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· Comics / Grimm Universe
Malec's history makes the Dark One a much nastier character than the name alone suggests. Before he was commanding the Dark Horde and trying to conquer Earth, he was a prince in Myst. His own life was shaped by a brutal kingdom, war, and sl...
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The Dark Horde gives Grimm Fairy Tales an enemy that can keep showing up in very different kinds of stories. There are armies to fight, people being manipulated, magical objects being hunted down, and plans reaching across the realms. The s...
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Shang is one of those mentors whose help comes with a very reasonable question: how much does he know that he still hasn't told anybody? He helps Sela understand her place in the larger conflict, but the explanations arrive in stages. At on...
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Sela Mathers starts out with a responsibility that sounds much simpler than it actually is. Find somebody who is about to make a terrible choice, show them a story that might reach them, and give them a chance to do something different. The...
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Hakan gives Neverland a place in the council that can be easy to overlook when so much attention goes to the more familiar characters from that realm. He's a chief of its tribes and one of the representatives involved when Sela is brought i...
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Thane is connected to one of the biggest decisions in the early Grimm Fairy Tales stories: releasing the Dream Eater. That's a pretty serious thing to have attached to your name, especially when the reason for doing it is to stop another th...
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Nissa's ability to travel between realms makes her a much more important character than the amount of attention she gets might suggest. A fairy who can open a portal has something an entire army needs, and the Dark Horde understands that ve...
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Blake has a lot on his shoulders for someone who can easily get overshadowed by the bigger names in Grimm Fairy Tales. He's the White Knight from Wonderland, he's part of the council dealing with the threat to the realms, and when that coun...
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So many amazing characters in Mass Effect. I played 1, 2, and 3 obsessively for a long time. I was really upset that they're shutting it down. I love Andromeda too, even though most people complain about it. I'm just hoping they change thei...
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The High Council is one of the reasons the Grimm Fairy Tales universe starts feeling so much bigger than Sela and the people she encounters with her book. There are entire realms involved, and those realms have leaders, responsibilities, an...
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SCP-114 is a woman whose presence makes people become violent toward each other. She doesn't appear to know she's causing it. As far as she understands, this is simply how people behave. That is an awful perspective to be trapped in. If eve...
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SCP-113 looks like a little polished red stone, but touching it can permanently change your body's sex characteristics. The process is painful, and trying to undo it is dangerous too. It bonds to exposed skin and begins a staged transformat...
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Three minutes on SCP-112 can feel like months to the person strapped into the seat. That is a horrible amount of time to spend waiting for a rollercoaster to stop. The train disappears at its main drop and returns three minutes later. Rider...
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SCP-111 is a species of little fire-breathing dragon-snails sold as children's pets. Someone apparently looked at a snail and decided it needed horns, a personality, and the ability to set the house on fire. They're around twenty centimeter...
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SCP-110 is an entire buried city, and the part that gets me is how much ordinary life had been built into it before everything went wrong. It sits roughly half a kilometer beneath New York and covers about six square kilometers. A temporal...
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Wiz-Kid is a character I haven't seen nearly as much of as some of the others, but I've really enjoyed the appearances he has had. Taki almost seemed to come out of nowhere when Artie and Leech met him at St. Simon's boarding school, and th...
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Artie and Leech have become so closely connected in these stories that it's easy to think of them as a pair before thinking about how they actually met. They came into the books from different directions, and their friendship starts during...
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Leech comes into the X-books through the Morlocks, and his early history is closely tied to what life is like for the mutants living underneath New York. He's a little green kid whose appearance immediately marks him as different, even befo...
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Artie Maddicks is one of the younger characters who ends up in the middle of a surprising amount of trouble in the early X-Factor stories. He's usually remembered alongside Leech, but his introduction has a lot going on before that friendsh...
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Forge is one of my spirit characters. I'm a huge Forge fan because I love technology, machinery, cybernetics and geoengineering, and the idea of somebody whose mutant ability lets him figure out how to build almost anything is something tha...
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