We honestly didn't expect the "morning spoilers" feature to be as popular as it's been. We came up with it as a way to do a daily news roundup with a more interesting spin than just "Daily News Roundup." And it was also a way to avoid having too many headlines about "what's next on Heroes" on the front page of the blog. But we're stoked that people have seemed to enjoy the thrill of forbidden knowledge.

The Biggest Spoilers Of 2008:

Batman Takes The Blame For Harvey Dent's Crimes. We reported a pretty accurate synopsis of The Dark Knight last January, but even we thought it was fake. We also had pics of Nurse Joker visiting Harvey Dent in the hospital, before the movie came out. And we had a report that a scene featuring the Joker in a bodybag might be cut from the movie.

Samuel L. Jackson's Iron Man Cameo. Thanks to the miracle of cameraphones and YouTube, we had it up a day or two after the movie opened.

Transformers Spy Camera Photos. Still don't believe there's an ice-cream truck Transformer in the new movie? Here's the proof.

The Wolverine Comic-Con Trailer. Our first precious glimpses of the Blog, Emma Frost, Deadpool and a host of other characters, in a trailer that still isn't officially out, I think. We posted a cameraphone copy.

Watch The Cloverfield Monster Do The Funky Chicken. Our hours of googling paid off —  we found a weird animated gif of the Cloverfield monster the day after the movie opened, when people still really wanted to see Clovey in action. Here it is again:

Battlestar Season 4 Clips. A ton of vids of the first half of season four surfaced before it started airing, and we posted them here.

Star Trek Set Pics. Still possibly our best look at the movie's new version of a shuttlecraft.

Watchmen's Rorschach Without His Mask. A video we came across, which may still be the best chance to see our favorite psychotic detective with his mask off.

Doctor Who Spoiler Rundown. Details of all of season four — and they were accurate, amazingly enough.

The Wrongest Spoilers Of 2008:

The Doctor Meets Scrooge (And He's An Alien). That was one of the reports in our massive roundup of spoilers and rumors for the recent Doctor Who Christmas special. There was also the persistent report that the Christmas special was a remake of the audio adventure "The One Doctor," about a con-man pretending to be the Doctor. Also, there was this wonderful synopsis of the end of season four:

Former Prime Minister Harriet Jones is consumed with hatred for the Doctor, especially after she finds out her successor as prime minster was a member of the Doctor's own species. She managed to get aboard the Valiant and witnessed the entire year of Harold Saxon's reign of terror which "never happened." It was Harriet who stole the Master's ring from his funeral pyre, and uses it to help an army of Daleks, led by Davros, to escape from beyond reality.

Other rumors included the idea that all the previous Doctors would turn up (they did, but not in person) and David Tennant will definitely play the Doctor all through 2010. Oh, and when David Tennant started to regenerate in the penultimate episode of last season, he was turning into John "The Master" Simm. And River Song is really Romana!

It's All Right, Megatron's Coming Back. Actually, Michael Bay just said, once and for all, that Megatron is dead, and he doesn't turn up in Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. That didn't stop people from circulating alleged concept art of the new movie version of Megatron a while back. Plus this picture of him in his tank mode:

We've also posted some rumors and concept art for Soundwave, the cassette-player Decepticon (He's a truck! He's a satellite!) but we still don't know the actual truth about him. And we reposted a rumor that the Fallen isn't one robot, he's a swarm of robots.

The Mother Of All Deaths On Heroes. Honestly, it's hard to tell the real spoilers for this show sometimes, because the actual storylines are so ridiculous. Just the other day, we linked to a Spanish spoiler report, which included a ton of plot twists including "the mother of all deaths," in the "Fugitives" story arc. Turned out it was actually the mother of all hoaxes. Other wrong Heroes spoilers: Maya dies during the "Villains" arc, Hiro goes to the "dark side," and Nikki dresses like a hooker and gets arrested. (We even had pictures of that last one.) Also, Taeko, the Japanese woman Hiro fell for in the past, was supposedly going to turn up in the present. We also reported on several people saying season three would be totally awesome, which I'd say was a false rumor.

Don't Worry, The Squid's In There! I can't find where we reported that right now, but we definitely said a few times that the famous giant squid is still in the ending of Zack Snyder's Watchmen movie. And then Snyder admitted it wasn't. Who knows? Maybe by the time the Fox lawsuit gets dealt with, Snyder will have had time to put the squid in there after all.

It's Not Earth. Or It Is, But There's Another Earth. We reposted rumors and reports from various people saying that wasn't Earth that the Galactica crew found in the most recent Battlestar episode.

Also, we're highly doubtful about a SyFy Portal report we linked to, which cited an inside source saying that the planet Galactica found in the mid-season finale is called "Earth-1," which was destroyed in a catastrophe — at which point the survivors of Earth-1 fled to another planet called Earth — which is "our" Earth. (It seems clearer and clearer, from the statements everyone's made, that there's only one Earth, and it's the one they reached. On the other hand, there are those pics from the show's "wrap reel" that show Six in New York, wearing her red dress. I'd assumed those were just promo pics, but you never know.

Someone's Read An Outline Of The Dark Knight Sequel! This just has to be fake: The sequel features Talia Al-Ghul as the main villain, taking revenge for her father's death at Batman's hands. It also features the Riddler and the Penguin, and sets up a fourth movie, where the Joker and Riddler escape from Arkham.

A separate report said Two-Face definitely survives, and is the main character of the third movie, which also features Robin. Also, in The Dark Knight, Batman has radar-mapping abilities that turn his eyes white. And Anthony Michael Hall plays a rich playboy who's jealous of Bruce Wayne.

Wolverine Features A Young Scott Summers, aka Cyclops! We're 99 percent sure this isn't true.

Mulder Turns Into A Werewolf In X-Files 2. We still wish that one was true.

Below are eleven of the year's best science fiction novels, with links to our reviews of them - as well as several interviews we did with the authors. Now's the time to catch up on what you missed out on reading last year!

Liberation, by Brian Francis Slattery
Here's what we said in our review of the novel:

What would the United States look like after the collapse of everything? The answer isn't a zombie-strewn wasteland or a sudden revival of punk-rock fashions, but rather something more like a flashback to the mid-19th century. The frontier spirit, small communities banding together, roaming Indian tribes... and huge masses of the population living in slavery. Brian Francis Slattery's dystopian second novel, Liberation has many brilliant ideas, but its depiction of a 21st century revival of slavery is really what burns it into your memory.

Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
Here's what we said about Stephenson's smash hit novel:

The planet Arbre, which is very much like Earth in some ways, differs from our world one major respect. Its religious and scientific institutions are essentially reversed. Monks called the avout live ascetic lives studying science in gracious, ancient "maths," while the so called "saecular" world is populated with Deolators (god-worshipers) who are obsessed with religion and technology. Stephenson's world-building skills, honed by the exacting work he did on his recent Baroque Cycle trilogy, are at their best here. Anathem is that rarest of things: A stately novel of ideas packed with cool tech, terrific fight scenes, aliens, and even a little ESP.

We also interviewed Stephenson about the novel.

Nano Comes to Clifford Falls, by Nancy Kress
A collection of Kress' short stories from her many years of writing, this book was disturbing, frustrating . . . and memorable. Here's what we said about it:

Nancy Kress loves to thwart our expectations about the future. In her new short story collection Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories, she takes stereotypical SF tales of galactic colonization, alien invasion, and nanotech singularities — and slaps them upside the head. In one story, aliens "invade" Earth by landing a spaceship and just letting it sit in rural Minnesota for centuries; in another, we see the nanotech singularity from the perspective of people in a small prairie town. A story ostensibly about exploring a black hole at the center of the galaxy turns out to be about how AI uploads of people actually have better personalities than their originals.

The Alchemy of Stone, by Ekaterina Sedia
We were blown away by Sedia's stark, beautifully-written portrait of a cyborg caught in the middle of a workers' revolution. Here's what we said in our review:

With a face made of porcelain, a wind-up heart, and a talent for alchemy, Mattie is hardly a typical science fictional robot. While most novels about robots focus on how these humanoid machines are stronger and smarter than humans, Ekaterina Sedia's The Alchemy of Stone explores the vulnerability of mechanical beings who depend on humans for repairs and survival . . . [Sedia's] focus on Mattie's relationship with her creator allows her to grapple with the tiny power struggles inherent in all human relationships — especially those between men and women.

We also interviewed Sedia about the book, and got into a really interesting discussion about robots and women.

Sly Mongoose, by Tobias Buckell
This novel about fighting zombies on a floating habitation bubble hovering over a Venus-like cloud planet is definitely the year's best action novel - and still manages to be thoughtful. Here's what we said about it in our review:

If there's anything better than a ninja fighting zombies, it's a ninja with alien-tech-enhanced powers nuking space zombies infected by a plague of collective murderous consciousness. And I haven't even gotten to the part about floating cities on a Venus-like planet covered in sulfur-specked clouds. That's the beauty of Tobias Buckell's latest novel, Sly Mongoose. Just when you think the action can't get more insane, it does. Even better: Just when you think you're reading a pure military SF adventure, Buckell gives you a wide-angle shot of the larger political context where the alien smackdown is blowing up, and takes your breath away.

The Night Sessions, by Ken MacLeod
MacLeod is never one to shy away from the big, weird questions, and this novel is no exception. Here he wonders whether robots might become Protestant terrorists. In our review of this amazing novel, unfortunately available only in the UK, we said:

Ken MacLeod's latest novel, The Night Sessions, is about a near-future Earth that's ruled by atheists who have driven Christians into the closet. The "Faith Wars" have purged governments in the East and West of their religious leaders, and left in their wake a fairly peaceful world order. Still, the population is filled with people and sentient robots haunted by memories of the violent "God Squads" who led the anti-religious purges . . . An intricate murder mystery about Protestant terrorist factions of the future, The Night Sessions is also a strangely moving tale of the emotional bonds between humans and robots. MacLeod has given us a crisp novel of speculation made achingly realistic by his characters' believable, messy lives.

Earlier this year, we interviewed MacLeod about why science fiction has gone back to the near future.

Postsingular, by Rudy Rucker
Rucker takes us on another mind-bending, nano-powered ride. Here's how we described it:

It's not much of a spoiler to say that the Singularity happens in Rudy Rucker's new novel Postsingular, since the title gives that development away. But what happens after the Singularity will surprise you. People usually define the Singularity as the moment when artificial intelligences improve themselves to the point where they surpass us, but Rucker's singularity takes many more forms, and is much more confounding, than that.

Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
In our feature on how young adult books will save science fiction, we talked about Doctorow's stunning YA novel that rebooted scifi for teens. Here's what we said:

We're lucky to have both YA literature with science-fictional themes and "regular" science fiction. There's no reason we can't have both, and appreciate both for what they are, including the innovation and breadth of concepts that mature science fiction can explore. But we should especially celebrate the awesome potential of YA SF to revitalize the field, and bring new readers to SF concepts.

Matter, by Iain M. Banks
The latest in Banks' celebrated Culture Series, Matter is a tale of war and betrayal set inside a giant, artificial habitat made of nested spheres. Here's what we said in our review:

Iain M. Banks is the master of narrative zoom and pan: one minute he'll bring you in very close to a tiny moment in one person's life as she mourns the death of a brother, and the next you'll be spinning in deep space staring at a supermassive artificial world created by liquid-breathing aliens, millions of miles long, made of enormous braided tubes. Which of these minutes matters more? In Banks' new novel Matter, both do — and both are also tragicomically inconsequential. What always pleases about Banks' science fiction novels, many of which are set against the backdrop of a pan-galactic, A.I.-centric, socialist-libertarian society called The Culture, is that Banks always delivers substance and spectacle. You'll get the ethical questions, the sorrowful depictions of war, and the meditations on social evolution. But you'll also get world-shattering explosions, weird-ass aliens, and ancient technologies that are purely there to be fucking cool.

We also talked to Banks about why he likes to blow things up.

Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
A young adult novel about a girl warrior in a post-apocalyptic world, Hunger Games delivered the awesome. Here's what we said in our review:

Suzanne Collins has written a sharp book about televised death-sports in a post-apocalyptic future. Her story pits a resourceful young hero against a media machine that doesn't just want to watch her die — it also wants to devour every bit of her emotional life. I'm sick of "reality TV" parodies, but the Hunger Games goes one better by making the audience the villains.

Multireal, by David Louis Edelman
An amazing hard scifi tale, this is the second in an action-packed series from Edelman. Here's what we said in our review:

With so much mass-media science fiction featuring anti-science heroes who battle to stop science from "going too far," it's great to read a really smart novel about a hero who's fighting to save scientific progress from being suppressed. David Louis Edelman's Multireal, the second volume in the trilogy that begins with Infoquake, is a welcome cure to the Fringe/Eleventh Hour science-bashing, even though it presents both the pro- and con- arguments about radical progress. But Multireal is also way more entertaining than the science bashers.

True Blood - Dirt Sex - Fourth Man In The Fire
They are seriously having sex while he is covered in dirt, everywhere. I don't know what kind of medicine to even prescribe for that infection you know she's going to get.

Smallville - Maxima Super Slut - "Instinct"
Maxmia is really needy and quite ridiculous. Withing five seconds of meeting, they're already on to lame elevator sex but, uh oh — guess who pops by.

Torchwood - We Stare Dramatically - "Meat"
Oh my this is just bad acting, full of lip biting and staring. I've never heard anyone say TOMORROW so sternly and yet so full of sadness.

Fringe - Peter Takes Requests (But Not Really) - "Ghost Network"
Oh I so could have done without the entire piano shtick. We really didn't need to turn Walter's lab into a piano bar.

Scream Queens - Is Deaf Voice Funny?
This reality TV show is amazing especially when they decide to do their decapitated head character as a deaf woman.

Heroes - Claire's Death - "The Eclipse Part 2"
This is only really annoying because she didn't die.

Knight Rider - The Car's On Fire, So Let's Get Naked - "A Knight In Shining Armor"
Excuse Number 1,0001 for what's-his-face to get naked, then they pass out naked!

Dr. Who - Annoying Daughter - The Doctor's Daughter
I did not like the Doctor's daughter Jenny, at all. And I especially didn't like it when she came back from the dead. Let me explain some more, it's not because she's "prettier" than, well, everyone in the world in the blond and sweet way, it's because I do not understand where the attachment came from. Why should we care about someone who was so quickly generated and then exterminated? She didn't pull on my heartstrings in the right way.

Heroes - Sylar's Mama Is Disturbing - "A Second Coming"
This mom on son cheek stroking is so disturbing

Testees - Fart Baby - "Gas Pill"
Two idiot human guinea pigs think that they are "pregnant" from a pill they start taking, and give birth to a giant fart. Worst scene in 2008.

In terms of SF comics, 2008 feels a bit... lacking, to be honest; there was nothing with the energy of King City or Wonton Soup, and a lot of the best books were final issues, instead of the start of something new (Collections and reprints-wise, it was a great year, however - I'd point you in the direction of Skyscrapers of the Midwest, The Babysitter and Jack Kirby's OMAC, to begin with - but they weren't really created this year...). It might just be a necessary lull; next year has new work from Paul Pope, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Brandon Graham, James Stokoe, et al, after all. But it did make this year seem curiously anemic in retrospect. So here is the pick, perhaps, of a poor bunch:

BEST
All-Star Superman
Quite simply, the best superhero comic of the last few years. Tapping into the awe-filled tone of the 1950s and '60s Superman stories while still seeming contemporary, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's twelve-part reinvigoration of the Man of Steel finished this year with the perfect send-off: Something positive, optimistic and just a little melancholy.

Casanova
Matt Fraction's sci-fi superspy series filled its second run with time-travel, sex and gigantic reality-altering weapons before, in its final issue, folding in on itself with a reveal that, at first, felt like a cheat but ultimately recast everything that had gone before and made you need to re-read it like you need to breath. If only everything was this fearless.

(Fraction almost ended up on this list twice; his Invincible Iron Man series for Marvel was, to my mind, the ideal follow-up to the movie, finally figuring out a way to make the character interesting without making him an asshole.)

Fight Or Run: Shadow Of The Chopper
You can argue amongst yourself whether this silent series of strips is really science fiction or not, but Kevin Huizenga's videogame-inspired shorts that bring two surreal characters face-to-face to see their response works both as an exercise in comic formalism and experimentation, and as a funny, surprising reading experience. Me, I'd probably run.

Final Crisis
Yes, there have been a lot of problems with DC's big 2008 "event" - the seeming inability to hit deadlines and switching of artists midway through the story, to start with - but despite it all, Grant Morrison and company's slow-motion apocalypse has been creepy and hypnotic, all the moreso for the way in which it refuses to play by the rules.

Love & Rockets: New Stories
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis analogs slaughter aliens. Surely I don't need to say anything else.

Patsy Walker: Hellcat
I don't know if it's the lightness of Kathryn Immonen's writing, the pop of David LaFuente's artwork, or just the sass of the book's star, but there's something wonderful and unexpected in this lowkey miniseries from Marvel about a fashion model-turned-superhero fighting magical demons in Alaska. In the middle of the publisher's highly successful year, this hidden gem is easily the best thing they put out.

Project Superpowers
Again with the "unexpected" thing, I didn't expect much from Alex Ross and Jim Kruger's 1940s superhero revival... and certainly not the most strange and unusual superhero series of the year. The US government creating zombie soldiers in the Middle East? Lying ghosts with hidden agendas? An evil corporation of robots manipulating everyone that just so happens to have the same name as the parent company of the publisher? It's all here, my friends. Just don't ask me what it all means.

Teen Titans: Year One
It took animation writer Amy Wolfram and artist Karl Kerschl to finally fulfill the potential of DC's team of sidekicks, by offering a story that stayed on the right side of cartoony, but kept an undercurrent of angst and insecurity to provide characters who actually acted like teenagers, for a change. Add some of the best art to appear in any comic book this year and you have a very underrated winner.

WORST
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes
A strange one, this. It's not really the quality of the comic strip itself that lands it in "Worst" position - although the comic strip itself was nothing to write home about, pretty much generic "alternate world"isms from Warren Ellis and friends - but the format. Charging $4.99 for 16 pages of comic book would be a bit much for a small indie company with a lot of overhead and little say in the matter... but for Marvel to do it, especially without letting fans or retailers know that that's what they were doing...? Kind of an unnecessarily low blow.

Batman RIP
It started so well, but... well, finished so badly. There's very little way to look back at RIP without getting frustrated at the lack of resolution and all the unfulfilled potential left untouched. It's called Batman RIP people - Couldn't you have done something with that that didn't have a villain who may or may not have been the Devil and the most unconvincing, inconclusive death scene ever? Or, for that matter, had a story that actually ended in its final chapter?

Countdown To Final Crisis
DC's Final Crisis may be flawed but great, but the 52-part prelude series kind of missed out the "but great" part of that idea. As well as missing out the "coherent plots, interesting dialogue and story you feel involved in" bits. And, to make matters worse, it outright contradicted multiple points of the series it was created to lead into. Worst of all, perhaps, was the fact that it took the goodwill that DC had gained from their first weekly series 52 and pissed it away in record fashion. An own goal of almost cosmic proportions.

DC Universe: Last Will & Testament
What do superheroes do when they expect to die the next day? Exactly what you'd expect them to, sadly, according to this uninspired, ponderous comic. While not as much of a disaster as Countdown, Last Will & Testament may have actually been a worse comic by dint of just being... well, not unlike well-illustrated fan-fiction.

Jenna Jameson: Shadow Hunter
From its very conception, you knew that a comic that recreated pornstar Jameson as a comic book demon hunter was a bad idea, but only the comic itself could convince you just how much of a bad idea it actually was. Confusingly written, with overwrought narration and a plot that didn't really go anywhere, this was a celebrity tie-in that made Ed Burns' Dock Walloper look like a good idea.

One More Day
This is, of course, a bit of a cheat; One More Day started in 2007, and the final issue came out in the dying days of that year (December 27th, I believe)... But nonetheless, the full effect of it was what started off this year in comics, and pretty much sabotaged the start of Marvel's (remarkably not-as-bad-as-you-think) Spider-Man relaunch - all because Peter Parker made a deal with the devil just to get a divorce (Note: This may be a somewhat biased take on what actually happened in the story itself). Who would have thought that a boneheaded, out of character move that turned your everyman character into a Satan-handshakin' single man would have been one of the big comic news stories of the year? Oh, that's right - everyone.

Secret Invasion
Yes, it was hugely successful, and yes, it was on-time (unlike Final Crisis). But if there was a point to Secret Invasion beyond "Let's try and sell lots of comics," I must have missed it. With a story that lacked plot - or, for about half the series, anything actually happening - based around a premise that was abandoned almost immediately (What if aliens had invaded without us knowi- Oh, wait, they've started blowing things up and coming to Earth as giant green monsters), this was slick, showy... and entirely hollow.

Ultimates 3
I was no fan of Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch's Ultimates, but Jeph Loeb's follow-up was a mind-blowing miscalculation that offered fans of the series almost no continuity with its previous incarnation, garish art outshone only by insanely overblown dialogue and, in a reveal that still boggles the mind, a Black Panther who turns out to be the most white of all superheroes. Pretty much an entire series of WTF that led into Loeb's Ultimatum

We admit it; while we worried that The Dark Knight was overhyped, but that was before the movie made more money than Star Wars. In our defense, such skepticism didn't stop us from giving you the 10 Batman Books You Must Read, or reviewing the movie twice (I still say I was right). While the comic book Batman may have ended up in some uncertain death-state thanks to the much-hyped Batman RIP storyline - complete with equally teased replacements (even if they're not telling you just who said replacement is), there's no way of getting around it: This was the year of The Dark Knight. Here are the ten most popular Batman stories of 2008 - and look at how many of them are related to Christopher Nolan's blockbuster.

5 Villains Batman Should - But Won't - Face In The Next Movie:
When it comes to discussion about what should happen in the follow-up to The Dark Knight, all of the (so far entirely baseless) rumors seem to be centering around all the old familiar characters: Catwoman? The Penguin? The Riddler? Come on, people. Batman's been around for almost 70 years, can't he deal with some other bad guys on-screen for once?

Batman Sues Christopher Nolan Over Success Of The Dark Knight:
It's not a dream or an imaginary story - The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan really is being sued by Batman over unauthorized use of the "Batman" name. But before we all start celebrating the first proof that, as we all suspected all along, let's face it, Bruce Wayne's troubled crimefighter is actually real, I should explain: the "Batman" in question is actually a little-known a city in Turkey. And they're pissed.

Dark Knight Inspires Copycat Crimes, Over-reactions:
It's taken four weeks, but it's finally happened - Fans of The Dark Knight have started to take some of the Joker's methods into the real world, and are paying the price. But, considering what was actually done in the Joker's name, the price being paid may be far too high.

Will The Dark Knight Return?:
With The Dark Knight continuing to rule at the box office, passing the $400 million mark and still going (relatively) strong, it's not surprising that everyone is talking about the next movie even before director Christopher Nolan has agreed to do one. But what's slightly more surprising is the new speculation that a third movie from Nolan would be his first straight adaptation... and that it would be adapting Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.

Dark Knight DVD Psychoanalyzes Itself for You:
Virals, bat-suit extras and behind-the-scenes snippets are packed onto the 2-disc Dark Knight DVD. Spanish site PlanetaHD is reporting on all the DVD goodies that you'll find when Dark Knight comes out, including a documentary that psychoanalyzes the man behind the mask himself.

Catwoman In Batman 3? Depends Who You Listen To:
Will we see Maggie Gyllenhaal's Rachel Dawes in any potential sequel to The Dark Knight? Certain rumors are saying that we will, although she may be going under a much more familiar guise than we've seen her so far.

A Video Peek Into Batman Gone Anime:
The animated Batman DVD will look amazing, judging from the clips you can see in this promo reel. Batman: Gotham Knight will come out when Batman: The Dark Knight hits the big screen.

You Could Become Batman, Says Scientist:
Sure, Batman is cool and all, but he's a work of pure fiction, right? Well, a Canadian scientist and lifelong Batman aficionado has examined the Dark Knight's skills and figured out how regular people could transform themselves into real-life Batmen and Batwomen. There are only six not-so-easy steps to a Bat-enhanced you. Better start training now, because it's going to take about 20 years before you're ready to mete out justice on the mean streets of Gotham City... or Boise.

Meet The Stars Of The Next Knight?:
The Dark Knight's sequel will feature Catwoman, the Riddler and Harley Quinn, as played by Marion Cotillard, David Tennant and Kristen Bell - or, at least, that's the dream of one particular artist who's come up with posters for his version of Chris Nolan's third Batman movie.

Bruce Wayne's Backstory, Dateline-Style:
Gotham Cable News brings us the full tabloid report on playboy Bruce Wayne. Taking a note from flashy entertainment news shows, this detailed report on the scion of the Wayne family catches us all the way up to the new penthouse digs of the billionaire.

Not on the list, sadly, is my personal favorite Batman post of the year - but then, I could always slip this in at the end of the post, and then remind you that it's NSFW. Considering that he's "dead" and all, here's hoping that Batman's 2009 is a little quieter... The other superheroes need some time to shine, after all.

#1: Caption this Photo to Win A Cyborg-Sized Load Of Terminator Gear
Not that we think that you're greedy or anything, but the two most commented upon posts this year were both contests. This one, from March, got 500 comments in response to what amounted to our bribing you to do so with all manner of goodies from Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Damn you, greed!

#2: Win a Copy of Appleseed: Ex Machina on DVD
Who wants a copy of Appleseed: Ex Machina? Apparently, 353 of you did back in April, and left comments to that effect.

#3: Imagine an America Where Socialism is No Longer a Dirty Word
Better yet, imagine a world where a politically-charged post written the day before a Presidential Election gets 344 comments, many of which are somewhat upset that we'd put up a politically-charged post the day before a Presidential Election. If your imagination is somewhat lacking, you could simply check out this post and see the carnage for yourself.

#4: What Chicks Don't Like About Science Fiction
Apparently, what chicks don't like about science fiction is continually being told that they don't like science fiction, according to Annalee. 274 of you let her know that she was damn right, back in May.

#5: Now X-Women Can Be Bimbos Too
Marvel Comics tried to prove that sex sells back in July, and I turned into the Boob Grinch by complaining about it. Luckily, 266 of you were ready to point out that, really, there's nothing that wrong with Rogue's ass - although Storm playing with her hair was a bimbo too far for many of you.

#6: The Coming War Between Religion And Super-Science
Charlie Jane warned us all in April about the possibility of a showdown between science and nature in the 21st Century, and then went ahead to wonder about what stories could come out of such a battle. 259 comments later, we'd discovered that God might've been an astronaut after all.

#7: Battlestar Galactica Goes Planet of the Apes
If you needed any proof that the last episode of the first half of the final season of Battlestar Galactica was controversial, take a look at the 254 comments left after Annalee recapped it, and called it "truly worthy of the promise BSG offered when I first watched the miniseries and thought, 'Holy shit this show is too awesome for TV.'"

#8: No We Can't
What kind of world are we living in when an installment of io9 Ourobouros can get 251 comments itself? Oh, that's right; a world where asking wondering whether or not politics had any place in science fiction is the kind of thing that makes people a little bit agitated. On the plus side, I doubt we're going to write about the inauguration that much.

#9: The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life
Way back in February, Annalee listed the twenty SF books that would "could change the way you see the world, and maybe even change your life." 247 of you wanted to let her know that you appreciated the choices, but wondered where the novelization of The Cat From Outer Space was.

#10: Avatar Casting Makes Fans See... White
Aaaaaand finally - and fittingly from this very month - 241 people were suitably appalled at the casting decisions made by Paramount Pictures for M. Night Shyamalan's big-screen version of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Or, at least, appalled enough to leave comments about it.

MythBusters' Grant Imahara Talks to io9 About Engineering, Star Wars, and the Controversial RFID Episode
Did you know the Mythbusters had to pull a controversial episode about RFID devices? Smarty pants Grant Imahara from the series sits us down and talks science and myth and how his geeky mind launched his career.

First Look at Fan Auteur Sandy Collora's "Hunter Prey"
Sandy Collora the fan's director, literally, sat down and explained to us all about the new dazzling alien world in his latest labor of love, Hunter Prey. It's full of gorgeous set pics and explains how to make a scifi epic on a shoestring budget.

Neal Stephenson Explains What's Wrong with Mobile Phones
From the brilliant mind that brought us Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson explains to us why cell phones are evil in his new book Anathem.

Exclusive Interview With Doctor Who's Steven Moffat
The scariest of the Dr. Who scribes sat down to explain everything you ever wanted to know about Dr. Who like what about the rumors that Dr. Who was influenced by Buffy, details on River Song, and how terribly naughty children's literature is England.

Death Race Director Comes Clean About How Many Cameras Were Smashed During Filming
Video Game movie guru, Director Paul W.S. Anderson, blows me away with his astounding knowledge about car movies and how many cameras he blew to hell on the set of Death Race.

io9 Talks To Cloverfield Monster Designer Neville Page
Cloverfield designer Neville Page opens about his baby "Clover," and teaches us that there is more then one way for Clover to stuff his face full of fleshy human meatsacks.

Starbuck's True Love Is Not Who You'd Expect
Scifi siren, Katee Sackhoff, fills our head with BSG spoilers and teases our eyes with delightful "come hither" glamour shots. More Starbuck please.

Why Is Jewel Staite Always In Bondage? We Asked Her
Science Fiction's incredibly hot girl next door talks to us on video about getting all tied up in the most uncomfortable of places.

William Gibson Talks to io9 About Canada, Draft Dodging, and Godzilla
We sat down for a long chat with Spook Country's William Gibson and grilled his brains about Godzilla.

Jane Espenson Talks About Writing for Firefly and Battlestar — and Gives a Little Secret Cylon Backstory
Brilliant writress Jane Espenson from both scifi loves Firefly and Battlestar Galactica gave us the full disclosure on working on two of the most cultly loved series and the scoop on the Cylon Bible.

Alan Ball Takes Us Behind the Pointy Fangs Of "True Blood"
Lover of Vampires and other stories involving dead things, Alan Ball filled us in on the ins and outs to his new undead darling HBO series True Blood.

Okay, so here are the movies that blew us away and horrified us this year:

BEST:

10. Let The Right One In. This intense, beautiful Swedish movie about a 12-year-old boy's relationship with a vampire did the near-impossible: it almost made us forget the blah Twilight. It's a parable of the world-destroying power of adolescence, that stays with you long afterwards.

9. Teeth. This year saw a boomlet in feminist horror movies, between this film and Zombie Strippers. But the raw satire of vagina-dentata movie Teeth was sharper, and the story of how Dawn comes to realize her toothy mutant pussy is a superpower rather than a curse is a beautiful spin on adolescence.

8. Speed Racer. Pretty much everyone hates this movie except us — Entertainment Weekly listed it twice on its year's worst lists, even as the mag praised the bland Benjamin Button. But we really did love this film, for its crazy, surreal CG vistas and fun follow-your-heart storyline. Racer was the last thing you'd expect from the Wachowskis: a film about family values, in which Speed learns that love for family trumps everything else. (And Susan Sarandon and John Goodman, as Speed's parents, pretty much run away with the film.) This movie is a cult classic waiting to happen.

7. Cloverfield. Of all the movies on this year's "best" list, this is the one I can least imagine wanting to watch more than once. But that's okay, because the one time you watch it, you'll be blown away. At least in the theater, the movie's shaky-camcorder gimmick actually works: it's totally immersive, and you really follow these yuppie dorks as they fight their way through pubic lice and monster debris to save their friend.

6. Sleep Dealer. We called it one of the best small-budget science fiction movies in years, in our review back in October. Set in a future where Mexicans do menial labor in the U.S. via telepresence, Dealer is a commentary on immigration and racism. But it's also a brilliant thought experiment and a character piece. And it has the hottest cyberpunk node-installation scene since the flawed-but-fun Existenz.

5. Iron Man. This movie exceeded our expectations, delivering a mind-expanding story of the military-industrial complex instead of just a superhero punch-em-up. I was so excited, I wrote a giant essay instead of a simple review.

4. City Of Ember. It could have been just another young-people-discover-their-world-is-a-lie movie, but instead it becomes a post-apocalyptic masterpiece. Thanks to Martin Laing's gigantic sets and Gil Kenan's beautiful direction, the subterreanean city becomes a real place. You can actually feel the terror and claustrophobia when the lights start going out. And Bill Murray is in rare form as the corrupt, short-sighted mayor.

3. Synecdoche, NY. Charlie Kaufman gave us Being John Malkovitch and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, but this is probably his weirdest, most surreal movie. Caden (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is suffering from a weird, nonsensical ailment that is making his autonomic functions shut down, and meanwhile his daughter is turning into an anemic fetish model. So he creates an ambitious, incomprehensible work of art — a recursive model of New York inside a New York warehouse, complete with actors playing real people. And it's a comedy. I laughed so hard at the stuff about Caden's therapist, and his attempts to make himself cry when his tearducts have shut down, I nearly choked on my popcorn.

2. The Dark Knight. This movie got us so worked up, we reviewed it twice. Sure, it was too long — and did the Joker really have to put explosives in the hospital and the boats? — but its ambition pays off, in the end. The story of Harvey Dent's fall from grace is epic enough to support all of the movie's endless incidents and action set pieces. And we're still debating the movie's politics (Pro-torture? Pro-surveillance? Anti-hero? Nihilistic or just anarchic?) months later.

1. Wall-E The only movie in years that I've wanted to watch again, right away. If I hadn't been starving and late for dinner, I would have watched it two or three times in one sitting. The first half hour, featuring the cute-bot in the post-apocalyptic abandoned Earth, is poetic and slapsticky. But then Wall-E gets into space, and it just gets crazier and more satirical, all without ever being mean or cheap. Plus it's a moving robot love story.

Even though 2008 was a pretty awesome year for movies, I still ended up with way more candidates for the "worst" list than the "best" list, sadly.

1. Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. This is one of those movies that I was so-so about at the time, but it's gotten worse in my mind since then. Too much Shia, especially Shia of the Jungle. Criminally underused Karen Allen. Mostly, too much boring retreading of past Indy movies, and CG ants, and a totally crap alien head-melting ending.

2. Hancock. All we could think about were ways it could have sucked less. Like if it was really a comedy instead of a bland romp that turns melodramatic halfway through. It had one joke, and ran it into the ground like... like a drunken superhero who smashes into the asphalt when he flies. A couple of funny moments couldn't rescue this dud.

3. Doomsday. Actually, this one belongs on a special so-bad-it's-great list. You'll be getting drunk/stoned and watching this one on DVD long after most "good" movies are forgotten. Just for the cannibals who dance to Fine Young Cannibals, and Malcolm McDowell's SCA kingdom. Yes, it's pretty terrible, but in a wonderful way.

4. X-Files: I Want To Believe. Wasn't this a show about people who investigate things? Apparently not, or at least the movie turned into a dull relationship drama. Bleh.

5. Jumper. I liked the clips of the "jumpscar" special effect and the whole bus-attack thing, but it didn't make for much of a movie. Even with a script by David Goyer, the whole thing is underwhelming. You keep waiting and waiting for David (Hayden Christensen) to step up and become a hero — or at least become interesting to watch — and it never happens.

6. The Day The Earth Stood Still Unlike my colleague Nivair, I hadn't pre-judged this one. I really thought it could be a good film in its own right, even if it wasn't true to the original. I was horribly, eye-searingly wrong. It starts out great, but then Keanu goes on a boring road trip while droning about the environment and eating at Mickey D's. Giant robot Gort shows up here and there, but he can't stop the movie from standing still.

7. The Happening could have been an interesting film — people start killing themselves in horrible ways, for no reason. But then it had to turn into a horror film about trees trying to destroy us, until they change their minds. People stare in horror and despair — at trees. Ohh kay.

8. Meet Dave. With a script by MST3K's Bill Corbett and a cool concept (a tiny guy lands on Earth in a human-sized spaceship that looks like him), this could have been a fun ride. Instead, it's a showcase for Eddie Murphy doing funny voices.

9. Space Chimps We got one great animated science fiction movie, so of course Hollywood had to punish us with an avalanche of drek. Including this horrific Andy Samberg vehicle about monkeys in space. Probably Fly Me To The Moon belongs on this "worst movies" list too, but none of us saw it. It was too soon after Chimps, and it just looked like pure torture.

10.The Spirit could have been sorta great too — we love Will Eisner, and Frank Miller used to be one of the greats, 20 years ago. But Miller has turned into a self-parody, and he decided to go all-out with the crazy camp in this film. Weirdly, even though this film is a visual maelstrom and features an eyelinered Samuel L. Jackson dressing as a Nazi and torturing cats, the film's biggest problem is that it's boring.

And then there were a lot of movies that were neither "best" nor "worst," they just were. Like, say, Incredible Hulk. It wasn't a great movie, it wasn't a terrible movie, it was just adequate. Call it "the credible Hulk." Or Death Race, which I couldn't bring myself to hate despite the lackluster third reel. Or Wanted, which was as dumb as ten piles of rocks but looked purty. Or Star Wars: Clone Wars, which was a fun, if forgettable, TV show, which got put on the big screen due to George Lucas' hubris.

Who’s the Tallest Giant Monster?

See how the Cloverfield monster stacks up against the likes of Godzilla, Gamera, and King Kong. Learn who is the tallest monster, and which human-made statue is larger than nearly all of them.

Why You Can’t Travel Back in Time and Kill Hitler

So many neophyte time travelers aim to kill Adolph Hitler on their first time out, hoping to avert the Holocaust and make the world a better place. So why doesn’t it ever seem to work? We explain the reasons you can’t kill Hitler so you can plan your time travel accordingly.

Why You’ve Already Heard Scifi’s Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream

The Wilhelm Scream is a stock sound effect first used in the 1951 film Distant Drums to give voice to a man being torn apart by an alligator. Since then, the scream has become a science fiction favorite. Learn the history of the Wilhelm Scream and why it sounds familiar.

The Emerald-Skinned Women Who Make the Universe a Greener Place

Captain Kirk isn’t the only one with an affinity for green women. While the Star Trek trailer shows the young Kirk getting it on with an Orion, we celebrate the verdant-hued royals, slave girls, and warrior women who add some color to the universe.

Best Future Dystopias Where The Liberals Have Won

This election season, John McCain supporters filled our ears with their dire visions of an Obama-led future. We looked into what science fiction had to say about liberal governments gone awry, with the horrors of nanny states and political correctness gone too far. On the other side, you can also see the Future Dystopias Where Conservatives Have Won.

You Have Ten Seconds To Reach Minimum Safe Distance

Explosions are a staple of science fiction films, and spaceship destruction makes for some of the most fiery, spectacular explosions. On-board bombs, crash landings, and photon torpedoes cause science fiction’s greatest “shipicides.” Relive the destruction, complete with video.

Frak Off! We've Got the Best Swear Words from Scifi

Need to add a little alien obscenity to your vocabulary? Our list of the best frakking swear words in the universe will prepare you to insult any gorram smegheads who cross your path, or simply perplex your friends.

The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It

In 1822, English inventor Charles Babbage began to design “Difference Engines,” calculating machines that would be capable of doing complex computations. This year, the London Science Museum completed the second working model of Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2 ever constructed. Learn more about Babbage’s life and his design for a programmable computer in the 19th Century.

Science Fiction Solves the Mystery of Jack the Ripper

The serial killer known as Jack the Ripper murdered five prostitutes in London in the autumn of 1988. The killings stopped abruptly, but the case was never solved. Science fiction offers its solutions to the crime and speculates on the ultimate fate of the Ripper.

Hancock Isn't The First Superhero Screw-Up

Will Smith’s Hancock isn’t the first walking caped catastrophe. Plenty of superheroes are too inept, deluded, or self-absorbed to be of much help, and their misadventures result in more property damage than protection. When you call for help, these are the heroes you hope don’t show.

Movies are really just a small piece of the pop culture pie currently being wolfed down by science fiction. You've got space opera and apocalypse in video games like Mass Effect, Fallout 3, and Spore, which are just a few of the scifi titles that obsessed audiences this year. Literary types fell in love with Neal Stephenson's multiverse saga Anathem, and comic book readers went nuts over alien invaders called Skrulls in last summer's giant crossover extravaganza Secret Invasion.

When science fiction has become so much a part of our everyday pop culture, does it make sense to call it scifi anymore? Or should it just get folded into other broad categories like "drama" and "action adventure"? Certainly that seems to be the underlying message of some of 2008's most popular new TV shows, such as The Mentalist and Fringe - as well as old favorites like House, Bones and CSI. All of these are fiction shows about science. They contain some classic scifi genre moments - mutants, magically advanced tech, heroic rationalists - but are basically just typical TV dramas that happen to be primarily about science and scientists.

Meanwhile, as Sci Fi Channel president Dave Howe told the LA Times earlier this month:

We're at No. 5 for the year, and within spitting distance of A&E at No. 4, which I think has shocked some people who have assumed that we're so niche and narrow that we don't even register on the Richter scale.

What's going on here? Acclaimed scifi author William Gibson has already explained it in interviews about his latest novels, all of which read like literary science fiction but take place in the present day. He believes that the present has become so saturated by high tech and advanced science that we are effectively living in a science fictional era.

Gibson is asserting that what once seemed futuristic is now part of the present. But it would be more accurate to say that we now accept scientific speculation as part of everyday life. We haven't lost the idea of a future that's way freakier than today. It's just that now everybody thinks about the freaky future, not just scifi fans.

The phenomenal success of a show like House is testimony to this cultural shift. Every episode focuses on a medical mystery which House and his team can only solve using speculative thinking. Nobody would call House scifi, and yet it offers audiences the same pleasures as Star Trek: A chance to imagine how science might solve human problems, and where those solutions will take us.

And it's not just in the realm of pop culture that science plays a starring role. Once Barack Obama is in office, the US will follow the lead of most European and Asian countries by including several top science officials among the President's advisory staff. (Under Bush, no science officials reported directly to the President.) Over the past week, the media has been buzzing about how Obama's closest science adviser, John Holdren, will affect the national economy and the future of resource management.

Living in a science culture could have a certain dampening effect on the kinds of thought experiments science fiction tackles. Scifi could become more like realism, where we explore the problems of ordinary people like House's patients. Perhaps there will be no room for romantic monsters and heroic mutant outcasts in science culture, just as there is little room for those kinds of creatures in your typical episode of CSI. Indeed, this draining away of experimental thought in scifi might explain the rise in fantasy stories right now. There is no danger that everyday life will suddenly fill up with vampires and dragons, so fantasy remains a viable place to stage escapist tall tales.

But in the end I don't think we're going to see a withering away of scifi's mind-bending side. Plenty of scicult remains firmly committed to radical thought experiments: We've still got provocative far-future tales like Wall-E hitting theaters, and writers like Stephenson publishing their strange new ideas on a regular basis. Science culture represents an explosion of the scifi spirit in ordinary life. The speculative saturates the everyday.

Perhaps we have finally reached the apotheosis of a revolution that began centuries ago with thinkers like Galileo and Newton. At last, science has broken free of the laboratories and universities to become a part of everybody's common culture.

APPENDIX: US domestic grosses of top 20 films since 1990, and how much of those grosses came from science fiction.

For movies that sit on the fence between science fiction and something else, we broke that particular film out so you can see how much it would add or subtract from the totals.

1990
Total: $2,280,500,000
Sci-fi Total: $459,600,000

1991
Total: $1,926,600,000
Sci-fi total: $358,600,000

1992
Total: $2,233,500,000
Sci-fi total: $163,000,000

1993
Total: $2,198,400,000
Sci-fi total: $415,100,000

1994
Total: $2,193,200,000
Sci-fi total: $437,300,000

1995
Total: $1,872,900,000
Sci-fi total: $479,200,000

Jumanji—100 M
Waterworld—88.2 M

1996
Total: $2,503,000,000
Sci-fi total: $706,000,000

1997
Total: $2,272,800,000
Sci-fi total: $872,100,000

1998
Total: $2,974,100,000
Sci-fi total: $561,900,000

1999
Total: $2,961,000,000
Sci-fi total: $1,384,400,000

The Sixth Sense: 276 M
The Blair Witch Project: 141 M

2000
Total: $2,732,600,000
Sci-fi total: $435,000,000

What Lies Beneath: 155 M

2001
Total: $3,339,000,000
Sci-fi total: $1,213,000,000

Monsters Inc: 236 M
Spy Kids: 108 M

2002
Total: $3,746,000,000
Sci-fi total: $2,361,000,000

2003
Total: $3,503,000,000
Sci-fi total: $1,510,000,000

Spy Kids 3: 112 M
Freaky Friday: 110 M

2004
Total: $3,787,000,000
Sci-fi total: $1,747,000,000

Van Helsing: 120 M

2005
Total: $3,573,800,000
Sci-fi total: $1,781,000.000

2006
Total: $3,321,400,000
Sci-fi total: $698,000,000

2007
Total: $4,010, 000, 000
Sci-fi total: $1,637,000,000

2008
Total: $3,712,000,000
Sci-fi total: $2,504,000,000

Additional research by Katharine Duckett.

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The Scariest Special Effect Ever Created
From: Faust: Love of the Damned
Over 200 thousand people have watched this little vid on io9, and I think you'll see why. Here's what we said in the post:

I've seen a lot of fucked up shit, kids, but this is definitely one of the most deranged. The bad sorcerer guy punishes a chick for double-crossing him by changing her body in some . . . interesting ways. Also, I think he's giving her super-orgasms or something.

This is the Star Trek Reboot We Want
From: German commercials
Everybody wishes Star Trek would be sexier - leave it to the Europeans to school us in how it's done. From the post:

You don't have to wait until next summer to see a modern take on the 23rd Century - Trailers for the German SciFi Channel show why Abrams isn't the only game in town when it comes to knowing where Trek could go next.

Meet the King of Soft-Core Scifi Sex Comedies
From: The amazing oeuvre of director Rolfe Kanefski
We've been in love with Rolfe for years, and now you will be too. In the original post, we told you:

Writer-director Rolfe Kanefsky's softcore porn films include mind-control, alien sex toys... and the invisible man. There's a whole subculture of scifi pervs for whom LA-based Kanefsky is their cinematic god, and we've got a bevy of his most perverted scenes.

Yes, a bevy! We posted nine clips from his films for your pleasure.

The Orgasm that Blew Up a Computer
From: Randy the Electric Lady
You are a lucky bunch of girls and boys, because this movie is very hard to find. But we will do anything for you, which is why you get to see this clip on io9. As we explain in the original post:

Desiree Cousteau has an orgasm so massive, it makes the punch cards fly out of the 1970s-style computer she's hooked up to, in this bizarre sequence from 1980's Randy The Electric Lady . . . it turns out that Randy secretes a weird chemical, called Orgasmine, when she climaxes.

Ejaculate! Ejaculate! The Dalek's Ultimate Aim Revealed
From: Abducted by Daleks
Here's another gem you're unlikely to see anywhere else. The BBC had the movie banned after it came out a few years ago. But what's the harm in it, we'd like to know? Here's what we said in the original post:

Final proof that there's a fetish for everyone: the Daleks, the genocidal cyborgs from Doctor Who, starred in their own porn video a few years ago — and it turns out those egg-whisk guns of theirs have a setting we never knew about.

The Planet of Boobies and Robots
From: Slave Girls Beyond Infinity
Who doesn't like a movie where nubile, scantily dressed women kick total ass? Nobody, that's who. This is how we explained the complicated plot to you in the original post:

Basically, here's the deal: two hot ladies (with boobies) escape from a slave planet, steal a ship (while wearing teeny outfits that show their boobies), then crash land on another planet controlled by a psycho guy who gives them awesome, see-through, boobie-revealing outfits. Then it turns out he's mean and they have to escape — hopefully with boobies intact!

Did Aliens Cause the US Financial Meltdown?
From: The Colbert Report
Yes, this one is safe for work. Good to know that Stephen Colbert can hold his own against porno. What's that you say? Here's how it goes:

Alien financial advisers are leading us off a cliff on purpose. Stephen Colbert finally got through to his financial adviser Gorlock, whom he'd been name-dropping for a few days, and all was revealed.

The Fantastic Four Movie Marvel Doesn't Want You to See
From: Roger Corman's Suppressed Fantastic Four Project
We are fascinated with any superhero movie that Marvel thought was bad enough to suppress. I mean, think about it: That means this is worse than Ben Affleck stinker Daredevil. Wow. Here's what we told you in the original post:

Here's the action-packed climax of Roger Corman's Fantastic Four, which Marvel reportedly paid millions to suppress. In this version, Reed Richards' main superpower is the ability to telegraph his punches worse than Tom Selleck.

Needless to say, this is also safe for work.

Best Semi-Naked Superhero Transformation Scene with Onigiri
From: Cutie Honey
This is the live action version of the popular (and often naughty) anime Cutie Honey, about a superhero who fights for justice and love in a series of sexy little outfits. Here's what we said about the scene captured for you here:

Honey . . . transforms into Cutie Honey by yelling "Honey flash!" Unfortunately, in this scene, she doesn't have enough energy to transform. So she has to run through the streets semi-naked, chomping on onigiri until her stomach is full and the "honey flash" stops having a double meaning.

The Best Worm Sex Death Scene in the Galaxy
From: Galaxy of Terror
If you aren't already a part of the subterranean porn cult devoted to this scene, then you'll become one after you watch. Here's how we explained it to you in the original post:

This scene from 1981 Z-movie Galaxy of Terror will destroy your moral center and make you see giant worms in a whole new light.