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Supporting characters who all appeared in their respective lead's first story appearance?

That is it

Richard the Lionheart
General George Custer
Seth Green

Normandy.

Richie-the-L invaded Normandy (among other places).

A base named for GG-Custer was a major staging area in the US leading up to the Normandy invasions in WW2.

Seth Green voiced a character on a space ship called the Normandy in a video game called Mass Effect.

Umm... yeeeeeeahhhh, that's what I was going for.

(Actually, I just meant that all three were redheads... but that answer was so inspired I've got to give it to Kent.)

lemme think up something good. be back later.

Jack Kerouac
Gregory Hines
Bo Diddley

A guess "Beat" is the common theme.

Bo Diddley if famous for the Bo Diddley beat
Jack Kerouac is the most famous of the Beat poets.
Gregory Hines, not sure, maybe the beat of his tap dancing

good guess, but nope.

Also all male and all dead, but those are probably trivial similarities.

the male part wasn't an intentional commonality.

the dead part is an incomplete but vital part of the actual commonality I am looking for.

Still not getting it. After a bit of cheating (aka "research"), I find that Bo and Jack both died in Florida, while Greg died in California. There's two thirds of a set. Here's another -- Messieurs Kerouac and Hines both died from liver related malfunctions (cirrhosis and cancer, respectively), while Mr Diddley gave it up after a stroke and heart attack.

Another clue please?

the commonality in question has nothing to do with any action that took place by them, during their lifetimes or in relation to how they died. It involves a certain type of action taken by others.

Okeh, all were awarded posthumous college degrees, which, of course, are awarded only to the dead.

correct, LL!

sorry for my delayed response. Been busy.

Martha Randolph
Harriet Lane
Emily Donelson

I was going to guess that they were all sit-com Moms, (thinking that maybe Harriet Lane was the mother on the Patty Duke Show perhaps) but after I looked her up, I saw that I was wrong.

So I'll make another guess based on that brief bit of research...

They are all related to US Presidents

Ah! I think the more accurate link is that all served as White House hostess for Presidents that did not have living wives while President.

It's been seven months and Lethargy Lad hasn't posted since January.

If no one objects, I'll get this thread going again:
Fiji
Ireland
Zimbabwe

three places that were screwed up by British colonialism?

Not quite specific enough, but it does relate to formerly being part of the British Empire.

Places that drive on the left?

While that is true, that's not it. There is something that these countries don't have that would be true of most other countries that were part of the old British Empire.

Never converted to the metric system?

No.

Another hint, South Africa and Pakistan would have once qualified but this is no longer true of them.