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Fantastic Four (comic book)
Fantastic Four (comic book): Marvel Comics series begun with Fantastic Four #1 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, cover date November 1961, starring Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Ben Grimm, and Johnny Storm. It launched the Marvel Universe; cancelled 2015-2018, revived, now written by Ryan North.
Fantastic Four: First Steps (comic)
Fantastic Four: First Steps #1 is Marvel's 2025 one-shot tie-in comic to the film of the same name, written by Matt Fraction with art by Mark Buckingham, set on Earth-828 and framed as an in-universe Future Foundation publication retelling the team's first Mole Man adventure.
Fantastic Mr Fox
Fantastic Mr Fox: Roald Dahl's 1970 children's novel about a fox outwitting farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean, and Wes Anderson's 2009 stop-motion film adaptation with George Clooney and Meryl Streep.
Fantasy
Fantasy, also known as fantasy fiction, is a genre of fiction defined by magic, extraordinary beings, or impossible events, with J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as its defining work.
Fantasy literature
Fantasy literature: fiction depicting supernatural or magical phenomena as real, within speculative fiction alongside science fiction and horror. Covers its history from Victorian England and Tolkien to hard/soft magic systems, romantasy, and 2025 market data.
Fantasyland
Fantasyland: the fairy-tale themed land in Disney parks, opened July 17, 1955 at Disneyland, redesigned May 25, 1983, expanded at Magic Kingdom in 2012; also names games, books, and venues.
Fantine
Fantine: tragic working-woman of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (1862), title figure of Part 1; abandoned by Tholomyès, mother of Cosette, sells hair and teeth, dies of tuberculosis, embodied by Hathaway in the 2012 film and "I Dreamed a Dream" in the musical.
Fantômas
Fantômas is a fictional French master criminal created by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, first appearing in 1911. He is a faceless murderer pursued by Inspector Juve.
Fanzine
Fanzine (also zine): an amateur, noncommercial magazine coined by sf fans; term created by Russ Chauvenet in Detours, October 1940; earliest titles The Comet (1930), The Planet (1930), The Time Traveller (1932); later spread to punk, music, and sport.
Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy's 1874 pastoral novel, serialized anonymously in Cornhill Magazine, about Bathsheba Everdene and three suitors in Wessex; his first success and first use of Wessex, adapted to film in 1967 and 2015.
Farahat's Republic
Farahat's Republic (Jumhuriyat Farahat) is a 1956 short story by the Egyptian writer Yusuf Idris, set in a Cairo police station at night between 1945 and 1952.
Faramir
Faramir, son of Denethor and brother of Boromir in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; captain of Ithilien who refuses the Ring, later Prince of Ithilien, Lord of Emyn Arnen, and husband of Éowyn.
Farewell to a Friend
Farewell to a Friend (《送友人》, Song Youren) is an eight-line farewell poem in five-character regulated verse by the Tang poet Li Bai, known for expressing parting through landscape imagery.
Farewell to Matyora
Farewell to Matyora (Прощание с Матёрой) is a 1976 novella by Valentin Rasputin about a Siberian village's last summer before flooding for a hydroelectric dam, a key work of Soviet Village Prose.
Farewell, Gulsary!
Farewell, Gulsary! is a 1966 novella by the Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov, following the herdsman Tanabai and his pacer horse Gulsary through collectivization in Soviet Kyrgyzstan.
Farewell, My Lovely
Farewell, My Lovely is a hard-boiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Knopf in 1940 as the second book starring private eye Philip Marlowe.
Farmer Giles of Ham
Farmer Giles of Ham (full title The Rise and Wonderful Adventures of Farmer Giles, Lord of Tame, Count of Worminghall and King of the Little Kingdom) is Tolkien's 1949 comic novella, illustrated by Pauline Baynes, about a farmer, a blunderbuss, the sword Tailbiter, and the dragon Chrysophylax.
Farming Life in Another World (異世界のんびり農家)
Farming Life in Another World (異世界のんびり農家), also Isekai Nonbiri Nouka, is a Kinosuke Naito slow-life isekai fantasy begun on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2016, about Hiraku farming in another world with a god-given all-purpose farming tool; 21 novels, 16 manga volumes, and two anime seasons (2023, 2026).
Faroese ballads
Kvæði are the narrative ballads of the Faroe Islands, sung without instruments while dancers perform the Faroese chain dance, an oral tradition dating to the 13th century.
Farsa de Inês Pereira
Farsa de Inês Pereira, also known as Auto de Inês Pereira, is a 1523 farce by the Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente, first performed for King João III.
Fasana-e-Ajaib
Fasana-e-Ajaib ("The Tale of Marvels") is an Urdu dastan by Rajab Ali Beg Suroor, written in 1824 as a rejoinder to Mir Amman's Bagh-o-Bahar and the representative work of the Lucknow school of Urdu prose.
Fasting, Feasting
Fasting, Feasting is a 1999 novel by the Indian writer Anita Desai, following siblings Uma in India and Arun in Massachusetts; it was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize.
Fat and Thin
Fat and Thin (Толстый и тонкий) is an 1883 satirical short story by Anton Chekhov in which a chance meeting at a railway station turns sour over rank.
Fate Rewinder
Fate Rewinder (Unmei no Makimodoshi) is Futa Kimura's CoroCoro time-loop manga about the Rewinders saving tragic-death victims with the Retry Eye, 71st Shogakukan Manga Award winner, with a Bones Film anime premiering April 2027.
Fate/Apocrypha
Fate/Apocrypha: Fate franchise spin-off, five-volume light novel by Yuichiro Higashide (2012–2014), also a 2017 A-1 Pictures anime and manga; depicts the Great Holy Grail War of fourteen Servants in Trifas, Romania.
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star (フェイト/エクステラ)
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star (フェイト/エクステラ) is Marvelous' 2016 musou action game, the first action title in Type-Moon's Fate series, following Fate/Extra. Set in SE.RA.PH after its Holy Grail War, players capture sectors to fill a 15-key Regime Matrix across three story routes led by Nero, Tamamo, and Altera.
Fate/hollow ataraxia
Fate/hollow ataraxia (フェイト/ホロウアタラクシア) is TYPE-MOON's 2005 visual novel sequel to Fate/stay night, set six months after the Fifth Holy Grail War, structured as a four-day loop with Bazett, Avenger, and Caren; remastered in English in 2025.
Fate/stay night
Fate/stay night (フェイト／ステイナイト) is a 2004 Japanese adult visual novel by TYPE-MOON, its first commercial release. Written by Kinoko Nasu with art by Takashi Takeuchi, it follows Shirou Emiya in the Holy Grail War across three routes and launched the Fate franchise.
Fate/strange Fake
Fate/strange Fake, also Fate/Strange Fake, is a light novel series by Ryohgo Narita (Dengeki Bunko, 2015) set in Snowfield, Nevada, depicting a false Holy Grail War; adapted into a 2026 A-1 Pictures TV anime.
Fate/Zero (フェイト/ゼロ)
Fate/Zero (フェイト/ゼロ) is a TYPE-MOON × Nitroplus light novel by Gen Urobuchi, a prequel to Fate/stay night about the Fourth Holy Grail War, adapted into a 25-episode ufotable anime in 2011–2012.