This other post alludes to my question, but doesn't ask it directly. In Avengers: Endgame, Nebula, War Machine, Hawkeye, and Black Widow all My question is, why did they travel together? Couldn't they just have

Background It seems that the writers and directors of Avengers: Endgame disagree about the nature of the in the film. At the end of the film, Under the interpretation of the writers, i.e. the motivation to do this at the end of the film makes some sense - these However, under th...

After watching Season 5 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I came here wondering Where has Deke gone? found the question justifiably closed as unknowable then. But given the events of Avenger's Endgame, I think we know whether the Back to the Future invisible hand trope is at play in the MCU. So can t...

I read this in some anthology in UK in the early 1980's. Plot I can remember:- An explorer is in a jeep (Dead Sea area possibly but I'm not sure) and suddenly finds he's at a much higher altitude. A new landmass has arisen All around Earth various Gypsy clans (they were described in the story ...

At the end of Avengers: Endgame, Sam Wilson is chosen as the next Captain America. I understand WHY he is chosen. Bucky is mentally damaged and can be easily manipulated by Hydra. But Sam is a mere mortal. He wasn't injected with any kind of serum like Steve. Unless they plan to inject Sam with ...

In 8X04, Tyrion makes a remark regarding Lyanna Stark leaving Robert Baratheon that only somebody who knew about Jon Snow's true parentage in the first place, could have made a connection between the two. And Varys does, as evidenced when he immediately asks Tyrion "how many people know". So how...

I remember many years ago reading a comic in which a one-appearance (or at any rate, obscure) character with transmutation powers turns Wolverine's claws to wobbly rubber. Wolverine, who had been in middle of rashly lashing out with a stab, hears an unexpected "B-BOING!" as his claws harmless bou...

Why haven't the defenders of Winterfell, in S8 of GOT, at least contemplated using wildfire to defend the castle (and humanity)? I just watched 8.2. The defenders of Winterfell have been armed with Dragonglass and Valyrian steel as much as possible. But no-one has brought up wildfire. Why? We k...

How come Shelob's sting was able to pierce through the Mithril armor worn by Frodo and poison him?

At the end of Avengers: Infinity War we see about half of the Avengers turn to dust in the 'anti-rapture' of Thanos. Was there any pattern or reason for those who were killed, e.g. only those Thanos would deem 'un-fit' for his universe? I have not seen Endgame yet so no spoilers if possible.

I am wondering if all the sentinel beings who have died throughout the history of the Universe would come back to life on their planets and be zombies there if the Soul Stone was to be thrown into the Eternal Flame. Would there be a Universe-wide zombie apocalypse if the Soul Stone was thrown in...

So, I watched this in 1996 and thought it was pretty good, and now I want to find its title so I can rewatch it! There's an experiment with a ship in order to make it completely invisible. Unfortunately, that experiment goes wrong and the ship ends up far in the future where the experiment has b...

I read this Science fiction, English language, short story in a paperback collection. It may have been the first or second story in the book. A huge - hundreds of miles high - alien craft lands on the Earth, on the US - in need of resources to make repairs. Its giant landing struts crush entire ...

Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 4 spoilers ahead. Those of you who have seen Episode 4 already must be very impressed at the capabilities of medieval projectile weapons like crossbow and scorpion. However, I can't stop wondering if these depictions are anywhere close to reality. The crossbow ...

At the end of the first part, the hero merges with a sentient star to stop it from going nova. His friend (an alien) along with the assassin (that tries to kill him in the start) also get sucked into this merger. All of them merge with the star and prevent it from going nova. In the end they crea...

I’m looking for this book centered around a group of teens that get trapped inside an amusement park. The rest of the world including the parents of the main characters parents have been turned into ravenous monsters. Later on whenever one of them dies they turn into an angel sort of. They have p...

In The Colour of Magic, it is shown there is a net on the edge of the Disc when How big is this net? In The Light Fantastic on page 13 it mentions ships falling off the world, so I guess it isn’t complete.

At the start of AGOT, the total number of the Night's Watch is said to be less than a thousand. During Aegon's conquest, the watch numbered ten thousand. (I don't have a copy of the books with me so I can't give a quote). Out of the nineteen castles on the wall, only three are manned. Castle blac...

One particulary notable thing about this movie is that there is no so much written words. Reckon on this, the title contains the word road and the audience might expect road signs with pronouns. Regarding on this, the filmakers' challenge was truly that. At the time being I can not remenber any ...