In the Star Trek: TNG episode "Timescape", the Enterprise is trapped in a temporal anomaly that massively slows time. Picard, Data, and Troi beam over from a runabout in "normal" time, to examine what happened to the Enterprise. They decide to get around in the ship in the Jefferies Tubes, beca...

In Avengers Endgame, Infinity War shows Thanos execute Snapocalypse in the middle of day, so shouldn't it be nighttime at Clint's house, and family either having a (late) dinner at the table at nighttime hours?

In Avengers Endgame, Capt America dons the infamous vibranium shield again. Shouldn't his shield, (re)given to him by Tony Stark, have the marks of Captain America: Civil War on it? And to be clear,

I noticed during the scene where, Is it safe to say we still don't get Gamora back,

In Avengers Endgame, Do we find out where he ends up?

In Avengers Endgame, final scene Since Dr Strange's arc so closely interacts with the Time Stone, is it in use to catch people up after

In Avengers Endgame, trailers and (one of) opening scene, the Benetar is floating in space without engines working. How is this? Peter Quill Star-lord flew the Benetar to Thanos' planet to confront him. It appears to still be space worthy, since Stark and Nebula leave (Thanos' home planet) a...

In Avengers Endgame, Stark and Nebula are adrift in space on the Benetar. Or was it just blind luck?

I recognized a few faces of the Yakuza people that Ronin attacks. Is this intentional cross-seed of The Wolverine possibly?

Spoilers ahead! Plot points are revealed here, I'll put the deeper plot points in spoiler boxes. Time travel features heavily in the plot of Endgame. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the MCU seems to subscribe to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. This makes any alterations to the ...

I'm currently looking for a harry potter fanfiction, where harry is in a band. The band ends up coming to Hogwarts, it's a creature fanfiction. Sorry I don't have much more than that.

This short story involved a doctor werewolf who ended up being cured of his lycanthropy by being shrunk and placed inside his own body (or a robot version of it maybe? cloned?) where the moon would not ever be a

In Avengers endgame: Is this a reference to a specific character from the comics? Maybe they don't have a perfect comic counterpart, but is a reference to something else in the comics?

Is Vision too artificial to be counted a part of the living population? I understand he's dead but if he was alive would he be eligible?

How does Captain America lift Thor's hammer? In Avengers: Age of Ultron, he is not worthy but how he is worthy in this film.

At the end of Avengers: End Game, you see the marvel logo and a sound Apparently this means something to die hard fans and predicts what might happen next. What is that sound and what relevance does it have?

In the end of Avengers: Endgame, why does Captain America get older when he returns from the quantum machine? Also does this means he lost his power too?

In Avengers: End Game, Pepper Potts gets an iron suit at the climax fight scene. What is the name of the suit and character in the comics?

In Avengers: Endgame, I'm confused. Wouldn't it cause a grandfather paradox? Then how did she survive?

In Avengers: Endgame, we see Does this not contradict that Therefore,

I remember reading a book series where the books were set in the same universe. There was some kind of threat coming and there were some people with special powers who would be able to stop it. They possibly shot something blue out of their hands (not sure about this). One of the books I clearly...

When Hulk snaps the infinity gauntlet in Avengers: Endgame, what exactly does happen? Do the missing people just return or does the snap set time back to five years prior? I was confused because if it just returns the missing people, why does no one seem to age? When Peter Parker returns to sch...

In Avengers: Endgame, how was Nebula from past able to bring Thanos and the army into the future? The Avengers who build the machine could not do this and required Pym particles which they were short of and had only limited attempts to travel time.

In the ending scene of Avengers: Endgame movie, Iron Man created his own How come the material used in Iron Man's How could Stark's item be used more times than the previous version?

At the end of the final battle in Avengers: Endgame, Tony is damaged from the snap. All the stones are right there, and there are no bad guys left to distract Dr. Strange. Why doesn't Dr. Strange use the time stone to reverse Tony's mortal wounds?

In Avengers: Endgame, the heroes travel back in time to "borrow" the Infinity Stones from the past to use them in the future. I get that. At the end of the movie, But because the movie has gone for an alt-timeline mutliverse version of time travel, it's not a problem. It just means that...

The Combat Information Center of the Normandy SR-2 (Cerberus configuration; I haven't played ME3) appears, despite having oceans of empty space, to also have more crew stations than it could reasonably use. Here's a diagram: Squinting in more detail, there are Twelve stations around the gala...

In Avengers: Endgame, how does past Nebula have access to the memories of Nebula in the future timeline?

How did Captain America, Steve Rogers, effectively in Avengers: Endgame?

In Avengers: Endgame, Thanos was able to stop and catch Mjolnir and Stormbreaker mid-air as both Captain America and Thor used/called them BEFORE he got the infinity stones. Since this character is clearly not worthy and at the time had no special powers, how were they able to wield Thor's weapo...

When Black Widow sacrifices herself in Avengers: Endgame, it is said she cannot be brought back, because she was exchanged for the Soul Stone. Yet Gamora, which was sacrificed for the Soul Stone came back. Even though it was through time travel. Bruce explains that the time travel doesn't work l...

WARNING: spoilers ahead! Also: So, what gives? What makes this character so powerful?

At the end of Avengers: Endgame we have The camera pans through a line of people from Pepper and Cap to the Guardians all the way up to Captain Marvel on the porch. Before we get to Carol there is one boy on his own on the right. He appeared to have longish hair and I didn't recognise who he w...

Marvel have a habit of putting differences in their trailers compared to the movies (E.g. Not showing Thor missing an eye in the Infinity War trailer). Were there any for Avengers: Endgame and if so, what were they?

In Avengers: Endgame the Avengers attack Thanos in his garden on Titan II. Captain Marvel points out that the planet has no defences, no radar, no tracking systems, no armies and seems to be totally unguarded. When they find Thanos they discover that some two days previously. Before this happ...

In Avengers Endgame, Tony i able to make how was he able to as, in avengers Infinity War How was tony able to build this using only human technology

So there are two teams in Avengers: Endgame: Natasha (Black Widow) and Clint (Hawkeye)/Nebula and War Machine. Yet Black Widow and Hawkeye were chosen for the mission to Vormir. So did Nebula know to send them since one loved one had to be sacrificed and she gathered that they both share a hist...

In Avengers: Endgame: I also remember that the Avengers had a: Bruce Banner even claimed that he tried but failed to bring him back. So, why couldn't they?

In the post-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp, It's unknown whether Ghost was snapped as well. If she did, we know from Avengers: Endgame that But if she did survive the snap, Has anyone from Marvel (Kevin Feige or other) commented on her status? I did find this interview, but the ac...

In Avengers: Endgame, Thor brings back Mjolnir (his hammer) from the past to his "future" self through the quantum tunnel. Later in the movie, Captain America gets hold of it being worthy. However, I don't remember if Cap takes it back to the past in the climax. If he doesn't - that would break ...

In the end of Avengers: Endgame, Tony Stark somehow This is kind of an important moment--the entire climax of the film hangs on it!--but I don't believe it was ever shown or explained how he did it. I can think of a handful of ways how he might have done it, especially if he had had the fores...

In Avengers: Endgame we learn that, after the events of Infinity War It is difficult to get an image of this, but this spoiler image should be enough. We see Thor like this throughout the entire movie. Is it CGI or did Chris Hemsworth get like that for the role?

Ant-Man could have gone inside Thanos and immediately killed him by cardiac arrest. Why didn’t the Avengers consider this plan in Avengers: Endgame? The plan looks incredible simple instead of all this drama.

There is this one little thing that I don't quite get at the end of the movie. After Thanos was defeated, Captain took the stones back to where they were originally taken to "correct" the timeline. However we see that Cap has the 6 stones in their "Raw" form, but that is not how all of them were...

In Avengers: Endgame, towards the end, we see Captain America being sent back in time to restore the Stones, and he chooses to remain back in time and live his life with Peggy Carter. Does he then have to experience the Snapocalypse, likely losing Peggy in the process, but knowing in 5 years she...

Thieves World (ISFDb) by Robert Asprin is the first formal shared-world project I can remember; its success seemed to create a bunch of similar projects through the 1980s. I'm thinking of Heroes in Hell (ISFDb) by Janet Morris, The Man-Kzin Wars, Bolos, Merovingen Nights and probably others I'm ...

The movie Shazam takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is different than most DC movies and shows in which they all take place in fictional cities. Superman is in Metropolis. Batman is in Gotham. Flash is in Central City. The Green Arrow is in Star City. In the comics, Shazam (Captain ...

In Endgame, we see that This act is basically at the 5 years in the future mark, so For example, Spiderman is part of it,

As far as I can tell, trying to catch up on the setting and read up on it all (currently a new player to a RPG of the setting and wanting to expand knowledge/hopefully read the books), the human parent of any White Court vampire kids don't tend to live long and the House they belong to ends up ta...

So Nickelodeon has just released a new line of action figures called the “SpongeBob SquarePants Masterpiece Memes” line. Pic below. What are the exact memes that this commemorative collection is commemorating?

I'm re-reading the original Dune series (for about the hundredth time) and there's a question that I've always had about the kwisatz haderach. There seems to be a common belief (among [questioners] (Was Frank Herbert's use of Bene Gesserit in his plot ironic?) and answerers here on this site and...

At the end of Avengers: Endgame and brings the shield with him. How did Steve managed to bring it or even possess it? I am going in with the assumption that there is only 1 shield. It was buried in ice along with him during the events of Captain America: The First Avenger. He wield...

I am interested in the theme of human children raised out of human society (e.g. Mowgli or Romulus and Remus), whether by animals, gods, flowers, aliens, etc. What is the oldest story where such a theme appears?

I'm new to warhammer 40k. What's a good starter book for the overall lore and backstory of the 40k universe? I just bought first strike and would like to learn more about the 40k universe.

At the end of Avengers: Endgame Thanos from the past is killed thanks to Tony's snap. Wouldn't that mean that the events of the film Infinity War never happened, giving birth to a new timeline where everyone is still alive?

Did the younger Nebula shoot and kill the older in Avengers: Endgame or was it the other way around? If the older Nebula killed her younger self does she not erase herself from existence? If the younger Nebula shot the older one, what is she doing hanging around with the rest of the Guardians...

Why did MCU decide to create a movie based on wrong science Quantum realms don’t exists You can go back in time but it would be a multiverse any change would not effect the original universe

In Avengers: Infinity War, in order to obtain the Soul Stone, Thanos has to sacrifice someone he loves. To thwart Thanos, Gamora tries to stab herself, but he turns the knife into bubbles. Thanos stops Gamora from committing suicide so he can kill her himself, by throwing her off the cliff. ...

Understandably (as far as I understand) there is no concept of multiple timelines in Avengers Endgame. So when Tony and Cap trying to bring back Infinity stones with quantum tunnel, Tony lost it and Loki opens a portal and disperses. Doesn't that makes past more complicated(Altered plot appose to...

I only saw this character in a couple of episodes and never learned his name. He was based on the stereotypical Cajun hillbilly, spoke with an equally stereotypical bayou accent and kept an alligator as a pet/sidekick.

In this novel, aliens crash on earth in pre-historic times and use suspended animation to await technological development needed for repairs to their ship. They are discovered by an exploring youth and awaken a little before the ideal technology is available.

In Avengers: Endgame, the Avengers used Pym Particle for time travel. When present Nebula got caught up, past Nebula took her Pym Particle and gave it to Thanos. But when all Avengers came back from the past, she also came back. How?