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Can anybody explain to me why Voldemort didn't know how Grindelwald looked? It's not like there were ages between them – both Grindelwald and Dumbledore were still alive in the era of Voldemort, ...

In Attack of the Clones Obi-Wan seeks the advice of Master Yoda in finding a missing planet. During this time Yoda is teaching a group of younglings. One of them is a Togruta of unknown gender who ...

I read this book in the US, 15-20 years ago, but I believe it dated back to the 70s, based on the general feel. It was set mostly on a starship. I believe it and other ships had names from ...

Commander Riker refused his own command (and, by extension, a promotion) a few times during TNG's run. Captain Picard rejected Admiral Quinn's attempt to have him promoted to admiral. If a lowly ...

Looking for name of book i read on my kindle a few years ago. It was about a retired or dying super soldier traveling to a planet. He gets attacked on a ship and when about to die a dormant program ...

Story was about a group of teens, one of which is cleaning out his grandfathers shed and finds a portal in the back. His name was Charlie if I remember correctly.

When an officer is summoned to the bridge, or the captain is called to the bridge, is the communication through the Console? Or is it through the ship's computer? How does the person receive the ...

What is Nick Fury's approximate age at various story intervals in the MCU? I guess his exact birth date & age isn't important, but plus or minus a few years would be good to know. Given that the ...

In Captain Marvel, after Carol Danvers is stranded on Earth, Ronan the Accuser calls Yon-Rogg via hologram. When a member of Starforce is about to report that Skrulls have infiltrated Earth, Yon-Rogg ...

During the series of Deep space 9 it has been stated that the Dominion has absolute control over their part of the Gamma quadrant. Literally this would mean that they rule every planet and race inside ...

Accio is not supposed to work on people or creatures as per this source: Why couldn’t Newt use ‘Accio’ to retrieve all his beasts? ‘Accio’ only works on inanimate objects. While people or ...

Is there a specific speed that Summoned objects fly at, and if so, what is it? If not, how is speed determined?

Since neither Wikipedia nor the Marvel Database seems to know, anyone here have any well-sourced idea where Baymax's name came from?

Within the "Alien" universe, does anyone know if there is any significance for the date 6-12-79 (USA format) in James Cameron's "Aliens"? Ripley quotes it as the date Burke informs the colony on LV426 ...

Why didn’t Eve recognize the little cockroach as a living organism just like the plant? The cockroach possesses all characteristics sustainable in life as the plant with the exception of reproduction, ...

The Voyager's story from the doctor ends with this: EMH: Computer, freeze programme. A tragic, needless death, but as you can see, Voyager was not responsible. After Tedran was killed, Voyager ...

Lots of swearing, the c words thrown around a lot and the n word, slaps her, beats her, tells her shes a filthy poor, country yokel, released in march? April-ish 2017, fan fiction.com, quite dark, ...

J.K. Rowling has wrote on her website that the Summoning Charm only works on inanimate objects, explaining that creatures and humans can only be summoned by summoning objects they are holding or ...

A few weeks ago I was browsing my local supermarket's book aisle. I saw a book with, I believe, a plane on the cover. I really enjoy horror/sci-fi/thriller books and movies that take place on a plane, ...

In Alien, there is a scene in which After this happens, the other members of the crew know this happened, and apparently know where it happened, saying that the Alien must have gone through the air ...

Searching for an old story about an officer put in command of a museum ship to fight in an important space battle against an enemy with a surprising new weapon. He wins, because it turns out the new ...

I'm confused about how the Tesseract can be in Thor if it was lost 600 years ago, as I know Asgard gave up the red Infinity Stone because they already had another Infinity Stone. What's going on?

Why does Captain Janeway order the crew to abandon ship in "Year of Hell" if they know the time changes will erase them? They are aware of the time manipulations, so assuming the barely functioning ...

At the beginning of "Aliens" during Ripley's hearing she is told there are 60-70 families on LV-426 but is it know how many people in total? This would then reflect the maximum number of Xenomorphs ...

About a girl who finds a family jewelry box and has to recover her family's hidden secrets. May have a brown cover

In the movie Coco, a person in the land of the dead will fade away completely when no one from the land of the living remembers him anymore, and that is how Héctor's friend Chicharrón faded away, ...

I am reading the last book, The Magicians End. For the last months, I slowly consumed all the books (like 30 of them). Now I feel dread. This is it... no more to go :( Is there anything similar to ...

Netflix recently released the first season of a (very) adult animation series called Love, Death & Robots. Each 15 minute episode is independent and completely unrelated to others, each one is ...

And I do not mean "Jem'Hadar first", "Jem'Hadar second", and so on. I mean these: Remata'Klan, Ikat'ika, Ixtana'Rax, Kudak'Etan Jem'Hadar do not have parents, they are created in birthing chambers. ...

In Chapter 5 of Ancillary Sword, Breq mentions being able to see “through Kalr Five’s unsuspecting eyes”. Is this the first place in the Imperial Radch trilogy that her ability to do this is mentioned?...

Does anyone know this book? It starts with a space captain and his ship and crew being attacked by another ship. Eventually the ship was so damaged that they had to board another ship after fleeing (...

How did the Shadows kill Kosh? Weren't the Vorlons beings of energy? How could you kill that? And how could you poison him in the premiere (without talking about his 'hand')?

Deadpool tosses himself from building. A passerby sees him and comments: Passerby: I can't believe he's still alive. Deadpool: I can't believe you left the house in that shirt. What does it ...

Most definitions say that it is a component of blood that has been in a centrifuge, but I haven't seen any definitions that is associated with sci-fi. I often came across this word when people talk ...

I'm looking for this Drarry fic I read a long time ago. It was a de-ageing fic and it started out with Harry getting de-aged and Draco watching him, but then it turned into Draco being the one de-aged ...

I took out a series of books in the late 90's that I believe were done by TOR. I am trying to track down the title of the series. The story is essentially about mages who derive their power from ...

So the anime I'm looking for is about a red haired boy suddenly being transported in another world in his mundane world while going to his school with his blue haired friend (he was transported alone)....

In the book by Stephanie Meyer, the action happens a couple of years after the whole world has been taken over by alien body snatchers who live in their hosts' brains. There are isolated groups of ...

I've been struggling to remember the title of this book - this could be multiple books mixed together. I read it about 10 years ago, but it could be far older. Short synopsis based on what I ...

I'm from Poland, and I remember that I saw an old anime on television about a boy who found some sort of red crystal that allowed him to transform into/summon red robot. He was attacked by people ...

The title may have had the word "forest" in it but I DEFINITELY remember the cover having a girl walking into a forest with her back turned. The story went something like a girl being at a boarding ...

I've been searching for a while and I can't seem to find anything online about it. The boy gets telekinetic powers and joins some sort of small organisation with a girl in it who helps him. He goes ...

Roughly ten to twelve years ago, I read a book (written in English) that featured a man whose only companion was a female AI. I think the book had been published fairly recently; I'd estimate that its ...

In the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, "Moody" mentioned that he would only be teaching for a year and only because he owed Dumbledore a favor. What was this favor and what made it so important ...

I think the novel or long short story was published in the last 10 years. It starts with a man who is killed in a car accident. A doctor autopsies him and finds out he is not human, that he is built ...

More than 10 years back, I watched a live-action movie on television where a brontosaurus kind of dinosaur is wounded in a cave with a man and a kid near it. The humans look civilized and it's ...

I need the name of a 2D platformer PC video game which was probably released between 2000-2010. The main characters are a teenage boy and a girl which I am sure of. It's an action/adventure themed ...

Tl;Dr:. In-universe, why would Maester Aemon address his letter to Five Kings at a time when their were not five Kings leading armies that could help against the Wildlings? Ok, so I know the five ...

AI uses memes to control people. Part of a number of stories by John Barnes? One story has a bunch of meme-controlled mercenaries who capture a girls' school and 'serb' and kill all the residents. ...

Why does Puss in Boots have a different girlfriend in the adventures of Puss in Boots TV series compared to the Puss in Boots movie? He's seeing Dulcinea in the TV series And Kitty Softpaws in the ...