My sister and I have very vague recollections of this chapter book - the creature was either an elephant or elephant-like, spoke very fast (dialogue may have been written without punctuation or spacing), and had a strange name. Not much to go on, I know!

Looking at 1980s X-men comic books, I notice so many characters had blue hair, for example, Wolverine, Beast, Mr.Sinister, and tons of no-name extras. Probably this goes beyond the X-men, but that’s the comic I have in front of me to verify this phenomenon. I suspect it had something to do with...

Plot Details/Summary This particularly story was sort of a "bonus" story at the end of another Marvel comic. It may have been a Marvel Double Feature, but I don't think it was. I think it was tacked on to an Avengers comic, but that may not be the case. The story is short, but quite clever, wit...

Plot Details/Summary This question is inspired by a 1970s reprint of a Fantastic Four Annual I read as a kid. The premise of the story was that the original Human Torch - Jim Hammond - was reactivated/reborn by The Mad Thinker(?) and sent after the Fantastic Four, with Johnny Storm being the fir...

A few years ago I read a book about a virus that wiped out most of the worlds population. I remember that the virus went through specific phases as the story progressed, and the POV would bounce between the human characters and the virus itself. The book began with the virus making small flaky pa...

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In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Umbridge was Head of the Muggle-born registration commission, we see her Patronus, which is the same as McGonagall’s, a cat. However, we can clearly see the skeletal features in it, and Umbridge’s HP Wiki used to say that “it resembled more of a reani...

I read the comic in 1980s but not in English so it could be before the 80s in English. This enemy is an evil spirit that kills people and eventually kills the host (yes, it requires a host) and when the host dies, this spirit moves to another host. This evil was recorded since prehistoric times, ...

Kylo Ren: You still want to kill me. Rey: That happens when you're being hunted...by a creature in a mask. Who exactly is that creature is Rey referring to?

During the episode, "The End of Time", the lord of the Time Lords just watched and waited for the Doctor to decide whether to kill the Master or him. But he had a metal handgun and he could have easily killed the Doctor immediately. Why didn't he?

Given the scarcity or rareness of paper in the Star Wars Universe and subsequently, of family photos and portraits, and also knowing about the existence of recorded holograms, I ask if, aside from the shimmering and smiling Force ghost of young Anakin at the end of the 2004 DVD version of Star Wa...

Many years ago I read a YA series that I'm trying to find now. I remember virtually nothing about it, except that I'm quite sure the protagonist was female, and the bad guys developed some sort of golden spots or flecks in their eyes. I've tried Googling a bunch of things related to golden eyes, ...

Just rewatched a few scenes from the episodes featuring the world between worlds. After seeing it I'm wondering: How did Palpatine enter the world between worlds to almost capture Ezra and Ashoka? OR was it really him at all?

In Marvel comics both Eternals and Asgardians have very large average lifespans. I would like to know which species has a greater lifespan and the duration or time of that lifespan.

In the movie Army of the Dead the zombies have the ability to think and plan, in other words the zombies are intelligent. I would like to know which was the first movie or TV series to show intelligent zombies?

Doctor was sure about he will die forever and before he exposed radiation he said I'm gonna die after this to Wilfrey but he didnt. He boceme regenerated slowly. Why didnt he die although TARDIS wasnt there.Lets say he didnt die then Why he regenerated slowly I mean what is happend there (he went...

English-language kids' SF novel, I would have read this as a library hardcover some time before 1980. To the best of my recollection: Protagonists were subadult brother and sister. Father was scientist, had disappeared as novel opened. Father had left behind two suits -- like spacesuits? -- whic...

Plot Details/Summary The villain in this one was a man who had been born something of mutant (in a more traditional, non X-Men sense of the word). He looked rather freakish/monstrous, and possessed mental powers. There is some exposition in the story about everyone (including his family) fearin...

I'm not sure if this is sci-fi, might be more humour (my mind keeps connecting it to Hitchhiker's Guide, so maybe same author/style, but really not sure about that). Anyway, the key part I'm trying to find is someone writes software where, you enter the facts and the problem you are trying to sol...

I've been looking at the guides to posting a good question but I really can only remember this scene from a sci Fi book. I read it sometime between 1990 and 2005. UK library book. The plot, a woman is involved with making contact with aliens on a far distant world, I can't recall if she was ship ...

Robin hasn't substantially appeared in all recent Batman movies, and is not expected to appear in the upcoming films as well. (I'm excluding the satirical The Lego Batman Movie, as well as the very end of The Dark Knight Returns.) What is the off-screen reason for this? Is there an expectation th...