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To earn the Fremen's trust, Paul attempts the sacred rite of riding a sandworm — and succeeds, steering the giant Shai-Hulud across the desert to Sietch Tabr. The Fremen hail him as the prophesied Mahdi, and he is made a Fedaykin death commando. His bond with the Fremen warrior Chani deepens, though she distrusts the prophecy talk.

On the Harkonnen homeworld Giedi Prime — filmed in stark black-and-white under a "black sun" — the psychotic Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen slaughters Atreides prisoners in an arena for his birthday. The Emperor himself arrives with Irulan, and the Baron Harkonnen schemes with him to crush the Fremen uprising and install Feyd-Rautha as the new ruler of Arrakis.

Paul is reunited with Gurney Halleck, his old weapons master, now working with spice smugglers. Then the Harkonnens bombard Sietch Tabr with artillery — Paul's visions of a holy war fought in his name intensify. To unlock his full prescience, Paul drinks the poisonous Water of Life and falls into a deathlike coma, while the Fremen prepare for all-out war.

Oppenheimer studies quantum physics across Europe, meeting Bohr and other greats, then returns to America to teach at Berkeley and Caltech. He falls for Jean Tatlock, a psychiatrist with communist sympathies, and drifts through leftist party circles. His brilliance — and his politics — are both being noticed.

General Leslie Groves recruits Oppenheimer to lead the top-secret Manhattan Project, tasking him with building an atomic bomb before the Nazis do. Oppenheimer picks a remote mesa at Los Alamos, New Mexico as the lab site. He also marries Kitty Puening — already pregnant — while still entangled with Jean Tatlock.

Los Alamos rises from nothing as Oppenheimer recruits the country's best physicists. The team obsesses over a terrifying calculation: could a nuclear detonation ignite the atmosphere and end the world? Oppenheimer takes the math to Einstein at Princeton, who tells him to proceed — and construction of the bomb accelerates.

At the nightly dance party, Barbie suddenly asks, "Do you guys ever think about dying?" — record scratch. The next morning her perfect routine glitches: cold shower, burnt toast, flat feet, falling off the roof. Weird Barbie (the one played with too hard) tells her she must find the real-world girl playing with her to fix it.

Barbie sets out for the real world with a stowaway Ken, traveling by car, boat, rocket, tandem bike, and rollerblades to Venice Beach. Ken is thrilled to discover the real world is patriarchal — "men rule everything here." Back at Mattel HQ, the CEO learns a Barbie has escaped into reality and panics.

Barbie tracks down her owner: cynical teenager Sasha, who calls Barbie a fascist to her face. Sasha's mom Gloria — a Mattel employee — is the one actually playing with the doll. Ken, meanwhile, is loading up on patriarchy books to take home, and Mattel's executives are in hot pursuit of their runaway product.

Maverick pushes the Darkstar past Mach 10 and it disintegrates — he ejects and hikes to a diner in his flight suit. Cain grounds him for insubordination, but instead of washing out, Maverick is ordered back to Top Gun as an instructor for a mission described as impossible: bombing a uranium plant hidden in a canyon.

Maverick visits his old wingman Iceman, now a senior commander, who personally orders him to take the teaching job. At the Hard Deck bar near base, Maverick reconnects with Penny Benjamin, an old flame. The new class of Top Gun graduates assembles — including Rooster, the son of Maverick's late best friend Goose, who blames Maverick for his father's death.

Maverick briefs the mission: a low-altitude canyon run beneath enemy SAMs, then a near-vertical climb to laser-guide bombs onto the target — a profile no pilot has survived in training. He meets the team (Hangman, Phoenix, Bob, Fanboy, Payback, Yale, Omaha, Halo), then humiliates them in a dogfight to prove how far behind they are.

The humans' new weapon: "recombinant" soldiers — Na'vi bodies implanted with the memories of dead Marines, led by a resurrected Colonel Quaritch. They hunt Jake's family to force him out of hiding. A raid goes wrong and Spider is captured — and Quaritch realizes the boy is his own son.

To stop the forest clans from being slaughtered for harboring him, Jake takes his family to the ocean and begs sanctuary from the Metkayina reef clan, led by Tonowari and Ronal. The kids struggle to learn free-diving and riding the winged ilu. Tsireya befriends them; her brother Aonung bullies Lo'ak mercilessly.

Lo'ak befriends Payakan, an outcast tulkun (the whale-like creatures the reef clan reveres) with a violent past. Kiri suffers a seizure-like episode while communing with Eywa underwater, alarming everyone. Meanwhile Quaritch allies with human tulkun-hunters, planning to slaughter the creatures to lure Jake into the open — war is coming to the reef.

Miguel O'Hara (Spider-Man 2099) and Jessica Drew recruit Gwen into the Spider-Society, a multiverse task force. They explain "canon events" — fixed tragedies, like the death of a police captain close to Spider-Man, that every Spider-person's story must endure. Meanwhile, Miles Morales fights a goofy new villain called the Spot.

The Spot is Jonathan Ohnn, the scientist disfigured in the first film's collider accident — now covered in interdimensional portals. He blames Miles for ruining his life and escapes through a portal, vowing revenge. At home, Miles' parents press him about college essays while he hides his Spider-Man double life, and Gwen secretly drops in to check on him.

Gwen takes Miles to the Spider-Society's headquarters in Nueva York — a city swarming with hundreds of Spider-people. Miguel drops the bombshell: Miles was never meant to be Spider-Man. The spider that bit him came from another dimension, making Miles "the original anomaly" — and canon says his father, soon to become police captain, has to die.

Wick travels to the Osaka Continental, run by his old friend Shimazu and the concierge Akira. Caine arrives with the Marquis's army after the hotel is stripped of its neutral status. Shimazu refuses to surrender Wick — so the High Table launches a full-scale siege on the hotel.

A massive battle rips through the Osaka Continental — Wick, Caine, Shimazu, and Akira cut through waves of assassins across the neon-lit floors. Shimazu duels Caine one-on-one and is mortally wounded; Akira swears revenge. Wick escapes the burning hotel while a mysterious bounty hunter called the Tracker watches from the shadows.

Wick goes to Berlin to rejoin his old Ruska Roma family, but his adoptive sister Katia demands a price: kill Killa, a High Table boss who murdered her father. Wick storms Killa's packed nightclub and wins a brutal fight, earning his way back into the family — and the right to challenge the Marquis to single combat at dawn beneath Sacré-Cœur.

At the IRS office, Waymond's personality flips mid-sentence — he's been hijacked by "Alpha Waymond," a version from another universe. He tells Evelyn the multiverse is real, gives her an earpiece, and says she must "verse-jump" into the skills of her other-universe selves by doing something statistically improbable.

Evelyn verse-jumps into a kung-fu-master version of herself and fights off IRS security guards — including auditor Deirdre, who attacks with a fanny pack. Alpha Waymond explains someone is murdering every version of Evelyn across the multiverse, and only this Evelyn — the one who failed at everything — can stop them.

The threat is Jobu Tupaki — the fractured, all-universes-at-once version of Evelyn's own daughter Joy, created when Alpha Evelyn pushed her mind too far. Jobu has built the "everything bagel": a literal black hole of nihilism that will destroy the multiverse. Evelyn starts jumping wildly between lives — chef, movie star, martial artist — to fight back.

Batman — only in his second year of crimefighting — narrates his journal, then brutalizes a gang menacing a commuter in the subway: "I'm vengeance." At the crime scene, Lt. Gordon sneaks him past hostile cops. The Riddler's riddle — "What does a liar do when he's dead?" — answers itself: "He lies still."

The Riddler left a thumb drive with photos of the mayor with a mysterious woman at the Iceberg Lounge, the Penguin's club. Batman interrogates the Penguin (unrecognizable under prosthetics) and crosses paths with Selina Kyle, a waitress at the club whose missing roommate Annika connects to the case.

The Batmobile roars out of the flames for a highway chase that ends with the Penguin's car flipped on its roof. Meanwhile the Riddler claims a second victim: Police Commissioner Pete Savage, left with another riddle. Batman realizes the killer is working through Gotham's corrupt elite — and leaving every clue specifically for him.

One year later, Queen Ramonda addresses the UN and refuses to share Wakanda's vibranium, as foreign powers and mercenaries keep trying to steal it. Beneath the ocean, we're introduced to Namor, the winged-footed king of Talokan — an ancient underwater civilization also built on vibranium, hidden from the surface world for centuries.

Namor emerges from the sea at dawn to confront Ramonda and Shuri on the beach: an American-built machine can detect vibranium, threatening to expose Talokan. His ultimatum — deliver the scientist who built it, or Wakanda will face his wrath. Shuri and Okoye fly to America to find the inventor first.

The inventor is Riri Williams, a 19-year-old MIT genius who built the vibranium detector for a class project. FBI agents raid the campus and a chase erupts — Shuri, Okoye, and Riri escape, but Namor's blue-skinned Talokanil warriors ambush the extraction and drag Shuri and Riri beneath the waves to Talokan.

Rocket is dying, and there's a kill-switch in his chest that will fry anyone who tries to operate on him. Only Orgocorp — the corporation that built him — holds the override code. The team sets out to steal it, joined reluctantly by a Gamora variant: a Ravager who never met them and wants nothing to do with Quill.

Flashbacks reveal Rocket's origin: as a baby raccoon (specimen 89P13) he was experimented on by the High Evolutionary, a eugenicist obsessed with engineering a "perfect" species. In his cage, Rocket befriends fellow test animals — Lylla the otter, Teefs the walrus, and Floor the rabbit — who dream of a better world together.

The Guardians infiltrate Orgocorp's headquarters to steal the override code, splitting into teams while the High Evolutionary — who has learned his prize experiment survived — demands Rocket's brain back for study. Young Rocket's backstory continues: his intelligence outgrew his creator's control, setting up the escape that made him who he is.

The brothers rush to fix a massive water-main break, flood a fancy bathroom instead, and get fired by their old boss Foreman Spike. Walking home dejected, they spot a mysterious green pipe in the sewers — and get sucked into the Warp Zone, screaming the whole way down.

The brothers are separated: Luigi lands in the nightmarish Dark Lands (full of Dry Bones), while Mario pops out in the Mushroom Kingdom. Toad finds Mario and takes him to Princess Peach, explaining that Bowser — who now holds the Super Star — plans to marry Peach by force and destroy her kingdom if she refuses.

Peach puts Mario through a brutal obstacle course to prove he's hero material — he fails over and over until he finally clears it. Impressed, she agrees to help find Luigi if Mario helps stop the wedding. They set off for the Jungle Kingdom to recruit the Kong army, while Luigi is captured by Shy Guys and dragged to Bowser's castle.