Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/October 27 to November 2, 2024

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (October 27 to November 2, 2024)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Vestrian24Bio.

⭠ Last week's report

Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes/about
1	Teri Garr		1,355,055		This American actress known for her comedic roles in film and television, such as Young Frankenstein, Tootsie, and playing the mother of Phoebe Buffay on Friends, died at the age of 79 last Tuesday after years fighting multiple sclerosis.
2	2024 Ballon d'Or		1,273,764		European champion Rodri was chosen by France Football as the best player of the season. Debates soon started discussing if Vinícius Júnior, who was also European champion, would've been a more deserving winner.
3	Rodney Alcala		1,258,084
4	2024 United States presidential election		1,234,532		In a year filled with 100+ elections across 80+ countries, here's the pinnacle one... The 2024 US election reaches its final point between #13 and #18.
5	Tony Hinchcliffe		1,121,021		The 2024 Trump rally at Madison Square Garden (which was compared by the opposition's potential VP to 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, maintaining Godwin's Law alive) had a set by this comedian, that was unashamedly politically incorrect and relying on racist stereotypes. Reaction wasn't pretty, with Hinchcliffe describing Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage" in particular drawing much criticism.
6	Rúben Amorim		1,110,284
7	Liam Payne		1,069,395
8	Diwali		1,053,976		The Hindu festival of lights, symbolising the spiritual victory of Dharma over Adharma, light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance, annually celebrated on Kartik Amavasya as per the Hindu lunisolar calendar, which usually falls from the second half of October to the first half of November. This year it coincided with #12.
9	Deaths in 2024		1,005,464		"From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, 'I am man.', our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality."
10	Freddie Freeman		988,883
11	Venom: The Last Dance		928,937		Sony Pictures decided to make a movie out of one of the best known Spider-Man villains without Spider-Man himself, and the result ultimately led to a whole trilogy for the Lethal Protector. The Last Dance was criticized a lot, specially for diminishing the screentime of Tom Hardy overacting as both Eddie Brock and the deep-voiced Symbiote that keeps arguing with him, but audiences still flocked to it, being close to doubling its $100 million budget after just two weeks. And Sony's Spider-Man Universe still has one more movie this year in Kraven the Hunter, which everyone just hopes to be watchable given the series' non-Venom movies so far were Morbius and Madame Web.
12	Halloween		881,704
13	Kamala Harris		852,198
14	Elon Musk		759,312
15	Lyle and Erik Menendez		738,269
16	Agatha All Along (miniseries)		717,073		MCU's 11th series on Disney+ premiered its two-episode finale on #12's eve. It was so good that reviews are saying, "MCU is finally back to the form of delivering consecutive good stories", "the best Halloween treat from Marvel", "the perfect show for Halloween" etc.. We've got an Agatha Harkness ghost (finally looking like the grey-haired lady from the comics) guiding Billy on his path to find Tommy, just like how she assisted their mother through the Witches' Road in the comics which the show is inspired from. We've got to see that Billy is just as powerful as his mother by him subconsciously creating the entire Witches' Road out of his imagination alone. The finale sets up the story perfectly for the upcoming Vision Quest series which will be partially inspired from The Children's Crusade storyline, but instead of Billy and Tommy searching for an amnesiac Wanda who forgot everything, this time it will be Billy and White Vision along with the ghost Agatha searching for Tommy who doesn't remember anything just like Billy was after he was resurrected. Alongside which White Vision's dormant programs will kick in bringing back Ultron, and also Vision's programming to assemble a new Avengers in the absence of the previous one. Or at least that's we're hoping for. (and even if the Witches' Road song was catchy, why didn't they play "Agatha All Along" at any point?!)
17	Chromakopia		708,118
18	Donald Trump		682,299
19	2020 United States presidential election		671,700
20	Shohei Ohtani		660,341
21	Crown Jewel (2024)		654,965
22	Singham Again		651,184
23	Ballon d'Or		646,645
24	Don't Move (2024 film)		642,120
25	Woman of the Hour		641,321		The movie about #3, with particular focus on The Dating Game appearance, that was released on Netflix in the United States one year after its TIFF premiere. (it also got theatrical releases in some countries, leading to this here writer watching it on the big screen) In a repeat of Steven Spielberg forfeiting his pay from Schindler's List comparing it to "blood money", director\star Anna Kendrick donated her salary to anti-sexual violence charities to not feel like profitting off the victims.