The Boy Who Lived
According to the rules of Quidditch, throwing the Quaffle though an opponent's hoop earns 10 points, hitting an opponent with a bludger earns 0 points, and catching the golden snitch earns 50 points and ends the game.
Um, actually, catching the golden snitch earns you 150 points.
C-3PO's first encounter with a member of the Skywalker family occurs not when he meets Luke Skywalker on the desert planet of Tatooine, but when he meets princess Leia Organa aboard her Alderaan Cruiser.
Um, actually, C-3PO's first encounter with a Skywalker is when he is fixed and reassembled by Anakin Skywalker.
In the game Pokémon, use of the moonstone can evolve your Clefairy into a Clefable, your Jigglypuff into a Igglybuff, or your Nidorina into a Nidoqueen.
Um, actually, it evolves your Jigglypuff into a Wigglytuff.
In J.R.R. Tolkein's The Fellowship of the Ring, the titular fellowship is composed of nine members with representitives from four races: Hobbit, Dwarf, Elf, and Man.
Um, actually, Gandalf is a member of the Istari race, not the race of Man.
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The position of Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher at Hogwarts seems to be a cursed position. Of the seven professors that taught in that position during the seven years of the books, all of them, including Quirinus Quirrell, Gilderoy Lockhart, Remus Lupin, Alastor Mad-Eye Moody, Dolores Umbridge, Severus Snape, and Amycus Carrow, served only one year.
Um, actually, Mad-Eye Moody never taught because Barty Crouch Jr. took his place using Polyjuice Potion.
One of the most iconic buddy relationships of all time is that of Han Solo and his co-pilot Chewbacca. Chewbacca only speaks to Han in Shyriiwook, though he can understand English just fine, while Han only speaks to Chewbacca in English, as Shyriiwook is rough on human vocal cords.
Um, actually, English won't have been invented for many years. The language they are speaking is called Basic.
First published in 1995, the board game "Settlers of Catan" has players acquire and spend a variety of resources, namely: lumber, sheep, ore, grain, and brick.
Um, actually, it is not sheep, it is wool.
The gigantic, sentient tree people known as Ents are capable of reproduction, but dying off because the only remaining Ents are all male. The Entwives were destroyed by Sauron, his forces massacring them in front of the male Ents to ensure they would not rise against him.
Um, actually, the Entwives were not destroyed by Sauron, they just moved away to the Brownlands (although it is implied that those lands were destroyed)
Of all the various forms of magic we are introduced to in the Harry Potter series, none is more powerfully evil than the three Unforgivable Curses: Imperio, the Mind Control Curse, Crucio, the Torture Curse, and Avada Kadavra, the Killing Curse.
Um, actually, The most evil form of magic in Harry Potter is the creation of Horcruxes, which is the splitting of the soul through murder.
In Return of the Jedi, the rebels attack and destroy the new Death Star’s shield generator on the frozen planet Endor with the help of furry creatures called Ewoks.
Um, actually, Endor is a forest moon.
Super Mario Kart was a kart racing game released for Super Nintendo in 1992. Players could race with characters like Mario, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, and Toad on tracks like the famous Rainbow Road.
Um, actually, Donkey Kong wasn't a playable character, Donkey Kong Jr. was.
Um, actually, you couldn't play "Princess Peach" in Super Mario Kart (1992). The manual simply refers to her as "Princess." Princess Toadstool wasn't referred to as "Peach" in English until the Yoshi's Story (1993) manual.
Denethor, King of Gondor, is the father of both Faramir and Boromir, one of which dies above the Rauros Falls, the other grievously injured in the siege of Osgiliath.
Um, actually, Denethor isn't the King of Gondor, he is the Steward of Gondor. Aragorn is the king, they're merely awaiting his return.
In Harry Potter, all of Voldemort's most evil henchmen, namely Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange and Peter Pettigrew, graduated Hogwarts as members of Slytherin.
Um, actually, Peter Pettigrew was a Gryffindor.
In Star Wars, in order to free young Anakin Skywalker from slavery, Qui-Gon Jinn first uses a Jedi Mind Trick to convince his master Watto, a Toydarian junk merchant, to allow him to pod race.
Um, actually, mind tricks don't work on Toydarians.
The title of the Halo series refers to the Halo array: a series of colossal ring-shaped superweapons built by the Covenant to destroy their enemies and assert control over the galaxy.
Um, actually, The Halo array was built by the Forerunners, not the Covenant, as a failsafe to destroy all organic life in the galaxy so the flood couldn't occupy any hosts and survive.
Anduril, which means Flame of the West, was the name of the sword wielded by Elendil during the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Once broken, Elendil's son Isildur used the broken handle-shard of Anduril to cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand. 3,000 years later, it was reforged and given to Aragorn, son of Arathorn.
Um, actually, The sword wasn't named Anduril until it was reforged. Before that, it was called Narsil.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is famously divided into four houses, each named after one of the four founders, and each with an associated animal: Lion for Gryffindor, Badger for Hufflepuff, Raven for Ravenclaw, and Snake for Slytherin.
Um, actually, Ravenclaw's associated animal is an Eagle.
In Star Wars, Queen Amidala of Naboo casts the tie-breaking vote in the decision to award Chancellor Palpatine emergency powers to fight the Trade Federation.
Um, actually, Jar Jar Binks cast the deciding vote.
There are many Elder Dragons in "Magic: The Gathering," like Nicol Bolas, Chromium Rhuell, and Arcades Sabboth. Among them is also 15,000+ year-old Niv-Mizzet, an arrogant but brilliant inventor who even has his own metal named for him: mizzium.
Um, actually, Niv-Mizzet is not an Elder Dragon.
With the exception of several featured hobbits such as Rosie Cotton, women are few and far between in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. From the missing Entwives to the dwarf women hidden away under mountains, only three named female characters feature prominently in the film trilogy: Galadriel, Arwen, and Eowyn.
Um, actually, the spider Shelob is female.