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Following An Unexpected Journey, Bilbo and the dwarves continue their adventure, through the forest of Mirkwood; Gandalf has left them without an explanation. In the forest, the party is attacked by giant spiders, and after escaping, are captured by the Wood Elves. They soon after escape, riding empty barrels down the river. They are chased by Orcs and protected by elves, led by Legolas. The latter is set on killing Azog. Meanwhile, Gandalf visits the tombs of the Nazgûl and finds them empty. He then travers to Dol Guldur. Bilbo and the Dwarves are then smuggled into the lake town of Esgaroth by Bard, the descendant of the rulers of Dale. Thorin promises the current ruler a share of the gold in the Lonely Mountain in return for weapons and supplies. Meanwhile, Gandalf confronts the necromancer at Dol Guldur and recognizes Sauron; Gandalf is taken prisoner. Bilbo and the Dwarves reach the mountain and thanks to Bilbo manage to open the secret door. Bilbo then seeks the Arkenstone in a huge pile of treasures, but wakes up Smaug the dragon. Rekindling the forges, they attemtp to burry the dragon in molten gold, but the latter escapes and decides to go and destroy Esgaroth for having helped the Dwarves.

Maxwell Smart, analyst for the CONTROL intelligence agency finally becomes field agent 86 when all active agents have been compromised. With his partner Agent 99, they investigate a traffic of uranium by the criminal organisation KAOS leading them to a (fake) bakery in Moscow. Smart destroys the bakery but further investigation by the famous Agent 23 shows no trace of uranium or wrongdoing. Smart is put into prison under the accusation of being a double agent. When he hears on the radio a message addressed covertly to him by an agent of KAOS who had helped them escape from the bakery that KAOS would plant a bomb in L.A., he escapes and goes there where he convinces his boss and 99 that hs is not the double agent, and finds proof that it is actually 23. A car chase ensues, 86 and 99 trying to recover the bomb's remote control from 23. They eventually prevent the bomb from exploding, and Max is definitly accepted as a field agent.

In ancient China, a soldier escapes the battlefield and ends up in a cave where he is attacked by ghosts and saved in the nick of time by a swordsman who quickly disappears. Their paths meet again and soon are joined by the Monk and his disciple. The soldier undestands that the warriors of goodness cannot unite to fight evil because they are arguing all the time. Their are attacked by a demon and only manage to temporarily imprison its soul; to destroy him, the two young ones must find the Lady Li I-Chi and get the two twin swords, Purple and Green. The Monk is poisoned by the demon and must be taken to the Fort to be cured by the Countess or he will become a double of the demon within ten days. In the fort they are attacked by the demon but eventually they escape. The Monk is cured, but the Swordsman is poinsoned too. The two young ones eventually reach the border between Good and Evil territories, find the lady who gives them the ability to unite the two swords. They thus manage to prevent the demon to enter Evil territory and tip the balance of Goodness/Evil in favour of the latter. They also become the new generation of gardians of Goodness.

Twenty years after failing to complete the Golden Mile, a 12-pub crawl in Newton Haven as teenagers, Gary King, an alcoholic, gathers the four friends from his youth to attempt the pub crawl again. In the fourth pub, Gary fights against a teenager in the toilet and discovers the kid is a robot; so are the kid's friend, and apparently a large proportion of the town's population. The inhabitants who are still human try and convince Gary and his friends to join themr. Their refusal to comply causes the robots to chase the heroes, losing two members of their group during in the process; they reappear as robots. Despite the situation, Gary is still keen on drinking one pint in each pub, and he and Andy eventually take cover in the last pub of the Golden Mile, the World's End. The place is the headquarter of an extra-terrestrial entity known as the Network (responsible for the advances in telecommunications in the past twenty years), who explains that key locations in the world have been invaded and a small proportion of the population replaced with robots to invisibly take humanity on the path to world peace and to take its place in a galactic federation (with little success currently, humans being quite set against imposed happiness) and the possiblity to access eternal youth, as robots. Gary refuses, causing the Network to leave the Earth and to cause global destruction of the planet. In the end, some humans who have survived are quite happy living a simple life with the robots, while others despise them.

Holmes is asked by Dr. Mortimer to keep his patient, Sir Henry Baskerville, safe from what caused the mysterious and horrific death of Sir Henry's uncle, Sir Charles, presumably killed by the legendary ghost hound, the Baskerville family's curse. Since Holmes cannot leave London, Watson accompanies Sir Henry to Devon. They are warned that a prisoner had escaped from the nearby Dartmoor Prison and is hiding on the moor. The prisoner, wearing Sir Henry's old clothes given to him by his sister, Sir Henry's servant, is found dead with marks of laceration on his body. Sir Henry also meets his neighbour, a struggling farmer named Stapleton, and his daughter Cecille, who falls in love with Sir Henry. Watson also notices another stranger on the moor, which happens to be Holmes. Sir Henry, led by Cecille to the place where Sir Charles had been killed, is attacked by the hound and by Stapleton, saved by Watson and Holmes. The legendary hound has been revived by Stapleton, using a masked, famished great dane trained to recognize Sir Henry's scent. Stapleton is an illegitimate descendant of the Baskerville family, and would inherit the Baskerville fortune at the death of Sir Henry.

Three cheap musical boxes (each one playing a subtly different version of "The Swagman"), manufactured in Dartmoor Prison, are sold at a local auction house. However, a criminal gang is determined to steal and recover all three. The first is stolen from a collector, friend of Watson's, murdered in the attempt. Sherlock Holmes is to late to prevent the theft of the second one, but manages to recover the third from the shop where it was re-sold. The maker of those boxes had stolen printing plates from the Bank of England and never revealed where he had hidden them before being arrested. Holmes discovers that a message is coded in the variations of the tune played by the boxes, and manages to decode it partly. The gangsters manage to steal the last box and manage to lure Holmes with a planted clue. Holmes escapses death and guesses the end of the message (the place where the plates are hidden, a small museum); Holmes and the police manage to catch the gangsters in the act.

Thor, son of Odin and future king of planet Asgard wants to prove himself by attacking the Frost Giants of Jotunheim (a commando of which had manage to enter unnoticed in Odin's castle and approach the source of their power, the Casket of Ancient Winter, taken from them by Odin when he had defeated the Giants long time ago). The attack is a failure and Thor, his brother Loki and their friends are saved in the nick of time by Odin. As a punishment for his rash actions, Odin banishes Thor to Earth. His war hammer Mjolnir is thrown to Earth as well and remains attached to the ground in the desert until someone worthy of it lifts it up. Thor meets a group of scientists studying strange phenomenons in the sky (due to the use of Bifrost, the rainbow that allows travelling between the nine realms), whose work is confiscated by S.H.I.E.L.D after the discovery of Mjolnir. In Asgard, Odin reveals to Loki that he has actually been adopted, and that is is actually a Frost Giant. Odin the falls into a coma to recover his strength and Loki, who considers himself the new king, lets Thor believe that Odin is dead. He then sends an indestructible robot to Earth after Thor, who, having learned humility is able to recover Mjolnir and protect the town from the robot. Loki is the one that has left the Winter Giant's commando in the castle; he kills the king of the Giants and then uses Bifrost to destroy Jotunheim. His plan is foiled by Heimdall, guardian of Bifrost, and Bifrost is subsequently destroyed by Thor who has returned to Asgard. He then fights Loki, who disappears into space.

Holmes and Watson have been hired to guard a famous diamond, the Star of Rhodesia, and her owner, Lady Margaret, by her son Roland, during their train journey from London back to Edinburgh; Lestrade is on the train as well. Roland is killed and the diamond is stolen. The suspects are a grumpy professor of mathematics, an old couple (whose husband admits having stolen a teapot at an hotel), a young woman, Vivian Vedder, accompanying her mother's coffin back to Scotland, and Watson's friend, Major Duncan Blake. Questioning the suspects leads nowhere. Holmes is then pushed out of the train and miraculously manages to return into the car; he hypothesizes that the thief is Moriarty's partner, Colonel Sebastian Moran. Watson and Homes then inspect the coffin and discover a hidden compartment where the killer had been hiding; Miss Vedder admits she had been paid to take the coffin on the train. Lestrade is then found knocked-out next to the body of the killer. The train makes an unexpected stop to pick up several scottish policeman, and Holmes tells them that Blake is Moran. The latter stops the train with the emergency brake and fights to escape but is arrested by the policemen and taken out, his head covered with a coat. Holmes then reveals to Watson that the policemen were fake, that they have actually taken Lestrade out, and that the real Moran is handcuffed and hidden below a seat.

Women are found dead, their forefinger removed. Sir George Fenwick's daughter asks Sherlock Holmes for help when she finds out her father has burried a box containing a finger. Sir George, after an evening with his girlfriend had awaken in an unknown place with the finger in his pocket, and is being blackmailed for having presumably killed a woman. Sir George is killed before Holmes has a chance to talk to him, but leaves a clue about a restaurant where Holmes had spotted him earlier in the company of a woman. Moriarty (whom Holmes believe is behind the murders) then visits Holmes and threatens to kill Watson unless he gives up on the case. Holmes conjectures that Moriarty is using hypnosis to make his victims believe they have commited a murder. Soon after, a hypnotised sniper attempts to kill Holmes from the empty house across the street. Holmes then investigates London's club of hypnotists where he meets and befriends Sir George's girlfriend. Back in her appartment, she and Moriarty attempt to hypnotize Holmes and force him to commit suicide, but he is saved in the nick of time by Watson and the police. Moriarty falls from the building's balcony in an attempt to escape.

The four children are back in Narnia, drawn there by young Prince Caspian who has sounded a horn (belonging to Susan, it had stayed behind when the fourn children had left Narnia, 1300 years ago). Caspian is chased by his uncle Miraz's men; being the last obstacle on Miraz's path to the throne. Caspian meets the Narnians, hiding in the forest after having been almost exterminated when Caspian's ancestors (the Telmarines) had invaded Narnia. Soon the four children meet the Narnians and Caspian and organize a revolt against Miraz, helped by an army of Narnians. Their first attempt at taking the castle fails and causes the loss of many. They then fall back in an underground temple, soon under siege by Miraz's troops. While Lucy escapes in the hope to find Aslan she had seen several times in visions and dreams, Peter challenges Miraz to a duel for the throne, buying Lucy time. Peter wins and spares Miraz's life; but one of the latter's followers kills him and blames the Narnians for having cheated, causing the troops to attack. Aslan arrives in the nick of time and saves the Narnians. He later offers whoever wants to go back to Earth (which is where the Telmarines came from originally). The four children take the opportunity to leave Narnia again.

The bishop sends Father Brown to carry a antique cross to Rome, but is warned by Scotland Yard that the famous antique thief known as Flambeau will attempt to steal the cross. In Paris, the priest identifies the thief and attempts to make him give up stealing and become an honest man; Flambeau however steals the cross and disappears. Father Brown attempts to bait him by putting an antique chess set (belonging to Lady Warren, one of his parishoners) to the auction; flambeau bites and steals the set, but returns it to its owner, a beautiful widow, and escapes the police with her and the priest's help. Flambeau still refuses to give up stealing antiques, but Father Brown gathers enough information (the crest on Flambeau's cigarette case) to track him to his castle in Burgundy with the help of an old heraldist and the owner of a Café in Paris. He discovers the secret room hidden behind the kitchen's fireplace where Flambeau has collected the product of all his robberies. Again, he helps Flambeau to escape the police; the collection is however taken and exposed in the Louvre. Seeing that his collection can now be admired by everyone in the museum, Flambeau returns to England and joins Lady Warren in Father Brown's church.

Ray, a serious sci-fi geek, and his friends Pete and Toby are at a pub. Ray meets Cassie, who claims to be a time traveler whose job is to find and repair “time leaks” and stop “editors” who kill famous artist just after they produce their best piece to prevent the downfall part of their career. The guys have some trouble believing her, but they end up traveling back and forth through time within the pub, the “portal” being in the toilets. They see themselves in several times, and discover that they somehow become famous. They meet a second time traveler, named Millie, an editor. Millie wants to take the piece of scrap paper containing the idea that will make them famous, but that will eventually lead to their death. They refuse, and Millie kills everyone in the pub. Ray manages to destroy the paper by spilling beer on it, causing all the events to not have happened, but the paper is still soaked. The three friends walk home wondering about the events in the pub when Cassie appears through a big glowing portal. She reveals that they have only fourteen hours to save the Earth, and urges them to go with her to a parallel universe.

Alfred Hitchcock has decided that his next movie would be a horror movie based on the serial killer Ed Gein, instead of making yet-another movie like the previous one. Paramount refuses to finance it, so he and his wife Alma mortgage their house and finance it themselves. Meanwhile Alma tries to convince her husband to read the script that a friend, Whitfield Cook, has written. Hitchcock finds it bad, and Alma, annoyed by her husband attitude and slowly folling in love with the writer, decides to work with Cook to improve his script. Meanwhile, Hitchcock is obsessed by his blonde actresses, a fact that Alma quickly discovers. But she also finds out that Cook has been only seducing her in the hope to get his script made into a movie by her husband. In the end, Paramount hates the movie; Hitchcock edits it with Alma's help, and by some marketing trick manages to make the premiere a success (Paramount initially was showing it only in two theatres).

The head of the russian mafia, Konali, has released a video game that is played worldwide. Unable to find proof and arrest him, the head of the Moscow police asks Lassard to come and help him with a team of his best men. They are set up by Konali and forced by the head of the police to leave Russia by the next airplane, but instead start chasing Konali's men, and eventually find Konali at his video game factory, where version 2 of his game, if released worldwide, would have allowed him to break into any computer system and take control of it. Konali escapes them and flees to his restaurant where Lassard, who had been separated from his team the whole time, arrests him.

Kirk is relieved of command after having violated the Prime Directive to save Spock's life. Soon after, a secret Starfleet weapons's research facility is blown up by a mysterious captain Harrison. The latter then attacks the building where all high-ranking Starfleet officers are gathered to discuss the first attack. Harrison transports to a uninhabited area of Kronos, the Klingon homeworld, and Kirk is sent there to blow him up with a set of top-secret, advanced photon torpedoes. Kirk then decides to catch Harrison instead of simply blowing up the whole area. Harrison reveals that his is actually Khan, a bioengineered super-human created 300 years ago and revived in secret by admiral Marcus to develop weapons. The latter belives that the war with the Klingon is unavoidable and that Starfleet must become an armed force. Khan also reveals that he had hidden in the torpedoes the bodies of 72 other super-humans that he tried to protect from Marcus, who was using them as hostages to force Khan to work for him. Soon after leaving Kronos, Enterprise is attacked by a mysterious Starfleet ship, heavily armed, and commanded by Marcus. The latter wants Khan and the super-humans back. After boarding the ship with Kirk, Khan takes control and sends Kirk back to Enterprise in exchange for the torpedoes. Enterprise escapes towards Earth, chased by Khan who has discovered that the torpedoes are empty but armed, and disable the ship. Khan then crashe onto Starfleet's headquarter, while Kirk, in an attempt to prevent Enterprise to do the same, dies from radiation poisoning repairing the engine. Spock then chases Khan (who had survived the crash) to take a sample of his blood, ther latter having regenerative properties, and saves Kirk's life. Some time later, Kirk and Enterprise leave for a five year exploration mission.

Malagant used to be King Arthur's first knight, but he now seeks power for himself and harasses the small country of Leonesse, ruled by Lady Guinevere. To protect her people, she decides to marry Arthur. On her way to Camelot, she is attacked by Malagant's men and saved by a wandering knight, Lancelot. They fall in love, but denies her feelings for him since she is betrothed to Arthur. Lancelot's steps take him to Camelot where Arthur notices his bravoury during an obstacle course. After Arthur refused to share Leonesse with Malagant, the latter kidnaps Guinevere, who is then delivered by Lancelot. Arthur then makes Lancelot a knight of the Round Table, and when they hear that Malagant had attacked Leonesse, they go to war and fight for restoring the small country's freedom. Lancelot then announces his intention to leave Camelot, and Guinevere and him finally kiss, only to be discovered by Arthur. The latter accuses them of tresaon and organizes a public trial Camelot. Malagant takes the opportunity to attack Camelot, but Arthur exhorts his people to fight. He is severly wounded at the beginning of the battle; Malagant is killed by Lancelot. Before dying, Arthur makes Lancelot first knight of the round table and forgives him and Guinevere.

Andy is going to college in a few days and does not play anymore with his old toys. Woody is the only one he plans to take with him. The toys (including Woody) are by mistake donated to a kindergarden (instead of being put into the attic as Andy planned). Andy manages to escape and ends up being picked by Bonnie, a little girl, while the other toys are savagely handled by kids too small to be able to play with them. They discover that the toys are ruled by Lotso the pink teddybear and a few goons, who assigns the newly donated toys to the smaller kids and keeps the toys prisoner at night so that they wouldn't escape. At Bonnie's place, Woody learns the truth about Lotso and decides to go and free his friends. They neutralize Lotso's goons and prepare to escape through the waste disposal system, but they are caught and end up in the trash bin and taken to the city dump. There they saved in the nick of time from the incinerator and manage to return to Andy's place just before he leaves to college. But Woody writes a not that convices Andy to give all the toys to Bonnie, who really knows how to play with them, the way he himself used to.

Fantomas décide d'imposer les très riches (nobles et gangsters) d'un impôt sur le droit de vivre. Lord Edward Mac Rashley, richissime écossais victime de Fantômas, décide de faire appel à Fandor et à Juve pour attirer le gangster et l'arrêter. Fantômas est déjà sur les lieux, fait passer Juve pour fou en lui faisant voir des « fantômes », et prend rapidement la place de Lord Edward, qu'il a éliminé. Les nobles ayant fait cause commune avec les gangsters qui refusent de payer, Fantômas veut profiter d'une chasse à courre pour en enlever quelques uns pour convaincre les autres de payer. Hélène et Fandor découvrent par accident que Lord Edward est en fait Fantômas, et décident de se faire passer pour morts. Pendant ce temps, le faux Lord Edward convainc ses victimes de rassembler une fortune en diamants afin d'attirer Fantômas, avec pour but réel de disparaître avec le magot. Fandor et sa fiancée arrivent sur ces entrefaits, mais Fantômas parvient tout de même à s'échapper avec les diamants.

Seven years have passed since Batman has taken the blame for the death of Harvey Dent. Bruce Wayne doesnt' want to see anyone, and Batman has disappeared. Thanks to Wayne's fingerprints, stolen by Selina Kyle, Bane's gang gambles and looses on purpose the billionaire's fortune in the stock market. The purpose is for Dagget to take control of Wayne's Enpterprises, but the plan fails since Miranda Tate is elected instead. Batman is caught by Bane and sent to an underground prison in a faraway land, where Bane had been a prisoner, with the goal the let Wayne watch, powerless, while Gotham is being destroyed. With Dagget's support, Bane had placed explosives in the seweres of whole Gotham City, and after having stolen the core of the fusion reactor that Wayne had been building (but had given up because it could be turned into a weapon), isolates Gotham City by destroying the bridges, traps the policemen who had been looking for Bane in the sewers and frees all the prisoners from the prison. Batman eventually manages to regain strenght and escapes the prison, returns to Gotham and kicks the bad guys' butts. He discovers that Bane was only a henchman to Miranda Tate (whose father, Ra's al Ghul, who wanted to destroy Gotham City, had been killed by Batman years ago). Batman disposes of the reactor's core, that was due to explode any minute and disappears again.

Fantomas enlève le professeur Marchand, et Fandor se doute qu'il enlèvera bientôt le professeur Lefebvre, dont les recherches sont complémentaires de celles de Marchand. Fandor se déguise en Lefebvre et prend sa place pour se rendre au congrès scientifique à Rome où le professeur devait se rendre. Fantomas, déguisé lui aussi en Lefebvre, tente d'enlever le faux Lefebvre, mais finit par enlever le vrai, qui s'était rendu à Rome malgré tout, après avoir entendu les âneries proférées par Fandor en son nom. Le petit frère d'Hélène, qui faisait partie du voyage, est enlevé par Fantomas, et sa grande soeur est contraite d'obéir à Fantomas, qui est amoureux d'elle. Il l'invite à un bal masqué dans son chateau, et elle est suivie par Fandor, suspicieux et jaloux, accompagné de Juve. Ils sont enlevés par Fantomas et emmenés dans son repaire secret, duquel ils réussissent à échapper en compagnie des savants qui avaient aussi été kidnappés. Ils poursuivent Fantomas en voiture, mais ce dernier s'échappe en DS volante.

Scott Brody's dog is catnapped by a gang of cats. A replacement dog-agent is quickly dispatched, but because of a mixup, young pup Lou arrives at the house. The neighbouring dog agents are protecting Scott's father's research, a vaccine againts dog allergy, that would give dogs an advantage over cats. But the latter, lead by Mr. Tinkles, are repeatedly trying to destroy the research. One day, by accident, the right formula is found. The cats then kidnapp the whole family and ask Lou to deliver the research against the human's lives. The dogs decide that the research is too important and the humans must be sacrificed, but Lou decides otherwise. When the humans are not freed, Lou and the other dog agents go to their rescue, in Mr. Tinkles' owner's flocking factory. Mr. Tinkles' has reversed the formula and intends to spread dog allergy to the whole world, using mice as carriers. The dogs arrive in the nick of time to prevent it. In the end, Lou is awared the right to start training as an agent, but prefers staying with Scott and his family.

Fantomas est l'ennemi public N° 1, mais certains, comme le journaliste Fandor, doutent de son existence. Il écrit alors un article bidon rapportant un entretien avec Fantomas, ce qui énerve ce dernier (qui existe donc pour de vrai). Fantomas enlève Fandor et s'emploi à salir son nom en commettant des vols tout en se faisant passer pour le journaliste. Fantomas enlève aussi Hélène, la fiancée de Fandor, qu'il compte séduire. Fandor et Hélène sont relachés par une complice de Fantomas, jalouse. Le commissaire Juve arrête alors Fandor, qu'on prend pour le véritable Fantomas. Ce dernier se fait alors passer pour le commissaire et commet encore une fois des vols. Le commissaire est alors arrêté et placé dans la même cellule que Fandor. Fantomas, déguisé en gardien, les fait évader et les emmène en voiture on ne sait où. Ils sont poursuivis par les policiers et par Hélène jusqu'à la mer, où Fantomas s'enfuit en sous-marin.

James Logan has a mutation that makes him immortal and gives him retractable claws. With his half-brother, also a mutant, they fight in all the american wars until the Vietnam war. James and Victor (and other mutants) are hired by Stryker as commandos to steal a mysterious meteorite, but Logan quits at the end of the operation, disgusted by the gratuitous killings. Six years later (in 1979) Stryker meets Logan in Canada and warns him that someone is killing the members of the mutant commando. Logan refuses to listen to Stryker and soon after his girlfriend Kayla is killed by Victor. When Stryker offers him a means to get his revenge on Victor, Logan accepts and becomes a subject in an experiment: infusing adamantium (an alloy created from the meteorite) into his skeleton to make it indestructible. The experiment is successful, but Loga ecapes when he overhears that Stryker plans to erase his memory. Chased by Stryker's men, Logan attempts to find “The Island” where Stryker's base of operations is locate; this happens to be hidden in Three Mile Island, below the nuclear powerplant. Logan discovers that his girlfriend is not dead, and that it was a ploy to convince him to participate in the experiment. Stryker then attempts to kill Logan through his last experiment, XI, a engineered mutant who has superpowers from many different, now-dead mutants. While Kayla helps all the mutants who are prisoner at the facility (and dies, for good, in the attempt), Logan, with the help from Victor, fight XI and provoque the famous catastrophe of Three Mile Island.

In parallel Earth where peoples souls live outside of their body as daemons, Lyra, the legend has it that a mystical “dust” that would allow to travel between universes. In Oxford, Lors Asriel is leaving North in search for this dust. His niece Lyra is sad to see him go, and she quickly accepts Mrs. Coulter's offer to take her North with her as her assistant. But Lyra quickly discovers that Mrs. Coulter is the head of an organization that abducts children for unknown purposes. She escapes and joins a group of Gyptians, whose childre have disappeared. On the Gyptian's ship, travelling North, Lyra meets a witch who tells her that the children are in a place named Bolvangar. At a Norwegian port, she meets an aeronaut who advise her to hire an armoured (polar) bear. There happens to be one in town, Iorek, and Lyran convinces him to join her quest. One night, Lyra find the son of one of the Gyptians who has escaped from Bolvangar; his daemon has gone. Iorek happens to the lawful prince of the amored bears of Svalbard, and Lyra tricks the usurper king into fighting Iorek. Iorek wins the battle and their army joins Lyra. Iorek then takes her to Bolvangar, where she secretely enters the facility. She discovers that Mrs. Coulter's organization, under the supervision of the Magisterium, are conducting experiments for separating a person from his daemon. Lyra destroys the machine and lets the children out, while the armored bears arrive to fight the Tartar mercenaries defending the facility. After winning the battle, Lyra and her friends continue their travel to find Lord Asriel's laboratory.

Young Bilbo aspires to a quiet life, but he is pulled into an adventurous journey by Gandalf, along with twelve dwarves who want to retake their lost city of Erebor, now under the control of the dragon Smaug. On the way, they are captured by trolls, and saved by Bilbo's ingenuity. They then arrive to Rivendell, where Elrond helps them uncover the secret message in their map, telling them how to enter Erebor through the backdoor. In the moutnains, they fall into the trap of goblins and are made prisoner, except Bilbo who manages to escape. While Gandalf and dwarves fight the goblins in their underground city, Bilbo meets Gollum, finds/steals his precious ring, and escapes the wretched creature at the same time his companions escape the goblins. They are then chased by orcs, the leader of which is a personal ennemy of the prince of the dwarves, and saved in the nick of time by the great eagles of the elves, who take them closer to their destination.

To win the love of Victoria, he promises to bring back a falling star that has fallen on the side of the wall, in the land of the faeries. His father then reveals to Tristan that his mother, slave to a witch, lives beyond the wall. He gives Tristan a magic candle that can take him any place he wishes for. Tristan wishes to be taken to his mother, but his mind wanders and finds himself near the fallen star, who happens to be a young woman named Yvaine. He takes her by force with him back to his village, but she manages to escape during the journey, seeking refuge at an inn which happens to be a trap set by the witch Lamia, who wants to use Yvaine's heart as a means for rejuvenation. The other stars warn Tristan that Yvaine is in danger, and he manages to save her in the nick of time, using the last of his magic candle. Both of them wishing for “home”, they end up in the air, where they are captured by the kind-hearted captain of an airship. He then takes them near the faerie village that lies by the wall, and Tristan, taking a lock of hair from Yvaine, runs to show Victoria that he has fullfilled his promise, but that he also has fallen in love with Yvaine and therefore won't marry her. Tristan also dicovers that Yvaine would not be able to live in the world of humans and rushes back to the other side of the wall. There, Yvaine has accidentally befriended Tristan's mother, before both are made prisoner by Lamia and taken to her castle where her two sisters wait for the fallen star. Tristan follows Lamia, battles the three witches and kills them. He also learns that his mother is the princess Una of the kingdom of Stormhold, and that he is the last male heir. Tristan and Yvaine therefore get married and become the new rulers of the kingdom.

Sequel to Iron Man, where Tony Stark is dying due to the poisonning effects of the arc reactor that keeps him alive. Stark also refuses to deliver the Iron Man technology to the US Army, leading his friend Lt.Col. Rhodes to steal one armor deliver it to his superiors. In the meantime, Ivan Danko, the son of the man who co-invented the arc reactor with Stark's father, wants revenge for his transfuge father's deportation back to USSR. Based on his fathre's plans, he builds an arc reactor of his his own. He then wreaks havoc in the Monaco Grand Prix, is stopped by Iron Man and sent to prison, but escapes with the help of Hammer, leader of Stark Industries's competitor. Hammer wants Iron Men of his own to sell to the US military, but Danko accepted Hammer's offer only because it gave him the possibility to build an army of Iron Men drones to launch against Stark. Knowing that his is dying, Stark is giving up on his company and his life, but Nick Fury, S.H.I.E.L.D's director orders him to find the solution to his problem in his father's legacy. Stark eventually discovers that his father had discover a new element that could replace the palladium in the arc reactor while being non-toxic. Stark synthesises the element, and appears at the Start Expo where Hammer is presenting his drones and Rhodes Iron Man armor, claiming it his own. The hardware is however being remotely controlled by Danko who uses it to destroy everything. Stark and Rhodes fight together the drones and later Danko himself in an armor of his own, and eventually stop him.

In Turkey, while chasing a mercenary who has stolen a hard-disk drive with a list of NATO agents, Bond is nearly killed by friendly fire (on M.'s order) and believed dead. Learning that M.I.6 headquarters has been the target of an attack, Bond returns, and despite failling his atptitude test, M. sends him back into the field to track the man who stole the data and find his employer. Bond kills the man before having any information out of him, but finds a clue that leads him to a casino in Macau. There he meets a girl who promised to lead him to the killer's employer, on the condition Bond frees her from him. The employer is Raoul Silva, a former British agent turned rogue, who seeks revenge on M., whom he blames for his capture and being tortured on his last assignment. Bond eventually captures Silva and takes him to M.I.6. backup headquarters, while M. is summoned to answer for the loss of the list of agents in front of a committee. Silva's capture was actually planned all along, and he escapes through the Underground network. Disguised as a policeman, he tries to kill M. in the audience room, but Bond arrives just in time to save her. He takes her to a safe place in Scotland, the Skyfall manor where Bond had grown up before his parent's death. Helped by the old housekeeper, they prepare to receive Silva's men. The manor is destroyed in the process, and M. is wounded. Bond eventually kills Silva before he kills M., but she dies soon after.

Juno, 16, got pregnant. She first considers abortion, but eventually decides to give the baby for adoption. She manages to find a married couple, Mark and Vanessa who want to adopt her future child. Mark has similar tastes to Juno's in music and movies, and is not really ready to be a father, so he divorces Vanessa not long before Juno's baby is born. But Vanessa seems to be a good future mother, so Juno gives her the baby anyway.

Doctor Parnassus, the leader of a traveling theater troupe has made a bet with the Devil and takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations and present them with a choice between self-fulfilling enlightenment or gratifying ignorance. They rescue a hanging man, Tony, whom they slowly discover to be a swindler, although he claims to be wanting to redeem himself. Parnassus had made a pact with the devil to regain his youth (so that he could court a woman) in exchange for his first-born child. Learning this, Valentina, the doctor's daughter, enters the mirror, soon followed by Tony. Discovering that Tony really is a fraud, she gives herself to the devil, but the latter finds this victory too easy and gives Parnassus a chance to free his daughter in exchange for Tony's soul. Valentina is free, but the devil cannot say where she is. Parnassus emerges from the Imaginarium years later, finds out his daughter has married and has a daughter.

The Penguin's gang is plaguing Gotham City just before Christmas. Max Shreck, a ruthless businessman is kidnapped by the Penguin, but manages to convince him that he can make him loved by the people of the city and that he can run for Mayor. Shreck needs a puppet in office, so that he can built a “power plant” that essentially steals power. To ruin the current Mayor's reputation, the Penguins' gang raids the city, and prevents Batman from restoring order. In the meantime, Shreck's secretary Selina, who discovered her boss's plans and was left for dead by him, turns into Catwoman and seeks revenge by destroying some of Shreck's property. She is stopped by Batman, but manages to escape and joins forces with the Penguin against Batman; Selina however falls in love with Bruce Wayne. When the Penguin tries to get rid of her however, she turns against him. Batman manages to foil Shreck's and the Penguin's plan, and the latter returns to his underground lair where is launches his army of penguins, armed with missiles, to wreck havoc in the city. Batman arrives in the nick of time and kills the Penguin. He then tries to convince Catwoman not to kill Shreck, but when the latter shoots her she kills him, apparently killing herself in the process (cats however have nine lives and she has used up only eight of them).

Peter Parker's parents were killed when he was a kid and raised by his uncle and aunt. Now in high-school, he discovers research results left by his father, and investigates the latter's former colleague, Curt Connors, now a researcher at Oscorp. Sneaking into Connors's lab, he gets bitten by a genetically engineered spider that produces super-strong thread. Peter soon develops super-strenght and the ability to stick to any surface and uses his powers to find the criminal who killed his uncle on the street. He also befriends Connors by giving him a formula left by his father, allowing the latter to produce a serum that regrows a limb of an amputed lab rat. Connors missing himself a forearm, he is very tempted to use it on himself, and pressure from his management to illegally test the serum on unknowing humans makes hime use it. Parker makes himself a superhero costume, equipped with devices projecting Oscorp's super-threads. Connors's experiment turns him into a giant lizard, and wreaks havoc in the city trying to prevent his manager to test the serum on humans. Spider-man, understanding that he is responsible for the lizard's existence tries and stop him. The chief of the police doesn't like Spider-Man the vigilante, and that places Peter in a thight spot, since this person is also the father of Peter's girlfriend. Connors, becoming evil in his Lizard form, wants to turn the whole city into lizards, and plans to use for that purpose a device that would disperse the serum over the whole city. Peter asks his girlfriend (who happens to work at Oscorp and to be very smart) to make an antidote, and uses the device for spreading the antidote instead of the serum. In the end, Connors reveals he has some responsibility in the death of Peter's parents.

Five years after having left Metropolis, Superman is back. Clark Kent discovers that Lois has a boyfriend, and won the Pullizer price for an editorial on “Why the world does not need Superman”. At the same time, Lex Luthor manages to find Supermans' Fortress of Solitude and steals the crystals that have built its struture. Luthor's plan is to grow using the crystals a new continent in the Atlantic Ocean, that will eventually destroy North America. The first experiments have caused massive power outages, and Lois Lane, investigating the causes of the outage, inadvertently finds Luthor's base. She and her five year old son are made prisoners on Luthor's boat; Luthor takes them to sea where he uses one crystal and kryptonite to seed his new contient. Lois's son accidentaly makes a demonstration of his super-strength, and Luthor abandons them in the sinking ship. Lois's boyfriend attempts to save them, but gets trapped, and they are eventually saved by Superman. The latter then tries to catch Luthor on the newly grown island. Since its ground is laced with kryptonite, Superman is beaten by Luthor's goons and left for dead in the sea; e's saved in the nick of time by Lois and her family. Superman then lifts the island from the ground and throws it into space. He's however wounder by a shard of kryptonite, and ends up in a coma in the hospital. There, Lois reveals him that he's the father of her son. Soon after, Superman gets better, and Lois writes an article on “Why the world needs Superman”.

In a near future, most people stay home and send surrogates (humanoid robots) outside to interact with other people, work, etc. It is supposed to be perefctly safe, but the son of Canter, the inventor of the surrogates, gets killed through his surrogate, despite the failsafes. FBI agent Tom Greer investigates, and manages to track the killer to a reservation where the few people who refuse to use surrogates live, led by a kind of prophet preaching revolution. Greer's surrogate is destroyed, and he is suspended. Greer decides to continue investigating, going out by himself, and discovers that the weapon is virus-based, had been made by the company making the surrogates for the army, but the project had been cancelled since it also injured the robot's operator. Greer also finds out that the killer was payed by his boss, and that the real target was Canter. During an army raid to the reservation in order to recover the weapon, the prophet is found to actually be a surrogate, controlled by Canter. The latter's goal is to kill all the people using surrogates using the hijacked surrogate of Greer's partner, through the FBI's not-so-legal network that allows to tap into anyone's surrogates. Greer prevents the virus from uploading to all surrogates, but uses the system to disable definitely all the robots.

À la mort de leur mère, Gabrielle Chanel et sa soeur sont abandonnées par leur père à un orphelinat. Adultes, elles sont couturières le jour et chantent dans un cabaret le soir. Gabrielle, surnommée Coco à cause de la chanson qu'elle y chante rencontre Étienne Balsan, un homme riche. Coco n'est pas séduite par ce dernier, qu'elle trouve trop arrogant, mais lorsqu'elle se fait renvoyer du cabaret, elle va lui rendre visite dans son chateau, et s'incruste. Elle y rencontre nombre de riches qui lui font horreur, mais certaines femmes s'intéressent à ses chapeaux, nettement plus simples que la mode de l'époque, et elle en fabrique quelques uns. Coco refuse de porter les vêtements féminins en vogue, et s'habille plutôt comme un garçon. Chez Balsan elle fait la connaissance d'Arthur « Boy » Capel, un jeune homme d'affaire anglais dont elle tombe amoureuse. Ce dernier doit faire un mariage d'argent et elle refuse de l'épouser, mais ils restent amants, et Boy lui fournit les fonds nécessaires pour ouvrir une maison de couture à Paris. Il meurt peu après dans un accident de voiture, mais Coco persévère et réussit dans le métier.

Twenty-five years ealier, MiB agent K has refused to help Queen Lauraana and keep the Light of Zartha on Earth; the treasure was sent back, preventing at the same time Serleena to put her tentacles on it. Now K has left the agency and works at a post office. But Serleena is back on Earth and is looking for the Light of Zartha, and K is the only one who knows where it is. J therefore de-neutralizes K and allows him to recover his memory, but the latter had neutralized his memories of the Light of Zartha twenty-five years ago and cannot remember, he only left a set of clues for himself. Meanwhile, Serleena had killed the owner of a pizza shop (that happens to be related to the clues leading to the Light of Zartha) and J didn't want to neutralize his employee, Laura. The latter therefore tags along with J and K. Serleena then invests MiB headquarters, that is therefore locked down, J and K are on their own. Serleena finally concludes that the Light is in Laura's bracelet, but after defeating Serleena, K reveals that the Light is still on Earth, that Laura *is* the Light of Zartha, and that she has to leave Earth before midnight or the planet will be destroyed. K also hints that Laura could be his and Lauraana's daughter.

Jackie, an orphan, is contacted by a private detective who tells him that his father, a wealthy Korean man and a former spy, is still alive but dying, and wants to give him his inheritance if he can follow the clues. Jackie ends up in Turkish bank where he retrieves a large sum of money and a small package. He soon gets attacked but fences off the thugs. Then he meets two women: Carment, a Koran reporter and Yong, whose scarf is embroidered with the same text as one of his father's clues, before being attacked again. The reporter happens to actually be a CIA agent and she tells him that the thugs are after a plant producing a super-opium. The other woman appears to be working for Lee, a crime lord, to whom Jackie's “father” had promised the plant. Jackie escapes Lee's clutches, and the latter offers Jackie the life of the woman in exchange for the plant. Jackie eventually finds out the location of the plant (2 vials, hidden by a Turkish priest, friend of his “father”) and gives it to Lee. Jackie tells Carmen what he has done, but as Yong dies, he tries (and after a long car/truck chase, manages) to recover the vials, but is severely wounded. Waking up in hospital, he is told by the “private detective” (actually a US agent) that this was all an intelligence mission with Jackie as the main agent to recover the plant.

While scanning phone numbers in the hope of accessing a game company's server, David Lightman unknowingly connects to W.O.P.R., a computer that integrally and automatically controls the USA's response to a nuclear attack (this scheme was implemented after the military noticed that 20% of the personel affected to missile launching was unwilling to actually launch them). The computer lists games, from chess and backgammon to global thermonuclear war. One of the game's title hints that Stephen Falken had programmed the computer. Falken had disappeared mysteriously, and David, convinced there is a backdoor in the system, spends a week out of school trying to figure out the secret password, which happens to be “joshua”, Falken's dead son. David then asks the computer to play global thermonuclear war, without noticing that he started a simulation that made the militray at NORAD believe that USSR was actually attacking. The military manage to understand that no such attack is actually happening, but the computer continues its simulation, and through a TV broadcast, David discovers what he has done. He is arrested by the FBI and brought to NORAD, where he discovers that Falken is still alive and lives under a false identity. David escapes NORAD with a group of tourists, and with the help of his friend Jennifer, visits Falken. The latter refuses to help them at first, but eventually goes with them back to NORAD. There the military have lost control of the situation and truly belive the soviets have launched their missiles. David then makes Joshua play tic-tac-toe agains itself, and the computer then notices that there are games that cannot be won. It then plays all possible scenarios of thermonuclear war and learns that the same applies to that game. The computer relinquishes control of the missiles just in time.

Peter works as an unhappy software developer, in a company plagued by bureaucracy and uncaring managers. One day, his girlfriend takes him to a session with a hypnotherapist. The latter has a heart attack in the middle of the session, leaving Peter in an out-of-character state. Peter then decides not to care about work anymore, and becomes much happier at work. He even gets promoted, while two of his friends are kicked out. Together, they decide to plant a virus into the company's accounting system that would re-route the fractions of cents normally rounded down to their bank account. But because of a mistake in the virus, much more money than what they expected gets transferred. No knowing what to do and facing jail time, Peter decides to return the money to the company and to take all the blame. But another disgruntled worker (he had been laid off five years earlier, but because of a glitch in payroll software, continued to be paid; the management decided to repair the glitch, but didn't tell the guy, and moved him to an “office” in the basement) finds the checks Peter slipped under his manager's door and takes the money before setting fire to the company. All traces of the fraud has disappeared in the fire, and Peter is much happier in his new job as a construction worker.

Conan's people are killed by Thulsa Doom's warriors, who are seeking steel. Conan is taken as a slave and eventually grows very strong. He's then trained to be a gladiator, and later freed by his master. Conan then searches for his people's crest in the hope to find Thulsa Doom and avenge his parents. He befriends two thieves, Subotai and Valeria, and together they steal a large jewel from the Tower of Serpents. Thulsa Doom has become the leader of a powerful cult and the Tower of Serpents is home to some of his followers. King Osric then asks the three adventurers to bring his daughter back from Thulsa Doom's influence. Conan leves alone on his quest, but is caught by Doom and left to die. He's saved by his two friends who have eventually decided to join him on his quest. They sneak into Thulsa Doom's temple and free the princess. Doom attacks their camp to retrieve the girl, but fails; when he attempts to kill the princess, the latter finally understands that Doom is a monster and wants to go back to her father. Valeria was killed in the attack, and Conan then sneaks back into Doom's temple and kills him while the latter is addressing his followers.