Character and Message

Character

Character noun - A written or printed mark that is meant to convey information to the reader.

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Message and character are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Message" instead a noun "Character".

Message noun - A piece of conveyed information.

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Character and message are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Character" instead a noun "Message".

Nearby Words: messaged, messaging

old	old character	old message
good	good character	good message
nice	nice character	nice message
special	special character	special message
Other adjectives: similar, true, single, strong, powerful, actual, entire, real, bad, main, important, moral, new, hidden, last, central, different, said.

In a similar vein, beating Shift 3 unlocks Fancy Pants Man as a playable character; reviewers are encouraged by the game's ending message to identify the unlockable character as Mel Gibson instead.

Source: Urban Legend of Zelda
In a more meta sense, The Nostalgia Critic both in-character and out-of-character openly hates this trope when done poorly and, as he puts it, is "dark for the sake of being dark" instead of being dark to convey some message or have some purpose.

Source: Darker And Edgier / Web Original
A character is trapped somewhere terrible, usually an island in the middle of an ocean, a slave ship, or somewhere that it just plain sucks to be and there's no way to get a message to anyone.

Source: Message in a Bottle

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Message and Character. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/character/message

Character & Message. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/character/message>.

Message or Character. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/character/message.

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