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SaaS

See Software as a Service.

Sabretooth

Little is known about the early life of the feral mutant from Marvel Comics‘ X-Men series who was born with the name Victor Creed, although it is believed that he suffered an abusive childhood at the hands of his father, who was disgusted by the boy’s mutant nature.  As an adult, Creed took the name Sabretooth, and by the 1910s he was known by this name in a small Canadian frontier community where he intimidated almost everyone.  Little is known about Sabretooth’s activities until the early 1960s, when he served in Team X, a special intelligence unit run by the CIA.

In recent years, Sabretooth, always a violent man, gradually began developing a psychotic bloodlust that overcame his human persona.  As a result of this further mutation, Sabretooth’s features became more animal-like, a condition which eventually corrected itself.  Later, Sabretooth formed a partnership with the costumed criminal the Constrictor on an assignment for the crime lord Montenegro.  However, driven by his hunger for violence, Sabretooth disguised himself and slew several people in New York City, resulting in reports of a mysterious “Slasher.”  When Sabretooth was exposed as the Slasher, he and the Constrictor found themselves fighting Iron Fist, Power Man, Misty Knight and El Aguila.  Sabretooth and the Constrictor were forced to retreat, however the pair later sought revenge on Misty Knight, only to again meet defeat at the hands of Power Man and Iron Fist.  Sabretooth was kidnapped from his captivity in Wakanda by an unknown individual. He was brought to the former Department H (Weapon X) facility, where Wolverine found him in a cryogenic tank similar to the one that Wolverine was in when he was transformed by Weapon X.  Sabretooth broke free and killed a de-powered Feral, and severely wounded her sister Thornn.  Sabretooth appeared to be more feral and vicious than ever before, and it was revealed that his captor was Romulus, an individual who has an unexplainable connection to both Logan and Creed.

Sabretooth has had many clashes with Wolverine in the latter’s capacity as an agent of the Canadian government’s Department K.  At some point, Sabretooth took up the practice of annually stalking Wolverine on the day Wolverine believed to be his birthday.  In the course of the so-called “Mutant Massacre,” Sabretooth and Wolverine fought several times, with Sabretooth/Creed ultimately meeting defeat when faced Wolverine, who was wielding the muramasai blade which negated both of their healing factors; Logan beheaded Creed, seemingly ending his life.  Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, Sabretooth’s first appearance was in Iron Fist #14 (1977), and his origin story was told in Sabretooth: Death Hunt #1-4 (1993).

On film, Sabretooth has been portrayed by professional wrestler Tyler Mane in X-Men (2000) and Liev Schreiber in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Safe mode

A specific way for the Windows operating system to load when there is a system-critical problem interfering with the normal operation of Windows.  In Safe mode, the computer is started in a limited state, in which only the basic files and drivers necessary to run Windows are started.  Safe mode allows the user to troubleshoot the operating system to determine what is not functioning properly.  To start in safe mode, a user presses the F8 key while the system is booting and selects “Safe mode” from the menu that appears.

“Saffron”

One alias of a con woman, also known as “Bridget” and “Yolanda,” who was introduced in the Firefly episode “Our Mrs. Reynolds” and would reappear in the episode “Trash.”  At first seen as the new (and unintentional!) bride of Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, then as the new bride of Mal’s associate Monty, Saffron’s ultimate goals tended to be of the material and valuable type, such as ships and collectible weaponry, which she would finagle from her new “husbands.”  Saffron was portrayed by Christina Hendricks.

Sagan, Carl

Born November 9, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Sagan’s interest in astronomy began early on, and when he was five his mother sent him to the library to find books on the stars.  Soon after, his parents took him to the New York World’s Fair, where visions of the future piqued his interest further.  He also quickly became a fan of the prevalent 1940s science-fiction stories in pulp magazines, and was drawn in by reports of flying saucers that suggested extraterrestrial life.  In 1951, Sagan graduated high school at the age of 16, and headed to the University of Chicago, where experiments he conducted drove his fascination with the possibility of alien life.  In 1955, Sagan graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, then earned his Master’s a year later.  After obtaining a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, landing at the University of California – Berkeley as a fellow in Astronomy. There, he helped a team develop an infrared radiometer for NASA’s Mariner 2 robotic probe.

During the 1960s, Sagan’s work at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory centered on the physical conditions of our solar system’s planets, particularly those of Venus and Jupiter.  In 1968, Sagan became the director of Cornell University’s Laboratory for Planetary Studies, and three years later, he became a full professor.  Working again with NASA, Sagan helped choose where the Viking probes would touch down on Mars, and helped craft the messages from Earth that were sent out with the Pioneer and Voyager probes, which were sent out beyond our solar system to greet other cultures.  While still in his thirties, Sagan began speaking out on a range of controversial issues, such as interstellar flight, the idea that aliens visited the Earth thousands of years ago, and that creatures resembling “gas bags” live high in Venus’ atmosphere.  He also testified before Congress during this period about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and proposed terraforming Venus into a habitable world for Earthlings.

In 1968, Sagan served as a consultant on the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey, although that post was short-lived, due to a clash of personalities.  Sagan published The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973), Other Worlds (1975), the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence(1977), and his 1985 novel Contact (which was made into a 1997 film starring Jodie Foster).  In 1980, Sagan co-founded the Planetary Society, an international nonprofit organization focusing on space exploration, and also launched the hugely influential TV series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he wrote and hosted. He also wrote a companion book of the same name to accompany the series, and Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), the sequel to Cosmos.

Sagan also added his voice to political goals, including a campaign for nuclear disarmament, and he was a vocal opponent of President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (also known as SDI or “Star Wars”). In 1983, he co-wrote a paper that introduced the concept of “nuclear winter,” followed the next year by his co-authored book The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War.

Over the course of Sagan’s career, he was honored several times, notably receiving NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal (1977, 1981) and the National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Medal (1994), among dozens of others.  Sagan died of pneumonia, a complication of the bone marrow disease myelodysplasia, on December 20, 1996, at age 62.  Eighteen years later, Cosmos was brought back to TV, this time with Neil DeGrasse Tyson taking on hosting duties.

Sailor Moon

In this popular manga series, 8th grade schoolgirl Tsukino Usagi saves a cat with a crescent moon on its forehead.  The cat later appears in her room, and as it turns out, can talk!  She introduces herself as Luna and gives the dubious Usagi the ability to transform into Sailor Moon, a legendary soldier of justice who, together with other Sailor Soldiers, defends the Earth and the galaxy.  Sailor Moon was turned into a 1995-2000 anime series.

Saison en enfer, Une

See Season in Hell, A.

Scagliotti, Allison

Star of TV’s Warehouse 13 and Stitchers, Allison Glenn Scagliotti was born on September 21, 1990 in Monterey, California.  She started ballet classes at age three, her school’s drama club at five, and piano at seven.  In 2002, she made her television debut in the Chevy Chase TV pilot America’s Most Terrible Things.  She appeared in guest roles on One Tree Hill and Smallville, as well as the indie film Losers Take All, and by the time she was a young teen, she had a recurring role on Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh.  In 2006, Allison made her feature film debut, starring alongside David Duchovny and Sigourney Weaver in The TV Set. Scagliotti portrayed “Gretchen” in the off-Broadway musical Jasper in Deadland.  An accomplished musician, the actress completed a Master Certificate in Guitar, as well as a Specialist Certificate in Vocal Styles.

Schoolhouse Rock

Perhaps solely responsible for teaching an entire generation of American children the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, the series of animated short educational songs originally aired amid Saturday morning cartoons on the ABC television network from 1973 to 1985.  Its concept was born in 1971, when David McCall, a New York advertising executive, noticed that his young son couldn’t remember his school lessons, but he could remember rock song lyrics.  He asked Bob Dorough, a jazz composer and musician who had played with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, to set the multiplication tables to music.  Dorough’s first song for McCall was “Three Is a Magic Number.”  The animated tune was sold to ABC executive Michael Eisner, becoming only the first in a string of entertaining and educational songs by Dorough (“Conjunction Junction,” “The Shot Heard ’Round the World,” “Electricity, Electricity,” “My Hero Zero,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here”) and other musicians (such as Dave Frishberg, who penned “I’m Just a Bill”).  The tunes were synced to animation that entertained young viewers while teaching math, American history, civics, science and grammar.  After its initial 12-year run (during which it was nominated for eight Emmy Awards, winning four), Schoolhouse Rock was revived in the 1990s.  A tribute album recorded by indie rock artists, Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks, was released in 1996, and the series, later updated with new videos, has been re-aired on television and has twice been staged as a musical theater adaptation.

Schrödinger’s cat

A “thought experiment” presented by Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in his work regarding quantum theory, to explain the flawed interpretation of quantum superposition.  The experiment essentially states that an object in a physical system can simultaneously exist in all possible configurations, but observing the system forces the system to collapse and forces the object into just one of those possible states. Schrödinger disagreed with this interpretation, and wanted people to imagine that a cat, poison, a Geiger counter, radioactive material, and a hammer were inside a sealed container.  The amount of radioactive material was minuscule enough that it only had a 50/50 shot of being detected over the course of an hour. If the Geiger counter detected radiation, the hammer would smash the poison, killing the cat. Until someone opened the container and observed the system, it was impossible to predict the cat’s outcome. Thus, until the system collapsed into one configuration, the cat would exist in some superpositioned zombie state of being both alive and dead.

While many people incorrectly assume Schrödinger supported the premise behind the thought experiment, he really didn’t.  His entire point was that it was impossible.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World(film)

Based on the popular manga series Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, the film centers around Scott, who plays in a band, and while he dates Knives Chau, a high-school girl five years younger, he still hasn’t recovered from being dumped by his former girlfriend, who is now a success with her own band.  When Scott falls for Ramona Flowers, he runs into problems trying to break up with Knives.  As if juggling two women wasn’t enough trouble, Ramona comes with a bit of baggage: seven ex-lovers, each of whom Scott must battle to the death in order to win her!

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (manga)

A popular, award-winning indie comic series about a Canadian youth whose slacker life is thrown into chaos when American ninja delivery girl Ramona Flowers starts using his dreams as a shortcut to other places.  In order to date her, Scott has to defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends in battle … and quite possibly get a life.  The popular manga series was turned into Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (film).

Scritching

In the world of the furry fetish, the act of participating in an orgy dressed as a furry animal.

Scylla

In Greek mythology, a beautiful sea nymph with whom the sea god Glaucus fell in love.  When Glaucus went to the witch Circe to ask her to cast a love spell on Scylla, a jealous Circe instead transformed her into a ferocious sea monster.  Scylla had six heads, each with three rows of sharp teeth.  Varying legends relate that her body was made out of several growling dogs, twelve feet of tentacles, or both.  Scylla couldn’t move from her rock, forever stuck on the Strait of Messina, instinctively devouring anything or anyone edible that sailed by.  Her necks would extend out to passing ships and grab sailors, crushing them against the rocks beneath her before she swallowed them.  Together with the whirlpool Charybdis, Scylla guarded the Strait, which lies between Italy and Sicily.  Sailors who dared to travel the strait would have to choose between risking their lives with one or the other. Odysseus lost six of his men when passing by Scylla in Homer’s The Odyssey.  This legend is referenced in the popular 1980s tune by The Police “Wrapped Around Your Finger,” in which the lyrics state “You consider me a young apprentice/Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis.”

Search engine

Programs that search documents for keywords and return a list of the documents where the keywords were found.

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

In 1959, Cornell physicists Giuseppi Cocconi and Philip Morrison published an article in the journal Nature in which they pointed out the potential for using microwave radio to communicate with space, if, indeed, there were beings out in space to receive such communications.  Meanwhile, Frank Drake, a young radio astronomer, had independently reached the same conclusion, and in the spring of 1960, he conducted the first microwave radio search for signals from other solar systems.  For two months, Drake aimed an 85-foot West Virginia antenna in the direction of two nearby sun-like stars.  His single-channel receiver was tuned to the frequency of 1,420 MHz, the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen, which was a spot on the radio dial also favored by Cocconi and Morrison because of its astronomical significance.  While he didn’t detect any signal of extraterrestrial origin, Drake’s “Project Ozma” spurred the interest of others in the astronomical community, most immediately the Russians.

At the beginning of the 1970s, NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California began to consider the technology required for an effective search.  A team of outside experts, under the direction of Bernard Oliver, on leave from the Hewlett-Packard Corporation, produced a comprehensive study for NASA known as “Project Cyclops.”  As the perception grew that SETI had a reasonable prospect for success, Americans began to observe.  Many radio astronomers conducted searches, using existing antennas and receivers. Some of the efforts, employing improved technology, have continued to the present time.  Foremost among these are the Planetary Society’s Project META, the University of California’s SERENDIP project, and a long-standing observing program at Ohio State University.

By the late 1970s, SETI programs had been established at NASA’s Ames Research Center and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.  These groups arrived at a dual-mode strategy for a large-scale SETI project.  However, by 1993, Congress terminated funding.  With NASA no longer involved, researchers and interested members of the public saw a diminished chance to answer the profound question addressed by SETI within their lifetimes.  Consequently, the SETI Institute is endeavoring to continue this large-scale program with private funding.

Season in Hell, A

Published as Une Saison en enfer in the original French, this 1873 collection of self-examining prose and poetry by poet Arthur Rimbaud is now seen as his farewell to poetry, and ultimately to writing, at the young age of 21.  Writing his masterpieces between the ages of 16 and 19, Rimbaud displayed a bold and imaginative writing style.  He created new words and defied many established rules of structure and form, which would inspire many writers who followed him.  The last section of the book, called “Adieu,” is interpreted as Rimbaud’s farewell to poetry.

Secant

1. In geometry, a line that intersects a circle at two points.
2. In trigonometry, the secant of an angle in a right triangle is the length of the hypotenuse divided by the length of the adjacent side.

Second Life

A virtual internet world launched in 2003 by Philip Rosedale of Linden Research, Inc., in which “residents” create an identity, meet people, buy land and build or purchase their own environment.  It is a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), but one that offers users total freedom to create and interact as if they were living another life.  Once the game is downloaded into their computers, users choose a name and avatar for their resident, and live in The Second Life world, which is configured as a group of islands in the tropics.  Using the keyboard, a user can move his or her resident around at will, and even fly and teleport.  There are countless Second Life cultures and subcultures organized around arts, sports, games and other areas. Groups can be formed that simulate mini-companies and mini-communities. Users have found partners and even gotten their Second Life avatars married.

Secret Wars

In an effort to better understand the concept of Desire, the omnipotent Beyonder spirited many of Earth’s greatest heroes and villains to do battle on the Battleworld, a planet created from fragments of many different worlds throughout the galaxy.  In this Marvel Comics series, the winners would achieve their hearts’ desires.

Sega Dreamcast

A video game console manufactured as a successor to the Sega Saturn.  It was the first machine released in what is now known as the sixth generation of video game consoles, peering PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube and Xbox. The Dreamcast had an arcade counterpart, the Sega NAOMI (which, in turn, was succeeded by the Sega Hikaru and NAOMI 2).  The Dreamcast was Sega’s last home console, developed primarily to regain Western trust in the Sega brand, which had been reduced following the dismal performance of the Sega Mega-CD, Sega 32X and Sega Saturn.  However, the innovative features of the Dreamcast, along with a strong library of games, has ensured a large, dedicated fanbase, to the extent that Dreamcast games are still being released commercially today.

Seiyuu

A Japanese voice actor in movies, television series, radio and video games.  The word is a shortened version of the kanji (Japanese words written out in Chinese characters) used for “voice actor.”

Semantics

1) The study of word meanings, including: a) the historical and psychological study of linguistic development and the classification of changes in the meanings and/or forms of words; b) semiotics, a branch of semantics dealing with the relations between signs and what they refer to, including theories of denotation, extension, naming and truth; c) significs, a branch of semiotics dealing with the relations between signs and what they denote.

2) General semantics, a system of linguistic philosophy developed by Alfred Korzybski that explores the arbitrary nature of words and symbols in an attempt to improve the ways humans use language.

3) The meaning or relationship of meanings of a sign or set of signs, particularly the connotative meaning, which describesthe emotions and associations connected to a word; also, the language used (as in advertising or political propaganda) to achieve a desired effect on an audience, especially through the use of words with unique or dual meanings.

4) The meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of words, signs, sentences, etc., as in the statement “Let’s not argue about semantics.”  In the example drawing above, a person may see either a young lady or an old woman, and they may come to see both images in the same drawing.  The picture does not change, but a person’s view may change, or the views of two people may be different, just as in the meaning or interpretation of a word, symbol or sentence.

Semiconductor

1. A substance, usually a solid chemical element or compound, which can conduct electricity under certain (but not all) conditions, making it a good medium for the control of an electrical current.  Its conductance varies depending on the current or voltage applied to a control electrode, or on the intensity of irradiation by infrared (IR), visible light, ultraviolet (UV), or X-rays.

2. A device which can perform the function of a vacuum tube, but with hundreds of times the volume of a tube. A single integrated circuit, such as a microprocessor chip, can do the work of a set of vacuum tubes that would fill a large building and require its own electric generating plant.

Sentry, The

See Void, The.

Serling, Rod

The legendary television writer and producer was born Rodman Edward Serling on December 25, 1924 in Syracuse, New York, but when he was two years old, his family moved to the quiet college town of Binghamton.  After high school, Serling enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, with the aim of fighting the Nazis in Europe.  Contrary to his intention, he ended up becoming a paratrooper in the Pacific theater.  During the war, Serling was injured in his knee and wrist at the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines.  He was sent home with a Purple Heart and emotional battle scars that would haunt him for the rest of his days.

In 1948, Serling moved to New York City and entered the work world as a struggling freelance radio writer.  In 1955, he branched out into television script writing with the TV business drama Patterns, which earned Serling his first Emmy Award.  Serling’s second Emmy win came a year later, with the 1956 production of Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Jack Palance. During the late 1950s, Serling fought the CBS network when they insisted on editing his controversial scripts.  CBS got its way and heavily revised his script about lynching entitled A Town Has Turned to Dust, and another about corruption in a labor union called The Rank and File.  Instead of continuing to fight inevitable censorship, in 1959 Serling turned from realism to the sci-fi fantasy genre, with the iconic series The Twilight Zone.  Not only did Serling write the series, but he served as its on-screen narrator.  The Twilight Zone ran until 1964 and garnered Serling his third Emmy.  In 1968, Serling co-wrote the screenplay for the original Planet of the Apes film.  After a stint of screenwriting, he returned to television writing in 1970.

Serling spent his later career hosting Rod Serling’s Night Gallery and teaching screenwriting at Ithaca College.  Over the course of his career, Serling wrote an estimated 252 scripts and won a total of six Emmys.  While Serling worked 12 hours a day seven days a week, his wife, Carol, whom he had met at Antioch College, tended to their daughters, Jodi and Anne.  In May of 1975, Serling had a heart attack at age 50 while running on a treadmill.  A couple of weeks later, he had a second heart attack, at his cottage on Cayuga Lake, and was sent to the hospital for open-heart surgery.  On June 28, 1975, Rod Serling died at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York.

Server

1. A physical computer (which may or may not be dedicated) in a linked network that is used to provide services (such as file access, email routing, or the sharing of peripheral components, among others) to other computers in the network.
2. A computer program that provides services (such as file access, email routing, or the sharing of peripheral components, among others) to other computer programs.
3. A physical computer in which a server program runs.

In the client/server network programming model, a server program awaits and fulfills requests from client programs, which may be running in the same or other computers. A given application in a computer may function as a client with requests for services from other programs, but also function as a server of requests from other programs.

Some types of servers include: application server, blade server, database server (which may refer to hardware and/or software used to run a database), file server, mail server, policy server, proxy server, virtual server, and web server.

“Seven Commandments of Animalism”

In George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm, the Seven Commandments Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be set against the end wall of the big barn. They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments. These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after. With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a pig to balance himself on a ladder) Snowball climbed up and set to work, with Squealer a few rungs below him holding the paint-pot. The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away. They ran thus:

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.

After the pigs take over the farm and seek to become more like the humans, they slowly change the rules until they become:

1. Two legs are better than four.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is inferior.
3. (While this rule is never officially changed, the pigs all end up wearing clothes.)
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.
7. All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Sewer Urchin

 A somewhat-super superhero from the animated Ben Edlund series The Tick, Sewer Urchin is the sworn defender of The City’s sewer sytem.  With a Rain Man-inspired demeanor, the Urchin frequently utilizes terms such as “Yeah” and “Definitely.”  He is somewhat unpopular with many superheroes from the surface, including Die Fledermaus, who calls him “Stinky.”  However, in the episode “The Tick vs. Filth,” The Tick and Arthur find out that he lives in a luxurious underground expanse, filled with things he found in the sewers – including a vast sum of money – and he is also revealed to have many crime-fighting gadgets and outfits.  Once in his comfort zone, his personality is much less Rain Man-esque, and much more sophisticated and intelligent.

Sexting

The sending of sexually explicit photos, images, text messages and/or e-mails via use of a cellular telephone or other mobile device.

Shareware

Software that is distributed without an initial charge, but for which the user is encouraged to pay a nominal fee for continued use, to cover the costs of support.

Shaun of the Dead

When the dead rise to walk the streets of London, slacking boyfriend Shaun sets out to rescue his (about-to-be-ex-)girlfriend and his mother.  As they and a few friends fight for their lives armed with pool cues, bar stools and an antique rifle, they are slowly whittled down by the encroaching hordes of undead, who are desperate to get into the pub and eat the survivors.  The 2004 zombie horror-comedy stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Kate Ashfield.

Shinzon

The central antagonist of the 2002 motion picture Star Trek: Nemesis, the Reman Praetor Shinzon is revealed to be the product of a failed Romulan experiment to clone the Federation starship Enterprise’s Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, in order to infiltrate Starfleet and defeat it from within.  An embarrassment to the Empire, Shinzon was banished to Romulus’ sister planet Remus, but Shinzon wasn’t finished: after successfully taking over the Romulan Senate, he lured Picard’s Enterprise-E to the Romulan Neutral Zone, then engaged the Starfleet flaghip with his warship, the Scimitar, which was unique in that it could fire while cloaked.  Emitting a special telepathy with the help of his viceroy, Shinzon was a formidable enemy, but he was also an enemy under a deadly time limit to exact his revenge, as he suffered from an accelerated metabolism (a result of his genetic engineering) that was killing him.  Shinzon was portrayed by Tom Hardy.

Shmidt, Johann

See Red Skull.

Shock Treatment

Billed as “Not a sequel, not a prequel, but an equal” to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this musical chronicle of the further adventures of Brad and Janet was written and directed by Jim Sharman, with book and lyrics by RHPS creator Richard O’Brien.  The film, which was released October 20, 1981, featured Cliff DeYoung (who originated the role of Brad Majors in the original stage version of the first film, The Rocky Horror Show), Jessica Harper as his wife Janet, and featured Rocky Horror alums Patricia Quinn and Nell Campbell (aka Little Nell).

Shotacon

A subgenre of anime/manga which includes animation, drawings and paintings of underage boys in sexual acts, typically with adult males. Originating in Japan, shotacon originally only featured Japanese boys, but now includes Americans, as well.  In rare cases, relationships are depicted as entirely nonsexual, but these are not usually classified as “true” shotacon. The term “shotacon” is short for Shōtarō complex, which is named for the boy hero of Tetsujin 28-go (or Tetsujin 28-gou), a 1956 manga series which became the 1963-66 television animated series also known as Gigantor.

Shōtarō complex

See Shotacon.

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