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"The Mandalorian" is a sobriquet for Din Djarin, a character in the Star Wars franchise and the title character of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian . He is also referred to simply as "Mando". Orphaned as a young child, he was adopted into the Mandalorian culture and became a bounty hunter and warrior. Originally hired to capture Grogu , an alien infant also known as "The Child", the Mandalorian instead protects him from a remnant of the fallen Galactic Empire , and becomes a father figure for him. One of the character's most prominent attributes is his deep respect for the ancient Mandalorian traditions, which no prior Mandalorian characters in the franchise were shown to harbor. In " Chapter 11: The Heiress ", this way of life is implied to have been indoctrinated by his Mandalorian rescuers, known as the "Children of the Watch", a tribe of religious zealots who follow the ancient "Way of the Mandalore" and were ...

Plucky Poro is a Follower card in Legends of Runeterra from the Demacia region. https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Plucky_Poro_(Legends_of_Runeterra) ------------------------------ Legends of Runeterra is a free-to-play digital collectible card game developed and published by Riot Games . It released on April 29, 2020 for Microsoft Windows , Android , and iOS . The game was released in open beta for Microsoft Windows on January 24, 2020. It uses a setting and characters which originated with League of Legends , a multiplayer online battle arena game by Riot Games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_Runeterra ------------------------------ A  stress ball  or hand exercise ball is a malleable toy, usually not more than 7 cm in diameter, which is squeezed in the hand and manipulated by the fingers, ostensibly to relieve  stress  and muscle tension or to exercise the muscles of the hand. Despite the name, many stress balls are not spherical. Some are ...

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...

Dragon Balls  are the namesake artifact of the  Dragon Ball series . They are large, crystalline spheres (of varying sizes and colors) that feature five-pointed stars (ranging from one to seven, and also varying in sizes and colors, along with being either rigid or flat in appearance) inside of themselves (akin to glass art); individually, they have no powers, but united they have the ability to call forth their associated Eternal Dragon who can grant (usually) one wish(s). http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_(object) --------------------------------- Dragon Ball Z  is a Japanese  anime  television series produced by  Toei Animation . It is the  sequel  to the  Dragon Ball anime  and adapts the latter 325 chapters of the original 519-chapter  Dragon Ball manga  series created by  Akira Toriyama  which ran on the  Weekly Shounen Jump  from 1988-1995. Dragon Ball Z aired in Japan on ...

Carlos Ray Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist , actor, film producer and screenwriter. After serving in the United States Air Force , he won many martial arts championships and later founded his own school of fighting, Chun Kuk Do . Norris is a black belt in Tang Soo Do , Brazilian jiu jitsu and Judo . Norris appeared in Way of the Dragon (in which he starred alongside Bruce Lee ), Good Guys Wear Black , The Octagon , Lone Wolf McQuade , Code of Silence , The Delta Force , and Missing in Action 1 , 2 , & 3 . He was The Cannon Group 's leading star in the 1980s. He played the title role in the television series Walker, Texas Ranger from 1993 until 2001. Since 1997, he and model Christie Brinkley have been the main spokespersons for the Total Gym infomercials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris Invasion U.S.A. is a 1985 American action film made by Cannon Films starring Chuck Norris . It was directed by Joseph Zito . It i...