I have heard that in The DC comics, the Joker has an extremely high pain tolerance, and repeatedly laughs when he is seriously injured. Why does the Joker have such a high pain tolerance?

Suggestion - Some story ID questions get asked over and over again. Maybe we should have a sticky listing the most frequent ones. The list would include: The Gold at the Starbow's End/ aka Starburst by Pohl The Last Question by Asimov All Summer in a Day by Heinlein. What other stories do you ...

I don't remember much but I do remember the main things... its about a boy who somehow gets transported to another world by a beam out of the sky.. there were multiple beams if I recall correctly... he ends up living among a tribe... native American or something along those lines.. Marries a girl...

I saw this comic book in a shop in the mid 80s. The book could have been older though. Don't remember the title or publisher. It was about the journey of a bunch of astronauts/scientists/kids on this space ship that was more like a moon or large ball satellite with its own atmosphere under a dome...

After getting attacked by Evelyn in current universe in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Alpha Gong Gong disconnects from the Alpha universe and is calling for reinforcements from parallel universes to help him deal with the situation: Alpha Gong Gong: Send every Jumper with a counterpa...

The story involves a young child (a girl, I think) who receives a baby pig as a pet. I'm pretty sure she named the pig "Percy" which is a problem, as there is a whole series of "Percy the Pig" books which are unrelated and I recall the title of this book as "Percy the Pig". As Percy grows up he ...

I'm looking for a manga where our main character dies but a goddess offers him to reincarnate him to another world with these skills 'appraisal', 'item box', 'magic', and 'language comprehension.' But due to a mistake the goddess accidently sent him back to his world where mc still has his skills...

This question reminded me of a book I read in school in the mid-nineties. In today’s terms it was a young-adult novel, with an adolescent protagonist (?male), initially in a fairly-realist modern Earth setting, but with aliens quickly appearing in a major way. The aliens were from two highly ad...

I can’t really remember much but what I can remember is that the female lead was reincarnated (or just wakes up) as a human. She’s also the Devil’s daughter in a different dimension. She can also teleport between them and changes how she looks. She’s also on a mission that her father gave her.

The novel starts with the alien arriving on Earth. It doesn't have a physical body per se. It has the ability to take over the mind of the host, similar to the movie, The Host. What sets the novel apart is its brilliant plot. The alien takes over only if the person or animal is asleep. The alien ...

The main character is an almost grown boy. His father raises 'meat', meaning humans, for food. There's a civil war going on. His sister wins some kind of athletic tournament, and is taken by the government. He encounters her later, she was taken into a government program to improve the breed for...

Kind of a weird question. In maths, there's often a thing where you can say there exists a solution without knowing what it is. Elementary example is like x+3=4 has a solution in the set of real numbers because real numbers (like 4) minus real numbers (like 3) are also real numbers. Or better yet...

Trying to identify an episode of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1950-1955) in which Tom, Roger, Astro, and Dr. Dale walk through a subterranean tunnel under a moon. In a September 1952 issue of Popular Science magazine, director George Gould shows a cutaway model that simulates shafts and tunnels bene...