paladin

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Marissa Roy, DSA’s pick for city attorney, played a gavel-carrying paladin looking to uphold the law.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

This time the task wasn’t limited to creating uniquely designed characters inhabiting a single universe, but entire worlds based on the myriad comic book sagas that have reinterpreted Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s arachnid paladin.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Then we have Regé-Jean Page's Xenk Yendar, a paladin so devout and good that it makes him insufferable – which is precisely how paladins should come across in mixed company.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2023

Helpless against the ogre in the white castle looming over their town, they hired Sir Robert, peerless paladin of republican virtue, and sent him forth against the monster.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2019

Here was slain the famous paladin, Roland, the Count of Brittany, who became the theme of poets down to the time of Ariosto.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard