History JustForFun / PitchTheWork

* ''Anime/SteinsGate'': A self-styled MadScientist accidentally invents a time machine and is hunted by a mysterious organization.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'':
** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'': Sixteen students, each of whom are the best in the world at a specific thing, are trapped in a prestigious school and forced into a DeadlyGame by an evil teddy bear mascot.
** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': New students, new killing game, except now it's on a tropical island and there's a good mascot too.
** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': New students, new killing game, set in a school again, and the evil mascot now has kids.
** ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'': Two teenage girls, one with an anti-robot gun and the other with a SuperpoweredEvilSide that's had a HeelFaceTurn, are targets in TheMostDangerousGame run by a group of tweens who want to kill all adults and create [[TeenageWasteland a children-only paradise]].

* ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'': "Okay, so what if you made a SlasherFilm about a BloodbathVillainOrigin... but it's about an unironically heroic superhero with an [[GreenAesop environmental]] message?"

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': [[ABoyAndHisX A boy and his car.]]

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': "I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?"

* ''Animation/FlowerFairy'': What if ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' had fairies instead of Clow Cards?

* ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}'': Two paddles hit ball back and forth.
** "Avoid missing ball for high score".
** Ping Pong: The Video Game
* {{Shoot Em Up}}s: Shoot everything that isn't you. Sometimes seen in a longer form: "Shoot 'em up, eat the dots."
** The latter is ''especially'' true for ''VideoGame/{{Ikaruga}}'', though it's more "Shoot 'em up, eat the same-colored dots as your ship."
** Taken to its logical extreme with a Finnish freeware overhead shooter called ''Tapan Kaikki'', "I Kill Everyone".
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': Final Fantasy, but with Disney characters.
* {{Fighting Game}}s: Choose your character and beat all the others.
** MassiveMultiplayerCrossover variants: choose characters you love from different series and beat up characters from other series.

* ''VideoGame/YouHaveToBurnTheRope''. That's not a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample, that's ''literally'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin all the context you need]].
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', on the back of the box: "They call it a SuicideMission. ''[[DareToBeBadass Prove them wrong.]]''"
* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' has one called by this name [[AllThereInTheScript in the vision statement]].
--> The player is a scarred amnesiac immortal in search of his identity. On the way, the player character will kill a lot of people... [[WhoWantsToLiveForever including himself.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'': A hybrid FirstPersonShooter and PuzzleGame where the only weapon is a gun that shoots portals that you can go through with an [[AIIsACrapshoot insane killer AI]] acting as MissionControl.
** The Laconic entry for the game used to be "Darkly humorous puzzle game in an empty laboratory that kicks the laws of physics in the nuts.", so called that because in order to solve the trickier puzzles, you need some excellent spatial reasoning skills. Or as the game calls it, "Thinking with portals!"
* ''VideoGame/FiftyCentBloodOnTheSand'': 50 Cent fights mercenaries in the Middle East in search of a priceless diamond encrusted skull.
* ''VideoGame/DefJamSeries'': Rappers from the Def Jam label (and a few [[Creator/DannyTrejo actors]]) in a fighting video game.
* ''VideoGame/JetpackJoyride'': There is a {{Jetpack}}, you steal it, take it for a joyride and see how far can you go.

* ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'': Roll everything up into a ball. Everything.
* [[RacingGame Racing Games]]: Race other players or the computer and finish faster than everyone.
* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': You have a crush on your Senpai. [[MatchmakerQuest Pair off]], [[{{Blackmail}} run off]], or [[MurderIsTheBestSolution bump off]] everyone who gets in your way.
* ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls''/''VideoGame/DarkSouls'': Get killed again and again as you struggle your way through a DarkFantasy world.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': [[{{Tagline}} Hunt your nightmares]] in a [[GothicHorror Gothic]] city plagued with monsters and [[spoiler:[[CosmicHorrorStory kill an infant Great One]]]].
* ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'': Buddhas as pretty boys.
* ''VideoGame/OrcsMustDie'': An idiot must HoldTheLine against a horde of Orcs and their allies.
* ''VideoGame/ShootManyRobots'': Killer robots are rampaging and it's up to this hillbilly to shoot many robots and save the town.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tyranny}}'': TheEmpire already won – and you work for it.

* ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'': A GentlemanThief raccoon [[KarmicThief steals from other criminals]].
** ''VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus'': Thief raccoon fights 5 criminal bosses to steal his family's thieving instruction manuals.
** ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'': Like [[VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus the first game]], but it's open world, you get to play as Bentley and Murray, and it's DarkerAndEdgier.
** ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'': Like [[VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves the second game]], but you get to play as more characters, you're on a boat and you get to replay any mission you want!
** ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'': It's like [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves the third game]] but with time-travel, you get [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman costumes that give you new abilities]] and you get to play as Sly's ancestors.
* ''VideoGame/TheTaleOfFood'': Chinese food as pretty boys.
* ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': The moon will crash into the land within three days and the only person who can stop this is a child in a GroundhogDayLoop.
* ''VideoGame/TengaiMakyou'': What if, instead of ''Dragon Quest''-style role-playing games being Japanese writers inaccurately romanticizing Western knights-and-dragons mythology, they were based on the work of Western writers inaccurately romanticizing Japanese mythology?
* ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'': [[CastOfPersonifications Japanese swords as]] [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys pretty boys]].

* ''VideoGame/PacManWorld'': In this [[VideoGame3DLeap 3D platformer]], Pac-Man must rescue his kidnapped family from Ghost Island and defeat the robotic imposter Toc-Man on his 20th birthday.