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What's up, motherfuckers?
I'm RL_Nice, a 21 year old film student. Unless you're reading this after September 2012. In that case, I'm no longer 21.
As a film student, I like to think I like True Art films, and I do indeed watch the films of Akira Kurosawa, Vittorio De Sica, Jean-Luc Godard (and by that, I mean Breathless and Vivre sa vie and... not much else), Andrei Tarkovsky (or rather, I try to watch them... it's kind of difficult), David Lynch and Orson Welles, alongside a bunch of other films I chose to watch simply because they were in The Criterion Collection. However, the truth is that I actually like Summer Blockbusters and films made for entertainment more. Hell, I even like Michael Bay films.
A random list of shit I like
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Anime
- I don't watch anime, actually.
Comic Books
- Hmm... Hellboy, and... yep. That's about it.
Film
- Like I said, I'm a film major, so... let's go-
Live-Action TV
Literature
Music
Video Games
- I will now prove that I have way too much free time and seriously need a life.
Tabletop Games
- I don't play any tabletop games (I make a horrible nerd, I know), but I do love the setting and the fiction behind Warhammer 40,000. I'm also starting to read about BattleTech courtesy of my childhood interest in MechWarrior.
Other
As a film major, I have a few (big budget) film ideas I'm continuously brainstorming on. One I'd like to share with you fellas is the Loki America trilogy.
The trilogy revolves around an Occult Detective Intrepid Reporter named Loki America who’s based off of every Testosterone Poisoning, Memetic Badass and Crazy Awesome trope I can think of. He travels the world seeking sensational stories involving the paranormal and outrageous conspiracy theories for the London based newspaper The Mantis.
Joining him is his on and off again girlfriend Zoë Pandora, a resourceful young woman who usually ends up getting pulled into his adventures by association with him. Other characters include his Lovable Coward and Brilliant, but Lazy fieldresearcher Abraham Phoenix, and Da Editor of The Mantis: the eccentric yet Crazy Awesome Sir Saxon Loveblast.
The tone I’m going for can best be described as “Ash from Evil Dead goes on Indiana Jones-esque adventures to solve X-Files mysteries.”
The three parts of the trilogy:
Terror of the Fourth Reich
Zoë Pandora gets called to Nepal by Loki for help on a story on the Yeti. They discover and battle a small army of modern-day Nazi's led by a Hitler clone who are trying to poach the Yeti.
The Star Curse
Zoë gets kidnapped by MIB’s after telling Loki about a potential story involving UFO’s. Loki follows her trail to the United States, where he meets Emily Rocksteel, an Action Girl with Psychic Powers, who joins him to rescue her boyfriend, who was kidnapped by the same people. Together, they race against a scientologist Ku Klux Klan cult to get to Area 51 as government MIB's try to stop them.
Revenge of the Orient
After using a haunted camera, Zoë gets possessed by the ghost of H.P. Lovecraft’s murdered granddaughter, Chloe Lovecraft. Loki agrees to help Chloe track down her murderers in Hong Kong, and discovers that they are a demon worshipping cult led by Fu Manchu.
Tropes
- Acceptable Religious Targets: Scientologists. Who are a part of the KKK.
- The Ace: Loki America is a parody of this.
- Action Girl: The Girl of the Week of The Star Curse: Emily Rocksteel.
- Action Prologue
- Action Survivor: Zoë Pandora.
- Adolf Hitler: A Voiceless clone.
- All Myths Are True
- All Theories Are True
- And I Must Scream: Chloe Lovecraft's soul spent fifteen years trapped inside a Polaroid camera.
- Arch-Enemy: Fu Manchu and Loki America have a long history with each other.
- Artifact of Death: An alien sphere that summons scary looking aliens to kidnap the villains.
- And a meteor that fell in the village of Yingzemao in the 13th century.
- Author Appeal: Zoë Pandora is a pretty brunette with a British accent.
- Author Avatar: Loki America is an Asian-American left-handed Insufferable Genius who likes British girls.
- Awesome McCoolname: Loki America, Sir Saxon Loveblast, Abraham Phoenix, Zoë Pandora, General Max Fucking Fightmaster
 (yes, I made his middle name Fucking), Senator Samson Thundercrotch, Lieutenant Marcus Stonewang, Emily Rocksteel, Duncan Firesteel, Captain Blake Manhammer, Anaconda Thor, Jericho Southpaw, Lance Powerthrust, Power Dong, Drake and Spike Flamesmith and loads of others. Really, every story I write for Loki America has to have at least one name that screams Testosterone Poisoning.
- Badass: Loki America takes this so far that it becomes funny.
- Batman Cold Open
- Beyond the Impossible: I'm going to make my hero as awesome and badass as possible. And then, I'm going to make him even more awesome and badass.
- Big Bad: In Terror of the Fourth Reich, we have a mute, disabled Adolf Hitler clone named Max Fightmaster. In The Star Curse, we have the Brain in a Jar Senator Samson Thundercrotch, and in Revenge of the Orient we have Doctor Fu Manchu.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Yeti: In Terror of the Fourth Reich, Loki goes to the Himalayas in search for the Yeti.
- Bilingual Bonus: I'm making all the foreign dialogue humorous. I just need a decent (by that I mean a real life person, not some internet program) translator.
- Body Snatcher: Chloe Lovecraft performs a rare, non-malicious version of this on Zoë Pandora in Revenge of the Orient.
- Booby Trap: A whole mansion filled with them appears in the Action Prologue of the The Star Curse, courtesy of Fu Manchu.
- Bond One-Liner:
"What this situation calls for is a dose of kick ass."
*Yeti roars. Loki punches it in the face.* "Shut up."
"That was a fistful of Loki America, and I've got another fistful with your name on it!"
"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your nose? Here, let me fix it." *Punches villain again.*
- Bound and Gagged: Happens at least once per story to Zoë Pandora, Loki America's occasional girlfriend.
- Brain in a Jar: The Big Bad of The Star Curse.
- Brains and Bondage: A rather... interesting intimate life between Loki and Zoë is alluded to.
- Brainy Brunette: Zoë Pandora.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Abe Phoenix is quite competent when it comes to research, but he'd rather do other things.
- British Accents: Zoë Pandora and Saxon Loveblast. Loki America lives in London but speaks with an North American Accent, having been raised by African-American lumberjacks all around the world..
- Captain Ersatz: Zoë Pandora is
heavily based on a character from a video game. I’m going to leave it to you to guess who.
- Casual Danger Dialogue: Loki views life threatening situations as nothing more than another opportunity to show off his badassness by making one-liners.
- Casual Kink: See Brains and Bondage above.
- Cataclysm Climax: The end of Revenge of the Orient, which takes place in an ancient temple that collapses.
- Chainsaw Good: Flaming chainsaws.
- Chase Scene: Many.
- Chekov's Gun: Saxon Loveblast keeps gasoline in his office because he likes the smell of it. It later ends up being used to light a pair of chainsaws on fire.
- Chick Magnet: Loki America even gets the girls he's trying not to get.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Saxon Loveblast
- Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: See Fantasy Kitchen Sink below. I only have plans for three main stories, but I’ve got ideas for a whole Expanded Universe of other stories that involve every conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard about.
- Convection Schmonvection: Subverted. Loki America has a swordfight in a pool of lava and is actually lit on fire by the lava. But he isn't harmed much in any other way. And it's cooling lava.
- Conveyor Belt of Doom: Loki America fights a Yeti on a factory assembly line.
- Cosmic Horror Story: Revenge of the Orient.
- Crazy Awesome: Loki America and Sir Saxon Loveblast
- Crossover Cosmology
- Cthulhu Mythos: H.P. Lovecraft wasn’t making shit up when he wrote his stories.
- Cursed with Awesome: Emily Rocksteel has psychic powers. She gets Mind Raped a lot and bad guys kidnap her boyfriend in order to intimidate her into letting them experiment on her.
- Cute Ghost Girl: H.P. Lovecraft's granddaughter.
- Da Editor: Saxon Loveblast
- Darker and Edgier: Revenge of the Orient
- Dead Baby Comedy
- Dead Foot Leadfoot: A cultist driving a tow truck gets killed as Loki and Marcus Stonewang are dueling on top of it, causing this to happen.
- Deadpan Snarker: Loki America. Also, to a lesser extent, Zoë Pandora, although she's a little more light-hearted.
- Deus ex Machina: Loki gets cornered by Samson Thundercrotch and the KKK. And then aliens teleport in out of nowhere and drag all of the baddies screaming back through their portals to a Fate Worse than Death.
- Disappeared Dad: Spike Flamesmith, one of the two brothers who raised Loki goes missing in The Bermuda Triangle during his honeymoon cruise. Played more literally with Loki's biological father, who disappeared with his mother shortly after a UFO crash.
- The Dragon: In Terror of the Fourth Reich, there’s a trained attack Yeti. In The Star Curse, there’s a trio of MIB's and in Revenge of the Orient there’s Marcus Stonewang and a trio of Ninja sisters. They’re all The Voiceless.
- Dragon Their Feet
- Eldritch Abomination: Fu Manchu’s cult in Revenge of the Orient worships one of these.
- Eldritch Location: Revenge of the Orient ends with a temple with a well that turns into a powerful vacuum every time something is thrown into it. What's down there is implied to violate every law of reality that exists. Including the ones that don't exist.
- Escapist Character
- Evil Cripple: Max Fightmaster/the Hitler clone. He didn't develop properly in his test tube, so he needs a wheelchair to get around.
- Evil Counterpart: Jericho Southpaw to Loki America in one of the Expanded Universe stories I’m thinking about.
- Expanded Universe: Haven't started work on it yet, but I have ideas.
- Expy: Loki America is based on a combination of Ashley J. Williams, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, Segata Sanshiro, Mr. T, Duke Nukem and Jules Winnfield. Basically all the best Memetic Badasses ever.
- Family Unfriendly Death: An Adolf Hitler clone melts completely like play-dough and Marcus Stonewang falls into a pool of lava.
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink: UFO's, ghosts, zombies, demons, the Stock Ness Monster, The Bermuda Triangle, aliens, witchcraft, Governmant Conspiracies, Cthulhu, voodoo, druids, dinosaurs, ninjas, Horny Vikings, pirates, Bigfoot, the Sasquatch and the Yeti.
- Fate Worse than Death: In the end of The Star Curse, a bunch of aliens teleport out of nowhere and kidnap all the villains. It's best you don't know what happens to those people.
- In Revenge of the Orient, there is a well which leads to a hole in reality. Whatever happens to the people who get sucked into it is literally incomprehensible because it is literally impossible.
- Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit: Senator Samson Thundercrotch was one before he ended up as a Brain in a Jar.
- Feels No Pain: Marcus Stonewang doesn't respond to any pain until he falls into a pool of lava.
- First Girl Wins: Zoë Pandora.
- Flaming Sword: Well, more like flaming chainsaws used in the Post Climax Confrontation of Revenge of the Orient.
- Fu Manchu: The Arch-Enemy of Loki America.
- Ghost Shipping: The ghost of the granddaughter of H.P. Lovecraft possesses Zoë Pandora and falls in love with Loki America.
- Girl of the Week: Subverted. Loki America has one in each adventure, but he always ends up getting back together with his ex-girlfriend Zoë Pandora. Specifically, Karen Ladyhole from Terror of the Fourth Reich ends up betraying him to the Nazi’s, Emily Rocksteel from The Star Curse leaves him to go back to her boyfriend and Chloe Lovecraft from Revenge of the Orient is… dead.
- God Mode Sue: Loki America
- Go Mad from the Revelation: The villains try lowering a camera into the aforementioned well in Revenge of the Orient. Those who look at the images being transmitted back go insane. Fu Manchu's Si-Fan also attempts to do this to Loki in Revenge of the Orient but they only succeed in pissing him off.
- Good Old Fisticuffs
- Grand Theft Me: See Body Snatcher above.
- Groin Attack: Plenty.
- Gross-Up Close-Up
- Government Conspiracy: The Star Curse has MIB, Area 51 and Roswell. What’d you expect?
- Half-Human Hybrid: The MIB's from The Star Curse was the result of a Government Conspiracy to create a Super Soldier with alien DNA recovered from the Roswell crash in the late 40’s.
- Happily Adopted: Loki America was raised by a pair of African-American lumberjack brothers after his parents disappeared after he was born.
- Has Two Mommies: As mentioned above, Loki America was raised by a pair of lumberjack brothers: Spike and Drake Firesmith.
- Haunted Technology: Chloe Lovecraft starts out haunting a Polaroid camera.
- Highly Visible Ninja: Ninja cultists attack Loki in the open in a very public Hong Kong marketplace.
- Hot Blade: Loki dips a sword into lava in an attempt to create this during a duel with Marcus Stonewang. Subverted in that it melts soonafter.
- H.P. Lovecraft: The ghost of his granddaughter, actually.
- Human Sacrifice: Fu Manchu attempts this. Although it’s more of a Soul Sacrifice.
- Hurricane of Puns: This is how Fu Manchu speaks.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy.
- Incendiary Exponent: Loki America has a swordfight against Marcus Stonewang while on fire atop a truck that's sinking into a pool of lava.
- Indy Ploy
- Insufferable Genius: Loki America. Played for laughs.
- Interesting Situation Duel: First on a factory assembly line, then atop a speeding train, then in a pool of lava.
- Intrepid Reporter: Loki America
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Loki America is an idealist who pretends to be a cynic.
- Joker Immunity: Fu Manchu.
- Kick the Dog: Fu Manchu shows off just how evil (and stereotypical) he is by feasting on a plate of barbecued kittens. And then later, he literally does this to a curious puppy.
- Kung-Shui
- Large Ham: Fu Manchu.
- Lighter and Softer: Parodied. Revenge of the Orient starts with who is presumably Loki America as a little kid on some child friendly adventure. And then the real (and fully grown) Loki America crashes in on a tank and proceeds to beat the shit out of the villains. Violently.
- Lovable Coward: Abe Phoenix, again.
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Revenge of the Orient has Fu Manchu, H.P. Lovecraft and Chinese yaoguai all in the same story.
- Memetic Badass: Loki America is based on this trope. And if he becomes an example as well, I’ll consider my task accomplished.
- M.I.B.: They kidnap Zoë Pandora.
- Mind Rape: Even thinking about the Eldritch Abomination that Si-Fan worships is bad for your health. And your soul.
- Missing Mom: See Disappeared Dad above.
- The Mole: Karen Ladyhole, who pretends to be helping Loki investigate the Nazi’s in Terror of the Fourth Reich.
- The Nineties: Terror of the Fourth Reich takes place in 1993, The Star Curse in 1996 and Revenge of the Orient in 1999.
- Ninja: OF COURSE!
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Genetically engineered Nazi Yeti's, Scientologists who are part of the Ku Klux Klan, and undead demon cultist ninjas pirates.
- Noodle Incident: Each installment starts with one in progress. In Terror of the Fourth Reich, Loki is on a motorcycle being chased by an African militia with a woman on fire because… she tried to pet a dog that she didn’t know was pregnant. In The Star Curse, Loki is rescuing a pair of babies from Fu Manchu, who “were born citizens of Turkmenistan, and they will stay citizens of Turkmenistan, no matter how much you try to pay the Burmese government!”. And in Revenge of the Orient, Loki defeats some Soviet nationalists with a tank that he obtained when he killed a rhinoceros with a flamethrower.
- Occult Detective: Loki America
- Omniglot: Loki America is fluent in every language ever spoken. Including the dead ones.
- One-Liner
- Paranormal Investigation
- Paranormal Romance: Not really a full romance, though. Emily Rocksteel has Psychic Powers, but that never amounts to anything more than a fling (because they both love someone else), and Chloe Lovecraft falls in love with Loki, who only reciprocates because she's a Woobie.
- Parental Abandonment: Loki’s parents briefly appeared in Nova Scotia under really mysterious circumstances (they were survivors from the Tiananmen Square Massacre... who turned up in the sixties, and they could only understand English) only long enough to give birth to him and name him, then disappeared after a UFO crash. He was later adopted by a pair of lumberjack brothers.
- A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: Captain Blake Manhammer and the crew of Poseidon's Beard.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Nazi's and the KKK. What'd you expect? Also, Fu Manchu is profoundly racist towards anyone who isn't Chinese.
- Post Climax Confrontation: See Dragon Their Feet above.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner:
"You've got a bug on your face." *Punches villain*
"I've got a friend I'd like you to meet. His name is PAIN!"
*Villain starts Evil Gloating. Loki pulls out a gun. Villain stops suddenly.* "No, keep going. I insist."
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner
- Psychic Powers: Emily Rocksteel. She doesn't want them, is reluctant to use them, and doesn't even admit to Loki that she has them when they first meet.
- Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Karen Ladyhole.
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Happens once during each Interesting Situation Duel.
- Rated M for Manly
- Reality Is Out To Lunch: What is implied to be at the bottom of a well in Revenge of the Orient.
- Refuge in Audacity: I’m aiming for this. So far it’s not audacious enough, though.
- Refuge in Cool: Same as above.
- The Reveal: In Terror of the Fourth Reich, the audience does not initially know that the "Max Fightmaster" everybody keeps referring to is in fact an Adolf Hitler clone.
- Revenge of the Sequel: Revenge of the Orient is the title of the third installment, although the aforementioned Orient do not appear in any previous installments.
- Roswell That Ends Well
- Rule Of Cool: Characters like Zoë Pandora, Abe Phoenix and Loki America have nothing to do with the mythological figures or entities they were named after. They just seemed like cool names.
- Rule of Funny: Plenty of slapstick.
- Rule of Scary: Occasionally.
- Rule of Three
- Running Gag: Saxon Loveblast occasionally makes references to Dilophosaurus. For no reason.
- Scary Black Man: The lumberjack brothers who adopted Loki.
- Sealed with a Kiss: With Zoë Pandora.
- Shout Out: Fu Manchu at one point poisons Loki with a fungus that causes him to lose control of his right hand.
- Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: The series is, after all, an expy of Evil Dead and Braindead.
- So Cool It's Awesome: That's right. I just judged my own work as awesome. Because it is.
- The Southpaw: Loki America is left-handed.
- Status Quo Is God: The three scripts don't really reference each other at all.
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler
- Tampering with Food and Drink: One of Fu Manchu's assassins slips a fungus into Loki America's drink that causes him to lose control of his limbs. Hilarity Ensues.
- Testosterone Poisoning: There's a Post Climax Confrontation in which Loki battles a pair of ninjas while Dual Wielding flaming chainsaws.
- Those Wacky Nazis: The villains of Terror of the Fourth Reich.
- Tome of Eldritch Lore: The Necronomicon. No, not that Necronomicon, that Necronomicon.
- Too Spicy for Yog Sothoth: Fu Manchu attempts to drive Loki insane by exposing his mind to the horror of an Eldritch Abomination. He only succeeds in pissing Loki off.
- The Voiceless: Each Big Bad's Dragon. Hitler is voiceless because his vocal cords didn't develop correctly in his test tube. The MIB's are voiceless because they had their voiceboxes surgically removed. Marcus Stonewang is voiceless because he has taken a vow of silence.
- Weird Science
- Wicked Cultured: Every Big Bad in the trilogy.
- The X of Y: Terror of the Fourth Reich & Revenge of the Orient.
- Yellow Peril: Fu Manchu is the Arch-Enemy of Loki America, after all. Subverted in that Loki America himself is also Asian. Double subverted in that since Loki was raised by lumberjacks among white people, he can’t really be considered truly Asian.
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form: With Revenge of the Orient featuring Eldritch Abominations, this is pretty much a given.
Redhead bound gagged and vibra- Sorry... thought this was Google for a second.
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