In February 2010, a website for the online multiplayer game, Digimon Battle Online, was launched, showing it to be based primarily in the world of the Tamers saga and its characters.

In the 2010 BBC television drama Sherlock, many of the characters such as DI Lestrade, DI Dimmock, Sgt Donovan and Anderson work for Scotland Yard.

The 2010 video game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker includes a fictional group of FSLN Revolutionaries forced into Costa Rica as an important group of supporting characters.

In 2010, Empire Magazine placed Gromit first in their list of " The 50 best animated movie characters ".

In December 2010, while appearing on Desert Island Discs, Nick Park announced that he was working with Pleasure Beach Blackpool to build a theme park ride based on the characters.

In 2010, he was voted # 23 in Entertainment Weeklys list " The 100 greatest characters of the last 20 years.

In 2009 Tracy Chevalier wrote a historical novel entitled, Remarkable Creatures, in which Anning and Elizabeth Philpot were the main characters, and another historical novel about Anning, Curiosity by Joan Thomas, was published in March 2010.

On August 26, 2010, Mercis BV, representing Bruna, brought suit against Sanrio with the claim that one of Hello Kitty's companion characters, a rabbit named Cathy, infringes on the copyright and trademark of Miffy.

A 2010 television adaptation by Howard Overman for BBC Four borrowed some of the characters and some minor plot elements of the novel to create a new story.

* The Addams Family: An Evilution ( 2010 ), about the evolution of The Addams Family characters ( arranged by H. Kevin Miserocchi ) ISBN 978-0-7649-5388-0

He also appeared as supporting characters in Nolan's 2006 film The Prestige and 2010 film Inception.

Eckert and other " post-Farmerian " writers ( denoting authors working with or in a similar vein as Eckert, who are admirers of Farmer's Wold Newton biographies and fiction ) have – through crossovers documented in Eckert's massive online Crossover Chronology ( published in book form by Black Coat Press in two volumes in 2010 as Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World ), and through parascholarly articles such as those appearing on the various WNU-themed websites online ; Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe ( edited by Win Scott Eckert, MonkeyBrain Books, 2005, a 2007 Locus Award finalist ) and in various issues of the pro-zine dedicated to and authorized by Farmer, Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer ( published by Michael Croteau, webmaster of the Official Philip José Farmer Home Page ) – brought numerous further fictional characters into the WNU.

In 2010, it was announced that long-time supporting cast members Ken Kitson and Louis Emerick would spin their characters off into their own stage adaptation, titled An Arresting Night.

He is also currently writing a prequel to The Saga, a series of four books all about Larten Crepsley ( one of the main characters ) starting with Birth of a Killer ( 2010 ) and finishing with Brothers to the Death ( 2012 ).

The series received both acclaim and criticism for its subjects and characters, and spawned two feature films, Sex and the City ( 2008 ) and its sequel Sex and the City 2 ( 2010 ), and a planned spin-off by The CW, The Carrie Diaries.

Another set of 36 cards published in 2010 is entitled " R. Crumb Trading Cards " ( Denis Kitchen Publishing Co .) and features short stories on the back of each card about Crumb's familiar comic book characters: Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, etc.

In October 2010, Speedy Gonzales appeared alongside other Looney Tunes characters in a Virgin Media TV advert.

On the May 24, 2010 episode of " The Big Bang Theory " ( The Lunar Excitation ), the characters bounce a laser off the reflector on the moon.

In the 2010 season of Lost, the result of characters traveling back in time to prevent the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 apparently creates a parallel reality in which the Flight never crashed, rather than resetting time itself in the characters ' original timeline.

On March 15, 2010 The Bachelorette creator Mike Fleiss appeared on 20 / 20 to confess that he develops the show's contestants into characters that will cater to his audience's tastes and that they " need fair share of villains every season.

Imperial Bedrooms ( 2010 ) follows the characters of Less Than Zero 25 years later ; it combines the violence of American Psycho and the postmodernism of Lunar Park with the unaltered ennui of Ellis ' debut novel.

* Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm appeared in a cameo as background characters in the 2010 series Scooby-Doo!

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Lars Johanson ( 2010: 15-17 ) suggests that a resolution of the Altaic dispute may yet come from the examination of verbal morphology and calls for a muting of the polemic.

* The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ( 2010 )

In 2010, the volume of services increased as much as 7. 4 percent from January to September, over the same period in 2009.

Official statistics show that as many 575, 000 tourists visited Armenia from abroad in 2009 ; the government stated earlier in 2010 that the figure will surpass 620, 000 in 2010.

With the Armenian government needing more anti-crisis loans from the World Bank and other foreign donors, the debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to exceed 40 percent in 2010.

In June 2010, Transport Minister Manuk Vartanian revealed that Yerevan is seeking as much as $ 1 billion in loans from China to finance the railway ’ s construction.

In May 2010, Rite Publishing secured a license from Diceless by Design to use the rules system in the creation of a new product to be written by industry and system veteran Jason Durall.

This listing was removed from CITES in June 2010 by the South African government and South African abalone is no longer subject to CITES trade controls.

MTV will transmit special programming from Acapulco in 2010.

During the 2010 Census of Russia, the authorities rejected the claim from a group of mostly mixed race Ainu living in Kamchatka that they are not extinct.

French examples from the same period include the memoirs of Cardinal de Retz ( 1614 – 1679 ) and the Duc de Saint-Simon 2001 / 2010.

For the 2010 – 2011 season, Gertjan Verbeek, coming from Heracles Almelo, will be the new manager.

In February 2010 a new main sponsor was found: construction works service provider BUKO from Beverwijk.

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010.

She retired from politics at the 2010 general election.

Autodesk now publishes the DXF specifications on its website for versions of DXF dating from AutoCAD Release 13 to AutoCAD 2010.

* The fictitious interplanetary spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov from the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke is powered by a fictitious Sakharov drive.

The year 2010 is considered an important year for Dutch hip-hop, with many albums and mixtapes released from the biggest Dutch rappers.

The Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris production ran from February 15, 2010 through February 20, 2010.

presented a staged concert from April 8 through April 11, 2010, with Sutton Foster as Nurse Fay Apple, Donna Murphy as Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, and Raul Esparza as Hapgood, with direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw.

A London production of Anyone can Whistle opened at the Jermyn Street Studio Theatre, London, in association with Primavera Productions, running from March 10, 2010 to April 17, 2010.