I have been trying to remember a comic book that I read in the early to mid 80s. I think it was a Marvel comic, but I am not certain. I recall that the protagonists were a team of young superheroes (late teens / early twenties). I think there were four of them with two men and two women. One ...

All clones had chips, so why didn't the Jedi and remaining captains knock out the clones and take out their chips instead of killing them like Ashoka knocked out Rex in The Clone Wars and took out his chip.

Was the 'super soldier serum' that was injected into Emil Blonsky and Bruce Banner (by himself just before he was subjected to gamma radiation) the same serum or were they different in some way?

I was pretty sure that the story is from the Starship Troopers, but upon reading it again, I realized it isn't. From what I remember, the main character (possibly a officer) is convicted and sent to a military prison somewhere in a desert. Here using his knowledge he manages to rally some of outc...

In the beginning of Avengers: Infinity War we see the Black Order overcome Thor from a most likely earlier battle. But when he returns they don't even seem to attack him at all even though he runs towards them and practically breaks Wakanda. Why is that whilst he was in plain sight of them?

We call Morzan's dragon Morzan's Dragon because most don't know the name but those that do, such as Galbatorix, think that the dragon's name isn't important and the Rider's name is the one that all should know and fear.

I've been wondering for some time: why does morfin gaunt only speak in parseltougne. It seems very odd, because, well IT MAKES NO SENSE!!!!

After watching Captain Marvel, one thing is bugging me very much. In the movie Ronan and his fleet used jump points for getting very close to earth and launch an attack. So why didn't the Chitauri use the same technique in Avengers? I mean Loki gained the Tesseract as soon as the movie started. ...

In the episodes of Babylon 5 President Clark seems to have extensive powers. His ability to instate martial law is challenged on Earth itself by some senators but it seems to end there. But it is clear that Earth Alliance is made up of Member States which would hardly relinquish significant power...

So a number of fairy tales feature royalty as characters. I have been trying to find fairy tales that feature nobility who are not royalty. However, my research has drawn a blank.

the fey. fairies. the (un)seelie. every fan of tales about fey worth his bread knows that these creatures cannot tell an outright lie. it's a known trope: fairies can dance around the truth, can lie by omission, but they cannot tell an outright lie. They're not capable of it. Has it happened,eve...

I recall fairly recently seeing a short story that was the "boot up dialog" while a stored "brain dump" was being first revived into a virtual computational state: being "uploaded". During the process, their memories were being scanned for copyrighted music (and other things?), and, since the per...

I've been watching the Clone Wars and it struck me how many battles come down to two large infantry forces facing off. Often the tactics are WW1 era. Two forces largely ground based, some mounted. Often they arrive my air but then land and make the assault on foot, despite the poor marksmanship...

I remember a movie where there are maybe 3 characters sitting at a desk, doing some sort of mind-numbing work. The desks are in a poorly lit basement-looking area. There is a cheery voice that comes on the intercom at some repeating interval, announcing something like: "There are 1478 minutes ...

I am wondering if there is a canon explanation for Harry Potter being sent to Hogwarts for his wizarding education instead of being home schooled by professors at a safe place, such as one that would be constantly guarded by the members of the Order of the Phoenix. I am curious to know if this wa...

I just got done reading Philip Wylie's When Worlds Collide and was curious about some of his assumptions. Some spoilers about this story will be in this post. In the story a foreign planet that once housed life (Bronson Beta) was ejected from it's solar system along with a gas giant that it no...

Where can I find the five fan fiction books? As far as I can remember, they were fanfictions and the author had a website where people could freely download them. It was legal because J. K. Rowling said fan-fiction was allowed as long as people didn't make money with it. Where has the book serie...

I'm trying to remember the title and author of a novella I read some time after 1990. I believe I read it in an anthology and I also think it would have been a current or near-current work. It was written in an artificially archaic style / voice. I believe that it may have been intended to inv...