I am looking for a manga where the MC was kicked out for being a tank. The leader wanted an all offensive party. The MC is a town guard and leader of a trouble squad. I think there is a assassin in the squad that constantly attacks the MC and there is a female sword user in part with another memb...

Why does this French Tintin book ("Tintin et les Picaros") not have a printing number?

When I turned 10 years old back in 1992, my mother sent me a care package crammed with snacks, mad magazines, a journal, a new video game, and a book of horror stories, that had creepy illustrations for some of the stories. The stories I remember most involve a boy with amnesia, whose cousin is a...

Do the owl and the wizard have some sort of magical bond? Or have owls been used for so long by magic users that it's just in their DNA now?

Maybe I missed the bit where there deaths were mentioned but I could have sworn they were fine one minute and dead the next.

To my recollection, this movie seemed to follow the archetypal "Cabin in the Woods" format, so I would guess that it is American. Basically, a group of characters go vacationing to some place. Along the way they are warned by a sheriff that the place is cursed, and they will all die. The characte...

Just wondering if anyone else was gettin a Karate Kid vibe during the scene where Teal'c started teaching Krista lok'nel? Was it inspired at all by KK?

Are there any clubs other than Quidditch, Gob stones and Chess?

I was reading the question 'When leaving Privet Drive, why did there need to be seven Potters instead of using the Invisibility Cloak or Disillusionment Charms?' That made me wonder why didn't they: -Toss an Invisibility Cloak over Harry and have him walk the heck out of the neighborhood? -Make H...

I mean, if someone transforms a match into a needle, is the needle a real needle? Or is it something that looks and weighs like a needle but actually a match in disguise? If I burn this needle, would it burns like a match or it melts down into liquid iron? More extremely, if I transform a stone i...

We all know Umbridge loathes Harry but would she kill him if she had the chance?

I can't exactly remember the plot but I do remember a scene where an old woman who said that she has been imprisoned since she was young and beautiful and then proceeded to burn the Castle and laughing maniacally while the castle was burning and then in the next scene there was a male character w...

1 the initial reactions of all the major factions 2 what would the transformers do 3 how would the imperium react to primus and unicron 4 who would declare war on the transformers and who would win said wars

I read this book years ago. It was about a reincarnated girl who could see auras and a guy with his sister who are from her past life. The guy was that reincarnated girl's boyfriend. At the end of the first book she blacks out. That's all I remember.

Besides being an anthropomorphic nearly full pitcher of cherry kool-aid, has there ever been any detailed description of how this pitcher of cherry kool-aid came to be so large, given appendages and the power to bust through walls, and yell “Oh Yeah!” He’s got countless advertisements spanning ne...

Now that we have consensus on adding a fourth custom-close reason (and confirmation from Community Manager @Catija that she's happy to do so), we now need to agree on the wording. The original phrasing was... This question does not appear to be about science fiction or fantasy within the scope d...

When I was in college in 1987, I read a science fiction book that I'd like to reread. But I cannot remember the name or author. The key features that I recall, are It takes place on a large cylindrical spaceship traveling through space (not orbiting), From inside the ship, the human style socie...

Looking for an 80's fantasy story about two people and their human-sized ant companion/friend. The people eventually become a couple and are returned to their own world to forget about one another, but to meet. The ant retires to sleep off the effort of the adventure.

I have always wondered how the hovercrafts in The Hunger Games are propelled through the air, and how they work. Does anybody know the answer to this question?

There's a story (I think it's Soviet SciFi), with an alien fossil found near a fossil of a dinosaur with laser-drilled holes in its skeleton, and the story revolves about finding the skull of one of the aliens hunting dinosaurs. I read the book many years ago, but I can't recall the name of the s...

The earliest I remember hearing this comment was about Dragonlance, which began to be published in 1984. There was earlier RPG-influenced fiction, though, as far back as Norton's Quag Keep (1978). Do we know the origin of the phrase?

If a combined Finite could stop Grindelwald's extremely powerful Protego Diabolica, and various spells like the ones in the Duelling Club orchestrated by Severus Snape and Gilderoy Lockhart, why are there specific counter-curses, counter-jinxes, counter-hexes, and counter-spells? If Finite was th...

I know that Tolkien served in WWI, in which more than 20 million died. And he also witnessed WWII in which more than 70 million people died too. So why Tolkien limited the number of both sides into the thousands instead of the millions?

In the First Age, Melkor had two fortresses, first Utumno and then Angband. Utumno was the older and greater fortress, but it was destroyed by the Valar in the War for Sake of the Elves. Later, after the Darkening of Valinor, the Dark Lord (now known to the Eldar as Morgoth) returned to Middle-...