How to 'pick' one of many for use as active object later? (create? swap? save/load?)

Imagine frame 1 is a game-creator (you pick a player of 6 & a weapon of 3). Click 'go' and the next frame, that's what you play with.

How do you do that? [I thought of making all players Global, then setting Global Value A to the fixed value, then SOMEHOW creating that object making the Global Value A...].
What I don't want to do is create IF-code for each of the players in case they were chosen [same player code x 6 and same weapon code x 3 - NOT efficient].

Thanks for any assist.

Sky: thanks. Precreating is no problem. But how do you 'select' the one from a set to use as your character, so that you code the 'character' only once.
Effectively:
var character = characters[indexChosen];
(if character collides with ... then)...

instead of:
(if character1 was selected and collides...)
(if character2 was selected and collides...)
...etc...

thanks

Danny: Thanks. Can you point me to an example/sample anywhere that even slightly integrates the idea of a qualifier so I can see what you mean?
Thanks,

Excellent help -> thank you - didn't know those existed. Will be useful.

When the 'chosen' character (player qualifier) is selected, I set a flag which allows for proper event handling.

Only thing I'm wondering now is how to utilize ONLY the one I want on another frame (scoping really). Do all characters get Globally created then hidden if their flag is off? or do I recreate a character matching an id I save on the next frame. I likely don't want to destroy the flag-off characters as the user may want to nav back to the choice page to reselect.

I'm happy to look up the right information on this - all I need is a keyword to track down to understand the best approach.

Thanks,

Danny: Yep, definitely helpful. What I mean is to carryover the specific character as THE (chosen) character to the next (or another) frame. If I have 6 characters (of which one is selected), do I need to keep all 6 alive, but 5 hidden, OR create a character by ID (of the same one selected in the previous frame?), etc. Make more sense?