I'm catching up on Arrow, and I'm currently in season 5. I think I missed something between episodes 15 and 16. Episode 16 starts out with Oliver in the mountains at some place assuming that Prometheus is a student of Talia. I don't recall seeing that covered in episode 15, and I checked the o...

There are some TV episodes where Tyrion starts telling a joke about bringing a honeycomb and a jackass into a brothel, but he gets interrupted every time before he tells the punchline. Is this joke in the book series? Is there a punchline to it? (I am not looking for a punchline that somebody on...

The fan-favorite RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Rebpublic was the first to introduce a device known as a stealth field generator, which is a small, portable cloaking device that can be worn as a belt. There doesn't appear to be much mention of these devices outside of the Old Republic era (th...

If one of the champions had killed one another, would that person be sent to Azkaban? Or are the unforgivable curses allowed during the Triwizard Tournament? (This question is meant for the third stage, which is in the maze)

In the Opening Logo Sequence of Avengers: Endgame they used the song, Dear Mr. Fantasy. Avengers: Endgame Opening Logo Sequence Dear Mr. Fantasy What is the significance of using the song?

The first Captain America movie happens in the 40s. Steve falls in love with Peggy then. In Avengers Endgame, Cap and Ironman travel to 1970. Cap sees Peggy then, she doesn't seem to have aged a day since the 40s. How does this work, shouldn't Peggy have been 30 years older than we saw her in ...

In Avengers: Endgame, as all the stones were returned to their timeline, will doctor strange have time stone now?

Book about alien crashing on Earth; starts "LIFE" so man will evolve & create tech to fix the ship.

It is short fiction, not a novel, but just how short (novella, novelette, short fiction) I am not sure. I read it maybe four decades ago. Humans have some (trading? scientific?) outpost, not a full colonisation, on a planet with two sentient native species, both very primitive, almost no technol...

Most online searches for the phrase "and so it goes" lead to Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut published in 1969. However it is used a few times in 'Repent Harlequin said the Tick-tock man' by Harlan Ellison and that was published in 1965. My question is simply:- Which sci fi writer is the ...

We know there is a lot of Dragon-Glass in Dragon-Stone. Why there in particular?

In Avengers: Endgame, Hawkeye retrieves the soul stone, holding it in his hand (seemingly without difficulty). However, in previous movies, e.g., Guardians of the Galaxy volumes 1 and 2, it's an important plot point that Quill was only able to handle the power stone because of his heritage (i.e....

I began reading Sci-Fi in the early 60s as a small boy, borrowing books from the library. Sometime between then and my early life after college, probably between 1965 and 1985, I read a book, novella or short story which included a very graphic scene where voyagers from Earth? encounter an alien ...

Spoiler Title: If the Infinity Stones are responsible for the passage of time, then what happens now that they no longer exist? So, The Ancient One explained that the Infinity Stones create the passage of time (or words to that effect). We are told that Thanos snapped the Stones out of existenc...

In Avengers: Infinity war, After Thanos's finger snapping caused wiping out half of the Universe. And in Avengers: Endgame, But do they know what happened to them in last 5 years?

At the end of the first season of Legacies, a sequel series to The Vampire Diaries, Previously, she's asked Alaric to destroy all the records that he and his family have of her, which he agrees to do. What I don't understand is what his motivation behind doing this is, though. Why would he ...

Everybody knows that Captain America's shield is one of the strongest metals. Even in the first Avengers movie, Thor's hammer did not even scratch it. So how does Thanos' blade mange to do it in Avengers: Endgame? What is this blade's name and what is it made of? Is that a reference to any parti...

Tony calls his daughter Maguna a couple of times in the movie. (Or at least uses that word around her. I don't know if that's her nickname or not. Any search on Google yields no proper results regarding "Maguna" in relation to the MCU.) He also calls her by her full name, Morgan H. Stark. Search...

Avengers: Endgame, unlike other movies in the MCU doesn't have a post credit scene. During my 1st watch, I heard a distinct metal clinking sound at the end of credits. I thought it was coming from outside the theater as the exit doors were already open. But, on my 2nd watch, I heard the same ...

I am looking for an old sci fi book which i read over a deacde ago. It was quite a short story. It was about a person in the far future which was unhappy in it because in that future the interstellar "gouvernment" or whatever had absolute control and technologie gave the people everything they ne...

Thanos and Ronan are complete opposites, Thanos is cold, calculated and determined, he never does anything without thinking/planning/preparing/strategizing for/of every possible option and outcome. Ronan is driven his obsession for death and destruction (Thanos himself said it to Gamora). Ronan...

After the time travel why doesn't Steve Rogers land in the same place(the time portal), rather he seems to be sitting on a bench near the lake! How's this possible?

So, we know that in Avengers: Endgame In the few moments before he Bucky tells Cap: So my question is:

As has been the case since the first Marvel movie that's been released, Mr. Stan Lee has had a cameo in every single MCU movie (at least, that I'm aware of.) This was true for this film, and shouldn't be considered a spoiler to anyone. We obviously see him as both a minor character and he has a...

There are a lot of questions about specific actions in the Endgame and how they affect the flow of time. There also many popular answers which are contradicting each other, therefore I'd like to ask here explicitly about the final result of timelines Controversial Points: I understood that eve...

In the original timeline, Thanos fights infinity war and won in 2018. But if Thanos travelled to future in 2014 to 2023, shouldnt it create different timelines in which: 1) Thanos is not there at all from 2014 cz he went in a time machine and never returned, and another time line where: 2) Tha...

As seen at the end of "Ant-Man and the Wasp", Ant-Man passes out and falls into the water, when he increases his size considerably. Hope says something like "He is too big!". Is there a correlation between Ant-Man and his stamina? Did I miss an explanation of this phenomenon during the movie?

Early on in Endgame when Antman/Scott Lang is attempting to explain the quantum realm and also how the supply of Pym particles is limited... All this worked permitting the main mission to go ahead However... half way through the film So if all the stock was used up

However it’s not a male main character I think it’s female and magic was based on power words (which took a lot of effort).

In Avengers: Endgame However Why is this? Adrenaline, desperation, or something else?

In Avengers: Endgame, when Captain Rogers and Tony go in 1970 to take the Tesseract and Pym particles, Steve calls Dr. Pym about receiving a package which he tells is glowing. This makes Pym scared and run for it. Does anyone know what Pym was expecting?

How did captain return the soul stone? And was Red skull free after someone took the stone or he stayed there like a store manager waiting if someone come for refunds.

This is not a novel, but "longish" short fiction, novelette or novella. I read it maybe 40 years ago, and it was a used book ! A man, on our Earth, is contacted by a bizarre agency who offers him to get his mind transferred to a body in a alternate Earth, in order to save, either some polity fro...

I encountered this story sometime between 1960 and 1990. An invention was made that could convert any matter into useful materials, but with the loss of most of the mass. No one understand how or where the mass disappeared, but no one cared much. In a series of vignettes, people keep asking, "Wo...

Help please! I read this novel between 2001-2004 so published sometime before then. I seem to remember that it was by a female author but I’m not certain of that. A female protagonist who can see in ultraviolet volunteers to be injected with single-cell organisms which she must mentally communic...

When Thanos snapped his fingers, Half the population of the universe died So his plan was to come to the future to snap everything dead and re-create new universe. But, what’s the definition of snapping with a glove that has the stones on it? Is it like “Make a Wish”. When Ironman snapped h...

In Endgame Thanos were able to break the Cap shield made strongest material on Earth. How Thanos manage to get this weapon and what's it made of? Even when Thor hits the Cap shield with his hammer (Mjolnir) it didn't even get a scratch.

In this short story a man tries to find the end of his city by sitting on a train (possibly a sleeper train) until it reaches the country. The train is underground and he checks property values every so often by leaving the train. The values reduce as he gets further from the city centre but even...

This story was written in the style of the late 19th century, but does not seem to be one of H. G. Wells'. It was written as a narrative found on the desk of a very old man who was renowned for his study of memory. According to the narrative, he was really a young man who had been persuaded to ta...

In Game of Thrones S08E01, we're all enjoying the drama around Jon Snow's Obviously the news creates turbulence for Jon's love life and for his humble position as Warden of the North or whatever. And Jon seems literal-minded enough that I would expect him to treat this news as a Big Deal, he d...