But New York Eastern District Judge Joanna Seybert said that Greene was arguing "libel by fiction", and that he need only prove that people he knew could reasonably be expected to associate the character with him.
Interviewed children have stated similar; they attributed its appeal to its "cool looking" appearance and associating the character with the concepts of stubbornness and power.
Mr. Anglim originated the part on Broadway, and many people associate the hallmarks of the character — the twisted torso, the lurching gait, the quavering speech — with his performance onstage and in the subsequent television adaptation.
"It's easy to do that, I suppose, to associate the person with the character.
Other licensed media further carry the homage; Enterplay's trading card line associate the character, named "Time Turner", as dealing with "all things timey-wimey" around Ponyville, alluding to a famous quote from the episode "Blink", while one of the store-exclusive covers for the Friendship Is Magic comic set the Doctor Whooves character among many iconic Doctor Who elements.
While featuring Pizza Hut in a show with depictions of zombies consuming human flesh might not whet appetites, the chain is associating with the characters on the show through what it's calling "The Walking Dead Trailer Mash-Up Contest".
Game play, especially with the Marvel and Star Wars sets, can be intense as you defeat villains and overcome obstacles by maneuvering your way through a maze of battles and obstacles that resemble scenes associated with the characters.
Such a conception of the self is associated with the claim that autonomous agents are, and ought to be, self-sufficient, which in turn is associated with the character ideal of the "self-made man".
It was a clever wheeze and Grant appears to have carried it out with the self-deprecating style we associate with the characters he plays on film.
