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15 Feb

Why Kid Cosmic Is About “People, Not Powers”

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This feature contains some spoilers for Netflix’s Kid Cosmic. After exploring the stretches of space, wonder, and imagination in shows like Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and Wander Over Yonder, Craig McCracken returns to the realm of superheroes with Kid Cosmic, a more direct, comic book-esque take on the genre than his first smash hit show, The Powerpuff Girls.  The show stars Kid, a young boy who finds a set of superpowered stones, and from there, all heck breaks loose. In the midst of fighting waves upon waves of aliens and creatures from other worlds, however, is an earnest, realistic…
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17 Sep

Who is Kang the Conqueror? Powers and Marvel Comics History Explained

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Kang the Conqueror is coming! With Jonathan Majors reportedly cast as the villainous master of time in Ant-Man 3, the MCU is picking up a fine replacement to monologuing mass murderer Thanos. But how do you top the man who killed half of all sentient beings in the universe with the snap of a finger? If Kang’s comics history is any indication, you do it with a guy whose ego crosses millennia and multiverses. Kang’s primary ability is there’s…an awful lot of him. And his omega level arrogance. Also he breaks grammar. Or will have breaking grammar. I don’t know,…
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24 Aug

Black Adam Powers and Abilities Explained

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Dwayne Johnson will portray one of the most badass villains in the DC Universe when the DCEU Black Adam movie arrives. While Black Adam has historically been known as a Shazam villain, he’ll get his own solo movie this time around (where he’ll square off with Hawkman and the Justice Society no less!). But what makes Black Adam so tough, and why is one of the biggest action stars of a generation so eager to play him? That’s because he shares that magic word of Shazam and it makes him a formidable character with a cool set of powers and…
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22 Aug

DC’s Superheroines of Color Talk Having Powers IRL

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We’ve all thought about what we would do if we had superhuman meta abilities like the powered characters in our favorite comic books. During the BAWSE Females of Color Within the DC Universe panel at DC’s Fandome virtual event, the BIPOC female stars of DC superhero TV tell us what they would do if they had their heroes’ powers in real life. Tala Ashe, who plays Zari in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow says, “I’m on a time travel show, so I have a lot of changes I’d love to make to history. There’s a lot of dates. There’s a date…
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01 Aug

The Umbrella Academy Powers Explained

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The following contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 2. One of the most exciting parts of any new superhero story is finding out the characters’ respective powers and how they affect their lives and personalities.  Such was the case in The Umbrella Academy season 1. And strangely enough, such is the case in The Umbrella Academy season 2 as well. For, while the abilities of the Hargreeves were established in the show’s first season, many of those abilities evolve and change in intriguing ways for season 2.  We often forget the “Academy” portion of “The Umbrella Academy.” The Hargreeves…
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