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The Marvel heroes are kind of one step away from being Power Rangers like heroes, right? They have costumes and a few more or less have transformation sequences (look at Iron Man, he may as well shout ...

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Walking around the convention floor of the Japan World Heroes convention in Pasadena, California you can’t go a minute or two without hearing a cry of, “That’s so awesome!” No, it’s not an over eager ...

The fight or flight response is so embedded in the human psyche that we unconsciously apply it to art. The most obvious example of this occurs in the horror genre, as most monster movies fall into one ...

Editor’s note: Nerdist is a subsidiary of Legendary Entertainment. While comic books manage to seamlessly translate from the printed page to the big screen, anime and manga haven’t had the same luck.