The collective known as 2D Among Us is creating a buzz on Russian social media with its work planting famous film and television characters into everyday Russian scenes.
Batman And Lenin: Russian Photoshoppers Reimagine The Classics
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Dobby the house elf, from the Harry Potter series, in a Soviet apartment.
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Alf, the eponymous star of the American science fiction sitcom, riding a Russian night train.
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Spaceships from Thor 2, a 2013 superhero movie, attack Rostov-on-Don. Yevgeny Zubkov, the member of the collective who created this image, says he prefers to work from images of his own hometown.
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A Star Wars lightsaber battle lights up a riverbank in Rostov-on-Don. Zubkov, who also created this image, says he uses Photoshop to create his works and each takes around half a day to complete.
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Batman's tumbler batmobile parked outside a dacha.
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Clouds from the Death Eater scene in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince loom over St. Petersburg.
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WALL-E in a run-down Russian suburb. Zubkov says one aim of the project is to draw attention to social problems in Russia.
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The balloons from the film Up, rising behind Soviet-era apartment blocks. Zubkov says that characters from an "ideal, clean world contrast with dirty provincial streets."
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Dug, the talking dog from Up, and an apartment door which reads "Beware of the Dog".
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An AT-AT Walker from Star Wars bearing down on Russian apartment buildings.
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A Game of Thrones dragon swoops past a Soviet-era apartment block.
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Bart Simpson is taunted in a Russian village.
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Wolf from the Soviet-era television cartoon Nu, Pogodi! chilling by a Lada in a birch grove.
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Simba, from The Lion King, presented on a Russian rooftop. A member of the collective said in a 2016 interview that cartoons are much easier to insert in a scene than real-life characters.
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"Light it up," the bat-signal looms over a Russian skyline.
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Batman in a Russian crowd.
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Deadpool, from the American comedy superhero film of the same name, doodling atop a Lada.
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Forrest Gump and a statue of Lenin.
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Planet Express Ship, from the Simpsons spin-off Futurama, parked between Soviet-era apartment blocks.
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Philip J. Fry from Futurama.
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Winter is...here. Jon Snow from Game of Thrones.
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Hank, the octopus from Finding Dory, lurks off a Russian beach.
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Chihiro and No-Face, from the Japanese anime fantasy film Spirited Away, ride the metro.