List of imaginary characters in fiction

This is a list of imaginary characters in fiction, being characters that are imagined by one of the other characters. The list is divided into sections by the primary medium.

Film

Name	Description
Adolf Hitler	imaginary friend of the title character in Jojo Rabbit
Billy	Murdock's invisible dog in The A-Team
Bing Bong	childhood friend of Riley in Inside Out
Blue	Jeremy's childhood imaginary friend and several other characters in IF
Captain Excellent	Paper Man
Chauncey	Imaginary
Drop Dead Fred	Drop Dead Fred
Elvis Presley	True Romance
Eric Cantona	Looking for Eric
Mr. Floppy	perverted gray stuffed bunny in Unhappily Ever After
Frank	Donnie Darko
The Green Fairy	EuroTrip
Harvey	rabbit in the film and play of the same name[1]
Humphrey Bogart	Allan Felix's alter ego in Play It Again, Sam
Jack Flack	Cloak & Dagger
Rudger	book and Japanese anime film The Imaginary
Sy	Everything You Want
Tony, Lloyd the bartender, and several other characters	The Shining
Tully	Tully[2]

Literature

Name	Description
Angus	imaginary companion of the anchorite St Ungulant in the novel Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
The Bear	from a book of the same name by Raymond Briggs[3]
Booby	unicorn in the short story The Unicorn in the Garden by James Thurber
Budo	novel Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks[4]
Dorothy Spinner's imaginary friends	comics published by DC Comics
Hobbes	comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson[3]
The Imaginary Friend	book The Hole In The Sum Of My Parts by Matt Harvey[3]
Jimmy Jimmereeno	Ramona Wengler's imaginary friend in the short story Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut by J. D. Salinger
Los Chimichangos	colorful chihuahuas who are imagined by Skippyjon Jones in the book series of the same name by Judith Byron Schachner; named after chimichangas
Malcolm/Sally	stuffed goat in several books featuring the character Eddie Dickens by Philip Ardagh[3]
Ninja Ninja	Afro's friend in the manga Afro Samurai
Pobby and Dingan	Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
The Policemen	novel The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien[3]
Skellig	Skellig by David Almond[3]
The Story Giant	by Brian Patten[3]
Tomo	Yozora Mikazuki's friend in the Japanese novel Haganai
The Wild Things	Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak[3]
Winnie-the-Pooh and several other characters	Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

Television

Name	Description
Barney	dinosaur in Barney & Friends
Bloo (and several other characters)	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Dudley	JoJo's imaginary friend in Fancy Nancy
Happy	unicorn imagined by Nick Sax and his daughter Hailey in Happy!
Harry Morgan and Professor James Gellar	Dexter (characters)
Josephina	whale who is a friend of Santi in the Japanese anime series Josephina the Whale
Koosalagoopagoop	Dee Dee's imaginary friend in Dexter's Laboratory
Milco	Australian television soap opera Home and Away. Originally believed to be Sally's imaginary friend, he reappeared many years later and revealed himself to be Sally's twin.
Nadine Flumberghast	imaginary friend of D.W. Read in Arthur
Mr. Snuffleupagus	formerly "imaginary" character in Sesame Street. He is Big Bird's friend and was perceived as imaginary for many years until it was decided that he be revealed to the rest of the show's cast on November 18, 1985 in Season 17, episode 2096
Soren Lorenson,	Lola's imaginary friend in the book and television series Charlie and Lola
Spiny Norman	giant hedgehog in the sketch Piranha Brothers from Monty Python's Flying Circus

Theatre

Name	Description
Alberta	imaginary girlfriend in the musical Avenue Q said to be from Vancouver; invented by Rod to deny that he is gay
Bunbury	play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde[3]
Elvira	play Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward[3]
Godot	unseen, ambiguously anticipated acquaintance of Vladimir and Estragon in the play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Video games

Name	Description
Faye	Finding Paradise