| Carland Cross | |
|---|---|
| Carland Cross character | |
| First appearance | 1990 |
| Last appearance | 2003 |
| Created by | Michel Oleffe |
| Portrayed by | Olivier Grenson |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Private investigator |
| Family | Brian George Cross (Father) Millicent Mitchell (Mother) |
| Spouse(s) | None |
| Children | None |
| Religion | Protestant (Roman Catholic) |
| Nationality | English |
Carland Cross is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the series. Created by Belgian author and drawer Michel Oleffe and Olivier Grenson.
He was created in late 1989 and was first appeared in comics in 1990, in a total of eight novels. His first fantasy story, Le Golem, it was later following by further comics series. Due of the success, the creators published in 1994, in which four series of the eight comics series selected in an animated series of 26 episodes simply called Carland Cross.
Similar to detectives such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, he is an "private investigator" based in London in the 1930 era. He is specialized in curious, inexplicable case, strange conspiracy and others.
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Carland Cross is born in July 1893 in St Austell, Cornwall to Brian George Cross, the Lord Duvendon (an officer in the Indian Army) and Lady Millicent Mitchell. As an teenager, he first studied away from his parents in the London's Slade School of Fine Art and then to Cambridge University where the young Carland differs in philosophy and Oriental and rare languages.
Although the quality of the studies to an academic career, he preferred to leave the University in 1914 to fight the enemies of his country on the battlefields of northern France during the 1st World War. This is where he met Murdock, a young Prussian officer, Cross injured his hand during an engagement with the army of Kaizer while the latter injures his shoulder. Repatriated because of that shoulder injury, Cross resumed studying psychology and criminology who will decide his calling.
He enter to Scotland Yard as an aspiring inspector in 1920 then quickly quite the police, which he deems inappropriate methods, to open his own firm in Baker Street. The coming years, his many accomplishments have earned him a reputation as a specialist flattering intractable cases.
Cross is physically an tall, average, understated stylish britain. His age is not reveal in the comics and animated series but it is estimated at early to mid 40's as the stories set in the mid to late 1930s. His serious pale face is recognized by his eternal frown-eyebrows, blue eyes, sideburns, black hair with a free cloth wick on his right forehead. He is usually wear a hat, a brown trenchcoat, dark-blue suit, black waistcoat, white dress shirt, blue tie and black shoes with white gaiters. Alternative costumes are rarely seen in the series, except a running outfit. His tailor, Wallace Cripps, own a shop on Savile Row. His shoemaker, Italian Battistoli's, is based near Oxford Street. Cross drives an Bentley car and smokes a pipe, only the Navy Cut, from the Dunhill's house of Jermyn Street prepares for him; In the animated series, he does not smoke either cigar, cigarettes or pipes.
There are small differences in the comics than the series about Carland Cross personality. He is an compozed, generous, honest, intelligent, methodical, practical and talented British citizen. Cross uses the money earned during their investigations to alleviate the miseries of his contemporaries. Even if this lonesome man is sensitive to the suffering of others, upholding justice and fairness, he is especially described in the animated series as more antipathetic, arrogant, cynical, frigid, moody, ruthless, sinister, stand-offish, unfriendly and generally taciturn than the comics. He was always slay the injustice but he had come to overlook the simple human feelings, he was misogyny as women were indifferent to him, except for criminals. Although not very courageous, he could be reckless, only when the lives of his associates is in danger.
His clue-based working method is mostly referred to the books. It is through documentary research and thinking it progresses in its investigations, it served by the incredible resources of his culture and intelligence. His thinking is complete and takes action. It is an active casual but gaining in power and resistance that it loses rapidly.
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