This is the holding bin for episode ideas. If you just have an idea for the fictite the tropers will be facing, head on over to the Monster Of The Week Bin—this is the place for better-developed ideas.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin. The tropers end up on the wrong side of a fictional town, where they meet a gang of Nintendo villains, with members such as Wario, King Dedede, Team Rocket, and Bowser. They act incredibly tough, but really, they are a bunch of Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains (okay, Wario's more bad boy than villain, but whatever). They inform the tropers of a Grand Prix of Mario Kart with the competitors being mostly fictites, and the tropers are intent on participating to gain favor among them. During the episode, a former Butt Monkey among fictite racers, Dick Dastardly, quickly rises to become the favorite to win the Grand Prix due to an immense amount of experience with the items he used for dirty tricks similar to his constant Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat moments, except legal. How will the tropers win against an opponent so skilled at the vehicular combat aspect of the game?
A newcomer joins the team, and one Troper falls in love with them. Meanwhile, there are various clues that the newcomer may unwittingly be a Cell 114 sleeper agent (see Monster Of The Week Bin for details). The newcomer gets into a near fatal situation, and the Tropers arrive just too late to save them - only to discover that the newcomer is indeed a sleeper agent. The Tropers go into a panic, believing the sleeper agents have been activated worldwide, and prepare themselves for a battle against an entire invasion force of homicidal Chessmasters. It is eventually realized that this fortunately isn't a global invasion force, since only the one sleeper agent came through during the Convergence, and the Tropers are able to neutralise the threat - but this means killing the person that they fell in love with, who of course never really existed.
The Tropers are joined by Sherlock Holmes as they investigate a series of strange murders, suspecting Fictite involvement. The murderer turns out to be a gangster and Loan Shark named Terrence (see Monster Of The Week Bin for details), who turns out to be a far more formidable opponent than one would expect, being a powerful Determinator. He has been unleashing a monster on people who displeased him: Weldar, a giant, sapient welding torch. The episode culminates in a dramatic battle against Weldar, who explodes spectacularly when he is force-fed a bomb. Holmes suspects that Terrence was working for Professor Moriarty all along, but infuriatingly, he can't find any proof of this; the professor has covered his tracks carefully.
A Massive Multiplayer Crossover featuring an all-out war between the Pirates and the Ninjas, resulting in massive amounts of collateral damage to coastal areas all over the world. The Tropers attempt to solve the problem by rounding up an army of Cowboys to hold the other two groups in check. Only time will tell whether they have succeeded or just made things worse.
Godwin's Law or Stupid Jetpack Hitler or Springtime for Hitler or Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act or Those Wacky Nazis - a group of Putting on the Reich, A Nazi by Any Other Name and Those Wacky Nazis types travel to Austria to try and create a time portal to back in time and in an interesting inversion save Hitler and bring him to the future to lead them. However the affects of their research are increasing the link between the bordering Southern Bavaria and Fantastica allowing creature from there to attempt to collect in the region and oppose them. The tropers investigate and attempt to help but they fail! The pseudo-Nazis manage to go back in time in the end and try to collect Hitler, bumping into several wannabe assassins on the way, enforcing Hitlers Time Travel Exemption Act but when they get close to their goal, they are foiled by the over looked fact that the act applies to anything trying to take Hitler out of the time line, including them.
Maybe a self contained episode, a more upbeat piece for after the heavy arcs come into play. Season 4 or 5? If we want it to be even more lighthearted, what if when they try to pull Hitler out of the timeline, he "snags" on the Fourth Wall and gets catapulted back to his proper time...and our bumbling Nazis end up with a composite being generated from the more bizarre depictions of Hitler in fiction? Like, someone who could take down Captain Planet with the sheer force of his evil if he weren't too busy dropping acid and staring at the asses of his more attractive Brown Shirts?
Mysterious circumstances during a Friday cause tropers to begin randomly switching bodies at regular intervals (Thinking probably an hourly basis). Hilarity Ensues. Less hilarity ensues when the tropers realize that the rouge fictites they have stored on base are being affected as well.
Sub-Idea B: (The preferred method) The effect ends at midnight (when, again, it's not Friday anymore) and people go back to normal, but it's still only 11:52 AM, and the base is in chaos. Can the tropers survive for twelve more hours?
This might provide another problem for them to worry about - if we say that at midnight, everyone goes back to the way they were, we could also add in that this only applies to people that remain on base. If someone goes off base before midnight and doesn't return, they (and whoever needs the body that's off base + anyone stuck in a different body because of it) would be stuck in the body they're in at that time.
Providing even additional incentive for the tropers to keep everything on base plus give those trying to escape incentive to get away, especially if they find themselves in a new body they really like (or they just like the powers that body has). Since there will be no way of confirming who's really who (unless we want to throw in something that helps sort individuals out), it adds a lot of fun chaos and confusion.
Sub-Idea A: The good news is, there's a way to get people back to their normal selves. The bad news is, the deadline's at midnight, before Friday turns into Saturday and there's no way to switch people back anymore. Also, it's currently 10:37 PM.
Anyone on base becomes subject to having their mind switched with someone else on base, be it fictite, mook, troper, or other.
The tropers learn about a tournament with the prize being a fictite artifact known as the MacGuffin on a calm day. Many of the tropers become enthusiastic about participating to show off their moves, while the more serious-minded tropers of the organization would rather focus on either missions or simply do something else. However, they really don't have a say in the matter, as someone in the troper organization entered their names anyways. Malice and conspiracy is assumed at this point, but in reality, said troper was just screwing around and wanted them to chill a little. The competitors are an eclectic bunch, composed of various Giant Space Flea from Nowhere fictites (in context, anyways) from all across the Power Level spectrum, with even Big Bads and Final Bosses showing up.
The team travel to Rome, only to find it in ruins (with the camera lingering on some of the most heartbreaking remains). The place is oddly quiet; the Tropers notice that the Fictites tend to be sticking to the outskirts of the city. Inside the city itself, the Tropers find a group of orphans, who are being cared for by a "mysterious stranger," who identifies himself as "Satan". He is, in fact, the Mysterious Stranger as he appeared in the stop-motion animated movie The Adventures of Mark Twain. The Tropers manage to anger him, and he begins pursuing them throughout the ruins. This would be a psychological horror episode.
The tropers go to a rather fancy Masquerade Ball, giving them a chance to dress up and break out the Costume Porn. Each troper reacts quite differently to being at such a party and seeing their colleagues dressed up. The episode starts with a bit of light comedy (though the episode does take itself seriously) with regards to that sort of thing, but this being a Masquerade Ball, things are not as they appear. Old acquaintances reappear, including former members of Section IV, but the anonymity of the ball gives people a chance to connect that they didn't have the first time around. Everything looks to be set for a romantic evening, but about five minutes in, things take a bit of a swerve. You really didn't expect the episode to end before the 20-minute mark, did you? Cue the Mood Whiplash when the episode turns into a Black Comedy. First one of the party-goers turns up dead. Then three more murders happen within a minute of each other, and one of the victims is the famous Sherlock Holmes. ("Just how many murderers decided to crash this party?") It ends up being that Tybalt has been around since the beginning of the ball, Holmes faked his own death in order to investigate Tybalt without attracting attention, the the Phantom is back, and that's just the beginning of the chaos.
Your Vampires Suck or Our Vampires Are Different - The tropers track Dracula to Castlevania, where the Vampire Council plans an attack on the tropers. The members of the Vampire Council are:
Dracula, member of the Dark Lodge, head of the Vampire Council, and all around villainous bastard (Note: This Dracula is heavily inspired by the Castlevania version)
Legosi classic vampire
Byronic bastard vampire
Strigoi Monstrous vampire
Anne Rice angster vampire
Twilight sparkly vampire
Death, who technically isn't on the Vampire Council, but is merely a long-suffering servant of Dracula
