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Superman (It’s not easy) is Five For Fighting.
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Welcome to the joke. 
The Hollywood Argyles: Alley-Oop. Also performed by the Beach Boys.
Iron Maiden’s ‘To Tame a Land’ is about Dune, and mentions some of the characters by name.
Anthrax’s “I Am the Law” is about Judge Dredd.
Metallica’s “one” is sung from the perspective of the character in “Johnny Got His Gun”
Does Johnny B. Goode count as a fictional character?
Yep, and written by Bruce Springsteen.
Does The Ballad of Lucy Jordan count if it’s a sung version of a Shel Silverstein poem?
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
“Daria” by Cake is not older than the TV show character (though “Daria” didn’t start airing until 1997, the character had existed on “Bevis and Butthead” for years at that point). It’s pretty decidedly not about the character, though, either.
May be too generic, but Queen did several songs for/about Highlander.
Princes of the Universe
Who Wants to Live Forever.
Gimme the Prize
Don’t Lose Your Head
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, by the Beatles.
Which is the fictional character? The Devil, or Johnny?
If you believe the Devil is fictional (and hey, this certainly isn’t the place to debate it), then it stands to reason we could also include in this thread:
“My God” by Jethro Tull
Read the very first post please. If someone wants to do a Biblical characters thread they’re free to, but not in this thread.
Mentions:
King Kong
Spiderman
Dan Dare
Minnie Mouse
Big Bird
Judge Dredd
Snoopy
Tweeite Pie
Snow White
Captain Kirk
Papa Smurf
X Men
Betty Boop
Tin Tin
Babar
Might Morphin Power Rangers
Yes, sorry, my bad. (Now I need to figure out how to edit my own posts to remove that.)
My apologies.
There’s a 5 minute window for editing, usually used to correct the one inevitable mistake that you missed on preview.
When your 5 minutes are up, that it.
Cisco Kid - War
Maid Marian - Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) - Squeeze (And William Tell may or may not be fictional.)
The Ballad of Tom Joad by Woody Guthrie is about the main character from Grapes of Wrath.
“Wherever little children are hungry and cry,
wherever people ain’t free,
whevever men and women are fightin’ for their rights,
that’s where I’m gonna be, Ma.
That’s where I’m gonna be.”
Toosh.
Turning Japanese - The Vapors:
Everyone avoids me
like a psyched Lone Ranger