Just For Fun / [X] Lore Be Like:

Summarize what the premise, worldbuilding, and/or story of a work sounds like to non-fans. Pick your favorite work of fiction and imagine: if you were describing what happens in the story to someone who hasn't seen/read/played it, what would it sound like to them? Or, if it's a work you aren't familiar with, what do it's fans sound like when talking about it? If the results are complete nonsense, then it's a good job! If the results sound like nonsense but somehow aren't too far off from the real thing, then it's a great job!

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• [Work Name] lore be like:
  • [Insert description here.] - Troper 1
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Just For Fun lore be like:

Anime & Manga

• BNA: Brand New Animal lore be like:
  • In this world, werebeasts and humans have co-existed for thousands of years, or maybe humans only learned that werebeasts exist in the 2010s. Either way, werebeast blood apparently gives people superpowers. Hundreds of years ago, a werewolf became immortal after getting revenge on the humans who slaughtered his entire hometown's population, and in the present, two human girls became a weretanuki and a werefox because they were accidentally transfused werebeast blood. - Nitro Indigo
• Cardfight!! Vanguard lore be like:
  • A shy kid holds a trading card in his pocket because it's the only thing that makes him feel cool. He gets it stolen by a schoolmate, and while getting it back he realizes that there's an actual card game that card is used for. So he starts playing the game and gets a lot of friends and becomes a great player until one day he discovers that cards talk telepathically to him. A random guy notices his power and offers him to change his deck, but he becomes evil so his friends convince him to use the old deck again and he becomes the champion. -Phantom Dusclops 92
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba lore be like:
  • An All-Loving Hero's family gets killed by Demon King Michael Jackson, except for his sister who turns into a demon so he teams up with Peppa Pig and a Dorito to turn her back into a human and kill said Demon King. -IAmHoussem17
• Dragon Ball lore be like:
  • Goku travels to a distant planet to stop an evildoer who is threatening the planet's people. Goku kicks the villain right in the face; this "Kick Arc" takes 5 episodes to complete, which is quite short for Dragon Ball. The battle to save the planet rages on long for a very many episodes. But right when it looks like evil will win, Goku pulls out his final card; his hair changes colour and he starts to yell really, really loudly, which vaporizes the villain instantly. - m-95
• Dropkick on My Devil lore be like:
  • Gotta kill that snake. Oh, wait. The snake isn't evil, she's misunderstood. - Gamer Luna 2022
• Fullmetal Alchemist lore be like:
  • In this world, people can change objects' states of matter by drawing circles or clapping their hands, but it's definitely not magic. All the information about this is stored in a pocket dimension inhabited by Slenderman/shadowy babies, and you go there if you commit the greatest sin of all: necromancy. Also, a oneshot villain fuses his daughter and dog together. - Nitro Indigo
• Fresh Pretty Cure! lore be like:
  • A goddess with infinite powers is sent to Earth in a baby form with a ferret to look after her. They take up residence with some teenage girls who attend dance lessons together, who also turn into Magical Girls because PreCure. They fight evil magic people, until one of the evil magic people decides she likes them and abandons her post to become a Cure instead. - NoonboryKedabory
• Futari wa Pretty Cure lore be like:
  • Once upon a time, a magical garden got taken over by dark forces (so basically every Magical Girl anime backstory ever), and its princess and her loverboy got sent to Earth. Somehow, the princess got there 100 years before the loverboy, but they are found on the same day by two teenage girls who are polar opposites. The girls are led to a carnival by a villain with ridiculous hair and an attitude to match, and there they become magical girls who lampshade everything. From there, they fight Mr. Haircut, a gecko, a vampire lady, and more. - NoonboryKedabory
• Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star lore be like:
  • Two nine year old girls meet each other at a festival. Five years later, those same two girls reunite under the same tree where they met, and two fairies come from a magical garden to tell them "hey, you're superheroes now". So they become superheroes and fight evil. Crap, this is sounding too much like the original Futari wa, let's throw in evil Creepy Twins to shake things up. - NoonboryKedabory
• Go! Princess Pretty Cure lore be like:
  • A little girl is going through a Princess Phase. This desire to be a princess is indulged way past the age where she should have grown out of it, and so she starts attending a swanky boarding school. She meets a puppy and a bird in the woods, who give her, the Student Council President, and a junior model superpowers and send them to fight monsters and villains who want to destroy everyone's dreams. - NoonboryKedabory
• Gundam lore be like:
  • In the future, mankind has created space colonies to live in if they're not from Earth. One of these colonies, styling themselves off of Nazi Germany, decides to declare a war of independence on the Earth's ruling government. To wage war, they weaponise giant robots and drop an empty colony on Sydney. The Federation eventually make their own giant robot, and the poor kid who falls in the cockpit not only becomes the robot's chosen pilot, he's forced to experience the horrors of war. Also, the war doesn't stop when the Nazi colony is beaten. Also, a lot of sequels take place in different universes that have no direct influence from the original series, but carry over a bunch of things. - G2BattleConvoy
• HappinessCharge Pretty Cure! lore be like:
  • A bratty princess opens her world's equivalent of Pandora's Box, so she is sent to Earth to find some people to help fix her mistake. She throws a MacGuffin off a building and recruits the person it hit, and also this farm girl who fights evil with songs about rice. - NoonboryKedabory
• Haruhi Suzumiya lore be like:
  • Three years ago, a young girl became God and wished for aliens, time travelers, and the like to exist. Now this young girl wants to do completely off-the-wall things, and bullies a time traveler, an android, an esper, and the normal guy into doing her bidding. The girl is unaware of her omnipotent powers, and the other four must keep her happy, lest she find out and bring mass chaos to the world. - Sudrictoon
• Maho Girls Pretty Cure! be like:
  • A normal girl meets a witch girl and goes to her magical world to attend a witch school. Then the witch girl goes to the non-magical world to attend a normal school. They also raise a baby fairy until she magically becomes the same age as them, and they all wreck monsters together. This is also the gayest installment in the franchise. - NoonboryKedabory
• My Hero Academia lore be like:
  • Boy wants to be a hero but he's one of the few Muggles in a superhero dominated world, so he's out of luck. Until he eats some hair from his idol which gives him the latter's powers. Now superpowered, the boy is accepted by a prestigious superhero school where amongst a wide cast of characters, he encounters his childhood bully with powers matching his explosive personality, a stoic Zuko with fire-ice combo powers, a cute poor girl with gravity abilities and a grape-haired pervert in a diaper. As he and his class do exams, they have to deal with villains and they eventually have to save Japan from them at the cost of their mental stability. - Cutegirl920fire
• Neon Genesis Evangelion lore be like:
  • After two apocalyptic events, the Earth's rotation is so screwed up that it never snows in Japan. Three depressed teenagers are enlisted to fight the local Eldritch Abominations using Humongous Mecha that are actually made of flesh and possessed by the ghosts of their dead parents. Then everyone gets turned into orange goo, but they didn't have the budget to show that at first. The end. - Nitro Indigo
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica lore be like:
  • The suffering of teenage magical girls will delay the eventual heat death of the universe. These girls are bestowed their magical powers by entering a Faustian contract with a species of hive-mind aliens that look like a childish drawing of a cat-rabbit hybrid. Also, all of the Les Yay subtext. - Oratel
  • Basically DDLC with magical girls, one of 'em finds out the horrible truth, and tries to kill everyone. - AlphaMemelord69
• Suite Pretty Cure ♪ lore be like:
  • Two teenage girls hate each other. A cat fairy comes and tells them "Hey, don't hate each other! Take these magic powers and go be badasses together!" So they do so, and fight some bad guys who want to destroy all music. They make friends with an evil cat who turns into a not-evil human, and also a mysterious masked warrior who turns out to be the princess of the music world. - NoonboryKedabory

Comic Books

• Batman lore be like:
  • Rich boy and his parents go see a movie. Parents get shot, making the boy an orphan with only his trusty butler to care for him. He grows up to be a playboy by day, and a buff, intelligent, broding Anti-Hero by night, having done a lot of intense training to get there. He beats up regular criminals and a wide variety of supervillains (with his main nemesis being a deranged clown man) who he throws into an easily escapable mental asylum/prison where they escape, he beats them up, puts them there again, they escape and repeat. - Cutegirl920fire
• Diabolik lore be like:
  • A rich, ambitious and unscrupulous magnate/aristocrat/crime boss comes up with a cunning plan to grab even more money and power. Local police are stumped until Inspector Ginko comes and stops the scheme by being cunninger. But it turns out they were being played all along by Diabolik, who is cunningest. - Reymma
• Disney Ducks Comic Universe lore be like:
  • Remember that wacky angry duck from those old cartoons? He's a superhero and a secret agent in at least three different organizations. And also a single dad to his three nephews who were struck by lightning so sometimes it looks like there's four of them and also they own this book that contains all the information in the world because they're boy scouts. The ducks' uncle who is the richest person in the world and may or may not be immortal constantly beats up a family of identical dogs who have numbers instead of names who want to become rich, an Italian witch who wants his favorite coin so she can become rich, and two unrelated rich guys who want to become richer than him. He also once kidnapped and enslaved a woman and then fell in love with her, which is a big deal because that was in a different continuity from the one where he regularly enslaves his own relatives. The angry duck also has a cousin who is an asshole but still manages to steal his girlfriend sometimes because he was born in a magic painted barn, and a chicken friend who supplies him superhero gadgets and then literally immediately forgets about it, and also invented a liquid that almost ended the world and was stolen by some French guy so he could only be defeated by carpet. - Hqami
• Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) lore be like:
  • The multiverse keeps exploding because something something Tommy Oliver something something Morphin Grid. - Nitro Indigo
• Spider-Man lore be like:
  • Peter Parker/Spider-Man exists to be both a friendly neighborhood masked vigilante and a Cosmic Plaything. - Oratel
• Superman lore be like:
  • There once was a planet of Human Aliens who would all have superpowers if their planet orbited a different kind of star, and are allergic to their local rocks. The planet was about to explode, so a scientist sent his only son to Earth in a Christmas ornament. But wait — there's more! The only son's cousin was also sent away from their planet, but she was in cryo stasis so she looks younger than him even though she's older. — Nitro Indigo

Comic Strips

• Garfield lore be like:
  • A lazy cat eats lasagna. He may or may not be dead, and his owner may or may not have a corpse in his basement. One day he will die and trick God into resurrecting him. - Hqami

Fan Works

• but i wrote the words to the swan song lore be like:
  • So, it turns out that Juliet from Romeo and Juliet is immortal and thus doesn't die by the end of the play. She still misses Romeo very much but she moves all around Europe and America throughout the centuries, taking on new names and lovers. Oh and Marvel's Black Widow appears at one point and tries recruiting Juliet to join the Avengers but the latter declines the offer. — Cutegirl920fire
• Dæmorphing lore be like:
  • It's Animorphs with the sparkles from His Dark Materials. All the alien races have different physical connections to the sparkles, except the scalies and dog-robots, who can see it instead, but the dog-robots disabled that ability for millennia. Whenever humans shape-shift, their talking animal sidekicks disappear into the void. The arrogant blue centaurs lose their minds if they're away from their sparkle-filled trees for too long, which is a problem because a lot of them spend years in space. Everyone has less qualms about killing in-the-moment. The leader's brother spends so long living in the woods with the scalies that he goes native, but he's not important. The resistance win the war by accidentally killing thousands of babies, but at least the brain slugs and hangry centipedes don't hate what they are. — Nitro Indigo
• Eleutherophobia lore be like:
  • You know that guy in canon who did absolutely nothing and then died? Now imagine that he didn't die. But wait — there's more! She didn't die, and neither did she. — Nitro Indigo
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Fifth Path lore be like:
  • It's basically the same as the source material but the time travel makes even less sense and half the cast is either exaggerated or wildly out of character for comedy.
• Friendship is Optimal lore be like:
  • My Little Pony destroys the universe. — Nitro Indigo
• Intelligence Factor lore be like:
  • The reason why ghosts and intelligent Pokémon exist on one planet is because Llama-God's essence willed them into existence after copying humans' imagination. Also, every civilisation in the Star Trek universe, including Earth, is a copy of one from the Pokémon world. — Nitro Indigo
• Ma Fille lore be like:
  • Glass Joe banged a stranger and it turned out to be the best decision of his life. As for Shining and Sweet, it's now that kid working with him in the WVBA together. — NoonboryKedabory
• My Immortal lore be like:
  • An extremely angsty satanist vampire witch describes her clothing, slits her wrists, and has sex in the woods. A noseless crossdresser with telekinesis disguises as emo band members in an attempt to get her to shoot her boyfriend's boyfriend, and a pair of gay perverts also try to blackmail her. The vampire witch ends up traveling back in time to stop the noseless crossdresser from bothering her, and ends up watching him have sex with an owl. Also, her friend and boyfriend both die and are inexplicably resurrected in two separate incidents. Misspelled nonsense ensues. — Hqami

Film — Animation

• Anastasia lore be like:
  • Evil lich man causes the 1917 Russian Revolution and a girl misses the train and loses her memories. Years later, the same girl leaves an orphanage and heads to the city where she finds two con artists. They're searching for someone to pretend to be a long lost princess and bring her to her grandma in Paris to get some nice cash. Turns out the girl is said lost princess and is trained to basically remember her memories as the gang head to Paris while the evil lich man chases them down to kill her. She and one of the conmen fell in love, arrive in Paris, grandma doesn't believe her until the princess brings up a crucial memory, then the evil lich man comes to ruin the day. Girl defeats him and destroys his Soul Jar, thus he's dead dead. Realizing that she'll have to leave her boyfriend if she returns to her royal life, the girl leaves it behind to stay with him and the grammy is fine with that, as her granddaughter is happy. None of this is historically accurate. - Cutegirl920fire
• The Bad Guys (2022) lore be like:
  • The world is full of both Anthropomorphic animals and People. At the same time there are also regular animals. This is never commented on. Oh, also some there's some anthro animals who commit crimes a lot. -BackSet1
  • It's like your favorite crime movie but for Furries. -BackSet1
• Cars lore be like:
  • Welcome to the colourful world of toyetic Sentient Vehicles, where World War II explicitly happened and the mafia create an international sporting event as an excuse to kill people. Wait, what? - Nitro Indigo
• Encanto lore be like:
  • So this girl's family all have magic powers, but she doesn't and it's never explained why. She has a strained relationship with her grandmother because of it, even though her grandmother doesn't have any powers either. Anyway, the magic starts to fail and the girl goes around trying to find out why, and it turns out it's because the family was way too stressed out from acting like they're perfect superhumans because they have powers. So stressed, in fact, that their househouse literally falls apart. Whoops! Oh, and also she has this uncle who everyone says is really creepy and evil, but then when you actually meet him, he's just some guy with a bunch of rats who lives in the walls, because he decided to exile himself, but didn't want to actually leave (this sounds like he's really lazy, but it's actually way sadder than that). - NoonboryKedabory
• The LEGO Movie lore be like:
  • LEGO minifigures were once free to do whatever they wanted, but this irritated the president's OCD, so he banned it. The creative types were sentenced to create instructions for the products of a megacorp, but they didn't like that, so they created interdimensional rifts and escaped to different worlds. The president blinds and steals some glue from a wizard who pulls out of his ass a prophecy that a chosen one will put a stop to his plans. Roughly 8 years later, a construction worker falls down a hole like a klutz and finds a rectangular object, which just so happens to be the key to stopping the president's plans, leading everyone to believe he's the chosen one from the prophecy. Now the construction worker must go on an unexpected adventure that he's completely unprepared for and save the world. - bpants98
• Turning Red lore be like:
  • It's 2002, and this girl who's the biggest nerd in Toronto history also has the most embarrassing mom in Toronto history. After another humiliating escapade with Mummy Dearest, she finds out that female members of her bloodline get magic red panda powers when they grow up. Around this same time, she finds out her favourite band is playing in her city around the time she's due to get an exorcism to get rid of her powers. Initially, she has the worst time ever, but later, Miss Panda learns that hey, being able to turn into an adorable, fluffy critter with advanced speed and strength stats is actually really cool! Anyway, on the night of the exorcism, she fights with her mom and goes off to the concert, but uh oh, Mom loses it and turns into a kaiju panda and goes on a rampage. Miss Panda defeats her mom, and they get sent into the astral plane where Miss Panda learns her mom was just like her as a kid and had an overbearing mother herself. Miss Panda, Mom Panda, and Granny Panda all hug and make up. The end. - NoonboryKedabory
• Zootopia lore be like:
  • In this universe humans never existed so instead every other mammal became sentient and started walking on two legs. Because of this they build cities and towns uniquely suited to be accessible to all sorts of creatures, which is some pretty neat background worldbuilding. On the other hand, they still all kind of want to eat each other so everybody's racist against everyone else. -BackSet1
  • It's like your favorite buddy cop movies, but for furries. -BackSet1

Film — Live-Action

• 300 lore be like:
  • THIS IS SPARTA! A glamorous tale of the Spartans who they defended themselves from a Persian invasion. There's monsters and muscles. Their leader kicks one of the baddies down a well, shouting out that often memed line. - Cutegirl920fire
• Avatar lore be like:
  • In the not too distant future, some spacefaring humans discover a rare mineral on a planet where everything is blue and psychically connected. They need to evict the native blue people to get it, so they give a former marine a remoted-controlled blue person body to gain their trust, but then he gets horny for one of them and goes native. - Nitro Indigo
• Back to the Future lore be like:
  • A boy travels back in time and does not try to bang his mother. In fact, he spends most of the movie actively trying to do the opposite because she's coming on to him and he finds that very uncomfortable. Also if he doesn't make sure his parents get back together he'll disappear from reality altogether. -BackSet1
• Home Alone lore be like:
  • Child is left home alone by a large, neglectful family. Two rag-tag burglars come over to try rob his house, so he sets up some booby traps to defend the said house. Considering how much (otherwise) fatal body injuries the burglars take from the traps, it's a miracle they're still alive by the end of the film! Then the next year, the boy gets on the wrong plane and ends up in New York City. With his dad's credit card, he checks himself in a hotel, meets Donald Trump, and enjoys himself some nice junk food. Then, he befriends a toy store owner and a homeless pigeon lady while he runs into the burglars again. The kid sets up booby traps for the burglars again and they're just as brutal as last time. How the fudge are those burglars still alive by then? - Cutegirl920fire
• Marvel Cinematic Universe lore be like:
  • So there's this purple guy and he really wants to complete his rock collection. And you get little hints in all the movies cause its all connected. Except for these specific TV Shows. They probably aren't canon, anyways. The X-Men? Oh, they haven't shown up yet but they should soon. You see, back in the 90s Marvel went bankrupt... - BackSet1
• Saw lore be like:
  • After losing his unborn son and getting divorced, some old dude is already down on his luck. Then he gets cancer. He drives himself off a cliff but survives where he realizes he should be grateful for his life and wants to spread this message to other people. How does he do it? Put people in deadly but escapable traps with some good ol' Gorn thrown in. He finds himself some disciples willing to help him and carry his legacy, which they do when he dies in the third movie. Also, years later, another guy copies his crimes cause he's all pissy over the police. - Cutegirl920fire
• Star Wars lore be like:
  • The galaxy is filled with laser swords, Psychic Powers, space dogfights, and Ugly Cute aliens, but everything revolves around one family's daddy issues. — Nitro Indigo

Literature

• All Tomorrows lore be like:
  • Humanity genetically engineered themselves and colonised countless planets. This angered some space noodles, who retaliated by genetically engineering the humans into grotesque abominations. 40 million years later, though, some of the human descendants (and some lizards) are able to create their own civilisations. Eventually, some giant metal balls start another intergalactic war. - Nitro Indigo
• Animorphs lore be like:
  • The interplanetary war that makes up the main conflict is part of a much bigger chess game between Space Gandalf and Space Sauron. Space Gandalf was originally a gamer whose most notable feature was that he was an excellent failure, until he fell into a black hole and ascended to godhood. He then created some happy-go-lucky space dogs whose idea of a password was "6" and couldn't comprehend violence. In turn, the space dogs made highly advanced robots who can create lifelike holograms as toys. After the space dogs were all murdered by Space Sauron's minions, who are children with no concept of morality (and are later defeated with The Power of Love), the robots fled to Earth and have been performing menial labour for millennia. - Nitro Indigo
  • A race of arrogant blue centaurs invented a magic box that gives people the power to shapeshift. If you stay shapeshifted for more than two hours, you can't turn back, so naturally several blue centaurs have decided to spend the rest of their lives as another alien race so they can have kids with their one true love. It also turns out that the magic box is the cure to everyone's problems because two of the main alien races hate what they are. - Nitro Indigo
  • In the 1960s, a blue centaur introduced some brain slugs to the concept of spaceships. This has made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. He and his family were banished to another planet, where his daughter started thirsting over a galaxy-brained scalie. Then the brain slugs found the planet, killed all the blue centaurs except the daughter, and conquered the scalies despite the daughter's best efforts. A few decades later, another brain slug learns about Earth, goes to Hollywood, snorts crack, and gets Lima Syndrome for her human slaves. — Nitro Indigo
• The Camp Half-Blood Series lore be like:
  • The Greek gods are real and they're all assholes who neglect their kids. 40 years ago Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades made a pact to never have kids again, which they all proceeded to immediately disregard. Also they all live in New York cause of Creator Provincialism. -BackSet1
• A Christmas Carol lore be like:
  • A miserable old git who hates everyone, including himself, is guilt-tripped into celebrating Christmas by the ghost of his former partner, an Eldritch Abomination, a giant, and The Grim Reaper. — Nitro Indigo
• The Chronicles of Narnia lore be like:
  • Jesus is a lion. — Nitro Indigo
• Cthulhu Mythos lore be like:
  • A quiet Schmarvard academic receives a cryptic letter from a colleague, his college roommate and only friend, who left on a field expedition down the street to Schmoston a few months ago and hasn't been heard from since. In pursuit of this lead, he quickly finds himself in an unfamiliar part of the city which isn't on his map, full of deformed people with strange names who avoid his questions, but eventually one shows him a glimpse of his friend's fate in the storage closet of the local temple. The narrator knows no words that could describe what unnatural horrors he sees there, so he poetically makes some up. Finally, he mails his story back to the university, asking them to raze the neighbourhood to match the map, while declaring his intent to return to the closet to join his friend forever. - Noaqiyeum
  • The originator of a whole bunch of cool stuff that was never utilized properly until the original author died. -BackSet1
• Geronimo Stilton lore be like:
  • A newspaper director makes a living with his nearly endless series of autobiographic books telling every out-of-normal thing that happens in his life. He also just happens to be a mouse. - PhantomDusclops92
• The Great Gatsby lore be like:
  • Poor boy comes back from World War I to find the girl he loved married a rich asshole and has a daughter. Our boy goes from Rags to Riches by doing crime with an Antisemitic stereotype but he still simps for the girl, so he moves near her new house and throws parties in hopes of drawing in his idol. Some years later, the girl's cousin gets invited to one of his parties and homoromantic subtext ensues. He becomes a wingman for the dude and manages to pair him up with the rich girl. Despite being married, the rich girl has an affair with the newly rich dude. However, this pisses off her dickish husband (who was also having an affair). When the cast meets up at a hotel, the husband and the simp get into a heated argument. It turns out the girl is not a pure idol, she's a shallow Rich Bitch. They go their separate ways, with the girl recklessly driving the titular dude's car where the asshole husband's mistress jumps in front of his spanking nice car, mistaking the dude for the asshole. She dies and the dude naturally takes the blame. Then asshole's mistress' husband heads over to his mansion and shoots him in the pool. News of the death spreads, but the girl and her family have already ditched town, the cousin loses his golfer girlfriend, learns about the dude's true past and only him and the dude's father attend the funeral. The cousin has had enough and heads back to his hometown. In the end, only the damn green light remains, because it's The American Dream or something. Also there's the whole "Eyes of God" billboard. Moral: rich people in The Roaring '20s suck ass. - Cutegirl920fire
• Harry Potter lore be like:
  • A few decades ago, a magic person had a son with a normal person, and the son ended up in an orphanage. He grew up hating everyone and eventually made himself look like a snake, and gave himself a cool name that nobody wants to call him. He's feared by everyone and tries to start a war, but is defeated by a literal baby. — Nitro Indigo
• His Dark Materials lore be like:
  • In a parallel universe where everything is slightly off, humans all have talking animal sidekicks made of sparkles. People keep subjecting children to horrible experiments to figure out how it works, but on the plus side, these sparkles also let you travel through the multiverse. Also, there are armour-wearing polar bears. — Nitro Indigo
• The Last Adventure of Constance Verity lore be like:
  • So a race of precursor bug aliens built a machine that was meant to control the entire universe, but it became self-aware, wiped out the bugs and just sort of sat there for a bamillion years. This somehow created a Chosen One mantle who's meant to solve every mystery, fight all bad guys, raid all temples and be the center of every Chosen One prophecy that was ever written, Constance Verity being that current and presumably best version of that Chosen One. After several decades of being the Chosen One, she decides to hunt down the Fairy Godmother who made her the Chosen One, kills her, puts her ghost in a pen and follows a conspiracy with the help of her normal friend Tia that leads them back to the self-aware universe machine. They push a big red button, the machine blows up, the universe is saved until the lack of machine will cause the universe to collapse in another million years, but they won't have to worry about that because they'll be dead by then. — Eviler Than Thou
• The Lord of the Rings lore be like:
  • An angel-wizard asks a moderately short person and his friends to go on a quest to destroy the evil overlord's jewellery. Along the way, they become allies with shorter people, immortal people, normal people, talking trees, and giant birds. They fail, but then a shrivelled old guy who lives in a cave destroys the jewellery anyway. Then the immortal people fuck off to parts unknown and everyone else goes home, but the moderately short person has PTSD. — Nitro Indigo
• The Moomins lore be like:
  • A family of creatures that look like hippos but are actually trolls live in a blue cylindrical house in a valley. The family's father ran away from orphanage as a kid to have adventures with the dads of some other characters, while nobody knows his wife's backstory. Their son has a girlfriend who looks like the hippo trolls, but she's actually a different species, because she can change her color, which comes up in one book and is never mentioned again. But he is actually implied to be in love with a hobo who hates park keepers and who looks like a human but is actually not. The son also falls in love with a horse once. The hobo has a sister who looks a lot younger than him but is actually older, and in at least one continuity she is in love with him. A lot of natural disasters happen in the valley, and there's also a really scary creature that can sometimes talk and sometimes not and may be a metaphor for homophobia and a race of sentient electric mushrooms that like sailing and worship a barometer. Being neglected turns people invisible. The trolls' great-something grandfather lives under their sink. The father makes illegal moonshine and evades taxes in the comics. And some of the adaptations get even weirder. - Hqami
• The Railway Series lore be like:
  • A thoroughly detailed Alternate History worldbuilding project about a fictional British Isle, and also trains have faces because shut up. — Nitro Indigo
• Seekers lore be like:
  • Ursa Major sends Ursa Minor to Earth as a shapeshifter so he can teach three bears to become Greenpeace activists. — Nitro Indigo
• Warrior Cats lore be like:
  • A cult of ancestor-worshipping feral cats live in the woods and receive vaguely-worded prophecies from the afterlife. The cult is split into four (later five) groups, and they need to remain separate or else the universe will explode or something. Whenever a cat becomes the leader of a group, they have a trippy vision where ghosts give them extra lives like it's a video game. There are other feral cat cults as well; one's members all have really long names, and another banishes all their males the instant they reach adulthood. — Nitro Indigo
• Wings of Fire lore be like:
  • An insignificant little vermin accidentally kills the queen of a foreign kingdom and starts a world war. Roughly a decade later, some morally-dubious peacekeepers are told to kidnap some children and raise them in an underground bunker to end the war. Also, they're dragons. — Nitro Indigo

Live-Action TV

• Doctor Who lore be like:
  • An immortal Human Alien kidnaps conventionally attractive women and takes them on traumatising adventures onto alien planets. Every few real-life years, the immortal alien dies and gets recasted. Their mortal enemies are octopuses in mech suits who are descended from a different kind of Human Aliens. The rules of time travel change every episode so the writers have an excuse to retcon things. — Nitro Indigo
  • The Human Alien wasn't originally conceived as an alien at all — just a human from the far future. Eventually, they established that he's an alien with two hearts who can turn into other people when they die. Okay, cool. Is that a natural ability of his species, or do they have to be given it? The writers can't make up his mind. But wait — he might be half human, but nobody liked that, so they retconned it straight away. At least that's consistent for the next few decades... until it turns out that they're a different kind Human Alien from another dimension and they're even more immortal than we previously thought. Right... — Nitro Indigo
• Malcolm in the Middle lore be like:
  • Genius Boy has to tolerate his quite concerning Dysfunctional Family while his eldest brother is away from them for being a big troublemaker, so he makes by what he can do. Also the mom is quite aggressive and controlling to say the least. - Cutegirl920fire
• Power Rangers lore be like:
  • Earth's history is full of alien invasions, mystical artefacts, and Sealed Evils in Cans. Every year, more aliens decide to invade, someone wants to steal those mystical artefacts and use them for EEVILL, or the can is opened. Regardless, the only people who can save us are five-or-so twentysomethings in spandex. - Nitro Indigo
• Z: The Beginning of Everything lore be like:
  • A dramatized series about poor army dude meeting rich Southern Belle. Southern Belle is rebellious and likes wearing short skirts much to her parents' chargin. They fall in love as she liked his fancy words. They marry once his first published book hits it big, even though it used some of her own words. Shit would soon hit the fan in their relationship, but the show wasn't able to cover it all 'cause it got cancelled after one season. F. - Cutegirl920fire

Mythology

• Egyptian Mythology be like:
  • Most of the gods have animal heads, the ex-head god fights off a big ass snake every night, a god whose head no one can figure out what animal it represents is jealous of his brother and kills him to become king of the Gods. His nephew gets pissed off and gets his revenge on the mysterious animal head god while his dad now rules the Underworld. When the nephew got revenge, he becomes the new head huncho god. Don't ask about the cabbages that were involved at one point. - Cutegirl920fire
• Greek Mythology be like:
  • Zeus did it. — Nitro Indigo
  • Zeus did it. -BackSet1
• Norse Mythology be like:
  • The gods aren't immortal and destined to die in the apocolypse, but they ain't bothered by it much. The head god got cruficed on a tree and lost an eye to become big brain. His adopted brother turned into a mare and got pregnant; he gave birth to the head god's eight-legged mount. Oh and there are nine worlds in this universe and they're held up in this big ass tree. - Cutegirl920fire
• Santa Claus lore be like:
  • A Russian saint (who may or may not be immortal) lives at the North Pole and delivers presents (made by elves) to children once a year in a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer. All of this is an excuse to encourage kids to behave. — Nitro Indigo

Tabletop Games

• Changeling: The Lost lore be like:
  • People get kidnapped by Lovecraftian faeries, turned into fantasy fae-esk creatures against their own will in very traumatizing ways and escape the fairy hellhole they get trapped in. They try rebuilding their lives while avoiding the aformentioned Lovecraftian faeries and avoid falling into deep madness. - Cutegirl920fire
• Cyberpunk lore be like:
  • Due to an immense amount of political corruption and the rise of megacorporations, America has become a futuristic hellscape by the year 2013/2020/2045. Not unlike real life. -BackSet1
• Dungeons & Dragons lore be like:
  • So there's this complex backstory of this land called the Forgotten Realms but it doesn't matter because we're actually playing in my homebrew setting. Hope you enjoy dying a lot. - BackSet1
• Sentinels of the Multiverse lore be like:
  • Fictional superheroes are more fictional than other fictional superheroes. Here's a list of publication dates for comic books that don't actually exist. - BackSet1
• Vampire: The Masquerade lore be like:
  • The Antediluvians were really strong and really evil. Fucking with the Antediluvians is a very bad idea. People constantly try to fuck with the Antediluvians. - Chloe Jessica
• Warhammer 40,000 lore be like:
  • Captain Robertus Chaddicus of the Blood Bleeders Astartes XXIIIVXth Company launched an expedition to defend the planet of Hellhole in the Segmentum Obscurus from an invasion of Tyranids, Orks, and Chaos all at once. After 500 years of brutal combat and siege warfare, the Astartes under Robertus were able to free the planet from the Xenos and Heretics by launching several tactical nukes at their general direction. The Imperium of Man lost a mere 8000000000000000000000 men that day in a decisive Imperial victory, and the people of Hellhole looked to their 50% CO2 sky with hope. Glory to the Emperor. - m-95

Theatre

• Romeo and Juliet lore be like:
  • Boy meets girl. They fall in love. Turns out they're from rivaling families that can't stand each other. Girl fakes her death. Boy kills himself before he discovers the girl is actually still alive. Girl dies for real. - Cutegirl920fire
• Six lore be like:
  • The six wives of some fat bastard king hold a singing competiton where they sing about their lives to see who has been treated the worse by him and thus become the lead singer of their band. They learn not to compare trauma to each other and that they shouldn't be defining themselves of their relationship to their husband, so they use their newfound Character Development to perform a mashup of their songs at the end. - Cutegirl920fire
• Top Girls lore be like:
  • A play set in the real world about feminism in 1980s Britain, except the first act is about one of the main characters at a restaurant with a bunch of fictional and long-dead women and no-one questions it. — Nitro Indigo

Toys

• BIONICLE lore be like:
  • A race of cyborgs, who used to have Maori names until LEGO got sued, live inside a bigger cyborg who they worship as their god. They also serve as its immune system. - Nitro Indigo
• Ever After High lore be like:
  • Children of fairy tale characters attend high school and are forced to follow their parents footsteps or else risk ceasing from existence and screwing up their world. However, one outcast teen wants to follow her own destiny, thus creates a huge divide in the school between those doing a Generation Xerox and those making their own path. - Cutegirl920fire
• Gormiti lore be like:
  • A volcano god wakes up and sent out lava monsters who murdered everyone on a floating island. An old man survives and his grief for all the lost people makes a magic orb that creates a bunch of rock monsters, plant people, fishmen and birdmen that can fight against the lava monsters, and they all live fine until the volcano god makes all of them racist towards eachother. So they begin murder eachother for years until a solar eclipse says it's time for the Tournament Arc to decide who rules. A crab guy wins but lava Skeletor arrives out of nowhere, beats him up and tells everyone how his god tricked everyone into hatred. His ass is kicked immediately. The good guys are all friends again until the birdmen are deceived into becoming servants of the volcano god with the promise of a powerup. The old man from the beginning comes back to give everyone else the powerup but birdmen are too broken so it's useless. The three remaining good guy leaders then cry loud enough that an angel dude comes down and boosts their ranks, but the volcano god also creates new bad guys and then summons a demon to steal the old man's magic orb while everyone else is busy fighting eachother, but the angel stops him so they do a Helm's Deep knockoff where everyone gets new upgrades and everyone from the first arc is resurrected but nothing comes out and the orb is sent into space... only to become a radioactive asteroid that crushes down and mutates everyone, then it splits in 5 orbs that everyone fights for once again until half of them are sucked up in a spacetime vaccuum. The old man ends up in the Jurassic and reincarnates into a dinosaur. - PhantomDusclops92
• Masters of the Universe lore be like:
  • Slink-E was one of many new characters introduced in the 1986 assortment of Evil Horde figures, with the gimmick of having a slinky for a waist. His Action Figure File Card characterized him as the ultimate Escape Artist, acting as a spy that could get out of any situation the moment he was caught. He would make minor appearances as a villain on She-Ra: Princess of Power, where he was a comic relief minion that would get on Hordak's nerves. Slink-E would then fade into obscurity, with the character's intended comeback in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) never coming to pass due to the cancellation of the show's third season, where he would once again have been a minion of the Evil Horde. Slink-E got a new toy in the Classics line, but nothing else would come from this. Things would finally change for Slink-E in 2019, where he would have his big comeback in the third season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. They were once again portrayed as a minion of the Horde, though this time Slink-E was portrayed as a more complex figure indoctrinated into the Horde's beliefs rather than committing evil for evil's sake. Slink-E is now praised as one of the best pieces of aromantic representation in modern animation. - General Gigan
• Monster High lore be like:
  • Children of famous movie monsters attend high school where they vibe, be fashionable and make spooky monster puns. - Cutegirl920fire
• Transformers lore be like:
  • Two factions of alien Humongous Mecha who can turn into vehicles (or guns, audiocassettes, or animals) have been at war for thousands of years. They keep bringing their conflicts to Earth, where the good ones befriend some local human children. — Nitro Indigo

Video Games

• Animal Crossing lore be like:
  • You know that racoon (dog) who gives you increasingly high loans? When he was younger, he moved to the city to start a business, only to have his dreams crushed when a former friend scammed him out of his money. He's childhood friends with the local tailor, who had to raise her younger sister after their parents died. But if this all sounds too depressing for a game about cute talking animals, don't worry. They stopped giving characters backstories around the time they introduced the blonde shiba inu. — Nitro Indigo
• Assassin's Creed lore be like:
  • Thousands of years ago, aliens created humans to be their slaves. Eventually, the humans rebelled and started their own civilisations. In the present, a guy called Desmond relives the Genetic Memories of his ancestors. - Nitro Indigo
• Bendy and the Ink Machine lore be like:
  • You know those old timey cartoons? Oh yeah, some machine brought them to life and regardless if they got fused with workers at an animation studio or not, they ended up as some scary ink monsters. - Cutegirl920fire
• Cassette Beasts lore be like:
  • Humanity's collective desires and vices manifested as Angelic Abominations who speak in all-caps. Two of them — a monochrome woman and a triangle man — used to be in love, but then their son died and the triangle man decided to conquer the multiverse. The Angelic Abominations now reside on island where a train keeps stranding humans so they can learn to stop being colonialists. Eventually, the humans figure out how to turn into monsters using audiocassettes, except they don't actually know how it works. One human finds a way off the island when the monochrome woman asks them to sort out her beef with her ex-husband. — Nitro Indigo
• Club Penguin lore be like:
  • Penguins live on an island, chat, throw snowballs, and jackhammer icebergs for no reason. They keep these little balls of fluff, some of which inexplicably have animal features, as pets. There's an old penguin who teaches the penguins ninja skills and Elemental Powers using cards. The island is secretly run by a government of secret agents who mostly protect it from a polar bear who ended up there by accident and constantly tries to make the island warm instead of just leaving. Later on random Disney characters start occasionally showing up on the island and have parties. - Hqami
• Crash Bandicoot lore be like:
  • A Mad Scientist, who looks and acts like a cross between a toddler and an old man, turns a bunch of marsupials into anthropomorphic super-soldiers to build and army and take over the world. Unfortunately for him but fortunately for everyone else, one of these marsupials was too stupid to be evil, so he escaped and befriended a magical mask who's basically a god. Now they, along with the stupid marsupial's sister who suddenly appeared in the second game, keep ruining the Mad Scientist's plans. - Nitro Indigo
• Dark Souls lore be like:
  • In the ye olden days of 2011, it was decided that lighting things on fire was the most optimal way to do things. Whether it was for transport, medicine, exercise, or cooking that week-old steak you left in the fridge, it seemed fire had it all. The CEO of fire realized people might not like fire very much, so he decided the solution was more fire. He fired himself, fired most of his employees, and posthumously had his vice-president spit fire to convince people that they should be fired too. - Doc Sharp
• Darkest Dungeon lore be like:
  • You are a noble that got a letter from your currently dead ancestor about how the estate that they used to live in is in need of spring cleaning. Turns out, said ancestor not only had the biggest party ever without you (what a jerk!), he also left behind the mother of all messes for you to clean up. Fortunately, you're not alone in the cleaning with your janitorial crew of many different talents and walks of life. Unfortunately, the mess may be too much to bear. - Ore-O
• Deltarune lore be like:
  • Remember that game where the dust people were all imprisoned in a cave? Well, in this game, they weren't and live together with the flesh people. And they may or may not actually be made of dust in this universe. And that one shopkeeper is dead now, and the ghost isn't a calculator. Also, both dust people and flesh people are capable of turning inanimate objects into people. This is done by stabbing the ground in a special way. And remember that guy from the first game who wasn't actually in the game? Well, he's definitely in this game, because you see, this sound effect that plays when you try to use the phone in the dark world is the same as the sound that plays in the unused room in the first game which is– - Hqami
  • A mysterious person goes around giving invisible rocks to the sexiest of said object-people. This has resulted in, so far, a card that can turn into a scythe breaking up with a stuffed cat toy and being sent to jail (though he insists that he's not actually in jail) and a homeless man who may or may not be a cat becoming obsessed with stealing the OC of the ghost who isn't a calculator. The grocery store's janitor's dad is totally behind it all because eggs behind trees and also because we said so. - Hqami
• Drakengard and Nier lore be like:
  • Your new weapon was forged by a blacksmith for revenge against the gang of bandits who kidnapped her husband and cut off her hands, but in her blind rage she mistook her husband for one of the bandits. When she realised, she killed herself out of remorse. That same day, sixty children died in the nearest village for unrelated reasons. There are five hundred and forty-one weapons like this in the game, each with a uniquely miserable backstory, and if you collect all of them you get the worst possible ending, which is the same as the best ending but with more context. Neither of them will be canon to the sequel, though. The canonical ending is the one where an evil flower goddess tried to murder you by cheating at a rhythm game. - Noaqiyeum
• Fate/Grand Order lore be like:
  • You sign up for some organization, fly over to Antarctica where their headquarters are located, and fall asleep during a presentation. It turns out sleeping saves your life as an explosion goes off that killed pretty much everyone else that signed up except for you. Now, humanity got incinerated and you gotta restore the timeline before all of human history is wiped out. To do so, you do time travel and summon hot waifus^note and husbandos that originate from history, literature and myth. Hope the Gacha rates treat you well! Oh, don't ask about the two additional story arcs that come after this one. - Cutegirl920fire
  • So after beating a treeman and loosing a dear friend, you saved humanity, yay! Oh wait, now you're on Arc 1.5 where your organization is under suspesion for doing stuff that's against protocol (read time travelling to save humanity). Then, four periods in the timeline get screwed over and you have to go fix them. They consist of a dark Urban Fantasy city where literary villainly roams free, a fictional Straw Feminist Lady Land continent, feudal Japan with a bunch of demonic swordspeople and a (mostly) useless forced support unit; and a spooky town where witch trials and Eldritch Abominations ensue. Oh and a story-important event where you head over to a underwater facility to deal with rogue AI and a horny nun. Once you dealt with them, that'll be all, right? - Cutegirl920fire
  • Just when you dealt with those troublesome four periods, you get harshly intergated by the secret mage organization while your own organization gets bought out by a rich fat dude and his foxy secretary. Just when they release your collected waifus/husbandos and fire you, some icy princess raids the building and kills a good amount of people. Your Mission Control, a genderbent Reinassance artist, gets hand-stabbed by a priest but she has a back up loli body, so she's ultimately fine (kinda). You and the gang escape in a speedy black tank where you discover that the entire Earth is bleached white, seven of previously deceased members are brought back from the dead to serve an almighty alien god and host seven pruned alternate histories that are widely different from each other and your timeline. Now with your waifus/husbandos returned to you and your trusty but weaked kouhai by your side, you have to cut down the trees keeping these timelines alive. Turns out, instead of simply fixing the timeline, you straight up annilhate it. So, you have to do around half-a-dozen genocides to keep your own timeline alive. Good luck! - Cutegirl920fire
• Five Nights at Freddy's lore be like:
  • In a minigame that's only playable by scratching your nose at exactly 5:01 PM in the 4th game, we learn that William Afton tricked a child to drink water while wearing a Springlock suit. This child died and his ghost would go on to haunt the animatronic body of Golden Foxy, who we can see with a bottle of ashes in a spin-off game. By analyzing the left eye of the animatronic we learn that the ashes are the creamated body of Afton, who Golden Foxy burned to prevent him from coming back. The newest game reveals that William Afton somehow survived being cremated. - m-95
• Genshin Impact lore be like:
  • Go to new nation. Save entire nation. Talk to god. God tells you nothing useful about your sibling (who is really the ruler of the Abyss). Repeat. -Kitkat KK 2
• Gravity Rush lore be like:
  • Okay, so, this is set on a planet that isn't spherical, but is actually an Axis Mundi where time more much faster the higher-up the pillar you're in that is being swallowed up in a blackhole from the bottom-up, which is actually a Destroyer Deity that created a race of mindless killer blob creatures and inexplicable Unrealistic Black Holes at random. At the very top of this world is a civilization of Ambiguously Human aristocrats who learned how to tame the blob monsters and their royal family can use them to become Gravity Masters. Their Queen thinks that they should use their powers and technology to be rid of the black hole and save the countless civilizations below them, but the rest of them aren't interested because it won't be there problem for at least several more generations. They fake the Queen's death and she lands on one of the lower floating island nations with no memory of who she is and becomes a Homeless Hero who gets no respect from any of them. She teams up with another woman who also has powers just like her because they were the same person or something and defends the good people from the monsters, fights Fascist regimes and their super-soldiers and are sort-of helped by homeless people that may or may-not be God. — Eviler Than Thou
• Guardians of the Galaxy (2021) lore be like:
  • Your favorite heroes are back but this time they're all war veterans with PTSD. Its up to them to save the galaxy from a space cult because the primary peacekeeping force is totalitarian and incompetent all at the same time. -BackSet1
• Hello Neighbor lore be like:
  • You break inside your neighbor's house just to get into his basement. It's filled with glitchy traps and apparently this disturbed neighbor has a tragic past or something involving his kids dying. - Cutegirl920fire
• Hollow Knight lore be like:
  • A Moth Goddess made everyone high and its up to you, a mute bug with no personality, to either kill her or contain the high-ness. Oh also another god is obsessed with sawblades and killing his children. -Archsage
• Just Shapes & Beats lore be like:
  • Some pink thing ate too many Flamin' Hot® Doritos® and is now fucking up the whole world. It's up to a tiny blue square to stop them by dodging their attacks until they give up and leave, while also collecting some Doritos® 3D to save the world. - Purple Eyed Guma
• Kid Icarus: Uprising lore be like:
  • Imagine Greek Mythology but they're all petty assholes. So just Greek Mythology. -BackSet1
• Kingdom Hearts lore be like:
  • Light. Darkness. Sora. Light. Darkness. Disney. Final Fantasy. Xehanort. Key Blade. Xehanort. Xehanort. Light. Darkness. Xehanort.
  • In ye olden days, everyone had a giant key. Then the multiverse exploded, and nowadays only a select few have a giant key. One of them is Mickey Mouse. - Nitro Indigo
• Kirby lore be like:
  • This happy blob slays Eldritch Abominations on the regular, but all he cares about is making friends. Every villain has a tragic backstory that's only revealed in flavour text. - Nitro Indigo
  • The main character is actually the good form of an Eldritch Abomination. Most of his enemies are the bad form of that same Eldritch Abomination. Everything is an orb. - BackSet1
  • So there's this butterfly... - BackSet1
• Klonoa lore be like:
  • A moon prince who looks like a Teletubby kidnaps an innocent Ridiculously Cute Critter from another plane of existence and gives him Fake Memories to manipulate him into saving the world. The latter may or may not be related to a goddess. - Nitro Indigo
• The Legend of Spyro lore be like:
  • Mark Hamill's dragonsona thought it was his destiny to destroy the world because he's purple. Ten generations later, he commits genocide on dragonkind and turns the only female dragon into his minion. Elijah Wood's dragonsona hatches around this time, and he's destined to save the world from Mark Hamill because he's also purple. - Nitro Indigo
• The Legend of Zelda lore be like:
  • The kingdom's royal family and local bishonens are trapped in an endless cycle of conflict with demons because a scaly guy with fire for hair cursed them in the prequel. The timeline splits into three at one point, and it's so confusing that even the creators gave up on trying to fit every game onto it. - Nitro Indigo
  • A dream girl becomes a real seagull. There's a parallel universe inhabited by reused character models where the moon has a face and is about to kill everyone. A race of tiny mouse people created a human-sized sword and brought a mystical triangle that's totally different from the three mystical triangles. A crew of pirates discover a new land where people use ley lines as train tracks. Humans spent thousands of years living on tiny floating islands because their matron goddess thought the surface was too dangerous for them. All of these concepts come up in one game each and are never mentioned again. — Nitro Indigo
• Lenna's Inception lore be like:
  • A guy is accidentally delivered 255 pizzas, and breaks reality when he puts them in his fridge. The now-omnipotent fridge turns the final boss into a schoolteacher and kills the hero, leaving the schoolteacher to save the world by killing her own minions. Also, capitalism. — Nitro Indigo
• Little Tail Bronx lore be like:
  • Good news! Highly advanced alien technology arrived on Earth, finally giving humans a reliable source of clean energy. Bad news! They go to war over it and create Humongous Mecha as weapons of mass destruction. It gets so bad that the alien technology's AI decides to kill all life and start over. The next species to create civilisation are anthropomorphic cat and dog people whose names mean "cat-cat" and "dog-dog". Magical also exists, but it's actually nanomachines. - Nitro Indigo
  • In release order, some cats in a certain country are tricked into believing that collecting ancient crystals will end racism, a human in a different country builds other humans out of dogs in order to get a big orb to kill all life, and in this same country a thousand years prior, a invasion happened because some guy wanted to both find God and become God. Also, something about a kid teaching public safety. In layman's terms, the Titano-Machina did it. - Blurry Dawgo
• Mass Effect lore be like:
  • Humans discover alien warp technology in one of Pluto's moons and immediately start fighting with other aliens. Once the misunderstandings are cleared up humans immediately demand to take an important role in the intergalactic government. Meanwhile, in the space between galaxies, a bunch of giant robot bugs spouting entry level nihilism prepare to wipe out all intelligent life for the gajillionth time. Also, everyone is racist against everyone else. -BackSet1
  • A massive franchise full of a series of complex choices culminates in one big choice that invalidates the other choices and doesn't end well no matter what you choose. Nobody is satisfied except the devs, who forgot they were working on a Video Game. -BackSet1
  • There's a race of hermaphrodite aliens who happen to look like blue attractive human women, and their hat is having sex with everyone. - Nitro Indigo
  • Thousands of years ago an alien race made of smug assholes conquered the Galaxy with a bunch of magic tech stuff that they ripped off from an even older alien race who ripped off from another even more older alien race and do on and so forth. In the modern day, galactic society rips off the smug assholes' magic tech stuff and eventually find a living one of them trapped in a refrigerator who is the smuggest asshole of them all. -BackSet1
• Mega Man lore Be like:
  • Using the power of Power Copying and your trusty Arm Cannon, Fight the creations of a... VERY persistent roboticist trying to take over the world with robots! And then do it again. And again. And again. And again... - MP
• Minecraft lore be like:
  • There is no lore. No matter how hard you try to come up with some, there just isn't any. -BackSet1
  • ...Unless you count the basic Mojang expected playthrough as "lore". You spawn. Punch a tree. Craft shit and mine shit. Go to what's basically hell to get stuff needed to open a portal. Find said portal. Go in that portal and end up in a whole another dimension. Slay dragon. Get egg and return to whatever base you had. - Cutegirl920fire
• Monster Sanctuary lore be like:
  • Millions of years ago, a bird was lonely, so it stole a seed from another universe and used it to create life on Earth. Slightly fewer millions of years ago, space jellyfish ruled the oceans, went to war with mini Cthulhus, and created crabs and nautiluses. Thousands of years ago, the bird went to war with a dragon and died. 490 years ago, the god of time told four people and their Bond Creatures to stand around a tree and create an island. — Nitro Indigo
• Myst lore be like:
  • You can travel to other universes through books full of computer code by touching the moving pictures in them, but you have to be careful because the book doesn't come with you. This is a secret Art practiced by a city of racist Vulcans from a cave under New Mexico, who mostly worshipped their language as God but were eventually wiped out by bioterrorists who believed that writers are gods and demanded worship from their stories. The surviving keeper of the Art is a brilliant steampunk engineer who doesn't want to talk about any of his male family members. His daughter is Vulcan Jesus. Vulcan Jesus taught herself how to time travel. - Noaqiyeum
• NiGHTS into Dreams…/Nights Journey Of Dreams lore be like:
  • A God who's a helmet on a cloak with six hands with eyeballs creates a race of circus-like creatures who are actually nightmare monsters to rob orb-shaped positive traits of sleeping people. He creates the two most humanoid and powerful of these monsters after an attempt resulting in an orange one with an invisible body and a cloak going wrong, but the purple one runs away because they hate rules (in a nutshell), leaving the red one to pick the slack. The purple one gets the help of kids suffering from different types of crises in their lives to beat the other nightmare monsters, the kids eventually learn to fly on their own, and the six-handed guy is beaten. Cue the 5-minutes long R&B love song in the credits! - MinecraftFan11
• OMORI lore be like:
  • A boy breaks his violin and impulsively/accidentally shoves his older sister down the stairs into it because of stress over a recital the two were about to perform at. His gardener best friend has the idea of faking the cause of her death so things will be fine between their group of friends, but things don't turn out fine. The former violinist boy represses his memories and invents an alternate persona (who secretly is the embodiment of his own guilt) who lives in a trippy world where nothing went wrong and his sister is still alive (actually made to mask the place holding the boy's darkest memories), the gardener boy ramps his anxiousness because of his guilt, the girl with the eggplant plushie becomes a pink-haired angry punk with a nail bat, the charming chief boy becomes a depressed medic boy, and the ballin' boy... well, he's still ballin' but he's more mature now. The first two listed boys will have different fates if you get the first boy out of his house or not, and if you do, if you confront the gardener boy about what both of them did, and once again if you do, if you succumb to the embodiment of the violin boy's guilt or not. - MinecraftFan11
• Ooblets lore be like:
  • A MegaCorp is holding all the bees in the world hostage in order to turn their honey into snack cakes. In order to hide their conspiracy, they come up with a two-part cover story: they pretend to be a trio of talking Mons who rule the continent, and their marketing tells everyone that bees aren't real. They're currently trying to get a charming small town evicted so they can expand their mining operations underneath it. - Nitro Indigo
• Pokémon lore be like:
  • 3,000 years ago, an absurdly tall man created a weapon of mass destruction to bring a flower fairy back to life. The resulting radiation created mystical marbles that give certain Pokémon Super Modes. In fact, an alarming amount of potentially world-ending threats give Pokémon superpowers, but everyone is okay with this. - Nitro Indigo
  • In competitive, beloved fan-favorite Pokémon Slashy McSwordFace is in the NU (Never Used) tier because of its bad typing and moveset. At the same time, gimmicky joke Pokémon Mr. Scrunkly Man is in the Uber tier because of a stall tactic with little to no counterplay. - Purple Eyed Guma
  • A long time ago, there was a big monster who went around fucking things up. Eventually, the monster was stopped from fucking things up. Now someone wants to bring the monster back and you're going to have to do the thing that stopped it again. - Chloe Jessica
  • There's an alternate universe which is threatened with annihilation every few years, and only an isekai protagonist can save everyone. Negative emotions have a tendency to create Eldritch Abominations here. - Nitro Indigo
  • People love to joke about how pre-teens are allowed to venture out into the wilderness on their own in this world, but don't worry. There's plenty of infrastructure to support them, including free healthcare. Hundreds of years ago, though, there wasn't any of this infrastructure, and anyone who ventured into the wilderness risked being mauled. In fact, when a 15-year-old from the future washes up near a newly-founded town, they're forced to catalogue the local killer wildlife. Later, their paranoid boss accuses them of causing the apocalypse and banishes them into the wilderness, and remember, this was before free healthcare was invented. Fun! - Nitro Indigo
• Poppy Playtime lore be like:
  • Something, something about a shut down toy company. Something, something about their toys being possessed by the souls of dead children. Something, something about a doll who might be behind it all. Something, something about a tall, slender Cookie Monster with a big wide grin and hugs people just to eat them. Apparently quite popular with the kiddos it seems. - Cutegirl920fire
• Professor Layton lore be like:
  • Everything that seems supernatural turns out to be caused by robots/hallucinations/ridiculously complicated conspiracies. Also, the sidekick can definitely understand animals. — Nitro Indigo
• Sonic the Hedgehog lore be like:
  • Aliens made of water brought seven mystical gemstones that can do whatever the plot demands to the planet. Eventually, the aliens evolved into Tamagotchis. An evil fat man named after a lyric from a Beatles song and/or the Czech word for "slave" keeps putting cute animals into robots in order to achieve world domination, and a group of more-anthropomorphic cute animals have to stop him, usually collecting the seven mystical gemstones along the way. The evil fat man's grandfather tried to create the ultimate lifeform; his first, failed attempt was a giant lizard, and his second attempt was an edgelord who may or may not be part-alien. - Nitro Indigo
• Splatoon lore be like:
  • Humans nuked Antarctica in World War V, causing the sea levels to rise and killing all the land animals except a cat in cryo stasis. Thousands of years later, anthropomorphic teenage squids squirt their bodily fluids all over public areas as a sport. The squids' national anthem is so good that it cures brainwashing, especially the cover by a pop star duo who call themselves sisters but are actually cousins, and are also secret agents. - Nitro Indigo
  • In the more recent past, there was a war between squids and octopuses. The octopuses lost and ended up living underground, and their propaganda teaches them to hate squids. Meanwhile, all the squids forgot what octopuses looked like except for one old guy who can't rap. The old guy is casually racist until he gets trapped underground and helps a teenage octopus escape and defeat an omnicidal telephone who's successfully blended 10,007 octopuses into goo. Five years later, a giant bear turns the old guy into squid jerky, but he's okay with that. - Nitro Indigo
  • There's a race of salmon who think the greatest honour in life is to be eaten, and they frequently crawl out of the sea to wreak havoc, to the point where squids used to believe they were harbingers of the apocalypse. Despite this, it's considered a perfectly acceptable part-time job for teenagers to go out to the shore, kill the salmon, and steal their babies. Then it turns out the aforementioned bear was using the salmon's babies to create goo that turns people into furries. Everyone is morally complicit in this. - Nitro Indigo
• Spore lore be like:
  • The centre of the Milky Way is ruled with an iron first by cyborg gremlins who hate all life and are easily defeated by terraforming. Your ultimate goal is to go past them, into the core, and meet a UFO who speaks English (unlike everyone else in the game) and shows you a trippy slideshow. - Nitro Indigo
• Super Mario Bros. lore be like:
  • The series stars two Italian plumbers who were being delivered by a stork until a turtle wizard (who foresaw they'd overthrow his turtle-ox-dragon master/charge in the future) knocked them out of the sky, but fortunately they were rescued by dinosaurs. In the present, they rescue the same princess from the same turtle-ox-dragon over and over again, but they also all play sports together and no-one questions it. Some of the fungi give you superpowers, while others are people. - Nitro Indigo
  • This is the plot of one spinoff: A long time ago, a man made of squares fell in love with a human. The square man's father didn't like this, so he nearly killed the human and banished her to wander the multiverse. The square man was so distraught that he decided to destroy the multiverse out of spite. Unbeknownst to him, a wizard saved the human's life by turning her into a butterfly. It turns out that the square man was being manipulated by a jester, and he proposes to the human-turned-butterfly in order to undo the damage he caused. The Italian plumbers, princess, and turtle-ox-dragon are also there. - Nitro Indigo
  • You don't want a story that's just about the princess being kidnapped and rescued? Well... it seems there's an ancient or distant power that has the potential to destroy the world, and the timing and circumstances are such that it's come to this fungi land, and our plumber must either harness or directly oppose this power to save everyone, possibly with the help of friends who we'll never see again after this conflict is resolved. And since the being who seeks to harness this power is either the turtle-ox-dragon or someone who knows that the princess happens to be the key to unlocking it, odds are she's going to be kidnapped and rescued anyway. - Falcon Pain
• Super Smash Bros. lore be like:
  • A disembodied hand decides to make his toys fight each other for his amusement. Said toys sometimes go on adventures to fight gods. - bpants98
• Team Fortress 2 lore be like:
  • Australia discovered a metal that makes everyone shredded, except the Spy. He's from New Zealand. - Nitro Indigo
• Terraria lore be like:
  • Cthulhu! I mean his brother Moon Lord who is not copyrighted or trademarked. Is the Cthulhu Mythos copyrighted still or what? Let's do some research ... Hot damn this is unnecessarily complicated. Screw it. Cthulhu! -wingedcatgirl
• Touhou Project lore be like:
  • Hundreds of supernatural anime girls, who have power over any concept you can think of, live in a magical pocket dimension. There are a single-digit number of men. — Nitro Indigo
• Undertale lore be like:
  • All the people made of dust were imprisoned in a cave by people made of flesh. A kid made of flesh accidentally entered this cave, and decided to eat flowers in order to get the dust people out. This failed, and a goat decided to collect a bunch of colorful hearts, which caused his wife to leave him. At some point, a guy who isn't actually in the game got erased from existence. This has no bearing on the game's plot, despite what the fandom might tell you. A dinosaur turned some dying dust people melty and turned a dead goat into a flower, accidentally giving said flower the power to rewind time. Then, a flesh kid who looks like the first flesh kid gets in the cave and starts to either befriend or murder the dust people. The flower wants to kill the kid for taking away his time-rewinding powers simply by existing in the cave. In the end, the flower becomes a bigger uglier flower, and you get one of about 90 different phone calls depending on which specific dust people you befriended or killed. That is, unless the kid either befriended everyone or murdered everyone. In the former case, the flower turns back into a goat and lets the dust people out of the cave, and in the latter case, the flower dies, but only after the flesh kid has fought the funny meme skeleton. - Hqami
  • Or, to put it short: Gaster did it.
• Ys lore be like:
  • A swordsman with bright red hair goes to various parts of the world, possibly because a shipwreck stranded him there, and is completely unwilling to leave the place without solving the locals' problems first, which also means saving the entire world. He may or may not be accompanied by a buff guy with blue hair who can demolish walls with his bare hands. - GastonRabbit

Web Animation

• Bento Banana lore be like:
  • Within a world where most of the characters are anthromorphic food, an Animesque Stock Shōnen Hero banana and his shy, Only Sane Man eggplant companion, go on misadventures that poke fun at anime tropes. It turns out to be a Show Within a Show run by a director using AI to create it. However, shit hits the fan and the show ends up glitching out, making the food characters go off script and do truly unexpected things. - Cutegirl920fire
• ENA lore be like:
  • Surreal (in either an hilarious or scary way) adventures in a world that combines PS1, postmodern art, and 90's Internet in aesthetic, and LSD: Dream Emulator and The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games in quirkiness. Adventures whose protagonists are a yellow-and-blue girl who usually can be either overly polite and cheerful or extremely depressed (barring the one time she got drunk), and her best friend, a moon who makes jokes that not even the yellow-and-blue girl can understand. - MinecraftFan11
• The Stories of Sodor lore be like:
  • In the mid-19th century, machines started coming to life and nobody knows why, but the most plausible theory is that they're the reincarnations of humans. People got used to them after a few decades. On a small countryside bumblefuck island, some talking machines sabotage their rivals, complain about things, and banish ghosts to the afterlife.

Webcomics

• Awful Hospital lore be like:
  • A really really really long time ago before stupid things like time even existed, there was a big mass of flesh, and it was the only thing that existed. Suddenly the big mass of flesh got sick and new things started existing and the flesh started dying. Only a few crumbs of the flesh were left and they decided to be evil because they hate the thought of anything except their beloved flesh existing. They create a disease which turns everything into red flesh zombies, and they decide that their first target and the vessel they use to spread the virus should be a random human baby. The baby is very sick and no matter how many doctors his mom sees or what medicine she gives him, he only gets worse. One day the mom wakes up in a weird hospital and her son is gone. She tries to find him, but the only thing she finds is that the multiverse is dying, but no one except her can see it because the evil guys put a perception filter on everyone, which means she's the only one who can save her son and the world. She goes on an adventure and meets various creepy-cool monsters who either want to help her or want to eat her. To be continued. - Moefoxes
• Girl Genius lore be like:
  • 400 years ago, Kickdog Heterodyne invented the Hellskull Explodinatior. 200 years ago, the Storm King took it from the Heterodynes as a trophy, and entrusted it to Count Fürst von Krankhoofd for safety, but von Krankhoofd mysteriously lost the Explodinatior while researching forbidden sciences (SPOILER: the Other/Lucrezia/Muse-of-Time/cat stole it from him). In the present-day, Agatha & friends must retrieve her family's lost Explodinatior, only for someone waiting at the end to tell her that the artifact was stolen ten minutes ago before reviving the vengeful cyborgized von Krankhoofd to fight them. Around one-fifth of what I said is only explained in Agatha H. and the Non-Free Supplementary Material (and, before then, a Yahoo! Groups post from 2007) instead of the actual webcomic. — M-95
• Homestuck lore be like:
  • There's a glitchy video game that can alter reality. Earth is destroyed during the prologue and then things get worse. A game construct is forced to wear a silly hat and goes on a homicidal rampage. John receives the exact same physical object four times on the same birthday. Most people start reading when psychic aliens from another universe attempt to troll them backward through time but get confused and give up (both the aliens and the readers). The narrator gets into a fight with an alien narrator born from a creepy plushie and an omniscient cue ball, who directs a mafia of leprechauns with a billiards motif. Unspeakable horrorterrors created the afterlife to store pieces of incomplete time loops, one of which is a time-travelling demon who wants to kill them. A computer virus written in the programming language of death uses the end of the universe, which is a frog, to summon the time-travelling demon, who proceeds to kill the narrator with a machine gun. At some point it definitely stopped being a webcomic, but "cult" isn't considered an artistic medium and no one knew what else to call it so everyone stopped reading. - Noaqiyeum
• The Order of the Stick lore be like:
  • A long really time ago before reality even existed, a bunch of gods decided they wanted to try out knitting. Unfortunately, they couldn't agree on what they should be knitting so the threads turned into a giant monster which killed 12 of them. They managed to contain the monster inside a planet but it broke out. So they trapped it again. And again. And again. And again. Now a genocidal maniac, some guy who wants to end racism but only against his race, and a thing that nobody knows the identity of want to release that monster because that will definitely solve all their problems. -BackSet1
• unOrdinary lore be like:
  • Some powerless dude attends a school where everyone has superpowers and gets ruthlessly bullied by most for his lack of abilities. He befriends the popular girl who runs the school and has some sort of time manipulation powers, which makes her one of the strongest students at the school. As it turns out, the dude has a really powerful ability where he can copy others abilities quite well but was mentally broken down by the authorities, so he keeps them hidden until he had enough and unleases them to take over the school. Meanwhile, there's a shady organization killing off the strongest people who used their abilities to fight crime and had already neutralized the abilities of one of the main characters. - Cutegirl920fire

Web Original

• Hamster's Paradise lore be like:
  • Over a hundred million years from now, several species of Always Chaotic Evil anthropomorphic hamsters will evolve. They'll destroy ecosystems and commit horrific war crimes just because they think it's fun. Eventually, they'll all die of cancer, which then mutates to become a free-living organism. This is less cynical than the original draft, where they destroyed themselves with weapons of mass destruction. - Nitro Indigo
• Goncharov lore be like:
  • Tumblr collectively decided to gaslight everyone because of a shoe. - Nitro Indigo
• Looming Gaia lore be like:
  • Thousands of years ago, a sentient planet killed its entire former population for fighting too hard, and ordered superpowered immortal women to kill on sight any of its new people who build machines to make life easier. Sometimes the planet also grants immortality to random people, regardless if they want or deserve it or not. Nowadays the planet is populated by three kinds of people: people that can become werewolves, people that can become vampires, and people that look like animals. One guy intentionally becomes a werewolf and starts dating an emo Robin Hood cosplayer, and eventually they befriend a bunch of other weirdos and move in a town in the middle of nowhere. Meanwhile, an immortal furry in a skirt wants to turn their adoptive son evil because his mom is too hard to find and kill (but it doesn't work because said son is made of clay and also he is possessed by his mom who is immortal), men dressed like beetles from the neighboring country enslave everyone who can't turn into a werewolf (and also kill on sight anyone who actually is a werewolf), an evil octopus forcibly dyes little girls' hair blue and force feeds people mushrooms, the werewolf's ex-boyfriend murders people who have the same disease as him, and a goat man does stupid things. - Hqami
• Serina lore be like:
  • Welcome to Serina, where the birds are fish, the fish are mammals, and they all have silly names such as wumpos and neckbeards. Many sapient species have evolved on this planet over millions of years, and it culminates in a Canary in a Coal Mine saying "fuck" to a Sufficiently Advanced Alien while the world burns. - Nitro Indigo
• Snaiad lore be like:
  • A few hundred years from now, eastern European space colonists will land on a planet inhabited by animalistic aliens whose mouths look like penises and penises look like mouths. - Nitro Indigo

Web Video

• hololive lore be like:
  • Every idol^{[citation needed]} from Generation 3 on has a character concept and some kind of backstory sometimes linked with the rest of the generation. This gives the talents something to build off of without being too detailed or constricting. Then every talent except for maybe two completely ignores this lore when streaming. So the company makes animated shorts with scripted stories that can take advantage of this lore. And then they proceed to pay even less attention to it. The only time this lore is brought up is when fans joke about how Chaos is orderly, Nature is industrious and the angel is the one with horns and a tail. - Reymma
• Ghabulous Ghoti and catatouille101's Tomodachi Life let's play be like:
  • The let's players keep forcing their favourite Mii to dream about being vored. A random NPC from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) is actually a comedian who figured out how to become immortal using the power of laughter. Shaggy from Scooby-Doo keeps stealing a real person's girlfriends. And this is just some of what happens on Treft Island.

Western Animation

• Adventure Time lore be like:
  • Magic returned on Earth because of a war. A dead guy who worships a big red baby wants to kill everyone. Four elementals, consisting of two normal and two Bizarro Elements, were mostly reincarnated as princesses. One of the princesses turned her older relatives, who are actually her children, into living candy, and dated a demon vampire. The demon vampire's old caretaker was driven insane by a wish-granting crown built by one of the elementals in order to stop an evil magic comet, whose reincarnation the evil dead guy is, and now he has a pet Eldritch Abomination and kidnaps princesses, because he used to call his fiancée "Princess" until she disappeared by time travelling into the future. The reincarnation of another magic comet was born to humans living on a secret island who were chased there by vampires. He ended up adopted by dogs, one of which was impregnated by a shapeshifting alien. The show is about the wacky adventures of the reincarnated comet, who ends up losing his arm twice and accidentally cloning himself, and the alien-dog hybrid, who has children with a unicorn and befriends a cosmic entity capable of creating entire alternate universes. We don't find out about most of this stuff until several seasons in. - Hqami
• Amphibia lore be like:
  • A thousand years ago, an evil newt from the frog dimension used a music box powered by magic rocks to conquer the multiverse. His son's frog friend teleported the box on Earth to prevent him from conquering it. In the present, three middle school girls open the box and teleport themselves to the frog dimension and end up saving both it and Earth from a giant cyborg newt and his ancestors who control the moon using superpowers granted to them by the rocks. In the end one of the girls dies and finds out that the magic rocks were created by her cat or something. - Hqami
• Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra lore be like:
  • Most people have Elemental Powers. This is because they were given to them by giant lion-turtle hybrids to protect them from spirits. But everyone has only one power, except for the Avatar, who has every power. This is because ten thousand years ago the spirit of good fused with some guy. The people with fire powers killed everyone with air powers, except for the Avatar, who has to stop the king of Fire Land, and recruits several teenagers to help him do that. After his death, the next Avatar has to stop various bad guys, including a guy with water powers who pretends to have no powers, the Avatar's uncle who was jealous of the Avatar so he became the Evil Avatar, a guy who was given air powers because the planets aligned which somehow gave a lot of people air powers, and the dictator of Earth Land with a giant robot. - Hqami
• Dinosaur Train lore be like:
  • At the very end of the Cretaceous, a population of Troodons invent all kinds of vehicles and use them to travel through wormholes that may or may not have always existed. Since (and before) then, so many dinosaurs have ridden on their public transport that times millions of years apart are treated like foreign countries, and the space-time continuum probably resembles Swiss cheese. Despite this, only a select few know what came before and after the Mesozoic. Most of the animals can talk, but it's okay, because the big carnivores only eat people who are already dead. - Nitro Indigo
• DuckTales (2017) lore be like:
  • In a World of Funny Animals that is also a Fantasy Kitchen Sink, an extremely rich immortal capitalist duck took care of his niece and nephew after their parents' death, and took them on various adventures. Until the niece took her uncle's spaceship and drove into space. Her family was unable to find her, but she actually lived on the Moon for ten years by eating chewing gum that also provided her oxygen. The spaceship was powered by gold, because you know, it was built by the world's richest duck, but the niece failed to find gold for years, but eventually finds that a) she has golden teeth, despite being a bird, and b) there are secret aliens in the moon who have a literal city made of gold. Meanwhile on Earth, the rich duck and the nephew have a strained relationship because the rich duck failed to find the niece, but the nephew and the niece's kids, who she left behind, decide to move in his mansion anyway. Then they meet the rich duck's clones, a few ghosts, various gods, two superheroes, the clone of an evil sorceress, Santa Claus, and other such people. The niece comes back and they stop the aliens' evil leader, and the aliens move on Earth and barely anyone questions it at this point, and then they also stop a businessman from preventing the capitalist duck from endangering children with the power of family love. They actually do a lot of things with the power of family love. - Hqami
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends lore be like:
  • In this universe, children can create life. But sometimes the children get bored of their children and abandon them in this house run by a grandma, her granddaughter who dresses exactly like her, and a stuffy rabbit. A boy is forced to get rid of his blue blob son and leaves him in this house, but he has to visit him every day so he won't get adopted by anyone else. The two befriend the other orphans: a red guy who ran away from home because he was embarrassed of losing a basketball game, a plane tree bird who can casually create anything, and a purple Spanish guy who is afraid of everything. Other child-created orphans include a mentally disabled kid who everyone hates and an entire pocket dimension. - Hqami
• Gravity Falls lore be like:
  • A triangle guy wanted to fuse his decaying realm to our universe so he and his goons could rule it all. The time he got the closest to succeeding was thanks to a smart guy who wanted to research the supernatural in a town in Oregon. After realizing that making a deal with the triangle guy was a bad idea, to say the least, he tried to call his brother to hide one of the journals, but brotherly arguing ensues, and the smart guy ends up trapped in a portal. His brother impersonates him to try and open the portal again, while his grand-nephew and grand-niece (who are twins just like him and his brother) defeat the weird supernatural threats in varied ways, defeat a kid with a pompadour, and also get entangled in the conflict with the triangle guy. Said triangle guy fails to take the world and dies because the brothers reconciled and the one who said that he himself is "a screwup" sacrificed his memory. It lasted only a few minutes, though. - MinecraftFan11
  • Stan is scared of a dorito, and calls Stan to help him. But Stan accidentally throws Stan in a space hole and then impersonates him. But it's okay, because a few decades later Stan beats the dorito to death while the other Stan shoots him on the head (Stan, not the dorito) - Hqami
• Legends of Chima lore be like:
  • A thousand years ago, phoenixes ruled over the world and wanted to share their knowledge with the animals. This turned out to be a huge mistake as they began to wage war over them, so the phoenixes tried to stop them with a ritual. It didn't exactly work as planned because one of the phoenixes was distracted by his child, and while the animals were stopped, there were unexpected terraforming consequences that caused water to flow from above. This water sped up all the other animals' evolution, except for eight animals who didn't drink the water that the evolved animals considered legendary for some reason. - bpants98
• Miraculous Ladybug lore be like:
  • There's these little immortal floating creatures that represent various concepts and look vaguely like various animals that live inside pieces of jewelry. If someone puts on the jewelry and says the magic words, they get a cool fursuit and superpowers. A Chinese guy tasked to guard these creatures created a monster which ate everyone else. A couple hundred years later he gives two teenagers the bug earrings and the cat ring. A fashion designer uses evil moths to turn angry people into supervillains so he can obtain the bug earrings and cat ring because that will resurrect his dead wife. The bug earring girl is in love with the cat ring boy but only when he's not a cat, and the cat ring boy is in love with the bug earring girl but only when she's a bug, and they never realize that they're the same people. And the fashion designer never realizes that the cat ring boy is his son. Later on the bug girl gives the super furry jewelry to her classmates sometimes. - Hqami
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic lore be like:
  • There are four kinds of ponies. Unicorns can cast spells, pegasi can fly, Earth ponies are farmers, and alicorns are their immortal dictators. If ponies don't get along, ice spirits will kill them all. The titular magic of friendship usually manifests as Frickin' Laser Beams, but only in two-parters. The local introvert befriends the embodiment of chaos. In later seasons, the ponies proselytise the gospel of friendship to the other nations of their world. - Nitro Indigo
  • When the ponies first realize what they're good at, a picture of that thing permanently appears on their butt. A few seasons in, a magic tree creates a map where these butt symbols appear in places where random people are having friendship trouble, which means that the pony whose butt symbol it is must go to that place and stop it. There's also an alternate dimension populated by humans, who are such good friends that they grow pony ears whenever they play music. And The Doctor is a background character. Actually, almost every single recurring background character has a personality and backstory that we made up, but you're expected to know them all nonetheless. - Hqami
  • Other beings that inhabit this world include shapeshifting bug-fairy-horses who were all starving until an ex-cult leader disposed of their dictator; bird-horses who turned themselves into fish-horses and lived in a cave for decades; small, non-shapeshifting fairy-horses who talk like the Swedish Chef, are easily defeated by a slight breeze, and only have a non-cameo appearance in one episode; cat-birds who hate everything and everyone except money because a cup fell down a hole; and bovines who talk in bad grammar and get away with causing property damage. — Nitro Indigo
• My Little Pony (Generation 5) lore be like:
  • A non-specifically long time ago, a pony was mean to another pony. This instantly caused all the pony tribes to hate each other, so the incumbent immortal dictator held their magic hostage so it would only work if they got along. The three kinds of ponies then went their separate ways and formed towns that are within a day's walk of each other. Many years later, the local crazy activist ends racism and becomes a goddess. — Nitro Indigo
• Ninjago lore be like:
  • Four (later six) brightly colored elemental Ninja and their friends use dragons, mechs, and motor cycles to fight a variety of threats, all of which their sensei knew of but didn't tell them about. Time travel is involved. - BackSet1
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes lore be like:
  • A little boy is hired to work in a convenience store with an alien and a ninja. An evil guy with a chicken hand constantly sends his robot children to destroy the store For the Evulz. There's a mysterious guy who gives the kid an evil split personality. Said mysterious guy is the evil(er) split personality of a hot evil purple guy who has the hots for the chicken hand guy and is also secretly the boy's dad, but isn't in his life because sandwich. And the boy, the alien, and the ninja are all canonically anthropomorphic animals wearing reverse fursuits. - Hqami
• The Owl House lore be like:
  • A Gigantamax Cubone imprisoned a child in the floating cube dimension and then died. An evil British guy started eating people's pets and became the ruler of the Cubone's corpse with the child's help. He also declared that the people living on the corpse are only allowed to draw one kind of a circle for the rest of their lives. It's all a part of his plan to murder all of his subjects. Eventually, he's killed by the Alphabet Mafia (and rain). - Hqami
• PAW Patrol lore be like:
  • Six puppies can all talk and drive cars, so they form a rescue patrol with their human friend to keep their city safe. Why are they the only people responsible for the entire emergency services in this city? No one really knows, anyway, they go on adventures where they meet more talking dogs, mermaid dogs, aliens, Santa Claus, and pretty much every other type of kiddie show character type you can think of. Though you'd think at this point, they'd want to just stay in their city 24/7, considering the idiots who live there. And that's not even enough, this pompous old guy from their neighbouring city likes to come over and screw around just because...he's a manchild, I guess. - NoonboryKedabory
• South Park lore be like:
  • Four foul-mouthed boys live in a very screwed up town where a bunch of messed up shit occurs. Their group consists of a very bigoted asshole who constantly bullies one of the friends for being Jewish, said Jewish kid who serves as a voice of reason but gets heated, a boy whose dad went from being to a geologist to a weed farmer then back to geologist and is the other voice of reason, and a pervy hooded kid who dies constantly but usually comes back fine the next episode. The boys get up in hijinks alongside some other side characters, whether it'll be poking fun at whatever the latest topic is or simply just shock comedy. - Cutegirl920fire
• Steven Universe lore be like:
  • Four giant sentient rocks from space destroyed organic life in order to make smaller sentient rocks. One of the giant rocks disguised herself as a smaller rock and faked her death in order to stop the other giant rocks from destroying her favorite planet. She then lived on the planet with her slave, an orphan, and a person who is actually two people. The other giant rocks turned all her other friends into mindless creatures, with the exception of a multicolored rock who wanted to actually murder the giant rocks and was imprisoned on a tree inside a dead lion for that, and a clown who she just told to stand still for a few thousand years and then forgot about. Thousands of years later, the big rock disguised as a little rock decided to kill herself and reincarnate as her son. A lot of other space rocks then try to kill the son for his mother's war crimes. He ends up so traumatized that in the end he turns into a worm. - Hqami
• Thomas & Friends lore be like:
  • A fat guy is in charge of a large British railway line, and purchases new locomotives on a regular basis. There's one train who got bricked up in a tunnel because he didn't like the rain. Later, he had to get plastic surgery and go on Welsh medication to do better. The steam trains are also rivals with the diesel trains, who want to get rid of them. "The Other Railway" is a place where they oppress steam trains, and only a few have survived and escaped to the fat guy's railway. His pockets are seemingly endless, as he has enough money to pay for the insurance of all the accidents his trains cause. There's also another railway with smaller trains. A mean train with a Brooklyn accent rode roughly, so he was converted into a generator, and a boomer train was put to sleep for decades, unable to escape from the dirt and mud that covered his shed. - Sudrictoon
  • There are several TV movies. One is about about an arrogant silver train trying to kill an old Japanese train just to one-up the main character. One is about a fugitive who thinks he committed manslaughter. One is about the red train traumatising the small green train, and then the small green train tries to leave the country because the main character told him dinosaurs aren't real. One is about the main character repeatedly disappointing the fat guy, so he turns to a life of piracy. One is about the main character getting enslaved. Et cetera. — Nitro Indigo
  • The first ever movie — and the only one with a wide theatrical release — revealed that the whole show takes place in a pocket dimension parallel with the real world. There are two tiny men who can travel between the two worlds using glitter, but it's running out because a magical train voiced by the series' producer is hiding in the real world, because an angry diesel train with a claw arm tried to kill her. Said angry diesel is the only part of the movie that's definitely canon. Thomas the Tank Engine is also there. — Nitro Indigo
• Wander over Yonder lore be like:
  • A hairy hippie and his dinosaur-thing friend hang out in space. A skeleton who might be a monkey constantly tries to kill them so he and his army of eyeball guys can take over the galaxy in peace. But then a green girl actually destroys most of the galaxy and possibly even kills a giant dog offscreen. At one point a sandwich also becomes a galactic conqueror. And the hippie is over a thousand years old. - Hqami
• Zeke's Pad lore be like:
  • An electronic manufacturer run entirely by machinery accidentally creates a hyper-charged tablet with mysterious powers. Rather than keep this tablet and test its abilities, the machines throw it in the trash, where it ends up in the hands of a douchey teenager who uses it for his own selfish gains. This sounds like a supervillain origin story, and to be honest, it probably is considering how much of a jerkass the teenager is. The tablet also screws up everything it is commanded to do; for example, when asked to make the teenager's clean freak mom less obsessed with neatness, it turns her into a disgusting Drill Sergeant Nasty who punishes her family in over-the-top manners for even moving an item around. Why does the tablet do this? Is it self-aware and doing this on purpose to punish the teen for his laziness? Is it a side effect of the strange magic? This is never explained, so your guess is as good as mine. - NoonboryKedabory

Real Life

• History of China be like:
  • Emperor Long was assassinated by his eunuchs. His sons and generals fought for control, starting another Warring States period. The commander Sun Han took power after 70000000 people perished from war. Han would rule over an era of untold prosperity until he was succeeded by his son. His son was assassinated by his eunuchs, starting the whole thing over again. - m-95
• History of (early modern) Europe be like:
  • The Archprince of Drusselwulfenhoffstienburg married the daughter of the King of France (his cousin). This started the 8th War of the Prussian Succession; a continent-wide, decades-long war that involved every nation and had England switch sides three times. The war came to an end when the French princess died of plague, and the Treaty of Florence established Status Quo Ante Bellum for the next 11 years. - m-95
• The marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald be like:
  • The true story about poor army dude meeting rich Southern Belle. Being chaotic folk, they fell in love but the girl will only marry him if he gets rich enough to support her wealthy life style. Dude hits the jackpot when he writes a novel that became an instant best seller right away, thus they marry. The couple went on to do hijinks in 1920's New York City where they rode on top of taxis, became big distractions at theaters, and screwed around in hotels. In 1924, they moved to Paris where it's cheaper and the wife (allegedly) has a brief affair. Their relationship takes a turn for the worse when they get into tense fights, both became alcoholics and the husband also has several affairs. Husband steals wife's words, which she was initially fine with but her writing passion was mainly suppressed by him. Wife tries out painting and ballet before having a mental breakdown in 1930, where husband sends her off to numerous mental institutions which broke her down. Despite all of that, they still loved each other. Somehow. Husband went to Hollywood to try writing movie scripts, had another affair while wife was still institutionalized and died of a heart attack. Four years later, wife died at a fire in one of the mental institutions she was at. Now the husband is an iconic American novel, with one of his novels being read in high school while the wife is largely forgotten save for being his wife, being the Flapper, and having an Amazon Original series that got cancelled after one season. - Cutegirl920fire
• The Hadean Eon be like:
  • Earth just formed, where it's a giant magma rock for the most part. Then a meteorite hits it which might've created the Moon as a result. - Cutegirl920fire
• The life of Marie-Antoinette be like:
  • Get married and sent to another country at 14. Get adored by the public but hated by the court. Take seven years to get knocked up cause neither you or husband can get it up which pisses everyone off. Become queen at 19. Get reputation for being a fashionista who spends a lot on fashion and other luxuries though you do try to be charitable. Most of the country starts to hate you. You turned down super expensive necklace but get in a scandal involving it cause someone bought it while framing you. Revolution breaks out. The royal family gets overthrown. You and your family tried to escape but fail. Husband gets executed. While you ain't perfect, you get accused of shit you didn't do. Get separated from children. Get an unfair trial. Get beheaded yourself at 37. For centuries, everyone remembers you for saying "Let them eat cake" even though you didn't. At least an American movie ^note and waifu form cleared up your name a bit. - Cutegirl920fire
• The Mesozoic be like:
  • Approximately 252 million years ago, global warming got so bad that almost everything died. But life finds a way, and some giant lizards that weren't lizards at all became the largest land animals ever. This lasted approximately 160 million years until a giant falling space rock killed them all... or did it? - Nitro Indigo
• The Cambrian Explosion be like:
  • About 540 million years ago, what microbial organisms existed were limited until life found a way and some clever cyanobacterium invented photosynthesis. Then life found several zillion ways, including "eyes", "exoskeletons", and "spinal cords", but this turned out to be too many ways and most of them went extinct. - Noaqiyeum

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