Toys for nerds

Vier Freunde, ein bunt bemalter Kleinbus und ein Hund, der immer genau dann Hunger bekommt, wenn es gefährlich wird. Scooby-Doo löst seit Jahrzehnt...

Im Upside Down ist alles genau wie bei uns, nur kälter, dunkler und mit deutlich mehr Ranken an der Wand. Wer in Hawkins etwas über diese Schattenw...

At Ollivander's in Diagon Alley the narrow boxes are stacked all the way to the ceiling, and the old man says the line that explains half the wizar...

Ray Stantz dug the car up as a rattling old ambulance, complete with a fault list running from the shock absorbers to the transmission, and bought ...

In Minecraft there's that one magical moment: you place your hard-mined Diamond Sword on the Enchanting Table, the mysterious runes flicker, and ou...

Anyone who has seen The Empire Strikes Back never forgets the sight: across the ice field of Hoth the mighty AT-ATs come stomping, step by step, wh...

Night City is brutal, loud, and neon-lit – and the toughest guys there wear gold chains, cyberware, and a jacket with more zippers than a Swiss Arm...

Seit Jahrzehnten erklärt die orangefarbene Maus aus der Sendung mit der Maus Kindern und Erwachsenen die Welt. In den Lach- und Sachgeschichten geh...

For Wednesday Addams, a school dance is about as tempting as sunbathing. And yet in season one she suddenly takes the dance floor at Nevermore Acad...

When the Dungeon Master gleefully places a dragon miniature on the map in Dungeons & Dragons, the table goes very quiet. In the world's oldest ...

A man in a bat costume, a boy from the planet Krypton and a clown whose jokes nobody finds funny: for decades the DC universe has supplied faces th...

Bowser is no ordinary villain. In the first Super Mario movie, the Koopa King sat at a grand piano and sang a love ballad for Princess Peach that c...

Two roommates who could hardly be more different: on one side of their room at Nevermore Academy it's all black, silence and a certain fondness for...

A quiet hiss behind you, and suddenly the house you spent ages building has a hole in the wall: everyone who has played Minecraft knows that moment...

Every Batman needs a Batmobile. The Dark Knight has been tearing through Gotham City in his car since the 1940s, and almost every generation got it...

Picture this: you get abducted by a giant flying cow head and end up on an asteroid where the most popular TV show in the galaxy is broadcast. That...

Aquaman herrscht über Atlantis, redet mit Haien und trägt dabei ein Schuppenhemd, das noch im tiefsten Ozean glänzt. Von allen Helden der DC-Riege ...

There is one creature in the dungeon that makes even hardened adventuring parties think very seriously about retreating: the beholder, a floating s...

„Ein Zauberer kommt nie zu spät“, stellt Gandalf im Auenland klar, „ebenso wenig kommt er zu früh. Er trifft genau dann ein, wenn er es beabsichtig...

Lange bevor Sam Wilson den Schild von Captain America übernahm, war er vor allem der Held mit dem Vogel. Redwing gehört zu ihm wie der Hammer zu Th...

Am Ende von Naruto Shippuden hängt ein rot leuchtendes Auge als Mond über der Welt, und die gesamte Shinobi-Welt träumt denselben Traum. Das Unendl...

1981 rannte ein Archäologe mit Hut im Kino vor einem rollenden Felsbrocken davon, und plötzlich wollten alle Peitsche statt Pinsel. Kurz darauf sta...

Groot ist der wortkargste Held des Marvel-Universums. Sein gesamter Wortschatz besteht aus „Ich bin Groot", und trotzdem hört der Waschbär Rocket d...

The moustache was a stopgap. On the screens of the early eighties there was barely room for a face, so a dark bar simply separated nose and mouth. ...

In 1980 a new cabinet suddenly stood in the arcades, with a yellow circle of endless appetite racing through a maze while four colourful ghosts cha...

Every crew needs a mascot, and with the Straw Hats that role goes to a reindeer who gets mistaken for a raccoon on a regular basis. Tony Tony Chopp...

Along the harbour walls of every sea they hang in stacks: wanted posters with a face, a name and a number underneath. The higher the bounty, the mo...

Instant noodles are the unofficial staple food of every long night: tear the lid half open, pour on hot water, wait three minutes. In Korea the cup...

The huge gate swings open, the jungle waits below, and the visitors roll off on their first lap through the park. White paintwork, red stripes, a b...

Gotham, 1992: the Penguin chases the Dark Knight through ever narrower alleys until the gap is finally too tight for the Batmobile. Batman hits a b...

In Demon Slayer, young Tanjiro Kamado sets out to hunt demons and save his transformed sister. His most important weapon is a Nichirin Sword, whose...

In their second year at Hogwarts, every young wizard learns an important lesson in Herbology: put on your earmuffs before you pull a Mandrake out o...

There are films that play every rainy Sunday afternoon, and yet nobody stays glued to the sofa. Bud Spencer and Terence Hill raised a whole generat...

There's that one scene everyone who loves Studio Ghibli knows: two children waiting in the rain at a bus stop, and suddenly this huge, fluffy fores...