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Why have most Superhero movies ditched the "Secret Identity"?
When I say "most", I primarily mean the Marvel Avenger series. Out of all of them, even Ant-Man pretty much up and exposed himself, revealing his true identity to anyone he looked at.
One of the few movie series that keeps the "secret identity"…
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Why didn't they make the dinosaurs all male?
MALCOLM: How do you know they can't breed?
WU: Because all the animals in Jurassic Park are females.
We engineered them that way.
Why would they engineer them as all-female instead of all-male? It would work better since even if there was one…
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How did Molly Weasley make sauce out of nothing if Gamp's Law states that this is impossible?
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when the kids and Arthur get to The Burrow from Privet Drive and Molly is cooking and raging about Fred and George's shenanigans, the following occurs:
Mrs. Weasley slammed a large copper saucepan down on…
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Why does the Batmobile have a "NO STEP" sign?
This (silent) video shows the Batmobile in the new Batman v Superman movie:
However, 14 seconds in we see:
Why would the Batmobile need to have "NO STEP" on the side? Batman knows the risk and it's not like he's running a taxi service. Is Batman…
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When will copyright restrictions expire on Tolkien's works?
I don't know what the correct vocabulary in English is to talk about royalties, copyright, license of a book, right to exploit, etc.
I would like to know what the legal status is around the books in UK. When can we exploit Tolkien's writings for…
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Why didn't anyone stop Luke from leaving the second Death Star?
After killing the Emperor in his throne room in the second Death Star, Luke drags Vader's dying body to an Imperial shuttle to leave the station. He is not shown to have fought anyone on his way there and can leave freely.
How is that possible? I…
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Why was the Triwizard Cup used as the portkey?
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the Triwizard Cup was used as the portkey to send Harry and Cedric to the graveyard in Little Hangleton to face Voldemort.
Why was the Triwizard Cup chosen?
Couldn't Crouch Jr. have used anything as a…
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Man serves a sentence for the murder he will be allowed to commit in the future
I recently remembered a short story I had read a while ago in a sci-fi compilation. I tried to identify it, but my Google-fu is not up to the task. Google, however, directed me here. So, I hope someone will be able to help me by identifying the…
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Why were the "Monsters, Inc." monsters told that touching kids would kill them?
Throughout the start of the movie the monsters are told again and again that touching a kid would/could kill them.
Eventually everyone finds out that isn't true, but the movie never gives a reason as to why the touching-a-kid-will-kill-you…
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Why did Palpatine care about Anakin Skywalker in the Prequels given Palpatine's pretty good Force Vision?
Why did Palpatine care about Anakin (Vader), especially when considering his powerful "future Force visions"? Palpatine organizes the framework-setting Order 66 to kill the Jedi.
It is Palpatine who defeats Yoda.
It is Palpatine who pretty much…
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Was the Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone really that well protected?
The Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) stone was moved from Gringotts to Hogwarts because Dumbledore wanted the stone to be better protected. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone however, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, three 11 year-olds, manage to get…
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Why do Tolkien's wizards look Human, and not Elven?
The two primary races of Middle-earth, those created by Ilúvatar, are Elves and Men. And until quite late in the history of Middle-earth, the Elves were BY FAR the more significant of the two. They alone seemed capable of Magic, they performed most…
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How did Voldemort get his wand back?
We know that Voldemort had the exact same wand in book 4 that he had from his beginning into Hogwarts. Problem is, it seems like his wand is unaccounted for after the Potter's death until the end of book 4. What happened to the wand?
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Can you tell my robot to kill itself? (Three Laws)
In the worlds of Asimov's robots, what's to stop a bunch of vandal humans from going around telling robots to destroy themselves? According to the Second Law, they would have to obey. Here's a refresher of the laws, copied from Wikipedia:
A robot…
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Why didn't Obi-Wan remember R2-D2 and C-3PO in A New Hope?
How is it that, per Jedi Grrrl
As for Obi-Wan, he forgot all about R2-D2 and C-3PO after spending three whole movies with them
I know people might say "well, would you remember a toaster you had 20 years ago" but really these robots have a…
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