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Als Dolores Umbridge in Hogwarts das praktische Zaubern verbot, half nur noch Ungehorsam. Im Raum der Wünsche brachte Harry seinen Mitschülern bei,...

Bei manchen Leuten braucht der Sprechende Hut keine drei Sekunden. Ein Blick, ein Ruck, und es steht fest: Gryffindor. Mut, Draufgängertum und die ...

Die Karte des Rumtreibers verrät jedem, der sie zu öffnen weiß, wer gerade wo durch Hogwarts läuft. Vier Schüler haben sie einst gezeichnet und mit...

Auf der Raumstation kommt das Mittagessen aus Beuteln, sauber festgezurrt, damit die Erbsen nicht durch das Modul segeln. Romantisch ist das nicht,...

Das Wappen von Hogwarts trägt einen Wahlspruch, der klingt, als hätte ihn jemand nach einem sehr langen Tag formuliert: Draco dormiens nunquam titi...

Über ein Problem sprechen die Comics erstaunlich selten: Wer die halbe Nacht über den Dächern von Gotham hängt, ist am nächsten Morgen ziemlich neb...

Auf der ISS ist Wasser das kostbarste Gut an Bord. Jeder Tropfen wird aufgefangen, gefiltert und wieder getrunken, Atemluftkondensat und Schweiß in...

Zweites Schuljahr, Gewächshaus drei: Professor Sprout verteilt Ohrenschützer, und alle greifen zaghaft nach den grünen Büscheln. Wer eine Alraune a...

Der Schlüsselbund ist der letzte Ort im Leben, an dem noch echtes Chaos herrscht. Alles andere ist sortiert, benannt und durchsuchbar, aber in der ...

Kein Trainer bricht ohne Gepäck aus Alabastia auf. Bevor es hinaus ins hohe Gras geht, wird gepackt: Tränke, Beeren, ein paar Pokébälle und natürli...

Hawkins, 1986: Eddie Munson steht auf dem Tisch der Cafeteria und wirbt lautstark für den Hellfire Club, die Rollenspielrunde der Highschool. Die h...

Some people need three paragraphs to explain their opinion. Wednesday Addams needs one look over the top of her book. She does not smile, she does ...

Anyone who has ever stood in front of a locked door with their arms full knows the urgent wish for a third hand. The Addams family solved that prob...

If you spend year after year organising the perfect scare, rehearsing every scream and sending every wisp of fog to exactly the right spot, sooner ...

Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo: art lovers hear those four names and think of the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance, everybo...

Officially, Hawkins is about very large threats. What gets quoted years later, though, are the side notes: the police chief who cannot form a sente...

In these games a single golden ring is your entire life insurance: take a hit while you still have one and you get straight back up, with the rings...

Eight evolutions and one single ball of fluff: Eevee is the pocket monster that still cannot make up its mind. Fire, water, lightning, psychic, dar...

The best part of getting a present is the moment right before the paper tears: everything rustles, everyone is watching, and for a few seconds ther...

Black coat, red clouds: when somebody walks through the streets in that pattern in Naruto Shippuden, half of Konoha knows the day is about to get u...

Mine sand, set down a furnace, add coal and wait. At the end glass blocks tumble out and the dirt hut finally gets windows. Anyone who has ever bui...

Some heroes need a backstory in three volumes. And then there is He-Man, whose profile fits comfortably on a beer mat: muscles, a big shiny sword, ...

Five figures in wide brimmed hats, a routine timed to the tenth of a second and the firm intention not just to conquer the charts but to move in pe...

Back in the day the stickers of your favourite band went into a collector's album and the duplicates changed hands in the school yard. Today the co...

There is that one evening where the plan consists of exactly three things: couch, series, snacks. The crisp packet is within reach, the noodle bowl...

In 1993 the most exciting theme park in film history invited a handful of guests to a preview on an island off Costa Rica, and that preview lasted ...

A Quidditch match can drag on, in the wizarding world for days if it has to. Goals, Bludgers, reckless dives through the air: nothing is settled wh...

Badges on a lapel are a quiet language: a small piece of metal that says where someone belongs without a single word. Clubs and guilds have worked ...

Frodo does not wear the One Ring on his finger but on a plain chain around his neck, and for good reason. On the finger it turns you invisible and ...

Clark Kent wears glasses, a tie and a posture nobody looks at twice. The actual hero only shows up when he tears the shirt open and the red S flash...

In the world of Borderlands there is exactly one symbol everybody reads at a glance: the circle with the jagged triangle inside it. It marks a Vaul...

A trio that protects its fans from demons by singing, and a boy band that wants to collect those very same fans: in KPop Demon Hunters the stage tu...

When Final Fantasy IX arrived, it felt like a small rebellion: away from motorbikes and skyscrapers, back to clanking suits of armour, a black mage...

A god of death doesn't carry keys – but you do. Ryuk, the immortal Shinigami from Death Note, who threw the fateful notebook to Light Yagami and ha...

In Kaiju No. 8, the Defense Force stands between humanity and towering monsters, and hardly anyone goes about it as coolly as Soshiro Hoshina. As V...

The world of Kaiju No. 8 is plagued by monstrous creatures, and stopping them takes nerves of steel. Mina Ashiro has those in spades: as Captain of...