In the Harry Potter universe, a Squib is a human who is born with at least one magical parent, but does not inherit magic from them. They are unable to practice magic, but can interact in magical society and see things that muggles can't, e.g. Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, etc. Squibs are rare and are looked down upon by some wizards, particularly pure-bloods.

In the episode "HOMR", Homer Simpson discovers that his stupidity is due to a crayon which was accidentally lodged into his brain at a young age. After removing the crayon, Homer's IQ goes from 55 to 105, however, Homer also becomes more unhappy and perceives a number of his relationships changing.

The Crown is a Netflix TV drama about the lives of the British Royal Family.

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"You are a middle-aged chemistry professor named Mrs. Wendy Brown, living in a town in Northern Florida. You have a child with a physical disability, for whom your husband is a stay-at-home carer and has not worked for over a decade. You have just discovered you have an aggressive heart disease and only have a few months left to live. Your insurance does not fully cover treatment and you have a large chunk of your mortgage unpaid.

Recently you discovered one of your PhD students has inexplicably stumbled across several 100 tons of coca leaves stashed in an abandoned warehouse out in the swamps. It has been untouched for over 40 years, though the leaves are in perfect condition. "

There has been a trend of recent superhero films being R-Rated/18+, e.g. Logan, Deadpool, Joker.

At the end of Avengers End Game, Captain America is able to wield Thor's hammar, Mjölnir, and uses it to battle Thanos and his army. Mjölnir is said to be only wielded by those it deems 'worthy'.

You are an intergalactic detective. It has come to your attention that - contrary to widely understood belief - Krypton is infact intact and Superman's parents are alive.

The Powerpuff Girls, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, were created by Professor Utonium in an attempt to create the "perfect little girl" using a mixture of "sugar, spice, and everything nice". However, the Professor accidentally spilled a substance called "Chemical X" into the mixture, granting all three superpowers including flight, superhuman strength and speed, x-ray vision, etc. For the purposes of this debate, the girls were also created with the Professor's sperm and an egg from a donor, who is currently not in the girl's life, although becomes aware that the girls are biologically theirs.

The pre-requisite to become a K Pop idol is to undergo the trainee process. This process can last an indefinite period of time, ranging from months to years and usually involves vocal, dance and language classes taken while living together with other trainees. Once a trainee enters the system, they are regulated in multiple aspects including personal life to their body and visual appearance. The survival, training and regulation take precedent over natural talent in the production of Korean idols. Not all trainees become K Pop Idols.

You are an aspiring rapper with limited commercial success and a small but loyal fanbase on social media and music apps, but you have never cracked the big leagues.

Eminem, despite his age, is still actively releasing music and has a legendary career of engaging in "beef" (aka public feuds) with any artist he perceives to have disrespected him. This includes calling them out in high-profile interviews, barring his close friends in the business from working with them, and most infamously - releasing savage diss tracks.

You are Eve, an MI5 agent leading a taskforce dedicated to hunting down the worlds most deadly assassin: a young, charismatic Russian woman known only as "Vilanelle". Through months of gruelling effort you obtain a lead, but do not fully trust your team as there have been numerous leaks recently. You travel alone to the address you've been given, a luxurious apartment in central Paris, where you catch your target off guard and have her held at gunpoint. You are ready to call the French police to arrest her. There's one small problem...

...she's really bloody hot and very definitely into you.

For the purposes of this debate, there is a Simp Spirit that has the capacity to know the truth and intensity of every debater's simping and quantitatively identify the most simped-for individual. This individual will be bestowed the power of Simp God, which gives them epistemic access to everyone's simping and the intensity of that simping.

In the Pokémon anime, one of the main plot lines is between Team Rocket and Ash Ketchum (the protaganist). Team Rocket is an organisation that attempts to capture Pokémon for their evil ends. Three of the 'grunts' that work for Team Rocket are Jessie, James, and Meowth. Since the beginning of the anime, they have been trying to capture Ash's Pikachu due to it being perceived as an especially powerful Pikachu. However, nearly every single episode, they fail to do so. At multiple points in the anime, Jessie, James and Meowth have considered the capture of Pikachu to be symbolic regardless of the fact they keep losing. On rare occasions, such as when battling another evil organisation, Team Rocket and Ash have fought side by side.

During World War II, the Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are evacuated from a London to live in a stranger’s country house. While playing hide and side, they discover a wardrobe and enters the fantasy world of Narnia. After defeating the White Witch and saving Narnia, the siblings are crowned Kings and Queens of Narnia. Fifteen years later, the Pevensies, now young adults, discover the wardrobe they entered Narnia from. Presume for the purposes of this debate that the Pevensies are aware that, should they depart Narnia, they may never return, and will return to their residence in their former child forms (but with memories intact) seconds after they left.

In Once Upon a Time, the Evil Queen curses all fairytale characters to live in a fictional town in real-world Maine. There, the characters (except the Queen) are robbed of the memories of their true selves and live an un-aging/endless existence, which the Queen derives amusement from. The town’s only hope is Emma Swan, the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, who was transported alone as a baby to the ‘real world’ before the curse was cast. The curse therefore does not apply to her and she is unaware of her true identity. It is prophecised that Emma may be able to break the curse on her 28th birthday (if she comes into contact with the town). 5 years into the curse, Snow White and Prince Charming 'accidentally' wake, and have the means to escape the town and find their daughter (now growing up as an orphan). However, they would likely doom the rest of the town to live under the curse forever. Alternatively, they can put themselves back under the curse.

"You are travelling on a spaceship powered by the ""Improbability Drive"" - a one of a kind engine that uses the improbability of your entire vessel, and its occupants, dissapearing and reappearing at the exact location you program it to travel to. While escaping some aliens who want to read you their poetry you stumble across The Ruler of the Universe.

He appears to be an old man, living in a wooden shack on a small moon, accompanied only by his pet cat which he calls ""The Lord"". He spends his days messing around with mundane objects around his shack, or talking nonsense to his cat. After talking for a while you discover that he is quite mad, and unconvinced that anything even exists. Nonetheless his actions directly affects the events of the universe, shaping the lives of life-forms on trillions and trillions of planets. You try and explain this to him in order to convince him to rule more consciously, but he doesn't seem to understand, or believes you are a figment of his imagination, or perhaps simply does not care. It's very hard to tell. It's a very confusing meeting in general.

After some investigation you discover he is being kept alive in perpetuity by an improbability field similair to the one powering your ship, and that if you bring him aboard and send him away from the moon, he will become mortal and lose any influence over The Universe. Whomever is left on the moon will take over his position."