Month: April 2021

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the story “S Is For Cyborg” from Superman: Red & Blue #2 by Jason Howard & Tom Napolitano, on sale now The heart of the Superman Family is a strong sense of empathy and an unspeakable bond that transcends danger. It’s this kind of connection that can lead to

Star Trek has always been successful at rewarding fans with consistent comforts they’ve come to identify with the brand. Decade after decade, Star Trek has kept essential parts of its universe consistent, including what things are called. But the origin story of where the Enterprise got its name and why Star Trek keeps using it is

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Episode 2 of I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, now streaming on Crunchyroll. Anime’s latest big isekai series, I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, is hardly a standard power trip. Instead, series heroine Azusa Aizawa has been reborn

In the Star Wars universe, Anakin Skywalker demonstrated keen observational skills and a willingness to help others from his introduction in The Phantom Menace. Anakin displayed intuitiveness at young age, when he first encountered Qui-Gon and Padmé. Anakin asked Qui-Gon if he is a Jedi and makes this assumption due to seeing his lightsaber. Although Anakin explained that he

Aliens holds an untouchable place in the film pantheons of both horror and action. James Cameron‘s 1986 follow-up to Alien was a blockbuster win and only the director’s third major feature. With university-level analyses of the film’s themes and impact widely available, it’s difficult to find something new to discuss, beyond how beloved Aliens is. But there

Ray Fisher had an angry reaction to a statement that WarnerMedia released about the company’s supportive position on “racial equity and social justice” in the wake of the Derek Chauvin verdict. In Minnesota on Tuesday, a jury convicted former police officer Derek Chuavin of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May

DC’s Infinite Frontier initiative has done more than restore the multiverse from its former death in Dark Knights: Death Metal. It created an omniverse where all lives, deaths, and crises have taken place. Not only are there multiple Earths, but they reside in multiple universes. RELATED: DC Comics: 10 Things We Learned From Infinite Frontier Now, a team of

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the story “Red Hood and Batman: Cheer Part 2” from Batman: Urban Legends #1, by Chip Zdarsky, Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, Marcos To, Adriano Lucas and Becca Carey, on sale now. The first issue of Batman: Urban Legends offered new insight into the recesses of Jason Todd’s dark mind

WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Mayans M.C. Season 3, Episode 7, “What Comes of Handlin’ Snakeskin,” which aired Tuesday on FX. At the end of the previous episode of Mayans M.C., Bishop (Michael Irby) gave Angel Reyes (Clayton Cardenas) permission to kill Flaco (Roberto Garcia) in retaliation for that Stockton Mayan having nearly killed

After a record-breaking year in 2020, Netflix failed to reach its Q1 2021 subscriber predictions. According to Variety, the streamer added 3.98 million subscribers across the globe, falling short of its 6 million guidance. In contrast, Netflix added 8.5 million subscribers in Q4 of 2020 and 15.8 million in Q1 of 2020. In total, Netflix has 207.4 million subscribers. RELATED: Netflix’s

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Charmed Season 3, Episode 10, “Bruja-Ha,” which aired Sunday on The CW. Although Maggie is a skilled empath, actively studying psychology, she’s only recently started tapping into her emotions. In Season 2, Maggie confronted the truth of her anxiety disorder, but now, Season 3 forces her to learn to live with mental illness.

Paramount+’s live-action reboot of The Fairly Oddparents will start filming this summer. According to Discussing Film, the series will begin production in June. Plot details are scarce, but the show is expected to follow the story of the cartoon that aired on Nickelodeon from 2001 to 2017, in which 10-year-old Timmy Turner is assigned two fairy godparents named Cosmo and Wanda to help him

Set in a galaxy far, far away, and released almost 20 years ago, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remains a beloved video game classic amongst Star Wars fans. Although rumors about a new Knights of the Old Republic game started circulating in January 2021, and fans have been petitioning for a KOTOR remake for next-generation consoles since 2020, neither project was reported

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Black Panther #24, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Daniel Acuna & VC’s Joe Sabino, on sale now. In the world of the X-Men, Professor Charles Xavier is the rock upon which the foundation of mutants has been built. His school for the “gifted” helped so many of the Children of the

The Justice League cartoon and its follow up series, Justice League Unlimited, were the final animated television entries in the DC Animated Universe, capping off a continuity that had begun all the way back in the beginning of the ’90s. Unlimited brought a lot of changes to the team which weren’t exactly explained in the course

Being an Avenger isn’t an easy undertaking. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to get to the level to even be considered an Avenger. To remain on the team, a hero might consistently prove themselves to be both superheroic and willing to avenge the Earth as needed. RELATED: 10 DC Characters Who Should

For viewers repeatedly startled by annoying loud commercials during their favorite shows and sporting events, the FCC just might come to the rescue — but they’re asking the very same aggravated viewers for their help in turn. Believe it or not, there’s been a law in place for over a decade to combat the menacing volume

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the sixth episode of Invincible, “You Look Kinda Dead,” streaming now on Amazon Prime. In the Invincible TV series, Nolan Grayson, aka Omni-Man, is taking shape as the series’ big bad, sticking in line with what the comics did by coming off as an evil Viltrumite. He’s lying to

Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us was released in between entries in its Uncharted franchise. Because of that, fans had no idea what to expect, as its trailer showcased a serious story that examined the human condition in a post-apocalyptic environment. Its biggest draw at the time was the creatures that players would encounter, all with horrific designs.

Chapter 123 of Attack on Titan briefly highlights the events that take place after Eren and the Scouts discover the sea, filling in several blanks in the four-year gap between Seasons 3 and 4. The heroes learn about Marleyan bigotry, and are horrified to find out what people think of them as citizens of the universally hated

At the end of Lucifer‘s Season 5A, time froze amidst a brotherly celestial battle. Since Lucifer‘s Season 5A dropped on Netflix in August 2020, Luci-fans wondered who caused time to freeze in its season finale. Theories ranged from Lucifer to God to the eldest celestial brother, Amenadiel. Now, D.B. Woodside — who portrays Lucifer’s oldest and wisest

Like many of his mutant counterparts, Sunfire was drastically reimagined for “Age of Apocalypse.” This alternate reality saw Shiro Yoshida take on a radically different history and visual appearance as a hero, and he was also one of the few mutants whose “Age of Apocalypse” appearances transferred to Earth-616. The “Age of Apocalypse” Sunfire made his first

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has hyped Marvel fans up for an epic finale in the coming days that should not only close this story arc about the super-soldier serum and the Flag Smashers, but also open up the doors for the future of the MCU, from creating a proper friendship bond between Bucky

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the sixth episode of Invincible, “You Look Kinda Dead,” streaming now on Amazon Prime. In Amazon Prime Video’s Invincible, fans are getting to see J.K. Simmons cutting loose as Nolan Grayson, aka Omni-Man, in a most sinister light. Simmons has definitely touched various ends of the comic book spectrum,

New key art and a promotional video for the live-action film Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning have surfaced on Twitter. The unofficial English Twitter account for Shōnen Jump News revealed a new promotional video, as well as a new key visual, of the upcoming live-action adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin. The teaser includes previously teased footage from

The MCU has been running for a couple of decades now, and, as such, there are dozens of entries to the franchise. In so many movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been careful to introduce as many heroes from Marvel Comics as they can. RELATED: FATWS: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Madripoor There are countless

Game of Thrones and Solo: A Star Wars Story star Emilia Clarke has joined Disney+ and Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion. According to Variety, the actor is currently in final negotiations to board the project, though her role remains under wraps. RELATED: Falcon and Winter Soldier: How [SPOILER] Could Tie Into Secret Invasion Clarke will join the previously announced Samuel L.

Elaine is one of the strongest fairies and the sister of the Fairy King. For the 700 years that King was absent, Elaine had no choice but to fill the role of the guardian of the forest and its Fountain of Youth. She was alone during this time until she met Ban, a thief originally

If there is one series that helped video games become the cinematic-style juggernauts of today, it was the Metal Gear series. Konami and auteur designer Hideo Kojima’s iconic series brought stealth action, government conspiracies, political espionage and more to a massive audience with its chronicles of the legendary soldiers Big Boss and Solid Snake. Over

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for God of War: Fallen God #2 by Chris Roberson, Tony Parker, Dan Jackson, Jimmy Betancourt and Dave Rapoza on sale now. Kratos’s penchant for engaging in horrific, bloody battle is on full display in the latest issue of Dark Horse Comics’ side-story for the Ghost of Sparta. In God