I used to watch a cartoon when I was a kid, sometime during the the 2000s(?). I remember that the story was pretty dark, or mystery related. The art style was something like Batman: The Animated Series. The protaganist was a boy, probably a teen or a guy in his early twenties at max. He had blon...

I read this book a few years ago and I think it was published within the last decade or so. A group of children (teenagers mostly) are being "grown" in some facility controlled by an AI, which IIRC has them in virtual reality programs for training purposes (sort of like in Idlewild). They emerge ...

It was part of a long series written by numerous unnamed writers. In one of the books the protagonist is fighting a fat old man who lives in a motorized chair, who is a wealthy CEO, and is bringing about the end of the world. At some point he discovers that his enemy is his own time-travelled sel...

It was said that before The Thirteenth went into the Well of Allsparks, he had asked Alpha Trion to remove his name from The Covenant of Primus. My question is, was he called 'Optimus Prime' or was he named something else?

Spoiler! These characters should learn very quickly they are not human. They would have different bodily functions than humans for food intake and defecation. Unless they were programmed to get tired, belch, sneeze, and cough like humans, they would have no need for those actions. They would ...

In Stross's Laundry Files world, occult government agencies are serious about suppressing the truth regarding eldritch tentacled horrors from another universe. So why did the USA equivalent of The Laundry allow Lovecraft to publish many fictional books basically revealing the truth to the world? ...

In the story "Little Lost Robot" from I, Robot, modified Nestor (NS-2) hides himself in a cargo with 62 other physically identical robots. I think one of the main reason why new robot was not easily identifiable was NS-2s did not have any serial numbers. In the story general mentions: ‘But ...

This question got me thinking about Theresa's death. In season 1, episode 6, Trompe L'Oeil, Ford orders Bernard (now revealed as a robot) to kill Theresa. This scene shows Ford can control the robots very easily with the right spoken commands from him. Theresa ...

We All know The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom comedy, in that Main Characters are Sheldon, Penny & Lenard, in 12 seasons of Big Bang Theory does any where mentioned in the Drama that Sheldon & Penny Had Sex with each other?

I've been trying to remember a short story (possibly a Hugo or Nebula winner) that I seem to recall reading in an omnibus of sorts. The basic plot centred around a spaceship going close to, at or faster than the speed of light. In it, something happened that involved the ship's crew, due to syste...

I only read the book(s) maybe a couple of years ago. It is about a man who can kind of freeze time in our modern world and step into the frozen area and do stuff but then when he comes out of the frozen time everything he did in the frozen world was not seen. For example, he was chasing someone b...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I got from the confusing flashbacks we were given: Leta was a student at Hogwarts Leta's father is French Leta was sent by her father to the United States. Since Credence ends up in the US as seen in the first Fantastic Beasts movie, we can assume t...

In Dragonlance "the heroes" part, 5 years pass and all of the sudden Kitara is the overlord of the blue Dragon army. Are there any books detailing this or did it just happen behind the scenes?

Which books/manga/fictions motivates the intellectual effort, especially in math, physics and computer science? (i.e. I found Death Note really motivating) ps: i don't know if it's the correct site for this kind of question.. :(

This is a film scene which has stuck with me for over 20 years since seeing it as a child. Unfortunately, due to the long time since seeing it - the exact details are hard to recall perfectly. The scene that has stuck in my mind is: There is a big royal party of some kind, lots of fancy dress,...

In Wonder Woman, when Trevor and Diana enters the assembly hall, we hear following dialogues from Sir Patrick Morgan AKA Ares. Germany is an immensely proud nation. They will never surrender. Now look. The only way to end this war... Colonel, I need to talk to you outside. ...and restore worl...

In The Gathering Storm, Rand meets with his father. A part of their conversation includes Perrin's exploits: Rand's mood darkened slightly. "Wait. Perrin has been using Two Rivers folk?" Tam nodded. "He needed us. That boy's put on a balancing act to impress any menagerie performer. What...

If we believe the story of Leta Lestrange, her brother Corvus No other children of her father were mentioned.. But we know that a few decades later, some Lestranges do exist (mentioned in the HBP) and eventually there are Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange. Any ideas?

My little niece was given this toy at Burguer King, but we don't know him. A Google Image search just gave "figurine" as a result. Can you help us give Bald Guy™ a name?

When clearing out my desk I found this old Doctor Who Christmas card from my girlfriend. I recognise some of the newer Doctor Who characters but others have completely baffled me. Can anyone help me identify them?

Currently we have a tag for "Fantastic Beats" fantastic-beasts whose wiki reads: Use this tag to refer to the fictional book called 'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them', the 2016 film of the same name, or the five-movie franchise it began. Use this tag with the [harry-potter] tag. I f...

In Ready Player One there are 2 huge items, the Orb of Osuvox and the Cataclyst; the first one creates an impenetrable shield, and the second one destroys everything in the current sector. Who would win if I'm inside the orb's shield and somebody would detonate the Cataclyst outside the shield?

In Blood And Chrome during the Beginning, We see a (Original Style) Basestar hovering above Caprica City, and During The Plan, We see a (Modern) Basestar flying through the sky at breakneck speed. So could a Colonial Battlestar hover or fly in the atmosphere?

Can't remember the name and author of the story where a traumatised soldier in a hospital vanishes and 'experts' don't understand that poets did this all the time and not a poet can be found anywhere.

H. P. Lovecraft's stories include several different, apparently independent ways that a person can become an undead creature after their own natural death (being raised from saltes, being reanimated with an injection of West's formula, using the Spanish doctor's process, etc.). Whether relating t...

If Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore how did they both not die or receive magical repercussions when the 3-way duel between Aberforth, Albus, and Gellert broke out? Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore both so how did they duel each other with no repercussions when the duel bet...