In Flash, 100th episode, S05E08, What's Past is Prologe, there are several shots of Barry and Nora Allen/Flash and Excess in a small room. The walls appear to be plastic tiles with a series of random raised white dots. It reminds me of braille.Can anyone read the wall?Is it some sort of message f...

The movie Spider-man: into the Spider-verse focus on Miles Morales as the new Spider-man. What surprised me when watching the movie is that his father Jefferson Davis-Morales is a policeman working for PDNY, not the iconic NYPD. This obviously stands for Police Department of New York, but the P...

Can Wingardium leviosa be used as a weapon like throwing chairs or something at people?

I understand that "League of Shadows" are supposedly the bad guys and no matter their philosophy, it usually ends in destruction of lives. But hear me out. Arrow was, in Ra's own words, "one of the greatest student he ever had" and with confidence, he was ready to pass down the throne and the pr...

The question contains spoilers, so if you didn't watch the movie, be warned! During the movie Apocalypse gathers a group of mighty mutants around him. While it seems that some form of mind control might be involved, it does not seem to me that they are forced completely against their will to joi...

Yes, I know Mike Mitchell voiced her in Shrek 4, but I don’t know who on the soundtrack.

In the most recent movie Fantastic Beasts, Crimes of Grindelwald the minister said to Dumbledore somthing like "Only you can take on Grindlewald, because he's so powerful". That made me somehow wonder. I know there are many types of magical abilities (Foreseeing, Beast transformations, Mind readi...

In the A Song of Ice and Fire series first it is mentioned by Sansa that Renly's eye colour is green. He wears green clothes to bring the colour of his eyes. But later it is mentioned that his eye colour is blue like his elder brother Robert. Which is true? Did the writer miss it?

Nick Fury plays a very important role in creating Avengers. But in the events of Captain America Civil War Fury was nowhere to be seen. In the movie, Avengers team is seen falling apart. So why didn't Nick Fury do something then? Where was he?

From the intro to the 1989 Alien Nation TV show: That was the scene in California's Mohabi desert five years ago. Our historic first view of the newcomer ship. Theirs was a slave ship, carrying a quarter of a million beings, bred to adapt and labour in any environment. But they've washed asho...

I was watching Batman Beyond episode April Moon and I saw this symbol when one of the characters cuts through the door. Is it suppose to be a Japanese symbol or character meaning something? Or is it just random?

I think it fits cleanly into the hard science fiction sub-genre. Is there any other sub-genre it could be classified as?

In The Lord of the Rings movie in the first part of the movie Fellowship of the Ring we see Isildur cutting Sauron"s fingers and taking the One Ring for himself. They were fighting at the edge of Mount Doom and Elrond and Cirdan were also present. So why did they let Isildur take the ring? They w...

In the short story "The Last Trump" by Isaac Asimov, there is a point where one of the characters explains that the year is calculated differently by various different cultures: "Nor is that all," Etheriel went on. "The year A.D. 1957 is the year 7464 of the Byzantine era, 5716 by the Jewish ...

This is a follow-up question to Matrim Cauthon's Memories From Former Lives? where we can learn from a canonical source that Mat's memories of former lives are given to him from his visit inside the ter'angreal. This can for example explain his prowess as general and all the people he remember be...

Okay so I don't remember much at all. There was a ghost in this movie which tortured the people living in a house. In the end we get to know that the ghost was of the woman's daughter who died in their basement. This girl was born ugly so her mother locked her in their basement and used to feed h...

In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Wanda influences Avengers' consciousness. Pietro Maximoff: What can I do? Wanda Maximoff: Ah, it hurts. Pietro Maximoff: I'm gonna kill him. I'll be right back. Wanda Maximoff: No. I'm over it. I want...I want to finish the plan. [looking at the Qu...

I just got on something strange outside the window of the ship. What is really looks like this from Captain Marvel's trailer:

As a followup to this question, do ships have video surveillance? I'm not saying it should replace logs, I get the convenience of it, you can create an audio log while working or to document your day to day activities. In addition to using logs, is video surveillance used on star fleet crafts?

In "Chapter 7: Homeward Bound" of the The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Gandalf tells the Hobbits, I am turning aside soon. I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. After leaving to talk with Tom Bombadil, Gandalf does not appe...

Earlier today, I suddenly remembered a middle-grade book (series?) that I'd read probably around 4th-6th grade. These are all the details I can remember: It was a medieval fantasy esque setting. It featured a world with some sort of king or dark lord that the protagonist was trying to defeat - ...

In the A Song of Ice and Fire series, why doesn't Ramsay Bolton try to take the Iron Throne for himself? He could use his treachery to his advantage and mostly certainly have a chance of winning by playing by his own rules. Especially after Tywin’s death, the Lannisters wouldn't stand a chance. I...

This question is for the MCU but of course, I would love if someone could post comic references. As Kevin Feige said: she is as powerful a character as we’ve ever put in a movie. Her powers are off the charts and, when she’s introduced, she will be by far the strongest character we’ve ev...

I am trying to remember the name of a book (it's also possibly a short story) that I read in high school. In this writing all the people have died due to a nuclear blast (I think)but the Earth itself lives on. The house function and the food cooks it's self, and everything still happens but witho...