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What happened to the Joker in The Dark Knight Rises?
By the end of The Dark Knight (2008), the Joker's fate is left open. Yes, he was arrested, but he is still alive. His fate is never completely explained. More precisely, in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) :
I noticed that Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow was…
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Does Voyager ever answer a distress call from anyone good?
I am almost through the whole of Voyager and there is this one trope that is very prevalent in this series: (Almost) every time there is a distress call and the crew moves in to help, it is either too late (everyone's dead already) or the people…
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How powerful were the Nine really?
It is explained numerous times how powerful and deadly the Nazgûl are — however, on multiple occasions, they failed their master badly.
Some examples:
Frodo and the Hobbits escaped both during the chase in the Shire as well as in Bree. 5 (?) of the…
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Why are there are no standby players in Quidditch?
In the Harry Potter universe, there are many cases where Quidditch players have to be substituted. In some cases, the replacement player has to be selected at the last moment which affects the performance of the whole team.
For example, in Book 1,…
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Why did Luke call the lightsaber by a different name?
In The Last Jedi, I thought it was a little odd that Luke referred to the lightsaber as a "laser sword". Given that the lightsaber identifies a Jedi, why did he refer to it as such?
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Comicbook short story where a man inherits a clock that tells when you die
The story was in an anthology comic book, possibly something like Tales From The Crypt but not necessarily.
An escape stunt artist reveals to a young man that the secret for him surviving his dangerous stunts is a magical watch he got (he doesn’t…
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If the Doctor's two hearts lead the robots to believe he's two people, why did he only get one smiley badge?
Doctor Who season 10 episode 2 (or series 10 installment 2, if you prefer the UK nomenclature), Smile: in one scene, a smiley-robot (or Vardy interface) puts out some food for The Doctor and Bill. The interesting part is that it puts two blue cubes…
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What is the translation of the lyrics in Moana's "We Know the Way"?
I was a bit disappointed to find out that the subtitles for the Moana Blu-ray did not include the original or translated lyrics for "We Know the Way".
Here's the song in full, and the beginning of the song is done in Tokelauan:
This Bustle…
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Is mass surveillance a thing in Star Trek?
When I thought about consequences of mass surveillance, one question came through my mind:
There are many dystopias where mass surveillance is one cause for the
dark future. But can there be scenarios where mankind evolved to a
peaceful…
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Are "The Expanse" and "The Martian" set in the same universe?
There is a passage from Babylon's Ashes, the sixth novel in James S.A. Corey's The Expanse series, which references a ship called "Mark Watney" (bold emphasis mine, italic author's):
In the middle column, the colony ships she and her fleet had…
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Was Voldemort a Better Wizard Than Dumbledore?
Pursuant to Why Could Young Tom Riddle Do Wandless Magic, I have a somewhat related question.
The majority of Harry Potter readers automatically assume that Dumbledore must be a better wizard than Voldemort, because Dumbledore is "good" and…
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Why does one AT-AT have a hole in it in "Rogue One"?
I Watched the movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and I realized that in the attack on Scarif, when the AT-ATs came, one of the AT-ATs has a large, rectangular hole on its side. That is the only AT-AT in Rogue One that has a large hole in it. The…
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Was George Lucas involved with Rogue One?
Before and after the release of The Force Awakens a year ago, it was plainly obvious that Star Wars creator George Lucas was not involved in the making of that film and that he was also unhappy with several aspects of the finished product, and was…
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In which Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes did Patrick Stewart not appear?
I'm a little confused by what I see on Wikipedia.
The wikipedia article for Patrick Stewart says he appeared in 176 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The wikipedia article for the series says there were 178 episodes. Which two episodes…
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Just how much of The Cursed Child is JKR's?
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is marketed as
The eighth story. Nineteen years later.
In big block caps on the back of the book.
The front cover also proclaims
Based on an original new story by
J.K. Rowling
John Tiffany & Jack Thorne
A new…
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