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In the comics, Batman has an online alias. It's JonDoe297. He also has a favorite food: Mulligatawny soup.
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In Tim Burton's Batman, miscommunication between the costume department and prop department meant that Michael Keaton's cowl was too tall to fit inside the Batmobile. The car couldn't be adjusted, so Keaton's cowl had to be shortened.
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Deadpool is one of the few characters to appear alongside almost every other Marvel character.
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Hank Pym is certainly most well-known for being Ant-Man, but did you know he has also gone by several other superhero names? A lot of people may know that he has also used the Giant-Man title, but there have been three others – making the total number of mantles he has held an unrivalled five.
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If you’ve watched the first Thor movie (and read the comic if it says it in there too), Odin whispers to the hammer that if the wielder is worthy, they will be granted the power of Thor. Although he doesn’t lift it in the movie, Captain America is very much worthy and during a battle he lifted Thor’s hammer and managed to use it against his foes. Never has a level of awesomeness been so high.
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While Stan Lee initially came up with the idea for a “quintessential capitalist” hero and many of the character's traits, he didn't write the story in Tales of Suspense #39 that introduced Iron Man to the world. A looming deadline forced him to hand over the scripting duties for that issue to Larry Lieber, and it was Lieber, cover artist Jack Kirby, and interior artist Don Heck who shared the bulk of creative duties for the issue. Kirby is credited with the design of Iron Man's first armor, while Heck is credited with the look of Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, and the other characters introduced inside the issue.
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The Joker has to be the best super villain of all time. But Batman creator Bob Kane was ready to kill off the evil jester in his very first appearance. As with many of Batman’s early villains, the plan was to have the Joker die through some fatal accident. Batman’s editor Whitney Ellsworth saw potential in the character, however, and forced Kane to include a panel showing the Joker coming back to life.
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Dust off your old NES, boot up the game and enter Zelda as your name. You’ll find a secret quest with new challenges and dungeons.
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Dust off your old NES, boot up the game and enter Zelda as your name. You’ll find a secret quest with new challenges and dungeons.
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According to Tom Hiddlestone, the codename for the avengers film in its early stages was 'Group Hug'. Incidentally, the codename used when discussing its release into cinemas was 'Team Building'.
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Whenever you think “Hulk,” you think green. The two are intrinsically linked. Yet, when the Hulk first appeared in 1963, he was actually meant to be gray. However, due to the fact the printer couldn’t provide a consistent gray color, the Hulk would change from gray to black to other shades of gray from page to page and panel to panel. In order to address the issue, Stan Lee choose to go with a color that would come off the printing press with fewer issues: the now-iconic green.
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In 2006, nearly half a century after comic books were declared as a cultural threat, a stamp was released to commemorate on how DC's super heroes had been and still are a significant part of American Culture. It also recognizes comic books as a true art form.
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While Darabont was filming the pilot episode of The Walking Dead, some neighbors who lived close by to the set believed that the actor Michael Rooker (Merle Dixon) was actually a sniper and called in a real SWAT team to respond. Fortunately, everyone soon realized that a mistake had been made and so no one was arrested that day. You would assume that all of the TV cameras would have tipped the neighbors off, but it seems that there are still some people in the 21st century who aren’t aware of how TV shows are made. As if the ‘walkers’ weren’t bad enough…
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Wade Wilson is a former test subject of the Weapon X program, possessing a regenerative healing factor (like that of Wolverine), as well as an unstable compiling of other "Weapon X" experiments. Deadpool's powers and personality traits combine to make a wild, mentally unstable, and unpredictable mercenary. Deadpool is a former member of X-Force, a self-professed member of the X-Men and Avengers and has recently joined the Thunderbolts. The "Merc with a Mouth" is infamous for breaking the fourth wall.
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Henry Cavill auditioned the role of Clark Kent for superman returns in 2006. He eventually landed the role of superman in man of steel. And is expected to feature in dc comics justice league.
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The Hulk was originally gray, not green. After exposure to a gamma radiation blast, scientist Bruce Banner turned into the gray-skinned Hulk from sunset to sunrise. However, the gray color was difficult to print and by issue No. 2 of "The Incredible Hulk" comic book series, Hulk turned into the hyperbolically muscled Green genes we know today.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $15 million for the second film and had a toal of 700 words of dialogue, which meant he was paid $21,429 per word. “Hasta la vista, baby” cost $85,716.
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No physical clone trooper outfits were actually produced for the films. Every clone trooper seen in the Star Wars films was created with CGI.
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Captain America has a back story as tragic as any super-hero. Growing up Steve Rogers, a weak and sickly boy in a poor family, he suffered the loss of his father when he was a youngster, and then his mother when he was a teen. Spurred by wartime propaganda, he tried to enlist in the army, only to fail due to his physical inadequacies. However, one dose of super soldier serum later and… We have Captain America, the All-American hero, as American as apple pie. Cap hasn’t always been on good terms with America. He’s lost faith in the USA more than once. In the 70’s Marvel played out events echoingthat of the Watergate scandal. This led to a new costume and name, the Nomad.During this era he became known as the ‘Man Without a Country’. Then in the late 90’s after losing faith in the American Government, he loses the patriotism from his name and is known simply as, The Captain.