r/AskScienceFiction 16h ago

[Muppets] How is it OK that Miss Piggy is always smacking Kermit around? Isn't that like... bad... and illegal?

23 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 17h ago

[General] Other than Bruce Wayne, Tony Stark, and Scrooge McDuck, are there any CEOs in fiction that aren't evil?

22 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 3h ago

[GTA SA] Where does CJ’s morality lie?

4 Upvotes

Just curious since I made it to San Fierro in the game as I was a bit confused by how his morality aspects were handled.

Like early on in the game’s story, he opposes corrupt police for how they treated his family such as his mother, but then later on, he goes on to sabotage a rapper’s career that ruins his reputation as I was trying to figure out where CJ’s moral alignment fell under.


r/AskScienceFiction 8h ago

[Marvel] Why are so many of the Omega level mutants telepathic/psychic?

16 Upvotes

Of the known Omega level mutants, most of them are telepathic/psychic to some degree. Jean Grey, Quentin Quire, Exodus, Franklin Richards, Proteus and I think even Vulcan can all use telepathic/psionic abilities.

Why is that?


r/AskScienceFiction 25m ago

[marvel] couldn't Thanos make the universe self-regulate its population.

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This is making the generous assumption that he was right about population growth. Couldn't he just make the universe regulate its own population.

Like make every planet keep a record on how many people are born and slow down with too many are born.

If we're really being extreme kill the bad members of society if the population gets too big.

It's way less genocide and it is super ethical.

Or like put a universal cap at how many people can be born at any given time.


r/AskScienceFiction 9h ago

[GTA IV] How Did the Diamonds End Up in a Public Trash Can in a Park?

5 Upvotes

Throughout both the main GTA IV game and its DLCs, we deal with a particular set of diamonds, and can see them changing hands constantly.

The last time Niko from the main game sees them, they get dropped onto a passing truck which seems to be carrying something like dirt or gravel and that seems to be the end of them.

However, if you play The Ballad of Gay Tony DLC, at its very end, its protagonist Luis accidentally colides with a homeless man, they both fall into a trash can and then the homeless man finds those same diamonds there.

So how did they get there? From an industrial truck into a park trash can. Once the dirt/gravel got off-loaded, the diamonds would be burried under it and presumably never found. So what gives?


r/AskScienceFiction 8h ago

[Obsession] In a universe where wish magic openly exists, how is society still functional? Spoiler

0 Upvotes

So the entire movie is framed as taking place in our real, actual world. People go to work and make money and trade that for goods and services etc. Everything is the same, EXCEPT for the Wish Willows. Which are very obviously magical, supernatural and can gift you whatever you want. And society still works normally?

Magic is SOLD AT THE CORNER STORE. It's not a singular, secret magical artifact, a genie's bottle found in a cave, the controller from Click, or something that only the protagonist knows about. Anyone can walk in the store, buy a Willow, and use it to become a BILLIONAIRE overnight. Why are people still going to work? Why isn't the store overflowing with customers day and night? How is society still functional??


r/AskScienceFiction 18h ago

[Forgotten Realms] How often does one become a sorcerer by environmental exposure, and would it be easier than, say, becoming a wizard or warlock?

27 Upvotes

Since you can become a sorcerer by, say, exposing yourself to the Shadowfell or to the psionic powers of a powerful entity, I've wondered if that's a more effective means of becoming a spellcaster than forming a pact with a patron, serving a deity or having to find a place to learn magic. Certainly one with fewer tradeoffs. So what's the success rate of, idk, throwing yourself into a storm and hoping it takes root within you.


r/AskScienceFiction 19h ago

[Marvel] Has Dr. Doom always been this powerful?

251 Upvotes

Casual fan here. I always thought Dr. Doom was just another main adversary to the fantastic four, like he’s to the fantastic four what green goblin is to spider man. But with the discourse of the past year and the new movie, it seems like he’s a crazy universal level threat. Has he always been this way and have I been missing that or have people been upscaling his power since the movie’s been announced?


r/AskScienceFiction 2h ago

[Witcher] How common is allergy to potions?

0 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 12h ago

[Warhammer 40k] what kind of GPS techs are available in the universe?

4 Upvotes

Do we need to deploy some satellites or is it star based?


r/AskScienceFiction 23h ago

[Lovecraft Mythos] What is the least bad lovecraftian deity to worship as a cultist?

79 Upvotes

Obviously, worshipping anything from beyond space and time is generally considered a poor decision, but let's say you dont have a choice.

"Least bad" in this context is "least bad for me"


r/AskScienceFiction 23h ago

[Avatar] Do the humans on earth know about Jake’s transition to becoming fully na’vi?

19 Upvotes