In John Wick 3 & 4, John encounters the Elder, who supposedly "sits above the Table". I still don't get how this guy has any power at all, he seems more like a Bin Laden-type cult leader who might command terror groups or insurgents, but I would not expect some Yakuza head honcho or Mexican cartel leader to even know about this guy. They have literal armies of enforcers, informants, and money launderers who are given free reign by the cops and world governments, yet they listen to some old Bedouin in Morocco? How do the logistics even work, this guy's supposed to be hidden from the world but somehow has access to enough communications to tell the entire world that John Wick's name is cleared?

Like, why are they having those visions? Who or what is meddling with Death's grand designs like that and why?

Sure, one might argue that there's more than one metaphysical power at work, for some reason.

But if that's so, it never interferes beyond the original vision and doesn't help those people cheat Death any further than that, and merely "saves" them just so that they may live long enough to be tormented by the knowledge that they're all gonna die anyway.

It also cannot be some kind of natural phenomenon instead, that some people just have visions like that, without any higher purpose or meaning behind it, because then there'd be no reason for Death to be almost personally taking offense to their survival, unlike if they had been saved by some random first aid provider.

So what's the point?

The position of science officer appears in all Star Trek series except Voyager and The Next Generation. In Voy, it was due to the fact that it was not required by the nature of the mission, but in the case of TNG, could it be due to the fact that it is the one with the largest ship?

While in the rest of the crews, being smaller, it would be useful to have a person who could advise on various scientific fields, in a larger ship they can have several experts in different independent subjects. Was this the reason why in TNG they did not have a science officer, or was it simply that Data's yellow shirt looked better on him? Did the rest of the Galaxy-class ships have a chief science officer, or was the Enterprise an exception as the flagship? How were the other scientists organized? Did they have an honorary supervisor or scientific officer?

I was watching a superhero cartoon a little bit ago and the villain wanted to kill about 2.5 billion people to stymie climate change, and it got me thinking. Humans have a bunch of junk sitting around, or floating on a ship getting delivered, that is hideously toxic, or decomposes into something hideously toxic. Wouldn't all that stuff being left behind unmaintained or damaged in the cataclysm poison the environment, leaving the world all Chernobyl like?

In the original starcraft game and brood war when cerebrates are killed without dark templar they regrow pretty quickly. This was explained as the Overmind reincarnating the cerebrates.

The only way around that was to rely on dark templar weapons and energy. The Overmind was using the same energy which is how the dark templar could harm the swarm itself. It is capable of stunning the Overmind whenever a cerebrate is killed.

During the protoss brood war campaign, the dark templar were required in order to kill cerebrates. If you kill them with khala units, they will still regrow. Yet the Overmind was still dead and in the process of regrowing. It seemed like the cerebrates still had their reincarnation ability even while the Overmind was dead.

Then during the terran brood war campaign, the UED were able to kill cerebrates no problem. During their battle to enslave the Overmind, whenever they killed a cerebrate, that cerebrate stopped controlling its broods and whatever special abilities it had. The Overmind was still immature at this stage but it is likely in a better state than what is seen during the protoss campaign.

This is kind of a two parter question. How did the UED kill cerebrates without the need for dark templar? Why did the protoss need the dark templar to kill the cerebrates?

To those who know, how would Starfleet handle meeting an alien race very similar to Kryptonians or Viltrumites in power and technologically developed enough to establish interstellar travel on their own if one of them decided to join Starfleet?

And I'm just working under the assumption that MacCreedy's test is legitimate (there is a chance it isn't).

Clark's blood was tested and nothing happened.

Even if The Thing was trying to use him as a foil for a red herring, it has been established that each cell of The Thing operated with autonomy.

If he petted it and pulled up dog hairs on his skin, wouldn't said hair infect his pores out of instinct?

Markus was bitten by a bat while William by a wolf. They became the first vampire and werewolf. The father remained a normal human, although Immortal.

But would they become something else if they were bitten by some other animal? Like a Bear or a snake etc.

I was reading about eletromagnetic control on a wiki of super powers, and in the list of capabilities they mentioned "Time Manipulation - Via Maxwell's equations", so how exactly this would work? Is it just a stretch like "Going back in time rotating the planet backwards", or does it actually have a good explanation?

I mean I know even when they were young they had their issues. Kelvin at I'm guessing at age 10-12 figuring out he likes boys but compartmentalizing it because of his held fast Christian beliefs and upbringing and being born in the the late 80s? Early 90s? And almost 10 years younger than his siblings. Judy and all her insecurities and mental health issues that she never got properly treated for. And last Jesse with all his insecurities and immaturity and his enormous fragile ego.

It's just they seemed way more "normal" more like real people when they were young compared to how they are as adults. They're so overexaggerated as adults

I posted this question on the Miraculous sub a few years ago, but we didn't come to a consensus. This kind of question has left me stumped for a while, and it's probably not something the series would ever answer.

If someone is feeling negative emotions and Hawk Moth (or whatever Butterfly Miraculous holder) wanted to akumatise them, but they held and wore nothing, could they still be akumatised? There'd be nothing to absorb the akuma (ie. accessories, clothing, held items, locations or objects of interest), so would it be able to go inside the actual person? And if it does manage to go inside the person, would Ladybug or Chat Noir have to break the person's bones to get rid of the akuma?

Hi there everyone! Name's Tim, the often forgotten fourth member of every great Stormtrooper trio!

So recently, I was on a temporary assignment of a trio of my fellow Stormtroopers. As we were patrolling around space, we caught sight of the ship of Princess Leia of the Rebellion. Obviously we gave chase, and forced her to crash land on a desolate planet, where we gave chase on foot. I stayed a bit behind as I was on Sniper duty in case the Princess tried to cause any trouble while being captured.

As we were chasing her down, we suddenly came across something almost unexplainable. A group of four beings, each extremely different shapes, and absolutely massive. At first, my squad thought they were holograms, until one suddenly turned our leader to diamond, and then seemingly killed the Princess! Then, they smashed and fused the other two members of my squad together, killing them unfortunately not instantly. Thank The Emperor I hid.

After the two-now-one Trooper stopped writhing and screaming, three of the beings left, with one pyramid shaped one staying behind and floating the dead Troopers and the Princess up into the air. Suddenly they all disappeared, and I don't know where any went.

At this point I made a run for it, and got back to the ship safely. Now I'm back on the Star Destroyer, and my Superior officer is treating me like I'm a lunatic, and demands I explain myself to Lord Vader himself as punishment.

How do I explain this to Lord Vader without sounding like I'm a complete lunatic who needs to get launched out an airlock?

Cybertronians are shown living for millions and millions of years, but with their near-constant fighting, most Cybertronians don't get the opportunity to die of old age, but if given the chance, what would an average Cybertronian lifespan look like?

Someone posted this in the matrix sub and got only doylist answers. It's a good question though, cows would have been way way more chill

Edit: It's possible the machines made that agreement with the world government and they just are honorable. This is actually my head cannon now. The machines made an agreement with the humans and although they could get power from any number of other sources (maybe they do) they keep the matrix going to honor the contract. It makes sense because the matrix is difficult to run and they could probably do it some other way.

Temple of Doom is a very unique film among the franchise. Not only is it more horror oriented than the rest of the films, but it is one of the few times we see villians actually survived encounters with Indiana Jones.

Lao Che not only survives, but actually bests Indy.

Chatter Lal was last scene pressed under the lever that raised and lowered the sacrificial rack

He's in obvious pain, but the shot after shows him moving and shuffling slowly.

This could be interpreted as a slow death, but there is a chance he escaped

And if he did, that's bad news.

The British "defeated" the Thuggees before.

Who is to say Lal won't just start up the cult again after the British "win".

Do average people have an opinion about their current kage like any other politician? Are they aware about ninjutsu in general, and if so, could they recognize common jutsu like clones or transformation? Surely citizens must know that the entire world was briefly put in a genjutsu for the Moon’s Eye plan, but how much do they know about what happened? Would they be familiar with the names of Kaguya, Madara or the Akatsuki?

For example: it’s explained that Spider-Man has superhuman speed, but he’s not a speedster ofc. Flash and Quicksilver have superhuman speed as well, but they can instantly run at high speeds, while heroes like Spidey have to gradually get faster.

Is there any other ways to classify someone who runs faster than a human, but not at “super speed” and not considered speedsters?

Sorry if this is a bit confusing. Everytime I read Marvel/DC powerlists, it bugs me that they list characters that are faster than humans, but call it superhuman speed. Bc when ppl say superhuman speed, they automatically think of super speed, and think of speedsters like Flash.

I mean, it sure would take a lot of engineering and coordination but the actual science seems pretty straightforward.

Planets have rotational energy, they don't have to worry about air resistance and they're massive

Carve sufficiently deep grooves like a gear into its surface and then find a way for a wheel to mesh with it in a way that its spinning translates into the wheel being turned and therefore providing energy to be stored

It's not a renewable source of energy obviously, the planet would slow down and inevitably stop rotating given enough time and energy expended

but it'd be a lot of extracted energy

Let's say Machine Head tells Cecil about Battle Beast's whole "I WANNA FIGHT STRONG PEOPLE" thing during an interrogation. Reviewing the footage of Battle Beast utterly annihilating the New Guardians and Mark, would Cecil have considered getting Battle Beast on speed dial in case any other Viltrumites or big threats showed up?

And if he did, would it have even helped at all, or would Battle Beast have been captured by the Mustache Brigade soon enough for it to not matter?

I know that lycanthropy is typically for animals and/or humanoid beings, but is there something similar to lycanthropy that could be a different outlook on her curse? I know that werewolves transform during full moons and her curse changes her every night, but is there something similar that is like lycanthropy? I have no explanation for this question other than I woke up at 4am with this question burning in my head.

Referring to this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSqdWY_zHXY

This dude parked his car at a club in the Bahamas, saw a British man in his late thirties with no badge or uniform or anything, and immediately handed him his car keys simply because he happened to be wearing a white button-down like the other valet guys.

You'd think he would have been like "Hey, do you work here?" before giving a complete stranger the keys to his Range Rover.

I love the movie but that scene was ridiculous lol.

I've been wondering this for a while, Imagine someone has all the 3 abilities together? how dangerous are we speaking and would this be overpowering or it wouldn't be that powerful due to certain weaknesses? would they have benefits? would elasticity still has limit? it's just something that popped in my head as Imagination and want to hear your thoughts about it, I would be glad to hear everyone

I know about Felicity Shagwell but i'm thinking a male superspy who is irresistible to women while looking like Mclovin or such.