The series featured human characters helping an intelligent alien T-rex-like female dinosaur run from someone through space. Would have been printed sometime before 1977.

I remember seeing this on tv when I was a kid (in 1980's). I'm not sure whether it was a movie or a tv series. I remember two things about it: 1. A cross was burned to the necks of people, and they became hypnotized or something like that. 2. People drowned in the quicksand (or through the sand)

In The Towers, Shelob's Lair, Tolkien writes that Gollum "bowed and worshipped" Shelob. Apparently this happened before he was captured and taken to Barad-Dur. I can't think of another place in LOTR where a character worships another. And Gollum doesn't seem like the worshipping type. I under...

At the end of "The Perfect Pear" episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, the Apple family somehow spot a tree that sprouted from Bright Mac and Buttercup's seeds at one of the local orchards --presumably near Sweet Apple Acres. My question is, how didn't Granny Smith, Applejack, or anyb...

The Floo Network is generally tracked by the Ministry of Magic but I was wondering are there other ways of tracking someone if they use a Floo Network that's not being traced by the Ministry?

In the Super Dimensional Fortress Macross (1982) Protoculture 70 years after the formation of the Protoculture Stellar Republic (497,130 years ago), a Protoculture Survey Ship landed on Earth and genetically influenced the existing native life to spur the emergence of "mankind", a sub-...

I just finished watching The Haunting of Hill House, and the dilapidated state of the house was puzzling. In lore, haunted houses fall into disrepair because people don't like living in them. In Hill's case, people try to starve the houses of victims. One can imagine how the house might crumbl...

I'm searching for a book i read 10 years ago, from which i remember only a few details: In the distant future, the central planets of the galaxy are ruled by a king; The main protagonist is an acquaintance, or becomes friends by the end of the book with the ruling prince. At some point th...

Red Skull told Thanos that the Soul Stone has a special place among the Infinity Stones. But we have also seen in "the Age of Ultron" that with the power of Mind Stone, Vision did lift the Mjolnir, which none of the Avengers could do it and Thor also did believed that nobody except himself could ...

Was Tony Curtis the inspiration for the voice of Top Cat? Were any other Top Cat characters inspired by actors of the day?

In the movie we are told that We are also told that But Alita eventually remembers that So I’m confused. What destroyed the Earth? Or in other words

What are examples of incongruent technical events in sci-fi movies or TV shows? For example in Star Trek: Voyager fourth season episodes "Year of Hell" and "Year of Hell, Part II" the character of Annorax drops a see-through pyramid container containing the lock of his wife's hair which shatters...

In the Harry Potter books, diffindo is called the 'severing curse' and its most commonly used to cut ropes and the like. However, in the last book Hermione uses it on Ron but misses, creating a 'slash in his jeans' and his knee gets cut, causing him to 'roar in pain'. We've only seen Sectumsempr...

Merida is a Pixar character and has a nice Scottish accent, but what did she say in Ralph Breaks The Internet?

In Avengers: Infinity War movie, we saw Thanos' planet Titan. In this image, you can see star-shaped structures floating in the air (which actually seem like a signature feature of Titan). They continued to exist there even after destruction of the planet. What are they?

Shelob is an "evil thing in spider form," according to Tolkien. Now, we know that she is the "last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world," we know that she is fairly deficient in charm, and that she is quite capable of catching and eating a person. What I would like to know is whether ...

In the space battle scene, the Rebels lost 2 X-wings while attempting to enter the planetary surface. Why didn't they fly around it?

In most incarnations of Superman, Kryptonians gain their superpowers from exposure to a yellow sun (primarily our own), and do not receive such benefits near their own, red sun-dominated Krypton. Is it ever explored what the result would be if an Earth human were to travel to Krypton and be expo...

What is this colorful and futuristic visual style you can see in: Thor Ragnarok movie or Transistor video game?

I read this book in 2009/10 in grade 8/9 and would love to find the name. The details I remember include a boy or girl with missing/presumed dead mother and they come across or were given either a box/necklace that belonged to the mother. I believe the father is still alive in this. The child ope...

Looking for a story about a 'hole' that trades art/fiction that people make for things from alternative realities (like trading your high-school essay for the manuscript of an award-winning novel alternative you wrote).

My workplace has a Mister Rogers theme. On one wall are a bunch of puppets which are ostensibly ones used during the show. I can recognize all of them except for this one, which looks kind of like a jester. My only suspicion is that it might be an early prototype for Lady Elaine. Unfortunately th...

Young mans name is Kelvin? Kelvin? Kev something.

Recently while re-watching Deadpool 2 I realized how blatantly unaware I am of any of the names of X-Men especially in this scene. Could somebody name these X-Men for me?