In Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, it was mentioned that Rufus Scrimgeour succeeded Fudge to be the new Minister for Magic. Is Scrimgeour a more proactive Minister when compared to Fudge in fighting Voldemort and his Death Eaters? If Scrimgeour is doing more to protect the wizarding wor...

Tardigrades are tough creatures which can survive extreme heat, cold and radiation and that's why they are appearing in Sci-Fi works. Here are few examples: Star Trek: Discovery (2017) made Tardigrades famous. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Hank Pym encountered Tardigrades in the Quantum realm. A...

From a legal standpoint, mars counts as international water watney is going to commandeer the ares 4 lander which makes him by definition what?

I remember reading a comics in which Silver Surfer temporarily granted Power Cosmic to humans. Here are the details I can recall: Silver Surfer was possibly dying. Power Cosmic looked raining down to humans. In that scene, Silver Surfer was on a skyscraper looking down. I am not sure whether en...

I was doing some research on the 1920's author Leonard Cline to support an answer to this question, and I came across this October 2006 comment on his works by Weird Tales Magazine (defunct) [the first paragraph is long but relevant, the second paragraph contains the central point of this questio...

Read this book in the 70s but cannot remember anythin else. HELP!!! T H ANKS Looking for a book about a young girl who gets replaced with an Android. It replaces her in her real life and she gets to eat all the candy and chocolate that she wants. After a while she gets sick of eating it all and s...

Star Trek: TOS (1966) TV series showed such device long before mobile phones came into existence, but was it the first? In 1926, Tesla envisioned mobile phones even better than Star Trek: There seems a huge gap between 1926 and 1966 if Star Trek was really the first. Also, we have Jules Verne...

This was an 80's tv cartoon series that was a lot like Scooby-Doo. The dog characters catchphrase was something like 'its ridiculikulous' and turned invisible (when scared?).

If you look at images of members of the House of El (Jor-El, Zor-El, Zim-El) they all seem to have a circular symbol on their chest instead of the S symbol. Is this the symbol for Krypton or did they change their family crest? I thought that they all traditionally wore the House of El crest on t...

I've seen a few threads on whether or not Thanos would have been able to defeat Dormammu in single combat. It seems to be mostly speculation, but it got me thinking. Did Dormammu have a 50/50 chance of also perishing with Thanos' snap? Or is he a being outside the scope of that is defined as "li...

First of all I only mean books, not the movie please. To begin with, here is related question - doesn't reflects Draco's case though. So here is what I found on Draco wearing school robes: He pulled the robes over his head and threw them onto the floor at Madam Malkin's feet... And with tha...

Vader's role in the Empire/Imperial Forces was already discussed multiple times (here for example). I understand that he has a special role, not comparable to any position in real world military and he primarily executed special tasks given by the emperor, like finding the rebel base, capturing ...

Recently read H. G. Wells "Food of the Gods and How it came to Earth." Can anyone recommend other good books or stories about humans growing to giant size and how the world copes?

The premise is that aliens visit Earth seeking engineers to help them in some great task. Unfortunately, the guy they find is a sanitary engineer (a toilet cleaner, essentially) who gets dragged into it all. I'm unsure if it's a novel or a short story. I think he read it in the late 70s/early 8...

In the 60s, when I was a kid, I remember watching the pilot episode of the TV series: The Time Tunnel. What really impressed me was the huge scale of the time tunnel in the subterranean complex; then, over the next months until its abrupt cancellation, I was a little disappointed with the show gi...

In the Horus Heresy books Leman Russ indicates that the whole purpose of the Space Wolves is to act as the Emperors Executioners/Enforcers dealing with all threats to the Emperor and, it is suggested, where involved in fall of the 2 lost legions, as well as being sent to bring Magnus back. By t...

Tolpan saw, at the end of book two, that Raistlin betrayed the Party but did not tell any of the others what he saw afterwards. Could any of you explain that to me. If this includes Spoiler please mark it since I have not finished the books yet.

At the beginning of the film, she sings/complains about her “poor, provincial life.” Now the word “poor” is very important, because in the original fairytale, Beauty didn’t mind the cottage, but her sisters did and they complained about being POOR.

In the remake of Beauty and the Beast, Mrs Potts says that when the Queen died, the King raised his son to be as cruel as he is. However, it’s a bit suspicious that he does this right after his wife died, so I don’t think she died of natural causes. Also, I don’t think he’s King in his own right.

I recently asked a question regarding a specific time frame of the SF/horror genre, and I'm wondering if it is considered on-topic for this forum. The question touches on literary and political history, as well as philosophy, but all of it centered on impact to the SF genre in the 1920s/30s. The ...

Wednesday Addams the Christina Ricci or Nicole Fugere Version has a thing for chaos and homicide like torture like In the 1993 sequel, she was even darker: she buried a live cat, tried to kill her baby brother Pubert, set fire to Camp Chippewa and (possibly) scared fellow camper Joel to death. s...

A group of people go to an island. There's a woman who wants to buy a piece of land there to build a resort but she discovers some underground bunker so they go to check it out but there is some evil stuff in there They stumble upon some voodoo dolls and in there they see their fears and only wa...

I read the most hilarious Boku no Hero Academia fanfic about a year or so ago, about the class finding out how horrible Endeavor is and they make it their mission to make his life miserable. There's been tons of fanfics about this subject, but there's one scene that particularly sticks out in m...

I found this image from a meme site. The blue bald guy seems an alien. There's also some kind of space ship in the back ground. So, I think it's a sci-fi movie. I block some part of the image because it contains some "dark" text. So, I suggest you not to google search this image if you think you...

I remember starting a paperback book my sister had when I was a teenager, in the late 80s or early 90s. It featured two aliens left behind on earth. They become the basis for mankind's idea of the devil and god. I don't remember how old/new the book was. Does anyone know its name?

In the Eight movie of Star Wars, we see Rey go to Ach-To to receive training, and Luke does not want to train her. Why, after a few days does Luke give in and teach Rey if he really thinks that the jedi should not continue. Did he think that he would get out of the war if he trained her, or did h...

In Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, while in Gringotts when Harry, Ron, Hermione and Griphook are disguised, they pass through the thief's downfall and just fall toward their destination. Wouldn't the thief's downfall be placed somewhere where people could not just fall out right next to the...