The Top 11 Genre Media Properties of the Last Decade—Part 1

What makes something “genre media”? Anything that replaces our own world with a reality and/or characters of pure imagination, whether it’s the future, the past, or a present where the rules are slightly different than our own… What I’ve listed below are what I think were the biggest franchises of the last decade in terms of both impact, and how the defined the model for a success in the last decade. In the 2000s the idea of the genre “machine” has become streamlined. The potential for...