Small Gifts with a Nerd Factor

Wade Wilson redet. Immer. Mit den Gegnern, mit sich selbst und ziemlich oft mit dem Publikum, weil Deadpool immer wieder mitten im Comic bemerkt, d...

Von allen Bewohnern Bikini Bottoms hat einer den ausgeprägtesten Sinn fürs Festhalten. Mr. Krabs, Besitzer der Krossen Krabbe, riecht einen verlore...

Selbst die größten Helden vergreifen sich mal. Tony Stark hat aus Versehen einen Weltuntergangsroboter gebaut, und der halbe Planet durfte anschlie...

Es gibt diesen einen Moment in fast jedem Super-Mario-Spiel: Du rennst los, der Boden zieht unter dir vorbei, und über dir schwebt eine Reihe Münze...

Zehn Staffeln, ein durchgesessenes orangefarbenes Sofa und dieser eine Anmachspruch, den Joey Tribbiani zur Kunstform erhoben hat: „How you doin'?“...

Groots gesamter Wortschatz besteht aus drei Wörtern: Ich bin Groot. Rocket versteht trotzdem jede Nuance, vom trockenen Kommentar bis zum tiefen Se...

In Springfield gibt es zwei Konstanten: Homer sitzt am Tresen von Moes Taverne, und vor ihm steht ein Duff. Das Bier mit dem roten Schriftzug hat e...

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

Der Schlüsselbund ist der letzte Ort im Leben, an dem noch echtes Chaos herrscht. Alles andere ist sortiert, benannt und durchsuchbar, aber in der ...

In Rick and Morty läuft im interdimensionalen Fernsehen eine Werbung für den Plumbus, ein Ding, das angeblich jeder zu Hause hat. Wie er hergestell...

Im Zauberkunstunterricht entscheidet die Betonung. „Wingardium Leviosa“ mit der falschen Silbe, und statt einer schwebenden Feder gibt es eine Rauc...

Some people need three paragraphs to explain their opinion. Wednesday Addams needs one look over the top of her book. She does not smile, she does ...

Anyone who has ever stood in front of a locked door with their arms full knows the urgent wish for a third hand. The Addams family solved that prob...

If you spend year after year organising the perfect scare, rehearsing every scream and sending every wisp of fog to exactly the right spot, sooner ...

Oblivion starts with you sitting in a dungeon cell without the faintest idea why. Then the Emperor himself walks straight through your cell, fleein...

Officially, Hawkins is about very large threats. What gets quoted years later, though, are the side notes: the police chief who cannot form a sente...

A hundred coins and the counter flips over into an extra life. Hardly any game has made collecting loose change as satisfying as Super Mario, and a...

In these games a single golden ring is your entire life insurance: take a hit while you still have one and you get straight back up, with the rings...

Some video game landscapes sit so firmly in your head that you could still sketch them decades later: pixelated hills, a chequered floor, palm tree...

In 1980 a game designer put a machine into the arcades that shot down no aliens and blew up no tanks. Instead: a yellow circle, a maze, four ghosts...

Before a pirate crew gets round to any adventure, somebody has to make coffee first. In the morning half the crew sits around the table saying noth...

The best part of getting a present is the moment right before the paper tears: everything rustles, everyone is watching, and for a few seconds ther...

Imagine tapping your fully packed moving box with nothing but your fingertips and watching it float. That is exactly the Quirk of Ochaco Uraraka fr...

Mine sand, set down a furnace, add coal and wait. At the end glass blocks tumble out and the dirt hut finally gets windows. Anyone who has ever bui...

At the court of Eternia, Prince Adam was long seen as the slightly idle son of the king, the one who ducks out of every bit of trouble with a smile...

Some heroes need a backstory in three volumes. And then there is He-Man, whose profile fits comfortably on a beer mat: muscles, a big shiny sword, ...

Back in the day the stickers of your favourite band went into a collector's album and the duplicates changed hands in the school yard. Today the co...

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

There is that one evening where the plan consists of exactly three things: couch, series, snacks. The crisp packet is within reach, the noodle bowl...

A proper band needs more than music. The faces end up on posters, the name turns into a brand, and sooner or later half the group is standing on a ...

On paper Nick Fury’s plan made no sense at all: a billionaire in a metal suit, a god of thunder, a super soldier thawed out of the forties and a sp...

Five figures in wide brimmed hats, a routine timed to the tenth of a second and the firm intention not just to conquer the charts but to move in pe...

Ordinary playing cards have been ruled by the same little court for centuries: king, queen, jack, all of them solemn and none of them with any expe...

Long before anybody in the wizarding world thought of typing a message, there were owls. The most famous of them is Hedwig: the white snowy owl Har...

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

More than a thousand pages, six books and an appendix full of family trees and calendars: reading The Lord of the Rings keeps you on the road for q...