sci-fi TV Shows & Characters

Explore the best sci-fi TV shows, characters, and fan communities on TVCeleb.com.

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About sci-fi Television

The sci-fi genre has produced some of the most compelling and culturally significant television of the modern era. TVCeleb profiles 28 sci-fi series spanning networks including Production I.G, Shueisha (Weekly Shonen Jump) / Sunrise, Netflix, Fox, with streaming available on platforms like Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu. These shows represent the full breadth of what sci-fi television can achieve, from intimate character studies to sweeping narratives that have shaped how audiences engage with the medium.

Across these 28 series, TVCeleb profiles 84 distinct characters who have captivated audiences and inspired dedicated fan communities. Among the most popular are Kafka Hibino from Kaiju No. 8 (played by Masaya Fukunishi), Mina Ashiro from Kaiju No. 8 (played by Asami Seto), Kikoru Shinomiya from Kaiju No. 8 (played by Fairouz Ai), Gintoki Sakata from Gintama (played by Tomokazu Sugita), Kagura from Gintama (played by Rie Kugimiya). Each character profile includes detailed arc analysis, key episodes, fan ecosystem mapping, and Fan Heat Index scoring that measures engagement, social activity, and cultural impact.

Whether you're a longtime fan of sci-fi television or discovering these shows for the first time, TVCeleb provides the most comprehensive resource for exploring the characters, relationships, and storylines that make sci-fi series so compelling. Our detailed profiles go beyond basic plot summaries to examine what makes each character resonate with audiences, how they contribute to their show's themes, and why they've inspired such passionate fan communities.

sci-fi Shows (28)

Kaiju No. 8 title image
Production I.G Returning

Kaiju No. 8

2024-present · 2 Seasons

A monster-cleanup worker who can transform into a kaiju fights to join the Defense Force and stand beside the friend who left him behind.

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Gintama title image
Shueisha (Weekly Shonen Jump) / Sunrise Ended

Gintama

2006-2018 · 4 Seasons

In an alien-occupied Edo where swords are banned, odd-jobs samurai Gintoki Sakata and his Yorozuya crew take any gig to pay the rent.

animecomedyaction
90
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Netflix Ended

The Imperfects

2022 · 1 Season

Three young people turned into monsters by a rogue gene-therapy experiment team up to hunt the scientist who changed them and find a cure.

sci-fidramamonster
68
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Fox Ended

Wayward Pines

2015-2016 · 2 Seasons

A Secret Service agent wakes in the eerily perfect town of Wayward Pines, Idaho, only to discover he cannot leave and that the community hides a shocking secret.

mysterysci-fithriller
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Fox Ended

The Passage

2019 · 1 Season

A government project chasing a miracle cure unleashes vampiric monsters, and one agent risks everything to protect the orphan girl who may be humanity's last hope.

sci-fithrillerhorror
61
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Syfy Ended

12 Monkeys

2015-2018 · 4 Seasons

A scavenger from a plague-ravaged 2043 travels back in time to stop the apocalypse before it begins, racing a doomsday cult across the decades.

sci-fitime-travelthriller
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Showcase Ended

Continuum

2012-2015 · 4 Seasons

A cop from a corporate-ruled 2077 is flung back to 2012 with the terrorists she was guarding, forcing her to police the past to protect the future.

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Showcase Ended

Travelers

2016-2018 · 3 Seasons

Consciousness from a dying future is beamed into present-day people seconds before death so secret teams can rewrite history and save humanity.

sci-fitime-travelthriller
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USA Network Ended

Colony

2016-2018 · 3 Seasons

In an occupied near-future Los Angeles, a husband and wife are torn between collaborating with an alien-backed regime to find their lost son and joining the resistance.

sci-fithrillerdrama
71
Syfy / Amazon Prime Video Ended

The Expanse

2015-2022 · 6 Seasons

Two centuries from now, a ship officer, an engineer, and a Belter detective uncover a conspiracy that could shatter the fragile peace between Earth, Mars, and the asteroid Belt.

sci-fidramaspace-opera
90
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Syfy Ended

Killjoys

2015-2019 · 5 Seasons

A deadly woman and two brothers hunt bounties across a war-torn star system, only to uncover a conspiracy that could destroy every world they protect.

sci-fiactionspace-opera
74
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TNT Ended

Falling Skies

2011-2015 · 5 Seasons

Six months after aliens devastate Earth, ex-history professor Tom Mason becomes a resistance leader in the 2nd Mass militia, fighting Skitters and Espheni while protecting his three sons.

sci-fiactiondrama
68
Syfy Ended

Warehouse 13

2009-2014 · 5 Seasons

Two Secret Service agents are recruited to a secret South Dakota warehouse full of dangerous supernatural artifacts, and must retrieve the ones that have gone loose in the world.

sci-fisupernaturalcomedy
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Syfy Ended

Eureka

2006-2012 · 5 Seasons

In a secret town of government geniuses, an everyman sheriff uses common sense to stop brilliant experiments from going boom.

sci-ficomedydrama
74
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Bilibili / Fuji TV Ended

To Be Hero X

2025 · 1 Season

In a world where a superhero's power is set by how much the public trusts them, ranked heroes rise and fall on public faith while a mystery unravels behind the trust-value system.

animeactionsuperhero
81
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TV Tokyo Ended

Apocalypse Hotel

2025 · 1 Season

In a future where humanity has left Earth, a devoted robot manager and her staff keep a grand Tokyo hotel immaculate, awaiting guests who may never come, until unexpected alien visitors arrive.

animesci-ficomedy
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Netflix Renewed

The Eternaut

2025 · 1 Season

After a deadly snowfall silences Buenos Aires, a Falklands veteran and his neighbors band together to survive an unseen alien invasion in this acclaimed Argentine sci-fi series.

sci-fidramathriller
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Netflix Ended

3%

2016-2020 · 4 Seasons

In a starkly divided future, young adults get one shot at the Process, a brutal test that lets only 3 percent cross from the impoverished Inland to the utopian Offshore.

sci-fidramadystopian
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Netflix Ended

Tribes of Europa

2021 · 1 Season

In 2074, after a catastrophe fractures Europe into warring tribes, three siblings of the peaceful Origines are separated and pulled into a conflict over a mysterious piece of technology.

sci-fidramadystopian
69
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HBO Ended

Beforeigners

2019-2021 · 2 Seasons

When flashes in the Oslo fjord begin depositing people from the Stone Age, the Viking era, and the 1800s into the present, a burned-out detective is paired with Norway's first Viking-age police officer in a witty sci-fi crime drama about time migrants and the allegory of migration.

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67
Netflix Ended

Hot Skull

2022 · 1 Season

In a plague-stricken Istanbul where a disease spreads through speech, an immune former linguist becomes the target of an authoritarian institute and a symbol for the resistance.

sci-fidramadystopian
61
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Netflix Ended

Nightmares and Daydreams

2024 · 1 Season

A 2024 Indonesian Netflix anthology from Joko Anwar in which working-class Jakartans encounter flying saucers, doppelgangers and the uncanny in seven loosely linked tales of social commentary that build toward a connected mystery.

sci-fianthologydrama
61
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Netflix Ended

Goodbye Earth

2024 · 1 Season

With an asteroid months from impact, a former teacher and the people of a small Korean city choose how to spend their final days, protecting children and holding their community together.

dramasci-fikorean
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Netflix Ended

The Signal

2024 · 1 Season

A four-part German Netflix sci-fi mystery in which an astronaut vanishes on her return from the ISS after hinting at a strange discovery, and her husband and deaf daughter race to decode a signal that may explain her fate.

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Netflix Ended

Delete

2023 · 1 Season

Two people tied together by a secret affair discover a phone that can erase anyone from existence, and the temptation pulls them into suspicion and danger.

thrillersci-fimystery
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Netflix Ended

Yakamoz S-245

2022 · 1 Season

When a solar catastrophe makes daylight deadly, marine biologist Arman and the crew of the submarine Yakamoz S-245 fight to survive beneath the waves in this Turkish sci-fi thriller and companion to Into the Night.

sci-fithrillerturkish
54
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MAPPA Ended

Lazarus

2025 · 1 Season

In the near future, a wonder drug is revealed to be a slow poison, and a task force called Lazarus has only weeks to find the scientist who made it and recover the cure.

animeactionsci-fi
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Netflix Ended

Katla

2021 · 1 Season

A year after an Icelandic volcano erupts, people long thought dead emerge from the ash, forcing the town's few holdouts to confront their grief.

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Top sci-fi Characters (84)

Kaiju No. 8

Kafka Hibino

Played by Masaya Fukunishi

2024-present 0
Kaiju No. 8

Mina Ashiro

Played by Asami Seto

2024-present 0
Fairouz Ai as Kikoru Shinomiya
Kaiju No. 8

Kikoru Shinomiya

Played by Fairouz Ai

2024-present 0
Gintama

Gintoki Sakata

Played by Tomokazu Sugita

2006-2018 0
Rie Kugimiya as Kagura
Gintama

Kagura

Played by Rie Kugimiya

2006-2018 0
Daisuke Sakaguchi as Shinpachi Shimura
Gintama

Shinpachi Shimura

Played by Daisuke Sakaguchi

2006-2018 0
Rhianna Jagpal as Abbi Singh
The Imperfects

Abbi Singh

Played by Rhianna Jagpal

2022 0
The Imperfects

Tilda Weber

Played by Morgan Taylor Campbell

2022 0
Inaki Godoy as Juan Ruiz
The Imperfects

Juan Ruiz

Played by Inaki Godoy

2022 0
Matt Dillon as Ethan Burke
Wayward Pines

Ethan Burke

Played by Matt Dillon

Season 1 0
Shannyn Sossamon as Theresa Burke
Wayward Pines

Theresa Burke

Played by Shannyn Sossamon

Seasons 1-2 0
Carla Gugino as Kate Hewson
Wayward Pines

Kate Hewson

Played by Carla Gugino

Season 1 0
Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Brad Wolgast
The Passage

Brad Wolgast

Played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Season 1 (2019) 0
The Passage

Amy Bellafonte

Played by Saniyya Sidney

Season 1 (2019) 0
Emmanuelle Chriqui as Lila Kyle
The Passage

Lila Kyle

Played by Emmanuelle Chriqui

Season 1 (2019) 0
Aaron Stanford as James Cole
12 Monkeys

James Cole

Played by Aaron Stanford

2015-2018 (Seasons 1-4) 0
Amanda Schull as Cassandra Railly
12 Monkeys

Cassandra Railly

Played by Amanda Schull

2015-2018 (Seasons 1-4) 0
Emily Hampshire as Jennifer Goines
12 Monkeys

Jennifer Goines

Played by Emily Hampshire

2015-2018 (Seasons 1-4) 0
Rachel Nichols as Kiera Cameron
Continuum

Kiera Cameron

Played by Rachel Nichols

2012-2015 0
Victor Webster as Carlos Fonnegra
Continuum

Carlos Fonnegra

Played by Victor Webster

2012-2015 0
Erik Knudsen as Alec Sadler
Continuum

Alec Sadler

Played by Erik Knudsen

2012-2015 0
Eric McCormack as Grant MacLaren
Travelers

Grant MacLaren

Played by Eric McCormack

1-3 0
Travelers

Marcy Warton

Played by MacKenzie Porter

1-3 0
Travelers

Trevor Holden

Played by Jared Abrahamson

1-3 0

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TVCeleb.com is the internet's most comprehensive resource for television character fandom, covering 1748 acclaimed TV series with 5332 detailed character profiles and 4219 actor biographies. Our coverage spans 472 genres across 468 networks and streaming platforms, with content organized to help fans discover, explore, and engage with television from every angle.

Browse our collection by genre to find shows in your preferred category, by network to see what's available on your streaming platform, by decade to explore different eras of television history, or by curated lists that group characters by archetype and achievement. Each show page features expanded synopses, production details, and video content, while character pages include detailed arc analysis, key episodes, quotes, trivia, and fan ecosystem mapping.

Every character on TVCeleb is scored using our proprietary Fan Heat Index, which measures engagement, social activity, meme velocity, fan art density, and fandom longevity on a scale of 0 to 100. This data-driven approach provides objective insight into which characters have inspired the most passionate and active fan communities. Use the search page to find any character, show, or actor instantly, or start browsing from our homepage to discover what's trending in television fandom today.

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TVCeleb.com covers 28 sci-fi shows including Kaiju No. 8, Gintama, The Imperfects, Wayward Pines, The Passage, and more. Each show features detailed character profiles, fan ecosystem mapping, and Fan Heat Index scoring. These series represent a range of approaches to the sci-fi genre, from critically acclaimed award winners to fan-favorite cult hits, all available for exploration on TVCeleb.

There are currently 84 characters from 28 sci-fi TV shows profiled on TVCeleb.com. Each character page includes a detailed character arc, key episodes, Fan Heat Index breakdown measuring engagement and social activity, quotes and trivia, fan ecosystem links, and FAQ sections. New characters and shows are added regularly as the TVCeleb database continues to expand.

sci-fi television is spread across multiple networks and platforms. Production I.G, Shueisha (Weekly Shonen Jump) / Sunrise, Netflix, Fox, Syfy are among the primary homes for sci-fi programming covered on TVCeleb. Streaming platforms including Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu have also become major destinations for sci-fi content, making these shows accessible to global audiences.

TVCeleb uses the Fan Heat Index, a proprietary scoring system that measures character popularity across multiple dimensions including fan engagement, social media activity, meme velocity, and overall cultural impact. Each sci-fi character receives an overall score out of 100, with detailed breakdowns available on individual character pages. This data-driven approach provides objective insight into which characters resonate most strongly with audiences.