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09 Sep

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Reveals Unexpected Khan Connection

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Khan Noonien-Singh is widely considered to be Star Trek‘s best villain. Introduced in The Original Series episode “Space Seed,” Khan (as played by Ricardo Montalbán) would go on to be the eponymous villain in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, effectively killing fan favorite character Spock in the feature film’s climax. (It’s OK… he got better.) Subsequently, the character made appearances in other corners of the franchise, including on Enterprise, Deep Space Nine, and in the (worst) reboot film Star Trek Into Darkness, where he was played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Now, a different Noonien-Singh is poised to play a main…

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28 May

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 5 Has a Big Return of the Jedi Connection

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This Star Wars: The Bad Batch article contains spoilers. The Bad Batch are in more trouble than ever after running into ace bounty hunter Fennec Shand in “Cornered.” Although they manage to escape with their lives, and with Omega still safe and sound, Hunter and his team of clone mutants know that the bounty hunter (and new Imperial super-agent Crosshair) won’t give up that easy. In “Rampage,” a plan is hatched to get more info on the mysterious bounty hunter (they don’t know it’s Fennec from The Mandalorian yet) as well as the person who hired her to kidnap Omega.…

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25 May

Zack Snyder Confirms Watchmen’s Batman Connection

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Zack Snyder’s name remains prominently connected to the controversial topic of his recent lengthy redux of Justice League and its preceding DC Comics movies. However, the director took his first key genre step toward establishing that connection in 2009 with Watchmen, a DC comic-adapting movie that, despite its disconnect from the main DC Universe, bore a Batman-referencing scene that has long been the center of speculation. Interestingly enough, Snyder has just confirmed the premise of said speculation. In the process of promoting his recently-premiered Netflix gore-fest, Army of the Dead, Snyder takes viewers to “Snyder School” in an analytical video…

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25 May

The Missing Thanos Connection in Marvel’s Eternals

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The first trailer for Marvel’s Eternals is here, and it’s full of quick looks at all of our…favorite characters is probably a stretch, but there sure are a bunch of Eternals in there. Ajak narrates, Ikaris and Sersi get stuff to do, we even get Kit Harrington’s Dane Whitman/Black Knight looking at the sky and knowing nothing. But there’s one thing missing that one might expect from the first introduction to an otherwise obscure set of characters. The most famous Eternal is missing.  Where’s Thanos? Yes, the very same Thanos who snapped half the universe into oblivion in Infinity Gauntlet…

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21 Apr

Mortal Kombat and Bloodsport: The Strange Connection That Changed Gaming

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As we eagerly anticipate the release of the latest Mortal Kombat movie, many find themselves looking back on Mortal Kombat’s 1995 big-screen debut. While that film has its charms and its fans (myself included), the movie has rightfully been criticized over the years for lacking many of the best qualities of the game as well as many of the best elements of the martial arts movies that clearly inspired it. Of course, the relationship between Mortal Kombat and martial arts films has always been close. Not only did the game utilize a then-revolutionary form of motion capturing that gave it…

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19 Apr

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Trailer Teases Iron Fist Connection for the MCU

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Marvel Studios celebrated Simu Liu’s birthday by giving us all a present: the first trailer for Shang Chi and the Ten Rings. And there’s a lot to get excited about: a ripped Liu kicking several things; some of the best looking fight shots in the MCU to date; Awkwafina being generally delightful. Watch it here if you haven’t already… But buried in the middle of the trailer was a very quick flash of something fascinating: Was that an Iron Fist? Iron Fist and the MCU Up until now, the first character who jumps to mind when you think “Marvel martial…

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30 Mar

Did The Irregulars Need its Sherlock Holmes and Watson Connection?

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Warning: contains some plot details for The Irregulars There are Sherlock Holmes purists in this world, but I’m not among them. You want to put Sherlock Holmes on a spaceship, or make him a quarterback, or a hedgehog, or a woman? Go for your life. Make him Elton John for all I mind. Just show me a Sherlock who uses genius powers of observation and deduction to solve unsolvable crimes in whatsoever context, with whatsoever number of claws, X chromosomes or Top 10 hits and we’re good.  The cases are the thing. As long are there are brilliantly devised deductions…

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11 Mar

How WandaVision’s Doctor Strange 2 Connection Evolved

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This article contains WANDAVISION spoilers. WandaVision withdrawal is widespread as we reach the first Friday without a new episode of the acclaimed Disney+ series to ravenously consume and pick apart. True to any broadly celebrated television event, the series complemented an action-packed climax with an array of unanswered questions, especially regarding where it left Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff—now uber-powerful and fully-realized as the Scarlet Witch—for her imminent big screen return in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Interestingly, while it did tout teased connections, they came about quite late into the show’s production. The expectation that WandaVision would provide…

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22 Jan

WandaVision: Does Westview Have a Marvel Connection?

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This article contains some WandaVision spoilers. WandaVision primarily takes place inside an idealized, idyllic, sitcom-themed unreality. One that we’re still not sure is actually happening in any form, or that is strictly a product of the Scarlet Witch‘s reality-altering powers. In any case, the town that most of the show takes place in is called “Westview,” which doesn’t have any explicit Marvel counterpart to speak of, but that still calls to mind the setting of a number of Wanda and Vision’s comic book adventures. Where is Westview in the Marvel Universe? The best we can tell, Westview is a fictional…

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19 Jan

WandaVision May Have Already Shown Us Its Doctor Strange 2 Connection

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This article contains spoilers for WandaVision episodes one and two, and Doctor Strange. Marvel geeks are still busy poring over Easter eggs and clues from the first two episodes of WandaVision, and everywhere you look there are new theories about the true nature of Wanda and Vision’s strange TV sitcom reality, and who might be behind it. We’re as excited as everyone else to delve into Marvel Comics history and make a case for our own theories about the intriguing new Disney+ series, so strap in, because the first episode of WandaVision might have already told us quite a bit…

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02 Nov

Star Trek: Discovery’s Giant Starfleet Tree Has a Picard Connection

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for “People of Earth” and some decades old episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Despite landing in a future in which the Federation’s influence has been greatly diminished, Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 is shaping up to be far less dark and dystopic than many predicted. In Episode 3, “People of Earth,” the USS Discovery visited the home planet of the Federation, and although that visit was a mixed bag, things did end on a very hopeful note—one that is even more hopeful when you understand the canon significance of a certain…

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10 Oct

Warrior Season 2 Episode 2 Review: The Chinese Connection

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This Warrior review contains spoilers. Warrior Season 2 Episode 2 When Warrior was first announced, Bruce Lee fans were worried that this was going to be just another Bruceploitation. After all, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of Bruceploitation flicks. Bruce Lee is the most impersonated icon on the planet. No one needed to see another weak caricature of the Little Dragon, even if it was on Cinemax. However, Warrior isn’t Bruceploitation at all. The creator and writer of the show, Jonathan Tropper, credits Bruce’s daughter, Shannon Lee for making sure that Warrior didn’t go “overboard with the Bruce Lee stuff.” Instead…

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