My dad first read this story probably in the 80s, but it's likely older since he read the Arabic translation in an anthology of presumably English science fiction short stories. The translator weirdly didn't credit any of the original authors. The title might be something similar to "The Damned S...

For us muggles it is hard not to notice the similarity between Voldemort's rule and the Nazi regime, or between the Death Eaters and the Nazis. But we know WWII happened in the world HP, and that the Nazis probably existed in it as well. Was Voldemort aware that there once was a muggle with very ...

This Wikipedia entry claims: One of the Beagles reads a Duck Tales comic when he is in the bathroom despite the fact that Duck Tales doesn't exist in the Duck Universe. I found that odd, as I always assumed precisely the opposite: Ducktales and the Carl Barks/Don Rosa Duckverse were the same un...

A couple of stories popped into my head but I can't remember the author. It was about a space station and 2 had the same character, a large bright guy. The first one had him as a worker on the station construction and not his later profession, people wouldn't accept him because of his size. Later...

During Episode 5 of Loki, the Loki Variants refer to Alioth by name several times. In Episode 6, Loki and Sylvie's conversation with He Who Remains seems to suggest that Alioth is the creature's true name, and not just something the Lokis came up with. The problem is that Alioth doesn't seem capa...

In Loki episode 6, as Loki and Sylvie go deep into the castle, they are in a room with three standing statues (dubbed "Sentinels of Time" by production designer Kasra Farahani) and one that's been demolished. Whose statue is that?

During the finale, Sylvie tells Loki: I was pruned before you existed. Did I miss something in an earlier episode, or was this a mistake on the part of the writers? I know she was "kidnapped" by the TVA, but don't remember seeing her being pruned prior to the self-pruning.

In Harry Potter, we learn what a Squib is (a non-magical person born into a magical family). In the same book, Neville said: They went for Filch first, and everyone knows I’m almost a Squib. But in the 1st book, Neville said that his family thought he was “all-MUGGLE.” “Well, my gran brought m...

In the alternate opening to the Little Mermaid, a sailor on Prince Eric’s boat talks about Ursula being King Triton’s sister. This would technically make her Princess of Atlantica. So would that make an evil Disney Princess, if the filmmakers kept that in?

This question: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/251485/how-many-books-did-isaac-asimov-write[1] reminds me of s short story I read in a science fiction magazine once, probably late in the previous millennium. The title was something like "The Amazing Dr. Amizov". The protagonist is amaz...

I watched some episodes of this cartoon along time ago. There was this boy who could go to another world (or dimension) through a theatre (I think) where he would fight monsters (maybe). I remember that he had two companions, a girl and another boy; the other boy was short of height and the girl ...

Alioth was enchanted by Loki and Loki, but not without the sacrifice of Loki we all mourn(*). In the Void, all the magic Loki, Loki, Loki, perhaps the little green Loki, Loki, Loki, and perhaps the other Loki(s) from the rival group they fought in the basement... was available. Not in the TVA but...

In 2007, JK Rowling explained in an interview that she had always viewed Dumbledore as gay. I'm not sure if it's factual or apocryphal that this came to light when a flashback to his younger days was being written for one of the films, but the revelation came after the publication of the final HP...

The famous (anthologised and adapted for radio) Eric Frank Russell sci-fi short story "Allamagoosa" involves a misunderstood word: However, the title is a complete, utter mystery to me. Is it supposed to be a misunderstood word or a clever pun? Or is it just nonsense words?