This has always puzzled me, in terms of its complexity. The rings of a Lantern corps, whatever the color, act very much like other magical/cosmic/spiritual/super powered weapons in various universes, such as Quasar's bands, the Cosmic Cubes or M'Krahn crystal in Marvel, or H-Dial, Star staff or...

Commander of a secret military school finds a construct that answers questions. The commander asks how build a machine for instantly transporting objects. Then tries it himself and finds that the external time is 0 seconds, but the internal time is longer than his air supply. The construct tells ...

I'm very familiar with this mid 80s H-B cartoon, but thinking about it... there are some inconsistencies. Okay, so...short rundown: Wildfire is a magical, sentient, talking horse and warrior in service to the royal family and kingdom of Darshaan. Whether Darshaan is just the country or the worl...

In A New Hope, the Rebel Alliance has stolen the secret plans for the Death Star. They are able to study the plans to find the critical weakness allowing them to destroy the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin. But even with the Death Star destroyed, they've still got the technical plans to perhap...

Voldemort opened the Chamber of Secrets when he was at school, and wrote it all down in his diary. Since that same diary was used as a horecrux, it seemed to have come with a set of instructions on how to use it to bring Voldemort back. So why did the Death Eaters wait until Harry was in his seco...

Was the Lonely Mountain in the Hobbit story a volcano? If not, how did the dwarves get enough heat to run the huge forges?

It was published in the 70’s, but I can’t remember the name of it. The manta ship docks with the doomsday ship, and the girl is in hibernation, she is extracted, then ... they try and stop the doomsday ship.

Blowing up the Sept is kinda equivalent to blowing up the Vatican. The Sparrows were popular with the smallfolk because they gave them food and protection. She should be facing riots in the streets, mad preachers going absolutely insane on every corner and even more so in a period already reelin...

We saw that all three Super Heroes Captain Marvel, Iron Man and Thor Odinson have the same sort of weapons. Same because all three weapons look like energy beams (made up of photons, electrons, +ve -ve ions). But which one is more powerful? Captain Marvel went through (destroyed) entire ship T...

I don't remember the specifications.. But after the titles, the opening was about a murder in the streets and a detective was supposed to investigate it.. A man watches her from the roof of one of the nearby buildings.. He falls for her afterwards and so on.. the movie had weird scenes, such as p...

In Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grinderwald when we first meet Queenie and Jacob the witch has him placed under a powerful enchantment that makes Jacob more susceptible to her suggestions. How different is that enchantment from the imperius curse and why isn't that enchantment regulated by the Min...

In s05e06 we see that Loras Tyrell apparently has a birthmark. CERSEI: This testimony is an insult to a great house. Why should The Faith or anyone else take the word of a squire over the heir to Highgarden? OLYVAR: He has a birthmark, your grace. Quite high on his thigh, wine-colored, ...

In the movie Avengers Endgame, we learn that to get the soul stone, one doesn't have to make the sacrifice but simply lose the one they love. A Soul for a Soul. Natasha kills herself, yet Clint receives the Soul Stone. There is another question here that deals with just that: Why was this sacrif...

In Pratchett's discworld series, f ever, Carrot was to become king, would Vimes "stand for it" or go "spare" ?

In Captain Marvel they manage to get the Tesseract which is the Space Stone and Fury refused to take it. So the Goose swallowed it but did not get powers from it. Why?

Book circa 1971. 5 persons with near-death experiences demonstrate more than 1 power. Theme of giant moths flying through space and aliens searching for them.

I would like to reread a fantastic novel (actually a trilogy). The Earth is dying consumed by war and eco problems. Some people live wealthy in orbital stations. That's where the main character lives, but she decides to go to the planet for some time to study at university. But the war breaks o...

A black cloud engulfs the Earth forcing men to live underground. They need a rare mineral to create the sub-space fields they use for power. A prospector discovers an underground city of lizard people with a different sub-space technology. He combines the technologies to create a new sun for Earth.

I heard about a short story where a psycholigist or psychiatrist conjures up a demon. He analzyes the demon who shrugs off his evil aspect and an angel emerges. I'd love to know the author and title.