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"Fictional universe", as used here, applies to the settings and characters of a fictional work or works. The main purpose of the type is to gather characters, locations, and fictional works that belong to a common setting. Therefore, stand-alone works may not need to use this type. Note that a...
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| x Buffyverse |
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Joss Whedon | Sunnydale | Angel |
"Buffyverse" is a term coined by fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel to refer to the shared fictional universe in which they are set. The term has since been used in the titles of published works, and been adopted by Joss Whedon, the creator...
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| Hellmouth | Rupert Giles | ||||
| Pylea | Willow Rosenberg | ||||
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| x Whoniverse | Gallifrey | The Doctor |
The Whoniverse is the fictional universe in which Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and other related stories take place. The term is used most widely to link characters, ideas or items which are seen across multiple productions, such...
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| x Xenaverse | Ares |
Fictional setting for the stories and characters that were created for the TV and Book series for Hercules: Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. A historical fantasy mostly taking place in Ancient Greece.
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| x Star Trek |
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Gene Roddenberry | Milky Way | Jonathan Archer |
Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment series. The original Star Trek was an American television series, created by Gene Roddenberry, which debuted in 1966 and ran for three seasons, following the interstellar adventures of Captain...
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| Alpha Quadrant | Worf | ||||
| Beta Quadrant | Data | ||||
| Delta Quadrant | Jean-Luc Picard | ||||
| Gamma Quadrant | Benjamin Sisko | ||||
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| x Middle-earth |
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J. R. R. Tolkien | Eä | Sauron |
Middle-earth is a fictional place which is the setting for most of the stories of author J. R. R. Tolkien. These stories include The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien's stories chronicle the struggle to control the world (called Arda) and...
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| Arda | Saruman | ||||
| Bree | Aragorn | ||||
| Númenor | Aragorn I | ||||
| Mordor | Galadriel | ||||
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| x Earthsea |
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Atuan | Tehanu |
Earthsea is a fictional realm originally created by Ursula K. Le Guin for her short story "The Word of Unbinding", published in 1964, that became more famous in her fantasy novel A Wizard of Earthsea, first published in 1968. A Wizard of Earthsea is...
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| Roke | Tenar | ||||
| Havnor | Ogion | ||||
| Gont | Erreth-Akbe | ||||
| Éa | Ged | ||||
| x Harry Potter Universe |
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J. K. Rowling | Quality Quidditch Supplies | Nagini |
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at...
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| Flourish & Blotts | Grawp | ||||
| Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes | Luna Lovegood | ||||
| Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour | Seamus Finnigan | ||||
| Madam Malkin's Robes For All Occasions | Fleur Delacour Weasley | ||||
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| x Austin Powers series | Doctor Evil |
The Austin Powers series is a series of action-comedy films written, produced by and starring Mike Myers as the title character, directed by Jay Roach and distributed by New Line Cinema. The films mainly spoof the James Bond, Derek Flint, Jason King...
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| x Sherlock Holmes Universe | 221B Baker Street | Professor Moriarty |
Sherlock Holmes lives on for us all in current fiction and in the works of the originating author Arthur Conan Doyle. Almost every genre of fiction writing/films/tv has been graced by a visit from the penultimate deductive detective superstar...
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| x Monsters, Inc. |
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James P. Sullivan |
Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 computer-animated film and the fourth feature-length film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Lee Unkrich and David Silverman, and was written by Jack W. Bunting, Jill Culton,...
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| x The Chronicles of Prydain |
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Fflewddur Fflam |
The Chronicles of Prydain (sometimes given as The Prydain Chronicles) is a five-volume series of children's fantasy novels by author Lloyd Alexander. First published from 1964–1968, the stories detail the adventures of a young man named Taran, who...
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| x The Space Odyssey series |
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Arthur C. Clarke | Saturn | Heywood R. Floyd |
The Space Odyssey series is a science fiction series of four novels and two films created from 1948 to 1997, primarily by the writer Arthur C. Clarke. Two early short stories by Clarke may also be considered part of the series.
Motives
Features
The...
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| Ganymede | Walter Curnow | ||||
| Europa | Dr. Chandra | ||||
| Jupiter | Frank Poole | ||||
| Tycho | HAL 9000 | ||||
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| x The Riddle-Master Trilogy | Hed | Raederle | |||
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| x The Tortall Universe | Tamora Pierce | Copper Isles | Rebakah Cooper |
Tortall is a major country in the universe in which the Song of the
Lioness, Immortals, Protector of the Small, Trickster and the Provost's
Dog books take place. Its capital is Corus, located near the western
coast on the Emerald Ocean. To the north...
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| Galla | Alianne of Pirate's Swoop | ||||
| Tortall | Keladry of Mindelan | ||||
| Scanra | Veralidaine Sarrasri | ||||
| Carthak | Alanna of Trebond | ||||
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| x The Circle Universe | Emelan | Sandrilene fa Toren |
Both the 'Circle of Magic' and the 'Circle Opens' series are set in the land of Emelan. The story of four children, Sandrilene fa Toren, Trisana Chandler, Daja Kisubo and Briar Moss,
who are discovered by a powerful mage Niko and told that they are
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| x Known Space |
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Larry Niven | We Made It | Gil Hamilton |
Known Space is the fictional setting of several science fiction novels and short stories written by author Larry Niven. It has also in part been used as a shared universe in the Man-Kzin Wars spin-off anthologies sub-series.
The epithet "Known Space...
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| Wunderland | Roy Truesdale | ||||
| Jinx | Lit Shaeffer | ||||
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| x Alliance-Union universe | C. J. Cherryh | Ariane Emory |
The Alliance-Union universe is a fictional universe created by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. It is the setting for an epic future history series extending from the 21st century out into the far future.
To date, the corpus of the...
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| x Lovecraft Mythos |
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H. P. Lovecraft | Arkham | Yog-Sothoth |
The Lovecraft Mythos is the term coined by the scholar S. T. Joshi to describe the imaginary mythical backdrop, settings, and themes employed by the American weird fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft's mythos is the foundation of a fictional...
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| x Cthulhu Mythos |
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H. P. Lovecraft | Arkham | Cthulhu |
The Cthulhu Mythos, also known as the Lovecraft Mythos, is a shared universe created in the 1920s by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
The term was coined by Lovecraft's associate August Derleth, and named after Cthulhu, a powerful fictional...
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| K'n-yan | Shoggoth | ||||
| R'lyeh | Francis Wayland Thurston | ||||
| x Stratemeyer Syndicate Universe | Tom Swift | ||||
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| x Charles M. Schulz Peanuts Universe | Olaf | ||||
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| x Terminator series |
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Skynet |
The Terminator series is a science fiction franchise encompassing a series of films and ancillary media concerning battles between Skynet's artificially intelligent machine network, and John Connor's Resistance forces and the rest of the human race....
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| x Battlestar Galactica 2003 | New Caprica | Lee Adama |
Battlestar Galactica refers to a "re-imagined" science fiction universe debuting in 2003 and based on the 1970s Universal Studios movie and television franchise of the same name. It is not simply a remake, but a new direction taken from the same...
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| Caprica | Kara Thrace | ||||
| Kobol | Sharon "Boomer" Valerii | ||||
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| x Battlestar Galactica |
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Baltar |
Battlestar Galactica is a franchise of science fiction television series and films. The franchise started with a 1978 TV show created by Glen A. Larson, followed by a sequel TV series, a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books and...
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| x Oz Universe | L. Frank Baum | Land of Oz | Wicked Witch of the West | ||
| Yellow brick road | Glinda | ||||
| Quadling Country | Tin Man | ||||
| Munchkin Country | Cowardly Lion | ||||
| Winkie Country | Scarecrow | ||||
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| x Star Trek Expanded Universe |
The Star Trek Expanded Universe is an unofficial, fan-created term to describe an extrapolation of events which occur in the Star Trek Universe outside the scope of the television series and feature films. Information from the Star Trek "Expanded...
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| x Expanded Universe |
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Luuke Skywalker |
The Star Wars Expanded Universe encompasses all of the officially licensed, fictional background of the Star Wars universe, outside of the six feature films produced by George Lucas. The expanded universe includes books, comic books, video games,...
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| x Future History |
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Jubal Harshaw |
The Future History, by Robert A. Heinlein, describes a projected future of the human race from the middle of the 20th century through the early 23rd century. The term Future History was coined by John W. Campbell, Jr. in the February 1941 issue of...
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| x The Foundation Universe |
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Isaac Asimov | Trantor | Gaal Dornick |
The Foundation Series is a science fiction series by Isaac Asimov which covers a span of about 500 years. It consists of seven volumes that are closely linked to each other, although they can be read separately. The term "Foundation Series" is often...
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| Terminus | Hari Seldon | ||||
| Anacreon | Salvor Hardin | ||||
| Smyrno | Hober Mallow | ||||
| Comporellon | Mule | ||||
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| x Dune universe |
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Frank Herbert | Giedi Prime | Leto Atreides I |
The Dune universe, or Duniverse, is the political, scientific, and social fictional setting of author Frank Herbert's series of six science fiction novels which began with 1965's Dune. Dune itself is considered by many to be the greatest science...
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| Arrakis | Paul Atreides | ||||
| Salusa Secundus | Gurney Halleck | ||||
| Caladan | Ghanima | ||||
| Kaitain | Shaddam Corrino IV | ||||
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| x Uplift Universe |
The Uplift Universe is a fictional universe created by science fiction writer David Brin. A central feature in this universe is the process of biological uplift.
His books which take place in this universe:
There is also a short story Aficionado ...
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| x Humanx Commonwealth |
The Humanx Commonwealth is a fictional interstellar ethical/political entity featured in the science fiction novels of Alan Dean Foster. The Commonwealth takes its name from its two major sapient species, who jointly inhabit Commonwealth planets and...
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| x Honorverse |
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Honor Harrington |
The Honorverse is a military science fiction series created by David Weber and published by Baen Books. The series is set primarily after Honor Harrington's October 1, 3961, birth; although she is the protagonist in most of the stories, more recent...
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| x Dragonriders of Pern |
The Dragonriders of Pern is an extensive science fiction/fantasy series of novels and short stories primarily written by Anne McCaffrey. Since 2004, McCaffrey's son Todd McCaffrey has also published Pern novels, both in collaboration with Anne and...
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| x CoDominium |
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The CoDominium universe is a fictional setting for the books in the CoDominium series by Jerry Pournelle.
The point of departure of Pournelle's history is the establishment of the CoDominium (CD), a political alliance and union between the United...
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| x Stargate |
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Dean Devlin | Destiny | Richard Woolsey |
Stargate is a military science fiction franchise, initially conceived by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Stargate. It was originally released on October 28, 1994 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Carolco,...
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| Roland Emmerich | Prometheus | Teal'c | |||
| Daedalus | Jack O'Neill | ||||
| Chulak | Samantha Carter | ||||
| Chulak | Jacob Carter | ||||
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| x Marvel Universe |
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Baxter Building | Captain America |
The Marvel Universe is the shared fictional universe where most comic book titles published by Marvel Comics take place, including those featuring Marvel's most familiar characters, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, and Captain America.
The...
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| Olympia | Tina Minoru | ||||
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| x Farscape |
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Moya | Talyn |
Farscape is an Australian-American dark science fiction television series filmed in Australia and produced for the Nine Network then for later seasons Sci-Fi Channel. The series was conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by Jim Henson...
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| Qujaga | Moya | ||||
| Arnessk | John Crichton | ||||
| Uncharted Territories | Aeryn Sun | ||||
| Acquara | Ka D'Argo | ||||
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| x The West Wing |
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Aaron Sorkin | Washington | Josiah Bartlet |
The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from September 22, 1999 to May 14, 2006. The series is set in the West Wing of the White House—where the Oval Office and offices of...
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| x Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip |
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Jack Rudolph |
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is an American dramedy television series created and written by Aaron Sorkin. It takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy show (also called Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip or Studio 60) on the...
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| x The Simpsons |
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Shelbyville | Moe Szyslak |
The Simpsons is an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a working class American lifestyle epitomized by its eponymous family, which consists of Homer,...
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| Capital City | Carl Carlson | ||||
| 742 Evergreen Terrace | Lenny Leonard | ||||
| Kwik-E-Mart | Herbert Powell | ||||
| Moe's Tavern | Selma Bouvier | ||||
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| x Futurama |
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Vergon 4 | Philip J. Fry |
Futurama is an animated American sci-fi sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who...
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| Omicron Persei 8 | Bender Bending Rodríguez | ||||
| Amphibios 9 | Turanga Leela | ||||
| Decapod 10 | Professor Hubert Farnsworth | ||||
| New New York | Doctor John Zoidberg | ||||
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| x Dragonlance |
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Raistlin Majere |
Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans devised the concept that became Dragonlance...
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| x Metal Gear |
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Solid Snake |
Metal Gear (メタルギア) is a critically acclaimed series of stealth games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. In the series, the player takes control of a Special Forces Operative (Solid Snake in most games) repeatedly facing...
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| x Calvin and Hobbes |
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Bill Watterson | Midwestern United States | Spaceman Spiff |
Calvin and Hobbes is a syndicated comic strip written and illustrated by American cartoonist Bill Watterson. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic stuffed...
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| x Mushroom Kingdom |
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Mario |
The is a setting in the ''Super Mario Bros.'' series where most of the games take place.
The Mushroom Kingdom is a monarchy and its heir is Princess Peach in the games. The Chancellor of the kingdom is its head of government in Super Mario RPG:...
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| x Blade Runner Universe | Los Angeles | Roy Batty | |||
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| x Forgotten Realms |
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Abeir-Toril | Sarevok |
The Forgotten Realms (commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as simply "The Realms") is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D;) fantasy role-playing game, created by game designer Ed Greenwood, around 1967 as a setting...
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| x Paratime | Hos-Harphax | Kalvan |
The Paratime series written by H. Beam Piper consists of several short stories, one novella, and one novel; they deal with an advanced civilization that is able to travel between parallel universes with alternate histories, and uses that ability to...
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| x Terro-Human Future History |
The Terrohuman Future History (TFH) chronicles the expansion of the
human race from its origins on Terra (Earth) out into the galaxy.
Consisting of the novels of the famous Fuzzy trilogy (plus the
authorized sequels Fuzzy Bones by Bill Tuning...
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| x Invader Zim |
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Earth | Zim |
Invader Zim, branded as Invader ZIM, is an American animated television series that was produced by and subsequently aired on Nickelodeon. The series is centered on an alien invader named Zim from the planet Irk who is attempting to conquer or...
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| x Alien vs. Predator |
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Alien vs. Predator, or Aliens versus Predator (both titles abbreviated AvP), is a science fiction-horror fiction series spanning several media. The series is a crossover between two film franchises about extraterrestrial beings: the Aliens and the...
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| x TimeSplitters |
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TimeSplitters is a 2000 first-person shooter developed by Free Radical Design and published by Eidos, and the first game in the TimeSplitters series. It was released 26 October 2000 as a PlayStation 2 launch game. The game revolves around the...
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| x Monkey Island |
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Monkey Island | Largo LaGrande |
Monkey Island is the collective name given to a series of five graphical adventure games produced and published by LucasArts, originally known as LucasFilm Games through the development of the first game in the series. The fifth installment of the...
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| x World of Warcraft |
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Azeroth |
World of Warcraft (commonly known as WoW) is a pay-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It is Blizzard Entertainment's fourth game set in the fantasy Warcraft Universe, first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of...
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| x Bewitched |
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Samantha Stephens |
Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York (1964–1969), Dick Sargent (1969–1972), Agnes Moorehead and David White. It is about a witch who...
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| Darrin Stephens | |||||
| x Mobile Suit Gundam |
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Mobile Suit Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム, Kidō Senshi Gandamu, lit. Mobile Soldier Gundam, also known as First Gundam, Gundam 0079 or simply 0079) is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan...
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| x Millennium |
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Seattle |
Millennium is an American television series created by Chris Carter following the success of his previous show The X-Files. Millennium aired on the Fox Network from 1996 to 1999. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, though most...
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| x Aud Torvingen Series | Aud Torvingen | ||||
| x Greyhawk |
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Yolande |
Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game . Although not the first campaign world developed for Dungeons & Dragons—Dave Arneson's Blackmoor...
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