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This seemed more or less like a typical zombie action movie. However, the zombies are actually later revealed to be zombie vampires later on. Unlike the regular movie zombies, their head has to be ...

In the Phineas and Ferb season 1 episode “It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World”, Phineas and Ferb's dad Lawrence Fletcher paints a paint-by-numbers picture. When he completes it, we see it together with ...

Canonically, I can only think of three Jedi Masters / Padawan learners that were of the same species: Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker (human) Master Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan (human) Master ...

Noticed this sentence in Children of Dune, and it got me thinking about Alia: ".... experienced the womb as prison to an awakened consciousness—a living awareness from the second month of ...

I'm looking for a book that was vaguely described to me, so the information I have is only secondhand. I've attempted to find it on my own, but have had no such luck. Here are the facts as they were ...

I saw this character in a Batman comic in either late 80's/early 90's. The character is a child or teenage crime boss who fancies himself a general/strategist; early in the comic Batman tries to "...

After we watched all three Star Wars movies again last week, one of my sons asked me which variant of the stormtrooper was my favorite. I told him it was the snow troopers from The Empire Strikes ...

I vaguely remember an Asterix comics book or animated film I watched in the 1990s where Obelix and Panoramix are depicted breaking rocks with hammers, possibly doing forced labor in a prison camp(?). ...

In the 2021 Hawkeye series, first episode, on a bet, Kate tries to ring the bell in a tower which also contains a clock. After a debate on whether the ringing is due to the bell, or the clapper inside,...

In Soul (2020), Jerry explains about spark to unborn souls: Jerry: Maybe you will find their spark in the Hall of Everything, where literally anything on Earth could inspire. Or perhaps you'll prefer ...

In the beginning of 2020 Russian film Coma, the main character, Victor a.k.a the Architect finds himself in a strange and magical world. A soldier named Fly and some of her companions find him, save ...

Skrulls are a shapeshifting race in the Marvel Universe. Now, I know that it's a fantastical world where trees talk and gods of Norse mythology are real, but do the Skrulls follow the law of ...

In Soul (2020), here is a picture of Joe wearing glasses: In the zone, using a small maple seed 22 had kept, Joe convinces her that she is ready to live, returning her to normal: How was he able to ...

Many years ago, I saw a movie that seemed to be set in the stone age. If my memory serves me correctly, the movie looked old even then, leaving it likely in the 1960s-80s range. Since it's been so ...

I don't really remember a whole lot about this novel. It's like this...A great swordsman, who is like really good, was killed or died because he was deemed a traitor. And then the novel goes to this ...

In Dan Simmons' novel Olympos, a character called Moira is also referred to as 'Moneta' (chapter 56). Is this a throwaway line, a reference to the character of the same name in the Hyperion series, or ...

I am curious as to why Sauron went to the trouble of raising a large army to conquer Middle-earth when he could have used the Nazgûl to kill all his enemies in Middle-earth such as all the armies of ...

What '50s or '60s sci-fi movie ends with aliens/Martians taking a child in their spaceship and destroying earth? This is live action. Filmed in black and white. I believe it is American made. It is in ...

Reference this question, and Batman’s Batsuit wiki for context. In seeking answer to that question, Batman’s wiki notes that Batman has used lead in his costume to foil superpowers, and mentions this ...

Batman is sometimes seen to wear lead lining in his costume, for example in Superman/Batman Annual 1 or Superman/Batman #9, as well as other occasions as detailed here. In DC canon, lead poisoning ...

I remember seeing a Web site a couple years ago that explored user-submitted stories where aliens find humans OP, strange, insane, etc., etc. Now I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone know what I'm ...

Long predating production of Straczynski’s Babylon 5 television series, he was the lead writer on Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future,” a weekly television show based on Mattel’s toys of the ...

Twilight's personality in the Friendship is Magic show has always being shown as quite insecure. She constantly overthinks things and one of her biggest fears seems to be disappointing others (see: ...

Trying to find a story where there are two blonde twins that hold the most power in the castle (being princes or dukes, I can't remember), but the older brother doesn't like his younger brother. So he ...

I am asking for examples of really impressive architecture and interior decoration set on various worlds in our solar system. The Grand Apartment of the King at Versailles had seven rooms or salons ...

I want to know more about Radch history, especially how and why it started to expand. I read all 3 books, but I thought there might be some more material somewhere, or even (interesting) speculations ...

Time: Early 2000's or maybe earlier Genre: Sci-fi/Comedy/Dark Narrative work: A novelette or a story book Language: Might be in another language than English. Possibly French Plot: There is a ...

The Nightmare Before Christmas characters pretty consistently follow a pattern where their traits are related to the kind of monster they are. For example: Jack can pull his ribs out to play fetch ...

(Note: I was going to ask "Is Empire Star simplex, complex, or multiplex?" but thought better of it.) After what must be the single most transportative hook in all of Science Fiction, Samuel ...

I'm looking for a story (novelette, short, etc) I've read in an anthology, about a human running from pursuit who lands in a planet and enters in a cave where something falls on his shoulders and he ...

A comic book probably of European origin from the late 1970s or early 1980s. The symbiote is a man with a small limpet-shaped node onto his cerebral cortex. This node is sentient and communicates with ...

In the “Danger Island” segments of the Banana Splits Club, which were directed by Richard Donner and starring Jan-Michael Vincent, we are introduced to the character of Chongo. Chongo played by Ken ...

I remember I had this demo game about a group of teenagers (maybe 4 or 5) and they could transform themselves into animals. I only played the demo version, so I don't know about others scenarios ...

Looking for name of old sci-fi book from the '70s or '80s that had main character with an aiming chip in his hand. His palm would itch and when he scratched it, it would make weird symbols appear in ...

We read a chapter from this in grade school, but never the whole novel (or novella or something). Here is all I can remember: There was a character who could prop himself up in mid air. He slept ...

There are a few facets to this question: What sign language is shown in the Eternals film (is it actually ASL, BSL, etc)? If it is an actual real-world sign language, are we supposed to infer that ...

Time travel in the The Tomorrow War has two premises: Time only flows in one direction. It's like a river. The Jumplink placed two rafts on that river thirty years apart. Now, we can jump back and ...

I was talking to a friend about the fact that Makkari is mute and deaf in Eternals. We were throwing theories like "She lost hearing because she runs fast" or "Like humans, Eternals can ...

Many of the Eternals have names that are very similar to classic mythological characters. This is even called out and explained directly for a couple of them: Thena was the Greek goddess Athena, and ...

What could happen if our brain activity increased? Is there any specific theory about this? I often think about this steps and feel if we deeply use our brain to think like use at a level of 80% then ...

I’m looking for a book I think I read maybe in 2018. I don’t remember much, but I remember reading it in middle school, so I believe it would be in the more advanced part of a children's section of ...

I remember it's a book about a girl who wakes up on her birthday and she's floating. During the party a guest I think falls off a cliff and she rescues them, showing she has powers, so her family ...

In Season 1, episode 17 of the Clone Wars, a scientist creates an aerosolized version of the Blue Shadow Virus, a virus that kills ALL species. The scientist plans to release this virus throughout the ...

Rita Skeeter wrote in her Witch Weekly article (Goblet of Fire, Chapter 27): Miss Granger, a plain but ambitious girl, seems to have a taste for famous wizards that Harry alone cannot satisfy. Since ...

An animagus can turn into an animal at will. There is no such thing as an accidental animagus because of the long process. Becoming a maledictus is strictly through genetics and is a blood curse where ...

I don't remember the title or too many specifics, but here goes: Genetic engineering is ubiquitous. The system for explaining how genetic engineering works has a fixed number of "points" ...

In probably the early 70s* I read a short story, probably intended for teenage readers, that may have been based on or at least similar to Kafka's Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung). The one impression ...

I remember a 30-minute Saturday morning show growing up in the US that involved something living in the hills outside of a town. It was either a bigfoot or a caveman (can't remember). The creature was ...

so in toy story 2 there are many many many (buzz lightyear) from whom (the buzz lightyear) are all from different (places) then the original buzz nor the woody. so who are the actor of these other ...

In the newest Book of Boba Fett trailer, “Message,” released November 29, 2021, we are shown Boba Fett being healed (0:10s). It appears that many entertainment news media are reporting this healing ...