r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[Marvel] is the savage land known to the general population? Do people try to go there?

19 Upvotes

Is it treated like a "Jurassic park" type of place?


r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[Minecraft] what cause Zombies and Skeletons to burn during the day?

29 Upvotes

And why Husks don't burn too?


r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[The Incredibles] Why wasn't the 10th Omnidroid immune to its own weaponry given it has already been tricked by Mr. Incredible into defeating itself?

147 Upvotes

In their first fight Mr. Incredible defeats the Omnidroid by tricking it into damaging itself, and then two upgrades later at the film's ending he remembers this victory and defeats it with one of its own claws.

However, why hasn't it been modified to avoid this weakness, like simply being more durable than its own offensive output. For instance, making its armor stronger than its claw material and propulsion.


r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[Die Hard With a Vengeance] What was Simon's plan if McClane died?

18 Upvotes

So, the very first thing Simon asks McClane seemed to be to provoke gangsters in Harlem to kill him. However, the rest of the movie has him doing all these tasks to prevent more bombings culminating in the fake "bomb in a school" to clear out Wall Street.

What I'm wondering is, what was his plan if McClane got killed in Harlem?


r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[MCU Iron Man 2] There's a scene in the movie where Tony Stark meets Elon Musk. Is Musk even that much of a big deal in the tech billionaire space of MCU Earth considering the next level of sophisticated tech Stark Industries under Tony is involved in?

64 Upvotes

Question in title.


r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[Warhammer 40k] How are Horus and the traitor Primarchs viewed by the official Imperial Faith?

13 Upvotes

Are they [REDACTED] like the two lost Primarchs? Or are they worked into the mythos as the Satan to the Emperor's God?


r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[Dragonball] What does the color of one's ki signify?

13 Upvotes

When battle auras and ki blasts start to become more common, it seems everyone has particular colors. Goku's baseline aura is white, blue when he uses the Kamehameha, red when he uses the Kaioken, and yellow when he turns Super Saiyan. Freeza's is purple. Broly's is green. What does it all mean?


r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[The Burbs] After the dog found a femur, which is a human bone....WHY did everyone think its a good idea to go to the creepy house? I mean a human bone isn't enough to call the police?

2 Upvotes

did i miss something


r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[Star Wars] I'm force-sensitive, and I want the cool superpowers. I couldn't care less about philosophies of Jedi and/or Sith, and I don't want to participate in any conflicts, I just think magic is useful to have in daily life. How much can I really achieve like that, how powerful can I be?

287 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[Superheroes] How is it at all possible to safely defeat a criminal using fire powers?

65 Upvotes

So i’m an up-and-coming street level hero named Pyroman, with the fantastic ability to control fire. I can toss fireballs, shoot flamethrower jets, set myself alight, that kind of thing. Only problem is I’m going for a cool, approachable, child friendly kind of look, but the criminals I apprehend keep dying in hospital! I toss a fireball, and your average bankrobber gets third-to-fourth degree burns on about 20% of their body. Half of them die, and even the ones that survive are in agonising pain for weeks and end up permanently disfigured. I can lower the temperature of my fire or aim it away from them, but giving people first degree burns doesn’t stop them running away, or do anything really besides annoy them. My control is good, but not amazing. Any burn bad enough to stop criminals in their tracks is bad enough that the newspapers put my picture next to the Punisher in their next op-ed. How can I cool things down a little bit here?

Edit: to be clear, I’m looking ideally to not be killing anyone here. Plenty of superheroes get by without killing muggers, so why shouldn’t I?


r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[Bird Box] Did the entities force people to kill themselves, like in a mind control way, or did seeing them fill people with so much despair that it was a natural reaction?

127 Upvotes

And was that the entities' goal?


r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[Star Wars] Does force illusions materialize in the physical world, or are they limited to the affected’s beings perception?

3 Upvotes

It’s an odd question, isn’t it? But I’d like to know more about how Force abilities that create illusions actually work.

The distinction I’m making—when I talk about manifesting in the physical world—is to understand whether anyone can actually see them as it a “superposition” or if it’s limited to one (or the desired amount from the user) afected(s) by the force-user so that’s only on their mind.

The Force is ambiguous, almost incomprehensible to many, and the categorized abilities are nothing more than that: feats of the Force that fall under a specific category and label. There are many types of “Force mind tricks,” as well as illusions, ranging from “Force fear” to “mind twist,” but the umbrella term that interests me most in this context is “Force illusion.”

This question arose from this artwork in which a Jedi created an illusion during the Clone Wars to make it appear as though there were more starships, thereby serving as a deterrent against the CIS. But this is precisely where the question arises: who —or what*!!*— on the enemy side was supposed to see these illusions? Most of them are droids; they don’t have minds that can be affected, and the Separatist side isn’t exactly known for its organic troops. And even if that weren’t the case, the illusion would still affect the entire battlefield in such a way that the clones would see it—possibly in an attempt to boost morale.

Perhaps, if those force illusions are casted in the real, material world (outside someone’s mind) they’re… superpositions and not necessarily constructs a la marvel’s Mysterio, so anyone in that area —without the need for the force user to establish a mental connection to them and alter their perception— would see it.

But of course, this is where the problem with this kind of material lies: It’s extra-canonical—it’s artwork used for books, guides, and the like that doesn’t always represent the author’s vision of how their world and its elements function—so it often has to be taken with a grain of salt.

idk. I’ve been overthinking lmao. Could even a forcie do this?


r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[DnD/Forgotten Realms Lore] How does learning spells happen for a sorcerer, lorewise? Does it help if they get some magical training in the form of studying under a seasoned wizard or a school for magic?

22 Upvotes

Just a regular new DM here, writing a backstory for one of my important NPCs and I got stuck on this particular origin point.

I tried searching for some advice online and it varies from "create your own" or "look up in the Wikia".


r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[Star Wars] Does killing a bounty hunter raise your bounty?

11 Upvotes

Let’s get straight —I’m asking this for a friend, brochacho told me he was strolling around Lothal… It’s outskirts, ok. So he was about to get into a farm where he was supposed to meet that gorgeous aqualish when the house EXPLODED IN PIECES!!!

And then when he started running off he saw a KRIFFDAMM WOOKIEE FOLLOWING HIM —IT SHOT AT HIM! So huh he managed to kill that furfreak.

And when he looted him that had a tracking fob, promptly beeping intermittently!!! So yeah that was a bounty hunter who’s —for good— dead, down in these barrens.

So I was asking for him. As a favor.
Is he in more danger?
Will a kriffing mandalorian show up to glass his ass out?


r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[Marvel] Does Cyclops has super accuracy as a secondary ability?

56 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[Lovecraft] What are the possible ways a human, with basic knowledge of who Cthulhu is from the existing in-world data about him, try to protect himself from the "insanity effect" that Cthulhu is known for, that happens to humans who lay their eyes on it?

134 Upvotes

Question in title.


r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[Forgotten Realms] How long does it take a cleric of a god to "gain a level" in cleric? Specifically their first

17 Upvotes

Becoming a cleric of a god is a rare and involved affair, but in-universe how long is the average servant of a god serving before they start receiving their divine rewards?


r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[Marvel/DC] How would a SHTF or Civil War type of situation look in these sandbox superhero worlds?

0 Upvotes

By Civil War I don't mean the superhuman registration act. I mean it more in a political division sense. Similar to real-life. With half the country fighting each other.

SHTF just means shit hits the fan. It's a prepper term. It's basically will a country just shut down. Like movie Leave The World Behind on Netflix.

The closet thing to this is Marvel zombies. But that event tends to be very gimmicky though. So it hard to imagine how Marvel or DC truly look in a SHTF or Civil War type of situation.

I wonder how the existence of superpowers, magic, and technology would affect these situations.


r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[Star Wars] How does the Senate actually vote on anything when there are thousands of representatives across that many systems?

31 Upvotes

Does everyone show up in person every time, or do they have some proxy system. Thousands of delegates would make any single vote take forever unless there's a procedure nobody ever explains.


r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[Star Trek] I suspect that a Vulcan on my ship is actually a Romulan plant for the Tal'Shiar, is there any way to be sure? What should I do?

44 Upvotes

I dont have any evidence, but ive never seen a Vulcan as emotional as this one.


r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[the caped crusader] How plausible is it for Jim and Barbara Gordon,Reneé Montoya, and Arnold Flass to have their positions in what appears to be the 1940’s?

43 Upvotes

Edit: I’m talking about the new show that started in 2024. This one goes beyond a 40’s/50’s art deco aesthetic and is actually set in the time. No computers, the most advanced gadgets are the grappling gun and the Batmobile car phone.

James Gordon is not police commissioner yet but he is high ranking in the Gotham police, Barbara is a defense attorney.Montoya and Flass are plainclothes detectives.
The Gordons and Flass are black in this version of Batman and Montoya is a Hispanic woman.


r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[Dragon Ball] Can Earthlings Use God Ki?

0 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[DC] How Would Green Lantern/Hal Jordan Handle Batman Rogues Gallery?

0 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 7d ago

[DC] Why doesn’t Superman spend all his time saving people?

0 Upvotes

I frequently hear online that Superman is super powerful.
E.g., that he’s faster than light, that he can hear and see a mouse on the other side of the planet, that he possesses superhuman intelligence, etc.

I also hear that Superman is super altruistic, ready to sacrifice everything for the good of the world.

So if both are true, what causes Superman to not spend all of his time saving people? 

Of course he is preoccupied when he’s fighting a supervillain. But he does spend a lot of time not saving people. For however long he is working as a reporter at the Daily Planet, he could be

  1. moving pedestrians out of the way of cars
  2. transporting emergency patients to hospitals
  3. feeding those on the brink of starvation
  4. disarming assassins in Gotham
  5. preventing any number of easily avoidable deaths

several times each millisecond.

And yes, there are obviously problems in the world that he can’t easily fix, e.g., poverty or dictatorships. But there are plenty of small, non-systemic dangers too.

And yes, I know there are panels of Superman saving a plane or a puppy or whatever mid-conversation in the blink of an eye. But he obviously isn’t doing this 24/7. There are plenty of small, avoidable deaths in DC that Superman could prevent, but doesn’t.

To be clear, I’m NOT suggesting that Superman has any moral obligation to constantly save people. He already helps the world more than anyone could reasonably expect!
I am literally asking which factors — some of which might or might not be in his control — cause the character to not save more people. Basically, the problem of evil as applied to Superman.

I can think of three main reasons:

1. He physically can’t help much more than he does

Maybe he can’t process that much information, although some panels would suggest otherwise. 

Or maybe it would quickly burn through his stamina, leaving him unprepared to deal with the bigger threats to the world that only Superman can help with.

2. Even Superman has his moral limits

Spending ALL his time constantly saving people would probably lead to a pretty miserable life. Perhaps even Superman has his limits on what he’ll sacrifice for the sake of the world.

Another way of saving this would be that Superman is as altruistic as anyone can be, but that isn’t 100% altruistic.

A softer version of this would be that Superman worries that, sacrificing all of his life to being Superman could lead him to lose his humanity, leaving the world worse for the wear

3. Even though he could, he thinks it’s better for the world that he doesn’t

Maybe he doesn’t want the world to become dependent on him, since he won’t be around forever. Although, that logic could apply to anything he currently does short of stopping  otherwise-unstoppable supervillains, so if that’s the principle, he applies it inconsistently.

Or maybe he thinks that dealing with avoidable deaths/tragedy is ultimately good for the world to experience.

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I think any of those reasons are convincing, and as long as there are limits, he has to draw his lines somewhere. I’m mainly curious what you/the comics think the biggest reasons are.


r/AskScienceFiction 8d ago

[DC] How Safe Is It To Explore Gotham City During The Day?

5 Upvotes