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2019x1
My Hero Academia Has Anime's Worst Character
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Mineta is the worst anime character...ever.

2019x2
Why Tobey Maguire Will Always Be the Best Spider-Man
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2019x3
5 Facts About the Joker Most People Don't Know
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Jack Nicholson's Joker made a killing.

2019x4
The Secret Truth About Socks in Harry Potter
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2019x5
Star Wars Continuity that Will Blow Your Mind
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2019x7
Why 2009 is the Most Important Year for Video Games
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2019x8
Everything 'The Hobbit' Movies Get Wrong About Dwarves
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It's all about the beards.

2019x10
8 Tiny Changes that Almost Ruined Your Favorite Movies
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What did Crispin Glover ever do to anybody?

2019x11
The 4 Dark Stories Lurking in Magic the Gathering
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Two words: skin witches.

2019x12
Pikmin's Surprisingly Dark Lore
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Who knew that such cute characters could go such dark places?

2019x13
How Batman: TAS Reinvented Batman's Villains
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Did you forget about Mr. Freeze's origin story? That's cold.

2019x14
Marvel's Darkest Moment Came From its Goofiest Character
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Pregnancies never end well in the Marvel universe.

2019x15
Why Akira is the Most Important Anime Ever Made
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It's not just the laser backpack and giant flesh blob.

2019x16
How Fox Completely F***ed X-Men
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Reboots, retcons, and resets, oh my!

2019x17
Why Shrek is Actually the Most Important Franchise Ever
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Money. Awards. And yes, memes.

2019x18
Reasons King of the Hill NEEDS to be Animated
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Because a live-action Boomhauer just wouldn't be the same.

2019x19
Why Japan Will Always Make the Scariest Zombie Games
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Fast zombies, slow zombies, viral zombies, zombie dogs: there's truly a zombie for everyone.

2019x20
The Most Disturbing Creatures in Magic
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Wizards of the Coast can even make walls scary.

2019x21
How Godzilla Paved the Way for the MCU
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Marvel fans, just remember it can always get weirder.

2019x22
Why Hasn't Cancer Been Cured in Marvel Comics?
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Because sometimes you'd just rather turn people into dinosaurs.

2019x23
Who is Mathematically Better, Marvel or DC?
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We take a logical, by-the-numbers approach that is definitely not going to make fans mad.

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