Can't think of the name of a science fiction movie where a scientist couple secretly raises a female alien baby. The baby has a tail, and grows into an adult in a matter of months (or weeks). During adolescence, she starts becoming aggressive toward the woman scientist. IIRC, it was a competition...

In The Dark Forest, p. 298, Cixin Liu's character, Rey Diaz, described a dead man's switch. Rey Diaz brought down his left hand and covered the cradle with his sleeve. "I was taught this wonderful idea not by an expert in nuclear strategy but by an American film. In it, a man has one of those...

Many Sci-Fi movies and video games have this circular interface used on touch-screens and interfaces. What is this structure's name? Who first designed it/where did it come from? Is there a math or computer science concept behind it that influences its structure, or is it just to "look cool"...

The Ars Arcanum section that is in most Cosmere books is known to be written by Khriss, as shown in Arcanum Unbounded. Is there some specific Worldsinger or god or Shard or something who in-universe is the one writing all the actual books, or is the explanation just that it’s a book in our unive...

I remember this book. Early 2000’s is when I read it. The book was about a teenage boy who turns out to be part alien (I think). He was really good at gymnastics his eyes did this crazy dilating thing that would freak out his friend and he had a motorcycle by the end of the book. An invasion occu...

There's this cartoon show and in one episode they get trapped in a game show. The host is some weird alien that stands on a floating disk. The only way out is if they win the show.

I just read a fanfiction, where a padawan is spanked for disobeying. Do you think this is realistic? Was Coporal punishment allowed?

I thought Everyone becomes middle-aged when they enter the other world..but in the last scene when Grandma dies she looks older than her parents.. Any Theories?

When I was a kid, I had this illustrated book set in an horror/fantasy/sci fi genre, where each page was a large, detailed illustration with some story notes on the left and right margins (or maybe the illustration on the left page, and notes on the right). Each page was set in a different envir...

All the other Shrek films start with a storybook opening. But Shrek the Third doesn’t. Why?

I received Harry Potter: Film Wizardry (Updated Edition) and the Hogwarts letter seems to be different than in the book and the film, according to how Harry reads it out loud in Sorcerer's Stone. At the bottom of the letter it says: HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT & WIZARDRY Headmaster: Albus Dumb...

I think there was a scientist with some others that wanted to collect some flowers, and brought them back in a tower. I remember and a guy with wheelchair. It was not western or anime, I think it had bad graphics, it reminded of Smurfs.

In the episode where they are finally able to put together Merlin's weapon and send it to the Ori galaxy, Vala points out that she's pretty sure the one part that didn't make it into the rig is the time-delay device. This means they switch the weapon on in our galaxy and send it via the Stargat...

In Shrek 1, Fiona said, “When I was a little girl, a witch cast a spell on me.” Some people think she was on about the “witch” aka fortune teller, Dama Fortuna from the deleted scene “Fiona’s Prologue.” Is that true or not?

The opening crawl is one of the most distinctive feature of Star Wars films. But only the numbered episodes have it, not Rogue One or Solo which are also part of the Star Wars franchise. Why is this?

Chance meeting between a very militaristic people and a scientific expedition caused casualties on both sides. Scientific people use ESP (telepathy, healing, communicating with ocean whales/dolphins, etc.). Military uses dragons for transport and attacking people. Military takes two of the Sci...

I saw this movie a very very long time back. The only pieces of it that I remember were the last(?) scenes of it in which a fully grown girl (or women) was coming out of the vagina of this women, like she was trapped inside of her, and feeding and eating her bones. There was a bone-cracking scen...

Was it coincidence that Game of Thrones and Endgame ended in a similar way and were released within weeks of each other? They both ended the same way ... with a group of 'avengers' only able to win because they were able to completely delete the opponents.

There are a considerable number of mundane animals seen in other parts of the Pokémon franchise, but are there any seen (or referred to) in the world of Pokémon Detective Pikachu? I'm happy to accept direct evidence such as pictures of them, or indirect evidence such as diner menus or food outle...

I'm trying to find the title for a movie or series that I used to love when I was a kid; I remember small sequences from it like: She finds a beautiful flower and builds a flowerbed for it, which she expands into a (secret) garden with more and more flowers, which she tends (and builds) by hers...

In case you’re confused, Princess Tiana is based on Princess Emma from the ED Baker fairytale The Frog Princess, as well as the Princess from the Brothers Grimm fairytale The Frog Prince, which the former is also based on. Also, when I put that information on the Once Upon A Time Wiki, they dele...

The story which I read in about 1950 has to do with a narrator who has witnessed ordinary household machines in his home town rising up and attacking their owner/operators. Toasters, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, hair dryers in beauty salon. NO computers, or aliens from outer space. It ends...

The crew are all in frozen sleep. One man is woken early, stays awake, eats a lot of the provisions and paints a giant mural (about the adventures of a prince) on the corridor walls, he eventually dies when very old. The ship arrives at its destination, the crew is woken up and discovers the mur...