Shepherd▼
*** ''[[Mass Effect]]'': Commander Shepard (played straight with [[The Paragon|Paragon]] Shepard, who tries to solve disputes with diplomacy and uses violence as a last resort; subverted with [[Anti-Hero|Renegade]] Shepard, who prefers to solve disputes with violence and uses diplomacy as a last resort. Both are more or less [[Magnetic Hero|MagneticHeroes]] to go along with the name regardless.)▼
*** ''[[Modern Warfare]]'': General Shepherd {{spoiler|although that's a subversion, since he betrays you.}}▼
*** ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'': Colonel Shepherd▼
*** In part of his back-story in the pages of ''[[X-Men]]'', Professor Xavier served as a soldier during [[The Korean War]]. In one story, it was revealed that he was known among his fellow soldiers as "The Good Shepherd", because he went to great lengths to bring the men under his command safely home.▼
** Non-military Shepherds:
*** ''[[Lost]]'': Jack Shepherd, though [[Your Mileage May Vary]] - he always tried to be a good shepherd, with varied success and pure intention.▼
*** Ernest Shepard, illustrator of the [[Winnie the Pooh]] books.▼
*** President Andrew Shephard in ''[[The American President]]''.▼
 
== Emotion ==
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{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Trust me, I'm the Doctor.}}
:* Lampshaded in "A Good Man Goes to War"; toward the end, River Song revealed that many planets (including possibly Earth) have taken the word 'Doctor' into their language as a word for 'healer' or 'learned person', because of The Doctor's influence. But many other planets use the word 'Doctor' to mean 'warrior', for much the same reason.
 
== "Shepherd": Animal Jobs ==
▲* Any character named 'Shepherd'. Plenty of them in the military, for some reason. May be a nod to '[[Messianic Archetype|The Good Shepherd]]'.
 
=== Comic Books ===
▲*** In part of his back-story in the pages of ''[[X-Men]]'', Professor Xavier served as a soldier during [[The Korean War]]. In one story, it was revealed that he was known among his fellow soldiers as "The Good Shepherd", because he went to great lengths to bring the men under his command safely home.
 
=== Film ===
▲*** President Andrew Shephard in ''[[The American President]]''.
 
=== Live-Action TV ===
▲*** ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'': Colonel Shepherd
▲*** ''[[Lost]]'': Jack Shepherd, though [[Your Mileage May Vary]] - he always tried to be a good shepherd, with varied success and pure intention.
 
=== Video Games ===
▲*** ''[[Command & Conquer]]'': General Sheppard.
▲*** ''[[Half Life]]: Opposing Force'': Corporal Shepherd
▲*** ''[[Mass Effect]]'': Commander Shepard (played straight with [[The Paragon|Paragon]] Shepard, who tries to solve disputes with diplomacy and uses violence as a last resort; subverted with [[Anti-Hero|Renegade]] Shepard, who prefers to solve disputes with violence and uses diplomacy as a last resort. Both are more or less [[Magnetic Hero|MagneticHeroes]] to go along with the name regardless.)
▲*** ''[[Modern Warfare]]'': General Shepherd {{spoiler|although that's a subversion, since he betrays you.}}
 
=== Real Life ===
▲*** Ernest Shepard, illustrator of the [[Winnie the Pooh]] books.
 
== Verbs ==
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