The real world inspires our stories, not the other way around. Unless it is the other way around. And it is. So very, very often.

Sometimes a lawbreaker executes a crime so flawlessly that you literally have to be Sherlock to solve it.

We've all come up with at least one clever scheme that's gone wrong. But none of them have gone murderously wrong.

Whether it's through persistence, greed, circumstance, or plain dumb luck, some iconic characters have managed to survive their own creators' best attempts to waste them.

Creating anything is hit and miss -- for every amazing work, that same artist likely has ten pieces of crap that they'd happily see blasted into the Sun.

Translating titles isn't as easy as it looks, and sometimes the results are hilariously amazing.