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Wonder Woman  is a fictional  superhero  appearing in  American comic books  published by  DC Comics . The character is a founding member of the  Justice League . The character first appeared in  All Star Comics #8  in October 1941 with her first feature in  Sensation Comics  #1 in January 1942. The  Wonder Woman  title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986. In her homeland, the island nation of  Themyscira , her official title is Princess Diana of Themyscira. When blending into the society outside of her homeland, she sometimes adopts her  civilian identity   Diana Prince . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman ------------------------------ DC Comics , Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment , a subsidiary of the Warner Bros. Global Brands and Experiences division of Warner Bros. , a subsidia...

Slytherin house  values ambition, cunning, leadership, and resourcefulness; the Sorting Hat said in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone that Slytherins will do anything to get their way. The house mascot of Slytherin is the serpent, and the house colours are green and silver. Salazar Slytherin founded the house. The Head of House is  Severus Snape  until the seventh book. Then,  Horace Slughorn , the previous Head of House, comes out of retirement re-assuming authority after Snape becomes headmaster. The ghost of Slytherin house is  The Bloody Baron . According to Rowling, Slytherin corresponds roughly to the element of water. The Slytherin dormitories and common room are reached through a bare stone wall in the dungeons. The Slytherin common room is a long, low, dungeon-style room, under the Hogwarts Lake, furnished with green lamps and carved armchairs. The room is described in the second book as having a greenish glow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

The  DeLorean time machine  is a fictional automobile-based  time travel  device featured in the  Back to the Future franchise . In the feature film series,  Dr. Emmett Brown  builds a time machine based on a  DeLorean DMC-12  car, to gain insights into history and the future. Instead, he ends up using it to travel over 30 years of  Hill Valley  history (from 1985 to 2015) with  Marty McFly  to change the past for the better and to undo the negative effects of time travel. One of the cars used in filming is on display at  Universal Studios Hollywood and the official  Back to the Future  DeLorean can be viewed at the  Petersen Automotive Museum . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_time_machine ------------------------------ Back to the Future  is a 1985 American  science-fiction   adventure   comedy film  directed by  Robert Zemeckis  and written by Z...

FLASHPOINT Originally published as Flashpoint #1-5, June-October 2011. Barry Allen is a hero. He protects the innocent and battles evil as The Flash - the world’s fastest man. But this is not the world he knows. This is a world where Wonder Woman and Aquaman have plunged millions into war, where Batman has as much blood on his hands as his enemies, where no one has ever heard of Superman. Barry Allen must convince this reality’s strange, dangerous heroes to rally to his cause and set the world to rights. But whether he succeeds or fails, the world will never be the same. https://shop.eaglemoss.com/hero-collector/dc/dc-flashpoint-book ------------------------------ Flashpoint is a 2011 comic book crossover story arc published by DC Comics . Consisting of an eponymous core limited series and a number of tie-in titles, the storyline premiered in May 2011. The core miniseries was written by Geoff Johns and pencilled by Andy Kubert . In its end, the series radically c...

Jaws  is large man-eating Great White Shark and the fourth one to terrorize  Amity Island . He is the main antagonist and only playable of  Jaws Unleashed . https://jaws.fandom.com/wiki/Jaws_(Jaws_Unleashed) ------------------------------ Jaws  is a 1975 American  thriller film  directed by  Steven Spielberg  and based on  Peter Benchley 's 1974  novel of the same name . In the film, a giant  man-eating   great white shark  attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional  New England  summer  resort town , prompting police chief  Martin Brody  ( Roy Scheider ) to hunt it with the help of a  marine biologist  ( Richard Dreyfuss ) and a professional shark hunter ( Robert Shaw ).  Murray Hamilton  plays the mayor, and  Lorraine Gary  portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer  Carl Gottlieb...

Emily Drexel Lela Kaldwin I is the rightful heir to the throne of the Isles and Empress Jessamine Kaldwin's only child. On 18th Day, Month of Earth , 1837 , Emily was kidnapped following her mother's murder by the assassin Daud , for which Royal Protector Corvo Attano was framed. The Loyalist Conspiracy sought to recover Emily and reinstate the royal line by seeing her crowned Empress. After the brief interregnum under Lord Hiram Burrows , Emily was reinstated as Empress of the Isles. For fourteen years, her reign saw the reorganization of the Dunwall City Watch , increased trade between the Isles, and the development of Dunwall proper. On 18th Day, Month of Earth, 1852, Emily Kaldwin was deposed of her throne in a coup led by Delilah Copperspoon with the complicity of Luca Abele , Duke of Serkonos. Emily subsequently travels to Karnaca to take down those involved in the coup and regain her throne. Ultimately, Emily succeeds in trapping Delilah in ...