In S1 the others come by boat to take Walter from the raft manned by Michael (Walter's father), Sawyer and Jin. How did they know Walter was special and was worth the effort/risk to obtain?

Need the movie title. I have been trying to figure out the same movie. Female journalist arrives to an underground (military?) bunker to witness a trapped soul. The song Frère Jacques plays often- but I forget why. Anyway the trapped soul escapes and unleashes hell on all the military personal an...

The story in question has the protagonist(?) Start a chain reaction in a neighborhood that leads to the whole area devolving into anarchy with people killing each other. This character may or may not be compelled to do this act. In what may be the same story, earlier, the character felt compelled...

I saw this video game years ago (less than 10 but it may have been older than that) but never got its name. It was an RPG. The enemies looked like half-melted mutated animals but the protagonists were human. The animation was in the style of paper cutouts. The game looked like it took place in th...

In the beginning of Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Alt Universe, A ball with the number 42 on it is shown on the screen: What does "42" mean in the opening credits?

In Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Alternate Universe Cut, Peter Miles enters the school and greets fellow students: Peter Miles: Oh, my gosh! This is embarrassing. We wore the same jacket. What's so embarrassing in two wearing the same jacket?

In the final episode of The Owl House, when Luz sees one of their eyes has a long worm-like creature sticking out of it, which bears a distinct resemblance to the alleged house demon Hooty. What is the connection between this creature and Hooty?

In Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Alternate Universe Cut, Jefferson, a cop, is driving his son, Peter Parker, to school in a car. However, he stops at one point due to a red signal. People nearby gather around the car and start taking pictures of Peter Parker: Why are they clicking pict...

At a dining table scene in Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Alternate Universe Cut, Cop Jefferson Davis warns his son Miles to stop creating graffiti or face arrest under code 1029-G. Miles retorts, questioning if Jeff has nothing better to do than arrest his own son for making art, and sa...

In Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse (2018) Alternate Universe Cut, Peter Miles discovered that the spider which bit him was branded with "Alchemax 1250M117": Peter Miles: Roxxon Actually Alchemax and Roxxon are two separate corporations in the Marvel Universe, each with its own unique origins,...

I'm searching for a funny Star Wars comic that combines characters from different mythologies, such as Darth Vader and the Greek Gods. I created a comic titled 'STAR WARS COMIC: DARTH VADER VS. THE GREEK GODS.' Does anyone know of anything similar? Maybe one that includes THOR, for example?

Following on from [this]Is there any explanation in Star Trek for why voice commands and speech aren't confused by the computer? question, the definition of "confusion" used in the answer appears to be "not understanding the request". I am curious about misunderstanding the request. For instance,...

This question occurred to me when watching Dune: Part Two, where Giedi Prime is depicted as an almost completely grayscale environment. While the movie doesn't explain how this effect occurs, it's an actual effect noticed by the characters. This trope doesn't seem to be particularly common and I ...

Does anyone know of a Star Wars comic strip where Darth Vader attacks the Greek Gods? There was something about it on this site, but it got deleted.

I read this short story in a collection, I'm not sure when, 20 or 30 years ago, I think. People are playing darts. There is a prize for the winner. A newcomer comes in, and claims he can beat them all. And indeed, every dart he throws hits the bull's eye. Also he has only ordered a single drink a...

I remember reading comic about a big-bodied man on the run who periodically had visions of moai heads. Or he was caught by the police for some reason and recollected his experience Please help me with identification

I remember reading a young adult or children’s book series that featured a girl with a spirit wolf helper. The main character worked at a pet adoption center, and she found a lake in the woods behind the adoption center with a glowing rock at the bottom. If anyone knows of any series that is simi...

So when I was about 9 or 10(this would have been 2014 or 2015) I found a sci fi book in obe of my classrooms. I didn't read it(wasn't much of a reader back than), but I did flip through the pages, and the memory of that book just came back to me, so I want to try and find it. Anyways, I remember ...

The book starts somewhere in the wilderness and the main character (MC) is visiting his grandfather, who is a genius. He finds that his grandfather is missing and when he looks around, he finds a car. I don't remember if his grandfather gave him a message or not but the MC turns on the car a gets...

I read this story about 40 years ago. It's set in a bar with a flickering hologram, neon, etc. Other cyberpunk tropes might be present. One person tells another person an outrageous story - perhaps about time travel? The second person says "Buddy, no one's going to believe a crazy story like t...

In many sic-fi or sci-fantasy works (Star Wars, Babylon 5, Earth: Final Conflict to name a few), space travelers go to far off systems by moving through some other dimension, reducing a trip that in 'real space' would take centuries, if not millennia, to much shorter time- maybe even days or week...

Does anyone remember story about a guy travelling the world after everyone has been made 'immortal'. The immortality is maintained by a network of machines around the world. Because of the way the machines work no-one can have any children. I think there was also a complication that injuries don'...

Years ago I read a book and now I'm trying to find it again. The book was about discovering a sort of teleportation bubble or booth that allowed the person to step in and immediately appear in a corresponding bubble on another continent or even another planet. They were used to transfer people an...

When looking up strange novels of fiction some years ago, I think I heard of one that was written all in computer code. But if it really exists, my guess at the right search terms aren't finding it? Does such a novel exist? And what is it?

I'm looking for the title of a sci-fi book series where telepathic greys take over Earth. The greys use humans to raise their young by slowly sucking the life out of them. In the book, a guy named Phil falls in love with a grey that helps them fight the greys. I believe there is a ship called the...

A few weeks ago I rewatched Back to the Future and then last night I rewatched The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. In the opening scenes of Buckaroo with the jet car, we are briefly shown an equilateral triangular instrument that has pulsing white lines emanating from each...