In The Order of the Phoenix, just when Dumbledore’s Army was discovered by Umbridge, Marietta responds in a manner which allows her to save the DA from most trouble... but her eyes are strangely blank. Everyone in the room was gazing at the top of Marietta’s face. Only her eyes were visible ...

I could accept in X2 that it just never comes up, as I don't recall the two being on screen much together (if at all). But with X-men: Apocalypse and now Dark Phoenix, it seems like something the filmmakers decided to ignore or just did not realize. Has this ever been addressed in interviews or ...

The original T-800 heard the call from Sarah to his friend Ginger, and besides Kyle was following Sarah around, but how did he (Reese) find where she was at these disco?

In Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, we see Saruman as he takes the initial steps towards creating a new army. The orcs under his command proceed surprisingly quickly, and Gandalf later explains to Elrond that "Saruman has crossed orcs with goblin-men. He's breeding an a...

Marvel and DC have produced many superheroes which are popular worldwide. Are there any Indian superheroes who have worldwide reach like Superman and Spiderman etc.

Looking for what is probably a young adult book, pre-80's, possibly fantasy, that I read long ago which ends with these 2 lines, the 2nd line being its own paragraph: "Fall in love, it makes you brave. Ah, yes, very brave."

USA English paperbacks. Pretty sure it was a trilogy. The covers were quite colorful. One I remember had a man standing before a chained up 2 headed dragon. I remember little of the story. In Fact I am probably confusing my recollections from different books in the series. First a wizard comes ...

I want to think that it was a series or a TV movie series. The movie/series looks like timeless but it not it well to what I have read in the episodes summary. It looks like a 2010s movie. I did not see the beginning of it, but it was about a team that went back in time to stop/kill a man because...

We know from the books that Gollum already was in Moria when the Fellowship entered. We also know that he did not enter from the West but from the East. However, as far as I know, we do not know exactly how he entered. For instance, that he managed to sneak past the guards above the stairs and ...

I read this short story decades ago in a German translation in some anthology, but I believe the original was in English. Or was it in German? I'm not even sure. I'd like to find out the name of the story and who wrote it. (And the name of the fictitious device that plays an important role in it...

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In Star Trek: Enterprise, season 1 at least, the opening credits show a bunch of aircraft and spacecraft. Just before the Enterprise shows up, there is another ship of similar configuration. Is there any information on that ship and what it could do? It is shown after the Phoenix, and since t...

I'm looking for a book where in the second part the hero gets kidnapped by a member of a paincult. He regularly gets tortured but even falls in love with the woman torturing him with a kind of pain stick. In the end she dies but he returns to his female friend to finish the quest. Another part i...

Just before Deanarys goes completely Apocalypse Now on King's Landing, there is a moment of eerie quiet. After this brief moment of realizing the abysmal situation they're in, the most vociferous of the people start using the uncanny urban acoustics to their advantage: "Ring the bells!", "Ring th...

In one episode in season one we see Hopper in the middle of the night go out to smoke a cigarette. In a few seconds he is joined by a woman who asks him to get back inside. I assume that's his girlfriend. What happened to her? Was the character written out of the story or is there an in-story e...

Looking for what is probably a young adult book, pre-80's, possibly fantasy, that I read long ago which ends with these 2 lines, the 2nd line being its own paragraph: "Fall in love, it makes you brave. Ah, yes, very brave." This harks back to advice a that the main character was given ea...

At the start of Star Trek: The Tholian Web the crew of the Enterprise can somehow "see" the wreck of the Defiant although it doesn't register on the ship's sensors. Then they beam over to check things out. If it doesn't register on the sensors then where did they get the coordinates for the tran...

I was startled to see Kovacs being led out in handcuffs at 41:20, and then in the next scene in bed with Ortega. How did he get out of jail? What did I miss?

I believe I got this from a BookMobile in the US, around 1973. Set in 1950s or 1960s. A child (from the city, or maybe from the US) is sent to live with relatives in rural England, maybe for summer vacation. While there, the kids accidentally free a witch from imprisonment. She causes strange...

Trailers of Spider-Man: Far From Home talk about Peter replacing Ironman. After the Happy and Nick Fury both want Peter to replace Ironman. What exactly MCU thinks of Ironman that a broke high school kid can take place of Ironman? Definitely, Ironman is not about action. Even if Happy and Fur...

There was this show I think on Netflix and they each had like elemental monsters and the water ones were like really technologically advanced. And one charcter had this dark one that was like a voodoo doll. The elements were like water, fire, air, dark, light.

I read A New Rebellion a Star Wars novel set 14? years after Return of the Jedi. Luke's big bad apprentice is chilling on a planet making droids. Does he ever do anything in future books?

Leaving aside Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul which have towers as part of their overall structure, there are two very important towers, sometimes called the titular towers of the second book of the trilogy, which are clearly symbolically very important. Namely Orthanc and Barad Dur (Saruman and Sa...

In Fellowship, we find out the following: ‘I too once passed the Dimril Gate.’ said Aragorn quietly; ‘but though I also came out again, the memory is very evil. I do not wish to enter Moria a second time.’ Do we know more of this ‘evil memory’ of Aragorn’s?

In the first Mistborn novel, it's explained that one key rule of Allomancy is that it can't affect metal in or attached to other people's bodies. However, in The Hero of Ages, Vin seems to be able to do this: Does duralumin let Allomancers break this rule? If so, did I miss an explanation abo...

When the Daedalus lands at Atlantis it appears to land on the water, is there anything that's considered to be canon that proves whether the Daedalus is actually landing on water (and floating on the water) or whether it's landing on a submerged platform?

I'm looking for a short story that appeared in an anthology book of either fantasy or science fiction stories. I believe the story is called "The Day is Saved" Personal Honor was an important aspect of the story There was a rivalry between the dragon riders and the army (navy?) I believe the dr...

What I seem to remember is that the Martian is stranded by the destruction of his civilization. Also, there is an odd detail that sticks in my brain: the Martian drops a bracelet (or a watch?) in a river, where the implication is that it could be found centuries later. The Martian may have intend...

In The Avengers End Game (2019), The team comes up with a time travel plan in order to bring back everyone who was snapped out of existence. Tony, being reluctant, finally agrees but only if they bring everyone back - but without disrupting or changing the last 5 years because he wants to preserv...

Thanks, friends for finding "Rustys Spaceship" for me. Next challenge, a book read in the very early "60's about a group of inter galactic zoo specimen hunters and their adventures.

This story starts off with an alien fleet attacking a human spacecraft or fleet - the alien fleet overwhelms their human counterparts, and destroy all the ships. A few survivors escape in individual survival pods, which the alien fleet starts to destroy - one of the survivors realises the aliens...