In the TV series Supergirl, it is revealed that Now, is there anything legal about that? Don't you have to be born in the United States, or at least be born a U.S. citizen, to be president? Did the president say something in the show that could refute this statement? Am I overly invested in t...

Why does everyone need to go to London to board the Hogwarts Express? I mean people from Northern England or Scotland have to go all the way to London to then go back up?

I first noticed this when it was added as a sin for the X-Men movie video on the CinemaSins YouTube channel, when the guy voicing the sins states the following as Cyclops blasts the slime from Jean Grey's face: "Cyclops has no idea what this substance is that Toad trapped on Jean's face, so he do...

I didn't remember the exact details but he had a dream about a treasure and he was a shepherd After dream he went to some fortune teller who interprets treasure to be in Egypt.... He mets with a king who tells him about life.... He went there but loses all his money and ends up to working in a s...

Just asking... after all in the Christmas Invasion the Sycorax (right?) mysteriously begin speaking English, then we figure out the Doctor had woken up?

Does anyone know the name of a fantasy novel that had a female main character who was unable to take revenge on someone due to being cursed to help anyone who asks?

So around 2008-2009 there used to be this TV show every Saturday about these 4 kids that were made up of elemental powers, like one was made of water, earth, wind and fire and some other elements, and they all had one master but I cant remember the name of the show.

In the first two episodes of Star Trek Discovery, T'Kuvma speaks of the Federation as the enemy. His main argument against the Federation was This struck me as very similar to the Federation's hatred of the Borg; the reason the Federation resists the Borg is their violation of individuality, ...

Humans need to wear a gas-mask when visiting Kosh in his gaseous room in Babylon 5. It suggests the Vorlon species need certain atmosphere to survive, like humans need oxygen to breathe. If that is so, why is Kosh able to walk freely around the station like a human without wearing an "oxygen" tank?

I remember reading a series about a druid who somehow survived the romans eradicating druids in the past and living for 2.000 years with the help of a special tea. He had an animal companion, a big hound, who had his priorities straight: bacon and poodles. The druid could telepathically communica...

Throughout all Star Trek series, it has been common practice for a Starfleet ship to hail vessels they encounter in their travels, offering to establish visual communication. Most of the time, this offer is accepted. Out of universe, this makes the interaction more visually interesting. However...

Tolkien popularized the orc as the generic fantasy bad guy. In his legendarium, orcs were corrupted elves and their limited descriptive text reflects this. They are described as "swart" and "sallow", suggesting their skins were dirty yellow to dark brown. Our modern conception of an orc, however...

Story about a space race to newly discovered planet by Americans and Russians searching for life. One of the craft lands in a field of of orchids. While exploring the planet they come across pyramid shaped homes. Inside the home is a large chair with a huge viewing screen where the inhabitants c...

I have just finished reading the Night Angel Trilogy and while it is a fun read I couldn't help but feel large parts of the world where copied from the Wheel of Time series. Female "Casters" are expected to be taught by a group of women called the Chantry who live in a White Tower and don't tru...

protagonist of the story is a girl with obsidian tattoo, there is some mention of an alien spirit wolf if i dont recall wrongly, the story is partly about some type of alien lifeform with no physical bodies possessing human beings and thus slowly developing emotions i never got to the end of th...

I am looking for the name of a book i read but forgot the name about A retired deactivated dying super soldier that is attacked in a space ship at the start of the book and he goes in to a trance and all his super soldier features are turned back on while he changes into a female. She then goes o...

The book "Ready Player One" portrays a corporate dystopia where the feds have basically no power and no one respects the government. Yet seemingly, IOI, (the company that runs the sixers) while they have no problem killing anyone, they're very particular in following federal law , for example: ...

Since the pensieve is a 'bubble-of-reality' what would happen if you used a time-turner in a memory? (Pre-Cursed Child time-turners - say five minutes to an hour) Would you go back in time in the real world or in the memory?

In the book "The Shining" it's made clear to the readers that the Overlook hotel wants to possess Danny Torrance so it can use his powerful telepathic power (his 'Shine'). It does this by possessing his vulnerable father, Jack Torrance and using him as a puppet to hopefully kill Danny. However, ...

I played this around 1988 or so at my Uncle's house in California. I remember Autoduel also being on the machine. I think it was an IBM PC. I've tried asking my uncle about it, and he doesn't really remember. I remember the beginning had a page of text explaining why you were playing. I think t...

I hope this is going to be detailed enough. Many years ago, I read a comic/graphic novel/manga, and the main theme was about war in a fantasy world (think of Final Fantasy, maybe). I believe the war was between multiple parties (i.e. more than 2), but I only remember that one of the parties was a...

I watched this (color, not very "ancient") film about 1979 on TV. It was made in some country from the former Soviet bloc. I don't know if it was made for cinema or for TV. The boy finds the boot when he goes fishing. At first, he plans to throw it in the river, but the boot asks him not to. Th...

Book about dude who found hidden portal in his house to lizards world where human are like sheep

This question lists a few Pokemon that don't use their names to talk: Staryu/Starmie Krabby/Kingler Victreebel Electabuzz I can think of a couple more: Charizard Gyarados Both of these only do a simple roar. There's also this list of Pokemon that can speak human languages, but that's not ...

Pirates of the Caribbean sea 5 seem to contradict the entire movie series...because the compass Jack possesses was allegedly given to him by tia dalma...but in dead men tell no tales it is said that the compass was handed over to Jack by a dying pirate

Having just rewatched the Captain America films and being an occasional visitor to oddball websites I can't help shake the feeling that Chris Evan's portrayal of Steve Rogers comes across a bit gay (or bisexual really). He clearly has a great affection for Bucky Barnes and is willing to do anyt...

Imagine if you had a time machine. What time would you travel? And what would you do?

There was a family on a ship. There was an alien with them, the best friend of the hero. The family died somehow, and the hero and alien are left alone, stranded on a planet. At the end of the film the hero finds out the alien killed them on purpose, and was never their friend. Before this re...

I'd be interested to hear if anybody can squash this one for me. Some questions explain 'what the Train-Station is' and 'how he got there' (he touched the source and ooh that caused him to be somewhere between the real world and the matrix) but these are abstractions, abstractions don't work unt...