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Science fiction franchises

  • Sony's Spider-Man UniverseSony's Spider-Man Universe is a film series where Spider-Man is not prominently featured.
  • Metro (franchise)The Metro franchise started in 2002 with a single novel, Metro 2033, by the Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovsky. It has since grown into a sprawling world of novels and video games. Much of it was written by people other than its creator.…
  • Resident EvilResident Evil was almost named Biohazard, but the name was already taken. A DOS game and a punk band held it.
  • Mass EffectMass Effect began in 2003 as a pitch to build a universe on the scale of Star Wars. BioWare wanted to own it entirely.
  • Gears of WarGears of War begins its fiction with a death toll. The event is called Emergence Day. In only 26 hours, the Locust Horde, a race of subterranean creatures, kills 25% of the population of the planet Sera. From that catastrophe grows a…
  • WarcraftWarcraft got its name because it "sounded super cool." Blizzard's co-founder said the word had no particular meaning.
  • TransformersTransformers had earned more than ¥2 trillion, about $25 billion, by 2011. That figure places a line of shape-shifting toy robots among the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The property is produced by the American company…
  • Universe of Star WarsThe Star Wars universe holds, by one 2009 reference book's count, nearly a billion inhabited star systems. That book is Star Wars: The Essentials Atlas, written by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry. They add that nearly seventy million of those…
  • The Boys (franchise)The Boys is an American media franchise set in a world where superpowered people, called Supes, are cheered as heroes by the public. Behind the cheering sits Vought International, a powerful corporation. It markets the Supes, monetizes…
  • Battlestar GalacticaBattlestar Galactica made its American television debut on the 17th of September 1978, and the first broadcast did not run smoothly. About 30 minutes before the scheduled end, the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David Accords…

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