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Image via Warner Bros If you’ve been anywhere near social media for the last week or so, then you’ll be keenly aware that a large number of longtime DCEU fans have hedged their bets on Black Adam kicking off a brand new era for the long-suffering franchise. Star and producer Dwayne Johnson may have come under fire for referring to her long-awaited debut as “Phase One” of the shared superhero saga’s expansion plans, but Marvel Studios verbiage aside, the 50 year-old is saying and doing all the right things. That…

Image via Lucasfilm Somewhere in the far reaches of the multiverse, Orson Welles voiced Darth Vader, Arnold Schwarzenegger piloted the Millennium Falcon as Han Solo, Michael J. Fox took up the mantle of Luke Skywalker, and someone other than Alec Guinness wound up filling the shoes of an elder Obi-Wan Kenobi. Truthfully, the idea of a Guinness-less Obi-Wan is an incomprehensible one for many, but there’s a certain whimsy in imagining what could have been if George Lucas managed to land the first name on his list…

Image via Marvel Entertainment/YouTube A seemingly straightforward question that contains a hidden plothole is spurring fan discussion related to the Marvel Cinematic Universe film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. “Who defeated Sinister Strange?” was the question posed by a Reddit user that immediately started blowing up on the r/MarvelStudios subreddit. For those in the know who watched the film, the question seems self-evident at first since Sinister Strange battles…

Image via LucasArts In 2008, LucasArts released a much-hyped game billed as a new and important part of the Star Wars saga. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed bridged the gap between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, introducing Galen Starkiller as Darth Vader’s incredibly powerful apprentice. The game was notable for showing the Force as never before, with Starkiller able to fry whole squads of Stormtroopers with Force Lightning, hurl objects around the map, and most memorably pluck a Star Destroyer from the sky…

via Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been, currently is, and always will be a PG-13 franchise (with the exception of Deadpool’s eventual reintroduction into the fold), but that doesn’t mean the saga hasn’t thrown an alarming number of grisly deaths on the screen to leave audiences shocked and a little bit queasy. As long as there’s no actual blood and guts to send the MPAA into a tizzy, the realms of superhero cinema allow for all sorts of creative dispatches, many of which would lead to a slow,…

Image: Lucasfilm We all know Darth Maul, or so we think. The devil-looking dual-sided lightsaber-wielding Sith lord made an instant impression when first seen in The Phantom Menace, but many mysteries remain about him 20 years on. Maul has popped up for several fan favorite episodes during Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, as audiences got to learn more about him and his brother Savage Oppress. While he does have chicken legs by the time of The Clone Wars, it’s nothing to do with his survival fans…

Image via Warner Bros Though Harry Potter is predominantly marketed as a children’s book it isn’t all whimsical magic and mischievous adventures –there is a dark side to the books. Voldemort may be the greatest evil known to the wizarding world, but he isn’t the only character that has done harm. There are plenty of other dark witches and wizards, but one that surprisingly seems to have done a huge amount of damage is not one that immediately comes to mind: Peter Pettigrew aka Wormtail. Pettigrew not only…

Image via Lucasfilm Star Wars: The Phantom Menace lays the bedrock for the Skywalker saga, with Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s unplanned visit to Tatooine changing the course of galactic history. Most of this centers on the young Anakin Skywalker, who the pair quickly realize is highly Force-sensitive. Despite Anakin being too old to begin Jedi training they save him from slavery and take him to Coruscant, setting in motion a chain of events that leads to the fall of the Galactic Republic, Luke and Leia’s…

Image via Disney/Lucasfilm Ever since his reappearance in Obi-Wan Kenobi and performing such jaw-dropping feats as Force-pulling a ship in full thrust, Star Wars fans have once again been reminded of just how badass Darth Vader is. Now, the fandom is asking a very important question: How would the legendary Sith Lord fare if faced with other iconic villains from the Skywalker Saga? Folks over at the official Star Wars subreddit have been giving this a lot of thought. One significant issue is the fact that Vader…

Image via Lucasarts At times like these, Stars Wars needs to produce a ‘What if…?’ series of its own. Especially now, since more content involving past characters is getting produced. Now, another ‘what if’ scenario was proposed to the Star Wars community — what if Padmé Amidala survived and saw Anakin Skywalker turn into Darth Vader? This scenario was pitched on r/StarWars by Reddit user u/iamphaedrus1, where they asked what if the queen and senator of Naboo survived giving birth to her children, Luke and…