The pantheon of superpowered heroes in pop culture continues to grow as the world consumes hundreds of thousands of stories across all media forms. Comic books, video games and manga have introduced ...

Here’s what an intense desire for a fictional character looks like. Fictophilia, fictosexuality and fictoromance refer to the intense and enduring emotional attachment, love, infatuation or desire ...

The world of online fandom has come out against recent strides in disruptive technology: crusading against crypto, for instance, and protesting the widespread scraping of art for use in the training ...

Entertainment startup FourFront invented a cast of fictional influencers on TikTok. Actors direct and film their own scripted content in collaboration with production teams. The company says it wants ...

Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. A Japanese man who tied the knot with a computer-synthesized character is on a mission to educate people about fictosexuals. Akihiko Kondo married made ...