If you're familiar with Contextualize/Whamise This Line, then you may know how this will work. However, instead of a line, you must write a plot/synopsis based off a title from a work in a "Poster above you" format. For example...
Troper A: Soul Surfer
Troper B: Soul Surfer is a cyberpunk action film about a man who has the unique ability to go into the bodies of other people, and must do this to clear his name for a crime he hasn't committed.
Something like that. I'm just hoping I'm being concise enough. Alright, let's begin.
edited 5th Feb '13 10:14:18 AM by Psyga315
Stark Holmes
In one of the long-forgotten forests of Europe lies Barris’ Circus Wonders, a circus of the 19th century home to many performers and so-called freaks, whose titular owner is a bastard beyond all. Late one night to a near-empty crowd, Barris pushed his crew to the breaking point, and rebellion ensued. He was tied upside down and slit from his throat for all his troubles, while his son planned to inherit the joint.
Little did any of them know that the grounds the circus was laying on were a sight for much death and rumours of witches. When the blood is spilt, the circus is let aflame, and all that cannot escape it perish, and are forgotten to time.
To the outside world, at least. But to those inside the last week of their lives has been on repeat for centuries. The blood of Barris is now a ritual, to extend their lives by another week, another burned down circus tent.
Thus, they have no agency, only luxury of their peaceful surroundings, and no knowledge of what has become of life. Every week is the same, kill Barris and live in harmony waiting for the cycle to repeat. It’s too routine to stop. No one dares to break the curse or else they could all die instantly. But as deforestation begins to cause their secret to be revealed, and one of the few audience members Dolores starts wanting out of this game, it could be the final, final end of Barris’ Circus.
Never Feast
Discombobulate.
The trials and tribulations of a group of anorexic young ladies.
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Steamboat Willie
Author, These Words Are True and Faithful
In this Ruritanian Romance, Crown Prince Wilhelm does his royal military duties aboard a navy steamship. When the ship is in port, he chances on a beautiful young woman. They become smitten with each other. The plot centers on his attempts to hide his true identity to ensure that she is in love with him and not just the opportunity to be the next queen.
The Sweetness of Forgetting
The world ended when the prophet said, but you're too sinful to notice.
Like reflections in the glass!
Romcom about a loving couple trapped in an amnesia loop, forgetting each other and falling in love all over again. Basically Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Groundhog Day.
Author, These Words Are True and Faithful
The police are investigating a series of arsons. A detective with magical powers detects residues of magic at the arson sites, leading him to think that the arsonist also has magical powers and is using them in the arsons. A powerful warlock who is the unofficial leader of the local magical community offers to help the police locate the arsonist. However, the warlock is actually throwing the police off the scent, since he is the arsonist and is an accomplice to insurance fraud by the building owners.
The God of Small Things
Edited by drwhom on Jan 6th 2024 at 11:31:51 AM
The world ended when the prophet said, but you're too sinful to notice.
Some YA romance between a teen girl who’s very small for her age and a teen boy who’s very big for his age, and the drama that causes. She’s also religious and questions why God made her so tiny.
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Nothing Ever Happens
The story of a middle-aged man who lived all his life in a small, boring town running a pharmacy.
He is facing a midlife crisis when he is contemplat all the lost opportunities of his life, and how he has wasted any chance he had to leave and experience excitement and adventure in favor of staying in this small town where nothing ever happens.
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Or so he thinks; in reality, every resident of this town is a supernatural being of some sort (wizards, vampires, werewolves, Succubus, demons..etc)
By some magical law, they can only exist in the real world in this town, and only if a member of this man's bloodline stays in it; otherwise, they will all be banished to where they came from.
Hence, why they manipulated him his entire life to discourage him from living, but now they are facing two problems: a) his midlife crisis may push him to sell his business and leave, and b) he is the last of his bloodline and unmarried; if he dies, they supernatural residents can't stay in our world.
So the story focuses on the attempts of different members of the town to come up with a solution, competing with each other in the process.
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Darth Plagueis
Edited by jawal on Jan 26th 2024 at 4:16:46 PM
Every Hero has his own way of eating yogurt
Stark Holmes
In a fantasy world akin to the late 19th century, there is a deadly plague (nicknamed “The Tearer”) rampaging through towns and cities, indiscriminately killing innocents. The only cure found by the land’s royals is complete isolation of its victims is in hospitals. Tensions run high between people on who started the disease. In this uncomfortable time for the land, a dreary Elf detective named Bellis and his new human boss Kendall (who is hiding that her parents recently died from the plague) have to work together.
On a routine hospital trip, they discover what seems like clues to an origin for The Tearer. Bellis believes it to be the work of a dark necromancer, and the two try to follow-up on the clues. With their differing life views, they have to try to find some solution to these stray questions before bigotry, murderers, and even The Tearer take ahold of them.
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Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Jan 28th 2024 at 9:19:14 AM
Discombobulate.
Like reflections in the glass!
One minute out of each day, Reality Is Out to Lunch. Physics return to normal the next minute but people have to contend with the aftereffects on a daily basis.
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jan 28th 2024 at 7:32:17 AM
The cast of long running talk show the View is missing and only special agent Jack Offerman has what it takes to recover them.
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Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide
Author, These Words Are True and Faithful
A potty-mouthed comedian does a benefit performance for a suicide-prevention charity.
Love Notes to Men Who Don't Read
Edited by drwhom on Jan 31st 2024 at 3:42:51 PM
The world ended when the prophet said, but you're too sinful to notice.
A Shojo Manga from the 1980s about a girl transported through time 10,000 years to the past, joining a primitive tribe, and entering a Love Triangle with Cain and Abel, the two sons of the chieftain.
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Every Hero has his own way of eating yogurt
Submarine Chomper
The tale of an epic chase to find a cursed ceremonial dress, created by an eldritch goddess, rumored to carry unfathomable powers to anyone who wears it, when proof of its existence reaches the ears of parties capable of funding and search for it, for their own specific reasons. None of them knowing the real truth behind the artifact in question which could come with drastic apocalyptic consequences further down the line.
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The Earworm King and the Queen of Roses
Edited by Trainbarrel on Feb 2nd 2024 at 6:30:48 PM
"If there's problems, there's simple solutions."
Author, These Words Are True and Faithful
In the setting of this fantasy novel, the lyrics of popular music can work as magical incantations. The king of one kingdom has his court composers write a catchy pop song in the language of a neighboring kingdom, whose lyrics incorporate a spell that will bend the people of the neighboring kingdom to his will. The queen of the neighboring kingdom knows of a potion, based on attar of roses, that will counteract that spell. However, production of the potion is a long, costly process full of trial and error. It is not clear whether she will manage to produce a big enough batch in time.
All the Sinners Bleed
The world ended when the prophet said, but you're too sinful to notice.
Dwar of Helium
A devoted, church-going individual, after suffering too many hardships, finally snaps, and decides to go out to punish the wicked.
Now, I'm going to ask you that question once more. And if you say no, I'm going to shoot you through the head. - John Cleese
Like reflections in the glass!
Submarine Chomper
A sci-fi kaiju story where something is found stirring in the ocean, causing tsunamis to mankind's horror, and ultimately revealed to be the Jörmungandr, designated as "STORM"(From the swedish "Stor"/"Large" and "Orm"/"Serpent") which have not only is proven real but starting to stir, signaling the start of Ragnarok and the rise of more kaiju to destroy mankind according to Nordic mythology. Forcing Mankind to fight back without the Nordic gods to (directly) back them up.
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Among Bricks and Chalk
"If there's problems, there's simple solutions."
The story of a medical student in 1955, accused of murder, who escapes prison, forges some papers, and starts a new life as the local doctor in a small mining town in England.
Forty years later, he become aware of a plague spread by the polluted nearby river; he should warn authorities or the press, but the problem is that in doing so, his identity may be revealed, which mean he will be arrested, leading to his wife and children learning the truth about him and suffering the shame.
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Enchantress from the Stars
Edited by jawal on Feb 7th 2024 at 9:41:03 PM
Every Hero has his own way of eating yogurt
Author, These Words Are True and Faithful
A starship on a mission of colonization encounters a planet with no technology past the bronze age. The captain of the starship uses technology available on the starship to convince the inhabitants of a village on the planet that she is a powerful witch who must be feared and obeyed. The ruse works until she makes a mistake that reveals to the inhabitants of the village that she and her crew are mere mortals.
Lord Jim
The world ended when the prophet said, but you're too sinful to notice.
Hilarious sitcom where Jim Belushi inherits an English barony. Kind of like King Ralph but on a smaller scale.
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The Crunge
Author, These Words Are True and Faithful
A young child achieves notoriety when a local news show shows him getting the past participle of "cringe" wrong. That notoriety dogs him into adulthood. When he achieves success in another area, he owns that notoriety and makes it part of his brand.
The Gravity of Us
The world ended when the prophet said, but you're too sinful to notice.
Like reflections in the glass!
A story about a group of children that had discovered they are living Gravity Wells, and the horrific consequences there of. It ends with them being forcibly merged into each other in the form of a black hole.
Green Mamba
A prequel to the sci-fi action story the glass matrix, in which an unassuming office worker from a future Paris gains the psychic power to control glass when participating in a Super-Soldier project sponsored by the tyrannical new government of France and uses his new power to finally free the country, stealing the glass pyramid inside the Louvre and making the glass his weapon in the process.
Swastika Night A book has to be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. Franz Kafka
A cheesy 70's shlockfest about neo-nazi zombies.
Edited by generation81 on Apr 16th 2024 at 4:35:38 AM
In a fantasy setting, there is a magical artifact named the Tear of God that has existed since the down of time, and no one knows where it came from.
The artifact's powers are varied, but the most known one is that it grants total immortality to whoever possesses it.
A man named Neyragrat obtained that artifact three hundred years ago. He forged it into a pendant and used it to conquer the world and rule it as an immortal king.
Twenty years ago, Neyragrat was in a boat with his three great-grandchildren traveling across a river, when he suddenly jumped into the water.
An extensive search was made, but no trace was found of the king's body or the pendant. Finally, the crown prince was proclaimed king, and the search stopped.
But there are still many adventurers and dreamers who come to the river, hoping that they will be the ones to find the pendant and become immortals.
The heroine of the story is Lotus, a 20-year-old orphan girl who lives near the river with her adopted father selling and renting small boats, fishing nets and similar tools to any would-be immortal looking for the pendant.
Lotus herself thinks that the story is rubbish and that if the pendant existed, it would already have been found. Besides, how can the king die if he wears it?
But events may force her to change her view.
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Carpe Jugulum
Edited by jawal on Nov 24th 2023 at 7:57:03 PM
Every Hero has his own way of eating yogurt