I don't remember much about this one, not even whether it was a short story or a novel, but it had a satirical tone. The protagonist kept getting shunted forward in time, probably by suspended animation rather than time travel, a few years to decades at a time. At each stop, the world had become ...

This was a weekly two pages in a UK comic in the late 1960's/early 1970's, I can't recall the comic....Victor Hotspur Rover Topper Beezer etc, I read them all. This schoolboy either invented or inherited from a scientist relation a time machine, every few weeks there was a new story arc so he'd ...

In Avengers: Endgame, we can see Thanos claiming to have destroyed the stones: NATASHA ROMANONFF: Where are the Stones? THANOS: Gone. Reduced to atoms. BRUCE BANNER: You used them two days ago! THANOS: I used the stones to destroy the stones. It nearly killed me. But the work...

In this story there is a toy device that can tell stories. The author manages to portray the impression that the device has some kind of increasing capability to empathise with the listener. In the end, the machine breaks and just repeats a phrase over and over, which I cannot remember. This sto...

I read this novel around 1985-1990. It's was written in French, I cannot tell if it is the original language or a translation. The story occurs throughout the whole 20th century. In this novel the world leaders (like JFK, etc.) secretly meet to talk about a big threat that must remain secret. T...

In FL season 6 episode 1, a black hole was created from a man's brain. What is the relation between the man's brain and the black hole? Also what is the science behind the creation of this black hole?

In Avengers: Endgame, But at this point, the Avengers still have all of the Infinity Stones with them, they also have a Hulk who has been shown to be able to withstand their power. Plus in Infinity War, we have seen Thanos use the Time Stone to bring back the recently deceased Vision, to take...

The whole aim of Thanos was to get the Infinity Stones in order to remove half the living beings in the universe at the snap of a finger, but, is this all the Gauntlet and Stones are able to do. For instance if someone got the Stones could they give themselves instant wealth, make grass turn red,...

Provided that on our Moon the gravitational forces are much smaller than on Earth and that the lateral forces (wind, earthquake) are negligible, it should be possible to construct buildings several km high. I'm aware that for many different reasons, some exposed in this comment, such a construct...

I do not remember much about this work, as it’s been a year or two since I read it but this is what I remember: Harry has a sibling It’s one of those Harry Potter fics where his parents neglect him Wrong Boy-Who-Lived Harry is the oldest, and is entitled to the Potter Lordship Harry hears Jame...

I think this movie is from the early 2000. A man goes on a quest to get something for his girlfriend/wife? The quest start with him need to defeat an old man who is a martial arts master. After that I only know some vague details. There are witches who 'fast travel' with candles. I...

In DC, the Infinite Mass Punch is a finishing move highly super fast metahumans can use by vibrating their fist beyond light speed, thus increasing its mass exponentially so that it hits with incredible destructive force when it lands. If the user is running while doing this, the force of impact ...

I do remember only a little part of the whole movie but I'll try to give the most details I can. About what I remember of the movie: Contemporary setting We follows a man and maybe a woman who seem to work together or be connected through their job. Maybe they have some sort of connection with...

This question could have several different answers, depending on the version of Peter Pan used, so multiple answers are acceptable. Any canon sources [the original Barry novels and subsequent works] would be most appreciated. Basically: How did Peter and Tinkerbell become a team? Is Tink attach...

In season 8 episode 1 of Arrow it is seen that Anti-monitor destroys Earth-2 where Jessi Quick lives. So, what happened to Jessi Quick and HR as a consequence of this event?

I can't remember the name of this show, but I remember the beginning. A family of three (a mom, a kid and a wise old grampa) moved somewhere(?). I don't know where it was, but the kid wants to go explore then he ends up at a library(?). I think then he touched some kind of (red?) stone tablet, t...

Looking for a short story, potentially by Kurt Vonnegut, about a world in which people's jobs are increasingly specialized which leads to a lack of poets and other artists. At some point there's a general who realizes that what is needed is a poet, which leads to the realization that none exist ...

I remember two parts of the story in question: the protagonist was temporarily liquefied and expanded enough to fill a swimming pool while his cells underwent some kind of cleaning or surveillance afterwards, when the protagonist plucked his eyelashes they would give a kind of static or electri...

Near the end of Batman (1989), the Joker kills his trusted henchman Bob with Bob's own weapon. This occurs right after Batman has done away with Joker's poison-filled balloons. Why? It seems like Bob was fairly capable. I guess it was probably because Joker was crazy.