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Illustration: Elena Scotti (io9) Finally, how could we celebrate Valentines without the couple of the moment? Sure, she’s a chaos witch with powers of a depth unknown even to her, and he’s a sentient android who may or may not be very dead depending on the moment—but they make it work, dammit.
Image: Disney Channel We heard the Disney Channel was making an animated series out of Marvel’s adorable Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur comic way back in 2019. It’s taken a while for the series to announce its voice cast, but hot damn was it worth the wait—especially since the news has also revealed an unexpected Marvel character will be part of the series. Advertisement Singer and actor Diamond White will voice 13-year-old Lunella Lafayette, the titular Moon Girl and pet owner of the similarly titular Devil Dinosaur. Sasheer Zamata of Saturday Night Live fame will play Lunella’s m...
Gina Carano, who plays Cara Dune on Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian, will no longer be on the show. A Lucasfilm spokesperson told io9 she "not currently employed by" them.
It’s always edifying to take note of which craziness on Riverdale ends up permeating the mainstream. Every week brings some nutty development, but it needs to be something with the right concise, out-there quality to inspire thousands of quote-RTs on Twitter—such as “Archie goes to modestly-budgeted war.” Those out of the loop, amused every time the show they think of as being about the Archie Comics deigns to be about the many other things it has chosen to be about, were dumbstruck to find that Betty has transformed into Clarice Starling while we weren’t looking and that our boy h...
Photo: Jean Baptiste Lacroix (Getty Images) Disney has issued a statement tonight, making it clear that actress Gina Carano, who played the character of Cara Dune in the first two seasons of its Star Wars streaming series The Mandalorian, is not currently employed by the company, and that there are no plans to bring her back. Furthermore, the company—per our colleagues at io9—made clear that it condemns recent statements made on social media by the MMA star, stating that “her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and un...