@NapoleonWilson define "time". Yeah, when I have to wait a good chunks of seconds for the pointer to change, and I have to reload the pages of stuff I've voted on to check whether it was recorded, yeah, it's a pain
I have just started watching the Terminator franchise and finished till 2. But its ending had my mind boggling. If Skynet and Terminator, both are created by Cyberdyne, using the microprocessor that is created by Miles Dyson, but in the second part he dies before creating that microprocessor and ...
> I don't know if later films explain it. Most say later sequels are bad, so I have not watched it.
No, I won't upvote simply for that. But yes, I will root for whoever said the sequels were bad :-)
(except Genysis, which I actually liked, but I guess that's only because it took everything that worked from T1 and T2, added "old Arnie" jokes and let the rest go :P )
I have just started watching the Terminator franchise and finished till 2. But its ending had my mind boggling. If Skynet and Terminator, both are created by Cyberdyne, using the microprocessor that is created by Miles Dyson, but in the second part he dies before creating that microprocessor and ...
I have a vague memory of a novel, or possibly a shorter work, probably written in the 1980s, with a passing reference to a sarcastic droid in a recent Star Wars movie. It sounds like K-2SO in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story", but of course the book was written long before the movie was.
The action...
Towards the end of the movie where John Carter is sent back to earth, he goes explaining how he searched for the medallion. Then we see him at some type of mine and the men discover something. Carter puts it in a box, but it is not revealed. What is in the box?
I might have dreamed of this; so sorry if this doesn't exist.
I vaguely remember a show from my childhood (animated like an old Batman cartoon) with a character who got his arm injured and has a blue bionic prosthetic. the only scene I remember was him trying to eat with it but having trouble usi...
In Chapter Fifty-Two of The Count of Monte Cristo there is a discussion between the titular count and Madame de Villefort about exposing oneself to poisons:
“Well,” replied Monte Cristo “suppose, then, that this poison was brucine, and you were to take a milligramme the first day, two milligr...
In the Alien vs Predator movie(2004), we can see that their are a lot of pyramid already create for the predator for the hunting purpose. But not every time the hunting is success right?
There is a flashback said that if the predator fail the hunting test, they would just do a self destruct and...
Science Fiction is a "big tent" genre, and we all know it when we see it. Even if we argue about the specific tropes – and what might make something lean heavily towards another classification (science-fantasy, speculative fiction, etc), is every story that takes place in the future "science fict...
Putin dies in mysterious circumstances, the Russian forces mobilize on the border of Ukraine... Throw in some whiz-bang special forces action and it's a Tom Clancy novel.
@Alex ... dammit. I'm trying to make a joke about you running for moderator, and the fiction thus being some kind of civil war novel, but I can't find any funny enough wording :(
@Alex "sorry, G, it's Alex's fault. Who's Alex? Oh, they're a random stranger on the internet who writes overly long stuff mainly to disagree with JKR. And brain-hurting metas"
So, I recently found this image of Jean Grey saving Emma. Apparently, the slime forming into words was part of a creative run called Nuff Said where multiple Marvel books had to do an issue without dialogue. However, when trying to research this issue, I can't find how Emma got slimed to begin wi...
But that could be a "mmmmh, those cookies were amazing", it could be a "mmmmh, what you just suggested is utterly insane but I don't want to make you feel bad so I'll make this non-committal sound", or it could be "mmmmh, good point", etc.
It's a "mmmmh, viruses don't work like that, or maybe they could but I'm not sure you want a virus to do that, and in any case that's probably breaking something in the TOS anyway" mmmmh.
In the "Key to Time" season of Doctor in 1978–1979, the Doctor twice encounters agents of the Black Guardian, the evil primordial evil entity being that is seeking the Key. I have, over the years, often been puzzled about the precise plans of the Black Guardian and his agents, and an earlier que...
This is a very, very short piece of fiction. Less than a thousand words, I would say.
As far as I can recall, it is about two humans who are discussing a war with an alien race, which was devastated by learning about the human concept of suicide. After encountering it for the first time, huge sw...
I read part of a book a number of years back. It was a romance novel about the CEO of a paint company who marries a Russian (?) Chemist because of passport stuff. Kinda like a reverse of The Proposal. It may have been set in Seattle.
Does Dragonglass kill White Walkers on contact, or does there need to be some force behind it as if it were a "regular" weapon?
The question I have driving this one is, in the Battle of Winterfell, could they have basically shattered all the Dragonglass in to little bits, and sprinkle it over th...
I've been looking for this for several years, and bugs me that I can't find it...
It was a collection of about 7 - 8 sci-fi short stories geared towards younger readers that I read in the early 80's or so, and I can't remember the name of the book, but do recall some of the details of the storie...
In MCU, Captain America is referred as the first avenger but recently I had seen Captain Marvel in which Nick Fury met with the Captain Marvel first time. Even before, any other Avengers. In the last minutes of the movie, Nick Fury can be seen to prepare a draft for Avengers Initiative (He had fi...
In both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame we come across the usage of these phrases:
alternate futures
multiple timelines
different realities
While we know that the word "dimension" and "plane" are entirely different (as shown in the movie Dr. Strange - "mirror dimension", "astral ...
HBO has deleted coffee cup scene from E4 of S08 but Hotstar still appears to have it. Is it policy set by HBO that Hotstar cannot request for a new copy without additional fees? or Hotstar does not care at all what audiences are talking.
When we look at the surnames prevalent in other Kingdoms, they appear to be based on whatever object that Kingdom is famously associated with:
Snow for North because of their severe winters and summer snows. Basically they have Snow the whole year.
Hill for Westerlands because the country is f...
> Our motto to serve humanity makes us treat every customer as our family member and thus, provide him or her with the ultimate care, respect, and dignity.
In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos can
so we know that his punches are lethally powerful. However at the near end of that movie, when
Why doesn't Cap's face become a mess or have any crack in his skull?
Again in the fight scene near the end of Avengers: Endgame,
Although Cap is a super s...
I don't know if this is definite, but McFeely (one of the writers) basically said that it's Evans:
It’s a little meta. Chris Evans has never been comfortable with that outfit from the first “Avengers” movie. And so in the rearview mirror, it’s a little way to wink at how that was then and thi...
We now have confirmation that it was indeed Evans' buttcheeks. I hope we can all die in peace now.
One of the best moments in the book, hands down, is when Martin throws shade at Game of Thrones and the show runners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Under the guise of the discussion of a book called "A Caution for Young Girls", Martin makes his opinion of certain decisions made in the adaptation ...
Which Daeron Targaryen was Bran referring to in his talk with Tyrion? As far as I know there were three famous Daeron's:
Daeron the Daring, Brother of Usurper Aegon II
Daeron I, The Young Dragon
Daeron II, The Good
In the movie Doctor Strange, Strange wanted to get accepted in the "dojo" of the ancient one (not sure if it's really a dojo), but she refused, so it seemed like she didn't wanted to teach him because she didn't trusted Strange, and Dr Strange got kicked out. After he begged for hours in front of...
A short science fiction story where medical science has enabled almost instant body reconstruction, causing a reality-based form of entertainment where you can vote for your hero or villain to be actually mauled by a lion or shot and then restored to health only to have the same done again in the...
This is a repost with additional info of an older question that was never answered. I have stumbled upon this old question while also trying to find the name of the book series myself, as I dearly wish to read it again but for the life of me, I can't remember the name of it.
This is a long s...
I will try my best to explain my question about a plot in the Endgame movie.
At the end of the movie :
Is it a complete new one made of Vibranium in the past ? But if it is, how captain america in the past can have found so much vibranium while they have used every piece of what they got in f...
A pair of alien "door-to-door salesmen" comes down to Earth and meets a citizen. They show him some interesting but unsuitable wares, and then a small, cylindrical device that softens any metal that it is applied to, to the point where a person could manipulate steel like putty. The metal can be ...
No this was about user14111 doing what I believe were bad edits (no offense to user14111)
Hey @Mithrandir does Literature have a copy of this site's story-ID asking question? It could be useful to give to new users as it would be weird to send them to a different domain for good guidance
I can't remember a particular story, and I would like to ask a story-id question to get help finding it. What can I do to make my story-id question a successful and high-quality one?
When answering, it would be helpful to include examples of good and bad story-id questions.
You don't seem to have an equivalent of this Meta, whose answer from Jenayah I found really helpful and I've found most of my answers to story-IDs using the stuff described there
Would that be useful if I posted a basically duplicate question for your FAQ?
@Stormblessed We don't normally put author tags on story-id posts; since you added it and not the OP, I'm not sure that user14111 was wrong to remove it.
Because it is the 1 out of over 14 million futures in which the Avengers won, you would expect that all of the surviving named characters would play a role that no one else could do, so they were integral to the plot in one way or another.
Tony for example:
But even characters with less impor...
@DavidW Oh. Yeah, @Stormblessed, I see your point there, but it's awfully confusing to have the question tagged with one author when the correct answer is another author. Especially when the tag wasn't even added by the OP but by someone else.
Long before this story begins, aliens swept through the Solar System and wept as they slammed the Moon into the Pacific Ocean and extremely slowed the Earth's rotation, making a day as long as a year. They said that they had to do this, though their motives remain unclear. In any case, they are g...
Please take care with your edits, @Stormblessed. You edit a lot, but this isn't the first time I've seen you mess something up when it could better have been left alone.
Just so that it's written as a proper answer which people can vote on/reply to, I'll reiterate what I said in chat, and what was included in the question.
If OP included the author tag themselves, we leave it.
If OP seems reasonably sure it might be from author XYZ, we include it.
If OP is on t...
@Randal'Thor Fair enough, didn't look closely enough to check just saw the "I suspect that Robert Silverberg may be the author" and assumed what had happened
If they could time travel to the past and take things/stones "back" to the presens/future in Avengers: Endgame, why didn't they just go a few days to the past (before Natasha /Black Widow time travelled to the past and sacrificed herself) and bring her back to the present?
I mean it wouldn't be...
When Levent met Ruya, she gave him a false name. He also didn't believe that she had met someone a hundred years ago. All this points toward him not knowing that she was an Immortal, at that point.
However, when Hakan calls him and accuses him of collaborating with the people who killed his fam...
We don't know the exact details, but at the end of Avengers: Endgame we see Captain America
However, when he
he is old! Why did that happen? Does he follow a regular process of aging as any other human being? Or did he find a way to extract the super serum injected to him in the 1940s?
did a few searches and was not able to find something similar.
I am looking for the name(s) of a sci-fi novel series described to me in passing.
The time of discussion was around 2005/2006 in Sydney Australia, I have been informed that there have been several books written already at this stage. ...
@Randal'Thor Not much really. I think that it's more of a "we ask you not to spoil it for others" and "we won't give away much in interviews until that point" sort of thing
Oh right, Endgame spoiler season has ended or something. So now we can say it, right? It was AWESOME to see Batman being brought into the mix, who would've known? Too bad Wonder Woman turned evil, though.
</joke>
Holy shit, scratch the Avengers discussion.
Can I brag for a bit? I'll brag. I got a Populist badge over Valorum :-)
Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi was a 1997 Playstation fighting game featuring several characters from Star Wars and was noted to be set between the first and second films. In general, Star Wars kept a tight grip on its canon, and events from the various books and games could be considered canon...
@Jenayah Nice, though I still don't know why the votes are so drastically different... my only guess is because of the images you included in the answer
In Avengers: Endgame we saw War Machine, Nebula, Black Widdow and Hawkeye brought the Benatar with them so they can fly to Morag and Soulworld. However, the Thor and Rocket team is able to teleport to Asgard right away, without seemingly using Stormbreaker's Bifrost. How did they travel?