Ender Wiggin

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's 1985 science fiction novel Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender in Exile), as well as in the first part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow. The book series itself is an expansion, with some changes to detail, of Card's 1977 short story "Ender's Game."

In the film adaptation of Ender's Game, Ender is portrayed by Asa Butterfield.

Ender's Game

In the first book of the series, Ender's Game, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a genius and was the youngest of three children in a religious family, contrary to the state's strict two-child policy. His existence was called for by a program aiming at producing commanders for humanity's war against the Formics, or "Buggers". He attends Battle School, an Earth-orbiting space station that trains similar prodigies. He receives the same education as other children, but the military recognizes him as their best bet to be supreme commander and often manipulates its own rules to make sure Ender has not only the necessary technical skills, but also the right character for their ends. Specifically, Ender is conditioned to be entirely self-sufficient from a very young age.