I'd like to see a pulp take on both the Sailor Moon and Pretty Cure franchises!
Don't know enough about Pretty Cure to even start, but here goes with Sailor Moon.
Darien Shields is the Gentleman Thief known as the "Masked Tuxedo." Because of his code of honor, The Tuxedo only steals stolen objects, specializing in gems, to return them to their rightful owners, and whatever cash might be lying around the same place to allow him to continue his work.
Mr. Shields is astonished to realize that scatterbrained waitress Serena Moonfield, who just dropped an entire dinner tray on his head, is in fact Princess Serenity, long-lost heir to the throne of Lunaria. Gallant fellow that he is, the Tuxedo decides to escort her back to her homeland. If nothing else, it will keep anyone else from being harmed by her inept waitressing!
Unfortunately, agents of the self-styled Queen Beryl, the usurper currently on the throne of Lunaria, have also figured out who Serena actually is. And they'll stop at nothing to prevent her from returning home.
Guest appearances by Dr. Amy Anderson, Sister Raye of the Order of Our Lady of Eternal Flame, Lita Forrest (formidable cook) and Agent V of British Ihtelligence, all of whom turn out to be more useful than they first appear.
More Western Hero than Pulp Era, but the classic Western is pulp.
Rurouni Kenshin: It is ten years after the end of the American Civil War, in a western territory on the verge of becoming a state. Schoolmarm Miss Katie is both furious and worried about a series of murders around the town committed by someone calling himself "the Fastdraw Kid" and using some of her father's patented shooting techniques.
So Miss Katie straps on iron herself and goes looking for this sidewinder. What she finds instead is a mild-mannered redhead with a curious scar on his cheek, who seems dedicated to peace. Naturally, this redhead is in fact the real Fastdraw Kid, Ken Fireton. He was a top gun for the Union during the War, but he's sickened by the lives he's taken, and has vowed never to kill again. Ken locates the false Fastdraw Kid and ruins his hands.
Ken claims to be The Drifter, but hangs around to help keep the school running. He's soon joined by Sam, who used to be the drummer boy for a unit of Confederate irregulars before they were framed for the massacre of a village and shot down like dogs. Ken also takes one of Katie's unrulier pupils under his wing, and has a standoffish relationship with Meg, the weird lady doctor.
Naturally, no shootist can ever fully retire, and Ken is constantly plagued by young punks wanting to prove their mettle, and old enemies who have scores to settle or want to start the Civil War all over again.
edited 8th Sep '11 4:52:29 AM by SKJAM
Three examples have been posted, we still need someone to fill the Pretty Cure request—anyone troper enough to step up?
Like the "Horrible Adaptation" thread, but more specific: Take something not originally written for a Pulp Magazine and adapt it to fit, including such setting and character changes as are needed. You can either post your own idea or list (no more than two at a time) ideas you'd like to see done by someone else.
I'll start us off.
Yu Gi Oh!: Young professional gambler Yugi Mutou (this name may need to be changed) discovers that he is in fact the reincarnation of an Ancient Egyptian pharoah, which gives him various weird psychic powers. Accompanied by two-fisted adventurer Joe Wheeler, gunslinger Tristan Taylor and dancer/chanteuse Tea Gardner,he travels the world in search of the Seven Golden Treasures that will fully unlock his ancestral memories.
Opponents on this quest include: Seto Kaiba, vengeful Japanese industrialist who fancies himself the world's greatest gambler; Pegasus Crawford, a flamboyant artist who truly captures his subjects' souls in his paintings, and Malik the Mad, who plans to become the Pharoah himself and bring the entire world under Egyptian rule. (And from the anime continuity, Dartz, last survivor of Atlantis, bent on world destruction.)
Bandit Keith: A scoundrel and cheat who abuses his position as an agent for the American government. Naturally, he's the special enemy of patriotic Brooklynite Joe Wheeler.
Mai Valentine: Femme Fatale with a heart of gold.
Weevil Underhill (crazed entomologist) and Rex Raptor (crazed herpetologist), arch-rivals, they're even less threatening working together.
Bakura, King of Thieves: Mild-mannered occultist by day, at nightfall his personality changes to a cat burglar with a sadistic streak.
Swami Roba: Fake psychic whose brothers assist him in his scams.
Arcana: Stage magician and escape artist, servant of Malik.
Mako: Brawling fisherman from the South Seas.
edited 5th Sep '11 9:12:42 AM by SKJAM