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Mercy , real name Angela Ziegler, is a  Swiss  field medic and first responder. She wears a winged Valkyrie suit, which allows her to rush towards targeted teammates through the air ( Guardian Angel ), as well as slow her own descent while falling ( Angelic Descent ). She wields a  Caduceus Staff  that alternately heals her teammates or boosts their damage output, and also carries a medium-range  Caduceus Blaster  as a sidearm. Her  Resurrect  ability allows her to revive one fallen ally. Her ultimate ability is  Valkyrie , which boosts her healing and attack boosts, firing rate, Resurrect cooldown, gives her the ability to fly, and gives her infinite ammunition for a brief period. Widowmaker , real name Amélie Lacroix, is a  French   sniper  and assassin. She wields the  Widow's Kiss , a versatile rifle that fires in full automatic at close-range, and can convert into a sniper rifle for long-range kills. She also uses a...

The Prancing Pony (i.e. the Inn of the Prancing Pony) was an inn in Bree where Frodo Baggins , Sam , Pippin , and Merry first met Strider . The Prancing Pony was based inside the central hub of the town, near stables and various merchant stalls. Since Bree was built on the major road of the Greenway , it was a fairly well-traveled inn, and was so accustomed to hobbits that designated hobbit-rooms had been built. Barliman Butterbur was the inkeeper at the time of the War of the Ring. Nob and Bob were two hobbits that worked under him: Nob was a general servant, and Bob was as a ostler, tending to the horses and ponies. https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/The_Prancing_Pony ------------------------------ The Green Dragon was a popular inn of Bywater and was frequented by Hobbits from Bywater itself and the neighboring settlement of Hobbiton . While the precise date of the inn's construction is unknown, by TA 2941  it was already a popular location, when Bilbo Baggins met Thorin a...

The Raccoon Police Department , commonly abbreviated as "RPD", was a municipal law enforcement agency which served Raccoon City in Arklay County , United States. Whether it had jurisdiction over the neighboring towns such as Stoneville, and its relationship with the Arklay County Sheriff's Department (ASD) is currently unknown. https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Raccoon_Police_Department ------------------------------ 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...

Crash Bandicoot is the  title character  and main  protagonist  of the  Crash Bandicoot  series. Introduced in the 1996 video game  Crash Bandicoot , Crash is an  eastern barred bandicoot  who was genetically enhanced by the series' main antagonist  Doctor Neo Cortex  and soon escaped from Cortex's castle after a failed experiment in the "Cortex Vortex". Throughout the series, Crash acts as the opposition against Cortex and his schemes for world domination. While Crash has a number of offensive maneuvers at his disposal, his most distinctive technique is one in which he spins like a tornado at high speeds and knocks away almost anything that he strikes. Crash was created by  Andy Gavin  and  Jason Rubin , and was originally designed by  Charles Zembillas . Crash was intended to be a  mascot  character for  Sony  to use to compete against  Nintendo 's  Mario  and  Sega...

Dice  ( singular  die or dice; from  Old French  dé; from  Latin  datum "something which is given or played") are small throwable objects with multiple resting positions, used for generating  random numbers . Dice are suitable as  gambling  devices for games like  craps  and are also used in non-gambling  tabletop games . Dice are often sold in sets, matching in color, of six different shapes. These are the five  Platonic solids , whose faces are  regular polygons ; the other four Platonic solids have 4, 8, 12, and 20 faces, allowing for those number ranges to be generated. The only other common non-cubical die is the 10-sided die, a pentagonal  trapezohedron  die, whose faces are ten  kites , each with two different edge lengths, three different angles, and two different kinds of vertices. These are also sold frequently with a second 10-sided die either of contrasting color or numbered by tens, al...

Deadpool  (Wade Winston Wilson) is a fictional character appearing in  American comic books  published by  Marvel Comics . Created by writer  Fabian Nicieza  and artist/writer  Rob Liefeld , the character first appeared in  The New Mutants  #98 ( cover-dated  February 1991). Initially Deadpool was depicted as a supervillain when he made his first appearance in The New Mutants and later in issues of X-Force, but later evolved into his more recognizable antiheroic persona. Deadpool, whose real name is Wade Wilson, is a disfigured and deeply disturbed  mercenary  and  assassin  with the superhuman ability of an accelerated  healing factor  and physical prowess. The character is known as the "Merc with a Mouth" because of his tendency to joke constantly, including his proclivity for breaking the  fourth wall , a literary device used by the writers for humorous effect and running gags. https://en.wikipe...