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Why is Robin Hood French in Shrek?

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Asimov's story where a man's speech contains no information

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Why did the people of Zion never find evidence of the previous cycles?

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How does AT-AT deploy troops?

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Sci-fi book trilogy about space travel & 'jacking'

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Why does the Joker do this to Bob?

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Can the Infinity Stones be destroyed?

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How could Corvus Glaive so easily defeat Vision?

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How did the T-850 still function after it removed its second battery?

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Novel about immortality being kept secret by world leaders

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When was the first time Iron Man incorporated Heads Up Display (HUD) into his suit?

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Where is the deflector array on the Phoenix?

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What was the first science-backed example of human-powered, flapping-wing flight on Luna?

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How did Thanos destroy the Infinity Stones?

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answered Oct 17 at 8:37 Shreedhar 11.4k

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Novel in which space traders train a spearman army for a decaying medieval empire [duplicate]

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Author of a story about a group walking down a tube with gates to worlds singing as they go

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Did Edgar Rice Burroughs ever write a fictional work (novel, tale, etc..) depicting Tarzan on Mars?

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Early sf short story about a talking storytelling device [duplicate]

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Graphic novel involving xenoforming of Earth by a malicious intelligence

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Is there any evidence in Canon for how long specific hyperspace trips actually take in the Star Wars galaxy?

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Novel about a woman who is transformed into an elf

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Movie: A black blob or possessive creature is taking over people in a town

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MST3K-reviewed science fiction film that involved a chase scene (and I think some ramming) in a warehouse with what looked like floor buffers

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70s or older story about an outcast that deals with feces [duplicate]

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Gene-modified man has a 2-week period heightened reflexes and constant wakefulness

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Manga where the main character sees the group of heroes defeating the demon king, gets stabbed in the back and reborn into his younger self

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How did Jareth become the Goblin King?

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Rules of the Annual Purge?

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Comic strip: Time traveling schoolboy and Easter Island aliens

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80’s book where people had chips in their brains to do jobs

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SciFi book from an alien's perspective

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How did Dobby know where Hogwarts was in “The Chamber of Secrets”?

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answered Oct 17 at 18:48 Harry Johnston 15.1k

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YA novel about characters in a fantasy novel who must fight to prevent the text of the novel itself from being corrupted

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Why was Ron so mean to some people in Goblet of Fire?

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90s Anime where a samurai’s village is attacked by purple demon dogs

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Short story where the labour class lives in another timeline to the privileged class

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Book where the hero becomes telekinetic and sails ship through storm using telekinesis

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Why weren't the Envoy's at Innenin backed up?

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How tall is Doomsday in Batman v. Superman?

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Short story about specialization and a poet? [duplicate]

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answered Oct 17 at 21:01 Jenayah 32.9k

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SciFi Short Story/Novella where Advanced Aliens are Choosing a Galactic Overseer

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