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Predator
Dutch (from the original 1987 Predator film) is in his late 70s, with his life extended by captured Predator medical technology. He now works as a consultant and mercenary for OWLF, dedicated to hunting down Predators after the Val-Verde incident.
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Predator
Planned release of 'Predator: Killer of Killers' and 'Predator: Badlands', expanding the film franchise.
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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Apocalypse Hotel debuts, following robot staff in a hotel in Ginza, a century after humanity left Earth due to poisonous air.
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Jar Jar Binks
Jar Jar Binks was added to Fortnite Battle Royale during the Star Wars-themed 'Galactic Battle' season, depicted as a Sith Lord with Force Lightning abilities.
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Dante
In Studio Mir's animated series, Dante faces the White Rabbit, a demonic terrorist, and breaks into the Vatican City Museum to steal the Force Edge sword. He is later captured, fights to protect humans, awakens his demon powers, but is ultimately paralyzed and cryogenically imprisoned by the military.
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Eve
JND Studios produced a 1/3rd scale figure of Eve from Stellar Blade.
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Venom
Mary Jane Watson, Dylan's foster mother, becomes the new Venom host in All-New Venom
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Drax
Drax travels with the Guardians and Thor to space, responding to a distress call on Indigarr and learning about the killing of gods on various worlds.
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Mantis
During a Christmas celebration on Knowhere, Mantis reveals to Quill that they are half-siblings, sharing Ego as their father.
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Mantis
Mantis and Drax travel to Earth, landing in Hollywood, Los Angeles. They make money as buskers on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and visit a nightclub.
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Mantis
Mantis uses her powers to obtain a star map and steal money from a map seller. She and Drax capture Kevin Bacon and steal Christmas decorations.
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Dante
Johnny Yong Bosch is set to voice Dante in an upcoming animated series, continuing his involvement with the franchise after voicing Nero in previous games.
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| 2025 | A new line of My Pet Monster products is set to be launched in Fall 2025 by The Loyal Subjects. |
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Seven Dwarfs
An upcoming live-action adaptation of the original film will feature the Seven Dwarfs, with each character being voiced by a different actor and motion-captured for the film.
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Smurfette
Rihanna is set to voice Smurfette in an upcoming Smurfs musical movie.
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| 2025 |
Nebula
Nebula and the Guardians purchase Knowhere from the Collector and gain Cosmo as a new team member. She helps refurbish Knowhere after its previous attack.
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Nebula
Nebula and the Guardians travel to Indigarr for vacation, where they encounter and are initially unable to defeat the Booskans before Thor intervenes.
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| January 2025 | Confirmation that the Rian Johnson Star Wars trilogy is still in open development. |
| January 2025 |
SCP Foundation
SCP: Fragmented Minds launches Chapter 1, a first-person action adventure game set on Mars' Site-113.
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| January 2025 |
Gremlins
Deadline reported that Warner Bros. was developing a third Gremlins movie, with Chris Columbus writing the script. No official confirmation has been made by the studio.
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| January 2025 |
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Michal Štefaňák publishes 'Dusk of Solarpunk - Scavenger's Life', a novel set in a post-apocalyptic world where The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints plays a crucial role in survival.
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| 2024 |
Eve
A character using Eve's likeness was added to Sony's Astro Bot as free downloadable content.
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| 2024 |
Eve
Eve discovers her true origin as an android from the Andro-Eidos race, created by mankind alongside Mother Sphere, which had previously waged war against humanity and forced humans underground.
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Eve
Eve is first introduced in the video game Stellar Blade, deployed from the Colony space station as a soldier to fight Naytiba creatures that have overrun Earth. She meets Adam, a survivor who leads her to Xion, humanity's last city on Earth.
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| 2024 |
Eve
Eve's character receives global voice acting with performances by Rebecca Hanssen (English), Asami Seto (Japanese), and Yoon Eun-Seo (Korean).
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| 2024 |
Eve
Eve's physical appearance is created using 3D body scans of Korean models Shin Jae-eun and later Yoon Seolhwa, sparking discussions about character design and representation.
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Godzilla
Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers mobile and PC game was released.
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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Infection Free Zone video game released in early access, set in a post-apocalyptic Earth using real map data from OpenStreetMap.
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Mantis
Mantis embarks on space adventures with the Guardians, now joined by Kraglin.
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Munchkin
In the Wicked film, director Jon M. Chu depicts Munchkins as a culture of farmers, casting actors closer to the book's original description of height, with Boq Woodsman played by Ethan Slater.
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Mr. Potato Head
New models of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head toys are produced.
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Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters returns to Universal Studios for the Universal Mega Movie Parade.
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Ghostbusters
Grand Theft Auto Online continued Ghostbusters-themed Halloween update content from the previous year.
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SCP Foundation
Go Home Annie, a horror adventure game by Misfit Village, was released.
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Link
In a BAFTA poll with around 4,000 respondents, Link was named the seventh most iconic video-game character of all time.
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SCP Foundation
'There Is No Antimemetics Division' is released as a 4-part short series on YouTube.
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Grand Admiral Thrawn
Lars Mikkelsen was nominated for a Critics' Choice Super Award for Best Villain in a Series for his live-action portrayal of Thrawn in Ahsoka.
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Grand Admiral Thrawn
Mikkelsen reprises Thrawn's voice role in the animated anthology series Tales of the Empire.
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Godzilla
Godzilla is set to appear in 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire', continuing the monster franchise's storyline.
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Godzilla
Godzilla appears in two comics: 'Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted' and 'Which is Stronger!? Godzilla x Kong', continuing the monster's comic book narrative.
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Godzilla
In 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire', Godzilla transforms into an 'Evolved' state after defeating Tiamat, featuring a slimmer build, pink dorsal plates, facial spikes, forearm spike protrusions, and thagomizer tail tip.
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| 2024 |
Godzilla
Upcoming release of the novelization for 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire', continuing the narrative expansion of the Monsterverse.
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| 2024 |
Godzilla
Godzilla x Kong: Titan Chasers mobile and PC game was released, and Godzilla Evolved was introduced in Fortnite as part of the Titan Takedown event with King Kong.
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Nebula
Nebula travels with the Guardians of the Galaxy on multiple adventures and assists Thor in losing weight.
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| December 2024 |
Warhammer 40,000
The franchise was featured in Secret Level, a video game anthology series on Amazon Prime Video, with an episode titled 'And they shall know no fear'.
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| December 2024 |
Ghostbusters
Kris Pearn announced as director, with the animated film set to release on Netflix.
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| November 26 2024 |
Voltron
Alba Baptista, Samson Kayo, and Tharanya Tharan were announced in undisclosed roles, and filming on the movie was reported to have begun.
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| November 25 2024 |
Voltron
Sterling K. Brown, Rita Ora, and John Kim were cast in undisclosed roles in the Voltron film.
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| October 2024 |
Tusken Raiders
The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service website posted a controversial photo featuring a pilot's shoulder patch depicting Tusken Raiders, which was later removed after receiving criticism for its racialized imagery.
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| October 2024 |
Ghostbusters
Gil Kenan confirmed that a sequel to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is in development.
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Warhammer 40,000, Jar Jar Binks, Dante (Devil May Cry), My Pet Monster, Eve (Stellar Blade), Star Wars, Smurfette, Tusken Raiders, Ghostbusters (franchise), Mr. Potato Head, Gremlins, Voltron, Link (The Legend of Zelda), SCP Foundation, Drax (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Godzilla (Monsterverse), Nebula (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Seven Dwarfs, Predator (fictional species), Venom (character), Munchkin, Mantis (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction & Grand Admiral Thrawn, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.