I always wondered why Captain Dallas never tore Ash a new one for failing to spot a parasite as big as the chestburster. Ash was also their medical officer after all. Maybe it was a plot device, but in Dallas's place, I would have been incensed and viewed him with suspicion and distrust thereafter.

In the movies, Falcon has a pair of machine pistols that he uses to good effect in combination with his flight suit, making for a rather unique fighting style. But in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, his pistols are conspicuous in their absence, and their absence drops his effectiveness in a f...

I read a story quite some time ago where the basic premise was that the United States was tragically low on children, and in order to protect itself from invasion (I'm not sure how that actually came about) they created a breed of android children that appeared to be human. For all intents and p...

In Star Trek Nemesis, after Shinzon died in Captain Picard's arms, with only 1 minute left until full Thalaron weapon activation, why did he just stand there frozen instead of trying to deactivate the weapon? This is around 1:40:26, when he heard the computer say "One minute to firing sequence."...

I would've read this short-story either in 2019 or 2020, possibly in a sci-fi compilation. The Gist of the Story goes as follows: The Protagonist, A Human (possibly a diplomat of some kind), arrives on a plant (potentially Mars) to meet with members of the resident civilisation (Martians). This S...

Harry is in the future and has magic, but doesn't have a wand. Voldemort is alive and was being experimented on. The magic population was wiped out by either the Muggles or Voldemort. The Muggles experimented on him and created some soldiers based on his DNA or something. A descendant of Severus ...

Dumbledore told Harry that he knew about the disappearance of Riddle House's gardener Frank and he suspected it had something to do with Voldemort. The years of Voldemort's ascent to power," he said, "were marked with disappearances. Bertha Jorkins has vanished without a trace in the place where...

I'm pretty sure I read this in the '90s; I don't recall whether I'm recalling a single section of a longer novel, or a short story. It may have been part of a story involving a cross-timeline travelling main character. The detail I recall is that something had happened, perhaps someone trying to ...

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when Harry was thinking about the 2nd Task of the Triwizard Tournament, he remembered that the Dursleys didn’t give him any swimming lessons when he was younger, hoping that Harry would drown. Wasn’t Petunia, of all people, ever concerned about Harry drowni...

I remember reading it around the late 00's/early 10's. As in the title, the story centers around a boy and a girl who must hold hands, or else they will die. I believe the setting was fairly typical fantasy - swords and sorcery, etc. - drawn in a shounen style, with some pretty crazy character de...

This question asserts (at least as I'm typing this) that Petunia Dursley knew about the prophecy. Did she indeed? She knew that her sister and her brother in law, Lily and James Potter, had died, leaving her nephew — Harry — in her care, to be protected. But the prophecy was a closely guarded sec...

There are smarter zombies but i doubt if they are engaged in growing food. Given that they don't eat each other, is it explained how they have survived without eating?

I think it's from Isaac Asimov. Humans left a machine that makes robots on a planet. They left, then they came back many years into the future. When they return, the robots think that their creator was the first robot and don't believe that the humans are responsible for their existence.

I think I read this on either mangakakalot or manga raw club. It started off with this old man who was a pretty strong magician dont know of if he the strongest or anything like that. He woke up as a baby and the dad was a scholar and the the Mc followed in is footsteps. The mc uses his knowledge...

In the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire video game, Alastor Moody was voiced by Stanley Townsend and Barty Crouch Jr was voiced by Sam Hazeldine. However, the Harry Potter Wiki lists Alastor Moody’s appearance in the video game as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game) (Polyjuiced bo...

In Star Wars, this design is the symbol of the Rebellion: In Rebels, Sabine Wren has a signature Rebellion design she leaves graffitied. It looks like a phoenix, as a tribute to her Phoenix Squadron. Is this design the origin of the Rebellion symbol? Or does it come from another source entire...

The First Ones seemed underdeveloped, and since Into The Fire would've been 2.5 episodes, is there any confirmation that the First Ones would have been explored more in these episodes had they not have been forced to create a logical ending point for the series (and therefore remove some details)?

It seems that we've decided that in-memoriam should be on meta, with zero in-memoriam (links to main site) questions. In one sense, I get it: it's arguably a question about other questions. But it's not about the site. I'll go over all of the points in the help center article: Science Fiction &