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She-Ra’s SDCC Panel Revealed Adora’s True Origins, and How They Nabbed Geena Davis

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s third season is just around the corner, and our heroes and enemies are getting bigger and stronger. The princesses have established themselves as a unit—but just as Adora is gaining strength, so is Hordak. And the next season is poised to reveal Adora’s true origins, her connection to Hordak, … Continued

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The Coolest Star Wars and Marvel Reveals Hasbro Brought to Comic-Con

Every San Diego Comic-Con, Hasbro lifts the lid on what fans can expect from its line of toys and collectibles from the galaxy far, far away as well as the comics and movie universes of Marvel. This year is no exception, with everything from some very cute Star Wars figures to…Squirrel Girl on a moped?? … Continued

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Supergirl’s Media Landscape Is Getting More Intense With New Arrivals and a Major Exit in Season 5

During yesterday’s Supergirl season five panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the cast and crew took to the stage to both debut the first trailer for the next leg of Kara’s adventure, and to shed a little light about some newcomers who are on their way to shake things up in National City. This fall, Veronica … Continued

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Dungeons & Dragons Is Celebrating 5 Years of the 5th Edition With a Gorgeous Return to Its First Adventure

When Dungeons & Dragons rebooted its ruleset for its 5th official edition back in 2014, alongside the rules, Wizards of the Coast offered an epic battle against Tiamat herself as the first adventure for new heroes to deal with. Now, five years on, they’re revisiting it for a special, and rather fabulous looking treat. Announced … Continued

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New Concept Art Reveals Our First Look at Black Widow’s Taskmaster

When some concrete info on the Black Widow solo film finally dropped last night at San Diego Comic-Con, all the hints pointed toward Taskmaster, a dude with the power to instantly replicate any physical action he sees, as the villain. Now, with the release of a new official illustration, that’s pretty much confirmed. Andy Park, … Continued

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Young Justice Is Coming Back for Season 4

Much like one of its newest heroes Halo, Young Justice is a series that keeps on avoiding death in part because of the people who love it so dearly. You can try to keep it down, and even cancel it, but it just keeps coming back stronger. During the Young Justice portion of the DC … Continued

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At Snowpiercer’s SDCC Panel, All Anyone Could Talk About Was the Cows

TBS’s Snowpiercer debuted its first trailer at its San Diego Comic-Con panel, along with an extended scene giving us a look at what’s to come. The action was impressive, making the audience feel just as jostled and terrified as the folks on the train. But the real victims were the cows—and after the scene was … Continued

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Doom Patrol Season 2 Will Stream on HBO Max and DC Universe

What the Doom Patrol panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con lacked in the way of footage from the show’s upcoming second season, it made up for with an interesting bit of news. It might be easier for people to get into the series in coming months courtesy of Warner Bros.’ newest streaming endeavor HBO. … Continued

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Everything We Learned About The Expanse Season 4 From the Cast and Crew at SDCC

New episodes of The Expanse are officially coming our way in December—and we now have a better idea of what to expect from the sci-fi show’s fourth season, its first after moving from Syfy to Amazon Prime. The first trailer and clip from the new season blew our minds, but we pulled it together to … Continued

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Tom King, Doc Shaner, and Mitch Gerads’ Next DC Series Is Strange Adventures

The creative minds behind the Eisner-award-winning Mister Miracle are reuniting—and throwing in an old friend who helped King on one of the most interesting Green Lantern short stories—to bring Adam Strange back to the DC universe in a big way. Announced today at the “DC Sunday Conversation with Dan DiDio” Comic-Con panel—following some big, big teases … Continued

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Westworld’s Comic-Con Panel Dove Into the Murky Ethics of A.I., in Our World and Delos’

More than a year has passed since we got the explosive finale of Westworld season two and it’ll be several more months until we find out what happens next. However, at Comic-Con 2019, the show’s creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy took the stage with stars Thandie Newton, Aaron Paul, Tessa Thompson, Evan Rachel Wood, … Continued

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Brandon Routh’s Kingdom Come T-Shirt Stole Arrow‘s Final San Diego Comic-Con Panel

Thousands of fans poured into San Diego Comic-Con’s Ballroom 20 yesterday expecting to see the Arrow cast’s emotional farewell during a panel for the show’s final season. That’s exactly what they saw (tears were shed), but what no one expected to witness was a very excited Brandon Routh (Legends of Tomorrow) with some major news … Continued

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The Flash Season 6 Trailer Introduces Sendhil Ramamurthy’s Villainous Bloodwork

Barry Allen’s fought all manner of frighteningly imaginative villains on the CW’s The Flash (and more than enough fellow speedsters, thank you very much), but in the first trailer for the series’ sixth season, the fastest man alive’s facing off against the sort of horrific foe you wouldn’t expect to pop up on a show … Continued

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Netflix’s Dark Crystal Comic-Con Panel Was the Stuff of Dreams

The third time was the charm for Lisa Henson. At San Diego Comic-Con Friday, the daughter of legendary filmmaker Jim Henson said she’d been to Comic-Con two times before with a Dark Crystal project. Neither of those panned out. It wasn’t until this time, sitting in front of 7,000 fans inside Hall H, with a … Continued

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The Magicians’ Julia Meets a Literal Sexist Pig in the First Clip From Season 5

Some very big events took place in the season four finale of Syfy’s The Magicians. What adventures can we expect next? A new clip out of San Diego Comic-Con gives us a small tease. The Magicians had a panel at SDCC on Saturday with Stella Maeve, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Hale Appleman, Arjun Gupta, Summer Bishil, … Continued

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Everything We Learned From Marvel’s Hall H Panel

Marvel’s back in Hall H after a short hiatus and it’s brought an incredible amount of news to celebrate its return. From the cast of The Eternals film, to details on Black Widow’s last (?) hurrah, to some idea of what actual movies will go with all those release dates Disney and Marvel already announced … Continued

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“It’s Me, Dickhead”: The New Harley Quinn Trailer Reminds Us This Series Isn’t for Kids

It’s been a hot minute since we actually got to see DC Universe’s animated Harley Quinn series in action. But at Comic-Con today, DC gave us another glimpse at Harleen’s zany antics, and she’s still taking a page out of a certain other hero’s playbook by delivering the metahumor in spades. And it’s a lot! … Continued

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There Was Almost Too Much News at the Star Trek Comic-Con Panel

Discovery. Picard. Lower Decks. And that’s just the start of the topics covered at CBS’s wide-ranging “Enter the Star Trek Universe” panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019. Though the return of some familiar faces on Picard was probably the highlight of the Hall H panel, fans learned so much more about these upcoming CBS All … Continued

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The Walking Dead‘s Greg Nicotero Talks Creepshow and Its Connection to His Lifelong Love of Horror

Horror anthology film Creepshow has become a horror anthology TV show, thanks to Shudder and The Walking Dead’s Greg Nicotero. Details on the six-episode series have been trickling in since the series was announced, but now there’s a trailer—and at Friday’s Comic-Con panel, we got details galore from showrunner Nicotero and the other big names … Continued

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It’s Official: Valkyrie Will Be the MCU’s First LGBTQ Hero

It’s been a long time coming—a long, long time. But tonight, Marvel Studios confirmed to io9 that, after literally years of teasing, that the Marvel Cinematic Universe will get its first LGBTQ superhero in Thor: Love and Thunder. And yes, it’s Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie. Speaking to io9 in the wake of Marvel Studios’ barnstorming San … Continued