I was just looking at this Dust Cover of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Illustrated Edition) and noticed this creature. My first guess as to what it was was a bowtruckle. But Bowtruckles arent that big. Maximum of eight inches in height, made of bark and twigs with two small Bowtr...

Got told of an anime about a guy that goes to a magic school but doesn't have any magic. Heard he had black gloves and some students don't want to let him cause he doesn't have magic so he fights them. Can anyone please tell me the name?

Read a series of books and I don't believe it is the Castle Perilous series. As those came out in the end of the 80's and I think I read this other series in the mid 80's.It involved a castle and it was outside of space/time. I think all of the inhabitants were fairly powerful mages. The only ke...

For each of the four champions, the merpeople had "taken what you'll sorely miss". So they took Ron, Harry's best mate, Hermione, Krum's crush, Cho, Cedric's girlfriend and Gabrielle, Fleur's little sister. To us as readers it's pretty clear why these specific people were chosen to be hostages. B...

Hagrid lived in a hut away from the rest of the Hogwarts. To my best recollection, the other professors lived in Hogwarts castle proper. So why was he in a hut? Not good enough for a proper room in the castle? Liked being around magical creatures and there were more critters outside the castle...

I'm trying to find a movie I saw a few years ago. It's about a spaceship. That left earth to find new home. But something went wrong. So they ended up on earth years later. They crash into earth protection Grid. ( They ONLY find out in the end ) The rest off human population is taken captured...

B rated horror movie possibly named freaks but I can't find it by Googleing it one character has no arms and is like a worm person.... Only saw it once but worm guy is always asking people to wipe his butt trying to remember the name of the movie the director or more info so i can find it

I read this novel about 20+ years ago, I remember the story quite well but I'm having trouble finding the title. The novel is split into three threads; the first is people living in a society on an Earth-like planet where they are denied any identity e.g. names - husband and wife have to refer t...

Is it just me or should movies such as Nightmare on elm street (1), 13 ghost, Grindhouse, Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th, the hills have eyes and lawn mower man NOT be part of this list of b-movie horror flics!.... I would agree with basket case, Evil Dead, Killer clowns from outer space, Att...

In Shrek Forever After, when Rumpel becomes King of Far Far Away, the Shrek Wiki says that Baba, the leader of the witches, is presumably his Queen, but in the video game, the Fairy Godmother (Dama Fortuna) is his Queen (albeit for a week). So WHO is his Queen?

In the comedic music video SPACE FORCE - The Theme Song there are many clips of vintage scifi films, some of which I recognize. This one however, of a large blue floating holographic head talking to some kind of military installation does not look at all familiar. Does anyone recognize this fil...

I have been dipping into the latest Horus Heresy books and picking the ones that seem most interesting after being disappointed by several of the ones around the middle (Damnation of Pythos in particular). Throughout the books I have read I have seen the Emperors Children give themselves to Sla...

Given how advanced humanity had become before it was wiped out by the Faro Virus it is not a stretch to think that there were bases off planet with humans living on them. Has this been confirmed one way or the other at all either in game, or by anyone outside of the game?

In the Horus Heresy short story Ghosts Speak Not the lead character Amendera Kendel is given a ship for her mission, it is stated this is one of the smallest warp capable vessels in the Imperium. While it isn't fully described it sounds like it might be about the size of the Serenity from Firefly...

How can Cooper avoid spaghettification when entering the black hole at the end of Interstellar? How much time did Cooper spend inside the black hole? Doesn't the time dilation principle apply inside a black hole? If yes, then why did Cooper not emerge thousands of years into the future?

Definitions of Bounty Hunter: Google: A person who pursues a criminal or fugitive for whom a reward is offered. Cambridge: Someone who searches for criminals or hunts animals in exchange for a reward. Collins: A bounty hunter is someone who tries to find or kill someone in order to get the rewa...

I got fired from physics stack exchange because it is not mainstream physics but personal theory.They told me to come here with such question. It is purely theoretical but it may work. I was always interested in perpetual machines but I know it is against laws of physics. But when you can't go ag...

So, there was a scifi story I read, probably about a decade ago, I vaguely remember the cover featuring a pink cube. Plot points: There's a sort of environmental threat of weird never-fully-explained cubes and threads that are attracted to sentient beings and entangle/kill people. The pheno...

I read this as a paperback around the 90s in English, part of a collection of the shelves of our house (so it might be older). The cover has the protagonist considering the box, which I remember as having geometric designs and a blue motif. Said protagonist starts the book as a rug merchant, sell...

Jaime Lannister killed King Aerys II, the mad king, a man he swore to protect, to stop the king from burning the city with wildfire. He never told anyone why. Not even his father or his sister. Perhaps not even the other knights of the Kingsguard. (Do the other knights know why?) He finally told...

I only have a few random memories of what this book is. I read this when I was in late elementary/middle school, so in the mid-late 90s (1994-1998 I'm guessing). I can't remember exactly what the story was about but I do remember: the main character was a young/teen boy his father was possibly ...

The book is about a young officer straight out of academy. He get chosen by the captain of a military supply ship to replace a dead cargo officer. One day he decided to open a crate to check everything is fine with it and discovers that is filled with rocks. He orders locked down of his area and ...

In the movie A New Hope, a dianoga in the Death Star's garbage chamber tried to eat Luke. In The Empire Strikes Back, on the planet Hoth a wampa captures Luke and then tries to eat him, on the planet Dagobah, Luke is threatened by a dragonsnake swimming in the water, this is the creature that ate...

I remember watching a cartoon, in the late '80s, for which I can't remember the name. The cartoon was surely American, had a light tone and was clearly aimed at kids. It featured three robots as protagonists, that had no legs, could float/fly and that had a kind of TV screen as head (the screen d...

The question was worded in past tense, because The Eye of Terror is basically a permanent Warp Rift, a direct connection between the material world to the Immaterium. On the other hand, the very presence of a Tyranid Hive Fleet creates a phenomenon that the Imperium scholars qualify as a Sha...

"Jess-Belle" is the less famous of Anne's Francis's two star turns on The Twilight Zone. In it, she plays a vindictive woman, who becomes a witch as part of her attempts to win back her ex-boyfriend. When I saw a rerun of this episode around 1990, my mother was certain that there was a scene mi...

I remember watching a movie when I was around 6-8 (1990 - 1992) in Brazil, what makes the film has benn released probably around 3 years before at least. In this movie there was this house that was haunted by some kind of witch/spirit/demon or something. I remember the title in portuguese having ...

I believe it was two part TV movie, but I can be wrong about this. What I remember is that it started with description of the wizard believing it is greater then Allah, and thus the Allah has cursed him and changed him to the Genie, but he was not forced to live in the oil lamp, but instead he wa...

The title kinda says it... Is there a comic book, animation or any other media where Superman is depicted as being an African American? I know that there are alternate universes where he is, for example, a Soviet, but I'm more interested if there's a depiction of a black Superman. And I'm even ...

In Shrek 2, we are introduced to King Harold and Queen Lillian. But at the end of the film, it is revealed that Harold was born a frog, which must mean that it was LILLIAN’s family who held the throne. In Shrek 3, we are introduced to Arthur Pendragon, who is Fiona’s maternal cousin. So Lillian’...

Along the lines of “is there a depiction of Superman as a African-American?” Was there ANY depiction of Superman as a Asian in the comics or even elsewhere?

Several years ago while on a trip I ran into a sci-fi book in an hotel lobby, the book started something like that: The ship was big, very big, no one knew how big it really was, it wandered in space... This is not an actual quote, it is just a vague memory - but the general direction is ...

I’m trying to track down a sci-fi short story about a lonely woman who hears a voice that flirts with her, then tells her that it (he) loves her and that all she has to do is die in order for them to be happy together. It tells her to kill her cat, which she does, and then the voice says, it wor...