Dobby was able to magically seize several wands from several wizards in Malfoy Manor and wizards were helpless against it. It means House Elves, if they decide to act, can easily seize wands from any wizard before he/she can cast any spell. Also, Hogwarts had an army of House Elves. Why didn't H...

In Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home we read: McCOY: Are you really going to try this time travel in this rust bucket? KIRK: We've done it before. McCOY: Sure, slingshot around the sun. If you pick up enough speed you're in time warp. If you don't, you fry. When did Kirk do time travel via Warp ...

I can only remember a specific scene. It’s where harry is in that past(I think) and is in seated in a room with other potion inventors. He goes by a different name in this story too. He’s also a young potion master. In this scene I remember that Voldemort entered the room and everyone began intro...

I am searching for the name of a movie that involved a family that had an inherited trait that caused things to die when they got close. The boy ends up at a boarding school and causes another boy to get hurt. He then runs into the woods and lives there alone until a girl gets lost in the same ...

My son wants to know if Darth Vader isn't able to run or if he just doesn't want to. My recollection is that he never runs, only struts. Even in the new Rebels shows, I can't think of any instances of him running. Perhaps this was written into Lucas' character description "DV never runs!" Are th...

It seems that in the Star Trek universe, anyone with a half-decent warp capable ship can travel back in time by up to at least several centuries, just by travelling in an appropriate trajectory around a nearby star. Given this, and given the fact that warp-capable ships are very common, I would ...

I read a short story in the 80s (as in a read it in the 80s, not that it was written in the 80s) about a protagonist that was bothered by flies, and was unknowingly the demon Beelzebub. Any ideas?

In this short story, the creation of a machine, working on the principle of E=MC^2, provides nearly limitless energy, and allows everyone to create anything they want, for the input of a little dirt. This leads to unparalleled prosperity. BUT at the end of the story we find out by overuse of th...

Sam's sword can easily be seen in his scabbard during the fight, however instead of drawing it he decides to kick Shelob and roll on the ground reaching for Sting.

To be clear, I am referring to only the recent Spider-Man : Homecoming movie here. In the movie when Peter Parker goes to Mr. Delmar's Grocery store, following is the conversation that occurs: Delmar: How's your Aunt? Peter: Yeah, she's alright. Delmar (to his assistant in Spanish)...

In Harry Potter universe, we see huge differences between wizard culture and muggle culture. Differences are so huge that one culture is almost alien to another. We also see marriages between wizard/witch and muggle. Lots of half-blood people are also there. I am curious to know how social sync...

In the early part of Order of the Phoenix they are having a meeting talking about Harry, we can hear Snape but when they all come down and go eat with them, Snape himself is the only one who isn't there? So why did we hear him.

In Star Wars rebels and the new Darth Vader comic we see a lot of the Emperors inquisitors and all of them have their own lightsabers (I think they are all double bladed?), but where did they get them? Did they also have to kill a jedi for the crystal and corrupt it or since they are not real sit...

The books give an impression that Xenophilius Lovegood is a weirdo with crazy beliefs and ideas. He has an ornamental horn in his house he absolutely believes belongs to a Crumple-Horned Snorkack, which in reality turned out to be an Erumpent horn, which actually exists in the Potterverse. It's...

A short story about a commuter train armoured to cross a decaying inner city from the suburbs to the city business district. The passengers had to take turns "riding shotgun". This article: Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume brought it to mind.

I’ve been looking for this anime for years now. I don’t remember when I saw it exactly but it might’ve been 2010ish. The main character is a school girl with short red hair and a flying squirrel as a pet. She was sent to her grandfather’s school and there she learned that she could summon a machi...

This was a short SF story where there is a base on the moon and the men who go there to do their time at the base (not sure if they get stranded there for a short while or not) eventually start thinking that they are not alone. They imagine things that don't exist like the out-on-the-surface smal...

In the Thing (1982), three characters get in a chopper and examine the crash site. MacReady and Norris talk and are identifiable. Who is the third man? Is it Palmer? And continuity fans, both hoods of their coats are up in the next shot.

I read a book about ten years ago that was about superpowered soldiers and their relationship. I believe they were powered naturally but then the government took them and enhanced them. This was a normal working of their society, although I believe a goal of the two men was to change the way thin...

Square One TV was a television show on public television in the United States from 1987-1994, designed as "an innovative way to introduce young people to the exciting world of mathematics." At least in the early seasons, most of each episode was formatted as a sketch comedy show, with a cast of ...

In the Phantom Menace, we learn about the Sith Rule Of Two. Always two there are, no more, no less. This has been further expanded in various canon and non-canon works. But in Star Wars Rebels we meet the Inquisitors: Force-wielding beings with lightsabers who work for the Emperor. Althou...

At the tail end of 1x11 "The Wolf Inside", we discover that a Mirror Universe version of Philippa Georgiou is in fact the "Emperor" of the Terran Empire. However, in the finale of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode 4x19 "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II", Hoshi Sato, declares herself to be the "Empre...

Stark's Hulkbuster armor manages to knock a tooth out of Hulk's mouth in Age of Ultron. Did this tooth simply regenerate, or is Banner missing it as well? It's clearly not a front tooth, because we see Banner apparently none the worse for wear in that regard afterwards. Is there anything in th...

At the start of The Last Jedi the Resistance is in full retreat. From the opening crawl: The FIRST ORDER reigns. Having decimated the peaceful Republic, Supreme Leader Snoke now deploys his merciless legions to seize military control of the galaxy. Only General Leia Organa’s band of RESI...