Flint Lockwood is an inventor who just wants to prove himself to everyone in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Unfortunately no one really understands his inventions or find them useful – that is until he develops the FLDSMDFR. But with his track record of failed inventions, it’s not long before it starts raining oversized mutated foods.

Mycroft, Sherlock’s older and possibly smarter brother, prefers observation to action. He humbly insists he occupies but a minor role in Her Majesty’s government (if by ‘minor,’ you mean ‘occasionally IS Her Majesty’s government’), however, he gets tetchy when asked how his diet’s going (it’s going fine, thank you).

In Ghost in the Shell, Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson) is field commander of Public Security Section 9. She is highly intelligent, known for her deductive, military, and hacking skills, not to mention physically powerful due to her full-body prosthesis.

Dr. Horrible is an aspiring supervillain who ends each day by reflecting on his personal blog while cheesy synth music plays overhead. Remember to address him properly, because he “didn’t spend 6 years getting a PhD in Horribleness to be called mister.”

In Prometheus, David 8 (Michael Fassbender) is a next generation robot from Weyland Industries capable of simulating human emotion. On the upside, he enjoys the film Lawrence of the Arabia; on the downside, he develops an ego, insecurities, jealousy and envy.

In the first episode of the animated scifi anthology series Love, Death, and Robots, called Sonnie’s Edge, Wes (voiced by Omid Abtahi) along with Ivrina are friends of Sonnie. After they find Sonnie brutally assaulted by a gang, Wes uses his hacking skills to transfer her consciousness into a bio-beast named Khanivore which battles in underground “beastie” deathmatches and seeks to exact revenge.