You might think that the adorable creatures in Pokémon have completely made-up names, but they do take inspiration from real ...

In an episode titled How I Won the War, characters Gary and Phoebe become part of a wartime concert troupe, and viewers are introduced to Sid and Nancy Potter – a duo portrayed by real-life ...

Director Tejas Prabha Vijay Deoskar’s Ground Zero draws from one such real but lesser-known, high-stakes operation. It follows Border Security Force (BSF) Commandant Narendra Nath Dhar Dubey and ...

A new report has uncovered a community of Roblox players who digitally re-create and “play” through real-life school shootings. Known as “Active Shooter Studios,” or A.S.S., the group has ...

The company is gradually accepting orders for the Eeveelutions’ life-size plushes in three separate batches. The first ones immediately available to order are the first-generation Flareon ...

Uncharted spent so many years in development hell that fans started joking that the game’s fictional lost treasures would be found in real life before ... to be cute rather than terrifying, and Ryan ...

Pikachu is far from the only Pokémon with real-world animal inspiration. The franchise has a long history of drawing from nature to create its diverse array of pocket monsters. Bulbasaur combines ...

I wanted to stay as close to the truth as possible." The real-life suspect behind the Apple Store hostage crisis was identified by Dutch authorities as Abdel Rahman A., later publicly named in ...

The truth behind the miniseries is about the real-life Barnett family, who shared their perspective about adopting Natalia Grace in the ID docuseries The Curious Case of Natalia Grace. Natalia ...

But what if we tell you that Ae-sun and Gwan-sik are more than just beautifully written characters? Instead, a couple who exists in real life? Here’s everything to know about the real story behind ...

From Hello Kitty to Pikachu ... as an aesthetic but as a way of life — as a trauma response: sublimated rage, learned helplessness, a numbing of the mind. Cute is the opiate of the people.