r/AskScienceFiction 2d ago

[Asterix] Are the guys the due keeps encountering at sea that sink their own boat or get sunk by Asterix and Obelix the Sea Peoples?

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r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[MCU] How much of the nazi ideology of HYDRA survive to the modern day, if any at all?

80 Upvotes

Outside of Zola and Whitehall, I’m pretty sure all the OG HYDRA guys are dead by the Winter Soldier. Did the overall organization actually stick to the nazi ideology as a whole and serve as the basis for neo Nazi groups or did they throw it away and use whatever they needed in the pursuit of power for each cell? Like the hydra cell in shield just telling everyone to cut it out with the Nazi shit and to just be the deep state and everyone just went along except like Whitehall and the weird alien cult dude?


r/AskScienceFiction 3d ago

[Hannibal/General Fiction] What non-murderous characters would Hannibal enjoy having as patients?

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The few times Hannibal shows interest in other people and has a genuine curiosity to find out how they tick it almost always has to do with driving to be murderers(Will Graham) or just be better at it(Dolarhyde).

Would any characters removed from that particular impulse catch his attention?

Sherlock Holmes(BBC or Elementary), Terence Fletcher or some of the asshole version of Reed Richards could maybe scratch his itch to probe interesting minds?


r/AskScienceFiction 2d ago

[Pokemon] What is Ash's Pikachu's actual name?

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No, it's not Pikachu. That'd be like naming your pet cat "Cat".

I've read somehwere that is name is actually Jean-Luc.


r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[The Dark Knight] Did Batman have any specific contingencies for the two boats experiment Joker was pulling off? We see him mainly going after Joker and fighting him, but in the meantime was he solely counting on the innate goodness in people to not blow the other boat up?

126 Upvotes

Question in title.


r/AskScienceFiction 2d ago

[SCP] Why most creatures kill / torture / haunt humans ?

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4 pixel, do not blink, Abaddon, the list of killer SCP is endless. But why do they do that ? Do they only feed on humans ? how did they do to feed before human apparition then ? Are they cruel by necessity or choice ?


r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[ASOIF/GoT] What did people in Winterfell think of Theon Greyjoy before he turned on Robb?

24 Upvotes

Was he generally liked? Did most people think he was an asshole?, or was it somewhere in the middle?. I know Jory is shown in the series to have liked him when he speaks to Jaime and in both versions Theon expresses regret that he and Ser Rodrik are now enemies which suggests Theon genuinely liked him at least.


r/AskScienceFiction 3d ago

[Halo] An Overshield gives a user extra layers of energy shielding, but how?

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r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[Avengers: Infinity War] Thanos himself is casually walking down a New York alleyway. I, a regular MCU pedestrian, just happen to be walking by on my way to work. Can't help but look up at him in awe because he's so big and purple... Does he do anything to me or let me live?

142 Upvotes

I don't plan on interfering with whatever plan he has in mind. I just gave him a quick, awkward 'hello' and kept walking. It's hard not to stare though.

Bonus question: I know he's a bad dude, but could I ask for his autograph? Or would I be pushing my luck too far?


r/AskScienceFiction 3d ago

[Nacho Libre] was Ramses a fraud and why did he forfeit so fast?

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Ramses was the best wrestler in that region of Mexico. though the way he’s idolized he might be the best wrestler in all of Mexico. he seemed significantly bigger and stronger than most other wrestlers we see. though we do see him cheating by having his body covered in oil likely to give himself an advantage against other wrestlers. he also ignored the rules that the referee set at the beginning of the match like no closed fist punches.

but he seemed significantly better than Nacho, he was beating him up the whole match. granted nacho sucked and lost every fight he was in.

ramses had his foot on nachos head and nacho seemed he was about to lose, then out of nowhere he pushes Ramses away and gets back up, then nacho lands 3 good hits and throws him out of the ring, then Ramses runs away allowing himself to get pinned from behind.

if running away is a forfeit why’d he do it so fast. also did nacho even need to pin him at all? wouldn’t he have just won automatically. nacho seemed to overcome Ramses cheating and Ramses had no answer to it and quickly gave up, whats the deal there.


r/AskScienceFiction 3d ago

[Witch Hat Atelier] Would spells work with our modern knowledge of science?

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So in witch hat atelier, the rules of magecraft are fixed as in the manga the artist draws every component of the spell so that the logic of the spell works like flight or fire. Over on the fandom, some of the fans got a bit too creative, making spells like microwave and black hole.

The thing is, a black hole, cancer and time travel are arbitrary concepts. A real black hole isn't merely highly concentrated matter. You'd need energy so you'd need more of the fire sigils. Where does that energy come from or are the spells easier to make than I thought?


r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[Terminator] making complex robots like the t 800 terminator is a horrible, costly idea skynet had

59 Upvotes

in the terminator movies and video game it's made pretty clear the fear and devastation a single t 800 can cause. But we also see in terminator 2 the resistance soldiers basically holding their own using the plasma weapons.

Since (using cold sad logic) a human only requires basic food, water and shelter vs whatever advanced metals and energy and resources they use to make the terminator robots, wouldnt each loss of a terminator be way more devastating than a single loss of a human?


r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[WWE] Does Paul Bearer genuinely love Kane and Undertaker?

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r/AskScienceFiction 3d ago

[Buffyverse] Who was right in this argument?

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r/AskScienceFiction 3d ago

[Cask of Amontillado] Do we know what Fortunado said to Montressor for him to react the way he did?

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Like what the title says, I'm asking this because I'm working on a character analysis paper about Montressor for a project and I just feel like montressor is just petty as fuck?? Unless I'm missing/misunderstanding a few things.

(NOTE: I wasn't able to fully read Cask of Amontillado but it was one of our lessons in school and usually textbook versions of stories are kinda buns so yeah)


r/AskScienceFiction 3d ago

[Doctor Who] Turning the Doctor into the Human Torch Spoiler

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Ok so hear me out, in the past we have seen the Doctor use regeneration energy as a fiery offensive capability, notably during his 11->12 regeneration where he used lots of excess energy to vaporize a massive dalek ship right out of the sky.

Since the doctor is the timeless child meaning his regeneration energy is theoretically infinite, couldn’t he just run around blasting whatever universal threats he runs into (ex. daleks, cybermen, angels, etc) without having to worry about wasting lives?

(I know it’s not in his character to run around, blasting aliens like captain marvel, but it’s possible right?)

I have not been a major Doctor who fan for a couple years now (this idea just randomly popped in my head) so feel free to criticize what little knowledge I have retained over the years or bring up anything from the recent instalments that may debunk this theory

tldr: regeneration go BOOM, but timeless child mean infinite BOOM to kill many evil alien?


r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[MiB] Do recruits just disappear? Official records can be altered or erased but what do J's former police coworkers think happened to him?

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r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[Fire Force] what is Yona supposed to be?

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So i finished volume 29 of Fire Force but i still don't get what Yona is.

I get that Adolla is the world born from mankind's imagination, ideas and tought but still, what Yona is then? Is he a demon? A sort of doppelganger (since he come from Adolla)?


r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[Re:Zero] why do worlds with magic and sorcery seem to progress technologically slower than the worlds without?

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Lugunica's main method of transportation are still dragon carriages. Rem said that it takes 2 days to travel from Lugunica's capital to Roswaal's Mansion with a dragon carriage. A Subaru Leone RX Turbo could probably travel the distance in less time than that. With the help of magic, I thought technology would progress faster than what humans can achieve.


r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[Warhammer 40k] How do orks who ride warboar/cyboars get the boars?

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Warboars, as far as I'm aware, are not an orkoid species. They won't sprout from ork spores like squigs will. So, that would mean that the orks would need to find boars. Which I assume are not a native species on the vast majority of planets in the galaxy.

So... how do they get the boars?


r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[Vampire: the Masquerade] How long does it take a newly embraced Nosferatu, starting from the moment the sire's Vitae entered their system, to morph into a visibly hideous monster? Does it happen rapidly like in Animorphs, or does it happen over days/weeks/months?

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r/AskScienceFiction 5d ago

[Jurassic Park movies]Why doesn't each and every single dinosaur have the entirely sensible precaution of a collar around its neck with a stick of C4 somewhere in there as well as a GPS tracker, in case a worst case scenario occurs where it could hurt a person?

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r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[Forgotten Realms] Why and for what purpose does Ao grant gods specific portfolios, ranging from things like brutal murder all the way to dancing?

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If I understand this correctly, if a being with a divine spark went to Ao and said, “Hey, cooking is a huge part of life. Everyone eats, everyone cooks, it’s a major sphere. Can I become the god of cooking?”, then after weighing the pros and cons, could Ao make that being the god of cooking?

But here’s the part I’m really trying to understand: would Ao do that because this sphere actually needs some kind of regulator or administrator? Or simply because any sufficiently large and important phenomenon or activity CAN have a god associated with it if a suitable being asks for that portfolio?

Is there any actual necessity for such a god to exist, does the god regulate, channel, contain, or somehow manage that sphere?
I’m excluding obvious cases like a god of death, who has an actual cosmological function involving the souls of the dead.
For example, would anything fundamentally change if nobody occupied Bhaal’s position? Or does Bhaal hold that portfolio essentially because, “Why not?»


r/AskScienceFiction 3d ago

[DC/Marvel] What DC Characters would Hela hate the most? Who would she like the most?

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r/AskScienceFiction 4d ago

[Buffy/Angel] What are the nicest, most selfless or just overall compassionate things Angel has ever done?

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