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Anton Viktorovich Yelchin (March 11, 1989 – June 19, 2016) was an American film and television actor, known for portraying Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek reboot series, and for several other prominent roles. Born to a Russian Jewish family in Leningrad, Yelchin relocated to the United States as an infant. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles and the Hollywood films Along Came a Spider and Hearts in Atlantis (both 2001). His role as Jacob Clarke in the Steven Spielberg miniseries Taken was significant in furthering his career as a child actor. He later appeared on the television series Huff and appeared in the films Terminator Salvation (2009), Charlie Bartlett (2007), Fright Night (2011), The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012), and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). Yelchin frequently worked on independent and lower-profile films, headlining the romantic drama Like Crazy (2011), the 2011 remake of Fright Night, the supernatural thriller Odd Thomas (2013), the romance 5 to 7 (2014), the horror comedy Burying the Ex (2014), the neo-noir The Driftless Area (2015), and the thriller Green Room (2015). As a voice actor, he voiced Clumsy Smurf in the live-action Smurfs films (2011–2013) and lead role James 'Jim' Lake Jr. on the Netflix animated series Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia (2016–2018). He maintained an active career until his accidental death in 2016 when he was fatally injured by his SUV. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anton Yelchin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Anton Yelchin
Jimmy Olsen
for Jimmy Olsen in Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2013)
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Five years into his public career, Superman has become the world’s greatest symbol of hope, inspiring people across the globe while struggling to balance his responsibilities with life at the Daily Planet. While Lois Lane investigates encrypted files tied to Krypton and Jimmy Olsen chronicles Superman’s heroics, a mysterious object enters the solar system. It is Brainiac, an ancient artificial intelligence that preserves civilizations by shrinking and collecting them before their destruction. Following Brainiac into space, Superman discovers a massive archive containing stolen worlds from across the galaxy. Among them is Kandor, the lost Kryptonian capital. Brainiac reveals he studied Krypton for centuries and preserved parts of its culture before the planet’s demise. Exploring the archive, Clark discovers messages from Jor-El that force him to confront the pain of losing a world he never truly knew. As Brainiac prepares to add Earth to his collection, Superman realizes that heritage alone does not define who he is. Brainiac launches a global assimilation of Earth, forcing Superman into a desperate battle across Metropolis and aboard the alien vessel. While Lois and Jimmy expose Brainiac’s hidden systems on Earth, Superman frees Kandor and destroys the collector’s ship. During the crisis, a Kryptonian escape pod recovered from the vessel opens, revealing Kara Zor-El, a survivor from Krypton who expected to find her infant cousin and is shocked to discover him fully grown. Together they help secure Brainiac’s defeat, though fragments of his consciousness escape into digital networks across the cosmos. In the aftermath, Superman embraces Earth as his true home while welcoming Kara as the first living connection to his lost world and beginning her journey on Earth. Post-Credits: In Paris, Diana Prince watches coverage of Superman’s victory and the appearance of a second Kryptonian. She quietly smiles and says, “The age of heroes has begun again.”
