In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry looks into the Mirror of Erised and identifies the people he sees within as his family. She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes — her eyes are just like mine, Harry thought. […] The tall, thin, black-haired man standin...

In many discussions about Batman and his abilities, prep time is always mentioned and emphasized. What is this prep time? Has it already been called as such in-universe? What are some examples of this ability in use? (Comics, animation, etc. .)

Read a SciFi short story a few years ago and can't recall the title or some deeper details. The gist of it was that people gathered in a town square or other public place to regularly (daily?) listen to the screams of agony of people who are out exploring space. I may have gotten that last bit a...

In Bender's Game, when they arrive in the D&D universe, Greyfarn the Wizard explains that if they're killed in that universe, they'll be killed in the regular universe too. Later, Leegola kills the Zoidberg cave-monster (several times), mistaking him for the Tunnelling Horror. Why wasn't Zoidber...

Throughout star-treks run we see common medical use of medical bionics to replace unhealthy organs: Picard has a artificial heart where his was stabbed by a Nausican, Geordie has artifial eyes to compensate for his blindness and vedek bariel later gets many artificial organ transplants we also kn...

An alien crash lands to a human settlement, has not seen humans before. The alien has an extremely good sense of smell, and especially loves the smell of roses. However, later it turns out that the smell of humans being in pain or dying is the sweetest smell to him. The smell is something like a ...

I been trying to think who the 2 kid actors that are in the movie. But I am thinking pretty sure came out in the 90s and had to do with time travel somehow to the past. Only one of the friends goes back not sure how. So I only remember parts involving a wrist watch. First in the beginning two fr...

It didn't "hit" me before The Incredibles 2, but why everyone (or at least the Parr family and Edna Mod) is surprised that Jack-Jack has powers ? While this answer doesn't really explain from where does Super have their powers, it recalls that two Supers should produce a Super, which is true for...

I was re-reading the first book and in it said: "'It’s a Remembrall!’ he explained. ‘Gran knows I forget things – this tells you if there’s something you’ve forgotten to do. Look, you hold it tight like this and if it turns red – oh…’ His face fell, because the Remembrall had suddenly glowed...

I read a science fiction piece about a far future Earth where every square inch of the planet was a cemetery, memorial or shrine - where little by little the entire planet's surface became hallowed ground that you couldn't do anything with as you had to respect those buried there, or those who di...

In the steel mill, after John and Sarah have left the Terminator, the T-800 goes into search mode, looking for the T-1000. After some wrestling, the T-800 attempts to punch the T-1000 in its head. The T-1000's body "morphs" so that its old "head" becomes its arms, and so it takes advantage in the...

I don't remember most of it but i know this, At the beginning there were live photos of a man finding the "book" and a note stating he found it somewhere. All of the speech in the graphic novel was in an alien language. Absolutely none of it was English. The aliens were very cute in style and h...

In the Star Trek episode "TOS: Whom Gods Destroy" (1969), I consider the character Garth a George Washington figure (whether consciously intended or not). He was a great military leader; also, his "consort" is named Marta (compare Martha). There's also a resemblance, both physically and in body ...

I have a very fuzzy recollection of a book I read in primary school in the early 1980's. It was about a few children and from what I remember a tin horse however I also seem to think there were balloons. I'm also sure it was based in Europe, France maybe. Can anyone shed any light?

Does Spiderman need his suit to shoot his webs? Or is it an innate power? If he does not, do we ever see him shoot webs without his suit? All books, movies, comic books, etc are canon for the purpose of this question.