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Desmond Hart

Desmond Hart is a fictional soldier in HBO's Dune: Prophecy (2024), played by Travis Fimmel; an original character not from Frank Herbert's novels, he survives a sandworm attack on Arrakis, gains burning powers, and is revealed as the son of Tula Harkonnen and Orry Atreides.

Desmond Hume

Desmond David Hume is a fictional character on the American series Lost, played by Henry Ian Cusick, who becomes the show's chief vehicle for time travel.

Desmond Llewelyn

Desmond Llewelyn (1914-1999), Welsh actor who played Q, James Bond's gadget-master, in 17 EON Bond films from From Russia with Love (1963) to The World Is Not Enough (1999); WWII Royal Welch Fusiliers POW; died in a car crash.

Desmond's

Desmond's is a British sitcom set in a Peckham barbershop run by Guyanese barber Desmond Ambrose (Norman Beaton), broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994.

Despatch (film)

Despatch is a 2024 Hindi investigative thriller directed by Kanu Behl, starring Manoj Bajpayee as Mumbai crime journalist Joy Bag, loosely based on the J Dey murder, produced by Ronnie Screwvala's RSVP Movies and released on ZEE5 on December 13, 2024.

Desperado (film)

Desperado is a 1995 American action film directed by Robert Rodriguez. It stars Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, and is the second film in the Mexico Trilogy.

Desperados (film)

Desperados is a 2020 Netflix romantic comedy directed by LP, written by Ellen Rapoport, starring Nasim Pedrad, Anna Camp, and Lamorne Morris; a woman rushes to Mexico to delete a drunken email, scoring 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives: ABC comedy-drama (2004–2012, 8 seasons, 180 episodes) created by Marc Cherry, set on Wisteria Lane in Fairview, filmed on Universal's Colonial Street, narrated by suicide victim Mary Alice Young, starring Hatcher, Huffman, Cross, and Longoria.

Desperate Lies

Desperate Lies (Pedaço de Mim) is a 2024 Brazilian Netflix melodrama, 17 episodes, created by Angela Chaves, starring Juliana Paes as Liana, pregnant with twins by two fathers via heteropaternal superfecundation.

Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe

Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe is a 2023 Prime Video three-part docuseries, directed by Marina Zenovich and based on Alice Hines' Vanity Fair reporting, examining the Twin Flames Universe online community of Jeff and Shaleia Divine.

Desperately Seeking Susan

Desperately Seeking Susan: 1985 Orion Pictures comedy directed by Susan Seidelman, written by Leora Barish, starring Rosanna Arquette and Madonna in her first major film role; $5 million budget, $27 million gross, mistaken-identity plot in downtown New York.

Desperately Seeking Susan (Ted)

Desperately Seeking Susan is season 1, episode 5 of Ted (2024), Seth MacFarlane's Peacock prequel series, aired January 11, 2024. Blaire has Ted serve as marriage therapist for Matty and Susan; Susan briefly becomes a substitute teacher. Not the 1985 Madonna film.

Despicable Me

Despicable Me is a 2010 American computer-animated comedy about Gru, a supervillain whose plan to steal the moon is derailed by three orphaned girls he adopts, launching Illumination's franchise.

Despicable Me (film)

Despicable Me is a 2010 American animated comedy film directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, about the supervillain Gru, who is reformed by three orphaned girls.

Despicable Me 2

Despicable Me 2 (2013), Illumination's animated sequel directed by Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin, follows reformed villain Gru joining the Anti-Villain League; it grossed $970.8 million worldwide on a $76 million budget and was nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar.

Despicable Me 3

Despicable Me 3 (2017) is Illumination and Universal's third Despicable Me film, directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, starring Steve Carell as Gru and twin Dru and Trey Parker as Balthazar Bratt; it grossed $1.03 billion worldwide with mixed reviews.

Despicable Me 4

Despicable Me 4 (2024) is Illumination's fourth Gru film, directed by Chris Renaud, introducing Gru Jr., Maxime Le Mal, and the Mega Minions; it grossed about $972 million worldwide on a $100 million budget.

Destiel

Destiel is the slash ship name for Dean Winchester and Castiel of Supernatural, coined around 2008-2011, AO3's most popular ship, partially canonized in the 2020 episode "Despair" when Castiel confesses his love.

Destin Daniel Cretton

Destin Daniel Cretton (born 1978, Maui, Hawaii) is an American director of Short Term 12, Just Mercy, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day; second Asian-American MCU director after Ang Lee.

Destination Moon (film)

Destination Moon (1950) is a George Pal-produced, Irving Pichel-directed Technicolor science fiction film, loosely based on Robert A. Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo, that won the Oscar for Best Special Effects and launched the 1950s science fiction film boom.

Destination Tokyo

Destination Tokyo, 1943 Warner Bros. war film, Delmer Daves's directing debut, starring Cary Grant as sub captain Cassidy on a spy mission into Tokyo Bay for the Doolittle Raid, Navy training tool, Oscar-nominated story by Steve Fisher.

Destination Wedding

Destination Wedding (2018) is a Victor Levin romantic comedy starring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder as mismatched wedding guests Frank and Lindsay at a Paso Robles vineyard wedding; R-rated two-hander, 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, distinct from the Hallmark film of the same name.

Destination X (British TV series)

Destination X is a BBC One reality competition hosted by Rob Brydon, adapted from the Belgian Bestemming X, in which 13 contestants on a blacked-out bus guess their European location; least accurate is eliminated, £100,000 prize.

Destination X (TV series) season 1

Destination X season 1: first season of the blindfolded European geo-guessing reality competition adapted from Belgium's Bestemming X. US version (NBC, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, May 27–July 29, 2025, 10 episodes, $250,000) won by Rick Szabo; UK version (BBC One, Rob Brydon, £100,000) won by Judith.

Destined (长风渡 (电视剧))

Destined (长风渡) is a 2023 40-episode Chinese costume romance drama directed by Yin Tao, starring Bai Jingting and Song Yi, adapted from Mo Shubai's Jinjiang novel; it broke iQIYI's fastest heat-10,000 record in 41 hours.

Destined With You

Destined With You (이 연애는 불가항력) is a 2023 JTBC fantasy romance drama, 16 episodes, starring Jo Bo-ah and Rowoon as a civil servant and a cursed lawyer linked by a book sealed 300 years ago; streamed on Netflix, averaged 2.613% Nielsen.

Destiny (1921 film)

Destiny (Der müde Tod, The Weary Death) is Fritz Lang's 1921 German Expressionist silent fantasy, produced by Erich Pommer for Decla-Bioscop, in which Lil Dagover bargains with Death across three episodes; restored with tinting in 2016.

Destiny (Irene Adler)

Destiny (Irene Adler), Marvel Comics blind mutant precog created by Claremont and Byrne, debuted in Uncanny X-Men #141 (1981), died to Legion in #255, was resurrected in 2021's Inferno, partner of Mystique and author of Destiny's Diaries.

DeStorm Power

DeStorm Power (born 1982) is an American rapper, YouTuber, Vine star, and Zeus Network co-founder; 2011 American Music Award winner and 2018 Emmy nominee for Caught The Series, distinct from any energy company of a similar name.

Destro

Destro (James McCullen Destro XXIV) is the silver-masked Scottish arms dealer of G.I. Joe, head of M.A.R.S., Cobra's weapons supplier and rival, with his own Iron Grenadiers army; first appeared in Marvel's G.I. Joe comics in 1983 and returned in Skybound's 2024 Energon Universe miniseries.