Harry Potter
According to the rules of Quidditch, throwing the Quaffle through an opponent's hoop earns 10 points, hitting an opponent with a bludger earns 0 points, and catching the golden snitch earns 100 points and ends the game
Catching the golden snitch doesn't earn 100 points; it earns you 150 points.
Bilbo and his companions escape from a group of fearsome trolls named Tom, Bert and William when Gandalf appears at the last minute and turns them all to stone.
The sun turns them into stone.
We first see the palace of Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine when he is given Han Solo's body frozen in Carbonite. He also keeps a monstrous creature in his palace known as the Sarlacc and feeds his enemies to it.
The Sarlacc is a giant whirlpool of teeth out in the desert; the creature in Jabba's palace is the Rancor.
Captain America's shield is so strong because it is made of Adamantium, the same metal in Wolverine's skeleton.
Captain America's shield is made of an alloy of Vibranium, not necessarily Adamantium solely
Though originally named Jump Man, the name Mario name came about when Shigeru Miyamoto, the character's creator, named him after the company's landlord Mario Segale, although the character keeps the Jumpman name as his surname.
Mario's surname is not Jumpman; his real surname is Mario, meaning his full name is Mario Mario.
The character of Albus Dumbledore, played by Richard Harris and Michael Gambon in the films, is not the only character to be played by more than one actor. Katie Bell, Angelina Johnson, Pansy Parkinson, and Peeves the Poltergeist were all recast between the seven films.
Peeves the Poltergeist is not portrayed in the Harry Potter movies.
In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, the titular fellowship is composed of nine members with representatives from four races: Hobbit, Dwarf, Elf, and Man.
Gandalf is a member of the Istari race, not the race of Man.
Many famous quotes come from the world of Star Wars, but many hold the original trilogy to be the most quotable. Some of the most famous include Admiral Akbar stating, "It's a trap" at the Battle of Endor, Darth Vader telling Luke, "Luke, I am your father," or even Yoda giving this piece of wisdom: "Do or do not, there is no try."
Darth Vader never says, "Luke, I am your father." he actually says, "No, I am your father."
Two prominent CGI animals appear in the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, Rocket and Cosmo. Rocket the Raccoon's model was largely based on a real-life raccoon named Oreo, and Cosmo was based on Chris Pratt's real dogs, primarily his dog Slate, who was a lot of the reference footage in Vol. 3.
It was James Gunn's dog and not Chris Pratt's.
Video Games have become a growing industry for quite some time now, but it's origins were relatively small. Back when video games were starting, a simple tennis-based video game called Pong was created and deemed the first video game made on an oscilloscope. It took about 14 years, though, for Pong to move from the oscilloscope to a home console, the Magnavox Odyssey, which was released in 1972.
Pong wasn't the first video game made; instead, it was another tennis-based game called Tennis for Two
In Harry Potter, there are tons of spells that can do a variety of things. However, there are three that are deemed to be unforgivable. These three Unforgivable spells are the killing curse, Avada Kedavra, the torture curse, Crucio, and the memory lost curse, Imperio.
Imperio is not the memory lost curse, but the total mind control curse. Obliviate is the memory lost/altercation spell.
Frodo first gains possession of The One Ring during Bilbo Baggins' 100th birthday, when Bilbo announced he would be leaving the Shire.
It was actually Bilbo's 111th birthday.
Many inexpensive and practical things were used to make the world of Star Wars come alive. For example, Vader's voice was recorded by putting a microphone inside a scuba regulator, asteroids were oranges and radishes spray-painted grey and hung on rigs, and Chewbacca's iconic roars and sounds were a blend of bear, lion, walrus, and badger sounds
The Infinity Stones were featured in multiple Marvel movies, but the order they first appeared in the MCU goes as follows: The Space Stone in the Tesseract, the Reality Stone in the Aether, the Power Stone in the Orb, the Mind Stone in Vision's head, the Time Stone in the Eye of Agamotto, and the Soul Stone on Vormir
The Mind Stone was actually the second stone introduced in the MCU, which featured in the Avengers on Loki's Sceptor
Until 2018, the single longest work of literary fiction was a piece of Harry Potter fan fiction, known as "The Subspace Emissary's World Conquest," which followed the story of an original character named Chris who befriended and adventured with a variety of canonical characters. It has since been surpassed by a piece of fan fiction set in the universe of "Kantai Collection," a digital card game featuring WWII ships personified as anime girls.
The longest piece of fan fiction prior to 2018 was set in the universe of "Super Smash Bros.", not "Harry Potter".
In the Chamber of Secrets movie, Dobby tries many ways to make Harry Potter leave/stay away from Hogwarts. These ways include hiding his mail, exploding a cake in the Dursleys' kitchen, blocking the entrance to Platform 9 3/4, and sending a rogue bludger after him at a Quidditch match, none of which were successful in keeping Harry away.
Dobby doesn't make the cake explode in the movie; instead just drops on the cake of an important visitor to the Dursleys.
Hobbits have a famous love of food. When they can get it, a hobbit's meals consist of breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, and supper.
One meal is left off the list and that is dinner, which comes between tea and supper
In the Star Wars universe, lightsabers get their unique colors from a combination of the kyber crystal within the hilt and the bond with the Force user. Naturally, these colors can be blue, green, yellow, white, and purple. However, these crystals can be corrupted to create red and black sabers used primarily by the Sith among other entities.
The white color is actually not a natural color that a kyber crystal can produce from a saber; most of the time, it's the color in the absence of a crystal.
Before his passing and even for some time after, Stan Lee was famous for making cameos in many of the MCU movies. Some of these cameos included him getting interviewed about the Avengers saving Manhattan in The Avengers, appearing as a UPS delivery driver in Captain America: Civil War, and appearing as a WWII general and veteran in Captain America: The First Avenger and Avengers: Age of Ultron, respectively.
Stan Lee never cameoed as a UPS delivery driver, instead he was a FedEx postman in Civil War
Sonic the Hedgehog is a titan of the video game scene, with many other characters from his franchise also being based on real-life animals. Tails is a two-tailed fox, Knuckles is an echidna, and Amy is also a hedgehog. Other unique characters include Vector as an alligator, Espio as a chameleon, and Fang as a jerboa
Vector is a crocodile, not an alligator
A Hatstall is when when the Sorting Hat takes more than five minutes to decide a student’s House. Several staple characters of the franchise were stated to have a hatstall when they arrived at Hogwarts, of which we see Harry Potter have one at the beginning of The Philosopher's Stone, but also Peter Pettigrew and Minerva McGonagall, who has the longest hatstall, having one as well.
Harry Potter never had a hatstall, he only argued with the hat for a short period of time
One of the earliest attempts to adapt "The Lord of the Rings" to the screen was by The Beatles. It was to feature original songs by The Beatles, with Paul McCartney as Frodo, Ringo Starr as Sam, George Harrison as Gandalf, and John Lennon as Aragorn. The project was canceled because Tolkien disliked The Beatles' music.
John Lennon was not going to be Aragorn; he was going to be Gollum.
We all know the titular characters of the original Star Wars films: Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan, R2-D2, and C-3PO. But did you know that the two droids' names are actually acronyms. R2-D2 stands for Reel 2, Dialogue Track 2, from when Lucas worked on American Graffiti, and C-3PO stands for Composite 3, Production-Operation, a general term from a sound-editing abbreviation Lucas remembered
C-3PO doesn't stand for that; instead, C-3PO is not an acronym with a canon meaning.
In all of the international releases of "Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier," we see that Steve Rogers has a list of things he missed while in cryo-sleep that he'd like to catch up on. Here is that list in every release: I Love Lucy, Moon Landing, Berlin Wall (Up + Down), Steve Jobs (Apple), Pisco, Thai Food, Star Wars/Trek, Nirvana (Band), Rocky (Rocky II?), and Troubleman (Soundtrack).
The to-do list in Steve Rogers' notebook was uniquely changed for international releases. The first five points were tailored for specific countries or regions. For example, instead of I Love Lucy, it says Sherlock in the UK, Dance Dance Revolution in South Korea, Yuri Gagarin in Russia, and Currywurst in Germany. Just the last five points (Thai Food, Star Wars/Trek, Nirvana (band), Rocky (Rocky II?), and Troubleman (soundtrack)) are always the same.
The primary antagonist of the Zelda franchise, Ganondorf, is a member of the Gerudo race, thieves and tricksters from the desert. Trained by his father in the ways of magic, Ganondorf often possesses the Triforce of Power, making him nearly invincible.
Ganondorf does not have a father, as the Gerudo are a race of women with one male born every 100 years, who immediately becomes their king.