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Onward   is a 2020 American   computer-animated   urban fantasy - adventure film   produced by   Pixar Animation Studios   and released by   Walt Disney Pictures . The film is directed by   Dan Scanlon , produced by   Kori Rae   and written by Scanlon, Jason Headley, and   Keith Bunin , and stars the voices of   Tom Holland ,   Chris Pratt ,   Julia Louis-Dreyfus , and   Octavia Spencer . Set in a suburban fantasy world, the film follows two elf brothers who set out on a quest to find an artifact that will temporarily bring back their dead father. Onward premiered at the  70th Berlin International Film Festival  on February 21, 2020 and was theatrically released on March 6, 2020. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $141 million worldwide. The film's financial shortcomings were a result of the  COVID-19 pandemic , which led to widespread closure of movie theaters, m...

Katamari Damacy is a third-person puzzle-action video game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation 2 . It was released in Japan in March 2004, and in North America in September 2004. The game resulted from a school project from the Namco Digital Hollywood Game Laboratory and was developed for less than US$1 million. In designing Katamari Damacy, the development team led by Keita Takahashi aimed to maintain three key points: novelty, ease of understanding and enjoyment. The game's plot concerns a diminutive prince on a mission to rebuild the stars , constellations , and Moon , which were inadvertently destroyed by his father, the King of All Cosmos. This is achieved by rolling a magical, highly adhesive ball called a katamari around various locations, collecting increasingly larger objects, ranging from thumbtacks to people to mountains until the ball has grown great enough to become a star. Katamari Damacy's story, characters, and settings are bizarre and heav...

Batman  is a fictional  superhero  appearing in  American comic books  published by  DC Comics . The character was created by artist  Bob Kane  and writer  Bill Finger , and first appeared in  Detective Comics  #27 in 1939. Originally named the "Bat-Man," the character is also referred to by such epithets as the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knight, and the World's Greatest Detective. Batman's  secret identity  is Bruce Wayne, a wealthy American  playboy ,  philanthropist , and owner of  Wayne Enterprises .  Batman originated  from an incident in Bruce's childhood; after witnessing the murder of his parents  Dr. Thomas Wayne  and  Martha Wayne , he swore vengeance against criminals, an oath tempered by a sense of justice. Bruce trains himself physically and intellectually and crafts a  bat-inspired  persona to fight crime. Batman operates in the fictional  Gotham City ...

Tiamat  was the lawful evil dragon goddess of greed, queen of evil dragons and, for a time, a reluctant servant of the greater gods Bane  and later Asmodeus . Before entering the Faerûnian pantheon , she was a member of the Draconic pantheon , and for some time she was also a member of the Untheric pantheon . Tiamat was also the eternal rival of her brother Bahamut , ruler of the good metallic dragons . https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Tiamat ------------------------------ Dungeons & Dragons  (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a  fantasy   tabletop role-playing game  (RPG) originally designed by  Gary Gygax  and  Dave Arneson , and first published in 1974 by  Tactical Studies Rules, Inc.  (TSR). The game has been published by  Wizards of the Coast  (now a subsidiary of  Hasbro ) since 1997. It was derived from  miniature wargames  with a variation of the  Chainm...

" Beefsquatch" is the ninth and final episode of the second season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers . The episode premiered on May 20, 2012 in the United States on Fox . In the episode, Bob appears in a cooking segment for a talk show. He appears alongside Gene, and they become rivals when Gene makes fun of Bob around other people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beefsquatch ------------------------------- Linda Belcher is the happy-go-lucky, devoted wife of Bob Belcher and the mother of Tina , Gene and Louise . She is voiced by John Roberts. https://bobs-burgers.fandom.com/wiki/Linda_Belcher ------------------------------- Eugene "Gene" Belcher is the middle child of Bob and Linda Belcher and the tetragonist of Bob's Burgers . He is the only boy out of the three siblings. Gene is an aspiring musician and a prankster. He maintains very close relationships with both of his parents and two sisters, Tina and Louise...

Homer Jay Simpson  is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated television series  The Simpsons  as the patriarch of the  eponymous family . He is voiced by  Dan Castellaneta  and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in  The Tracey Ullman Show   short  " Good Night " on April 19, 1987. Homer was created and designed by cartoonist  Matt Groening  while he was waiting in the lobby of  James L. Brooks ' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic strip  Life in Hell  but instead decided to create a new set of characters. He named the character after his father, Homer Groening. After appearing for three seasons on The Tracey Ullman Show, the Simpson family got their own series on  Fox  that debuted December 17, 1989. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Simpson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons ----...