In Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. ,2, I read her [Wikipedia page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kismet_(Marvel_Comics) , which makes no reference to any religious affiliation. She has the power to bring life back into a body if the spirit has not left yet, but there is no religion associat...

It keeps bothering me a while and I'm trying to identify this young adult tv series, probably US or Australian production, that I've seen somewhere in the late 80s/early 90s Two kids arrive for holidays to theirs uncle (granddad?) farm. The farm lies near swamp area but locals say that the swam...

I was rewatching Doctor Strange and this was an idea that kind of presented itself to me. The Ancient One made a comment about the infinite nature of possibilities that exist in a multiverse. An extension of that would be where the Ancient One was actually Theo Huxtable, Doctor Strange was an ex...

In the "American Gods" novel, the old and new gods meet in the motel located in the exact center of the USA. Mr Nancy says, that this place is truly neutral and none of them can use their powers there. Most of the people go through the night more or less peacefully, except for the Technical Kid ...

It is my understanding that each universe has its own Infinity Stones and they only work within their respective universes. Dormammu exists within a universe where he controls every bit of energy and matter. He goes from universe to universe to draw more energy into his own.* When he entered in...

I can't remember a name to this show/movie. All I remember is that it was magical and animated. One of the characters was a blonde woman with a greenish crystal outlined with gold on her hand or glove.

In Epic Rap Battles of History: Wonder Woman vs Stevie Wonder, Stevie Wonder (played by T-Pain) concludes his first verse with I'm the ceremony master blaster with the bars And I got more Grammies than your panties got stars Stevie Wonder has won 25 Grammy awards as of this writing. He...

So I have been seeing a lot of movies that take place in the future and a lot of them (such as Star Wars) use laser based weapons. Where did this come from and why intense beams of light used in a projectile manner?

I can't think of one, nor can I find an example online. Thank you.

The Tesseract is taken by Johann Schmidt only because he could find it on Earth. How did the Tesseract come to be on Earth? Which explanation is correct? : Odin lost it during a war. Odin left it on Earth for (safe?)keeping.

In Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind the Council of Ricks sends a group of Ricks to pick up The One True Rick (to make things easier) suspecting him of the murders of other Ricks because he is well known for being against the idea of the Council Now i figure that the designations they use whe...

In Immortals of meluha, the heroine of the novel takes on a bad mouthed guy to a one-on-one duel,in the end she completely overpowers him and had him under her mercy in a sword fight ....The fight scene was nice,so I was wondering are there any other instance like this .

Here's our current close reason for asking about lists of works: Requests for lists of works or recommendations are off-topic as they do not fit our questions and answers format. Feel free to ask about people's favorites in chat. There are a couple of problems with this close reason: It l...

There are some minor technical issues with the off-topic close reasons, which should be trivial to fix. All links are HTTP instead of HTTPS. This includes the migration option to meta. The link to meta from "scientific explanations" uses the old URL; meta.scifi should become scifi.meta. T...

What interstellar movie actually explains.From my view, they are doing time travel.Anne Hathaway while travelling sees herself in opposite direction and gets surprised when the space shuttle separates which shown in the climax part of the movie.Whether is it possible to look in our past as cooper...

Does anybody know about any form of fiction (literature, TV, movie, video games, anything really) where humans are the only aggressive/violent sentient life form? I'm not talking about Alan Dean Foster's The Damned Trilogy or something similar, where the aliens are engaging in violence but are ba...

So when I was 12 I read this book about these kids who went to a regular school but went to a certain class once a day because they had special powers. I believe it was a series and all of the books were in another persons point of view. In the one I read they talked about a kid in the class wh...

I'm trying to find the name of this ~mid 80's Sci-fi. The protagonist is a male human from earth equipped with a brain implant to talk with his sentient AI ship and so it can read the sensor implants he has. He can plug in via hardwire at the base of his skull for full information connection (s...

In the sixth episode in season three "The Climb", Sansa Stark is set to marry Loras Tyrell, but is told by Tyrion that he is to marry her. We do know this is not what she wants at all as she is crying when what seems to be Loras Tyrell's ship sailing away. What I don't understand is, She is st...

At the start of Wonder Woman, we see Diana's "mother", Hippolyta, tell Diana that she was made out of clay and given life by Zeus. This is repeated by Diana at least once. We later learn; Because of this, I began to assume that Hippolyta had lied, and that Zeus was actually her natural father...

Science Fiction Short Story about Computer controlled Utopia The author wrote a follow-up that was actually a modification to their question, and it was deleted. They have since added the answer, but a moderator deleted it, so I cannot vote to undelete.

In Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, we learn that Ego's hostage traveling companion Mantis is used to help Ego sleep. But why does he need help sleeping in the first place? And who or what did he use for living NyQuil for millions of years before he acquired Mantis?

It's a post-apocalyptic sci-fi book from the early eighties about no humans left but the intelligent war machines keep fighting on. I think it focuses in on one machine named Lucy or something. Its excerpt was in the same magazine that previewed Arnold Schwarzenegger's first Terminator movie. But...

I want to ask a question; what is the name of this movie? In this movie there is a scene where a man tongue transform into snake or maybe a slug ( I cant remember it precisely). Then it was entering the female mouth.

I am looking for a story I remember reading in the mid-90s. I can't remember if it was a trilogy or just a three part book, but I know it was in paperback book form. I also know it was found in the Young Adult section of the library at that time. The general premise was that there had been some ...

I am trying to find some I think pretty niche type of sci-fi novels where the main protagonist is just a a regular anti-conformist guy living his life in a sci-fi world. Existing characters I am picturing are along the lines of Dave Lister in Red Dwarf or Roger Wilco from the Space Quest adventu...

Today I saw this video, wich is supposed to be a trailer for a fan-made film about Voldemort's origins. After some researchs, it appears to be an ex-crowdfounding project turned into a non-profit movie. Apparently, this film will be available for free soon. I read that Warner Bros ended the cro...

I rewatched Ponyo recently, and there are quite a few briefly touched on, but not thoroughly explained, mystical elements that left me wondering rather I was missing part of the allusions. I'm not sure which elements are simply part of miyazaki's usual building of unique/magical worlds, and whic...

This was a story that I read probably 20 years ago, so not here on HFY. It may have been in one of the "Best of SciFi" anthologies of the year books. It was a conversation between two aliens about the recently discovered humans and their ability to turn almost any alien tech into a weapon. All ...

    In their final fateful duel on Tatooine, Obi-Wan ignited his lightsaber and took opening stance of Soresu, or Form III. Soresu is a defensive form, and Kenobi was master of it, so Maul hesitated with his attack. Maul was a user of Juyo, or Form VII, very aggressive form.     But then Obi-Wan...

I'm sure it's common knowledge that Wonder Woman customarily wears a costume with bare arms/legs/shoulders. Since her backstory usually has her growing up on some sort of tropical island, it makes sense that she'd be used to running around in a bathing suit. But since she goes on adventures all o...

I'm looking for a novel from the 70's (pretty sure). I believe it starts off with the court martial of a starship captain. The story lays out the reasons for the court martial. It turns out the ship was sent out to visit established colonies and just show the flag. When they arrive at one col...

I was just wondering where people thought the first ones depicted as being the creators of the monoliths featured in such masterpieces as 2001 , 2010 ,2061 and 3001 by Arthur C Clarke would be placed on the Kardashev scale. Personally I think its type 4 as they have been implied to be able to con...

In the chapter Shelob's Lair, Tolkien describes Frodo and Sam's journey through the pass of Cirith Ungol. He tells us they don't know if 1, 2 or 3 hours have passed while travelling through the dark tunnel, I'm unsure if he was being dramatic or of the pass really was that large. So just how lo...

Sauruman lived in and fortified Isengard, and Radagast dwelt in Rhosghobel. Is there any mention of any sort of home base Gandalf (in any of Tolkien's writings, letters, or unfinished drafts) would return to when not wandering about Middle Earth, or was he always 'on the road' and sleeping under ...

It seems strange that the First Order doesn't use surveillance equipment in its Starkiller Base to prevent/react to acts of sabotage or prisoners' escape, such as Rey's one from her cell. Han Solo can afford to have surveillance cams at his ship. So why can't the First Order?

I cannot recall the name of an anime, it's about people who can, with the help of some sort of crystal, get these bionic suits in which they fight against aliens with like yellow blood and a group a of three who want to extract the core from these aliens and the bionic suits of these three are al...