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The Doctor (Robert Picardo) and Reno (Tig Notaro) stand on the bridge of the USS Athena looking worried in Starfleet Academy
What is an Omega molecule in Star Trek and why is it so dangerous?

Starfleet Academy has dug up a threat from Voyager

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My teen shame at the Pokémon movie

I felt extremely uncool sitting in that theater to watch Ash die

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Mabel, a messy-haired, wide-eyed teenager, stands at a desk covered with papers as two lab-coated researchers, Nisha and Dr. Sam stand beside her in Pixar's Hoppers
Hoppers fully commits to fandom's favorite Pixar Theory

It's the Easter egg to end all Easter eggs — the studio itself admitting that its movies might be connected in one big timeline

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Homelander (Anthony Starr) a blonde man wearing the U.S. flag as a cape stands in front of a mirror with his head in his hands
Homelander is seeking immortality in The Boys season 5 trailer

Plus: The Deep and Black Noir have a podcast

Darth Maul lights up his lightsabers in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Darth Maul is finally getting his Sin City moment

Shadow of Maul brings corrupt cops and dirty dealings to Star Wars, just as George Lucas intended

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Langly, Byers and Frohike from The Lone Gunmen
According to Vince Gilligan, the Lone Gunmen are 'still out there'
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25 years later, the showrunner looks back on his short-lived X-Files spinoff

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Char and Amuro battle each other inside their giant gundams in Char's Counterattack
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack remains endlessly rewatchable

It's time to revisit 1988's iconic Gundam feature while it gets a limited revival screening in Japan

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Vince Gilligan gives an intriguing Pluribus season 2 update
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'It is not going quite as fast as I would hope'

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A screenshot from the Shiranuhi animated film. It shows a man holding a small boy who is crying and has a bloodied nose.
Your Name and Suzune studio returns with new film from rookie director

Will Ryo Katanozaka continue Makoto Shinkai's legacy of great anime movies?

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Gol d roger seen as his execution in One Piece
Making the One Piece real was a terrible idea

Eiichiro Oda's treasure hunt has started the Pirate Era in the real world

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Ida/The Bride (Jessie Buckley), a dead woman in a split-open orange dress with a gold covering over her breasts and six silver tubes leading into it, lies on her back on a lab table, surrounded by wires, in The Bride!
The Bride! takes the Frankenstein story on a messy, manic, monstrous ride

Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley star in a Bride of Frankenstein riff designed to outdo Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things

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The major question that DC’s Lanterns must answer (regarding Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros.)

Free HBO — at motels or from Skydance's grasp

Lanterns trailer still
HBO is giving Green Lantern fans blue balls
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'Bro, wheres the green?'

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Every DC movie and TV show scheduled for 2025 and beyond
The DCU goes full True Detective in first Lanterns trailer

The series will follow Hal Jordan and John Stewart investigating a murder

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Michael Jordan in Space Jam but he's looking at Pikachu
How Pikachu defeated Michael Jordan in the trading card grading boom

Trading card grading once focused entirely on sports, but over time, the Pokémon TCG has assumed dominance in the space

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An image from Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series. It depicts Aurra Sing, pale alien with a large forehead, black make-up over her eyes, and an antenna with two identical guns in her hands.
Star Wars' most underrated bounty hunter returns but deserves so much more to do

Come on Star Wars, give a girl something to do

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The 30 most iconic moments from the Pokémon anime

My name is Caesar Salad!

Max stares listlessly out the window of Chloe's pickup truck.
Life Is Strange fans to have a million feelings over the TV series casting
TV

Wowsers!

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Trevor (Ben Kingsley) and Simon (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) get fitted for costumes in Wonder Man
Disney realized the best way to sell Wonder Man is to let you stream the pilot free

Marvel just posted the series' first episode on YouTube

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A blue-haired person looks at the camera and smiles in That Time I Reincarnated As A Slime
The king of isekai is back with a season 4 trailer

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime will be gracing our screens soon

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