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In this weekly series we, the hard-working list-sniffers of Listicles, fess up to the fact that the Internet produces infinitely more lists than we could possibly cover and critique. In Weekly Wednesdays, we present five great lists from the last week that we weren’t able to do full justice to.

• Top 6 Gay Movie Heroes: The astute film-lovers at AMC’s terrific Future of Classic blog responded to the nearly boundless adoration heaped on Gus Van Sant’s Milk with this list of preceding gay movie heroes. There are some important additions (Boys Don’t Cry for instance), but what about a hero from an earlier Gus Van Sant film, like Uma Thurman’s super-thumbed hitchhiker in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues? And what about a non-North American entry, like Axel in Eytan Fox’s brilliant cultural trauma pic Walk on Water? More lists after the jump.

• 13 of the Most Memorable Movie Psychopaths: One of our favorite list-producers, Unreality, covers great territory with this list. Sadly, they drop the ball by putting Heath Ledger’s Joker in the number one slot that, rightfully, should have gone to Norman Bates in Psycho (number 4) for re-defining the character type for modern cinema. Also,the exclusion of Dennis Hopper’s Frank Booth from Blue Velvet is unforgivable. Well, okay, forgivable, but shocking.

• Top 20 Albums of the Year: Beating the mid- to late-December rush of year-end Top 20 lists, This Recording has posted their list and set a tough precedent for music editors everywhere. A mix of the obscure, indie and mainstream fare from 2008, my only beef (one likely to be repeated with subsequent top album lists later this month) is the exclusion of The Roots’s Rising Down.

• 10 Uses for Lightning that Ben Franklin Never Guessed: The wacky listers at i09.com came up with a typically unorthodox list of pop culture moments when the mysterious power of lightning is channeled into a preposterously implausible use. It’s completely brilliant, though they forgot this Family Guy moment, in which lightning allows Chris, Meg and Stewie Griffin to transform, for a split second, into an Old West family portrait.

• 15 Terrible Presents in TV and Film: Ever the meta-listers, the Onion’s A.V. Club puts a pop culture spin on the gift guide with this list of bad gifts inspired by acts of giving from memorable TV shows and films. The list is mostly spot on – Gremlins is an obvious number one – but some picks disappoint, like their choice of South Park gift scene. The worst gift received on that show (from my favorite episode, incidentally), is when Cartman mistakes his mother’s life-size Antonio Banderas Blow-Up Love Doll for an early Christmas present in this clip:

What else did we miss? Report other overlooked lists in the comments.