Browsing: Weirdest

For nearly fifty years, toy companies have been a little stymied by one of R2-D2‘s signature design elements: his retractable middle leg, which has been everything from a separate, removable part to a concealed mechanism inside the figure. Kenner’s solution was not to bother, with all of their standard carded R2-D2 action figures coming without…

Following the success of Clayface, another DC Comics horror film could be heading to theaters. It was recently announced that Francis Gallupi, director of 2028’s Evil Dead Wrath, has been hired by DC Studios to write a film centered on occult detective and sorcerer John Constantine. If completed, the project will be the second live…

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There might not be a Marvel Comics hero with more bizarre villains than Spider-Man. Over his time in comics, Spider-Man has fought a guy named Big Wheel, whose weapon of choice is a giant rolling wheel, and the Kangaroo, a villain whose power is to leap like a kangaroo. Even some of these weird villains…

The Nintendo DSi was released in November 2008, and boasted a new feature not formerly seen on the brand’s handhelds—it had two cameras, inside and outside. It let the console take photos, a feature rather fitting given it was an era in which phone cameras had become the norm. Only, it wasn’t so good out…

The X-Men started humbly, a teen team that never really found an audience, but would go on to become the bestselling comic ever. The mid ’70s saw them return to prominence, with writer Chris Claremont revolutionizing the mutants after being handed them by Giant-Size X-Men #1 writer (and Marvel editor) Len Wein. By the time…

The Fox TV show “Bones” is not what you might call a “normal” police procedural. A very quirky series, “Bones” is responsible for not one but two of the weirdest TV crossovers ever. One of them is especially bizarre: Stewie Griffin, the diabolical baby from the animated series “Family Guy,” makes a memorable guest appearance…

I mean that as a compliment, of course. Credit: René Ramos / Mashable Composite / Game Freak / Nintendo / Adobe Stock

1983 marked the release of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, bringing to a culmination the best sci-fi movie trilogy the world had ever seen. Thankfully, sci-fi fans didn’t have to wait for too long, as David Lynch’s adaptation of Frank Herbert Dune would release the very next year. Of course, it was very different…

Television has always been willing to take a strange turn, but some shows pushed their stories into territory nobody could have predicted. A perfectly normal episode could suddenly involve a bizarre disappearance, an unbelievable secret, a character making an absolutely wild decision, or an entire plot built around an idea that sounds ridiculous when explained…