Real Questions about Fictional Worlds

[Master EffeX]

If you've ever had a wonder about a fictional world, be it Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Trek, the MCU or something less major, here is the place where you can share it - it could get responded to/discussed, or ignored. Either is acceptable. The point is you just get it out of your head (and put it into everyone else's! Ha ha).

For example, I've got an X-MEN wonder:

How does laundry get done in the X Mansion?
Is it like a college situation for highschool/middle schoolers: the students do their own laundry in a shared laundry room?
Does Professor Xavier employ staff for this purpose?
Do the staff cover the students' laundry but the adults do their own?

For that matter, who makes the food?

[Carlyle]

I imagine the X-Men in generally are in charge of upkeep, supported by Professor X's funding along with other sources of monetary gain. If I remember correcyly, the X-Men cartoons, specifically Wolverine & the X-Men and X-Men Evolution, covers some of these in varying detail.

[Master EffeX]

Ah. I've just started rewatching X-Men Evolution (haven't seen it since I was a kid, and I remember very little) and have yet to see Wolverine & the X-Men.

[Dark Cloud]

Hm, I wonder if the word Spam registered in anyone's mind. Do they know what Spam means? Is their refrigerator running?

[Carlyle]

Ah. I've just started rewatching X-Men Evolution (haven't seen it since I was a kid, and I remember very little) and have yet to see Wolverine & the X-Men.

@Master EffeX

Yeah, the cartoons have some moments where they're doing upkeep on the house. I think in Evolution they might mention one of them cooking? I can't exactly remember.

Hm, I wonder if the word Spam registered in anyone's mind. Do they know what Spam means? Is their refrigerator running?

@Dark Cloud

I mean, sure, it probably is better fit for off-topic but let's be honest who really cares if it got posted here

[Master EffeX]

@Dark Cloud

I looked in both and I decided it fit here.

I mean I did say people's wonders could be ignored, which would sort of put things in the same realm as "random fact about yourself". Like "random wonders" - this board could just become a whole thread of loose wonders.

Now, if I was strictly looking for discussion on such wonders, I would've placed it in Off-Topic.

[Dark Cloud]

@Master EffeX I think it's a cool thread tho, was just poking fun xD.

[Master EffeX]

@Dark Cloud : )

[PerfectThought]

Why doesn't Doofenshmirtz just buy a gun? What the fuck is Perry gonna do then? Or is it because platypi are endangered? Is Doofenshmirtz an avid conservationalist? In fact why aren't conservationalists called conservatives? That makes way more sense.

[Master EffeX]

I wonder if the times when Cyclops can see without the need for a visor/glasses, such as when Jean Grey has controlled his blasts or that stint in the comics when he regained control, if his colour perception/clarity is normal or if it's actually been permanently affected by seeing shades of only one (or two, depending who you're asking) colours for most of his days?

Like, if you close your eyes and stare in the direction of the sun for a while (seeing a lot of red/orange from the back of your eyelids), then open them, the world is a lot bluer/softer for a time. It's brief because you did it briefly, but would it be if you did something like that for all of your waking hours for years?!

[Master EffeX]

If all that's preventing Clark Kent from being recognized as Superman is his glasses...
...then what about all his government issued photo I.D.?

And speaking of that, since Cyclops can never remove his glasses, does he even have any photo I.D.?
I'm thinking he either better make sure he never gets pulled over when he's driving as a civilian, or he's been given a pass on the "no glasses" photo rule by instead having "MUTANT" stamped across any card he has.

[Raptra]

General thing I've wondered about any group of characters who spend the whole story constantly on the run or on some quest requiring the completion of one urgent task after another is when do they use the bathroom?

[Carlyle]

If all that's preventing Clark Kent from being recognized as Superman is his glasses...
...then what about all his government issued photo I.D.?

And speaking of that, since Cyclops can never remove his glasses, does he even have any photo I.D.?
I'm thinking he either better make sure he never gets pulled over when he's driving as a civilian, or he's been given a pass on the "no glasses" photo rule by instead having "MUTANT" stamped across any card he has.

@Master EffeX

I think it depends. I've only been asked once before to take off my glasses for photo ID, which was when I renewed my driver's license. They didn't ask me to remove them when I originally got my license, so it's probably new policy or something.

As for Cyclops, it might be the mutant example, I'd feel. But there are some mutant characters that can temporarily nullify one's power so maybe he asks them for assistance.