Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 26 to October 2, 2021

The Top 25 Report

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 26 to October 2, 2021)

Prepared with commentary by Mcrsftdog, SSSB, Benmite, Igordebraga

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Even if the same Korean show is atop the list, closing a month leads to the arrival of many new topics, including the belated return of fiction's most famous spy.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Squid Game	4,675,856	After Parasite comes another Korean product to continuously surprise (and often horrify) viewers thanks to Netflix, where people with high debts try to get money by risking their lifes playing games such as Red Light Green Light, Tug of war and marbles, plus taking toffee from its mold.
2	No Time to Die	1,422,511	After much delay, the newest James Bond film is hitting theaters—though not the United States, which has to wait two weeks before watching Daniel Craig do spy stuff.
3	Midnight Mass (miniseries)	1,114,940	Back to Netflix with a supernatural horror show where an isolated island experiences weird events after the arrival of a priest played by Hamish Linklater.
4	Venom: Let There Be Carnage	1,080,748	And for a movie the US did get, Tom Hardy is back as Spider-Man's dark counterpart, this time against Woody Harrelson as Carnage.
5	2021 German federal election	894,480	Elections were held on September 26, though no coalition has been formed yet. Regardless of who gets a majority, Angela Merkel will be stepping down as chancellor. She held the office for almost 16 years, only lagging behind the guy who united Germany and the guy who reunited Germany.
6	Deaths in 2021	849,592	Fool me once, fool me twice Are you death or paradise? Now you'll never see me cry There's just no time to die
007	Daniel Craig	723,569	What an appropriate number. #2 marks the last time James Bond's tuxedo is used by Daniel Craig, who for someone not well-received upon announced ended up as the actor with the longest tenure! (even if part of that owes to studio financial issues and a pandemic) And there's another investigator for him to return in Knives Out 2.
8	HoYeon Jung	711,309	This model-turned-actress is getting the brunt of the attention among #1's cast as "067". (but let's give a shout out to the second most prominent woman of the show, Kim Joo-ryoung, who provides many laughs in such a dark series as "212")
9	List of James Bond films	697,663	#2 is the 25th (27th counting different producers using filming rights to spoof or remake) time Ian Fleming's spy reached the silver screen. Hopefully by the 60th anniversary of the series next year Eon Productions will have already picked who will be the 007th James Bond.
10	R. Kelly	673,231	You'd think a man whose real-life romantic history consists of marrying an underage girl in the 90s, pissing on underage girls on tape in the 2000s, and keeping a harem of underage girls locked away in his home in the 2010s would have been behind bars a long time ago, let alone on the registry, but we live in a society where someone can get away with all that as long as their fictional romantic history is suave enough, and they also make 2 hours worth of arguably one of the greatest musical sagas known to man. It's probably in poor taste to praise anything the ironically dubbed "Pied Piper" did at this point, as separating the art from the artist becomes difficult when the art is merely a reflection of the artist's own depravity. In any case, Kelly was found guilty of sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, racketeering and sex trafficking this week, and is looking at a life sentence.
11	Duane Chapman	664,933	"Dog" the celebrity bounty hunter is involved in the manhunt for Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the Gabby Petito investigation.
12	The Many Saints of Newark	610,985	14 years after ending, The Sopranos returns with an HBO Max prequel, where Michael Gandolfini replaces his late father James (pictured) as Tony Soprano.
13	Google	592,375	One position above where its video site would be is the search engine that launched a dominating tech conglomerate, given it completed 23 years and celebrated the occasion with a Doodle.
14	Extreme Rules (2021)	549,835	According to our incomplete records, every Extreme Rules event has made it on to our list since the 2015 event (noting the 2020 event had a special name). Anyway, this one happened on September 26 in Columbus, Ohio.
15	Free Guy	541,124	Those in the United States who missed this comedy about a video game NPC growing agency in theaters now can get it on Hulu (or Star+ internationally).
16	FC Sheriff Tiraspol	536,119	The biggest team from the former Soviet republic of Moldova was responsible for one of football's biggest upsets ever by beating Real Madrid (as if we needed more indication that they became worthless without Cristiano Ronaldo, and Sergio Ramos...).
17	Sex Education (TV series)	535,729	The third season hit Netflix on September 17, and continues to have rave reviews - not just for the comedy, but also for the sensitive issues it deals with.
18	Oleksandr Usyk	520,259	Two years ago, this Ukrainian boxer was the cruiserweight world champion and moved onto heavyweight, and now earned the belt in that category too after defeating Anthony Joshua.
19	What If...? (TV series)	511,666	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings fell of the list, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the only series with as many movies as #9) keeps itself on the Report through what was supposedly an anthology but got an overarching villain, as homicidal robot Ultron got the Infinity Stones from Thanos and decided to outclass him, wiping out all life from his universe! And he discovers there is a multiverse, hence Uatu (voiced by one of #2's actors) is forced to not be just a Watcher before everyone is subjected to an Age of Ultron.
20	Mahatma Gandhi	509,466	October 2 is in India Gandhi Jayanti, a holiday celebrating the greatest (or second greatest) person to ever come out of the country. And with all due respect, given who Living Colour decided to pair him with: Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi I'm the cult of personality...
21	UFC 266	498,905	UFC events are a regular on this report. This one took place on September 25 in Paradise, Nevada and saw in the main card Alexander Volkanovski beating Brian Ortega and Valentina Shevchenko (pictured) defeating Lauren Murphy.
22	Lee Jung-jae	459,436	Even if #8 got more views, he is the main character ("456") of #1.
23	Black Mafia Family	447,752	Starz released Black Mafia Family, about these two Detroit brothers (one of whom is portrayed by his real life son!) who spent 16 years making a fortune in drug trafficking and money laundering, the latter of whom included a hip-hop agency.
24	2021 Sudirman Cup	444,627	Badminton's equivalent of the Davis Cup. The high views probably owe to the sport's popularity in India, even if the country fell in the group stage (neighbour China took it all, given they're as dominating in "tennis with a shuttlecock" as in table tennis).
25	Death of Gabby Petito	441,024	A manhunt is still on for the fiancé of this vanlife woman found dead in a Wyoming forest.

Exclusions

This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish.