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Superhero Batman and Superman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. Art by Alex Ross and Jim Lee Book Subject More Fun Comics Mind Out of Time!
A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest". Since the debut of the prototypal superhero Superman in 1938, stories of...
Character Occupation Journey into Mystery X-Men
Film genre Civil War The Legend of the Batman - Who He is, and How he Came to Be
Media genre Project Superpowers A Death in the Family, Part One
Computer Game Genre Captain America Comics A Death in the Family, Part Two
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Fantasy Dobrynya Nikitch rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych Book Subject Fables The Sandman: Dream Country
Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and...
TV Genre Jack of Fables A Midsummer Night's Dream
Computer Game Genre Calliope
Literary Genre A Dream of a Thousand Cats
Website Category Façade
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Fantasy literature   Book Subject Fables The Sandman: Dream Country
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of film, television programs, graphic novel,...
Literary Genre Jack of Fables A Midsummer Night's Dream
Media genre Calliope
Award discipline A Dream of a Thousand Cats
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Fiction Alice, a fictional character from the work of Lewis Carroll Literary Genre   A Midsummer Night's Dream
Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form...
Media genre The Sandman: Dream Country
Field Of Study Calliope
Award discipline A Dream of a Thousand Cats
Quotation Subject Façade
Comic book Cover of DMZ #17, story and cover art by Brian Wood Literary Genre   A Midsummer Night's Dream
A comic book -- or comic for short -- is a magazine or book containing sequential art. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily humorous; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented. Comic books...
Type/domain equivalent topic The Sandman: Dream Country
Media genre Calliope
Adaptation medium A Dream of a Thousand Cats
Broadcast Genre Façade
Short story   Book Subject   A Midsummer Night's Dream
The short story is a literary genre of fiction, prose narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such as novella (in the modern sense of the term) and novel. Short stories have their origins in oral story...
Type/domain equivalent topic Calliope
Literary Genre A Dream of a Thousand Cats
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Graphic novel Trade paperback of Will Eisner's A Contract with God (1978), often mistakenly cited as the first graphic novel Literary Genre   The Sandman: Dream Country
A graphic novel is a type of comic book, usually with a lengthy and complex storyline similar to those of novel, and often aimed at mature audiences. The term also encompasses comic short story anthologies, and in some cases bound collections of...
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Zombie A participant in a zombie walk in Calgary Film genre   Marvel Zombies
A zombie is a reanimated human corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the dead being raised as workers by a powerful sorcerer. Zombies became a popular device in modern horror...
Character Species Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness
M:TG Creature Type Marvel Zombies: Dead Days
Film subject The Walking Dead
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Detective   Profession Will Eisner's The Spirit  
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. They may be known as private investigator (P.I.s or "Private I's", hence the play-on-words, "Private Eyes"). Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is...
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Dystopia Les voyages de Gulliver Book Subject Y: The Last Man  
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia. A dystopian society is a state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad,...
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Anti-hero The Man with No Name, an often cited example of an anti-hero, played by Clint Eastwood Character Occupation Jack of Fables  
In fiction, an anti-hero is a protagonist who is lacking the traditional heroic attributes and qualities, and instead possesses character traits that are antithetical to heroism. The word anti-hero is a 20th-century construction. The 1940 edition...
Media genre The Maxx
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Cyberpunk The hacker as hero: Lain from the cyberpunk anime series "Serial Experiments Lain". Book Subject Transmetropolitan  
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." The name is derived from cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983, although...
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Parallel universe Robert A. Heinlein, in The Number of the Beast, postulates a six-dimensional multiverse Book Subject Wanted  
Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a multiverse, although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes...
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