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Poppy Li from Mythic Quest

Poppy Li (played by Charlotte Nicdao) is the intelligent lead engineer behind a popular MMORPG game in the Apple TV+ series Mythic Quest.  Often butting heads with Ian Grimm, Poppy is equally as ambitious, though sometimes better suited to her coding work than interpersonal relationships.  Poppy is Australian and often uses slang words from her home country’s dialect that stump her co-workers.  She is fond of shades of red and burgundy, favoring comfortable outfits and Converse sneakers, as well as sporting a pair of round glasses.

Gwart from Silicon Valley

In Silicon Valley, Gwart (Nandini Bapat) is an up and coming programmer that Jared Dunn discovers at the Hacker Hostel. Gwart is eccentric to say the least, a woman of few words who has a taste for artichoke cooked rare, leaves and all. For Gwart’s costume, you can opt for the coke bottle glasses true to her character or the more screen accurate tortoise half-rims with ultra-strong prescription.

Gabe from Silicon Valley

Gabe from Silicon Valley

In Silicon Valley, Gabe (Aristotle Athiras) is a later employee of Pied Piper on Dinesh’s team. He’s weird and needy, working barefoot and cleaning his toenails, pestering Dinesh for the same info repeatedly, and setting up in his wearable chair right in front of him until he gets what he needs.

Colin Ritman from Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Colin Ritman from Bandersnatch

In Black Mirror’s interactive movie Bandersnatch, Colin Ritman (Will Poulter) is a world famous video game designer who works at Tuckersoft, the company that produces young programmer Stefan Butler’s (Fionn Whitehead) the adventure game Bandersnatch, adapted from Jerome F. Davies’s choose-your-own-adventure book of the same name.

Richard Hendricks

Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) is the mild-mannered and often nervous CEO of Pied Piper, a start-up tech company located in Silicon Valley. While Pied Piper’s true business model often changes, the company is based around Richard’s revolutionary data compression algorithm – a highly sought-after piece of tech that could transform the entire industry.

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