Please Stop Marrying Fictional Characters to People They Met as Children, It’s Creepy 

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Moon Girl, a 9-year-old black superhero, is officially the smartest person in the Marvel Universe — Quartz

Comic book fans have argued for decades over who has the sharpest mind in Marvel’s 9,000-plus-character universe. There are about eight unaided contenders in the primary fictional canon and they’re all male and most are white. Genius scientist Reed Richards, also known as Mister Fantastic, is widely regarded to be the brainiest among them. But…

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Watch Usher, Cyndi Lauper, Sheryl Crow & Others Tell Politicians ‘Don’t Use Our Song’ | Billboard

Watch Usher, Cyndi Lauper, Sheryl Crow & Others Tell Politicians ‘Don’t Use Our Song’ 7/25/2016 by Gil Kaufman Gil Kaufman The list of artists demanding that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stop using their songs during the Republican National Convention grew longer and longer as last week’s gathering in Cleveland went on. From the Rolling Stones…

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