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Movie in which an asteroid landed on Earth and gave a lady super powers when she touched it

If it was animated, could be 2009's Monsters vs. Aliens. The brunette Susan Murphy is hit by a meteorite that ends up turning her into a 50 foot tall giant in the middle ...
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Movie in which an asteroid landed on Earth and gave a lady super powers when she touched it

It's not a small meteorite, but I think you are thinking of the scene from My Super Ex-Girlfriend Professor Bedlam was formerly Jenny's high school boyfriend, Barry Lambert. While about to become ...
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A movie where some people were able to guess that a crime would be committed so the police could arrest the "future guilty" party before the crime

Minority Report based on the short story of the same name by P. K. Dick From the wiki: In 2054, the federal government plans to nationally implement the Washington, D.C., prototype "Precrime&...
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What is the earliest instance of magic smelling like ozone?

1941: "Thirteen O'Clock", a novelette by C. M. Kornbluth, first published (as by Cecil Corwin) in Stirring Science Stories, February 1941, available at the Internet Archive. Peter Packer ...
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Story identification: person gets super powers from chocolate

Do you mean the movie trilogy about the superhero, Antboy? Antboy (2013) Antboy II: Revenge of the Red Fury (2014) Antboy 3 (2016) He is a boy who can climb on walls, but he doesn't have spider ...
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fantasy book from 2012/13, young girl with powers from poorest part of kingdom, pursued by a captain

Have you by any chance been looking for a trilogy by Trudi Canavan called The Black Magician trilogy? It's a story about girl, who live in the kingdom, but she is a commoner. She has magical powers. ...
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