The generation of ninja that Naruto focuses on is super strong. Whether it’s taught or inherited, many of them get their signature techniques – or at least their potential – from their parents. Who are the strongest parents of Naruto characters? Naruto Uzumaki’s parents, Kushina and Minato, are obvious contenders. Kushina kept the Nine Tailed fox sealed in her body,…
While Batman stands for order and good in the world, the Joker is an agent of chaos. But there have been times when the Joker was good. Yes, he frantically sows as much terror as possible as he attempts to prove that everyone is a monster on the inside. Where Batman demonstrates what people can be…
Almost everyone who grew up in the 1980s and ’90s remembers those classic Nickelodeon game shows – Double Dare, Finders Keepers, Legends of the Hidden Temple, and GUTS. The silly televised contests were exclusively made to entertain kids and featured fun games, rewarding prizes, and often lots of slime. But what was it really like to try out, compete, or be a…
Dysfunctional heterosexual anime relationships are practically a staple in the genre, so it stands to reason the person often making everything terrible is a dude. While some anime men are inexplicably boring, the worst boyfriends in the medium are manipulative, neglectful, unfaithful, and abusive. Some, like Light Yagami, even straight-up kill their girlfriends. If you’re in search…
There’s so much happening on screen during The Cabin in the Woods – Easter eggs, monster cameos, inside jokes – that it can be easy to forget that it’s just as chaotic behind the cameras. While fans are busy enjoying the story and theorizing about its meaning, plenty of people had to work hard just to make sure audiences would be able…
Certain characters from Saturday Night Live have become especially memorable and manage to remain a widespread cultural reference years and years later. These types of rare SNL signature characters often possess the dynamite combination of having been written from a unique perspective and performed by the only person who could pull it off. Dana Carvey as the Church Lady, Molly Shannon…
At some point in their lives, usually around the time of puberty or some earlier traumatic event, any individual in the Marvel Universe possessing an X-Gene will undergo significant change as mutant powers emerge. However, some don’t stop there. Mutant powers have been known to change over time – be it through some form of secondary mutation…
The Truman Show is one of those movies that you keep thinking about for years after seeing it. The 1998 comedy/drama/science fiction film follows a man who was adopted by a company as a child and lives his life inside a controlled television show until he finally begins to catch on to the scheme. Prior to his acclaimed…
There’s no shortage of classic Spider-Man villains who have served as antagonists in the webslinger’s big-screen adventures, but the strange circumstances of the modern film industry mean that a bunch of Spidey villains are now also expected to hold up solo franchises of their own. Venom, Carnage, and even Morbius: The Living Vampire have all…
For a crudely animated cartoon about four young Colorado boys living in their small rural hometown, South Park has seen and done it all. After nearly two decades on the air, there are few topics the Comedy Central series has not broached, tackled, or skewered in some form or another. Even early on in the show’s successful run, it…
