In Memoriam: A Tribute to All the Great Characters We Lost in 2014
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This clever – and spoiler-heavy – “death reel” for favorite nerd characters of TV and movies who departed for the great Internet cache in the sky features a great running gag, and manages to parody something which you’d think ought never to be parodied.
That it’s made by Hot Topic astonishes me – it shows more intelligence than any other decision that store has made in recent years.
h/t Julie Scott
About The Author
Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist