Curated playlist
Fiction about regicide
- MacbethIn Macbeth, three witches tell a Scottish general he will be king. Murder, guilt, and paranoia follow.
- HamletThere is no single, settled Hamlet. Three early versions of Shakespeare's play survive, each with lines the others lack.
- Captain America: Civil WarThe villain of Captain America: Civil War beats the Avengers with patience and a stolen book of trigger words.
- Tales from Earthsea (film)Hayao Miyazaki never looked at his son Gorō's storyboard for Tales from Earthsea.
- Game of ThronesHBO made the Game of Thrones pilot redo about 90 percent of its footage. The re-shoot changed cast and directors.
- Final Fantasy XVIIn Final Fantasy XVI, the hero hunts a fire monster that turns out to be him.
- Oedipus RexIn Oedipus Rex, a king vowing to catch a murderer is the killer. Sophocles' play opens with Thebes dying of plague.
- Final Fantasy XVFinal Fantasy XV shipped five million units in one day. Square Enix said that covered its development costs.
- DishonoredDishonored, a 2012 action-adventure game from Arkane Studios, begins with a murder its hero cannot prevent. Corvo Attano is bodyguard to the Empress of the Isles. Assassins restrain him by magic and kill her. Corvo is framed for the crime…
- Code GeassCode Geass is a Japanese anime television series produced by the studio Sunrise, and its premise rests on a single dangerous gift. The gift is called Geass, and it is the power of absolute obedience. Whoever receives it can issue a command…