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Sleepy Hollow and Headless Menaces

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 Well, it's the 12th anniversary of the TVCU. Some years back, I did a TVCU Quickie on Sleepy Hollow.  There I said that the TV series wasn't in the TVCU.  Evidence since then has pointed that it is, but so is the original, very different story.  And so, there must be more than one Ichabod Crane and Katrina.  We already know there's more than one Headless Menace, or Ghost, as we've seen Headless Riders on motorcycles in the modern day.   THE SKETCHBOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON “THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW” (SHORT STORY BY WASHINGTON IRVING) Release Date: 1820 (Setting is 1790) Series: Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Story: Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes with bullyish Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. Abraham constantly plays pranks on Ichabod to make him look bad. Ichabod is very superstitious, and at one particular party, Abraham takes advantage of this to relate many of the local ghost stories, including one of a Hessian soldier whose ...

The MIchael Keaton Multiverse?

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  Everything happens somewhere... but somethings happen in more than one universe apparently.   Spoilers ahead, especially if you haven't seen the Flash movie yet.   I love identifying which universe everything happens in, but sometimes that's not such an easy task if I try to place everything in one particular spot.  I came across this with Scooby-Doo, thus I wrote the Scooby-Doo Multiverse with multiple timelines.  The one consistency of those timelines was the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, which seemed to take place in nearly every timeline, which diverged after that series.  (Most of those timelines but not all also included the New Scooby-Doo Movies).  So Batman (1989) is a similar situation it appears. Let's start at the beginning.   In 1989, Tim Burton rebooted the Batman franchise with a smash hit film starring Michael Keaton.  This movie was followed by a sequel, Batman Returns.  And then Joel Schumacher to...