36 Facts About Ender Wiggin

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel Ender's Game and its sequels, as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow.

Ender Wiggin is bullied at school for being a "Third," particularly by a bully named Stilson.

Ender Wiggin is tormented by his brother Peter, a sadist, who resents the attention Ender Wiggin gets from the military.

Ender Wiggin is exposed to significant emotional anguish and physical danger, but it soon becomes clear that he is an exceptional individual, even among the elite students.

Ender Wiggin excels in academics, his main interest being a team-based three-dimensional laser tag competition in the zero-g Battle Room.

Ender Wiggin becomes a masterly player and strategist, and is eventually assigned command of Dragon Army.

Ender Wiggin perceives this as an unfair test and resolves to break the rules.

The enemy does not realize until too late that Ender Wiggin's fleet is gradually drawing closer to the planet.

When Ender Wiggin's surviving ships are close enough, he sends them to destroy the planet itself using Doctor Device, a weapon that destroys matter, but only if it is concentrated enough.

Ender Wiggin is hailed as a hero, but he is stricken with guilt for having unknowingly committed speciocide.

Ender Wiggin's subordinates are returned to Earth to their various home countries, but Ender is too potent for any one country to have.

Ender Wiggin writes a book anonymously called The Hive Queen, which tells the story of the war from the Formic perspective and starts to change public opinion of him.

Ender Wiggin is departing from the planet where Valentine has found a husband.

Ender Wiggin has acquired an integrated computer by which he communicates with a powerful sentient program known as Jane.

Ender Wiggin has taken the role of Speaker for the Dead, keeping his real identity a secret.

Thanks to his portrayal of himself in his books, The Hive Queen and The Hegemon, Ender Wiggin is despised as a xenocide: the killer of an entire intelligent species.

Ender Wiggin departs for the planet Lusitania, where a request has been made to speak on behalf of a researcher who has died from contact with the planet's indigenous species, the piggies.

Ender Wiggin discovers that both calls originated from the same family; the first from Novinha's daughter Ela, requesting someone speak for the death of Novinha's husband Marcos, and the second from Novinha's eldest son Miro, who has asked for a speaker for the researcher Libo.

Ender Wiggin begins to investigate Marcos and has frequent contact with Novinha's family.

Ender Wiggin discovers that Marcos was abusive to his wife.

Jane, without consulting Ender Wiggin, sends incriminating reports to the interstellar authorities, who order the arrest of Miro and Ouanda, the researchers who have been investigating the piggies.

Meanwhile, Ender Wiggin has been receiving pressure from the Hive-Queen's pupa to allow her to settle on this world because she has been in telepathic contact with another race.

Ender Wiggin assumes this race is the piggies, although they seem simple and not telepathic.

Ender Wiggin "speaks" for Marcos and reveals many secrets, mostly Novinha's.

Ender Wiggin recommends that the colony declare itself in rebellion to sanctions from the Intergalactic Congress.

Ender Wiggin is helping Novinha protect humans from the descolada virus.

Ender Wiggin is attempting to keep the peace on planet between the three species.

The existence of the new Formic colony is not general knowledge, but Ender Wiggin knows that their appearance and their non-human way of reasoning would cause friction with the humans.

Ender Wiggin goes on the first test flight, because Jane's existence was a direct result of his time at the Battle School; therefore, Jane is most likely to be able to keep Ender Wiggin's form in her mind.

Since Ender Wiggin has passed Jane off to Miro due to the previous misunderstanding in Speaker for the Dead, Miro must go as well.

Ender Wiggin inadvertently creates copies of his brother and sister from his memories.

Horrified, Ender Wiggin removes himself from further efforts so as to not risk creating more things like his pseudo-siblings.

Ender Wiggin's story revolves around his "pseudo-offspring" Peter and young Val.

The maximum number of people Ender Wiggin can keep alive and healthy at any given time is two.

When Ender Wiggin is fully invested in Peter and young Val, Ender Wiggin himself begins to deteriorate.

Once there, Ender Wiggin agrees to help Virlomi quell an uprising by a group called the Natives of Ganges, led by a young man named Randall Firth, who is under the delusion that he is the son of Achilles de Flandres.