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What is the meaning of the ending of "No One Will Save You"?
The sci-fi horror film “No One Will Save You” (2023) follows the story of Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever), a woman who tries to survive an alien invasion.
(Spoilers) In the ending:
The aliens communicate with ...
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Regression manhwa where the female lead is given a cooking/healing skill
I'm trying to find the title of this regression manhwa.
The female lead died in the hands of her knight, which was ordered by his father, and male lead came back from the war with her lover. The ...
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Why didn't Treebeard attack Gimli (or vice versa)?
The Ents seem to have considerable animosity toward the Dwarfs
After the Dwarves were put to sleep by Eru to await the coming of the Elves, the Vala Aulë told his wife Yavanna, "the lover of all ...
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80s movie involving friendly, flying aliens that were light creatures (not Cocoon)
The aliens were friendly and flew. In the end, they were saying goodbye, like at a hospital maybe. They were light creatures; the graphics were bad, they looked hand-drawn, kind of. It’s not Cocoon (...
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I'm looking for an old kids show, I can't remember the name [closed]
This is driving me crazy, I know it's an old kids show, but all I can remember about it is that one or two of the characters sang La La La La La ... la! And there was all this mail that would come ...
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Do Ahsoka's face markings have any meaning?
I'm assuming that her face markings are not a natural component of her physiology. So do the markings on Ahsoka's face have any special meaning? And when in her life did she receive them?
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Harry Potter fanfic in which Harry disguises himself as Ron (at Ron's request) in order to get Hermione pregnant
I am looking for a fanfic in which I remember that Ron asks Harry to disguise himself as Ron to have sex with Hermione and get her pregnant because he is sterile. Hermione finds out during the sex ...
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What is the overlap between Star Wars canon and Legends? [closed]
After Disney established a new canon for Star Wars, I've found it relatively easy to determine what is and is not canon, but I've found it a bit more difficult to do so for Legends after the fact, ...
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Book series where a magic gauntlet fuses with a girl's arm and turns into a sword
The story starts off with a boy travelling on a ship which is carrying a chest.
The ship crashes and he and a girl get saved by a man who also took the chest.
The girl ends up opening the chest and a ...
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What can be found on the "terminal" on the Jurassic World promotional website?
For the promotion of Jurassic World, a website was made for Masrani Global, the company operating the theme park. On that site, there is a simulated computer terminal one can log onto. What can be ...
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How did Professor Sprout bandage the Whomping Willow?
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the trio sees Professor Sprout carrying bandages and Harry also notices the Whomping Willow's branches in slings. We also know from future books that the ...
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Manga involving a young brother and sister placed in an orphanage where there's a malevolent teacher [closed]
I read this manga a really long time ago and not even the AI can find it.
The manga was about a little boy who was abandoned by his parents, leaving him to take care of her blind sister. The sister ...
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Does the debate on which of the Star Wars movies is best now have a canon answer? [closed]
In Season 1, Episode 6 of the Ahsoka live-action series, we have the following conversation:
Does this dialogue provide one in-universe answer to the question "which of the Star Wars movies is ...
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Movie where the protagonist wakes up as a female character completely nude and finds armor to put on and a sword in virtual reality
The scene has a very warm orange tint lighting. The protagonist is a guy that visits a virtual reality world but wakes up in a blonde female avatar/body completely naked on a canopy bed with several ...
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I can remember the title but the Mac fights as a kid and teaches other kids [closed]
I can’t remember the name but I know a guy dies and becomes a baby and is in a modern world but with monsters and fights them as a kid by accident while teaching other kids he sees as prominent and ...
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Korean manga about second daughter of noble was forgotten after first daughter was found
From what I remembered of the story it follows the second daughter of a noble.
The first daughter was kidnapped as a baby so the family had a second daughter. After 16-18 years the first daughter was ...
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What happens if you ignore a howler?
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron gets a Howler from his mother. Neville notices and says the following:
"You'd better open it, Ron. It'll be worse if you don't. My Gran sent me ...
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Was Dan Hedaya's General killed or "pithed" by the xeno?
I know in Alien (first movie) extensive cocooning scenes were cut, and these scenes show I believe at least Dallas and Brett cocooned, even though with the cuts one could easily conclude that the ...
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1970's film where rats eat a mans face while he was asleep [closed]
I'm looking for a movie name that played at a drive-in theater in Richmond, Virginia in the early 1970s.
I only remember one part: a man was hiding in the house of another man and had dripped honey or ...
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Short story in which Earth is invaded by humanoids who are a bit dim [duplicate]
I have just read Harry Turtledove's novelette "The Road Not Taken" and it reminded me of a different, unmemorable, story in which Earth is invaded by humanoid aliens who aren't very bright.
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A fairy fantasy, possibly a trilogy - a woman lives in and used to be a tree, a house built with right-angles and iron
I can’t remember many details, but I’d love to read it again. It starts off with a girl going to a small village. There was a tree, a woman lived in it or near it with her daughters. The tree used to ...
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Old science fiction short story collection with bulbous yellow ships
I've been trying to find this book for like 15-20 years now. It was a collection of sci-fi short stories. I remember the book had these bulbous yellow spaceships on it, or possibly in it.
I don't ...
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What does a Trolloc 'scythe-sword' look like?
In one of his interpretations of the Wheel of Time's Trollocs, artist Wayne Barlowe drew the monster holding a blade that looks like a giant sickle, with the concave edge being the sharpened one- is ...
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Identify a movie from the 80s with a crystal bowl full of red berries
There’s an American film where a young girl has to try and save her brother by going through a maze and eating red berries from a crystal bowl.
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Fantasy series where magic is performed by connecting tattoos [duplicate]
The main character performs magic or spells by dancing, and as a result shaping various tattoos on his body into runes. Iirc it's a matter of closing certain runes, kind of like circuits, but not ...
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Book about a giant spaceship that passes through the solar system
The book is ~20 years old. Its plot is a gigantic spaceship (builders unknown) that passes through our solar system and a delegation from Earth is sent and discovers multiple species of aliens. There ...
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Manhwa where woman travels to another world with historical setting in her sleep
The female lead (FL) basically meets this CEO of a company (introduced by her Professor) for some collaboration (cosmetics I think). The woman has red hair.
However, the FL when sleeping at night ...
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How did Murtagh get in Gil'ead's prison?
In chapter 41 "Fighting Shadows" of Christopher Paolini's first novel Eragon (2002) in The Inheritance Cycle, we learn that Eragon was captive by the Shade Durza in a prison inside the Gil'...
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What Species are Mr. Men and Little Miss creatures by Roger Hargreaves? Are they all the same?
When I was I child, I greatly enjoyed the Mr. Men and Little Miss series. As I got older, I learned that there are multiple branded products and even a TV show.
Considering that quite a lot of thought ...
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Why do predators reward their enemies?
In the second Predator movie the Elder Predator gave Lieutenant Mike Harrigan a pistol dating back to 1715. In Alien versus Predator the Elder Predator gave Lex, the last survivor of the Antarctica ...
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A very cramped place with visiting aliens
I read this novella (or maybe longish novelette ?) at least 20 years ago, probably in a magazine so it could have been older than that.
I don't remember much. It took place in a crowded place, ...
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Novel I read more than 50 years ago about a man with three brains that will wake up successively
He was an average accountant. One day at work, he suddenly feels like throwing up. He goes to the toilets. When he returns, his mathematical abilities are increased tenfold. His second brain has ...
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Manga about a goddess/saintess who is helped through her depression by a crown prince or emperor
So the female lead is a goddess/saintess with black hair.
I’m almost certain she was just a normal girl who was summoned from another world by the church, and suffered from depression due to losing or ...
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Mental level of replicants -- as intelligent as engineers who made them?
It is clear that Batty is very intelligent but he is level A -- Pris is level B and indeed looks to Batty for leadership.
Is she less intelligent by design (my guess) or due to her maker's own ...
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TV identification - elves(?) train to go on a quest to find a futuristic city, then instantly teleport back
This site has already identified two stories based on only vague memories. Here's an even worse question...
This was a TV series, probably shown on Netflix, certainly before 2020. I watched the ...
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Did any of Tolkien's languages have gendered pronouns or grammatical gender?
As far as I can tell, none of his Elvish languages did – is there any indication that e.g., Khuzdul or Westron might have?
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Golden Age short story about carnivorous aliens that pay humans a license fee to clone them for meat
The story is told from the perspective of one of a handful of explorers who encountered the aliens. The explorer is sharing a terrible secret with a colleague: When the explorers encountered the ...
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Space fighter fakes being a hero book
I'm not sure if it was a shortish book or a novelette in an anthology, I read it in the UK about 2000.
There's a war going on between Earth colonised space and the alien menace, the main protagonist ...
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Story of a boy whose dreams are being recorded at school. Read in elementary school in the 80's
I'm searching the the name of a story I read in the late 80's. It was in an elementary school Language Arts textbook, and may have been a short story or part of a novel. Bradbury's All Summer in a Day ...
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Part live-action, part animated TV show about kids in their high school(?) years who fought animated monsters
I'm looking for this one live-action/animated TV series that I watched in the early to mid 2010's (around that period of time at least).
It featured this group of three (or four) teenagers who would ...
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What was the first story to depict a modern objective-based approach to artificial intelligence?
A great deal of older science fiction has a rules-based approach to artificial intelligence. Think Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics: the robot has a set rule, and it follows it. In many such ...
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When the Prometheus crashed, was anyone alive except Shaw and Vickers?
When we first met everyone, it seemed like a large number of people were present but since Janek asked only Vickers and his two pilots if they wanted to leave the ship, it seems implied that every ...
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SF Short Story: Humans are attempting to join the Galactic Federation
Humans are attempting to join the Galactic Federation.
A small team are sent to represent Humanity and prove our worth to the aliens.
When it looks as if our membership is to be rejected the chief ...
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Book I read in the mid 90s about an alien invasion on one of two domes
I don't remember much other than the humans build two domes. One was where they were mining for something. The other was for protection. The end of the book centres around a big alien attack on the ...
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SF novella or short story: Humans suddenly get the ability to grant their every wish
People suddenly have the ability to materialise anything they desire, seemingly just by wishing for it.
This results in chaos, one example being that a young person materialises a ray gun and ...
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Harry Potter fanfic in which Harry is falsely accused of murdering the Dursleys and sent to Azkaban
It’s a Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy fanfic. Harry gets sent to Azkaban for murdering the Dursleys which he didn’t. His friends and everyone turns against him. But Draco goes and he breaks Harry out of ...
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Science fiction romance novel with a red-haired female lead who lives in a world where dragon-esque creatures secretly coexist with humans
I'm looking for a science fiction romance novel i read nearly a decade ago.
This book's protagonist is a fiery red-head (I know) that has a friend who is trying to convince her to date. They live in a ...
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YA/children's novel: school student who could either psychically summon images from WWII or project himself & friend back to that time
I read this novel in the early 1990s. It was English-language and set in a contemporary British town (possibly on the coast, but I'm not sure where). The viewpoint character (male -- don't recall his ...
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Short sci-fi story about traders who find an alien life form that absorbs heat
I've been trying to find this story for years.
The way I remember it is a man is a trader and he travels to a planet to find goods to trade. On this planet they have something, I think they were ...
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60s Short Story About AI Morality
There was a 60s sci-fi short story where a partisan, who had been fighting tyranny on his home planet, manages to escape just before things fall apart. He had no choice but to leave his comrades ...
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