Study Guide

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Characters

By Douglas Adams

Here's our recipe for Arthur Dent: Take one hero. Now remove everything heroic. Voilà:...

If you gave Ford the choice between going to a party and saving an entire world from destruction,...

What you should take away from this character profile: Zaphod is the President of the Galaxy who...

Trillian is this amazing… oh, who are we kidding? Arthur gives Trillian a terrific...

According to Douglas Adams's mother, Marvin the Robot is like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh: they...

Eddie is the most annoying shipboard computer in the history of science fiction, and that...

For a big part of this book, Slartibartfast has two very simple roles: (1) He's the Magrathean...

Deep Thought is the giant, city-sized computer that works for 7.5 million years to come up with...

As Slartibartfast explains to Arthur, mice aren't just "white furry things with the cheese...

Did someone say "foolish and absurd"? That means it must be time to discuss the philosophers from...

Jeltz is the captain of the Vogon fleet that destroys the Earth, and he is representative of the...

Prosser is a human version of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, just with a more boring name. Like the...

Lunkwill and Fook are the programmers for Deep Thought. When they show up, they're pretty excited...

The cops who come to capture and kill Zaphod are pure comic relief. This is especially clear if...

If we were really organizing this page by how much we like characters, the Whale (oh, poor, sweet...

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