r/AskScienceFiction 57m ago

[Marvel] Is Doom's feud with Reed entirely one-sided? Has Reed Richards ever actually done anything petty or spiteful to Doctor Doom?

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In all their years of back and forth, Dr Doom is usually the aggressor. The guy being spiteful and petty. Trying to get back at Reed Richards, prove hes smarter or even just kill him.

But in all the years of back and forth, has Reed Richards ever stooped to Doom's level? Thrown something back at Doom? What does he think of Doom?


r/AskScienceFiction 1h ago

[pacific rim] are there jeagers that rebuild cities that were destroyed when they fought the kaiju?

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in a lot of the pacific rims fight scenes, we see that cities are destroyed in the battles and it has me thinking if they ever had a jeager where it’s only Job is to rebuild destroyed cities.


r/AskScienceFiction 1h 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 4h ago

[Witcher] How common is allergy to potions?

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r/AskScienceFiction 4h ago

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

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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 9h ago

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

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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 10h ago

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

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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 10h ago

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

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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 13h ago

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

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


r/AskScienceFiction 17h ago

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

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r/AskScienceFiction 19h ago

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

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r/AskScienceFiction 19h 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?

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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 21h ago

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

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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 1d ago

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

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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 1d ago

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

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r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

[avatar] did the RDA ever think that the Navi were a threat on pandora?

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r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

[Pokemon] Can vegans and/or vegetarians eat grass-type Pokemon?

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r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic] Who is physically stronger, Bulk Biceps or Big Macintosh?

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r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

[Vampires] If you invite a vampire into your house, is the invite permanent?

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Or do you have to keep inviting them over and over? ​Asking for a friend.


r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

[Doctor Who] What's the purpose of Celestian Toy Maker?

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r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

[Friends] Why would someone even as stupid as Joey think that accidentally throwing a woman's prosthetic leg into a fire would be worse than doing the same thing with her dog?

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r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

[Pokemon] Team aqua grunt here, currently hiding out on an abandoned tropical island with some buddies, at what point will it be safe to return to the mainland and not be immediately arrested by Interpol?

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Is there like... a statute of limitations on summoning a water god and nearly destroying a region?


r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

[Starwars] has a light side and a Dark side. But is there a middle ground side? If not, why?

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Starwars has a light side and a Dark side. But is there a middle ground side? If not, why?


r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

[Marvel/My Little Pony] Who weighs more, Hulk or Apple Bloom?

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r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

[Curse of Chucky] Why was Nica blamed for all the murders?

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She's a paraplegic in a wheelchair who, despite her ravings of a serial killer doll, couldn't be the one responsible for the slaughter in the house because most people could run faster than she could wheel. Why was she treated as the prime suspect, and not an intruder who caused Nica to have a mental breakdown after they murdered everyone?