For an actor playing Batman is a lot like walking on the moon by which we mean while about a dozen men have done so, most people can only name like three of them. Although his tenure as the Dark Knight hasn’t lasted all that long, we feel confident saying Robert Pattinson will be one […]
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The Fleischer Studios Superman shorts from the 1940’s are widely considered the best pieces of Superman media ever created. Iconic from a visual standpoint and absolutely revolutionary from a technical one, the Fleischer shorts have defined what Superman is for almost a century now. Which is kinda amazing when you consider nobody wanted to make them. […]
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My Hero Academia is an eminently popular anime/manga series about a world in which super-powered teenagers attend a school designed to help them better understand and utilise their god-like powers for the betterment of mankind. Known for tackling some pretty heavy topics for a shonen series, the creator has had to tactically introduce levity to avoid […]
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a film that centres primarily around the conflict between techno-futurist Africa and water Aztecs. A decision that resulted in like half the cast needing to learn how to swim, which inexplicably just so happened to include the guy cast to play a character who dropkick a blue whale into low orbit. […]
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Within Marvel canon the Immortal Iron Fist is regarded as one of the singular finest hand-to-hand, foot-to-dick and every other combination of limb to major extremity or weakpoint combatant you can think of. In the movie universe based on the comics however, he’s seemingly incapable of knocking out a wank, let alone a minimum wage […]
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Swamp Thing is a DC character who has pretty much the same backstory as Shrek in that he’s green, likes onions and is largely motivated by his desire to get people the fuck out of his swamp. Unimaginably power thanks to his connection to, The Green, Swamp Thing boasts total and complete control over all […]
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Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style alternately and rather fittingly known by the rad as fuck alternate moniker of Wu-Tang: Taste the Pain, is an obscure PlayStation fighting game in which you kick the fuck out of ninjas as various members of the eponymous Wu-Tang Clan. A game that, believe it or not, started life as a basketball game featuring […]
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Judge Dredd is a character who hails from a hellish, dystopian universe in which the justice system has degraded to such an extent law and order is a mocking facade of what it used to be and the characters like Judge Dredd are empowered to be, quite literally, judge, jury and executioner with even the […]
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Few characters in fiction have eaten shit as much as Optimus Prime, with The Last Prime dying at least a dozen times during his tenure as the wisened leader of the Autobots. Inarguably his most shocking death though was in The Transformers: The Movie. A death the studio not only insisted upon, but had no idea […]
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There are few actors as closely associated with their most well-known role as Hugh Jackman is with Wolverine. A character who is now intrinsically linked with the actor in the minds of many fans despite the fact he very nearly didn’t get the role due to being a clear foot taller than the character is […]
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