These Are Your Favorite Spaceship Reveals in All of Pop Culture
Last week, I asked you—yes you, or at least, the plural you that is the io9 readership—to tell me your favorite…
So, Who Could Squad Up for The Suicide Squad?
Suicide Squad 2 is dead, long live James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad.
8 of the Coolest Details We Learned From Into the Spider-Verse's Sumptuous Art Book
Oscar-nominated Ray of Pure Joy and Light Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is one of the best superhero movies of all…
Game of Thrones' Final Season: A Definitive List of Everyone Who Will Live or Die
Valar Morghulis. We’re approaching the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, and we’ve seen so many deaths over…
The Best and Worst Afterlives in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
The concept of a great beyond, whether heavenly or hellish, exists across so many fictional universes—be they part of…
The Strange, Beautiful, and Now Tumblr-Friendly History of Sci-Fi Musicals
Science fiction has a complicated history in musical theater. Much like the Academy Awards, which usually reward…
28 of the Coolest Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movies That Got Dumped in August
Hollywood has what we like to call dump months. These are the couple of times a year where studios toss the movies they…
The Weirdest and Most Wonderful Alternate Dimensions in the Marvel and DC Universes
Comics are filled with alternate realities—that’s why they call them multiverses, after all. While strange, most of…
The 10 Biggest Questions From the Westworld Finale, and What We Already Know About Them
Westworld has ended its second season with more unsolved mysteries than it started with. Here are some of the biggest…
5 Great Deadpool Stories That Are About More Than Just Humor
Deadpool 2 is just days away, and what better way to wait for the film than to dig into the Merc with a Mouth’s comic…
A Tribute to Hawkeye, a Character Who Is Definitely in Avengers: Infinity War at Some Point
Avengers: Infinity War features practically every iconic hero from Marvel Studios’ decade of groundbreaking superhero…
The Weirdest Rumors About the Marvel Cinematic Universe That Never Came True
This month, years of meticulous movie planning will culminate in the release of Avengers: Infinity War, smashing…
Samurai Zombies, Birdmen, and the Other Weirdest Foes Lara Croft Has Ever Fought
Lara Croft has been raiding tombs on and off for over two decades’ worth of video games at this point, but her latest…
9 Expanded Universe Force Powers Way Crazier Than Anything in The Last Jedi or Rebels
The latest Star Wars movie and this week’s Star Wars: Rebels finale have given us looks at Force abilities and…
12 Scifi Movies That Totally Deserved to Win Best Picture Before The Shape of Water
Look, The Shape of Water is great. Seriously, it is. But when you look at film history, the fact that The Shape of…
Gaze in Wonder at 15 of the Most Breathtaking Post-Apocalyptic Worlds
Life as we know is over in the transmogrified plot of real estate where Annihilation happens. It’s the latest scifi…
8 Times Black Panther Was an Unbelievable Badass
Black Panther isn’t just one of the Marvel universe’s smartest and most powerful heroes, he’s often the one with the…
12 Streaming Movies for Nerdy Romantics on Valentine's Day
Valentine’s Day is upon us, so we’ve scoured the big three streaming services—Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime—for…
5 Times That People Claimed to Be Real-Life Time Travelers
Time travel as we see it in movies—using DeLoreans, phone booths, hot tubs, and the like—obviously doesn’t exist. But…
The 8 Best (and 4 Worst) Twist Endings in Scifi and Fantasy Movies
Scifi and fantasy films are famously fond of twist endings. Certainly, authors like Richard Matheson and TV shows like T…