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Published Oct 31, 2026, 4:20 AM EDT
Hannah covers horror, sci-fi, and games at Collider, where she writes news and features, reviews new releases, and interviews the people who make them. She’s helping build out Collider’s gaming coverage, with Pokémon as one of her specialties. If she isn’t writing about a monster, she’s probably watching one on a tape from her VHS collection.
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet introduced a very convincing argument for ignoring every warning in the Pokédex. Greavard looks like a shaggy puppy with a candle on its head, which is more than enough to make following it seem reasonable. Being a Ghost type does little to undermine its appeal, especially in a franchise where some of the cutest creatures come with deeply unsettling backstories.
The Pokémon has since joined Pokémon GO, giving Trainers a chance to add another spectral companion to their collections. Halloween provides an especially appropriate occasion to revisit it, with the mobile game’s seasonal celebration continuing into November. This year, that second stretch of festivities has something new for players who already have the standard version.
Shiny Greavard will make its Pokémon GO debut during Halloween 2026 Part II, beginning Sunday, November 1, at 10 a.m. local time. According to the official announcement, Trainers will be able to encounter Greavard in the wild and through GO Pass and Field Research tasks. The event runs until Thursday, November 5, at 8 p.m. local time, providing several days to search for the newly available Shiny.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Iconic Fandom Should You Join? Harry Potter · Lord of the Rings · Star Wars · Star Trek
Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what you put on when you need cheering up, how deep you go into the things you love, what you argue about, what you keep on your shelf. Answer them and we will tell you where you belong. Four of the biggest fandoms on earth are taking new members, and they could not be more different from one another.
⚡Harry Potter(Wizarding World)
💍Lord of the Rings(Middle-earth)
⚔️Star Wars(A Galaxy Far Away)
🖖Star Trek(The Final Frontier)
FIND YOUR PEOPLE →
01
What do you put on when you need cheering up? Nobody is brave about this one.
AThe same thing I have watched a hundred times. BSomething long, slow and beautiful. CSomething big and loud with a great score. DOne clever episode of something hopeful.
NEXT QUESTION →
02
How deep do you go into something you love? There is no shallow end here, only different deep ends.
AI know every character and all the gossip. BI have read the appendices and studied the maps. CI have a ranked opinion on every instalment. DI want to know how the world actually works.
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03
What do you and your friends actually argue about? Every fandom has one argument it has been having for years.
AWhich one of us is which type. BWhether the adaptation got it right. CWhether the new stuff ruined the old stuff. DWhether the right thing was actually done.
NEXT QUESTION →
04
How do you feel about a room full of strangers? Every one of these comes with a very big room.
AGreat, and I will know everybody by the end. BFine, as long as they take it seriously. CBrilliant, especially if there is something to dress up for. DHappy, provided the conversation is interesting.
NEXT QUESTION →
05
Where would you rather spend a week? Pick on instinct rather than on budget.
AAn old castle somewhere rainy. BMountains, long walks, no phone signal. CA desert with an unbelievable night sky. DA city built around a university.
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06
What do you believe about people, mostly? All four of these stories have an answer, and they disagree.
AMost of them turn out better than expected. BThe smallest ones decide the biggest things. CAnybody can change, even very late on. DWe work it out if we keep talking.
NEXT QUESTION →
07
What is actually on your shelf? Look over at it before you answer.
AEverything I owned when I was twelve. BHardbacks, in order, read more than once. CFigures, posters, and a few things still boxed. DBooks about how things work, plus a model or two.
NEXT QUESTION →
08
What do you actually want from a story? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your fandom.
AA place I can go back to whenever I need it. BA world complete enough to get lost in. CSomething huge I can share with everybody. DAn idea that changes how I think.
REVEAL MY FANDOM →
Membership Confirmed Your Fandom Is…
Four of the largest communities on the planet, and four completely different reasons to belong to one. Here is yours, what it would give you, and the argument you would be having within a week.
Harry Potter
You belong to the fandom that is really about comfort. Hogwarts works on people because it is a place rather than a plot, and the pull is not the wizard war so much as the corridors, the food, the weather and the sense that somebody is expecting you.
- You are drawn to belonging, which is why this fandom sorted itself into houses within about five minutes and has never stopped.
- This is the most social of the four, and the one most likely to know which type every single person in your life would be.
- The books are built to be reread rather than analysed, and rereading is exactly what you do with things you love.
- The new HBO series is bringing the whole thing back one book at a time, which means the arguments are about to start all over again.
Lord of the Rings
You belong to the deepest fandom on this list, the one where somebody has always read further than you and is quietly delighted to say so. Middle-earth rewards patience more than any other world in popular culture.
- You like the sense that the story you are reading is only the visible part of something enormous, which is precisely how Tolkien built it.
- This fandom takes adaptation seriously to a degree that other fandoms find slightly alarming, and it has good reasons for that.
- Your favourite thing about the books is probably the bit that is not action at all, which is the walking, the songs and the long goodbyes.
- Nobody here thinks heroism belongs to the powerful, and the whole story exists to make that argument.
Star Wars
You belong to the loudest and largest tent of the four, the one where three generations are all watching the same thing and none of them agree about any of it. That disagreement is not a flaw in this fandom, it is the main activity.
- You want something you can share with absolutely everybody, from a six year old to a grandparent, and this is the only one on the list that really does that.
- Nobody argues like Star Wars fans argue, and the argument has been running since roughly 1980 with no sign of resolution.
- The pull here is sensory before it is narrative, since it is the sound design, the score and the look of a used and dented galaxy.
- You would be first in the queue, in costume, with strong opinions and a genuinely good time.
Star Trek
You belong to the thinking fandom, the one that turns up for the argument rather than the explosion. Trek has always been a series of ethical problems in space, and the people who love it love being asked what they would have done.
- You are an optimist in a way that is currently unfashionable, and this is the only major franchise still willing to say the future might be better.
- The best episodes are the ones where nobody fires anything, which is a sentence that makes perfect sense to this fandom and to nobody else.
- Starfleet Academy brought the franchise back to a classroom in 2026, which is appropriate, because Trek has always been a bit of a seminar.
- You would want the conversation afterwards more than the episode itself, and here you will always find somebody willing to have it.
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What Else Is Coming in ‘Pokémon GO’s Halloween Part II?
Image via Scopely InteractiveGreavard will have plenty of company when the event begins. Litwick and Rowlet wearing a Pokémon Halloween costume are among the featured wild encounters, while lucky Trainers may also find Gengar wearing a Spooky Festival costume. All of those featured Pokémon can be Shiny, giving collectors several reasons to keep checking the map between Greavard encounters. Two of the new costumes introduced during Halloween Part I will also remain available in raids. Pikachu wearing a hat and capelet and Sinistea wearing a bow will appear in one-star raids throughout the second event. That gives anyone who missed those outfits during the opening stretch another opportunity to add them before the celebration ends.
The Halloween GO Pass continues across both events, with progression available until November 5 at 8 p.m. local time. Players have until November 7 at 8 p.m. local time to claim rewards they have unlocked. Those dates are worth keeping separate, particularly for anyone planning to save their reward encounters for a later session. For Greavard fans, the first date to remember is November 1. That is when its Shiny version joins the hunt, alongside the event’s new wild encounter lineup.
Pokémon GO is available on iOS and Android.
