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
![Dobby the house elf, from the Harry Potter series, in a Soviet apartment. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/c6b5da9b-85d3-4bc0-90b8-1324930ec017_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Dobby the house elf, from the Harry Potter series, in a Soviet apartment.
![Alf, the eponymous star of the American science fiction sitcom, riding a Russian night train. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/24c4ce89-f7a0-4ed8-90e7-b47f165ca65c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Alf, the eponymous star of the American science fiction sitcom, riding a Russian night train.
![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. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/4520364f-2387-4292-b6b4-1f2d3757e4ac_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/00aaa88e-659f-4a28-b80f-275b8ec1811c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![Batman's tumbler batmobile parked outside a dacha. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/860c62f0-87e5-43ff-a95a-541cd9342f37_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Batman's tumbler batmobile parked outside a dacha.
![Clouds from the Death Eater scene in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince loom over St. Petersburg. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/5686f506-976a-40c6-aff3-60d4469a6192_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Clouds from the Death Eater scene in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince loom over St. Petersburg.
![WALL-E in a run-down Russian suburb. Zubkov says one aim of the project is to draw attention to social problems in Russia. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/7d6281d9-d1f0-47ad-881f-42994c1b8b0d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
![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."](https://gdb.rferl.org/7f7b1e99-0528-4028-b223-a568559bc759_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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."
![Dug, the talking dog from Up, and an apartment door which reads "Beware of the Dog".](https://gdb.rferl.org/fadcbb42-2ace-46ca-aadc-ed293b9ba0cf_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Dug, the talking dog from Up, and an apartment door which reads "Beware of the Dog".
![An AT-AT Walker from Star Wars bearing down on Russian apartment buildings. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/0ec318fa-fe10-496a-8c23-c718c8753ff6_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An AT-AT Walker from Star Wars bearing down on Russian apartment buildings.
![A Game of Thrones dragon swoops past a Soviet-era apartment block. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/ea0f2611-2e37-412d-9eaa-872742256b6d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A Game of Thrones dragon swoops past a Soviet-era apartment block.
![Bart Simpson is taunted in a Russian village. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/97ff192a-b985-4a8c-8af5-7bd0a17645c1_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Bart Simpson is taunted in a Russian village.
![Wolf from the Soviet-era television cartoon Nu, Pogodi! chilling by a Lada in a birch grove. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/cdf75ef8-9f47-4103-87f7-dc9157c63469_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Wolf from the Soviet-era television cartoon Nu, Pogodi! chilling by a Lada in a birch grove.
![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. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/19fdbe72-0deb-49bf-820e-9a2a5f03a1fa_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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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.
!["Light it up," the bat-signal looms over a Russian skyline. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/8f05c315-e12b-49e4-bd12-5d095fd99c6c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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"Light it up," the bat-signal looms over a Russian skyline.
![Batman in a Russian crowd.](https://gdb.rferl.org/b10d6699-2c74-4cf7-a1d2-51f34a52d679_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Batman in a Russian crowd.
![Deadpool, from the American comedy superhero film of the same name, doodling atop a Lada. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/29ae1222-38b3-4547-b421-da63ca1ce975_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Deadpool, from the American comedy superhero film of the same name, doodling atop a Lada.
![Forrest Gump and a statue of Lenin. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/182e8920-d455-4644-a234-8e1ebd3bd882_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Forrest Gump and a statue of Lenin.
![Planet Express Ship, from the Simpsons spin-off Futurama, parked between Soviet-era apartment blocks. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/4e7444ce-23df-4fef-a751-6a341acca1a8_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Planet Express Ship, from the Simpsons spin-off Futurama, parked between Soviet-era apartment blocks.
![Philip J. Fry from Futurama. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/0b7b96ca-4160-4a8f-8451-e757fd21f321_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Philip J. Fry from Futurama.
![Winter is...here. Jon Snow from Game of Thrones. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/d929987f-1417-4a8e-9b22-88d5cb9a8936_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Winter is...here. Jon Snow from Game of Thrones.
![Hank, the octopus from Finding Dory, lurks off a Russian beach. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/25519a3a-4798-4437-80c4-20f19e5e2e69_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Hank, the octopus from Finding Dory, lurks off a Russian beach.
![Chihiro and No-Face, from the Japanese anime fantasy film Spirited Away, ride the metro. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/7d575d8e-e04b-4022-a87b-c057295e6a08_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Chihiro and No-Face, from the Japanese anime fantasy film Spirited Away, ride the metro.