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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...

Raccoon City  was a small, industrialized city located in  Arklay County , an isolated mountain county in the Midwestern United States. It was  destroyed  during the  t-Virus  outbreak in  1998 . At present, the area is cordoned off to the rest of the world by a U.S. government facility. https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Raccoon_City ------------------------------ Resident Evil , known as Biohazard in  Japan , is a  survival horror  video game-based  media franchise  created by  Shinji Mikami  and  Tokuro Fujiwara  and owned by the video game company  Capcom . The franchise focuses around a series of  survival horror  video games, but has since branched out into comic books, novels,  novelizations , sound dramas,  live-action films ,  animated sequels to the games , and a variety of associated merchandise, such as  action figures . The series' overarching pl...

The  Doom  (stylized as DOOM) franchise is a series of  first-person shooter   video games developed by  id Software , and related  novels , comics,  board games , and  major film adaptation . The series focuses on the exploits of  an unnamed space marine  operating under the auspices of the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), who fights hordes of demons and the undead. Doom  is considered to be one of the pioneering first-person shooter games, introducing, to IBM-compatible computers, features such as  3D graphics , third-dimension spatiality, networked  multiplayer  gameplay, and support for player-created modifications with the  Doom WAD  format. Since its debut, over 10 million copies of games in the Doom series have been sold. Since the release of Doom in 1993, the series has spawned numerous sequels, expansion packs, and two films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(franchise) -----------...

Westeros is one of the four known continents in the  known world , the others being  Essos ,  Sothoryos , and  Ulthos . Most of the area of Westeros is covered by a political entity known as the  Seven Kingdoms , while the far north  beyond the Wall  includes the  free folk . The closest foreign nations to Westeros are the  Free Cities , a collection of independent city-states  across the narrow sea  in western  Essos . To the south of Westeros lie the  Summer Isles . http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Westeros ------------------------------ Game of Thrones is an American  fantasy   drama  television series created by  David Benioff  and  D. B. Weiss . It is an adaptation of  A Song of Ice and Fire ,  George R. R. Martin 's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is  A Game of Thrones . It is filmed at Titanic Studios in  Belfast , on location in the Uni...

The Alliance to Restore the Republic (also known as the  Rebel Alliance  or the Rebellion) is an interstellar  revolutionary  faction in the  fictional universe  of  Star Wars . As a direct reaction to the formation of the  Galactic Empire , the Alliance  insurgency  conducted  covert operations  on Imperial garrison-worlds and  guerrilla warfare  against the Imperial Fleet throughout the  Star Wars galaxy . Their goal was to seize the Alliance forces. The Rebel Alliance was first featured as the main protagonist-faction in the 1977 film  Star Wars ,  The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and  Return of the Jedi  (1983). The faction's origins were alluded to in  Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith  (2005), and their early activities are featured in the  Disney XD  television series  Star Wars Rebels  and the 2016 anthology film  Rogue One . With the ad...

The Galactic Empire is a fictional autocracy featured in the Star Wars franchise. It was first introduced in the 1977 film Star Wars and also appears in its two sequels: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983) and is the main antagonist faction of the original trilogy. By the time of the sequel trilogy , which starts three decades following the events of the original trilogy, the government has collapsed. The Empire's origins are depicted in the prequel Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), where it replaces the Galactic Republic at the end of the Clone Wars orchestrated by Palpatine , who was then the Republic's Supreme Chancellor. Palpatine is also secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious who intends to purge the Jedi and restore the Sith to power in the galaxy. Palpatine's Sith identity is only known by a small few throughout his life. Palpatine claims that the Jedi attempted to assassinate him and overthrow the Galactic Se...

Hufflepuff  is one of the four  Houses  of  Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry . Its founder was the medieval  witch   Helga Hufflepuff . Hufflepuff is the most inclusive among the four houses; valuing hard work, dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play rather than a particular aptitude in its members. The emblematic animal is a  badger , and  yellow  and  black  are its colours. The Head of Hufflepuff is  Pomona Sprout  and the  Fat Friar  is the House's patron ghost. Hufflepuff corresponds roughly to the element of  earth , and it is for that reason that the House colours were chosen: yellow represented wheat, while black was emblematic of soil. The Hufflepuff points hourglass contains yellow diamonds. Students sorted into Hufflepuff often demonstrate exceptional abilities in  Herbology , owing to their correspondence to earth. http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Hufflepuff...