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Netflix is returning to “Stranger Things,” with the streamer announcing a new prequel series set nearly 30 years before the original show. But showrunners Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, and Kate Trefry may not be the only people returning to the franchise. Plenty of other characters in “Stranger Things” were alive 30 years before the events…

It’s always amusing to see how TV shows incorporate their setting into the main storyline. I’m not talking about shows where the setting is a main character, but ones that find interesting ways to establish where the characters live and how it affects their day-to-day. In “Harper,” Cupertinoaddresses one of the defining aspects of the…

A new Blue Box pop-up shop is set to open this November, offering exclusive merchandise featuring five characters in newly illustrated artwork created for a collaboration with Sanrio.

PlayStation‘s upcoming horror game has unveiled more details about its central characters ahead of its launch next year. Developed by PlayStation Studios’ Firesprite, the game introduces fans to the members of Dead True, a ghost-hunting team.

On Shah Rukh Khan’s birthday, revisit five iconic characters whose dialogues, signature gestures and unforgettable scenes have become part of Indian pop culture. Shah Rukh Khan in DDLJ

True Believers are currently tuning in to “VisionQuest” on Disney+ as Marvel Television closes the book on the Westview Trilogy about The Scarlet Witch, The Vision, and their family. However, the future of this corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was unclear for a while. “Wonder Man” was canceled despite a Season 2 renewal, “Daredevil:…

It seems antiquated now given the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s history, but at one point the franchise had a major villain problem on its hands. Though movies in the series were well received across the first three phases, there was routinely a note that the antagonists were the weakest piece of each movie. Luckily, the villains…

If you’ve never played a Final Fantasy game, October is a great time to start. Microsoft is bringing Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, the first game in the remake’s trilogy, to Xbox Game Pass on Oct. 29. That should give you plenty of time to play the game for the first — or fifth —…

Video game characters often get put through the wringer. Sometimes it’s a first-person shooter whose protagonists have to fight countless enemies, a survival horror game where players are pitted against puzzles and phantoms, or a cozy farming sim where they have to wait six in-game days for a strawberry. Either way, tragic characters are far…

Randall Park’s FBI Agent James “Jimmy” Woo doesn’t come off as much of a threat when he makes his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as a foil to Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang in “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” In a movie already dripping with comic relief, his bumbling agent seems to exist solely as a punching bag.…