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Superhero Batman and Superman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. Art by Alex Ross and Jim Lee Topic More Fun Comics Mind Out of Time!
A superhero (also known as a super hero) is a fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest". Since the debut of the prototypal superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes — ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas — have dominated American comic book and crossed over into other media. A female superhero is sometimes called a superheroine or super heroine. By most definitions, characters need...
Book Subject Journey into Mystery X-Men
Comic Book Genre Civil War The Legend of the Batman - Who He is, and How he Came to Be
Character Occupation Project Superpowers A Death in the Family, Part One
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Fantasy Dobrynya Nikitch rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych Topic Fables The Sandman: Dream Country
Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. The genre is usually associated with the overall look, feel and themes of the European Middle Ages (including architecture, dress and technology), while the actual setting is often a fictional plane or planet where magic and magical beings are commonplace. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological...
Book Subject Jack of Fables A Midsummer Night's Dream
TV Genre Calliope
Computer Game Genre A Dream of a Thousand Cats
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Fantasy literature   Topic Fables The Sandman: Dream Country
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of video games, music, painting, and the like. It is difficult to define the precise 'beginning' of fantasy literature, as stories involving magic, paranormal magic and terrible monsters have existed in spoken forms before the advent of printed literature. Homer's Odyssey thus satisfies the...
Book Subject Jack of Fables A Midsummer Night's Dream
Literary Genre Calliope
Media genre A Dream of a Thousand Cats
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Fiction Alice, a fictional character from the work of Lewis Carroll Topic   A Midsummer Night's Dream
Fiction is the telling of stories which are not entirely based upon facts. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events. Fiction may be either written or oral. Although not all fiction is necessarily artistic, fiction is largely perceived as...
Literary Genre The Sandman: Dream Country
Media genre Calliope
Comic Book Genre A Dream of a Thousand Cats
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Comic book Cover of DMZ #17, story and cover art by Brian Wood Topic   A Midsummer Night's Dream
A comic book -- or comic for short -- is a magazine or book containing sequential art. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily humorous; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented. Comic books are so called because some of the earliest comic books were simply collections of comic strips (most of which were humorous) that had originally been printed in newspapers. The commercial success of these collections led to work being created...
Literary Genre The Sandman: Dream Country
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Media genre A Dream of a Thousand Cats
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Short story   Topic   A Midsummer Night's Dream
The short story is a literary genre of fiction, prose narrative that tends to be more concise and "to the point" than longer works of fiction such as novella (in the modern sense of the term) and novel.Short stories have their origins in oral story-telling traditions and the prose anecdote, a swiftly-sketched situation that comes rapidly to its point. With the rise of the comparatively realistic novel, the short story evolved as a miniature version, with some of its first perfectly independent...
Book Subject Calliope
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Graphic novel Trade paperback of Will Eisner's A Contract with God (1978), often mistakenly cited as the first graphic novel Topic   The Sandman: Dream Country
A graphic novel is a type of comic book, usually with a lengthy and complex storyline similar to those of novel, and often aimed at mature audiences. The term also encompasses comic short story anthologies, and in some cases bound collections of previously published comic-book series. Graphic novels are typically bound in longer and more durable formats than familiar comic magazine, using the same materials and methods as printed books, and are generally sold in bookstores and specialty comic...
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Zombie A participant in a zombie walk in Calgary Topic   Marvel Zombies
A zombie is a reanimated corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the dead being raised as workers by a powerful sorcerer. Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. There are several possible etymologies of the word zombie. One possible origin is jumbie, the West Indian term for "ghost". Another is nzambi, the Kongo word...
Film genre Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness
Character Species Marvel Zombies: Dead Days
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Detective   Topic Will Eisner's The Spirit  
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. They may be known as private investigator (P.I.s or "Private I's", hence the play-on-words, "Private Eyes"). Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crime, including historical crimes, or looks into records. http://RecordSearchSite.com/ Detective work typically requires a great deal of walking or "footwork", hence the slang terms "flatfoot" and ...
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Dystopia Les voyages de Gulliver Topic Y: The Last Man  
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia. A dystopian society is a state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad, characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution. Some academic circles distinguish between anti-utopia and dystopia. As in George Orwell's 1984, a dystopia does not pretend to be utopian, while an anti-utopia...
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Anti-hero The Man with No Name, an often cited example of an anti-hero, played by Clint Eastwood Topic Jack of Fables  
In fiction, an anti-hero is a protagonist who is lacking the traditional heroic attributes and qualities, and instead possesses character traits that are antithetical to heroism. The word anti-hero itself is fairly recent, and its principal definition has changed through the years. The 1940 edition of Merriam-Webster New International Dictionary listed anti-hero, but did not define it. Later sources would call the anti-hero a persona characterized by a lack of "traditional" heroic qualities. ...
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Cyberpunk The hacker as hero: Lain from the cyberpunk anime series "Serial Experiments Lain". Topic Transmetropolitan  
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." It is also a subgenre of industrial rock music. The name is derived from cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983, although the style was popularized well before its publication by editor Gardner Dozois. It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical...
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Parallel universe Robert A. Heinlein, in The Number of the Beast, postulates a six-dimensional multiverse Topic Wanted  
Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a multiverse, although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that comprise physical reality. While the terms "parallel universe" and "alternative reality" are generally synonymous and can be used interchangeably in most cases, there is sometimes an additional connotation implied with the term "alternative reality...
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