Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Young people struggle with dangerous powers
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Extraordinary abilities arrive before the characters have the safety or experience to control them. Adults mostly respond by making the danger worse.
medium
Interrogation shapes the story
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Questions in a police room, detention site, or legal interview pull the past into view. The account changes depending on who controls the room.
hard
Commercial products become deadly
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A drug, snack, Halloween mask, or security robot reaches customers before anyone asks the useful follow-up questions. Marketing has already left the building.
tricky
Protagonists cannot trust their own perceptions
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Visions, guilt, illness, or obsession make ordinary evidence unreliable. The audience receives the world through a mind that cannot promise an honest picture.