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Buzz Lightyear   is a   fictional character   in the   Toy Story franchise . He is a toy Space Ranger superhero according to the movies and an action figure in the franchise. Along with   Sheriff Woody , he is one of the two lead characters in all four Toy Story movies. He also appeared in the movie   Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins   and the television series spin-off   Buzz Lightyear of Star Command . Buzz Lightyear is voiced by  Tim Allen  in the Toy Story films, a few video games, and the Buzz Lightyear movie, while  Patrick Warburton  provides the voice for the TV series.  Chris Evans  is set to portray the human version of the character in the film Lightyear, which will explore his backstory. The character has been the subject of critical acclaim, becoming one of the most iconic and beloved film characters of all-time. Buzz has remained  Pixar 's most famous character, and has become on...

  Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry , shortened Hogwarts, is a fictional British school of   magic   for students aged eleven to eighteen, and is the primary setting for the first six books in   J.K. Rowling 's   Harry Potter   series. Rowling has suggested that she may have inadvertently taken the name from the  hogwort  plant (Croton capitatus), which she had seen at  Kew Gardens  some time before writing the series, although the names "The Hogwarts" and "Hoggwart" appear in the 1954  Nigel Molesworth  book How To Be Topp by  Geoffrey Willans . Hogwarts school was voted as the 36th best Scottish educational establishment in a 2008 online ranking, outranking Edinburgh's  Loretto School . According to a director of the Independent Schools Network Rankings, it was added to the schools listing "for fun" and was then voted on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogwarts ------------------------------ Harry Potter ...

Spells in Harry Potter occur in the fictional wizarding world of the series of books by author J. K. Rowling . Magic spells are used by many of the characters to achieve useful effects without the benefit of modern technology. The main depiction of a "spell" in the Harry Potter books consists of a gesture made with the character's wand , combined with a spoken or mental incantation . In the books and the associated film series , the names of the majority of these spells or the incantations used to effect them are derived from the classical languages , particularly Latin . These phrases are not grammatically correct in any language; most of them use words resembling Latin ones of appropriate meaning, but are not proper Latin themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spells_in_Harry_Potter --------------------------------- Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling . The series is distributed by ...

The Punisher  (Francis "Frank" Castle) is a  fictional character  appearing in  American comic books  published by  Marvel Comics . The character was created by writer  Gerry Conway  and artists  John Romita Sr.  and  Ross Andru , with publisher  Stan Lee  green-lighting the name. The Punisher made his first appearance in  The Amazing Spider-Man #129  ( cover-dated  Feb. 1974). The Punisher is a  vigilante  who employs  murder ,  kidnapping ,  extortion ,  coercion ,  threats of violence , and  torture  in his war on crime. Driven by the deaths of his wife and two children, who were killed by the  mob  for witnessing a killing in  New York City 's  Central Park , the Punisher wages a one-man war on the mob and all criminals in general by using all manner of conventional war weaponry. His family's killers were the first to be slain....

Han Solo  is a fictional character in the  Star Wars franchise . Han is a pilot from the planet  Corellia , who is depicted as the second owner of the  Millennium Falcon  after winning the ship from  Lando Calrissian  in events prior to the films. In the  original film trilogy , Han pilots the Falcon, along with his  Wookiee  co-pilot  Chewbacca , whereby both pilots became involved in the  Rebel Alliance 's struggle against the  Galactic Empire . During the course of the Star Wars narrative, Han becomes a chief figure in the Alliance and succeeding galactic governments. In the  sequel trilogy  Han is portrayed as the husband of  Princess Leia Organa  and the father of fallen  Jedi , Ben Solo, who, after falling to the  dark side  of  the Force , became  Kylo Ren .  Harrison Ford  portrayed Han in the original Star Wars trilogy as well as  the first film  in...