According to Psychometry, Psychometry also known as token-object reading, or psychoscopy is a form of extrasensory perception characterized by the claimed ability to make relevant associations from an object of unknown history by making physical contact with that object In Night Head 2041 (202...

In the film In the Shadow of the Moon, Rya, the time-traveling assassin, injects her victims with a substance which triggers their deaths at a later time. One of the victims happens to be driving a bus at the time of her death, causing significant collateral damage. If the goal is to kill the vic...

In the Star Trek: TNG episode "Pen Pals", Data receives a short transmission from a single individual in an unknown civilization asking, "Is anybody out there?" Data is able to understand this and respond. Later, when Sarjenka's transmissions are played to the crew, the Universal Translator (or a...

Including main books, side-books, films, video games, tie-ins, etc., are there any instances of any character in the expanded Harry Potter universe long term/permanently changing their gender and/or identifying as neither male nor female? Note the permanency qualification: so temporarily Polyjuic...

Here is Teto, a creature known as a fox squirrel which Nausicaa befriends. He is often seen riding on her shoulder, in both the manga and the anime. In the anime Laputa: Castle of the Sky we also see what appears to be the exact same creature: Do the two stories occur in the same universe?

Dr. Stone realizes that Mother Box was taken by Cyborg, then he was startled by a Parademon which landed behind him. The scene cuts to Gotham Police Department, where Commissioner Gordon receives a bundles of messages from a female officer, then walks side-by-side with Detective Crispus Allen: C...

No I am not making this up, at a point in the 80's I had a DC comic (rather thick for a comic book), one of the stories in featured an old, grey-haired woman who had a Green Lantern ring and the powers that come with it. The villains of the story had her trapped in a yellow bubble, which she esca...

Yesterday I saw the movie Alien: Covenant for the first time (with crackers and cheese, and strawberry jam, though they got somewhat hard to digest when looking at some scenes...). The movie made a deep impression on me. It all looked so real! The small monster born from an infected body was as i...

I heard a short story read I believe by Jim Freund on his radio show "Hour of the Wolf" on WBAI radio in New York in the 1970s about a baseball player who upends the game with radical play that is still technically adherent to the rules. For example, he has a method of hitting the ball where he ...

Attack of the Fire Nation is still due in The Last Airbender. I am waiting for its sequel for literally a decade. What happened? Why aren't they producing the sequel of such successful movie? When will the sequel come out?

Ramsay was about to destroy Jon Snow and his whole army, when the Knights of the Vale suddenly appeared, and reversed the tide. The key point was the element of surprise: if Ramsay would have known a big enemy army arrives, he would have stayed inside Winterfell and his downfall would have been p...

In the show, variants are first arrested, then their realities are reset, and then they're brought into a court just to be sentenced to be reset ... Why didn't they just reset realities without arresting and hence everyone and everything including the wanted variant would be reset, without taking...

In the movie, we can see a stag on the other side of the lake. Shortly after, white light comes out of it and chases away the dementors. However, in the 'future' scene, there is no stag whatsoever. I know a stag is Harry's Patronus, but why did it appear on the screen beforehand, and later on ...

A frequently repeated leitmotif in the Foundation stories is that Empire's stuff is colossal: a colossal expanse, colossal urbanized planets, colossal nuclear generators, colossal-sized war fleets composed of colossal spaceships. Instead, it is often implied that the Foundation's technology is mi...

The book was about kids who were separated into houses and had to compete in some sort of survivalist game. I think there were four houses; one I remember lasted on eating lots of bread, so they were never in shape. I think the houses were named after Greek mythology.

I remember a science fiction short story published a few decades ago, probaaably in Analog, probably in the previous millennium, about a scientific detective type character, which had scenes set in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The detective's office was in King of Prussia, PA, and he said tha...