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United Federation of Planets
United Federation of Planets (UFP), the fictional interstellar government of Star Trek, founded 2161 in San Francisco by humans, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites; over 150 member worlds led by an elected president and council, served by Starfleet and governed by the Prime Directive.
USS Defiant
USS Defiant (NX-74205), also known via its replacement USS Sao Paulo NCC-75633, is the Defiant-class prototype warship from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, built to fight the Borg, destroyed at Chin'toka in 2375, and succeeded by a renamed sister ship.
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)
USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, the Galaxy-class flagship of Star Trek: The Next Generation under Captain Jean-Luc Picard; designed by Andrew Probert, capable of saucer separation, destroyed in Generations and restored in Picard season 3.
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is the fictional Constitution-class Star Trek starship designed by Matt Jefferies in 1964, launched in-universe in 2245, commanded by Kirk, destroyed in 2285; its 11-foot filming model rests at the Smithsonian.
Valya Harkonnen
Valya Harkonnen is the protagonist of HBO's Dune: Prophecy, played by Emily Watson and Jessica Barden. Second Mother Superior of the Sisterhood, she masters the Voice and drives the Atreides-Harkonnen feud 10,000 years before Dune.
Vanessa Ives
Vanessa Ives is the female lead of Penny Dreadful (Showtime/Sky, 2014–2016), an original character created by John Logan and played by Eva Green in a Golden Globe-nominated role: a Victorian Catholic medium, witch, and reincarnation of Amunet, shot dead by Ethan Chandler in the 2016 series finale.
Venus (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Venus de Milo (Mei Pieh Chi; IDW comic version Bonnie) is the first female Ninja Turtle, introduced in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (1997) and reintroduced in IDW's TMNT #127 (2022) as a Punk Frog rebuilt by Dr. Barlow.
Vox (Hazbin Hotel)
Vox (Vincent Whittman) is the TV-headed sinner demon Overlord of Hazbin Hotel, voiced by Christian Borle: main antagonist of season 2, leader of the Vees and VoxTek, rival of Alastor, defeated in 'Curtain Call'.
Vulcan (Star Trek)
Vulcans are Star Trek's logical, emotion-suppressing humanoid species from the desert planet Vulcan orbiting 40 Eridani A, founded on Surak's teachings, known for Spock, the mind meld, katras, and the Vulcan salute, and distinct from the real-world 19th-century planet Vulcan hypothesis.
Vulcan nerve pinch
Vulcan nerve pinch (also Vulcan neck pinch), fictional Star Trek technique rendering humanoids unconscious via pressure between neck and shoulder; invented by Leonard Nimoy for "The Enemy Within"; distinct from the nonexistent "Vulcan death grip" bluff.
Vulcan salute
Vulcan salute: split-fingered hand greeting of Star Trek's Spock, devised by Leonard Nimoy from the Jewish Kohanim blessing, first seen in 1967's "Amok Time" with "Live long and prosper".
Wallace (The Wire)
Wallace is a fictional teenage drug dealer in HBO's The Wire (2002), in the Barksdale Organization under D'Angelo Barksdale, played by Michael B. Jordan; he cares for orphans in a vacant and is killed in the season 1 finale.
Walter Skinner
Walter Skinner (Walter Sergei Skinner), fictional FBI assistant director in The X-Files, played by Mitch Pileggi; superior and reluctant ally of Mulder and Scully, first appearing in "Tooms".
Walter White (Breaking Bad)
Walter White, also known as Heisenberg, is the fictional protagonist of Breaking Bad, played by Bryan Cranston: a chemistry teacher with lung cancer who becomes a meth kingpin over five seasons (2008–2013).
Walter White Jr.
Walter White Jr., also called Flynn, is the teenage son of Walter and Skyler White on Breaking Bad (2008-2013). He has cerebral palsy, was based on Takehiko Kitazawa, and was played by RJ Mitte, who died in 2026.
War Doctor
The War Doctor is a Doctor Who incarnation played by John Hurt, born from the Eighth Doctor's choice on Karn during the Time War; he renounced the name Doctor, ended the war by freezing Gallifrey, and regenerated into the Ninth Doctor.
Waylon Smithers
Waylon Smithers Jr. is a fictional character from The Simpsons, Mr. Burns' devoted assistant, voiced by Harry Shearer, first appearing in "Homer's Odyssey" (1990), originally drawn with darker skin, and coming out as gay in "The Burns Cage" (2016).
Wayne Manor
Wayne Manor is a fictional mansion in Gotham City that serves as the home of Bruce Wayne. It is the surface entrance to the Batcave, the hidden base for Batman.
Weakest Link
Weakest Link (The Weakest Link) is a BBC quiz format created in 2000 by Fintan Coyle and Cathy Dunning: contestants build money chains, bank winnings, and vote off the weakest link. Hosted by Anne Robinson until 2012, revived on NBC with Jane Lynch in 2020, sold to 97 countries.
Wednesday Addams (Wednesday)
Wednesday Addams as portrayed in Netflix's Wednesday (2022–), created by Gough and Millar with Tim Burton, starring Jenna Ortega; a psychic teen detective at Nevermore Academy, record-breaking hit, two seasons.
Wee-Bey Brice
Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice is a fictional enforcer on HBO's The Wire, played by Hassan Johnson. Chief hitman of the Barksdale organization, sentenced to life without parole in 2002, father of Namond, and source of the wee-bey.gif reaction meme.
Weeping Angel
Weeping Angels (the Lonely Assassins): quantum-locked Doctor Who monsters created by Steven Moffat, debuting in Blink (2007); they freeze to stone when observed and send victims back in time to feed on their unlived days.
Wesley Crusher
Wesley Crusher: fictional Star Trek character played by Wil Wheaton in The Next Generation, son of Beverly and Jack Crusher, acting ensign on stardate 41263.4, later a Traveler in Picard and Prodigy.
Westworld
Westworld: HBO science-fiction drama series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, based on Michael Crichton's 1973 film about an android theme park; ran 2016-2022, four seasons, 54 Emmy nominations, 9 wins, cancelled November 2022.
What Comes After (The Walking Dead)
"What Comes After" (season 9, episode 5 of The Walking Dead, AMC, November 4, 2018) is Andrew Lincoln's final episode as Rick Grimes, ending with Rick surviving a bridge explosion and being taken away by the CRM, leading to spinoffs and The Ones Who Live.
What Happened and What's Going On
"What Happened and What's Going On" is The Walking Dead season 5 episode 9 (February 8, 2015), written by Scott Gimple and directed by Greg Nicotero, depicting Tyreese's death via hallucinations after a walker bite at Shirewilt Estates.
What We Become (The Walking Dead)
What We Become is The Walking Dead season 10 episode 13 (AMC, March 22, 2020), Danai Gurira's Michonne farewell; Virgil's jimsonweed hallucinations show an alternate timeline where she joined the Saviors.
When You're Lost in the Darkness
"When You're Lost in the Darkness" is the series premiere of HBO's The Last of Us, aired January 15, 2023; written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, directed by Mazin; drew 4.7 million US viewers.
Where no man has gone before
"Where no man has gone before" is the closing line of Star Trek's original opening narration, first broadcast September 8, 1966, possibly from a 1958 White House pamphlet, revised to "no one" in The Next Generation (1987) and self-corrected by Kirk in Star Trek VI.
White Walker
White Walkers are the TV name for the Others, humanoid ice beings beyond the Wall in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones. Not seen for six to eight thousand years in-universe; they raise dead wights and fear obsidian, fire, and possibly Valyrian steel.