Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. In fact, defining a major character is rather difficult. If the major characters are those the plot focuses on, they are Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin and Trillian, with the possible inclusion of Slartibartfast, Prostentic Vogon Jeltz, Random Dent and Fenchurch. If they are defined as characters appearing in all the books, they are only Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent. In this case, the definition of major characters will be those in the series with major plot significance not appearing on this list.

Deep Thought

Deep Thought is a computer that was created by super-intelligent pandimensional mice to come up with the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. When, after seven and a half million years of calculation, the answer finally turns out to be 42, Deep Thought's creators sheepishly realize that they don't know the question.

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The ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything - 42

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Deep Thought itself does not know the ultimate question to Life, the Universe and Everything, but offers to design an even more powerful computer (Earth; see Earth in fiction) to calculate it. After ten million years of calculation, the Earth is destroyed by Vogons five minutes before the computation is complete.

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Earth - Earth in fiction - Vogon

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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

On radio, Deep Thought was voiced by Geoffrey McGivern. On television and in the LP re-recording of the radio series, he was voiced by Valentine Dyall. In the feature film Deep Thought's voice was provided by actress Helen Mirren.

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Geoffrey McGivern - Valentine Dyall - Helen Mirren

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In the film of Hitchhiker's Guide it appears as a large gold computer that likes to watch television.

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The name Deep Thought is likely intended as a parody on the movie Deep Throat.

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IBM's chess-playing computer Deep Thought was named in honour of this fictional computer.

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IBM - Chess - Deep Thought

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