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Sailor Moon’s biker gang cosplay girls are beyond badass

Remember Babs Tarr’s awesome “Bōsōzoku Sailor Scouts” art? Well, a group of outstanding cosplayers have brought them into real life, and they are completely awesome. In the name of the moon, they will kick your fucking teeth in. https://gizmodo.com/sailor-moon-grows-up-and-joins-a-bosozoku-biker-gang-476641895 Your Sailor Scouts are as follows: Sailor Moon: Michelle “Chubby Bunny” Nguyen, IamChubbybunny.com Sailor Mercury: Mandie…

Darth Vader is hilariously unintimidating with Little Anakin’s voice

What if Darth Vader’s voice modulator broke and he reverted to sounding like Jake Lloyd again? The results may surprise you, but they will almost certainly make you laugh. To be fair, not every insertion of Jake Lloyd’s lines from The Phantom Menace over Darth Vader’s dialogue in A New Hope is brilliant, but holy…

Agent Peggy Carter’s new mission might be a TV series

The Marvel short Agent Carter isn’t even out yet — you’ll have to wait until the Iron Man 3 Blu-ray hits next Tuesday — but Marvel apparently has confidence in Captain America’s former flame. Deadline reports that they’re developing a potential TV series based on Ms. Carter. Now, “developing” can mean a whole host of…

Syfy has just nabbed the Canadian werewolf series Bitten, starring Smallville’s Laura Vandervoort. The show, based on the Women of the Otherworld books by Kelley Armstrong, is about the first female werewolf, and is set for 2014. Sounds like a good companion piece to the sexy supernatural series Lost Girl to us (if hairier).

The time Walter Cronkite was zapped into the digital world of Tron

Back in 1982, famed broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite visited the set of Tron to learn about this crazy new world of “computer-generated effects” and managed to get himself zapped inside The Grid himself. Hey, did you know that computer graphics can be changed… with a mere phone call!?! Also, check out Kronkite’s quote about the…

Mercury is made of carbonite and Han Solo is frozen in it

Huh. I always thought Mercury was mostly made of rock, but this picture — taken by the Messenger probe in 2011 but only released by NASA last week — clearly shows the frozen form of Han Solo trapped inside it, so it obviously must be made of carbonite. That’s just science, people. NASA themselves offered…

Breaking Bad inspires George R.R.Martin to make an even worse villain

A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin is an avid viewer of Breaking Bad, but couldn’t help but note on his blog after last weekend’s episode “Ozymandias” that “Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros.” His next thought? “(I need to do something about that).” https://gizmodo.com/in-breaking-bad-blood-doesn-t-always-run-thicker-than-1324863782 Holy hell. Given…

Should Star Wars and Star Trek ever have a crossover?

Dear people of the post-apocalypse: As you may remember from the days before the great vague catastrophe that destroyed the world, the motto of the post office was “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” As the first new postman, let…

The Air Force Chief of Staff gave a briefing in a Captain America mask

Is Air Force Chief of Staff Mark A. Welsh just a commander having a bit of fun at a briefing, or is he an actual super-soldier? Or is he moonlighting as a Mexican wrestler? Because he is definitely wearing a Captain America-styled luchadore mask. The Air Force itself tweeted the above picture, so I assume…

It’s demon and witch versus werewolf mob boss in This Week’s Comics

Is True Blood too… slow-paced for you? Then you should probably pick up Dark Horse’s new series Kiss Me Satan, in which a variety of monsters hunt down a witch and her demon bodyguard for a New Orleans mob boss who happens to be a werewolf. But there’s more monsters, melancholy and madness in this…

Terrifying clown stalks the streets of Northampton, England

Do you have coulrophobia, a fear of clowns? Then you probably should cancel your trip to Northampton, England, because an unknown clown is showing up random places, walking the street, and generally freaking everyone completely out. According to his completely creepy Facebook page, he isn’t trying to terrorize people, he just wants to be spotted……

The Canadian scifi series Starhunter is returning — but as a web series. The 2001-03 show has been picked up by Starfield Indie, who plan to debut 26 new episodes beginning in November. There are plans for an online game, various graphic novels, and the HD rerelease of the original series, too. [Via The Hollywood…

Ron Howard confirms The Dark Tower is still in the works

Hey, there’s some actual news about Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman’s massive, ambitious The Dark Tower movie-and-TV-series mega-project, and the news is good: They’re still working on it… they’re just being really quiet about it. Howard told Empire: The Dark Tower is something that we’re still working on. We’ve all taken a vow of silence…

Bill Nye turns Cha Cha Guy in his Dancing with the Stars debut

As prophesied, Bill Nye the Science Guy had his inaugural dance on Dancing with the Stars, a chacha set to — what else? — the Weird Science theme, inside a mad scientist’s laboratory. Nye was somehow surprisingly good but totally awkward at the same time, but he didn’t get booted off, so the experiment will…

Ben Affleck responds to Batman controversy in incredibly Batmanish way

Ben Affleck went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and finally addressed the Internet’s complete meltdown to his casting as Batman in the Batman/Superman movie. I think Batman himself would have approved of his response: “I handle shit.” Of course, that awesome line came in the middle of a funny and charming anecdote — it…

Doctor Who reveals another forgotten Doctor in This Week’s DVDs

John Hurt isn’t the only Doctor Who Doctor that somehow got lost in the timestream. Before Chris Eccleston helped revive the series in 2005, there was another Ninth Doctor entirely, one that disappeared… until this week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases. Plus: shirtless superheroes, the fastest zombies on Earth, and more! • Arrow: The Complete First…

The Dark Knight trilogy continues in this amazing Nightwing fan flick

Still sad Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies are over? Well, then you might want to consider donating to this Indiegogo campaign to help make a fan flick continuing the story, set one year after the events of Rises, where John Blake has carried on Batman’s legacy as Nightwing. Here’s a 7-minute preview! As you can see,…

The Nerdist’s Zero Charisma movie may not be doing nerds any favors

The stereotype about role-players is they’re overweight, still live with their parents, have no social skills, and take their fantasies far too seriously. So here’s the trailer for Zero Charisma, which is about an overweight man who lives with his family, is completely devoid of social skills, and who takes role-playing so over-seriously he apparently…

The 10 Most Memorable Dungeons & Dragons Monsters

The classic role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons borrowed countless creatures, myths and monsters to fill its fiend folio, but not all of them. Gary Gygax and the other D&D creators added a few ideas of their own to the lexicon of monsters. Here are 10 creatures that will never be forgotten, especially by the role-players…

The most delicious severed hands and feet you’ll ever eat

Sorry, aspiring cannibals — these hands and feet are actually made out of chocolate, not the dead. They’re entrants in Miss Cakehead’s annual Eat Your Heart Out Halloween event, but they are full of the event’s sponsor, Kraken rum. It’s like eating pieces of the world’s sweetest deceased alcoholic! [Via Laughing Squid]