I read this paperback book in the early 1980's but it wasn't in a new condition. There was a young gunfighter arrived on a frontier world and he goes to a bar and almost immediately is challenged to a fight, he wins. Saloon gal sits to chat with him and admires his two trusty six-guns, a novelty...

Is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and by extension, any Harry Potter movie that J.K. Rowling produced or had any involvement with, canon, as she chose the direction (along with other famous people like Chris Columbus and David Heyman), despite the discontinuities that it had with th...

There is a short scene where Coop is being guarded by a TARS (maybe it was the other machine) after arriving at the NASA facility in the middle of the night. Why was he kept alone in that room, away from his daughter, rather than just being brought to Prof. Brand and the rest of the NASA personn...

So I understand why Batman doesn't kill the Joker. But the fact remains that Arkham just doesn't seem to be capable of holding him. So why not have him sent to an interdimensional prison designed to hold Kryptonians? I'm wondering if Batman has ever asked Superman to put Joker into the Phantom Zo...

Various times throughout his MCU tenure, the character of Ant-Man, played by Paul Rudd, shrinks and grows. He goes through various trials and tribulations while at those sizes, such as riding ants, spinning around on a record, and grabbing War Machine out of the sky. How much of these movements a...

I read an excellent SF short story about 20 years ago. It started as a man being chased by the police. The man himself had had his mind taken over by another 'being'. These 'beings' were hunted by the authorities. At some point the 'being' jumped to a new host and mentally battled with the ho...

Both versions of the plastic prison, but especially the Pentagon prison, were well lit. How did they do this without using metal in the wiring and lightbulbs?

Harley Quinn is on her skates being towed by rope behind Huntress' bike: Harley Quinn: Whip me!

As we all know, the acquisition of the Soul Stone requires a sacrifice. Is it by any way possible to acquire it by 'sacrificing' dear old Deadpool? Something like this: :

Reading this question Short story about a sentient disease from a Jovian moon, I came to think about a story, probably a novel, I read maybe 40 years ago, in Danish. It was about a kind of infection - the victims were covered in a kind of greyish skin which was strongly innervated, this was label...

Season 3 of Westworld contains the idea of the human race being controlled by an artificial intelligence, rehoboam. This AI identifies individuals that need to be removed in order to protect the human race. This is remarkably similar to the Samaritan AI that is a protagonist of the later season...

The Skeksis trick Aughra into giving them control of the Crystal, in exchange for an orrery. During much of this period, Aughra has essentially been asleep. Yet the Skeksis seem content to leave her to her explorations of the cosmos, instead of eliminating her. Further, Aughra later awakens. In...

In Jurassic Park, after stealing the embryos and getting lost, Dennis Nedry has to tow his vehicle down a steep, but short hill. When he meets a Dilophosaurus (I am not going to point out the scientific inaccuracies with the design, since they are not relevant to the question), he says this when ...

I have been engrossed in the Dune series lately and am pretty intrigued by the strange means of data storage. From wire, to miniature printed material, to crystal, super strange. What other sci fi data storage is intriguing and efficient?

Watching Lucifer, I noticed he's referred as King of Hell. It got me wondering, is it right to call Monarchy a form of government where the regent will never die so a descendant can take over?

In War of the Twins book 3 chapter 11, Raistlin gets the device/pendant from Gnimsh just before he kills him. In chapter 13 Tasslehoff already has the magical device again: “But, now”—the kender glanced around—“the first thing to do is find Caramon and tell him I’ve got the magical device a...

Looking for manga where main character gets transported to another world as his character from game. He is a mage, capable of using two swords and some martial arts. Got beard and gray cloak. He wakes up in forest (almost gets raped by orc or some similar creature) and spends there two weeks. Aft...

Where did the Hyperspace Routes in the Star Wars universe originate from in the first place, Also is there only one route on and off a planet? Or can a world have multiple Hyperspace routes?

Just started rewatching Battlestar Galactica. In the miniseries, shortly before the bombing of Caprica, Six turns and addresses someone off-camera "About time you got here." Is it ever revealed who she was speaking to?