Brazil are also known to have retained many "obscure" characters, largely forgotten elsewhere.

Also, the practice of simplifying obscure characters by analogy of their radicals is now discouraged.

Widow - based on the obscure 1940s character Spider Widow.

But the normal usage of this concept is a vague, obscure character who is just perfect, only to compare.

Though an obscure character, Berzerker was exactly what they were looking for.

I don't use really obscure characters.

The writer, Grant Morrison, explained why he picked such an obscure character:

Demand is so great that the company has been able to sell figures based on obscure characters who appear in the films for but a few seconds.

To open one and flip through the pages, you'd find it crammed with the most complicated charts and obscure characters.

Cassandra is certainly interesting as a reinterpretation of history and literature by an otherwise rather obscure character.