So I can't remember if it was someone that was reincarnated but I think they had memories of a past life. They were born as a prince. When they had their status checked at birth, he saw E+S for water, but everyone else saw SS (so he will be the lord/ in charge of a water territory later on?). Eve...

I'm looking for a manga and just can't remember the name of it. It's about a boy who was killed in his (today's modern) world but he wasn't supposed to die, but another evil" god intervened in his life. God sends him to another world to reincarnate with some abilities as an apology. He ends up re...

I'm looking for a webtoon where the protagonist was on his way to buying his mom some sort of food that she was asking for. He ends up stuck in the lvl 1 dungeon that's basically an enclosed prison. There he has to fight this big monster over and over. He dies many times, but also kills the same ...

I am trying to locate a sci-fi book that I read in my teens, something like 65 years ago! That would have been in the 1950s; I was born in 1943 and became an avid sci-fi reader when I was about 15. I don’t recall the title of the novel, nor any details about the plot. The setting was the Yucatan,...

Trying to find a movie I watched about 10 years ago, I don’t remember much of the plot nor the title and I’m trying to figure it out. •crane smashes into apartment building •father is trying to find son •based in new york maybe? •(sphere like?) computer/ai has multiple surveillance cameras and wa...

From the novelette "The Children's Hour" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (first published in Astounding Science Fiction, March 1944, available at the Internet Archive): "Supermen?" Lessing echoed. With an obvious effort he forced his mind into focus and sat up straighter, looking at Dyke with a...

At the start of A Rising Thunder, a Captain Wu of HMS Comantary has quite a lengthy introductory scene. During his time on stage Captain Wu introduces the escalating nature of the conflict between Manticore and the Solarian League, describes the mandatory recall notice issued to all shipping and ...

Eragon found out that Brom is his father in the book Brisingr. Oromis provides a reason why Brom didn't tell Eragon this but I think it was something else.

In the beginning of Maleficent, King Henry led an attack against the Moors, but Maleficent injured him. On his deathbed, he promised the throne to whoever would kill Maleficent, which led to Stefan cutting her wings off and presenting them to the King, thus he becomes Princess Leila’s husband and...

In the original story, Snow White’s biological mother, the Good Queen, died in childbirth, leading the King to marry the Evil Queen. But where was the King in the Disney adaptation? In a book about said adaptation from 1987, it said the King was poisoned by the Evil Queen, but is that really canon?

After creating 2 alternate timelines (one where Ron marries Padma Patil and one where Voldemort ruled the Wizarding world), Scorpius, with the help of the alternate Snape, Ron and Hermione, travelled to the First Task and stopped the other Scorpius interfering with the task. The then travelled to...

Humans are captured, transported to an alien starship, then brutally trained to fight by fighting each other. Ultimately a leader emerges and his trained team is then introduced to other captured alien teams. One of the other alien teams are humaniod cat people, who the human leader wins a female...

Looking for the Title of a late 80's, early 90's Japanese live-action tv mini series featuring a female cyborg or robot named Maria clad in black armor (perhaps her body actually). I think it was a mini series since it was broadcasted on over the air tv in Mexico in early 90's.

In (possibly) the late '70s or the early '80s I read the first chapter of a book in a store. It was in English. I meant to go back and buy it and forgot. All I remember is this It opens with a human, I think an officer in an army, reflecting on the death of his boss/king/lord who is physically a ...

In Harry Potter, the publican of the Leaky Cauldron is described as toothless. Why is this, given that (as Hermione shows) magic can regrow teeth?