From Scavengers Reign to Star Trek and Star Wars, the io9 crew looks back on the year's dearly departed characters and shows.

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There are few phenomena quite as bizarre as a child star. Seeing a pre-adolescent human become famous can be unnerving, ...

Adam Nimoy's father, Leonard Nimoy, played Star Trek's Mr. Spock, the most famous alien in television history. In reality, he ...

While many vampires have been used to scare audiences and unveil human anguishes, some bloodsuckers are more memorable than others.

Charlie Vickers’ transformative performance as Sauron in Rings of Power Season 2 lords over the rest. In this extensive ...

This year, we bid farewell to the voice of Darth Vader, a co-founder of the Grateful Dead, the "Say Hey Kid," and a member of ...

There are plenty of TV show duds inspired by shows from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, but these are the best TV remakes and ...

Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy made many interesting changes to the original Batman comics, often for the better in ...

In 2019, researchers from three universities reviewed 145 empirical studies on the effects of constraints on creativity and innovation. They found that as long as constraints were delivered in a ...

As we thought about this group of players in 2024 we couldn’t help but think about them in terms of their movie character equivalent. More specifically, we thought about them in terms of their ...