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5 Famous Movie Characters Who Wasted Awesome Superpowers
Seriously, most of these characters use their incredible abilities to do one or two neat things and then forget they have them.
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- By Nathaniel Cope, Josh Hrala, Rich Solomon
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7 Bizarre Early Versions of Famous Characters
The reality is that lots of your favorite franchises had to suffer through ill-conceived false starts before rounding into shape, at which point their creators hoped you would forget all about the early efforts.
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- By Joe Oliveto, Maxwell Yezpitelok, Robert Rosati
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5 Terrible Lessons We Learned from Superman Movies
These are pure good vs. evil stories, and Supes is always on the good side. Right?
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- By Tom Salitsky
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5 Great Movies With Mind-Blowing Symbolism You Didn't Notice
Sometimes a movie you've seen a million times will convince you it's about something very simple, when, in fact, there was a hidden meaning all along.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , J.F. Sargent
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5 Places You'll Recognize from the Background of Every Movie
If you have sharp eyes and an observant mind, you're going to ruin a lot of movies for yourself. If not, that's what we're for.
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- By Aaron Short
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5 Overused Twist Endings It's Time For Movies to Retire
The drive to make sure every story has a twist means that often we see the same ones over and over again.
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- By S Peter Davis, Michael Greenbrier
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6 Spectacularly Bad Ideas Movies Convinced You Are Badass
The next time you're trapped in a building with German terrorists, remember that you'd be better off not trying to do any of these things.
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- By Adam Wears, Karl Smallwood
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5 Brilliant Clues Hidden in the Background of Movies
It's hard to blame the internet for spoiling movies when these movies did it to themselves.
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- By J.F. Sargent, Dennis Fulton
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5 Horrifying Implications of the 'Star Trek' Universe
It turns out there are some horrible implications behind all that awesome technology and progressive ideology that are never addressed.
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- By J.F. Sargent, Kier Harris
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5 Classic Movies That Ruined Their Makers' Careers
So before you quit your day job and move to LA, let us tell you about the filmmakers who put their blood, sweat, and tears into something great, only to be rewarded with nothing but a middle finger.
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- By Sammy Trujillo
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7 Classic Movies That Are Shameless Ripoffs
There are times when a big-budget movie has incredibly specific similarities to some more obscure work, to the point that it's really hard to swallow that it could be coincidence.
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- By Aaron Short
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5 Marvel Characters Who Totally Dropped the Ball
Sometimes the characters in these movies seem to know less about what they're doing than we do, and for every sensible decision they make, they stumble through a series of catastrophically terrible blunders that defy explanation.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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5 Supposedly Brilliant Movie Doctors Who Suck at Their Job
[WARNING: SPOILERS!]
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- By Brendan Bourque-Sheil, Daniel Crow
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6 Movie Good Guys You Didn't Notice Were Total Hypocrites
Heroic movie characters stand up for what they feel is right, and they stick to those beliefs until it's inconvenient not to.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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5 Reasons Superhero Movies Are a Bubble That Will Soon Burst
Bad news: The explosion of big-budget superhero movies is a bubble that seems poised to burst. How do we know? Because it's happened before.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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1972