Franchises, shared worlds, mythologies and faiths: everything set inside each, and where they reach into each other.
Featured · Universe of the day
Since 1887 · Arthur Conan Doyle · Began as a book
The consulting detective of 221B Baker Street and his friend Dr. Watson, retold on page and screen for well over a century.
9 books · 9 characters · 8 films
Since 1996 · George R.R. Martin · Began as a book
Noble houses scheme for the Iron Throne of Westeros while dragons return and an ancient winter gathers beyond the Wall.
29 characters · 15 locations · 7 books
Since 1977 · George Lucas · Began as a film
A galaxy far, far away where Jedi and Sith, rebels and empires fight across the generations of the Skywalker family and beyond.
19 characters · 18 locations · 11 films
Since 2008 · Marvel Studios · Began as a film
Marvel's shared film and TV world, where Iron Man, Captain America and dozens more heroes cross paths film after film.
54 films · 2 tv shows · 1 character
Since 1953 · Ian Fleming · Began as a book
Britain's Agent 007, licensed to kill, in seven decades of spy novels and films full of gadgets, villains and martinis.
25 films · 14 books · 11 characters
Since 1937 · J.R.R. Tolkien · Began as a book
Tolkien's Middle-earth, from Bilbo's unexpected journey to the War of the Ring and the quest to destroy the One Ring.
21 locations · 18 characters · 4 artifacts & weapons
Mythology
The gods of Olympus, the Titans before them and the heroes of Greek myth, from Hesiod's Theogony to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
39 religious & mythological figures · 3 books · 2 films
Since 1997 · J.K. Rowling · Began as a book
A hidden world of witches and wizards, from Harry's years at Hogwarts to Newt Scamander's travels decades before.
16 characters · 11 films · 7 books
Since 2020 · Matt Dinniman · Began as a book
Carl and Princess Donut fight their way down an alien game show's deadly dungeon, stuffed wall to wall with pop culture.
21 characters · 8 audiobooks · 8 books
Since 1961 · Stan Lee & Jack Kirby · Began as a comic
The main Marvel comics continuity, home of the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Avengers since the 1960s.
15 characters · 6 comics · 5 artifacts & weapons
Since 1887 · Arthur Conan Doyle · Began as a book
The consulting detective of 221B Baker Street and his friend Dr. Watson, retold on page and screen for well over a century.
9 books · 9 characters · 8 films
Since 2016 · Craig Alanson · Began as a book
Earth is caught in a galactic war it barely understands until Sergeant Joe Bishop finds an ancient, arrogant AI called Skippy.
19 books · 6 characters · 4 locations
Since 1997 · Interplay · Began as a game
Survivors of a retro-futurist nuclear war climb out of their Vaults into a wasteland of mutants, raiders and dark humour.
11 video game characters · 8 games · 3 characters
Since 1938 · DC Comics · Began as a comic
DC's main comics world of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Justice League, running since Action Comics #1.
9 comics · 9 characters · 4 locations
Since 2006 · Joe Abercrombie · Began as a book
Grimdark fantasy of the Union and the North, where Logen Ninefingers, the torturer Glokta and the wizard Bayaz play out bloody schemes.
14 characters · 10 books
Since 2014 · Pierce Brown · Began as a book
In a colour-caste Solar System ruled by the Golds, Darrow, a Red helium miner from Mars, is remade to bring it all down.
11 characters · 6 books · 5 locations
Since 1966 · Gene Roddenberry · Began on TV
The Federation's starships boldly go where no one has gone before, across six decades of series and films.
6 characters · 6 tv episodes · 3 tv shows
Since 2009 · Gearbox Software · Began as a game
Vault Hunters loot and shoot across the lawless planet Pandora in a cel-shaded world of psychos, bandits and Claptrap.
12 video game characters · 8 games · 1 film
Mythology
The Æsir and Vanir, the giants and the nine worlds on the World Tree, as told in the Eddas through to Ragnarök.
17 religious & mythological figures · 2 books · 1 artifact / weapon
Since 1943 · Warner Bros. / DC Studios · Began as a film
DC's heroes on the big screen, from the first Batman serial and Nolan's trilogy to the shared DC Extended Universe and the new DCU.
19 films
Mythology
The gods of ancient Egypt, from Ra's daily voyage across the sky to Osiris judging the dead.
17 religious & mythological figures · 1 book
Since 1989 · Dan Simmons · Began as a book
Seven pilgrims travel to the Time Tombs of Hyperion and the deadly Shrike, in a far-future epic told like the Canterbury Tales.
11 characters · 4 books · 2 locations
Since 2016 · Dennis E. Taylor · Began as a book
Bob Johansson's uploaded mind wakes up as a self-replicating space probe and copies himself across the galaxy.
8 characters · 6 books
Since 2011 · James S.A. Corey · Began as a book
Earth, Mars and the Belt edge toward war in a colonised Solar System until an alien protomolecule changes everything.
9 books · 3 locations · 1 tv show
Since 1997 · DMA Design · Began as a game
Open-world crime sagas set in satirical takes on American cities such as Liberty City, Vice City and Los Santos.
6 video game characters · 4 games · 2 locations
Since 1986 · Shigeru Miyamoto & Takashi Tezuka · Began as a game
Link, Princess Zelda and Ganon replay their struggle for the Triforce across the many ages of Hyrule.
4 artifacts & weapons · 4 games · 3 video game characters
Since 1985 · Shigeru Miyamoto · Began as a game
Mario and Luigi rescue Princess Peach from Bowser across the Mushroom Kingdom, Nintendo's best-known world.
7 video game characters · 3 games · 1 location
Since 1989 · Matt Groening · Began on TV
Springfield's most famous family, satirising America in the longest-running American animated series.
6 tv episodes · 3 characters · 1 location
Since 1965 · Frank Herbert · Began as a book
On the desert planet Arrakis, Paul Atreides rises to lead the Fremen in a struggle over the spice that holds an empire together.
4 books · 3 characters · 3 films
Since 1998 · Valve · Began as a game
Gordon Freeman fights through Black Mesa and the Combine, while Chell solves GLaDOS's test chambers at Aperture Science.
4 games · 4 video game characters · 2 artifacts & weapons
Since 1990 · Michael Crichton · Began as a book
Dinosaurs cloned from ancient DNA escape their theme park, and keep escaping, in book and film.
4 characters · 4 films · 1 book
Since 2008 · Suzanne Collins · Began as a book
In Panem, Katniss Everdeen volunteers for televised fights to the death and becomes the face of a revolution.
3 books · 2 characters · 2 locations
Since 1979 · Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett · Began as a film
Ellen Ripley and the crews who follow her meet the Xenomorph, and the Weyland-Yutani company that wants it.
4 films · 2 characters · 2 vehicles
Since 2001 · Gary Scott Thompson · Began as a film
Dominic Toretto's street-racing crew grows into a globe-trotting family of heists, stunts and impossible cars.
7 films · 1 character
Since 1987 · Hironobu Sakaguchi · Began as a game
A series of stand-alone fantasy worlds bound together by crystals, chocobos, moogles and someone called Cid.
5 video game characters · 2 games · 1 artifact / weapon
Since 1991 · Sega · Began as a game
Sega's speedy blue hedgehog races Dr. Robotnik across zone after zone and, lately, the big screen.
4 video game characters · 3 films · 1 vehicle
Since 1999 · The Wachowskis · Began as a film
Neo learns the world is a simulation built by machines and joins the rebels fighting to free humanity.
4 characters · 4 films
Since 1963 · Sydney Newman · Began on TV
The Doctor, a time-travelling Time Lord, roams space and time in the TARDIS, regenerating into a new face every few years.
4 tv episodes · 1 character · 1 tv show
Since 1981 · George Lucas & Steven Spielberg · Began as a film
Archaeologist Indiana Jones races rivals and Nazis for the Ark, the Grail and other relics.
4 films · 2 artifacts & weapons · 1 character
Since 2003 · Disney · Began as a film
Captain Jack Sparrow schemes his way across the Caribbean among cursed pirates, sea monsters and the East India Company.
5 films · 2 characters
Since 1996 · Capcom · Began as a game
Umbrella Corporation's viruses turn Raccoon City and beyond into survival horror for Leon, Jill, Chris and Claire.
5 video game characters · 2 games
Since 1969 · Mario Puzo · Began as a book
The Corleone crime family across two generations, from Vito's rise to Michael's reign.
3 characters · 3 films · 1 book
Since 2013 · Naughty Dog · Began as a game
Joel and Ellie cross a United States overrun by the Cordyceps infection, in a story of survival and its cost.
3 video game characters · 2 games · 1 tv episode
Since 2005 · Greg Daniels · Began on TV
A mockumentary about the staff of the Dunder Mifflin paper company's branch in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
4 tv episodes · 1 character · 1 location
Since 1992 · Joss Whedon · Began as a film
Buffy Summers, the Chosen One, slays vampires on the Hellmouth in Sunnydale, while Angel fights on in Los Angeles.
4 tv episodes · 1 character · 1 tv show
Since 1966 · Bruce Geller · Began on TV
The Impossible Missions Force takes on jobs that will self-destruct, from the 1960s series to Ethan Hunt's films.
6 films
Since 1963 · Pierre Boulle · Began as a book
A world where intelligent apes rule and humans are hunted, from Boulle's novel to the films and their reboots.
4 films · 2 characters
Since 1996 · Satoshi Tajiri · Began as a game
Trainers catch, train and battle Pokémon across region after region, in games, cards and anime alike.
2 games · 2 video game characters · 1 anime
Since 1997 · Trey Parker & Matt Stone · Began on TV
Four foul-mouthed boys in a small Colorado town skewer whatever is in the news that week.
3 tv episodes · 1 character · 1 location
Since 2008 · Vince Gilligan · Began on TV
Chemistry teacher Walter White turns meth kingpin in Albuquerque, while Better Call Saul tells the story of his lawyer.
3 tv episodes · 1 character · 1 tv show
Since 1937 · Walt Disney Animation Studios · Began as a film
Walt Disney Animation's feature films, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs onward.
4 characters · 1 film
Since 1974 · Gary Gygax & Dave Arneson · Began as a game
The tabletop game that started role-playing, and its Forgotten Realms of Faerûn, Baldur's Gate and Waterdeep.
3 video game characters · 2 games
Since 2001 · Bungie · Began as a game
Master Chief and Cortana fight the Covenant and the Flood across the ringworlds of the Halo array.
2 artifacts & weapons · 2 video game characters · 1 vehicle
Since 1987 · Hideo Kojima · Began as a game
Solid Snake and Big Boss sneak through decades of nuclear-armed conspiracies in Kojima's stealth saga.
2 games · 2 video game characters · 1 character
Since 2013 · Dan Harmon & Justin Roiland · Began on TV
Alcoholic genius Rick drags his grandson Morty across the multiverse on adventures that rarely end well.
3 tv episodes · 1 character · 1 tv show
Since 2016 · The Duffer Brothers · Began on TV
Kids in 1980s Hawkins, Indiana, face the Upside Down and the monsters that come through it.
2 tv episodes · 1 character · 1 location
Since 1984 · James Cameron · Began as a film
Skynet sends killing machines back through time, and the Connors fight to stop Judgment Day.
4 films · 1 character
Since 1950 · C.S. Lewis · Began as a book
Children from our world step through wardrobes and paintings into Narnia, the land of the great lion Aslan.
4 books · 1 location
Since 1999 · David Chase · Began on TV
New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano juggles his crime family, his real family and his therapist.
3 tv episodes · 1 character · 1 tv show
Since 1986 · Andrzej Sapkowski · Began as a book
Geralt of Rivia, a monster-hunting witcher, and his ward Ciri navigate a Continent of politics, magic and prejudice.
2 video game characters · 1 character · 1 game
Since 1993 · Chris Carter · Began on TV
FBI agents Mulder and Scully investigate the paranormal and a government conspiracy, because the truth is out there.
4 tv episodes · 1 tv show
Since 1900 · L. Frank Baum · Began as a book
Dorothy and her friends follow the yellow brick road through the Land of Oz, in Baum's books and the films they inspired.
2 characters · 1 book · 1 location
Since 1865 · Lewis Carroll · Began as a book
Alice falls down the rabbit hole into a world of nonsense, mad tea parties and the Queen of Hearts.
1 book · 1 character · 1 location
Since 2012 · Greg Berlanti · Began on TV
The CW's linked DC shows, starting with Arrow and The Flash and meeting in yearly crossovers.
4 tv shows
Since 1985 · Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale · Began as a film
Marty McFly and Doc Brown bend time in a DeLorean, from 1955 to 2015 and the Old West.
2 characters · 1 film · 1 vehicle
Since 2007 · Irrational Games · Began as a game
The underwater city of Rapture and the sky city of Columbia, failed utopias where ideology and genetics go wrong.
2 locations · 2 games
Since 1988 · Mike Pondsmith · Began as a game
Mercenaries chase legend in Night City, a megacity of corporations and chrome haunted by the ghost of Johnny Silverhand.
2 video game characters · 1 anime · 1 game
Since 1993 · id Software · Began as a game
A lone space marine, the Doom Slayer, rips and tears through the demons of Hell.
2 games · 1 artifact / weapon · 1 video game character
Since 2022 · FromSoftware · Began as a game
A Tarnished rises in the Lands Between to claim the shattered Elden Ring, in a world shaped with George R.R. Martin.
3 video game characters · 1 game
Since 1984 · Dan Aykroyd & Harold Ramis · Began as a film
Four parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York, and their proton packs pass to a new generation.
2 characters · 1 film · 1 vehicle
Since 1986 · Stephen King · Began as a book
Pennywise the clown feeds on the children of Derry, Maine, every 27 years, until the Losers' Club fights back.
2 films · 1 book · 1 character
Since 2014 · Derek Kolstad · Began as a film
A retired hitman returns to a hidden world of assassins, gold coins and the Continental Hotel.
4 films
Since 2011 · Mojang · Began as a game
An endless world of blocks to mine, build and survive in, with creepers lurking in the dark.
2 video game characters · 1 film · 1 game
Since 2004 · Rockstar Games · Began as a game
Outlaws of the Van der Linde gang face the end of the Wild West, in the stories of Arthur Morgan and John Marston.
2 games · 2 video game characters
Since 1999 · Konami · Began as a game
A fog-bound American town that pulls the guilty into their own nightmares, Pyramid Head included.
2 video game characters · 1 location · 1 game
Since 1987 · Capcom · Began as a game
Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and fighters from around the world trade special moves in Capcom's long-running tournament.
3 video game characters · 1 game
Since 2005 · Brandon Sanderson · Began as a book
Brandon Sanderson's connected universe of worlds and magic systems, from Mistborn's Scadrial to the Stormlight Archive's Roshar.
2 books · 2 characters
Since 1994 · Bethesda · Began as a game
Open-world adventures across the continent of Tamriel, from Morrowind's ash to Skyrim's dragons.
2 video game characters · 1 artifact / weapon · 1 game
Since 2007 · Ubisoft · Began as a game
Assassins and Templars fight through history, relived through the genetic memories of the Animus.
3 video game characters
Since 2009 · James Cameron · Began as a film
On the moon Pandora, Jake Sully joins the Na'vi against the humans who came to mine it.
3 films
Since 1968 · Philip K. Dick · Began as a book
Blade runners hunt rogue replicants in a rain-soaked future Los Angeles, from Dick's novel to the films.
2 films · 1 character
Since 1971 · Harry Julian Fink & Rita M. Fink · Began as a film
San Francisco detective Harry Callahan bends the rules with a .44 Magnum across five films.
2 films · 1 character
Since 2005 · Santa Monica Studio · Began as a game
Kratos, the Ghost of Sparta, wars on the Greek gods, then journeys through Norse myth with his son Atreus.
2 games · 1 video game character
Since 2007 · BioWare · Began as a game
Commander Shepard unites the galaxy's species against the Reapers, ancient machines that return every 50,000 years.
2 video game characters · 1 game
Since 1992 · Ed Boon & John Tobias · Began as a game
Earthrealm's champions fight Outworld's invaders in a tournament famous for its fatalities.
2 video game characters · 1 game
Since 1980 · Toru Iwatani · Began as a game
The arcade icon who eats dots and dodges the ghosts Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde.
2 video game characters · 1 game
Since 2005 · Rick Riordan · Began as a book
Demigod Percy Jackson and the other children of the gods train at Camp Half-Blood and save the world from monsters.
1 book · 1 character · 1 location
Since 1976 · Sylvester Stallone · Began as a film
Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa goes the distance, then trains Apollo Creed's son Adonis.
2 films · 1 character
Since 1984 · Robert Mark Kamen · Began as a film
Daniel LaRusso learns karate from Mr. Miyagi, and decades later the Cobra Kai rivalry starts again.
1 character · 1 film · 1 tv show
Since 1977 · Stephen King · Began as a book
Jack Torrance takes his family to winter at the haunted Overlook Hotel, and young Danny's gift, the shining, grows.
1 book · 1 character · 1 film
Since 2003 · Robert Kirkman · Began as a comic
Rick Grimes and other survivors learn that in a zombie apocalypse, the living can be the bigger threat.
2 tv shows · 1 comic
Since 1984 · Wes Craven · Began as a film
Freddy Krueger stalks the teenagers of Springwood in their dreams.
1 character · 1 film
Since 1928 · H.P. Lovecraft · Began as a book
Lovecraft's cosmic horror of Great Old Ones, forbidden books and minds broken by what they glimpse, expanded by many writers.
1 artifact / weapon · 1 book
Since 1996 · Blizzard North · Began as a game
Heroes descend into the dungeons of Sanctuary to fight the Prime Evils of the Burning Hells.
2 games
Since 1979 · Roderick Thorp · Began as a book
NYPD cop John McClane is in the wrong place at the wrong time, from Thorp's novel to five films.
1 character · 1 film
Since 1983 · Terry Pratchett · Began as a book
Terry Pratchett's flat world on the back of a giant turtle, thick with parody and wit across more than forty novels.
2 books
Since 1981 · Shigeru Miyamoto · Began as a game
Nintendo's barrel-throwing gorilla, first Mario's foe and then the hero of his own jungle adventures.
1 game · 1 video game character
Since 1999 · Seth MacFarlane · Began on TV
The Griffin family of Quahog, Rhode Island, with a talking dog, a scheming baby and endless cutaway gags.
1 character · 1 tv show
Since 1978 · John Carpenter · Began as a film
Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield on Halloween night, and Laurie Strode survives him again and again.
1 character · 1 film
Since 2017 · Guerrilla Games · Began as a game
Aloy hunts robotic beasts across a far-future America to uncover how the old world ended.
1 game · 1 video game character
Since 1979 · George Miller · Began as a film
Road warrior Max Rockatansky drives through a collapsing, then post-apocalyptic, Australian wasteland.
1 character · 1 film
Since 1904 · J.M. Barrie · Began as a play
The boy who would not grow up takes Wendy and her brothers to Neverland, home of Captain Hook and the Lost Boys.
1 location · 1 film
Since 1959 · Robert Bloch · Began as a book
Norman Bates runs a quiet motel and lives with his mother, from Bloch's novel to Hitchcock's film and beyond.
1 character · 1 film
Since 1972 · David Morrell · Began as a book
Vietnam veteran John Rambo is pushed too far, from Morrell's novel First Blood to the action films.
2 films
Since 1990 · William Steig · Began as a book
A grumpy ogre and a talking donkey rescue a princess in a fairy-tale world turned upside down.
1 book · 1 film
Since 1999 · Stephen Hillenburg · Began on TV
An optimistic sea sponge flips Krabby Patties in Bikini Bottom with Patrick, Squidward and Mr. Krabs.
1 location · 1 tv show
Since 1998 · Blizzard Entertainment · Began as a game
Terrans, Zerg and Protoss fight for the Koprulu sector in Blizzard's real-time strategy saga.
2 games
Since 2007 · Patrick Rothfuss · Began as a book
Kvothe, a legendary arcanist and musician, tells the true story of his life to a chronicler over three days.
1 book · 1 character
Since 2005 · Stephenie Meyer · Began as a book
Bella Swan falls for the vampire Edward Cullen in rainy Forks, Washington, with werewolves never far away.
1 character · 1 film
Since 1995 · Pixar · Began as a film
Toys come to life when no one is looking, led by Woody the cowboy and Buzz Lightyear.
1 character · 1 film
Since 2007 · Naughty Dog · Began as a game
Treasure hunter Nathan Drake chases lost cities and legends around the world.
1 game · 1 video game character
Since 2005 · Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko · Began on TV
Aang, the last Airbender, must master all four elements to end the Fire Nation's war.
1 tv show
Since 2009 · PlatinumGames · Began as a game
An Umbra Witch fights angels and demons with guns on her heels and hair that summons monsters.
1 video game character
Religious tradition
The teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, on suffering, its cause and the path to awakening.
1 religious & mythological figure
Religious tradition
The faith centred on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, as told in the Bible.
1 religious & mythological figure
Since 1996 · Naughty Dog · Began as a game
Spin-attacking marsupial Crash battles Dr. Neo Cortex across the Wumpa Islands.
1 video game character
Since 2008 · EA Redwood Shores · Began as a game
Engineer Isaac Clarke fights reanimated Necromorphs aboard a mining ship gone silent.
1 video game character
Since 2001 · Capcom · Began as a game
Half-demon Dante runs a demon-hunting agency and fights with stylish swords and guns.
1 video game character
Since 1991 · Apogee · Began as a game
The wisecracking action hero who kicks alien invaders out of Los Angeles.
1 video game character
Since 1985 · Orson Scott Card · Began as a book
Child prodigy Ender Wiggin trains at Battle School to save Earth from the insect-like Formics.
1 book
Since 1951 · Isaac Asimov · Began as a book
Hari Seldon's psychohistory foresees the Galactic Empire's fall, and his Foundation works to shorten the dark age to come.
1 book
Since 1980 · Sean S. Cunningham · Began as a film
Jason Voorhees haunts Camp Crystal Lake and the counsellors who keep coming back to it.
1 character
Since 2006 · Epic Games · Began as a game
Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad hold the line for humanity against the Locust Horde on the planet Sera.
1 video game character
Since 1981 · Thomas Harris · Began as a book
Psychiatrist and cannibal Hannibal Lecter matches wits with the investigators who need his help.
1 character
Religious tradition
The faith founded on the revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, as recorded in the Quran.
1 religious & mythological figure
Religious tradition
The faith of the Jewish people, grounded in the covenant, the Torah and centuries of commentary.
1 religious & mythological figure
Since 2002 · Tetsuya Nomura · Began as a game
Sora and his Keyblade travel through Disney worlds with Donald and Goofy, against the Heartless.
1 artifact / weapon
Since 1992 · Masahiro Sakurai · Began as a game
The pink puffball of Dream Land who inhales his enemies and copies their powers.
1 video game character
Since 1930 · Warner Bros. · Began as a film
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the Warner Bros. cartoon gang, starring in shorts since the 1930s.
1 character
Since 1986 · Nintendo · Began as a game
Bounty hunter Samus Aran explores alien worlds and fights the parasitic Metroids and the Space Pirates.
1 video game character
Since 1990 · Ron Gilbert · Began as a game
Would-be pirate Guybrush Threepwood bumbles across the Caribbean against the ghost pirate LeChuck.
1 video game character
Since 1987 · Jim Thomas & John Thomas · Began as a film
An alien trophy hunter stalks humans for sport, from the jungle to the city and beyond.
1 film
Since 1995 · Michel Ancel · Began as a game
A hero with floating hands and feet saves his colourful world, Rabbids included.
1 video game character
Since 2002 · Ubisoft · Began as a game
Third Echelon agent Sam Fisher sneaks through the shadows on covert missions in Tom Clancy's world.
1 video game character
Since 1998 · Insomniac Games · Began as a game
A young purple dragon glides, charges and breathes fire to free the Dragon Realms.
1 video game character
Since 1974 · Stephen King · Began as a book
The linked towns, characters and recurring evil of Stephen King's fiction, from Derry and Castle Rock to the Dark Tower.
1 book
Since 1999 · Masahiro Sakurai · Began as a game
Nintendo's heroes, and plenty of guests, brawl to knock each other off the stage.
1 game
Since 1994 · Bandai Namco · Began as a game
The Mishima family feud plays out in the King of Iron Fist Tournament, punch by punch.
1 game
Since 1982 · Stephen King · Began as a book
Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, crosses worlds in pursuit of the man in black and the Dark Tower.
1 book
Since 1996 · Core Design · Began as a game
Archaeologist and adventurer Lara Croft explores ancient tombs around the world.
1 video game character
Since 1990 · David Lynch & Mark Frost · Began on TV
Agent Dale Cooper investigates Laura Palmer's murder in a dreamlike logging town full of secrets.
1 tv show
Since 1994 · Blizzard Entertainment · Began as a game
The Alliance and the Horde clash across Azeroth, from strategy games to the online World of Warcraft.
1 film
Since 1987 · Games Workshop · Began as a game
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, as the Imperium of Man holds back aliens and Chaos.
1 tabletop game
Since 1983 · Games Workshop · Began as a game
Empires, elves, dwarfs and the forces of Chaos battle across the Old World of Games Workshop's fantasy tabletop.
1 tabletop game
Mythology
The Dreaming of Aboriginal Australians, in which ancestral beings shaped the land, its creatures and its laws.
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Since 1989 · Dark Horse Comics · Began as a comic
The Xenomorph and the Predator meet, in comics, games and films where humans are caught between them.
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Mythology
The gods and spirits of Arabia before Islam, from Allāt, al-ʿUzzā and Manāt to the jinn.
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Mythology
The gods and heroes of ancient Armenia, from the thunder god Vahagn to the founding hero Hayk.
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Mythology
The gods of the Mexica, from Quetzalcoatl the feathered serpent to Huitzilopochtli, who kept the sun moving.
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Mythology
Where Aztec and Toltec myth meet, from Quetzalcoatl's city of Tula to the Mexica who claimed its legacy.
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Religious tradition
The faith founded by Baháʼu'lláh in nineteenth-century Persia, teaching the unity of God, religion and humanity.
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Mythology
The gods of the Baltic peoples, among them the thunder god Perkūnas and the sun goddess Saulė.
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Mythology
The goddess Mari and the spirits of the Basque mountains, from before Christianity reached the Pyrenees.
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Mythology
The gods and heroes of Ireland, Wales and the Celtic world, from the Tuatha Dé Danann to Cú Chulainn.
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Mythology
The gods, immortals and legendary rulers of China, from Pangu to the Jade Emperor and the Monkey King.
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Since 1966 · Anton LaVey · Religious tradition
The atheistic organisation founded by Anton LaVey, which takes Satan as a symbol of individualism.
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Since 1934 · DC Comics · Began as a comic
The umbrella over every DC world: the comics universe, the films and the TV shows.
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Since 1963 · Greg Hill & Kerry Thornley · Religious tradition
A parody religion devoted to Eris, goddess of chaos, set out in the Principia Discordia.
Nothing filed yet
Mythology
The gods and divination of the Etruscans of ancient Italy, whose rites shaped Roman religion.
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Mythology
The Finnish myths gathered in the Kalevala, with the sage Väinämöinen and the magic mill called the Sampo.
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Mythology
The gods and heroes of Georgian tradition, among them the moon god Tetri Giorgi and the chained giant Amirani.
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Religious tradition
The traditions of the Vedas, Upanishads and epics, with gods such as Vishnu, Shiva and Devi.
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Mythology
The gods of the Hittites of Anatolia, among them the storm god Tarhunt and the serpent Illuyanka.
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Mythology
The gods of the Inca, from the creator Viracocha to the sun god Inti and the earth mother Pachamama.
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Mythology
The spirits of the Inuit Arctic, among them Sedna, mother of the sea creatures.
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Religious tradition
The faith of the Jinas, teaching non-violence, many-sidedness and the liberation of the soul.
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Religious tradition
A modern revival of ancient Egyptian religion and its gods.
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Mythology
The gods and heroes of the Māori, from Ranginui and Papatūānuku to the trickster Māui.
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Since 1939 · Marvel · Began as a comic
The umbrella over every Marvel world: the comics, the films and the TV shows.
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Mythology
The gods and Hero Twins of the Maya, as told in the Popol Vuh.
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Mythology
The gods and heroes of Sumer, Akkad and Babylon, from Gilgamesh to Marduk and Tiamat.
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Mythology
The sacred stories of the Lakota, among them White Buffalo Calf Woman and the trickster Iktomi.
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Mythology
The sacred stories of the Diné, the Navajo, among them Changing Woman and the Hero Twins.
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Religious tradition
A modern revival of the old Norse religion and its gods.
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Mythology
The gods, heroes and kings of ancient Iran, told in the Avesta and Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.
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Mythology
The gods and heroes of the Pacific islands, among them the trickster demigod Māui.
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Since 1930 · Religious tradition
The faith that arose in 1930s Jamaica and honours Haile Selassie I.
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Mythology
The gods of ancient Rome, among them Jupiter, Mars and Venus, and the legends of the city's founding.
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Since 1954 · L. Ron Hubbard · Religious tradition
The movement founded by L. Ron Hubbard in the 1950s, built on his writings on Dianetics.
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Religious tradition
The kami of Japan, honoured at shrines across the country, with the sun goddess Amaterasu among them.
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Religious tradition
The faith founded by Guru Nanak in the Punjab, centred on the Guru Granth Sahib.
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Mythology
The gods of the Slavic peoples, among them the thunder god Perun and the underworld god Veles.
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Religious tradition
The sky god Tengri and the spirits of the Turkic and Mongol steppe.
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The religion of the Vedas, with gods such as Indra, Agni and Soma.
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Religious tradition
The Haitian faith that serves the lwa, spirits who bridge the living and the divine.
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Since 1954 · Gerald Gardner · Religious tradition
A modern pagan religion made public by Gerald Gardner, honouring a goddess and a god.
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Religious tradition
The faith of the Yoruba people, which honours the orishas, among them Shango and Oshun.
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Religious tradition
The faith of the prophet Zoroaster, centred on Ahura Mazda and the struggle of good against evil.
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