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"A diverting entertainment might have been made about the rivalry between these two muscle-bound paladins- a bromance or a buddy comedy...but the point of [the movie] isn't fun...it's obedience...[the lead characters] perpetually mistake their narcissism for high-minded public service...the rest of the population- or the digitally created simulcra thereof- is required only to die en masse, to cower in terror, and to watch in wide-eyes, worshipful gratitude." -A. O. Scott

Batman V Superman

Super Mario Kart was a kart racing game released for Super Nintendo in 1992. Players could race with characters like Mario, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, and Toad on tracks like the famous Rainbow Road.

Super Mario Kart was a kart racing game released for Super Nintendo in 1992. Players could race with characters like Mario, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, and Toad on tracks like the famous Rainbow Road.

Historically headed by Nick Fury, S.H.I.E.L.D a.k.a Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Department has had many notable leaders in Marvel Comics including Maria Hill, Norman Osbourn, Carol Danvers, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Philip Coulson, and Sharon Carter.

Um Actually: Division not Department, or Not Phil Coulson

My Hero Academia centers on a superhero high school whose students have abilities known as quirks examples include Katsuki whose combustible sweat is used to create explosions, Ochaco, who can manipulate gravity, and the principal Nezu, who can transform into a humanoid animal.

Um Actually: Nezu just is an animal.

The Infinity Saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe focuses on the Mad Titan Thanos' quest for the Infinity Stones and the efforts of our heroes to stop him. Though Thanos appears in the first Avengers film, the chronological order of the stones' appearances is complicated by the large gallery of films; however, a keen watcher knows that the order of stones is Mind stone, Space stone, Reality stone, Power stone, Time stone, and Soul stone.

Um Actually: Space before Mind Stone

Iconically portraying John Shaft and Mace Windu, actor Samuel Jackson has proven his worth as a well-established actor. More notably, he has appeared in the most MCU films outside of Stan Lee as Shield Director Nick Fury.

Um Actually: Tony Stark

In Ben 10, young Benjamin Tennyson is given the ability to transform into unique and powerful alien species through his use of the Omnitrix. Namely, his first alien form was Diamondhead, which has the ability to manifest large crystal constructs and change his body into sharp weapons; however, the initial concept was for a more insect-like design of Cannonball to appear as the first alien.

Um, Actually: Heatblast, not Diamondhead

All for One, the main baddie of MHA, has the terrifying ability to steal the superhuman abilities of others and give them to himself or his followers. The most notable instance was when he gave his own brother a similar ability to stockpile raw power and pass it onto other individuals.

Um, Actually: His brother already had the power to pass on quirks.

The Harry Potter series introduces us Muggles to a plethora of magical items such as flying brooms, the Floo Network and wands. In The Prisoner of Azkaban, the overworked Hermione Granger is given one such magical device, one that allows her to teleport so that she could attend each class.

Um, Actually: The device Hermione had gave her the ability to rewind time to attend her classes in their past blocks.

The movie "Predator", aside from being generally cool, is notable in other ways. It was #1 at the box office for its opening weekend, won an Academy Award for Visual Effects and has the notable privilege of being the only movie to feature two future Governors; Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura.

Um, actually: "The Running Man" and "Batman and Robin" also both feature Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura.

In Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: a Tour of the Underwater World", readers meet Captain Nemo, who lives a secretive life twenty thousand leagues beneath sea level in his advanced submarine: the Nautilus.

Um, actually: 20,000 leagues actually references how far they travel once beneath sea level, not how deep they are.

The Planet Express employees that we meet in Futurama's first season appear to be a ragtag group of aliens and weirdos, but despite their differences, only Doctor John Zoidberg is from a different planet.

Um, actually: Amy Wong is from Mars.

In the tabletop game "Warhammer" players command armies of miniatures representing different races or factions including four distinct races of elves, High Elves, Blood Elves, Wood Elves, and Dark Elves.

Um, actually: Blood Elves appear in Warcraft not Warhammer.

Today we most frequently picture Dracula as depicted by Bela Lugosi- a pale, slick-haired, well-dressed man with sharp incisors and a red silk cape. However, in Bram Stoker's original book Dracula, he is described as looking much more like the vampire's appearance in Nosferatu- an ungly, rat-toothed man with long gnarled fingers and pointy ears.

Um, actually: Bram Stoker's Dracula is described as a "tall, old man, clean-shaven save for a long, white mustache and clad in black from head to foot without a single speck of color about him anywhere."

Captain America's shield is so strong because its Adamantium composition rivals the strength of Wolverine's skeleton, a man who has survived complete bodily obliteration.

Um, actually: Captain America's shield is made of an alloy of Vibranium and an unknown iron alloy, sometimes called Proto-Adamantium

In "Star Trek: The Next Generation", the crew of the USS Enterprise is a diverse group of humans and non-humans. Those from earth come from a variety of different countries. Captain Picard is from England, Will Riker grew up in Alaska and Geordi LaForge was born in Somalia.

Um, actually: Captain Picard is from France

In the first book of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, "The Colour of Magic", readers learn that the color of pure magic is octarine, a color visible only to wizards.

Um, actually: Cats can also see octarine.

AS a powerful Sith Lord, Darth Vader can harness power of the dark side of the Force to conjure Force lightning, and use the power of the Force for evil means like when he uses telekinesis to choke adversaries.

Um, actually: Darth Vader cannot cast Force lightning because he has mechanical limbs.

Thanks to the success of "The Land Before Time," the 8-s and 90s saw a boom of kids' cartoons about dinosaurs. One such show was "Denver the Last Dinosaur", a cartoon in which a skateboarding, guitar-playing corythosaurus named Denver used magic to disguise himself as a human to help bullied teenagers.

Um, actually: Denver didn't use magic to disguise himself.

"Superman vs. Th Amazing Spider-Man" was the first superhero crossover comic between DC and Marvel. It featured an array of fan-pleasing moments including a villainous team-up of Doc Ock and Lex Luthor, a fist fight between Morgan Edge and J. Jonah Jameson, and a double-date with Clark, Lois, Peter, and Mary Jane.

Um, actually: Edge and Jameson have a drink together.

In Return of the Jedi, the rebels attack and destroy the new Death Star's shield generator on the planet Endor with the help of furry creatures called Ewoks.

Um, actually: Endor is a forrest moon.

Eevee- the 133rd Pokémon- can evolve into Vaporeon, Electreon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, Glaceon and Sylveon.

Um, actually: Evee can evolve into Jolteon not Electreon.

(Bob's Burgers) Louise Belcher develops her first crush on singer Boo Boo when Tina introduces her to boy band Boyz4Now. Each Boyz4Now member's set of fans has their own nickname. Boo Boo fans are called Boo Boo Boosters, Allen's are Allen-coholics, Matt's are Matt Bratts, and Greg's are called i-Greg-ulars.

Um, actually: Griffith is the fourth member and his fans are called De Griffiths.

The universe of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is populated by dozens of animal-human hybrids created by coming into contact with mutageniz ooze. This includes the turtles themselves, their allies, like mutated alligator Leatherhead, and enemies, like the human-fly hubrid Baxter Stockman.

Um, actually: Haxter Stockman's mutation wasn't caused by the mutagenic ooze.

In A Game of Thrones , Hodor's parents named him Hodor to honor a famously wise maester from the North.

Um, actually: Hodor's real name is Walder but he is called Hodor as it is the only thing he says. [In Game of Thrones, the TV series, Hodor's name is Wylis.]

Dragons come in many shapes and sizes, and subcategories of dragons can be identified through slight differences in their appearance. For example, wyverns have only two legs, wyrms are enormous legless, wingless serpents, and Japanese dragons are long, flying, four-legged creatures with four toes on each foot.

Um, actually: Japanese dragons only have three toes. Chinese dragons have four toes, and the emperor's dragons has five. (Um, actually: there are winged and wingless wyrms according to the Lord of the Rings taxonomy.)

In Star Wars, Queen Amidala of Naboo casts the tie-breaking vote in the decision to award Chancellor Palpatine emergency powers to fight the Trade Federation.

Um, actually: Jar Jar Binks casted the deciding vote.

Knuckles, the last surviving Echidna in the Sonic universe, is bound to his home in the Green Hill Zone, prtecting Master Emerald.

Um, actually: Knuckles does not live in the Green Hill Zone, he lives on Angel Island.

Part of Jedi or Sith training includes the hand-making of one's own lightsaber. A key component, dilithium crystals, are found in the Crystal Caves on the ice planet of Ilum.

Um, actually: Kyber crystals are used in the making of lightsabers, dilithium crystals are from Star Trek.

The original NES game "The Legend of Zelda" started players out as Link, armed with only 3 heart pieces and a sword and let them immediately begin exploring a non-linear world packed with 8 boss-filled dungeons.

Um, actually: Link doesn't start with a sword.

In the X-Men series, superpowered mutants often have aliases that somewhat describe their abilities. Some, however, have names that just go with the "X" motif. Including Professor X, Crusader X, Stacy X, X-Man, X-Treme, Mage-X, and X-23.

Um, actually: Mage-X is not a real X-Men.

The Max Rebo Band is a musical group that we see performing in Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi. The band features the titular Max Rebo, Doda Bodanaweedo, Droopy McCool, Rappertune, Moldious Orchelhorn, and Sy Snootles, among others.

Um, actually: Melodious Orchelhorn isn't in the band.

Dungeons and Dragons has a lot of monsters that have been drawn from European Folklore such as the Kobold, Goblin, Orc, and Troll but also has several monsters unique to D&D, such as the Tarrasque [sic] or the fearsome Grell. (The Tarrasque was taken from southerns French Christian folklore.)

Um, actually: Orcs are not drawn from European Folklore but was invented by J.R.R Tolkein for Middle Earth.

In Harry Potter , all of Voldemort's most evil henchmen, namely Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange, and Peter Pettigrew, graduated Hogwarts as members of Slytherin.

Um, actually: Peter Pettigrew was a Gryffindor.

In Dungeons & Dragons, spellcasters can learn dozens of undeniably useful spells, as well as some of more questionable utility including Otto's Irresistable Dance which makes enemies dance uncontrollably, Quincy's Enchanting Gourmet, which lets you imbue food with magic and Guise of the Yak Man, which makes you appear to be a Yak Man.

Um, actually: Quincy's Enchanting Gourmet is a spell dedicated to cooking and cleaning up the kitchen afterwards.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is famously divided into four houses, each named after one of the four founders, and each with an associated animal: Lion for Gryffindor, Badger for Hufflepuff, Raven for Ravenclaw, and Snake for Slytherin.

Um, actually: Ravenclaw's animal is an Eagle.

The Wheel of Time series began with the publishing of The Eye of the World in 1990 and concluded 23 years later when Robert Jordan finished the final work The Eye of the World [sic]. (Although Trapp doesn't finish the question verbally, the full written question references The Eye of the World as the last book instead of A Memory of Light.)

Um, actually: Robert Jordan died before the completion of the last book and Brandon Sanderson completed it with notes from Jordan.

In "Mortal Kombat", characters can perform "Animalities" as a finisher, in which the character temporarily transforms into an animal and dispatches their opponent. For example, Nightwolf transforms into a wolf, Scorpion transforms into a scorpion, and Johnny Cage transforms into a kangaroo.

Um, actually: Scorpion transforms into a penguin.

In the novel "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman, the god Odin has two ravens, Huginn and Muninn (or thought and memory). When the protagonist, Shadow, finds himself alone with one of these ravens for the first time, it charmingly says to him, "nevermore," as a reference to the Edgar Allen Poe poem "The Raven".

Um, actually: Shadow tries to get the raven to say "nevermore", instead it says, "f^ck you."

In the orginal Star Trek, Spock has a faint greenish-yellow hues to create a subtle alien, otherwordly look. While this color is now iconic enough that you can buy pre-mixed versions of the makeup called L-N#1, the original plan was for Spock be blue.

Um, actually: Spock was going to be red but most people had black & white Tvs which made it appear to be blackface.

In The Chronicles of Narnia, the human visitors to Narnia are also united by their death, a train wreck that kills every human visitor to Narnia simultaneously, including Diggory Kirke and Polly Plummer, Jill Pole, the four Pevensie siblings and their cousin Eustace Scrubb.

Um, actually: Susan is not killed as she is in America at the time.

Though it's easy to imagine superheroes living in a world of black and white morality, some well-known superheroes were originally villains, including The Flash, Rogue, and Hawkeye.

Um, actually: The Flash was never a villain.

In the Chronicles of Narnia, the originally published order of the Chronicles of Narnia puts Prince Caspian immediately after The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, but some publishers interject The Horse and His Boy between the two, since the events in The Horse and His Boy take place chronologically after the events of the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Um, actually: The Horse and His Boy takes place during the same time as the last chapter of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Some famous fictional characters are best known by names that are not actually their first names, Pippin from The Lord of the Rings is actually named "Peregrin", Voldemort's real name is "Tom", Futurama's Turanga Leela goes primarily by her family name, and Hodor from A Game of Thrones is actualy named Walder.

Um, actually: Turanga Leela goes by Turanga.

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory is a beloved story about a group of children who are gradually maimed and deformed by a loner in a candy factory. Augustus Gloop is sucked through a tube in a chocolate river, Violet Beauregard turns into a blueberry after eating experimental gum, Veruca Salt is sent down a trash chute after demanding a goose that lays golden eggs, and Mike Teavee is shrunk by television chocolate technology.

Um, actually: Veruca Salt demands a squirrel that can sort nuts.

While the title of "Super Mario Brothers" is generally only applied to Mario and Luigi, in 1992 the long lost brother Wario made his first appearance in the Game Boy's "Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins."

Um, actually: Wario is Mario's childhood friend, they are not related.

In the first Mortal Kombat game, a player can unlock Reptile as a playable character is they achieve a double flawless victory in a single player mode on the Put stage and finish the match with a fatality, if there is also a silhoette flying past the moon (which occurs every sixth game).

Um, actually: You can do this to play against Reptile, but you cannot play as Reptile until the second Mortal Kombat II.

Though we see Ewoks earlier in "Return of the Jedi", we don't actually hear the word "Ewok" until C-3PO encounters them and is able to translate the Ewokese.

Um, actually: You don't hear the word "Ewok" until the TV Show.

In "Highlander II: The Quickening", we learn that the mysterious Immortals are actually aliens originating from the planet Zeist, a world that is referenced throughout the remainder of the Highlander series, but never actually shown.

Um, actually: Zeist is never referenced again and they retconned it.

Knowing when and what to feed a child is an important part of not killing it. You can start feeding an infant pureed simple foods after 4 to 6 months. Before that babies should be fed only breast milk or formula, and drink only water.

Um, actually: babies shouldn't drink water before 6 months.

According to the rules of Quidditch, throwing the Quaffle through an opponent's hoop earns 10 points, hitting an opponent with a bludger earns 0 points and catching the golden snitch earns 50 points and ends the game.

Um, actually: catching the golden snitch earns you 150 points.

In the original Crash Bandicoot, Crash can gain a new life by breaking a 1-Up Box, or by collecting 100 mangoes.

Um, actually: he collects Wumpa Fruit.

To jumpstart a car: connect the red clamp to the positive end of the working battery, then the same for the dead battery, then the black clamp to the negative end of the live battery, and the black clamp to the negative end of the dead battery.

Um, actually: instead of clamping the black clamp to the negative end of the dead battery, you should connect to a piece of metal in order to ground it.

In the game Pokémon, use of the moonstone can evolve your Clefairy into a Clefable, your Jigglypuff into a Pigglybuff, or your Nidorina into a Nidoqueen.

Um, actually: it evolves your Jigglypuff into a Wigglytuff.

One of the Twilight Zone's most famous episodes, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", doesn't actually feature any monsters or paranormal creatures of any kind. The true monsters are the people of Maple Street giving in to paranoid violence.

Um, actually: it is revealed that aliens were manipulating electronics at the end of the episode.

For health and eco-concious consumers, it's important to buy chicken that was raised without added hormones. The only way to be sure that you're buying chicken raised without hormones is to carefully inspect the label for a "no added hormones" disclaimer.

Um, actually: it's illegal to raise chickens with hormones in the US.

In Dungeons & Dragons, character classes have changed from edition to edition. While some have been present since first edition, like monks, mages, and bards, others were added in later editions, like sorcerers, warlocks, and barbarians.

Um, actually: mages only exist in D&D 2nd Edition.

In Star Wars, in order to free young Anakin Skywalker from slavery, Qui-Gon Jinn first uses a Jedi Mind Trick to convince his master Watto, a Toydarian junk merchant, to allow him to pod race.

Um, actually: mind tricks don't work on Toydarians.

In both novel and film, "Logan's Run"is set in a dystopian future where people are euthanized upon reaching age 30, but otherwise the versions differ greatly. For instance in the book, Logan eventually finds his way to the safe haven of Santuary, whereas the film takes a bleaker turn, with Logan fmaously leaning that "there is not Sanctuary."

Um, actually: people are euthanized upon reaching age 21 in the books.

While most people know that kryptonite is Superman's biggest weakness, not as many people know that kryptonite comes in many different colors, with varying effects: classic green kryptonite weakens Superman, pink makes him permanently lose his superpowers, and periwinkle causes him to lose his inhibitions.

Um, actually: pink kryptonite causes Superman to become gay and nothing causes him to lose his powers permanently.

"Voltron: Legendary Defender" features its own system for keeping intergalactic time. A tick is 1.39 seconds, a dobosh is 60 ticks, a varga is 60 doboshes, and a quintant is 20 vargas, which equates to slightly longer than a day. Also, a quiznak is roughly a week, a phoeb is roughly a month, and a deca-phoeb is roughly a year.

Um, actually: quiznak is an Altean curseword, and a movement is roughly a week.

The Bill of Rights, the first 10 Ammendments of the Constitution, secure many basic liberties at the heart of America. Among these, the 8th amendment guarantees a right to privacy.

Um, actually: the 8th Ammendment gaurantees no cruel or unusual punishment.

The Common Rooms of each Hogwarts House is intended to be accesible only to members of that house. Every one is at least partially concealed and requires a secret password or knock to enter.

Um, actually: the Ravenclaw Common Room requires a riddle.

On the X-Files we're told that the truth is out there, but sometimes the storylines are also a little "out there". In the episode "Badlaa", a legless beggar has the otherworldly ability to change size, crawl into people's ears and control their minds.

Um, actually: the beggar crawls up people's butts and beats them up from the inside.

In Harry Potter, the Deathly Hallows are the magical items won by the Peverell Brothers from Gellert Grindelwald: The Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility.

Um, actually: the brothers won it from Death.

Bowser's children, the koopalings, first appear in Super Mario Bros. 3.

Um, actually: the koopalings were originally Bowser's children but were later retconned and are not Bowser's children. Bowser's only child is now Bowser Jnr.

In Joss Whedon's Firefly, smuggler Captain Malcolm Reynolds pilots the ship Firefly to avoid the all-powerful Alliance.

Um, actually: the name of the ship is Serenity which is a Firefly Class Ship.

In the Phillip K. Dick novel "Blade Runner", Rick Deckard, uses a Voight-Kampff machine to determine if a suspect is truly human by measuring [their incapability of physiological responses.] (Trapp never finished the question, but as the incorrect concept was already revealed, this is most probably how the statement would have finished.)

Um, actually: the novel is titled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

If you'd purchase the original release of Dungeons and Dragons in 1974, you'd have found everything you need to run a campaign, but it would look very different from the D&D you know today. Among the differences- only 3 character classes were available: cleric, magic-user, and fighting-man and "Hobbit" was one of the playable races.

Um, actually: the original release of D&D required already owning "Chainmail" and "Outdoor Survivor".

While Batman: The Animated Series is consistently ranked as one of the greatest animated series ever made, it is also the most expensive animated series in a per episode basis, due solely to the sheer amount of black ink used in ever episode.

Um, actually: the series was animated with black paper and it wasn't especially expensive to make.

In L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy aquires a pair of ruby slippers after accidentaly killing the Wicked Witch of the East. These slipper are ultimately the method by which she returns to Kansas.

Um, actually: the slippers were silver.

In Game of Thrones, Daenerys Stormborn, of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of Mereen, Queen of the Andals, and the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Khaleesi of the GReat Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons has three dragons named Drogon, Rhaegal, and Meraxes.

Um, actually: the third dragon's name is Viserion not Meraxes.

In J.R.R. Tolkein's The Fellowship of the Ring, the titular fellowhip is composed of nine members from four races: Hobbit, Dwarf, Elf, and Man.

Um, actually: there are five races present as Gandalf is a member of the Istari race.

Monsters: they're scary, and often they are just two animals crammed together, and the monster manuals of Dungeons & Dragons feature many such monsters, including Owlbears, Duckbunnies, Skunk Cows, and Spiderhorses.

Um, actually: there are no Skunk Cows but there are Stench Kows.

In C.S. Lews' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Lucy, Edmund, and their cousin Eustace travel to Narnia by jumping into a puddle.

Um, actually: they got sucked into a painting of a Narnian ship.

Installments of the Final Fantasy franchise tend to be standalone games, each involving different characters and settings. However, certain specifics recur across the series. Since Final Fantasy II, every game has featured or depicted Chocobos, Moogles, and a character named Cid.

Um, actually: they introduce Moogles in Final Fantasy III, and although they don't appear in Final Fantasy IV, they do reappear in Final Fantasy V.

In The Wizard of Oz, after their visit to the Emerald City, Dorothy and her friends travel through Munchkinland to get to the castle of the Wicked Witch of the West, they journey through a forest while armed with a net, bug spray and a gun.

Um, actually: they travel through Winkyland.

In Star Wars, the band Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes plays a genre of music known as "J!zz", which we first hear the play on Jabba's barge.

Um, actually: we first hear it at the Mos Eisley Cantina.