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Why exactly do the Death Eaters serve Lord Voldemort?
The impression that I got from the Harry Potter films was that if Lord Voldemort was successful, most of the world was going to suffer greatly. Basically everyone would serve Voldemort as slaves or die.
So what's the point of serving someone who's…
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Does Sauron have any dialogue in any of the books?
In The Lord of the Rings film adaptions, you can hear Sauron's voice at some points but it's often hard to hear it very well. You can also hear him quite clearly in The Lego Batman Movie, although I doubt that's canon...
But as far as I can remember…
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Where did the Red Brick Road lead to?
In the movie of "The Wizard of Oz", the beginning of the Yellow Brick Road is entwined with the beginning of a Red Brick Road. The Yellow Brick Road led to the Emerald City. Where did the Red Brick Road go?
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Where did Rocket's repair tool come from?
After the Milano crashed, we saw Rocket repairing the damage using some tool that appears to be a cross between a 3D printer and a paint sprayer:
This resembles nothing else we've seen in the MCU thus far, and unfortunately the film goes into…
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Why does the Star Wars universe use such a primitive technology as data-tapes?
In A New Hope, Admiral Motti says that the Death Star plans were stored on data-tapes.
“Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen…
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Why did Wood have Muggle golf balls?
When teaching Harry the rules of Quidditch, Wood makes his ignorance about the nuances of Muggle sport plain for all to see.
"The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score," Harry recited. "So - that's sort of like basketball…
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In The Matrix, why is Neo confusing left and right?
We can see in this video clip from The Matrix that, when chased by the agents, Neo confuses right and and left:
When Neo asks the operator Tank to help him find a way to escape, Tank tells him to take the door on the left, clearly saying "on your…
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What was Shepherd Book's past in Firefly?
The one big question I've always had remaining about the Firefly series was, what was Shepherd Book's past? It's obvious he wasn't always a preacher, but what was he?
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How many episodes of Star Trek "didn't happen"?
I'm curious how many episodes throughout Star Trek, from an in-universe perspective, either didn't happen or may as well not have happened, as in:
All the events are forgotten (like in Voyager's "Unforgettable")
Events are erased from the timeline…
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How does gravity work on Serenity?
When the good ship Serenity is traveling in deep space, the crew experiences what looks like an Earth-normal (or Earth That Was-normal) level of gravity. Is it ever explained how the ship is able to generate artificial gravity? The ship doesn't…
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What do the Death Stars do, other than destroying planets?
We know that each Death Star has enough firepower to obliterate a planet. But other than this, what are they good for? For one, I have trouble imagining a practical situation where "blow up the whole planet" turns out to be the preferred strategy.…
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What happened to Fawkes?
When
Professor Dumbledore is killed and falls from the Astronomy Tower,
Fawkes the phoenix is nowhere to be seen. IIRC, we don't see Fawkes in DH, so what happened to him?
Did Fawkes just fly away or is he living on the grounds? Where did he…
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How did "Weird Al" Yankovic predict "The Phantom Menace"?
In the "Weird Al" Yankovic song The Saga Begins, he makes a bunch of predictions about Episode One that all seem to be valid, and unless I'm mistaken wrote the majority of the song before the film was released, and only made minor changes after…
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Why are Starfleet bridges positioned so vulnerably?
I haven't gone through in detail for all the Starfleet vessels I know of, but it seems that all Enterprises seen in the TV show and movies have bridges positioned right in the top middle of the saucer section. I am wondering why this is. This seems…
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Would Smaug have actually followed and allied with Sauron had he lived on?
I know Gandalf was worried Smaug would have joined Sauron, but was that just him being cautious? Would Smaug actually join up with Sauron? How does he benefit from that? All it does is bring more attention to himself and gain more enemies. And if…
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