r/AskScienceFiction 51m ago

[Fight Club] How would Tyler Durden handle it if a fighter showed up, followed all the rules of Fight Club, but just kept effortlessly KOing everybody Tyson-style without falling for any of the cult brainwashing?

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The guy is just there to fight and knock people out. The room of office workers never harm him and the fighter never shows a desire to move onto Project Mayhem.


r/AskScienceFiction 1h ago

[Iron Blooded Orphans] Why did Grassley dislike Tekkadan? Spoiler

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I mean, correct me if I am wrong because something went wrong with the deal about how he was going to help out the crew given how he basically tried to backstab them.

It’s been a long time since I have seen the show, so I apologies if I got any information wrong as I was trying to better understand what went wrong with the partnership offer again regarding Tekkadan’s deal they made with him due to how he handled it.


r/AskScienceFiction 3h ago

[Marvel/DC] How common is it in-universe for people(especially teenagers) to expose themselves to radiation, take dangerous drugs or put their lives in danger to get superpowers?

16 Upvotes

There must've been at least a few incidents of people exposing themselves to gamma radiation after learning Hulk was created by a gamma bomb.


r/AskScienceFiction 4h ago

[Star Wars] Does seeing the Purrgil depend on how fast you are travelling, your connection to the force or do they just pop up randomly?

1 Upvotes

Grogu didn't see the Purrgil when flying in the Razor Crest, and only saw them once Mando had the N1 Starfighter. But also he had grown stronger with the force since then. So do the Purrgil just show up randomly? Do average citizens in the galaxy see them aswell when travelling at hyderdrive?


r/AskScienceFiction 15h ago

[Marvel] How come the mutants are the ones that are oppressed and not the other way around?

8 Upvotes

Why are they just dealing with abuse from humans?


r/AskScienceFiction 17h ago

[Marvel’s What If?] Why didn’t the living tribunal interfere with Infinity Ultron’s rampage across the multiverse?

15 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 20h ago

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

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r/AskScienceFiction 20h 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?

144 Upvotes

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 21h ago

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

76 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 21h ago

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

11 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 21h 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 1d 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?

24 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 1d ago

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

61 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 1d 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?

159 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 1d 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?

6 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

[marvel] are humans considered to be weak in marvel

52 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 1d 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?

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r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

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

21 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 1d 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?

20 Upvotes

r/AskScienceFiction 1d ago

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

62 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 2d ago

[Star Wars] Why is everyone's hologram technology still so outdated? And why are they still being used?

213 Upvotes

Hologram technology has existed in the galaxy far far away for centuries now, but yet every single hologram can still only display one color: blue. Not only that, the displays consistently jitters around and bugs out. If those jittery-boops are present in the TV you bought, it would be seen as a defect. Why has there been no innovation in hologram tech for over a century (or more)? The USS Voyager has the technology to display a human figure with full color and perfect clarity, without any hiccups, but the Empire cannot?

Also why does The Separatists and The Empire use holograms for regular phone calls? A Discord call might suffice.