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Badges on a lapel are a quiet language: a small piece of metal that says where someone belongs without a single word. Clubs and guilds have worked ...

The Hogwarts school uniform means a robe, a crest and above all one thing: a striped tie in the colours of your own house. For many first years the...

At the Triwizard Tournament, taking an egg off a dragon is only half the job. The golden egg is the next task in itself: opened in the open air it ...

In his third year Fred and George press a yellowed piece of parchment into Harry’s hands, one that gives nothing away until the right words are sai...

In his first year at school Harry wanders into an empty room at night and finds an old mirror in a golden frame. The Mirror of Erised shows nobody ...

Training under Master Roshi starts with the glamorous part: hauling milk churns across half the countryside, ploughing fields with your bare hands ...

When Arwen places the Evenstar in Aragorn's hand she gives away far more than a piece of jewellery: the pendant stands for the immortality she give...

Frodo does not wear the One Ring on his finger but on a plain chain around his neck, and for good reason. On the finger it turns you invisible and ...

Above the door of the Prancing Pony in Bree hangs a sign with a rearing white pony. Inside, a hooded Ranger sits in the darkest corner of the room,...

Kara Zor-El came to Earth from Krypton just like her cousin Superman, only with far fewer newspaper articles written about her. And then there is K...

Clark Kent wears glasses, a tie and a posture nobody looks at twice. The actual hero only shows up when he tears the shirt open and the red S flash...

In the world of Borderlands there is exactly one symbol everybody reads at a glance: the circle with the jagged triangle inside it. It marks a Vaul...

When Bruce Wayne first pulled the cowl over his head in 1939, Gotham was still a bright place. The Dark Knight wore a vivid blue mask, his jaw cut ...

A trio that protects its fans from demons by singing, and a boy band that wants to collect those very same fans: in KPop Demon Hunters the stage tu...

When Final Fantasy IX arrived, it felt like a small rebellion: away from motorbikes and skyscrapers, back to clanking suits of armour, a black mage...

A god of death doesn't carry keys – but you do. Ryuk, the immortal Shinigami from Death Note, who threw the fateful notebook to Light Yagami and ha...

In Kaiju No. 8, the Defense Force stands between humanity and towering monsters, and hardly anyone goes about it as coolly as Soshiro Hoshina. As V...

The world of Kaiju No. 8 is plagued by monstrous creatures, and stopping them takes nerves of steel. Mina Ashiro has those in spades: as Captain of...

Kaiju No. 8 follows an unlikely squad: Kafka Hibino, who at 32 finally makes his childhood dream of joining the Defense Force come true while guard...

In the world of Kaiju No. 8, everyday life is anything but relaxed: giant monsters, the Kaiju, are overrunning Japan, and only the Defense Force st...

Captain Mina Ashiro is the calm presence amid the chaos in Kaiju No. 8: with her enormous precision cannon she takes monsters apart from a safe dis...

In My Neighbor Totoro, no creature makes children's eyes light up quite as reliably as the Catbus: a giant, grinning tomcat with twelve legs, warm ...

When the young witch Kiki sets off for the big city at thirteen, all she takes with her is her broom, her red hair ribbon and a rather cheeky compa...

What if aliens and ghosts were both real? In Dandadan, high schooler Momo and occult nerd Okarun bet on exactly that, and the duo lands smack in th...

In the wasteland of the Fallout series, bottle caps are the toughest currency going, which makes Nuka-Cola far more than just a soft drink. This br...

Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, wears his famous pinstripe suit with an elegance that hovers somewhere between refined gentle...

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Anyone who knows this line also knows that, right afterwards, an unassuming piece of parchment reveals ...

In the Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbor Totoro, a round, furry forest spirit lives in the woods and has taken children's hearts by storm. Alongsid...

An Ultra Ball is no ordinary ball in the Pokémon universe. When a Pokémon simply refuses to hop into a regular Poké Ball, you reach for the yellow-...

Other students make it through seven years at Hogwarts without ever running into a single troll. Harry's track record looks rather different: a bas...