Characters

via Lucasfilm Star Wars fans are known for being fiercely critical of the franchise they love, with discussions raging for years about the merits of the prequel trilogy, Disney’s overall stewardship since 2013, and, of course, the endless grousing over everything to do with Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi. But now the fandom is united in slamming what might be the worst thing about the franchise: dead characters just won’t stay in the ground. A popular post on r/StarWars describes resurrections as “insanely…

Vasquez, Yogurt, Oola, and Sax Man deserve their own movies.Image: 20th Century Fox, MGM, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros.Movies are made by the quality of their supporting characters. Oh sure, the leads are the people that drive the story, but if they don’t have quirky best friends to bounce off, what’s the point? And if the characters who appear in only a scene or two are equally as memorable? That’s even better. Last week, news broke that the team behind Cobra Kai is taking this fact to heart. They’re developing a spinoff to…

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To inspire you with my mindblowing creative journey with a text-to-image AIHogwarts Castle as generated by the author via MidjourneyPaint a word picture so vivid that I needn’t even draw.I am sure you have seen a crime series where the witness describes how the perpetrator looks to an artist.The artist then pieces a sketch together only from the bits and pieces of descriptive information about an unknown face.And, I find it hard to believe how accurately the artist ends up sketching, only based on these descriptions.But…

Image: Disney Plus The Marvel Cinematic Universe encompasses so many characters from the street level like Daredevil to the bizarre cosmic side and fans are heralding the characters who ventured furthest away from their comic book origins. Key in any form of adaptation, particularly if you’re trying to modernize campy 60s comic book characters, is to make the big decisions and changes. Taking a risk is crucial, and in particular, you have to think of The Mandarin fake-out in Iron Man 3, or the complete…

Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of those rare shows that has proven to have lasting power among many generations of fans. Now, the beloved story you know is being made into a free-to-play mobile game for iOS and Android devices. Players step into the shoes of their favorite characters, travel around the world of Avatar, and take on enemies in turn-based battles. As of right now, a soft launch is only available in certain areas of the world. So many us must wait a while before we can access this game on our iPhones. …

No matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs… An Xbox dashboard advert appears to have jumped the gun a little early, and has apparently leaked two new characters who are in line to join the chaotic crossover brawler MultiVersus. The ad, which quickly became widespread on social media, points to the two newcomers being DC anti-hero Black Adam and Stripe, the malevolent antagonist of Joe Dante’s 1984 horror-comedy, Gremlins. MultiVersus Season 1 characters leaked and as you can see Black Adam & Stripe is…

Image: Marvel Studios There are plenty of clear fan favorites in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Characters like Captain America, Luis, Spider-Man, and Tony Stark. But who do the diehards love to hate hard? It’s hard to believe that many characters could illicit such a strange emotion in its prime demographic, especially with the old comic book adage of “every character is somebody’s favorite”. But Reddit’s home for Marvel discussion is now probing deep to find out who they collectively hate the absolute most.…

Image: Nintendo/Monolith SoftAll narrative-focused video games live and die on their cast of characters, and nowhere is this more true than in RPGs. Just as it’s easy to get swept up into an interesting world by the party members and supporting cast you meet along the way, it’s just as viable to realize the characters in the game are a burden or worse, deeply uninteresting. Fortunately, the teens who make up the party of Monolith Soft’s recently released JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles 3 are great. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is set…

Image: NetflixIf there’s one thing that can generally be agreed on about Stranger Things, it’s that the cast is so dang big. Between the Hawkins kids and their family members being spread out across the country making new friends, the various government and supernatural figures, and Hopper’s party in Russia, you could really feel like the fourth season was straining to give everyone something to do. Juggling so many characters isn’t an easy task, particularly when so many of them suddenly become fan favorites…