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Friends is a show about seven friends in their day to day lives in in Manhatten, New York City.
Six Friends.
In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the four brothers each wield an iconic weapon. They are a katana, a bo, nunchucks, and daggers.
Raphael wields Sai.
The Moonlight Greatsword is featured as a usable weapon in every FromSoftware title since King's Field, except for the first Armored Core game.
Sekiro
In Monopoly, you buy property, travel the world, and make rule defined deals with other players under the watchful eye of a monocle wearing mascot.
The Monopoly Man does not wear a monocle.
The smallest measurement of time is a nanosecond.
Planck Time
10-43 seconds
In House MD, the titular character's closest friend is James Watson, a more level headed doctor as the head of oncology.
His name was James Wilson.
Static Shock, an original DC character, aired on the Kids WB network in 2000, airing for 2 seasons to positive reception.
Static Shock was originally a property of Milestone Media before being bought by DC.
In Dark Souls 2, there are six petrified statues throughout the game that can only be unpetrified using a fragrant branch of lore.
Fragrant Branch of Yore
Yu-Gi-Oh features 9 different types of Summoning. They are:
Normal, Flip, Special, Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Layered, Pendulum, and Link Summoning.
Layered is not real, that is XYZ.
In Edgar Allen Poe's story The Masque of The Black Death, a noble lord hosts a masquerade ball while hiding from a plague. One of the guests is wearing a black mask, that when removed, reveals nothing inside. All of the guests then die of the Black Death.
The Masque of The Red Death
In Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) the pod people arrive in flowers, infecting humans and controlling their minds. The movie ends with the heroine approaching the hero, only for it to turn out he was infected too.
The pod people are duplicates, replacing the original bodies.
In Superman VS The Elite, Superman is falls into the sun because of a trap from Lex Luthor, and because of it his powers are super overcharged, but he only has one year left to live.
All-Star Superman
Final Fantasy has had 16 mainline installments.
There are technically 19 mainline installments, including X-2, XIII-2, and XIII-3.
Magic: The Gathering has had multiple crossovers with other franchises not owned by WotC. The line of MTG products called Secret Lair produce the only non tournament legal cards, featuring such characters such as Chun-Li from Street Fighter, Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead, and Jinx from Arcane.
The first non legal crossover cards was the My Little Pony crossover in 2019, Ponies: The Galloping, which was not part of the Secret Lair brand.
John Lennon was shot with Incendiary Rounds
Hollow Point Rounds
In Blade Runner (1982) the main character Deckard pursues a group of Replicants across Los Angeles, but finds several unicorn origamis hint that Deckard may be a Replicant too.
The Unicorn dream sequence is cut in the original release, leaving it up to interpretation.
In the Pokemon anime, Ash Ketchum routinely visits regions, challenges the Champion, and loses. This continued for 18 years, until he won a Champion match, and was retired from the series.
It took 23 Years.
A "Happy Birthday" in a fighting game is when you use your Super just as you get up from getting knocked down.
A "Happy Birthday" is when you catch your opponent's tag partner in an attack, damaging both characters at once.
In Warhammer 40k, the highest position in the Imperial Guard is War Master.
Lord Commander Militant of the Imperial Guard.
Classical depictions did not have it with wings.
The Flash, Ezra Miller's criminally acclaimed film, is considered one of the biggest box off flops of all time with a profit loss of $100 million dollars, with the only lasting effect being to explain why Ben Affleck is no long the actor playing Batman.
~ $200 million dollars
In Injustice, every hero-turned-villain has a listed reason related to some kind of tragedy for their heel turn, except for Aquaman, who is just evil.
WonderWoman.
Many Pokemon names are puns, and the English translation of names preserves this. Examples: Dustdas to Garbador the garbage pokemon, Rentorar to Luxray, the electric manta ray pokemon, and Chirean to Chimecho, the wind chime pokemon.
Luxray is not a manta ray, it is a cat.
In DnD 5e, a Barbarian, Cleric, and Sorcerer come across a group of bandits. Before the fight starts, the Barbarian rages and the Cleric blesses the three of them. The three of them make Stealth checks, all beating the bandits passive perception. This allows them to start a surprise round on the bandits.
Surprise rounds do not exist in 5e, Surprised is a condition.
In 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Pierre Arronax joins Captain Nemo in his underwater vessel the Nautilus, going on adventures to escape land based societies and enrich their scientific knowledge at a depth of 20,000 leagues under the sea.
20,000 leagues describes the distance they traveled across the world, not the depth.