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The basic premise of the group as a whole was this: you have Capow, a town/suburb/district of Tokyo that is home to the strangest collection of characters ever, and HilarityEnsues (as well as {{Drama}}, {{Romance}}, and StuffBlowingUp, among other things) as a result.
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The basic premise of the group as a whole was this: you have Capow, a town/suburb/district of Tokyo that is home to the strangest collection of characters ever, and HilarityEnsues (as well as {{Drama}}, {{Drama|tropes}}, {{Romance}}, and StuffBlowingUp, among other things) as a result.
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It originated from the depths of Website/{{Usenet}} as a "sister" group to the Roleplay/GlobalRanmaInsanityThread and moved to its own moderated mailing list (first on a member's personal server, and then on Yahoo Groups) where aspiring members have to apply and pass muster from existing members before they can join the group. By mid-1994 most of the groups' founding members had moved on to other projects and the group died a slow, agonizing death as people simply stopped posting.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters - Even after the rules change restricted every member to two characters each, this still resulted in a LOT of characters.
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* StockSuperpowers - Name a character, odds are they will have one or more of those powers in some form.
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The posts in raw form can be read at [[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/capowstory/ Yahoo Groups]]; it also has an information page (that hasn't been updated in years) [[http://capow.tripod.com/admin/capow.html on Tripod]].
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The posts in raw form can be read at [[http://groups.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20050207105142/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/capowstory/ Yahoo Groups]]; Groups (in archived form)]]; it also has an information page (that hasn't been updated in years) [[http://capow.tripod.com/admin/capow.html on Tripod]].
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* BlessedWithSuck / CursedWithAwesome - Powers above CharlesAtlasSuperpower levels are only acceptable unless they have some kind of handicap, and sometimes not even then.
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* BasedOnAGreatBigLie - Some of the members wrote their posts as if they were just reporting the "real life" goings-on of Capow.
* BlessedWithSuck/ CursedWithAwesome - Powers above CharlesAtlasSuperpower levels are only acceptable unless they have some kind of handicap, and sometimes not even then.
* BlessedWithSuck
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* LiteraryAgentHypothesis - Some of the members wrote their posts as if they were just reporting the "real life" goings-on of Capow.
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* LiteraryAgentHypothesis BasedOnAGreatBigLie - Some of the members wrote their posts as if they were just reporting the "real life" goings-on of Capow.
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* InnBetweenTheWorlds - The bar, which has a back door into {{GRIT}}; Capow as a whole is a Town Between The Worlds as well, since anybody from any series could theoretically end up there.
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* InnBetweenTheWorlds - The bar, which has a back door into {{GRIT}}; Roleplay/{{GRIT}}; Capow as a whole is a Town Between The Worlds as well, since anybody from any series could theoretically end up there.
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[[FunWithAcronyms An "acronym"]] for "Creative Anime Prose Original Writing", CAPOW was a mailing-list RoundRobin writing group that was part FanFiction, part MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, and part diceless RoleplayingGame.
It originated from the depths of ''{{Usenet}}'' as a "sister" group to the GlobalRanmaInsanityThread and moved to its own moderated mailing list (first on a member's personal server, and then on Yahoo Groups) where aspiring members have to apply and pass muster from existing members before they can join the group. By mid-1994 most of the groups' founding members had moved on to other projects and the group died a slow, agonizing death as people simply stopped posting.
The basic premise of the group as a whole was this: you have Capow, a town/suburb/district of Tokyo that is home to the strangest collection of characters ever, and HilarityEnsues (as well as {{Drama}}, {{Romance}}, and StuffBlowingUp, among other things) as a result.
The posts in raw form can be read at [[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/capowstory/ Yahoo Groups]]; it also has an information page (that hasn't been updated in years) [[http://capow.tripod.com/admin/capow.html on Tripod]].
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!This series has examples of:
* AuthorAppeal - Since every character was required to have some sort of anime influence, that meant every member had plenty of opportunities to gush about their favorite series.
* BlessedWithSuck / CursedWithAwesome - Powers above CharlesAtlasSuperpower levels are only acceptable unless they have some kind of handicap, and sometimes not even then.
* FourLinesAllWaiting - Several members were juggling different stories, so when things got very busy you could have a ton of concurrently ongoing plots.
* HyperspaceArsenal - Many characters explicitly have the power to access "malletspace", and most of them carry more things on their person than is advisable in real life.
* InnBetweenTheWorlds - The bar, which has a back door into {{GRIT}}; Capow as a whole is a Town Between The Worlds as well, since anybody from any series could theoretically end up there.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis - Some of the members wrote their posts as if they were just reporting the "real life" goings-on of Capow.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters - Even after the rules change restricted every member to two characters each, this still resulted in a LOT of characters.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot - Inevitable given the wide range of genres that get brought into the series. (There may have been ''actual'' ninja pirate zombie robots.)
* RealLifeWritesThePlot - Occasionally a member will leave the group (causing their characters to become {{NPC}}s or completely unavailable), causing the stories that they were in to either become [[AbortedArc orphaned]] or necessitating workarounds.
* RuleOfIndex
* RunningTheAsylum - All of the members were expected to write, with the member providing the first post of any particular story arc acting as the impromptu "GameMaster".
* StockSuperpowers - Name a character, odds are they will have one or more of those powers in some form.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield - Capow is said to be one of the districts of Tokyo, but it's never made clear exactly where it is.
* WeirdnessMagnet - Capow
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It originated from the depths of ''{{Usenet}}'' as a "sister" group to the GlobalRanmaInsanityThread and moved to its own moderated mailing list (first on a member's personal server, and then on Yahoo Groups) where aspiring members have to apply and pass muster from existing members before they can join the group. By mid-1994 most of the groups' founding members had moved on to other projects and the group died a slow, agonizing death as people simply stopped posting.
The basic premise of the group as a whole was this: you have Capow, a town/suburb/district of Tokyo that is home to the strangest collection of characters ever, and HilarityEnsues (as well as {{Drama}}, {{Romance}}, and StuffBlowingUp, among other things) as a result.
The posts in raw form can be read at [[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/capowstory/ Yahoo Groups]]; it also has an information page (that hasn't been updated in years) [[http://capow.tripod.com/admin/capow.html on Tripod]].
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!This series has examples of:
* AuthorAppeal - Since every character was required to have some sort of anime influence, that meant every member had plenty of opportunities to gush about their favorite series.
* BlessedWithSuck / CursedWithAwesome - Powers above CharlesAtlasSuperpower levels are only acceptable unless they have some kind of handicap, and sometimes not even then.
* FourLinesAllWaiting - Several members were juggling different stories, so when things got very busy you could have a ton of concurrently ongoing plots.
* HyperspaceArsenal - Many characters explicitly have the power to access "malletspace", and most of them carry more things on their person than is advisable in real life.
* InnBetweenTheWorlds - The bar, which has a back door into {{GRIT}}; Capow as a whole is a Town Between The Worlds as well, since anybody from any series could theoretically end up there.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis - Some of the members wrote their posts as if they were just reporting the "real life" goings-on of Capow.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters - Even after the rules change restricted every member to two characters each, this still resulted in a LOT of characters.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot - Inevitable given the wide range of genres that get brought into the series. (There may have been ''actual'' ninja pirate zombie robots.)
* RealLifeWritesThePlot - Occasionally a member will leave the group (causing their characters to become {{NPC}}s or completely unavailable), causing the stories that they were in to either become [[AbortedArc orphaned]] or necessitating workarounds.
* RuleOfIndex
* RunningTheAsylum - All of the members were expected to write, with the member providing the first post of any particular story arc acting as the impromptu "GameMaster".
* StockSuperpowers - Name a character, odds are they will have one or more of those powers in some form.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield - Capow is said to be one of the districts of Tokyo, but it's never made clear exactly where it is.
* WeirdnessMagnet - Capow
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