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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 "Justice League Unlimited," Wonder Woman is turned into a pig by the sorceress Circe, prompting Batman and Zatanna to strike a bargain with the Greek enchantress. In order to have Diana transformed back, Batman has to beat Circe in a series of riddles, each themed around a traumatic event in Batman's past.
Um, actually, Batman had to sing "Am I Blue?" in a smoky jazz club.
The universe of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is populated by dozens of animal-human hybrids created by coming into contact with mutagenic ooze. This includes the turtles themselves, their allies, like mutated alligator Leatherhead, and enemies, like the human-fly hybrid Baxter Stockman.
Um, actually, Baxter Stockman's mutation wasn't caused by the mutagenic ooze.
In the tabletop game "Warhammer" players command armies of miniatures representing different races or factions inclluding four distinct races of elves, High Elves, Blood Elves, Wood Elves, and Dark Elves.
Um, actually, Blood Elves appear in Warcraft not Warhammer.
One of the most iconic buddy relationships of all time is that of Han Solo and his co-pilot Chewbacca. Chewbacca only speaks to Han in Shyriiwook, though he can understand English just fine, while Han only speaks to Chewbacca in English, as Shyriiwook is rough on human vocal cords.
Um, actually, English won't have been invented for many years. The language they are speaking is called Basic.
General Grievous, the droid general of the Separatist Army during the Clone Wars, while not capable of wielding the Force, was able to wield four lightsabers in his battle against Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Um, actually, General Grievous is a cyborg.
In "Dragon Ball Z," character names follow peculiar patterns of references and puns. Saiyans are all named after vegetables, Namekians are named after musical instruments and snails, and gods of destruction are named after types of underwear.
Um, actually, Gods of destruction are named after alcoholic beverages (Compari, Cognac, Mojito, and Beerus). Bulma's family are named after underwear (Bulma, Dr. and Mrs. Briefs, and Trunks).
Mutations in the X-Men universe often bring incredible supernatural abilities, but it can also bring seemingly unrelated physical changes as well. Kurt Wagner received his ability to teleport, but also got fangs and a tail. Mystique, while she can change form at will, is in her natural form scaly and blue. Hank McCoy's mutation gave him super intelligence and beast-like strength and agility, but also a simian physicality.
Um, actually, Hank McCoy was already smart.
Batman, aka Bruce Wayne, keeps the streets of Gotham safe from the most impressive rogue's gallery in comics. His archnemesis, the Joker, has foiled him time and time again, often aided by Harley Quinn, whose first appearance in The Killing Joke is held up as one of the most popular recent additions to the Batman Universe.
Um, actually, Harley Quinn's first appearance was in Batman: The Animated Series.
Imperator Furiosa abandons and betrays her leader Immortan Joe to liberate his captive wives and bring them to safety. Immortan Joe promises his War Boys an eternity in Elysium, shiny and chrome, if they can recapture his wives, including Toast the Knowing and Cheeto the Fragile.
Um, actually, He promises them an eternity in Valhalla, the Norse afterlife. Elysium is the Roman afterlife.
In Doctor Who, The Doctor, a 900-year-old Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, travels the Universe with his trusty sonic screwdriver and his state-of-the-art TARDIS.
Um, actually, His TARDIS is not state-of-the-art. It's a Mark 40, an old model.
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. Bonus: 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 cast the deciding vote.
Sarah Williams' life is thrown into chaos when Jareth, the Goblin King, kidnaps her baby brother Toby, and threatens to sink him in the Bog of Eternal Stench unless his sister can rescue him.
Um, actually, Jareth's plan is to make Toby the new Goblin King.
Two of StarCraft's most popular characters, Jim Raynor and Sarah Kerrigan, are available in some levels of play as hero units. While Jim Raynor is playable as either a Terran Vulture unit or a Terran Marine unit, or piloting the Terran Hyperion Battle Cruiser unit, Kerrigan is only playable in the games as a Terran Ghost Unit.
Um, actually, Kerrigan is also playable as the Zerg Queen of Blades.
Knuckles, the last surviving Echidna in the Sonic universe, is bound to his home in the Green Hill Zone, protecting the Master Emerald.
Um, actually, Knuckles does not live in the Green Hill Zone; he lives on Angel Island.
The position of Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher at Hogwarts seems to be a cursed position. Of the seven professors that taught in that position during the seven years of the books, all of them, including Quirinus Quirrell, Gilderoy Lockhart, Remus Lupin, Alastor Mad-Eye Moody, Dolores Umbridge, Severus Snape, and Amycus Carrow, served only one year.
Um, actually, Mad-Eye Moody never taught because Barty Crouch Jr. took his place using Polyjuice Potion.
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.
Though originally named Jump Man, the name Mario came about when Shigeru Miyamoto, the character's creator, named him after the company's landlord Mario Segale, although the character goes only by his single appellation.
Um, actually, Mario in the Super Mario Brothers movie, is named Mario Mario. In 2012, Shigeru Miyamoto said he had no last name, but in 2015 he retracted it and said it was Mario Mario.
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, Melodious Orchelhorn, and Sy Snootles, among others.
Um, actually, Melodious Orchelhorn isn't in the band.
Installments of the Final Fantasy franchise tend to be standalone games, each involving different characters and settings. However, certain specifics recur accross the series. Since Final Fantasy II, every game has featured or depicted Chocobos, Moogles, and a character named Cid.
Um, actually, Moogles don't appear until Final Fantasy III, then does not appear in Final Fantasy IV, then is in every Final Fantasy following.
The basilisk Nagini is killed in the Chamber of Secrets when Harry pierces it's skull with the Sword of Gryffindor, pulled from the sorting hat itself.
Um, actually, Nagini is Voldemort's pet snake, not the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets.
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 or the fearsome Grell.
Um, actually, Orcs were 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.
Every seven years, all members of the Vulcan species, including Spock, science officer of the Enterprise and half-Vulcan, undergo Pon Farr; a state of mind in which Vulcans commune with the sum total of their species' knowledge through specialized Dilithium crystals.
Um, actually, Pon Farr is not a communing of knowledge, it is a moment in which Vulcans basically enter heat.
In Dungeons & Dragons, spellcasters can learn dozens of undeniably useful spells, as well as some of more questionable utility including Otto's Irresistible 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.
Westeros has a tradition of naming children born out of wedlock after a geographical feature of their homeland. The use of these surnames is based on the acknowledgment of the parents, so bastards such as Gendry are barred from having a last name of any kind, whereas bastards like Jon & Ramsay Snow are allowed theirs.
Um, actually, Ramsay's last name is Bolton & Jon Snow is not a bastard.
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 associated animal is an Eagle.
The different colored uniforms of Starfleet represent different departments: red for Engineering, blue for Science and Medical, gold for Command and Security.
Um, actually, Red is Security, not Engineering.
Saiyans, a race of alien warriors to whom both Goku and Vegeta belong, are capable of transforming into blonde versions of themselves known as Super Saiyans, but only if they still have their tails, which contain the glands necessary for transformation.
Um, actually, Saiyans don't need their tails to go Super Saiyan. They need their tails to transform into their Great Ape form.
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.
Shai'hulud, meaning "Old Man of the Desert," is the Fremen nickname for a House Atreides vassal, the grizzled warrior Gurney Halleck.
Um, actually, Shai'hulud is the fremen word for the massive sand worms that roam through the planet.
In the orginal Star Trek, Spock has a faint greenish-yellow hue 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 at the time, which made the red make-up 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 vistor to Narnia simultaneously, including Diggory Kirk and Polly Plummer, Jill Pole, the four Pevensie siblings and their cousin Eustace Scrubb.
Um, actually, Susan is not killed in the train wreck, as she is in America at the time.
D&D has been around for many years, and the streamlined version of the game that exists now was not always so. In 2nd edition, skills were known as proficiencies and instead of attack bonuses one employed their THACO, short for To Hit Armor Class Only.
Um, actually, THAC0 stands for "To Hit Armor Class Zero."
The title of the Halo series refers to the Halo array: a series of colossal ring-shaped superweapons built by the Covenant to destroy their enemies and assert control over the galaxy.
Um, actually, The Halo array was built by the Forerunners, not the Covenant.
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 chronoligically after the events of the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
Um, actually, The Horse and His Boy takes place simultaneously with the last chapter of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
In "The Dark Knight Returns," Batman and Carrie Kelly, the next Robin to follow Jason Todd, face off against a gang called The Mutants, genetically altered criminals terrorizing Gotham City.
Um, actually, The Mutants not genetically altered.
Captain Malcolm Reynolds and the crew of the Serenity have plenty to worry about. Criminals, outlaws, and former rebels man the ship, putting them on the wrong side of the Alliance, and the backwater planets they travel through put them often in the path of the Reavers; a deadly race of alien marauders that torture and devour their prey.
Um, actually, The Reavers are not aliens, they are mutants.
Of the many shops and storefronts in Diagon Alley, such as The Three Broomsticks, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, and Ollivander's Wand Shop, perhaps none is more important than Gringott's, the Wizard Bank. This highly guarded establishment is run by goblins, and it is where Harry first realizes the enormous fortune he has inherited from his parents, Lily and James Potter.
Um, actually, The Three Broomsticks is in Hogsmeade, not Diagon Alley.
Edmund Pevensie first crosses paths with the White Witch, false Queen of Narnia, while wandering through the Lantern Waste, an area of Narnia so named after the lamp-post built in the midst of the forest by talking beasts.
Um, actually, The lamp-post wasn't built, it grew with the dawn of time after the White Witch dropped a chunk of lamp-post from the real world into Narnia.
Of all the various forms of magic we are introduced to in the Harry Potter series, none is more powerfully evil than the three Unforgivable Curses: Imperio, the Mind Control Curse, Crucio, the Torture Curse, and Avada Kadavra, the Killing Curse.
Um, actually, The most evil form of magic in Harry Potter is the creation of Horcruxes, which is the splitting of the soul through murder.
Anduril, which means Flame of the West, was the name of the sword wielded by Elendil during the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Once broken, Elendil's son Isildur used the broken handle-shard of Anduril to cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand. 3,000 years later, it was reforged and given to Aragorn, son of Arathorn.
Um, actually, The sword wasn't named Anduril until it was reforged. Before that, it was called Narsil.
In Princess Mononoke, Ashitaka and his red elk Yakul travel after their village is attacked by a demon; discovering a war raging between the spirits of the forest, and the humans of Irontown. While the wolves and boars of the forest are indeed fierce, a group of brassy, loud women in Irontown are busy inventing new guns to destroy them.
Um, actually, The women are not inventing the guns, the guns are being made by the lepers in a small attic.
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 Game of Thrones is actually named Walder.
Um, actually, Turanga Leela's family name is Turanga and she goes by Leela.
The X-Men are one of the most multinational superhero teams in comics, including Storm from Kenya, Colossus from the former Soviet Union, and Nightcrawler from Germany. Meanwhile, Professor X, Cyclops, Wolverine, and Jean Grey are all from the United States.
Um, actually, Wolverine is from Canada. Bonus: Um, actually, in some versions Storm is born in Manhattan.
According to the rules of Quidditch, throwing the Quaffle though 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.
Mogwai are naturally affable, cute little creatures, such as Gizmo. However, getting them wet causes them to multiply and turn into the evil, scaly creatures known as Gremlins.
Um, actually, getting Mogwai wet causes them to multiply. Feeding them after midnight is what causes them to turn into Gremlins.
At the end of the movie, as The Nothing begins to spread and Atreyu is confronted by the terrible Gmork, Bastian must save the Childlike Empress by giving her a new name. The name he chooses, Fantasia, restores the world of imagination and brings back to life all that had been lost to The Nothing.
Um, actually, he names her Moonchild.
Though most of Sauron's might as a leader is shown through his powerful magic or his terrifying armies, Sauron did have one servant who acted as his diplomat, herald, and emissary, the horrifying wraith known as the Mouth of Sauron.
Um, actually, he was a guy, not a wraith.
Inigo Montoya's father was famously killed by the villainous Prince Humperdinck when Inigo was just a boy.
Um, actually, he was killed by the six-fingered man, Count Rugen, not the prince.
Superman, known originally as Kal-El, was born on the planet of Krypton, which was destroyed in a terrible cataclysm. Although the exploding planet would not have been able to harm the invulnerable infant Kal-El, the fearsome Zod, General of Krypton certainly would have.
Um, actually, infant Kal-El would have been hurt by Krypton's explosion because his powers come from the Earth's Yellow sun.
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.
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 ugly, 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."
C-3PO's first encounter with a member of the Skywalker family occurs not when he meets Luke Skywalker on the desert planet of Tatooine, but when he meets princess Leia Organa aboard her Alderaan Cruiser.
Um, actually, C-3PO's first encounter with a Skywalker is when he is fixed and reassembled by Anakin Skywalker.
Captain America's shield is so strong because it is made of Adamantium, the same metal in Wolverine's skeleton.
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.
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.
Denethor, King of Gondor, is the father of both Faramir and Boromir, one of which dies above the Rauros Falls, the other grievously injured in the siege of Osgiliath.
Um, actually, Denethor isn't the King of Gondor, he is the Steward of Gondor. Aragorn is the king, they're merely awaiting his return.
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.
Um, actually, Donkey Kong wasn't a playable character, Donkey Kong Jr. was.
Eevee- the 133rd Pokémon- can evolve into Vaporeon, Electreon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, Glaceon and Sylveon.
Um, actually, Eevee can evolve into Jolteon, not Electreon.
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 forest moon.
Officer Alex Murphy is killed by gangsters in run-down, near future Detroit, where he is resurrected as a Cyborg police officer Robocop by the Weyland corporation.
Um, actually, it was Omni Consumer Products.
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.
Lyra Belequa's daemon, Pantalaimon, is an animal companion capable of changing shape and in some ways represents Lyra's soul. In Lyra's world, people's daemons change shape all the time to reflect their mood or personality, until the person dies.
Um, actually, most peoples daemon's only change shape until puberty and then stay one animal the rest of their life.
Set in 2071, former gangster Spike Spiegel and ex-cop Jet Black work together as bounty hunters about Jet's ship, the Bebop. They are later joined by several younger crew members, including Faye Valentine, a con artist, Ed, a hacker, and a genetically enhanced corgi known as Data Dog.
Um, actually, Faye Valentine is older than them at 77 years old.
While the world of tabletop role playing is dominated by Dungeons & Dragons and its focus on High Fantasy, other games focus on other genres such as the World of Darkness and its urban horror setting, Shadowrun's cyberpunk dystopia, and GURPS's focus on superhero storytelling.
Um, actually, GURPS stands for Generic Universal Role Playing System, and can be applied to any world.
In J.R.R. Tolkein's The Fellowship of the Ring, the titular fellowship is composed of nine members with representitives from four races: Hobbit, Dwarf, Elf, and Man.
Um, actually, Gandalf is a member of the Istari race, not the race of Man.
The primary antagonist of the Zelda franchise, Ganondorf, is a member of the Gerudo race, thieves and tricksters from the desert. Trained by his father in the ways of magic, Ganondorf often possesses the Triforce of Power, making him nearly invincible.
Um, actually, Ganondorf does not have a father, as the Gerudo are a race of women with one male born every 100 years, who immediately becomes their king.
Of the playable races in D&D, most hail from a familiar Tolkienesque background, such as Elves and Dwarves. However, in more recent editions, the game has added playable races such as Tieflings, Genasi, and Aasimar, descended from Demons, Dragons, and Angels respectively.
Um, actually, Genasi are descended from Elementals.
In 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.
Bowser, Mario's first and greatest enemy, also known as King Koopa, has attempted to kidnap Princess Peach of the Mushroom Kingdom no less than 17 times.
Um, actually, Mario's first enemy was Donkey Kong.
While for most people the distinction between a wizard and a sorcerer may seem trivial, for the players of Dungeons & Dragons the difference couldn't be more stark. While they both rely on intelligence to determine the potency of their spells, wizards arrive at their expertise through study and the use of spellbook, whereas "Sorcerers carry a magical birthright conferred upon them by an exotic bloodline, some otherworldly influence, or exposure to unknown cosmic forces."
Um, actually, Sorcerers rely on charisma for their spell casting.
The character most people know as Wolverine was born with the name "Logan Howlett," named after his father, though he occasionally goes by the name "James" or "Jim" Howlett.
Um, actually, Wolverine was born James Howlett and later adopts the name Logan from his family's groundskeeper Thomas Logan, who murdered his father, though you later find out Thomas Logan is actually his biological father.
In Stephen King's "It," the members of the Losers Club get lost in the sewer after battling "It," and only manage to escape by calming their nerves with the ancient power of the Ritual of Chud.
Um, actually, after the Ritual of Chud they have an underage sex orgy, which helps them remember the way out of the sewer.
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.
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.
Um, actually, the novel is titled "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".
"Rogue One", the first Star Wars film with no Jedi as primary characters, follows Jyn Erso and her companions as they deliver the plans for the Death Star to the Rebel Alliance, creating one of the most notable continuity errors in the Star Wars universe, as in the original trilogy the discovery of these plans is credited by Mon Mothma to a group of Bothans, a species known throughout the galaxy as incredible spies.
Um, actually, the Bothans stole plans for the Death Star II in Return of the Jedi, not the Death Star I.
The Infinity Stones are featured in multiple Marvel movies. At the time of taping, the Time Stone resided in the Eye of Agamotto, the Space Stone is being kept safely in Asgard, the Reality Stone has been given to the Collector, the Mind Stone rests in Loki's staff, and the Power stone is being held by the Nova Corps on Xandar.
Um, actually, the Mind Stone is in Vision's forehead.
We first see the palace of Jabba the Hutt on Tattooine when he is given Han Solo's body frozen in Carbonite. He also keeps a monstrous creature in his palace known as the Sarlacc and feeds his enemies to it.
Um, actually, the Sarlacc is a giant whirlpool of teeth out in the desert; the creature in Jabba's palace is the Rancor.
The Shrieking Shack, the most haunted building in all of Great Britain, is technically located in Hogsmeade, but is only accessible from Hogwarts through a secret tunnel located under the Whomping Willow.
Um, actually, the Shrieking Shack isn't haunted, it was the place where Remus Lupin would transform into a werewolf, and the howling sounds made people believe it was haunted.
The four Pevensie children come to Narnia through the wardrobe to discover the land is in a perpetual winter. Suffering hardships, a betrayal by Edmund, and the temporary death of Aslan at the Stone Table, the Pevensies overthrow the White Witch and rule Narnia for decades in a state of perpetual childhood.
Um, actually, they're not in a state of perpetual childhood, they grow up and by the time they leave they are full adults.
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 Invisiblity.
Um, actually, the brothers won the Hallows from Death himself.
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 to not be Bowser's children. Bowser's only child is now Bowser Jr.
Ridley Scott's 1982 film "Blade Runner", an adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" tells the story of Detective Rick Deckard's hunt for a group of fugitive replicants. While many elements and themes were added to the movie, such as Gaff's origami figures, others were lifted directly from the book, such as several of the Voight-Kampff questions, and Roy Batty's iconic line, "All those moments will be lost in time... like tears... in rain."
Um, actually, the line "lost in time... like tears... in rain" is not in the book.
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.
The Tears of Lys, a deadly poison hailing from the same free city of Varys, has been used throughout the show to kill characters both on-screen, such as Myrcella Lannister, and off-screen, such as Jon Arryn of the Vale, Hand of King Robert.
Um, actually, the poison used to kill Myrcella Lannister was the Long Farewell.
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 so it wasn't especially expensive to make.
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.
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.
Vancian casting, named after writer Jack Vance, refers to a system in many games wherein a spellcaster prepares or memorizes spells, and cannot swap out or rememorize spells without a full day passing or needing eight hours of sleep. These spells alone can be used during that time period, even if the caster has access to other spells that they chose not to prepare, although they can cast their prepared spells as many times as they like.
Um, actually, they are limited in the number of times they can cast spells based on their level and which level of the spell it is.
In C.S. Lewis' 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 the Narnian ship.
Ender Wiggin's two older siblings, Valentine and Peter, become the most powerful political entity on the planet Earth by pretending to be two adults named Demosthenes and Locke and overthrowing the world government through a military coup.
Um, actually, they just essentially write a bunch of blog posts that are so logical that everyone decided to follow them.
In The Hounds of Tindalos, by HP Lovecraft, Frank Belknap Long makes his contribution to the larger Cthulhu Mythos with a tale of horrifying extradimensional creatures hunting a man named Halpin Chalmers, who seals every hole and opening in his home with plaster so the smoky monsters cannot slip through them while in gaseous form.
Um, actually, they're actually able to slip through corners of architecture, and corners in space.
In the extended Pokémon universe, Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy appear to exist and work in every town, though it is acknowledged that neither is a single entity, but rather multiple identical clones.
Um, actually, they're all members of the same family.
In Star Wars, the band Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes plays a genre of music known as "****", which we first hear them play on Jabba's barge.
Um, actually, we first hear it at the Mos Eisley Cantina.
In the first Mortal Kombat game, a player can unlock Reptile as a playable character if they achieve a double flawless victory in single-player mode on the Pit stage and finish the match with a fatality, if there is also a silhouette 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 game.
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.
After successfully getting his father and mother together at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, Marty returns to the Hill Valley of 1985 to discover his father has become a successful author, and that this version of 1985 has happy and prosperous versions of himself, his brother, and his sister.
no happy and prosperous version of Marty when he returns because he is from another timeline. [Jackie Kashian wins the point for a bonus correction: Marty's father gets them together when he confronts the rapist.]
