I saw an advertisement for this a long time ago- probably around the mid-late 90's. It showed the picture of a worn-down trailer with a stereotypical "white trash" man sitting on a lawn chair nearby and mentioned four playable 'tribes'- two of the tribes mentioned were "Trailer Trash" and "Amazons"...

He plays recordings of a great jazz (?) musician for the musician's younger self, who had not yet developed his unique style. Might be inspired by the saxophonist Charlie Parker. I read this decades ago in an anthology, would love to see it again.

In the Next Generation episode Reunion, prior to a new chancellor of the Klingon Empire being chosen, a ritual is performed to confirm the previous chancellor is dead. First the arbiter of succession says the phrase "Qab jiH nagil" before stabbing the deceased chancellor with a device called a pa...

I took out a book from the book mobile 25 years ago, and have never been able to track it down again. It was a sci-fi novel where people had three forms: human, animal, and wind. They could stay in the wind form forever, but had a limited amount of time in the others. There was an advanced spaces...

At the end of the movie Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (1977), during the Battle of Yavin, we are witnesses to how, while Darth Vader and his Wingmen were upon the tail of Luke's X-wing in the Death Star Trench, two failed series of laser shoots, one behind and one in front of Vader's left-hand...

I’ve encountered destruction of Pompeii a lot in time travel genre. Some examples which are on top of my head: In the episode Fires of Pompeii (2008) of Doctor Who, destruction of Pompeii was shown. In the S01E02 of Loki (2021), destruction of Pompeii was shown. Legends of Tomorrow has also show...

Astral Projection is seen in so many movies and series like Doctor Strange, The Magicians, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Stranger Things. Which is the first movie or TV series to show astral projection?

I borrowed this children's book from a library somewhere before 2009 (most likely before 2007). It was written in French and I wouldn't think it was translated from another language, so it was most likely from a French-language author (although not necessarily from France). It involved a species ...

The novel in question is about an Asian girl who attracts all types of energy towards her, even emotional. This is not good for her, because when she is filled up, she releases it as a big blast. There is a woman who sends an agent to rescue/bring that girl to her so that she can teach her to li...

On the show Sweet Tooth, some of the hybrids (like Wendy and Gus) are mostly human in appearance, with a handful of external animalistic features (e.g. deer horns and ears), whereas others, like Bobby, have much less human features, almost resembling anthropomorphic animals. This is in addition t...

When Gus falls asleep in the field of purple flowers, he sees a vision of his father, who urges him to continue on his journey. This could be a regular hallucination provoked by the flowers, or a dream that he had while unconscious, but he also sees a vision of General Abbot with glowing flames f...

This is what I do remember from the manga hopefully it is all on point. The begging of the Manga start with our main character in a room hiding for his life. Our main character is a bigger guy that is short, weak, and has nothing really going for him. He is hiding because outside is the zombie ap...

The Preserve seems to be the refuge for hybrid children that Aimee runs at the zoo. What is less clear, though, is the source of the flyers urging people to contact it. In favor of Aimee having spread them around: people calling the Preserve seem to be able to reach her without difficulty, and sh...

In the first Avengers movie, we find out that Loki has received the Scepter from: Later on in Age of Ultron, it transpires that the Scepter contains, the Mind Stone, one of the Infinity Stones. How does Loki's boss come across this Infinity Stone?

I played this game sometime in the mid to late 90s. It was a turn based game of area control of a cyberpunk city, depicted in a low-res, grayscale 2d image. The city was segmented into squares (I think 8x8). The objective was to defeat the other factions by hiring gangs, possibly outfitting them ...

I'm pretty sure I played this over ten years ago, on a Windows system, first person perspective. At three beginning of the game, you're in what looks like outer space. You can pick from what look like stars, and each has a brief profile of a person. I think there was only one that you could actua...

A DOS game, or maybe Windows 3.1 / early Win95, released somewhere in the early to mid 90s. It was a form of Go, Othello, or Reversi. Isometric graphics with sprites (in color), not a top-down board like old chess games, and no 3D models. You took turns against the computer; on your turn, you mov...

Anyone know the name of the book? The book begins with the author storytelling how his boy had some sort of accident and how he comforted him and connected with his son by basically communicating something like "I know it hurts" not by "denying the pain" and also by keeping the kid's mind busy an...

I've been looking for this anime for a while now. It is about a group of friends in high school. One of the boys is quite smart at coding and is trying to get their friend (a girl) out from another dimension, where she is stuck. In the dimension she has to hide and fight to survive from robots. T...

In the Mass Effect franchise, at the end of Mass Effect 3, you have the possibility to select the Synthesise option, therefore stopping the cycle and avoiding war between organics and synthetics. The AI had this ability all along but decided to continue the cycle of harvesting nonetheless. Why di...

Have been hoping to find this book again: read it a lot as a tween back in the early 70s. A brother & sister travel back in time to save their grandparent from a fire that engulfed a former wing of the home that they are now coincidently living in. I think their mother has just become a sexton fo...

I'm looking for a the title of a movie I saw about 16 years ago. I saw the second half of it. What I remember about the plot is that it's about a boy who has lost his mother who somehow ends up in a strange fantasy world and he can wish for anything but every time he makes a wish he loses a memo...

This is not about the movie "Truman Show", but rather about the concept shown in the movie, applied to real life. Obviously, the movie is the way it is because it is the most convenient for the story. If somebody actually were running such a massive-budget TV show, why would they have the actors ...

Here's what I remember: The gemstone was dropped by a guy in the forest who was carrying a big bag full of other gemstones that summon other monsters by the same way (putting the gemstones in the monsters' heads). The kid saw the gemstone and used it. The hero and the lion fought many battles a...

This trope has been well known recently in the animated series "Rick & Morty" which depicts a mega-space habitat populated by millions of Ricks ruled by a Council. I don't know of many precedents for this idea. From what I recall, there is a very similar situation in several issues of Jonathan H...

I read this story in an illustrated short-story collection in the late 90s or early 2000s. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the book. It was about a yellow monster named "El Eano" (the spelling isn't exactly right but it was phonetically similar). [Spoilers Below] El Eano is a yellow co...

In the first season of American Horror Story, titled Murder House, the housemaid Moira is actually a ghost She has two ghost forms; one as an old lady and the other with her actual appearance at the time of her death (younger version). Now, the older version has a discolored eye, which seems to ...