I just remembered a Superman comic book that I read, which seemed apropos to a conversation I was having about alternatives to capital punishment. So now I would like to find that issue again.. Unfortunately, all I really remember is an alien supervillain explaining how he came to be on Earth. ...

This is going to be a long shot and super vague but in the early to mid 2000s I remember seeing this scene on tv. This creature was getting sentenced in the court room for its crimes and got I guess shrunken down and placed on an microchip card or something like that. The next scene fast forward...

Funny books like "The Egg" by Andy Weir? I'm a fan of "The Egg" by Andy Weir. I think it is wonderfully deep, but also has some bits of humour interspersed throughout it. I am currently looking for a book which is somewhat as deep as this one, but which is also funnier? Are there any other short...

In A Mad Tea-Party the Dormouse is mistreated by the Hatter and March Hare as these ...were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. (p. 95, original pagination for this and all subsequent quotations) Alice seems to excuse this behaviour, as she exclaims: “Ver...

When Mysterio and his team are planning their next projection attack Mysterio's helmet is seen next to the E.D.I.T.H. glasses after he has obtained access. Did Mysterio transfer E.D.I.T.H into his helmet?

Spoilers for WandaVision finale: At the end of the finale, Wanda transforms Agatha into her sitcom version "Agnes". However by the end, Wanda removes the hex and so the "sitcom" characters are back to normal in the city. But what about Agnes? Shouldn't she transform back to Agatha or is it part o...

I have not had luck in horror.com, reddit, quora, or yahoo, but will still try for this one and another movie There is only light outside, a blinding light, anyone that goes into the light never comes back, there are survivors bunkered down in an apartment building(one of those large buildings in...

I'm trying to find the title of a short story I read a number of years ago. In the story, the narrator reads off of pages of a diary that are found amid plane wreckage. The diary details how a pilot believed there to be creatures that live in the stratosphere. The pilot then climbs to a high alti...

I'm trying to identify an animated movie I saw in the theater around 1980. It was a children's matinee, so it may be older. In the movie, a boy visits an island or city where the inhabitants are all androids or robots. The island may have been operated or built by his relative... an uncle? Things...

I'm interested in exploring works that depict what kind of power relationships could exist in a universe dominated by artificial intelligences. I think the earliest example I was exposed to is the Matrix universe ; that displays programs with conflicting purposes. I can also think of similar topi...

Since consecrated earth, even the Transylvanian type, should be connected to the “sacred,” what are some possible reasons for Bram Stoker to specify that Dracula needs this “holy soil” in order to rejuvenate during his daytime sleeps?

Phineas and Ferb are always up to making something and their inventions always disappear in the most comical of ways. It is always caused by Doof's '-inators' in his endless pursuit to rule over the Tri-state Area and take revenge on his brother Roger. Where does Doof source his funds for making ...

I'm looking for a book that I read about ten years ago in German. Unfortunately, most of the detail escaped my memory, and the little I remember might be wrong, but it might help identify the story anyways. The setting was a small town in the north eastern US, probably New England The protagonis...

It seems that Dracula’s dirt-bed must be consecrated (and originate from his native Transylvania), or to be “holy dirt,” so how can the addition of holy water make it utterly useless to the Count as a resting/rejuvenating spot?

The episodes of WandaVision involving the internal show all contain an advert that all seem to have a meaning to them. For example, there's one that talks about Strucker so is likely to do with his experiments with the Mind Stone on Wanda. What are all the adverts and what do they mean?

Besides The Shire, in what other places can we found hobbits living? I am interested in communities but also about individuals who lived among other peoples around Arda. Do hobbits ever step a foot on Beleriand? There is a hobbit town south of Gondor? I have read that Gollum is from somewhere in ...

It may have been on TV but the ruff things I can remember from it are the end has a weird steam punkish ball of energy (blue cylinders) that the bad guy has and the good guy is trying to stop him.

Kingpin build the collider to bring back to life members of his family. Instead, alternative Spider-People have been sucked out of their respective dimensions. How come only Spider-People seem to be affected by the collider, among all people and super-heroes populating the Marvel universe?

How would Saruman take over middle earth? Would there be a new ring made? How would this effect the age of men? Would there be a new evil to curse the land?

In this question: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/244263/short-story-with-monsters-in-the-stratosphere-who-attack-a-biplane[1] Aaron Decker asks: I'm trying to find the title of a short story I read a number of years ago. In the story, the narrator reads off of pages of a diary that ar...

I've been looking for a years for a novel that I read in the mid-90s. We got it from the local library, but neither my sister nor me have any good clues on the details. It was in German, so it could be a translation, or originally German. This is what I remember from the plot: After some apocalyp...

Okay, I know that this sounds like a version of a question that's already up on here about Ahsoka's montrals in the Mandalorian, but that's not what I'm asking about. In that question, it was pointed out how a Togruta's montrals usually grow longer as they age. The answer given was that it was e...

I recall seeing this scene on tv from the early 2000's. It was not from the movie Predator but it is similar. The creature came down from the sky and snatched this soldier up into the air. Next scene I remember was a bunch of military personnel being in this outdoor concrete camp and the creature...