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Think there were too many characters turning into flaky bits and floating off into the sky in the Battle of Hogwarts? Concept artist Andrei Riabovitchev has released some stills from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 that show a slightly different Voldemort departure. Plus, check out a few close-up shots of some giants!

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The name of this episode was "Game Ogre" because it was about Ogres. And that pun perfectly exemplifies just how lazy Grimm has become. At what point are we going to develop these characters beyond just giving them sassy quips and hobbies? Screw it, let's just run a gavel through a judge's head. FAIRY TALE MURDERS! More »
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Many people in the 20th century assumed that the average citizen of the 21st century would be taller. More »
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The tallest person who ever lived stood nearly nine feet tall, making him nearly double the size of the average human. What creates such remarkable extremes, and what's the absolute tallest a human being could possibly be? More »
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Bigfoot, Nessie, Ogopogo, the atmospheric jellyfish — (most of) these cryptids are household names. But did you know that there's a subfield of cryptozoology that deals with massive hominids, sequestered on our planet's hidden places? Let's take a look at some curious cases of Brobdingnagians amongst us. More »
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In his 1912 silent film La Conquête du Pôle ("The Conquest of the Pole"), pioneering French director Georges Méliès introduced audiences to one of the most underrated monsters in movie history — the man-eating ice giant of the North Pole. More »
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The bitter debate that rages between the proponents of giant monsters and the advocates for giant people is one that will probably never be settled, but we can at least attempt to explain what each side brings to the table. On the one hand, giant monsters like Godzilla and Space Godzilla (pictured here in an awesome fight) can do things like gnash their teeth and fly. But human giant monsters can actually talk and also flash their breasts (see video below). We lay out the pros and cons of giant monsters, and the pros and cons of giant people, and you can decide for yourself which mega-forms will rule. More »
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Hey, it's Friday! And if you're like me, you're heading out to the Karaoke to guzzle $1 PBRs and holler into a super-echoey mic at a crowd of people who (hopefully) are even drunker than you are. But being an enlightened, forward-looking person, what you really want is to bellow a science fiction song into the mic. We've got you covered with our handy list. More »
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Here's the sleaziest and most scifi moment from the unappreciated classic Dude Where's My Car. The two stoner dorks have just "saved the universe" by handing over a big universe-destroying machine to a pair of Arnold Schwarzenegger clones. But the five vaguely identical evil alien women want to destroy the universe, for some reason that's never really explained. So they morph into a single giant, who stomps through the video arcade, munching on fratboys before finally getting splatted. Click through for an even sleazier moment featuring Jennifer Garner. More »
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