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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future

By Ethan Gilsdorf on October 21, 2009 in Geek Pride

We watch fantasy movies with heroic characters for plenty of reasons: because they're fun, because they're exciting, because we need to tune out and decompress for a couple of hours, or because they show us places and creatures that could never be. But one essential reason is these heroes do things we can't do in real life. Read More

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