Back in 1988, the X-Men were battling against a foe called the Adversary, a villain who could not be defeated but rather only sent away by magic. The spell required nine souls to fuel it, killing the X-Men and properly earning the arc the title of “Fall of the Mutants”. Despite the goddess Roma’s decision […]
Nightwing is one of DC’s biggest, brightest characters. He’s not quite on the level of Batman and Superman, but his notoriety is just the smallest step below theirs and is easily leaps and bounds above what most characters can claim. Even beyond popularity, he’s someone that everyone likes. Nightwing is a positive guy who combines […]
A lot of people hold up Breaking Bad as the single greatest show in the history of television. There is a lot of evidence to back that claim, as it won over a dozen Primetime Emmy Awards, a few Golden Globes, and even two Peabody Awards. The series was remarkably consistent in terms of high […]
September 15th, 2016, was a big day for JRPGs, as a long-awaited adventure finally arrived. It brought stylish characters, turn-based combat, and a city full of secrets to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. Ten years later, its influence can still be felt across the genre. Few RPGs have managed to make their worlds, music, menus, […]
There is an unwritten rule about turning a movie into a Saturday morning cartoon, and it is that you get the characters but you do not get the actors. The Mask arrived on television without Jim Carrey anywhere near it. So did Ace Ventura. Men in Black ran four seasons without Will Smith or Tommy […]
There’s no denying the impact that Kentaro Miura’s work has had on manga readers around the globe. Of his work, his most prolific, Berserk, is often cited as being one of the most influential and prolific seinen series in the world, acting as a touchstone for other massive pieces of media, including multiple FromSoftware titles […]
These days, John Cena tends to pop up in almost everything. He was most recently on the big screen in Coyote vs. Acme and has an upcoming role in Matchbox: The Movie, but he has been known to show up in cameos in everything from Barbie to Superman. In the latter, he reprised his most […]
The DCU is still in its very early days, with only a handful of movies and TV shows having been released since the franchise properly kicked off with the launch of Superman last year. While some projects have been retconned into the DCU, like The Suicide Squad, Blue Beetle, and Creature Commandos, the only officially […]
Alan Rickman was undeniably one of the greatest actors cinema has ever seen. However, when people talk about him, almost everyone immediately thinks of Severus Snape. After all, the role had such a huge impact on his career that even today, he tends to be remembered more by Harry Potter fans than by the general […]
In 1959, The Twilight Zone premiered on CBS and ran for five seasons, each episode presenting a standalone story often in the sci-fi, fantasy, or horror genres. These episodes featured some of the biggest actors of the era, as well as several future stars, including an appearance by William Shatner years before he took on […]