Awesome Little Ideas

This is the thread for all of the little ideas you have for the show that are totally awesome. After the incredible success of Code White, we really can't afford to miss any other similar opportunities.

So, yeah, get posting!

A planned sarcastic response by my character to being chewed out over my Code White gambit:

"Sure! Let's play it your way. Let's play Shonen Hero Tacnuke Bingo! Which major population centre will he destroy next?"

Maybe Cody and Jinx could have some verbal fights? Like...

"Don't you have some dolls to go play with?"

"Don't you have some asses to go kiss?"

The only thing I can think of at the moment is a fight between Kat and Hikari's super powered sides.

^^ I like that exchange. Seconding.

A Running Gag where Kara and Korg tease each other by coming up with creative pairs of call signs in order to build themselves up while vaguely putting the other one down. It should start innocently—Mama Bear and Grizzly Bear, Boris and Doris, etc.—but then one day Kara decides to call herself "Queen Victoria" and Korg "Prince Albert in a Can," so on the next mission, he retaliates by upping the stakes to "Dragon's Lair" vs. "Fire-Breathing Harpy."

On the old, now archived board, I suggested we could incorporate allusions to TV Tropes Wiki into the series. Suggestions:

• Characters erroneously speculating that certain individuals may be Time Lords.
• Reispin on a spinning LP, washing machine or wheel in the background of a scene.
• Trope titles snuck into dialogue, preferably in a way that doesn't sound forced.

Trope titles snuck into dialogue, preferably in a way that doesn't sound forced.

Maybe for trope titles that are sufficiently transparent, we could present it as slang of some sort.

Then again, we already have our Idiosyncratic Episode Naming...

Or the Wiki itself is the Database?

@Bobby: Yeah, that's a given. Also, we have the unofficial guideline that at least one trope name will be referenced per episode beyond the episode title. Of course, the overcommittee could discuss a change to that policy (or make it official) if you would like...

Maybe at somepoint to introduce other characters like Kat and the science crew, Jinx and Hikari (and Matrix?) could go on an "adventure" and explore the tvtropes base?

arks becomes a minion for Hikari's demon.

This one's more of an Awesome Big Idea, but I can't think of where else to post it.

Murky's subplot involving the World Tree has always me. It's an artifact from the first iteration of the show, when everything was less organized and we hadn't applied the Only One Power rule yet, but we couldn't drop it because of that bit where the Tree tells her where her family is.

At the same time, we've had a hard time coming up with material for Murky that ties her to the main plot with anything sturdier than two-ply cotton sewing thread. This was only exacerbated, not alleviated, by the fact that the Tree could talk to her and no one else, and especially by it telling her something that prompted her to leave the group. I mean, damn. It's like we were trying to keep her largely irrelevant to the other characters.

So here's my idea. Drop the idea of the World Tree being specially connected to Murky. We don't need it. Also drop the idea of her learning from it where her family is.

Instead, have the Fairy Godmother tell Murky where her family is. Murky's big Character Development subplot can occur in the course of the group's dealings with the FG, and it can revolve around this piece of information. And this would be a sort of clue to the audience that Murky would be better off not chasing down her family as soon as she finds out where they are. It makes it more important to keep her in the group, specifically because the FG is telling her something that would get her to leave.

We'll have to work out more of the details as we get closer to that season, but I think this ties up a few of the loose ends that have been plaguing us practically since the start of the project.

edited 6th Mar '10 9:28:26 PM by Karalora

The episode where the team takes down Ganondorf needs to be an Eigen Plot, as a Shout-Out to the fact that in most Legend Of Zelda games, Link needs to use most of his major items at least once in the final dungeon. As the team goes along, it gradually dawns on them that this is the case. They start to speculate about how the remaining team members' powers and skills will be needed, and draw a blank when they get to Kara. She says:

"Easy. I'm the fairy in a bottle."

Trope-Tan is the nickname for the backup of the database. Alternatively, it could be the nickname for the database itself.

Wikipedia was set up by the EU and CERN as the main group dedicated to building the Forthtress.

There is no name for Org &&&. It is whatever they want to call it.

Err... I'll probably think of better ones the second I hit send. This is why I just write the scripts.

Cody's story, like Murky's, involves missing relatives. What if he discovers at some point that his parents were murdered by one of the villains?

Too cliché?

Hmm, that would require the 'rents to survive long enough to run into one of the main baddies, since none of them operate or appear near Cody's home.

Maybe they were on holiday or on a business trip?

Or, maybe his mom got killed by a (monstrous, non-major) fictite, but his dad was away on a business trip (to somewhere Dark Lodge-y) and hasn't been seen since?

edited 7th Mar '10 2:49:06 PM by BobbyG

Well, on-holiday would make sense, since C-Day is somewhere in late December or (very) early January. (I currently have it listed as 1/1/13, but that's subject to change.)

Hmm... so if they were away on a Christmas/New Years holiday of some sort, and they never returned, and then Klamath Falls got attacked by Fictites... then Cody wants to find them, which half way through his arc could become avenge them.

It's certainly a possibility. Where would they be going on holiday?

and then Klamath Falls got attacked by Fictites...

Fallout fictites?

^^ I don't know. Florida? The Mediterranean? Australia? What's popular, and Dark Lodgy?

^ Could be.

edited 7th Mar '10 3:22:46 PM by BobbyG

The current Lodge corresponds to Kansas, London, Eastern Europe, Beverley Hills, and possibly Japan.

Maybe they're with relatives in London?

I'd have said Kansas, but that's resolved too early in the series. Not sure about California.