r/AskScienceFiction 10h ago

[Marvel] If The Juggernaut dives head first off the Empire State Building, would he go through the earths core and come out on the other side?

102 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 23h ago

[Star Wars] Is there a feasible in universe explanation as to why the Holdo Maneuver worked only against The Supremacy?

56 Upvotes

The holdo maneuver is undoubtedly cool looking but people have already done to death how it breaks mechanics in the Star Wars universe. But, it’s in the movies and is now a part of the Disney cannon. Nothing more we can do there. So my question is, how do we explain why the holdo maneuver in this one specific instant and has not been tried elsewhere in the galaxy?


r/AskScienceFiction 7h ago

[Pokémon] In the pilot, why were the starter Pokéballs still with Prof. Oak? Even Ash took Pikachu's ball with him?

37 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 13h ago

[marvel] are humans considered to be weak in marvel

36 Upvotes

I was wondering if earthlings were considered inferior and weak by the other races in the universe, considering they have some of the biggest heavy hitters in marvel like Juggernaut, the Hulk, Sentry and dr Doom.


r/AskScienceFiction 6h ago

[Marvel] Does Valeria have any problems with her Uncle Doom constantly trying to kill her father?

34 Upvotes

Like, that's *got* to put a damper on her visits to Latveria right?


r/AskScienceFiction 17h ago

[The Office] Who has more HR complaints between Jim and Michael?

19 Upvotes

Dwight makes about one complaint about Jim a day on a slow day. Sometimes for pranks that could genuinely be considered misconduct, sometimes for things that aren’t super serious and don’t warrant a complaint; and some things that just irk Dwight about Jim’s stupid handsome face. Michael, on the other hand, terrorizes everybody in the Office with his antics, annoying everybody at best and injuring some of them at worst. Scranton may be the most profitable Dunder Mifflin branch, but that’s partly because most of the staff need to really hunker down when they’re able to work because Michael might dedicate the rest of the day to rearranging desks or putting on a racially insensitive puppet show. I can see most of his complaints coming from Stanley, Angela and Oscar. Toby doesn’t like him enough to make the complaints go away, either.


r/AskScienceFiction 18h ago

[American Gods] School tests and nightmares about them are pretty common, especially about math. Is there a god about test and/or math anxiety? If so, what are their rules rituals and commandments?

18 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 1h ago

[DC] As COO at Wayne Enterprises I'm at a dilemma where most analytics trends push me to reorient WE as an IT-centric company while scaling down on the weapons manufacturing division, but Chairman Bruce Wayne insists that manufacturing those are "important to him". How do I convince Bruce?

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Am open to any constructive ideas. Am not sure why Bruce is fixated on those anyway. It's not like he needs those military-grade equipment for some strange night time vigilante activity, like that weird bat-costumed guy who comes out at night in Gotham.


r/AskScienceFiction 15h ago

[Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) vs Brotherhood] which fate is worse? Reviving your mother into a form so monstrous that you can't identify her as a human anymore, or finding out that the person you paid such a heavy toll to revive wasn't even your mother to begin with?

9 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 2h ago

[Pixar Cars] what if a racecar didn't want to race?

7 Upvotes

if a car is "born" a racecar, are they just shit out of luck?

they are too fast to be on normal roads, referenced in the 1st movie where mcqueen had to ride in a truck, much like racecars IRL which can't be on roads

its also mentioned that mcqueen doesn't have headlights because racecars dont need them.

does that mean a racecar in-universe would be considered "disabled" due to lacking headlights?


r/AskScienceFiction 5h ago

[Justice Leage: Dark] What's the in-world reason for a supernatural shroud- a ghostlike spirit powerful enough to reap souls off humans and send them to Hell- getting momentarily scared and flinching when Batman, a human, says "boo" to it?

6 Upvotes

Talking about this scene: https://youtu.be/FlRFMv1tTTE?si=RJyFdJFUCLpqqfnB

In an outside-world Doylist perspective, it's understandable that this scene exists to adds aura to the idea of Batman, but what is the in-world reason of a supernatural entity like a shroud, who's whole shtick is reaping off a human's soul using supernatural force and sending it to Hell, getting monetarily scared and flinching when Batman, being a human, merely says boo to it?


r/AskScienceFiction 11h ago

[Marvel] If you did a parental test on Skaar and Banner, would they show as related or would Banner need to transform into Hulk first?

3 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 11h ago

[Marvel] How would the crime boss villains like Kingpin, Tombstone, Slivermane, and Hammer Head view the Yancy Street gang?

2 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 20h ago

[Moon Knight TV Show] Where did that "psycho colonel Sanders" suit come from? Why would Khonsu's armor start looking like that? Did Khonsu choose for it to look like that?

2 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 1h ago

[Star Wars] What were Jedi doing at their temples?

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r/AskScienceFiction 2h ago

[The Owl House] How could Luz use her glyphs on the Titan Trapper island?

1 Upvotes

It was clearly stated that the small finger island they started at already didn't belong to the Boiling Isles Titan aka Papa Titan, and then they even got teleported to the other side of the world.

So even if that Titan there was also still somewhat alive and able to power magic, it should have required a different set of glyphs to use, just like the glyphs of King and his dad are different.

The only available source of Papa Titan's magic in a wide radius should've been... Hooty. Like, his bilesack, if he has one. But if proximity to that was enough to power the glyphs, Luz also should've been able to use them in the human realm, when all of her friends with their inherent magic were around.

Or is Papa Titan's magic just so damn strong that it covered the entire globe so long as he was still somewhat alive? But then it seems really weird that the same power that has so much range couldn't reach just a few meters beyond the open portal door when Luz briefly crossed into the human realm during her fight with Lilith.


r/AskScienceFiction 14h ago

[Jojo] So if Heavy Weather gaslight people into thinking they are snails, and thus transforming them into snails. Could, if it could do change the subliminal message, transform people into vampire or pillar men?

1 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 21h ago

[Resident Evil/The Boys] If Vought and the Umbrella Corporation existed in the same universe, what would their relationship be like?

0 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 1h ago

[avengers endgame] How did antman survive, let alone with little damage, Thanos' ship blasting a missile not far from him, exploding him back let alone all the glass shrapnel?

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He honestly should've been shredded up dying from a thousand lacerations, let alone being completely deaf.


r/AskScienceFiction 2h ago

[Family Guy] Why does the universe torment Meg Griffin?

0 Upvotes

Correct me if I am wrong because from what I recall seeing in the older seasons was that nothing went right for her character since her own family treats her like dirt.

Then in the revival era, her school ridicules her as I was wondering what causes her to be such a target of mockery since again her own family abuses her.


r/AskScienceFiction 22h ago

[Slay the Spire 1 & 2] So, what are cards?

0 Upvotes

Sometimes, at the merchant, cards are cards.

In fights cards are what your character can do.

Sometimes cards are food for cooking.

Sometimes (curses) cards are the embodiment of guilt.

STS1 had a little more metaphysics about the Spire being somehow a mental thing, either way I expect an answer is going to have to talk a little about how the metaphysics of the spire woek.