Questions tagged [character]
Typically questions about a specific character in a movie/tv show.
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Why isn't Bruce Willis's character in the Sixth Sense self-aware?
Why doesn't Bruce Willis's character realize he is dead?
If I remember correctly, the plot takes place several months after he is killed. Shouldn't there have been some clues during that time? They ...
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How did Marty McFly and “Doc” Brown first meet?
They’re not related, they’re not neighbors, and they’re separated in age by at least five decades: So how did Marty McFly and “Doc” Brown first meet?
This question has been bugging me from the moment ...
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What significance does Mike Yanagita have in Fargo?
In the Coen brothers' movie Fargo (1996), the detective Marge Gunderson gets called by and meets an old schoolmate, Mike Yanagita. He tells her that he is widowed and tries to make a move on her.
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What is the real reason for the Joker's scars?
In The Dark Knight, The Joker told different reasons for the scars on his cheeks. Initially he said that his father gave him the cuts on his cheek as a child after his father performed the same act on ...
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Do Star Trek characters wearing red shirts have the highest death rate on the original show?
In many episodes of the original series of Star Trek (Star Trek TOS) a team will be selected to beam down to the planet (or wherever the action was in the episode). This will have major characters ...
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Why did the Joker take the risk of placing a gun in Harvey Dent's hand?
After Harvey Dent's face got burned and his fiancée was killed in The Dark Knight, the Joker goes to the hospital and gives Harvey Dent a gun to give Dent an opportunity to kill the Joker. Why was The ...
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Switch in *The Matrix* - Two Actors?
Recently I found an article quoting an IMDb Factoid that the character Switch in The Matrix was supposed to be played by two actors, one male and one female:
When Belinda McClory auditioned for ...
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Why does Darth Vader not use the Force to prevent Luke from falling?
In Star Wars: Episode V– The Empire Strikes Back, When Darth Vader gives Luke the news that he is his father, Luke is hanging just a few feet away from Vader. Then, Luke decides to jump off his ...
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Jaime's character change in Game of Thrones
In Game Of Thrones Jaime's character is shown to be bad and ruthless in the beginning. He pushes a little kid off a window. Later he's shown to have honor and sympathy and looks after Sansa, tries to ...
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What was Chandler Bing's job?
In the series Friends everybody's jobs are well-known except Chandler's. He was very good in math and he did work with some kind of accounting or auditing job, sometimes with the help of a computer ...
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Was Thanos really committed or just a hypocrite?
The title is extremely vague, because this question contains HEAVY spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War, specifically the very last scenes of the movie. I can't reasonably put the entire question in ...
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In Fight Club is Marla Singer a second figment of Jack's imagination?
After reading this article on the existence of Marla Singer, I am fairly convinced she represents his guilt and remorse. It seems entirely plausible Marla Singer materializes to remind Jack he is ...
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Did Batman break his one rule?
In the final scene of The Dark Knight, we see Batman go on a final confrontation with the corrupted Dent.
Dent, hell bent on making Batman and Gordon pay for Rachel's death, flips his trademark coin ...
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Why is Arya visibly scared in the library in Game of Thrones S8E3?
In Game of Thrones S8E3, Arya fiercely kills a way lot of wights after which she has to escape from them and enter the library. In the library she seems pretty shaken and also not as brave as she ...
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Why doesn't Deadpool's healing ability heal his skin?
In the Deadpool movie when Wade his mutant cells get activated, his skin changes so he looks like Freddy Krueger (As Weasel referred too).
But he obtains healing abilities and his cancer gets cured ...
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Why does Gus walk away from his car?
In Breaking Bad S04E12 End Times, at the end Gus walks towards his car at the hospital parking with his two bodyguards, with Walt watching from an adjacent rooftop. As Gus is approaching the car he ...
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Why did Ramsay strike him?
In Game Of Thrones S06E09, after the battle, inside Winterfell, the giant is on his knees and Jon Snow is standing besides him when Ramsay strikes the giant in the eye with an arrow. The giant was ...
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If Agent Smith is just an AI program, then how could he end up in the real world?
In the movie The Matrix Revolutions, Agent Smith possessed the body of Bane in the real world. But he was just an AI program, nothing but some code that exists in the Matrix, so how could he end up in ...
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What is Mycroft's job?
In the new BBC series of Sherlock, what does Mycroft actually do?
He seems to have a lot of power, seeing as how he can people spied on, deals with terrorists, foreign threats etc. But then he also ...
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Why wasn't the poltergeist Peeves in the Harry Potter movies?
In the Harry Potter book series, Peeves is a poltergeist that roams the hallways causing trouble. He never really adds anything essential to the plot line, but his scenes are amusing.
Obviously they ...
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Does Sheldon Cooper have Asperger's Syndrome?
Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory has many personality quirks, some of which make him a tad hard to take at times.
He has difficulty expressing empathy
He has a good vocabulary but has ...
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Is this character hallucinating in "Stormborn" (S07E02)?
During a scene in "Stormborn" (Game of Thrones, S07E02), Arya Stark runs into an old friend in the Riverlands...
Near the end of that scene, Arya says, "That's not you."
Does this mean she ...
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How old is Charles Muntz during "Up"?
In Up, Charles Muntz is the main villain. At the beginning of the movie, he is shown when Carl and Ellie are young - he's an adult already. Fast forward to when Up takes place. Ellie has passed away, ...
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Why did Vader passively accept being killed and replaced at Palpatine's command?
I find it disturbing the kind of dominance Palpatine is able to hold over Vader. In the scene including Luke, who defeats Vader and is invited to replace him by killing him, Vader calmly gets up after ...
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Why does Hollywood not use foreigners in foreigners' roles?
This is a question that bothers me for a really long time. For example, Russians in every (not literally, but you get the point) Hollywood movies/TVshows are acted by English-speaking actors. It is ...
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Are Agent Barton and Agent Romanoff ever called 'Hawkeye' and 'Black Widow' in the MCU?
I recently read an article that claims Hawkeye, Black Widow and Scarlet Witch are never called by their comic-book names in the movies. While I'm pretty sure this is true for the Witch, I'm less sure ...
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What does Mr Bean have against the three-wheeled car?
One of Mr Bean's quirks is that he hates this particular three-wheeled car:
My question is then, do we know why he hates this car? Has Atkinson or any of the writing staff ever commented regarding ...
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What God does Captain America believe in?
In the Avengers movie, there is a scene inside a jet, where Captain America tells that "there is only one God", to Black Widow.
The exact dialogue goes like this:
Black Widow: These guys come from ...
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Did this character show any indication of wanting to rule before S8E6?
When Tyrion nominates Bran to become King of the Six Kingdoms at the end of Game of Thrones, Bran replies with a cheeky "Why do you think I came all this way?" response. This implies on some level ...
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Is the Three-Eyed Raven incapable of emotion?
(Game of Thrones, S07E03–E04)
When Meera leaves Bran at Winterfell and is unsatisfied with his lack of gratitude for all of her help (which you would be after all they went through), she concludes ...
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How can Philip J. Fry be his own grandfather if he is sterile?
In season one, "Fry and the Slurm Factory", Bender uses the F-ray on Fry.
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What should we point it at first?
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Why does Christian Bale change his voice when playing Batman
Like almost every Batman fan, I enjoy Christopher Nolan's interpretation of the role of Batman in The Dark Knight Trilogy. But why does Christian Bale change his voice to such a great extent when ...
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Why does Dr Mann act so stupidly?
When Cooper and Tars figure what Dr Mann is up to in Interstellar, he tries to escape with a shuttle and manually docks the Endurance but he doesn't manage to get a secure lock.
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Why have this character involved in Infinity War at all?
Taking this question from another perspective:
Since
[Out-of-universe] Hugo Weaving was not willing to take back his role as Red Skull
[In-universe] and it seems that any generic ominous figure with ...
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Is the man with no name the same character?
This is a question I tried to find an answer off of a comment by Napoleon on a different question.
The man with no name is the central character in what is commonly called the "Dollars trilogy", i.e.,...
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Was Sheldon Cooper ever proven wrong?
Was there any time in The Big Bang Theory - whether literal or referenced, that Dr. Sheldon Cooper was proven wrong by someone?
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Why does Hulk act the way he does in Avengers: Infinity War?
There are two scenes in the movie where Banner calls out to Hulk and Hulk denies him. These events happens after the first Hulk fight where Loki proclaims "We have a Hulk".
One is in New York during ...
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Why did Hank Pym choose Scott Lang?
In the movie Ant-Man (2015), Hank Pym tells his daughter that he thinks he found a guy to take on the Ant-Man persona. He then apparently sets up an elaborate scheme to get Scott Lang to break into ...
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What happened to Bruce Wayne/Batman's knee?
Early in The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce is seen limping with a cane. Some characters allude to an injury sustained from a fight, but we never see this in The Dark Knight. At the conclusion of that film, ...
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Who's the random kid standing in the gathering at the end?
At the end of Avengers: Endgame, there's a gathering...
During it, they move the camera over several characters, often Avengers grouped together. One person they pan over is a single teenager with ...
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Why does Wolverine drink alcohol?
In The Wolverine, Wolverine seems to be completely lost after Jean's death. Sleeping on the hills, the bottles suggests that he is drinking.
What I don't get is, why? Intoxication is a state of being ...
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Significance of Cersei's obsession with elephants?
In Game of Thrones S08E01, Cersei was so disappointed for not getting elephants and it's being part of so many memes and jokes now.
But why do elephants matter? Her competition/rivalry is with ...
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Why did Vision end up in Iron Man's team?
Vision is a humanoid of pure logic. Also, he wishes not for the destruction of humanity like Ultron and is worthy enough to hold Thor's hammer.
Why does such being enter the Iron Man's team to force ...
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Who's this lady in the war room?
In S08E02, while the war room scene, I noticed a lady being present, standing between Theon and Brienne. Her face seems familiar, but can't see to recall who she is.
Apparently she is important ...
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Why did Arya not kill the Lannister soldiers she encountered in the Riverlands?
Ed Sheeran's character in the episode in Game of Thrones was a Lannister soldier. The rest of the soldiers were Lannister soldiers also. Arya Stark hates Lannisters the most for what they have caused ...
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Why are Frozen's Elsa and Anna excluded from the Disney Princesses franchise?
Disney Princess is a famous Disney franchise and most of Disney's famous princesses are part of it, including Merida from Brave and Rapunzel from Tangled. But why are Elsa and Anna from Frozen kept ...
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What is Penny's last name in Big Bang Theory?
The characters of Big Bang Theory are:
Sheldon Lee Cooper
Leonard Leakey Hofstadter
Howard Joel Wolowitz
Rajesh Ramayan Koothrappali
Bernadette Maryanne Rostenkowski-Wolowitz
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I am Groot? translation: Is there an English translation for all of Groot’s dialogues?
In the Guardians of the Galaxy films we can gather by how he says it and by how a character that understands Groot responds as to what was said or asked, but do we have or will we ever get, subtitles ...
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Was Bugs Bunny impersonating someone when he ate the carrot?
I've heard that when Bugs Bunny was first shown eating a carrot, he was impersonating a popular movie of the time. People of that time got the "joke," and he just kept eating carrots.
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Avengers Infinity War: Casualty List?
I saw Avengers: Infinity War last night and hugely enjoyed it.
However, with the huge amount going on, I've forgotten which main/well known characters fell as casualties of the war (and at the hands ...
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