This Showdown preys on the days of future past: the great and powerful films that came after the main event—whether that event was also a film, television series, novel, comic or song—and took us back to the beginning while continuing the story*. Get your army of thieves together, open the ouija board, and start listing the ten best prequels, origin stories, sequels-with-flashbacks, and rises-to-power of infamous characters. If your choices don’t make the final destination, hey, better luck tomorrow and see you on the ride back. (*Reboots count only if they include otherwise unexplored origin stories.)
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