Editors Note: The following contains spoilers for House of the Dragon, Game of Thrones, and A Song of Ice and FireHouse of the Dragon walks a fine line when it comes to tie-ins and references to Game of Thrones. The prequel series is built on the foundation of Thrones’ unparalleled domination of the TV industry in the 2010s, yet it also lives in the shadow of Thrones‘ infamously disappointing ending. House of the Dragon needs to stay canonically consistent with its predecessor, so it can’t simply retcon things or stick with the story of George R.R. Martin‘s novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire. Any reference to Game of Thrones is controversial to say the least, but so far, House of the Dragon Season 3 has walked this tightrope with perfect balance.
Of course, House of the Dragon‘s biggest connections to Game of Thrones is its revelation of House Targaryen’s prophecy of the White Walkers. This was the key to Rhaenyra’s (Emma D’Arcy) story in Season 1, and it went even further in Season 2 by putting the elven ice warriors on screen in Daemon’s (Matt Smith) vision. This is the most controversial connection among fans and critics, and its efficacy won’t be clear until the story is over. In the meantime, this article is about the more subtle references — the ones that make the world of Westeros feel authentic and lived-in.
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The Cats of the Red Keep
Alyn of Hull (Abubakar Salim) sitting at the small council table in House of the Dragon Season 3, Episode 5.Image via HBO
House of the Dragon‘s best change from the book Fire & Blood came in Season 3, Episode 4, “Tumbleton.” In it, Corlys Velaryon (Steven Toussaint) leaves King’s Landing, furious that Rhaenyra won’t legitimize his sons at this time. He orders his elder son Alyn (Abubakar Salim) to go to Rhaenyra in his place — a move that could have easily blown up in his face. Instead, these two characters find heartwarming common ground between them, and Alyn gives his first bit of counsel to Rhaenyra. She complains that rats are overrunning the castle because Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) had all the rat-catchers executed. Alyn points out that on ships, a pet cat hunts the rats for them.
No more is said about the cats, yet they have begun appearing in the show already. Nearly 200 years later, they will be a common sight in the time of Game of Thrones. In Season 1, Arya Stark (Maisy Williams) chased and caught cats as part of her training to be a “water dancer.” Tommon Baratheon (Dean-Charles Chapman) loved cats and kept several as pets, which was an important sign of his gentle nature. We can even feel the cats’ presence in the franchise’s other spin-off, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, where Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) mentions keeping a pet cat.
Martin’s book Fire & Blood also indicated that cats became the rat-catchers of the Red Keep at this time, but it happened differently. There, Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) ordered 100 cats be brought into the castle after Aegon’s stunt with the human rat-catchers. The show’s choice to change this even was brilliant — it allowed the rats to build up as a literal and symbolic nuisance, culminating in Rhaenyra’s return to the castle. It also gave Alyn an early victory as an advisor, and illustrated why he and Rhaenyra would get along.
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The Butterflies of Naath
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HBO’s version of Westeros has managed to bring up the butterflies of Naath surprisingly often considering how irrelevant they are to the main plots. Naath is a small island far from Westeros, and is the home of Missandei (Nathalie Emmanuel) from Game of Thrones. It has never been successfully conquered by outsiders because it is full of venomous butterflies, and only the native inhabitants are immune. However, the Naathi people are sometimes captured by slavers, as Missandei was. At the end of Game of Thrones, Grey Worm (Jacob Anderson) leads the Unsullied sailing towards Naath to protect its inhabitants, apparently unaware that he and his men will succumb to the butterflies venom.
House of the Dragon Season 3 made a curious reference to these butterflies in Episode 2, “Queen’s Landing.” In it, Helaena (Phia Saban) was in the Godswood studying bugs with a book open at her side. The camera lingered on the book, showing a large illustration of a butterfly with a description underneath. The text clearly describes Naath’s “butterfly fever,” while Helaena is studying a native Westerosi caterpillar.
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This is a fun bit of worldbuilding to keep bringing up, though it may have its own hidden layers of venom. After House of the Dragon Season 2 aired, Martin made an infamous blog post about his disappointment in it, which was titled “Beware the Butterflies.” In it, Martin wrote that small changes to the story now could have massive “butterfly effects” on the story later on. He even used the phrase “toxic butterflies,” which is easy to connect to Naath. However, if the show intended some kind of jab here, it’s incredibly subtle.
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The Game of Cyvasse
Ormund (James Norton) and Daeron (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) in House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 5Image via HBO
Game of Thrones missed every opportunity to introduce viewers to the game Cyvasse, but House of the Dragon has not only filled in that gap — it did so with an incredible homage to the books. In Episode 5, “Unbowed and Unbent,” Ormund Hightower (James Norton) and Daeron Targaryen (Benjamin Evans Ainsworth) play the board game together with the air of two people who have played it quite a bit.
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This might be interpreted as a change from the books — Cyvasse is described as a relatively new game in Westeros when it is first introduced in A Feast for Crows, so it’s doubtful that Ormund would have it nearly 200 years earlier. That’s an easy change to forgive, especially since it gave us this scene. Cyvasse is similar to chess, and in the books, Tyrion Lannister has many scheming conversations over the board, layered in double-meanings. Ormund and Daeron’s scene is a perfect parallel to Tyrion’s best Cyvasse scene, where he plays against “Young Griff,” a.k.a. Aegon VI Targaryen.
Aegon is one of the most consequential characters left out of HBO‘s Game of Thrones. He claims to be the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell, smuggled out of Westeros by Varys when King’s Landing fell and raised in secret to be the perfect king. Tyrion teases and manipulates the young man over Cyvasse until he loses his temper and sweeps all the pieces off the board. House of the Dragon inverted this scene with Ormund scattering the pieces. The finishing move was even the same — Daeron defeated Ormund with his dragon piece while Ormund was lecturing him about the limits of dragons’ power, just as Tyrion used the dragon to take down Young Griff.
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Helaena and Tommen’s Window
Alicent (Olivia Cooke), Helaena (Phia Saban), and Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) standing in Alicent and Rhaenyra’s private chamber in House of the Dragon Season 3, Episode 2.Image via HBO
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House of the Dragon has trained fans to keep a close eye on Helaena now that we know she has the gift of prophecy. The young queen has showed us or told us what’s going to happen on several occasions now, but prophecy is hard to interpret in Westeros, and it always leads seers astray somehow. Helaena may have misread the signs in Season 3, Episode 3, “Rhaenyra Triumphant.”
Rhaenyra ordered Helaena and Alicent (Olivia Cooke) confined to a chamber together as high-born prisoners. When she explained their imprisonment to them, Helaena said: “I don’t want to stay in this room,” gesturing with both hands to the floor. Her inflection and posture made it seem like she wasn’t protesting her imprisonment — she was saying that she specifically didn’t want to stay in this room. She was also standing by the window, which made the parallel to Tommen more clear.
Looking at this scene side-by-side with the scene of Tommen’s death in Game of Thrones Season 7, it’s very plausible that Helaena and Alicent are being held in the same chamber where Tommen will eventually jump from the window to his death. It may be that Helaena is seeing a vision of that future event, and she’s disturbed by it. In Martin’s work, seers often misunderstand who their visions are about, and Helaena may feel this urge to leap applies to someone she loves, or even herself.
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The Braavosi Climate
Tyland Lanniser (Jefferson Hall) in ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2.Image via HBO
Finally, This week House of the Dragon once again brought up one of the biggest debates in the Game of Thrones fandom — the climate of Braavos. In Episode 5, “Unbowed and Unbent,” Aegon and Larys (Matthew Needham) were reunited with Tyland Lannister (Jefferson Hall), who survived the Battle of the Gullet. Larys explained his plan to smuggle Aegon overseas to Braavos, where they could hide from the war and live off of gold he had invested in the Iron Bank there. Tyland protested, saying that even Aegon wasn’t fit for war, “Neither would he tolerate the Braavosi heat! The monkeys alone…”
Tyland seems to be a little confused here. He traveled to Essos to negotiate with The Triarchy, which was an alliance of three of the Free Cities — Myr, Lys, and Tyrosh. The hot climate and monkey infestations he experienced might be common where they met in Tyrosh, but Game of Thrones fans already know that Braavos is much colder and further north. Tyland seems to be assuming that the conditions in all the Free Cities are similar, but that is far from the truth.
This is not the first time House of the Dragon has referenced the worldwide misinterpretations of Braavos, and the fan theories that surround it. Braavos was founded by escaped slaves from Valyria, and kept hidden in the northern fog for many years. It’s at roughly the same latitude as The Twins, slightly north of The Eyrie. By all accounts, this, combined with its marshy setting, should make it cold and inhospitable to agriculture.
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Collider Exclusive · Game of Thrones Personality Quiz Which Game of Thrones House Do You Belong To? Stark · Lannister · Targaryen · Baratheon · Tyrell
Five great houses. Five completely different answers to the same question: how do you hold power in a world that will take it from you the moment you stop paying attention? Eight questions will determine where your loyalties — and your nature — truly lie.
🐺Stark
🦁Lannister
🐉Targaryen
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🦌Baratheon
🌹Tyrell
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Someone powerful is acting dishonourably and everyone knows it. What do you do? In Westeros, the answer to this question has ended more than one great house.
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What is the source of your power? Every house endures because of something. What is it for yours?
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Who do you truly fight for? Strip away the banners and the words. The honest answer tells you everything.
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How do you deal with your enemies? A house’s method reveals its character as clearly as its words ever could.
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What kind of ruler do you believe in? Westeros is full of answers to this question. Most of them end badly.
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You suffer a devastating loss. How does your house respond? How a house handles defeat tells you more about it than how it handles victory.
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Which of these truths about Westeros do you most believe? Every house has a philosophy. This is yours.
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The Iron Throne is within reach. What do you do? The answer reveals not just your ambition — but your character.
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The Maester Has Spoken Your House Is…
Your answers point to the great house whose words, values, and way of surviving in Westeros match your own. Bend the knee — or don’t. That’s very much up to you.
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Winterfell · The North
🐺 House Stark
Winter is Coming — and you have always known it. You prepare not out of fear but out of duty, because the people who depend on you deserve someone who takes the long view.
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You lead with honour even when it costs you, because you understand that a reputation built on integrity is the only one worth having.
Your loyalty to family and people runs deep — not as sentiment but as a code that doesn’t bend when things get difficult.
The North endures because Starks endure — not by being the cleverest players in the game, but by being the kind of people others are willing to follow into the cold.
You are that kind of person. The pack survives. The lone wolf dies. You already know which one you are.
Casterly Rock · The Westerlands
🦁 House Lannister
You understand the game — its rules, its exceptions, and exactly when the rules become the exception. You play it without illusions and without apology.
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You are sharper than most people realise, and you have learned to use that gap to your advantage.
A Lannister always pays their debts — and you always keep your word, because your word is an instrument of power, and instruments must be kept in working order.
You love your family with a ferocity that sometimes blinds you, and you know it, and you do it anyway.
The lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep. Neither, in the end, do you.
Dragonstone · The Iron Throne
🐉 House Targaryen
You carry a sense of destiny that is difficult to explain and impossible to ignore — the feeling that you are not simply participating in the world but meant to reshape it.
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You are capable of extraordinary things, and you know it, and that knowledge is both your greatest strength and your most dangerous quality.
Fire and blood are not just words to you — they are a philosophy about what change requires and what it costs.
The Targaryens at their best were transformative rulers who broke chains and defied the limits of what anyone thought possible.
At your best, so are you. The dragon has three heads. You are one of them.
Storm’s End · The Stormlands
🦌 House Baratheon
You are a force — direct, powerful, and difficult to ignore when you enter a room or a conflict. You do not negotiate with challenges. You meet them.
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Ours is the fury — and yours is a kind of intensity that commands attention, respect, and occasionally fear from those who underestimate what’s behind it.
You value strength and straight dealing. You’d rather know where you stand in a fight than navigate a web of courtly whispers.
The Baratheons built their house on the back of one of the greatest military victories in Westerosi history — and then struggled with what came after.
The lesson of your house is that winning is not the end of the story. Governing is. You are learning that too.
Highgarden · The Reach
🌹 House Tyrell
You understand that power does not always announce itself — that sometimes it arrives with flowers, good wine, and a smile that doesn’t quite reach the eyes.
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Growing strong is your house’s motto, and you live it: patiently, strategically, always investing in the relationships and resources that will matter most when it counts.
You are charming by choice and calculating by nature — a combination that makes you one of the most effective players in any room you enter.
The Tyrells fed King’s Landing and shaped its politics without ever sitting on the Iron Throne — and they were arguably more powerful for it.
You know that the person who controls the food controls the kingdom. And you always know where the food is.
This brings us to one of the most infamous theories in the fandom — “Lemongate.” Fans noted that in the books, Daenerys remembers spending much of her childhood in Braavos, in a house with a lemon tree outside her window. However, lemon trees would be unlikely to survive in Braavos, and fans speculate that Dany must have been lied to about where she actually was. While there could be practical explanations for this, Martin has repeatedly teased the mystery in blog posts, Q&As, and even in preview chapters from The Winds of Winter, telling fans that there is a mystery to Daenerys’ childhood memories which will be revealed later.
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House of the Dragon already referenced Lemongate in Season 1, Episode 5, “We Light the Way.” There, Larys spoke to Alicent in the garden in double-meanings, remarkingthat a certain flower shouldn’t be able to grow in the King’s Landing climate, yet it is thriving. He was clearly speaking about Alicent being alone at court with no allies, but at the same time, there was a mural behind him with a lemon tree conspicously in frame. It’s nothing more than an Easter egg, but it proves that the writers and set designers are serious fans of these books.
Hopefully, House of the Dragon can remain this creative with its call-backs and references as the show approaches its grand climax. House of the Dragon Season 3 continues for three more weeks on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max. Martin’s books are available now in print, digital, and audiobook formats.
Disclosure Day is currently the No. 1 movie on the Apple TV Store in both the United States and Canada, according to FlixPatrol, while the film is also charting in several international markets, including Australia, Brazil, Mexico and New Zealand. Released on June 12, 2026, Disclosure Day grossed $236.1 million worldwide against a reported $115 million budget. The film became Spielberg’s highest-grossing release since Ready Player One and delivered the biggest opening for an original Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment title not based on existing intellectual property.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
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🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
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Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
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You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
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You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
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You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
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You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
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You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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Who Stars in ‘Disclosure Day’?
The cast of Disclosure Day includes Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place) as Margaret Fairchild, Josh O’Connor (Challengers) as Daniel Kellner, Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) as Noah Scanlon, Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters) as Jane, Colman Domingo (Rustin) as Hugo Wakefield, and Wyatt Russell (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters) as Jackson.
Only five days remain until the launch of one of the most anticipated game reboots in recent memory, and the excitement is palpable. Fans will be even more thrilled to learn that they can start playing ahead of the official release, although there is a catch.
As you may already know, Halo is celebrating a major milestone with the release of Halo: Campaign Evolved, which marks the 25th anniversary of both Halo and the Xbox platform. Developed by Xbox Game Studios, the game is a modern reimagining of Halo: Combat Evolved, the first entry in the franchise. While it retains much of the original game’s iconic campaign, it also introduces new gameplay mechanics, weapons, and story content. Among the biggest additions are three new prequel missions that take place before the events of Combat Evolved, following Master Chief and Sergeant Johnson on a mission behind Covenant enemy lines.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
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🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
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Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
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You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
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You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
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You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
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You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
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You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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Will Paramount+ Ever Revive the Live-Action ‘Halo’ Series?
Premiering on March 24, 2022, Halo ran for two seasons and 17 episodes before Paramount+ canceled it in July 2024, reportedly due to its high production costs relative to its viewership. Following the cancellation, producers, along with 343 Industries and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, began shopping the series to other platforms in hopes of securing a third season. Many fans were outraged by the cancellation such that they created petitions calling for the series to be saved. Interest in the show also surged after it arrived on Netflix in October 2025, where it climbed the streamer’s charts and introduced the adaptation to a wider audience. Despite that renewed popularity, there has been no official update on a potential third season of Halo.
Halo: Campaign Evolved Early Access began July 23 for players who own the Premium or Collector’s Edition. Stay tuned to Collider for more news about the Halo franchise.
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Jonathan Liebesman, Craig Zisk, Dennie Gordon, Roel Reiné, Debs Paterson
2026 has been a good year for Solo Leveling fans, as the franchise continues to expand, proving that it is still alive. One of these projects is a live-action adaptation of the popular South Korean WebToon novel that’s currently in production. While a release date has yet to be revealed, fans were given a little taste of what to expect.
Solo Leveling follows the story of Sung Jinwoo, an E-Rank hunter deemed the weakest of all humankind, who is selected by the System to level up his abilities, thus turning him into an S-Rank Hunter. The anime adaptation first came out in 2024 and has released two seasons so far. Following its success, it was announced that a live-action adaptation is in the works and will star Byeon Woo-seok as Sung Jinwoo and Gyeongseong Creature‘s star, Han So-hee, as Cha Hae In. Also confirmed in the live-action cast list is Kang You-seok, set to play Yoo Jin-ho, Sung Jinwoo’s friend.
Over on social media, GQ Korea has revealed that Byeon will be featured on the cover of its August issue. The magazine showcased four images of the South Korean actor, with some hinting towards his lead live-action role. Byeon started his career in 2010, first debuting as a model before becoming an actor. Before he was cast as Sung Jinwoo in Solo Leveling, Byeon starred in numerous K-dramas, such as Lovely Runner, Moonshine, Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency, and Record of Youth. At the moment, the plot of the Netflix adaptation has yet to be revealed.
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Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
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👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
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How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
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Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
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A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
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You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
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Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
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The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
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Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
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Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
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‘Solo Leveling’ Has Also Confirmed a Movie Is in the Works
Alongside the Netflix live-action adaptation, Sony has confirmed that a film adaptation of Solo Leveling has also entered production. Solo Leveling — Beyond the System — The Moviewill be a continuation of the anime adaptation, taking place after the events of Season 2 and following in the footsteps of Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc‘s box-office success. At the moment, the plot for the feature has yet to be revealed, and a release date has yet to be announced, but there were reports that it could come out in 2027 or 2028. At the same time, the concept trailer for Solo Leveling — Beyond the System claimed that this will serve as the anime’s third season.
Netflix’s live-action Solo Leveling has yet to announce a release date. In the meantime, you can stream Seasons 1 and 2 on Crunchyroll. Follow Collider for more updates.
When Apple TV+ renewed Dark Matter for a second season, one question immediately followed: how do you continue a story that had already adapted Blake Crouch’s entire bestselling novel? The first season left very little on the table, meaning the creative team suddenly found themselves venturing into completely original territory for the first time. As it turns out, though, they weren’t simply thinking about Season 2.
Speaking with Collider’s Steve Weintraub at San Diego Comic-Con, creator Blake Crouch and executive producer Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry revealed they’d already mapped out a third season alongside the second, with the intention of telling a complete trilogy, and no more than that. Asked how much he was thinking beyond Season 2 while writing entirely new material, Crouch admitted stepping away from the novel was a daunting prospect.
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“It’s one of those things that you have to sort of be on both sides. You have to write something that has a definitive ending, but you also have to lay some breadcrumbs in case you continue the story. But being off-book for the second season literally scared the shit out of me, because we didn’t save anything in the book. We blew through everything. We were like, ‘I don’t know if we’re going to do any more of this. Let’s not hold anything back.’ So, usually when I stare at the blank page, it’s for a novel, which I can take years and years and years to do, but this blank page was asking to be filled very, very quickly.”
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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‘Dark Matter’ Season 2 Will Lead Directly into Season 3
While Season 2 will tell a complete chapter of its own, Ben-Zekry confirmed the writers were already looking beyond it while breaking the story, while Crouch confirmed to Weintraub with a resounding “yes” when asked if they saw the series ending at Season 3, in a perfect world.
“When we were designing Season 2 and pitching it, we actually did Season 3 kind of at the same time, because we imagined it as a trilogy. We really wanted to do the beginning, middle, and end of a story. So, you’ll see when you see this season. It’s definitely set up for more.”
With Ransom Canyon having returned for a second season and Little House on the Prairie still dominating the viewership charts, fans of the Yellowstonefranchise have plenty to choose from on Netflix. The streamer has been trying hard to woo fans of Taylor Sheridan‘s work away from Paramount+, after having infamously passed on Yellowstone back in the day. The franchise has emerged as a culture-defining hit at Paramount+, spawning several sequels and drawing huge audiences to this day. Sheridan’s two Yellowstone prequels,1883 and 1923, also received excellent reviews. However, Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie offers another viewing alternative.
The show is based on the popular children’s books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, which were previously adapted into a long-running NBC series in the 1970s, and then into an ABC limited series in 2005. The new version is spearheaded by Rebecca Sonnenshine, with Luke Bracey, Crosby Fitzgerald, Alice Halsey, and Skywalker Hughes in supporting roles. Little House on the Prairie has received excellent reviews, with Collider’s Maggie Lovitt calling it a “must-watch masterpiece.” The eight-episode series holds a “Certified Fresh” 79% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Little House on the Prairie dusts off the ’70s and enters a new era of conscious creation and adaptation, striking the right balance between nostalgia and inspiration to craft a new and enlivened path for itself.”
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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Here’s Where ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Stands in Terms of Viewership
Netflix appears to be bullish on the series, having renewed it for a second season even before its premiere on July 9. Viewership data shared by the streamer reveals that this was probably a good call. Little House on the Prairie amassed 6.4 million views and 42 million hours viewed in its first week, finishing third. In its second week, the show jumped to the number one spot with 9.8 million views and 65 million hours viewed, replacing the holdover hit I Will Find You at the number one spot worldwide and outperforming the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender. This puts the show’s total at 16 million views and over 100 million hours viewed in two weeks. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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2026 – 2026-00-00
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Netflix
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Kat Candler, Julie Anne Robinson, Sydney Freeland, Sarah Adina Smith, Erica Tremblay
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Adam Starks, Eleanor Burgess, Adam Starks, Tom Hanada, Francesca Butler
All the way back in 2022, approaching Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power with skepticism made sense. The entertainment world’s current era of reboots is arguably more frequent, less thoughtfully produced, and less well-received by general audiences. A prequel to the events depicted in director Peter Jackson‘s revered The Lord of the Rings trilogy could’ve easily been a derelict attempt to capitalize on nostalgic iconography, no matter how much lavish beauty the show mined from its astronomical budget. Fast-forward to 2026, and overwhelming success emerged from that leap of faith. The Rings of Power has defied expectations to become a sterling example of contemporary high fantasy television, and it’s as thrilling an adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien‘s Legendarium as legally possible — capturing his defining philosophies with heartfelt grace, contemplative nuance, and a visible passion for its, well, legendary source material.
Although showrunners J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay‘s decision to spend the first two seasons of their five-season plan establishing assorted narrative set-ups was necessary to achieve maximum long-term payoff, the installments received valid critique regarding how certain storylines were paced. Following the events of Season 2’s tremendous finale, Rings of Power is finally able to turn its Great Eye (terrible pun intended) toward the Legendarium’s weightiest, meatiest material: Sauron (Charlie Vickers), undisguised and unrepentant, forging the One Ring, and Gandalf (Daniel Weyman), once a confused wanderer dubbed the Stranger, claiming his formidable identity. Payne and McKay recently shared how those substantial developments reframe and elevate their already impressive accomplishment to another level.
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Introducing the True Gandalf and Sauron Fundamentally Changes ‘The Rings of Power’ Season 3
The Rings of Power Season 3 opens five years after its predecessor. Sauron has secluded himself inside his volcanic fortress of Barad-dûr while the peoples of Middle-earth prepare for the Second Age’s most momentous war. While speaking with Empire magazine, Payne, McKay, Vickers, and Weyman promised that Sauron and Gandalf will enter this upcoming season with fresh clarity and reignited purpose. Weyman paraphrased Payne and McKay’s goals for the character: “We want to see that Gandalf has arrived. We want to see him as the wizard we all love from Tolkien’s writings.” That means a personality similar to Ian McKellen‘s beloved turn with the wardrobe to match, but not before the inexperienced Wizard undergoes a steep learning curve.
Where Sauron’s concerned, Payne teased an immense paradigm shift. “We have a full-on villain this season,” he explained, in a way that contrasts with the slippery Dark Lord having concealed his true intentions behind two separate alter egos. He’s still seeking the elusive three Rings he lost to the Elves, and he’s still a deceptive seducer who aims to weaken his enemies. This time, however, Sauron is openly fashioning his greatest weapon. Reaching this historical turning point significantly raises The Rings of Power‘s stakes and “changes the tone of the show,” according to McKay. “This third season is darker, more dangerous.”
There’s a fantastic symmetry to having these specific characters reach similar developmental points at the same time. If Rings of Power‘s interpretation of the ancient Sauron rarely wavers from his chosen identity, then Gandalf, a semi-newborn Wizard, commits to fulfilling his duty after a self-discovery journey. Tolkien doesn’t engage the two in anything resembling physical combat, but he positions them as opposing ideological forces created by the same supreme deity. Sauron, a profoundly powerful and immortal Maiar, is essentially a fallen angel. Gandalf, another Maiar and one of the wisest Wizards, is sent to Middle-earth in response to Sauron’s reign and remains devoted to preserving goodness; he’s a beacon of hope designed to keep mortal hearts from collapsing into despair.
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‘The Rings of Power’s Ambitions Are Higher than Ever in Season 3
The Rings of Power‘s Season 3 evolution has already been a rewarding challenge for the actors. Weyman and Vickers raved about the “unbelievably spine-tingling” and awe-inspiring “privilege and honour,” respectively, of finding themselves charged with immense responsibility. They aren’t the only ones shouldering a mighty task, either. McKay teased the One Ring’s creation as “the single most ambitious, technically challenging sequence we’ve ever done on the show”; Vickers reported that filming the scene encompassed two weeks.
Minor and easily correctable imperfections aside, The Rings of Power needed Seasons 1 and 2. Without those foundations, Payne and McKay couldn’t tee up the massive moments that fans (toxic naysayers need not apply) never expected to see onscreen, and therefore have been anticipating with especially bated breath. The series’ track record with magnificent set pieces that balance astonishing cinematic spectacle and breathtaking character-driven intimacy — look no further than Season 2’s siege of Eregion — all but guarantees Season 3 will prove worth the four-year wait.
Although the genre is fairly reliable theatrically, when a sci-fi movie goes wrong at the box office, it is usually in spectacular fashion. Take, for a recent example, The Mandalorian and Grogu, which was supposed to be the spiritual opening of a big summer of cinema. Instead, the movie tanked in theaters, despite the success of the series it is based on and the overall Star Wars franchise. However, the huge viral triumph of both A24’s Backrooms and Obsession left The Mandalorian and Grogu struggling for relevance.
The big-screen debut of Pedro Pascal‘s titular bounty hunter has earned $344 million worldwide against a production budget of $165 million, which doesn’t account for a likely enormous marketing and commercial investment. It seems as if each year fields its own sci-fi flop, with one of 2018’s even killing a $1 billion franchise. The film in question is Pacific Rim: Uprising, a sequel to 2013’s Pacific Rim, and the second installment overall in the franchise ahead of the animated series Pacific Rim: The Black.
Spartacus and Daredevil‘s Steven S. DeKnighttook to the director’s chair for Pacific Rim: Uprising, taking over the reins from Guillermo del Toro, who had won both Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards the year prior for The Shape of Water. Uprising, which follows John Boyega‘s Jake as he is offered one last chance to live up to his father’s legacy, also stars Cailee Spaeny, Scott Eastwood, Adria Arjona, Jing Tian, and Zhang Jin. Eight years later, Pacific Rim: Uprising is a surprising streaming hit, officially ranking as one of the ten most-streamed movies on HBO Max in the U.S., at the time of writing.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
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🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
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Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
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You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
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You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
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You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
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You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
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You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
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How Badly Did ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ Flop?
Although the film is known as a disaster,Pacific Rim: Uprising didn’t perform perhaps as poorly as many would’ve suspected. Against a reported production budget of $155 million, the film made $291 million at the global box office, split between a domestic haul of $60 million and a further $230 million from overseas markets. The movie managed to open at #1 at the U.S. box office, but quickly dropped to #5 in its second weekend.
Pacific Rim: Uprising is available to stream now on HBO Max. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for all the latest streaming stories.
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March 23, 2018
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111 minutes
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Steven S. DeKnight
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Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder, Steven S. DeKnight, T.S. Nowlin, Travis Beacham
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Guillermo del Toro, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Thomas Tull, Femi Oguns
Gosling, 45, made a surprise appearance at Marvel Studios’ Hall H panel on Saturday, July 25, to confirm that he will star in a reboot of the Ghost Rider franchise. (Nicolas Cage previously played the character in two movies — 2007’s Ghost Rider and 2012’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance — that exist outside the MCU continuity.)
He will team up on a new Ghost Rider movie with Stranger Things director Shawn Levy, who previously worked with Marvel Studios on 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine. (Gosling and Levy collaborated on the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter.)
There was even more exciting news about the future of the MCU beyond December’s Avengers: Doomsday and 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars, including an update on the long-awaited Black Panther III.
Ryan Reynolds confirmed he tried to get Nicolas Cage to make a cameo as Ghost Rider in Deadpool & Wolverine. Early concept art for the movie, revealed by Marvel Studios visual development supervisor Rodney Fuentebella following its July release, shows that at least one point, Cage and Ben Affleck’s Daredevil were considered for cameos alongside […]
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Ryan Gosling Will Star in ‘Ghost Rider’ Movie
Gosling surprised fans by showing up unannounced to Hall H to confirm he will play the superhero Ghost Rider in a 2028 reboot directed by Deadpool & Wolverine’s Levy.
The Project Hail Mary actor has publicly campaigned for the Ghost Rider role in the past — revealing to the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast all the way back in 2022 that he’d discussed the part with Marvel Studios.
During the Hall H panel, Gosling described Ghost Rider as “a character I’ve wanted to play for a long time.”
For his part, Levy praised Gosling during the Comic-Con panel as “the absolute s***t” and promised Ghost Rider will be worth the wait for fans.
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Ryan Gosling attends the Marvel panel during Comic-Con International.Getty Images/Chris DELMAS / AFP
“Let’s ride, we’ll see you in 2028,” the filmmaker teased.
Ghost Rider is an antihero who first appeared in the pages of Marvel Comics in 1972 when Johnny Blaze, the first incarnation of the hero, sold his soul to the demon Mephisto to save his foster father’s life. After Blaze’s head was mystically transformed into a fiery skull, Ghost Rider jumped on his signature black motorcycle to wreak havoc on the underworld.
There have been other incarnations of Ghost Rider throughout the decades — including high school student Robbie Reyes, who was played by Gabriel Luna in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show.
Gosling’s longtime partner, Eva Mendes, starred in Cage’s 2007 version of Ghost Rider.
‘Black Panther 3’ Will Star Industry’s David Johnson
Acclaimed filmmaker Ryan Coogler announced during the Hall H panel that he will return to write and direct Black Panther III.
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Coogler and Marvel Studios chief creative officer Kevin Feige welcomed Industry and The Long Walk actor David Jonsson to the stage to confirm that he will lead Black Panther III.
Jonsson is expected to play T’Challa II, the son of the late Chadwick Boseman’s iconic Black Panther. The character was teased at the end of 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever when Shuri (Letitia Wright) discovered that T’Challa and Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) secretly welcomed a son named Toussaint. (Boseman died in 2020.)
Letitia Wright, David Jonsson and Winston Duke speak onstage during the Marvel Studios Panel.Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney
“I want to say thank you so much,” Jonsson said in Hall H. “Thank you, Ryan. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you to this amazing family that I honor. [It’s] a privilege and blessing to join.”
He went on, “I don’t want to say too much because I want to let the screen do the talking, but believe me, the honor is entirely mine.”
Black Panther III is expected to premiere in 2028.
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‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Unveiled a Returning Star and New Footage
Ryan Reynolds also made a surprise appearance during the panel as Deadpool’s denim alter-ego, Jeanpool, to beg for a cameo in Avengers: Doomsday. It remains to be seen whether the Merc With a Mouth will pop up in December’s blockbuster.
Fresh off the debut of the extended trailer for Avengers: Doomsday on Monday, July 20, fans in Hall H got an exclusive sneak peek at brand new footage on Saturday.
Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool cosplay at Comic-Con.Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney
Per Variety, the new clip focuses heavily on Robert Downey Jr.’s villainous Dr. Doom sitting on his throne in Latveria as various clips of the MCU heroes in battle are interspersed.
Fantastic 4 member Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) provides some background on Doom, describing him as “broken as a person.”
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“He’s always the smartest guy in every world. He used to be different. He used to be kind, he used to be caring … Everything he loved was taken from him,” she explains. “I knew he was lost but I did not realize that he was broken.”
The footage climaxes with Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) questioning whether Doom could be responsible for mass carnage across Earth.
“All of you have lived stolen lives. You refuse to give them back,” Doom snarls.
When Thor (Chris Hemsworth) wields his trusty hammer Mjolnir against Doom, he is quickly pushed aside as the villain unleashes an army of Sentinels from the X-Men universe to fight Earth’s mightiest heroes.
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While the trailer was a convention-exclusive, Marvel Studios publicly shared a new Avengers: Doomsday poster featuring Downey as Doom.
“Decisions will have to be made, you’ll have to be on the side of the good guys, or you’ll have to consider the alternative [by] joining a family of Doom,” Downey teased during the panel. “Come over to the green side.”
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Avengers: Doomsday opens December 18 and will be followed by Avengers: Secret Wars on December 17, 2027.
It takes more than a great movie premise to pull in an audience. If the viewer doesn’t care about the characters, nothing else matters. There have been many iconic heroes and villains over the decades, but there are also those characters fans hate, and not for the right reasons. Some films have been criticized for creating protagonists who were supposed to be cheered, but were instead so annoying that the viewer turned against them. These seven, however, don’t deserve the hate. Rather than disliking them, it’s time to see them for the complicated and realistic characters they are.
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Jenny Curran in ‘Forrest Gump’ (1994)
Forrest Gump holding his new pair of Nike sneakers up next to Jenny in Forrest Gump.Image via Paramount Pictures
Forrest Gump was one of the biggest movies of 1994, winning multiple Oscars. Based on Winston Groom‘s novel of the same name, the story follows Gump (Tom Hanks), a mentally disabled man who rises above his limitations to live an extraordinary life. He’s even given a love story with Jenny Curran (Robin Wright), who begins as Forrest’s childhood friend, then appears and disappears from his life over the next several decades.
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Many fans don’t like Jenny because of how she treats Forrest. Sure, she’s kind to him when others aren’t, but she’s also abandoning him and outright rejecting him over and over. This makes her easy to dislike until you take a deeper look at who she is. Jenny lived a hard life as a kid, which included sexual abuse. She is suffering from that pain and finds it hard to open herself up to love. It doesn’t excuse the fact that she didn’t tell Forrest he was the father of her child for so long, but Jenny eventually grew and found love with her soulmate in the last days of her life.
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Karen Nelson in ‘Halloween’ (2018)
Ray Nelson, played by Toby Huss and Karen Nelson, played by Judy Greer, in ‘Halloween’ (2018)Image via Universal Pictures
In 2018, the Halloween franchise returned with David Gordon Green directing the eleventh film. After the disastrous Rob Zombie entries, the new movie started on the right track by bringing back Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). Here, Laurie is a broken woman traumatized by a terrifying past. For four decades, she has been waiting for Michael Myers to return, and her PTSD was taken out on her own child, Karen (Judy Greer).
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The 2018 Halloween shows a complicated relationship between Laurie and Karen, and many fans can’t stand Karen’s portrayal. She’s seen as whiny, her dialogue flat. All she does is complain, with an aura of detachment, about how her mom treated her growing up, and how she can’t let go. Why wouldn’t Karen act this way, though? She didn’t get to have a normal childhood because of Laurie’s obsession and was even taken away by the state. All Karen has ever wanted was a normal life with a mom who focused on her. In the end, she fights against the Shape, showing how much she was listening to her mother all of those years.
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Cho Chang in ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ (2007)
Cho Chang smiling softly in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Image via Warner Bros. Pictures
In the Harry Potter books and films, Cho Chang (Katie Leung) first appears as a fellow student at Hogwarts whom Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) has a crush on. Sadly, for Harry, he waits too long to act, and Cho becomes the girlfriend of Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson). Then, in a shocking moment, Cedric is killed. Some time later, Cho and Harry become a couple. They’re not meant to be, though, and fans couldn’t wait for Harry to get away from her.
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Moviegoers and readers alike were frustrated with Cho’s character in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. They were bothered that all she did was whine and cry about the past, while being jealous about Harry’s friendship with Hermione Granger (Emma Watson). Did fans expect perfection from the character? Her boyfriend was murdered! Why would she not be grieving, especially as a scared and confused teenager? Acting all happy, as if nothing happened, would have been nonsensical. Her jealousy over Hermione shows how afraid she is to lose someone else she cares about.
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Collider Exclusive · The Sorting Hat Awaits Which Hogwarts House Are You? Gryffindor · Slytherin · Hufflepuff · Ravenclaw
Four houses. One destiny. The Sorting Hat has considered thousands of students — now it’s your turn. Answer honestly and discover where you truly belong at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
🦁Gryffindor
🐍Slytherin
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🦡Hufflepuff
🦅Ravenclaw
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What quality do you value most in yourself? Answer as honestly as you can — the Hat always knows.
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A friend is being treated unfairly. What do you do? How you protect others says everything about who you are.
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What does success look like to you? What you’re working toward defines who you’re becoming.
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What is your greatest fear? Fear is the most honest thing about a person.
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The rules say no. Your gut says go. What do you do? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What kind of friend are you? Who you are to the people you love is who you really are.
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You look into the Mirror of Erised. What do you see? The mirror shows the deepest desire of your heart.
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The Sorting Hat pauses. It whispers: “You could do well in any house. But what matters most to you — truly?” This is your tiebreaker. The Hat always listens.
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The Sorting Hat Speaks Your House Has Been Chosen
After careful deliberation, the Sorting Hat has made its decision. This is the house your values, your instincts, and your particular way of being in the world were made for.
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Gryffindor Tower · Scarlet & Gold
🦁 Gryffindor
You have nerve. Not the reckless kind, but the deep, quiet courage that shows up even when you’re terrified — especially then.
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Gryffindors don’t act because they’re fearless — they act because they understand that some things are worth being afraid for.
You stand up for people when it would be easier to look away.
You charge toward what’s right even when the odds are terrible.
Harry, Hermione, Ron — the heroes of Hogwarts’s greatest chapter — all called the tower with the scarlet and gold home. And now, so do you.
Slytherin Dungeon · Emerald & Silver
🐍 Slytherin
You are driven, sharp, and utterly clear-eyed about what you want and how to get there.
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Slytherin has long been misunderstood — painted as the house of villains when it is, at its best, the house of those who refuse to accept limits placed on them by others.
You are resourceful, strategic, and you play the long game.
You know your worth. You protect your own fiercely.
The dungeon common room with its view of the Black Lake is yours — and the ambitions that will take you further than anyone expects are yours too.
Hufflepuff Basement · Yellow & Black
🦡 Hufflepuff
You are the kind of person that makes the world genuinely better just by being in it.
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Hufflepuff is not the “safe” house or the “leftover” house — it is the house of those with the greatest heart and the most unwavering integrity.
You show up. You work hard. You don’t need glory or recognition — you do what’s right because it’s right.
Your loyalty never wavers, even when tested.
Nymphadora Tonks, Cedric Diggory, Newt Scamander — some of the wizarding world’s finest. And now you join them.
Ravenclaw Tower · Blue & Bronze
🦅 Ravenclaw
Your mind is your greatest gift, and you’ve always known it.
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Ravenclaws are the thinkers, the questioners, the ones who find a puzzle irresistible and a good book better company than most people.
Ravenclaw is not merely about intelligence — it’s about the love of learning, the pursuit of truth, and the rare courage to admit you don’t know something yet.
You see the world with unusual clarity and depth.
Luna Lovegood, Filius Flitwick, Rowena Ravenclaw herself — all extraordinary, all original. And so are you.
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Summer Finn in ‘500 Days of Summer’ (2009)
Tom and Summer looking at each other in 500 Days of SummerImage via Fox Searchlight Pictures
500 Days of Summer is one of the most realistic and heartbreaking romances. In the movie, Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) meets Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel) and falls madly in love. There’s just one major problem: Summer doesn’t look at love the same way that Tom does. While he’s a hopeless romantic, Summer is guarded, having come from parents who divorced. It leads to a struggle between opposing goals.
500 Days of Summer does not have a happily ever after. Summer breaks up with Tom, and those craving a sweet ending were not thrilled. They took their anger out on Summer, but it’s a hate she doesn’t deserve. She told Tom how she felt about relationships and how she didn’t want to be a girlfriend, yet he continued to pursue her anyway. Over and over, she shared her honest feelings, only to be ignored because Tom was falling in love with the idea of Summer, not the real, complicated, and independent woman. His heartbreak is all his fault and no one else’s.
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Rose Tico in ‘Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi’ (2017)
Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.Image via Disney
To say that fans hated the latest Star Wars trilogy is an understatement. Some of that hate isn’t unfounded, as Episodes VII through IX are a step down creatively. Still, one character got so much undeserved derision that it hurt the actress playing her. In Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, we’re introduced to Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), a woman mourning her murdered sister who works with Finn (John Boyega) to help in the fight against the First Order.
In the era of social media, Kelly Marie Tran received a tremendous amount of ugliness on Twitter. They thought there was zero chemistry between her and Finn and found Rose and the preachy dialogue she was given unrealistic. Worse was the hate the actress received for being a strong Asian woman. It led to her penning a piece for The New York Times where she wrote about the online harassment and her refusal to be marginalized by keyboard warriors.
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Jar Jar Binks in ‘Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
Jar Jar Binks in ‘Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace.’Image via Lucasfilm
In 1999, after a 16-year absence, George Lucas returned to the franchise that had made him a household name with Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The film follows the childhood of the future Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), who is helped by Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). It was also the introduction of one of the most divisive characters in movie history, Jar-Jar Binks (Ahmed Best).
Binks is a goofy Gungan who helps the heroes. He’s there as comedic relief, and Star Wars fans couldn’t stand him. His character was seen as over-the-top and his voice infuriating, and he took up too much time when we wanted to see the bigger stars. Although those are valid arguments, Jar Jar is still a hero and a sidekick who deserves some moments to shine. Is he annoying? Sure. But he’s also supposed to be. No one likes him, yet he keeps trying and fighting anyway.
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Wendy Torrance in ‘The Shining’ (1980)
Shelley Duvall as Wendy, looking at a typewriter in fear in The Shining (1980)Image via Warner Bros.
Stanley Kubrick‘s adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Shining is considered to be one of the greatest horror movies ever made. Kubrick’s direction is celebrated, as is the acting talent of Jack Nicholson, who plays Jack Torrance, a winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel slowly being driven mad by the building’s ghosts. As he turns murderous, it’s up to his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), to protect their gifted young son, Danny (Danny Lloyd).
While The Shining was being celebrated, Duvall’s performance was mocked. She even won a Razzie as the worst actress of the year. Some didn’t like her version of Wendy, who whines and cries often. Duvall didn’t deserve the grief she received. Wendy is not meant to be a badass final girl. She’s showing the trauma she’s going through. How is this physically weak woman supposed to act when the love of her life is trying to kill her and her child? Wouldn’t you be terrified and find it hard to move, too? Duvall perfectly sold the trauma as Wendy overcame and fought back. In the end, the Razzies rescinded their “award” and recognized how great the performance was.
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