From Scavengers Reign to Star Trek and Star Wars, the io9 crew looks back on the year's dearly departed characters and shows.

Let us know who you’d nominate below. Because I’m an asshole, my initial thought here was to simply identify the richest fictional character I could find and then request them as my Secret Santa.

A new study published in Psychology of Popular Media sheds light on why some people are drawn to morally ambiguous fictional ...