In the early 2000s I read a book that had a series of short stories in it. One of those stories was about a boy meeting an eccentric man who then had a few anecdotes - one was about how the man made money from train porters, by having suitcases filled with helium that had magnets on the bottom, s...

So, in Iron Man (2008), Iron Man has flaps he can pull for dead fall. Why couldn't he have done the same for Rhodey in Civil War? In order to break his fall and have Falcon break his fall?

I'm looking for a specific book, but I can't find it: it was about an electrical shutdown (no, it's not Blackout). The book was about virus or other things destroying advanced technology and was written from the point of view of a few people. One of them was prepper guy who first shutdown in his ...

I'm trying to identify an anime I saw on TV 15-20 years ago. It was a mecha anime (maybe one of the Gundams?) with two space empires at war. The "bad" side was led by a female commander, and at the end of the series she and her fleet were defeated. Instead of being killed, so chose to be put into...

Book from the 1960's or 50's picture book with bright bold illustrations image of baby Pegasus in a cloud field in the sky with its mother and other winged horses it fall through a gap in the clouds to earth where it ends up in a Circus on a high wire act until he learns to fly when he falls of ...

This series by Todd Strasser is described accurately enough on its Wikipedia page. But the sequence there is only generally correct, not actually accurate. As a kid reading them, I was confused about the intended sequence, and tried to puzzle it together from internal references to earlier books...

I have been trying to identify an animated TV show of which I saw a couple episodes as a kid, probably around 2010. It was likely a parody (or at least comedy) of the superhero genre. The main character was superhero or special agent kind of character. I think he had a number of gadgets, but don'...

There are 20 rings of power and the average person has 20 fingers and toes. A person could wear all 20 at once, even if some of the fingers and toes were missing (by putting 2 on each finger, for example, not using the toes at all), but there exist more exotic possibilities of nose-rings, ear-rin...

harry has a brother who everyone thinks is the real child of prophecy. stuff happens and harry is sent to Azkaban where I think he dies. he makes a deal with death who sends him back in time. death also mentions that he had sent Harrys brother back once before. so his brother was already a return...

TV series in 70s - 80s about a beautiful lady ghost living in a big old house or castle. The male lead is a young artist or something. He found the old house and moved in for free (or for a very low price). The lady ghost is always wearing the same long elegant dress. Being a ghost, she can go ...

I read a while ago a science fiction story about becoming immortal. The story starts with a couple on a generation ship, when they receive a message from Earth about a cure for mortality. The wife and son then choose the cure while the husband and daughter don't. The story then goes from there to...

I am looking for a Manhwa where the female main character's "brother" kills the family and overthrows the king. She and and her brother were bullied in the family. The main character comes back as a child and is nicer to the brother. The brother still kills the family, but spares the main charact...

It’s night time and this vampire-ish dude finds two people who crashed their car into a lake. The vampire dude had walked into the lake to the car and pulled the victims out and we later see one of the victims with their head shaved. Then we see one of them wake up, lead out to a little medieval ...

I've been craving to reread this one-shot shoujo manga collection. I only remember several things from this manga, since I read it a long ago. The first story is in space universe. The next story is about a man who lived in jungle since he was born (I guess?) who meets a newcomer girl; kinda Tarz...

I’m looking for an anime. I think it was from the 80’s/90’s, not sure. The things I remember was that there were multiple people who had gem stones that could give them power. Then there was a girl but they didn’t let her try any of the gems until one day she went shopping for rollerblades and fo...

I've been trying to find this series for years and hoping someone has some insight. This was a YA fantasy series that I read in the mid-90's about a city that was ruled by four couples. Each couple had a signature gemstone (emerald, ruby, diamond, etc) in their chest and that signified which grou...

I'm looking for a manhwa where a girl transmigrates into a novel and is the villainess. She befriends the female lead and the female lead is like a saintess who has a disease and dies. She has three males suitors. One is obsessive and the others she didn't get along with. The villainess leaves th...

In Dr. Strange 2, during 838's Captain Marvel fight against the Scarlet Witch, whose statue felt over Maria Rambeau?