Pitch that High Concept!

Just a gam where we all write a short, 1-3 sentence high concept and write a description of what if that became an actual work. I'll go first.

"Cerberus is sent by his master Hades to recapture escaped souls from the underworld, and to do so takes on the form of three mortal dogs belonging to an everyday family."

Edited by generation81 on Oct 24th 2021 at 2:01:07 PM

So this is like the "That’s a HORRIBLE" threads, but for things that aren’t utter crap? Interesting.

Anyway, we see the day-to-day adventures of Cerberus and the humans that are blissfully unaware that they’re living with a Hellhound, running the gamut between Sitcom antics, Black Comedy, Horror Comedy, and straight-up Animal Superhero fare as Cerberus hunts down the souls of the damned and send them back from whence they came. Every Monster of the Week is some form of reference to Classical Mythology, and the most well-known villains tend to elude capture, becoming a recurring Rogues Gallery in the process.

A Massive Multiplayer Crossover of nearly all Mouse World stories that welds them into a single, cohesive universe.

Edited by GeneralGigan on Sep 11th 2021 at 8:29:25 AM

Microworlds, a Deconstruction Crossover novel series where each of its Mouse Worlds must contend with humans finally discovering them.

"What starts off as a dark comedy sitcom about an extremely dysfunctional couple turns into a psychological drama when its revealed to be a revenge fantasy a loser is having, jealous the girl he loved in college (the wife of it) got engaged to someone he hated."

Edited by generation81 on Sep 13th 2021 at 9:02:52 AM

What at first comes off as a Deconstruction of the traditional sitcom marriage delves into Mind Screw territory with the realization that nothing in this false reality actually exists, with the loser failing to cope with this ideal reality’s nonexistence while at the same time learning to control his dreamworld powers. It ultimately has a Downer Ending, with the delusion collapsing but with a Sequel Hook announcing he’s going after the real girl next.

A princess who’s kingdom consists only of a single neighborhood tries to Take Over the World.

Edited by GeneralGigan on Sep 19th 2021 at 4:20:53 AM

Also a heads up for anyone about to write here: please add a title for the would-be work, too.

Bump.

The Destructive Princess of The Neighborhood

The princess is a teenager who not only wants to dominate the world, but also wants to be queen. She tries to keep her hatred of her family a secret, and pretends to love them. It is up to a good-nature prince to stop her from committing evil!

Four teenagers (2 girls and 2 boys) are called out by a mysterious lady to become a group of religious-themed warriors. The girls are an angel and fallen angel, and the boys are a demon and ascended demon. The mysterious lady's twin sister is the antagonist and has minions.

Edited by AutisticAlivia on Sep 17th 2021 at 1:55:19 AM

Fallen and Risen, a 2014 Hack and Slash Urban Fantasy video game. Didn't get much praise on release, but has since become a Cult Classic, especially for the way it uniuely does its Karma Meter.

"A fantasy work about a young aduly woman and her monster companions (a dragon, an ogre, and an octopoid sea monster) go from town to town posing as a damsel in distress captured by monsters and scamming heroes The Frighteners-style, but when one of these cons go wrong, it falls upon them to help save the kingdom from evil warlord."

The Damsel is Actually a Fraud!

A Japanese light novel series about a con-woman and her monster lackeys. It's praised for its subversive nature and witty humor, and later high-stakes adventures.

A Schoolgirl Series, but it takes place in a Mouse World in a sewer and the main characters are anthropomorphic rodents, insects, and reptiles.

It's Not My Fault That This Show has a Title Too Long for it's Own Good!

Half Deconstructive Parody of Shoujo, half Genre Throwback to the Grossout Shows and Animated Shock Comedies of The '90s. This show stars cute animal schoolgirls juxtaposed with the disgusting acts that occur in both the town and the sewer. it's Popular with Furries for it's cute characters.

Teenagers gain the power to enter movies, TV, dreams, the internet and video games. They then proceed to pull of The Caper and steal MacGuffins and Plot Devices from their travels.

Edited by GeneralGigan on Sep 20th 2021 at 12:41:22 PM

Bump.

I think you’re supposed to say more about the work than that.

Edited by GeneralGigan on Sep 22nd 2021 at 3:52:03 PM

"Teenagers gain the power to enter movies, TV, dreams, the internet and video games. They then proceed to pull of The Caper and steal Mac Guffins and Plot Devices from their travels."

Disney Brains, an unsuccessful YA novel series.

"Romeo and Juliet... but with Toxic Sports fans!"

Edited by generation81 on Sep 28th 2021 at 10:20:42 AM

Montague: Two Italian families are absolutely, unquestionably loyal to certain Soccer teams and Romeo and Juliet are the only ones that don’t care for sports at all, bonding as their families begin street brawls in the name of Soccer.

A Kirby Anthology Film.

Kirby Adventures in Dream Land: Warpstar Inc. returns to make this all-in-one anime movie combining the lore of the games and Right Back at Ya!, demonstrating stories of each of the characters in everyday lives. The 4Kids VAs even return for the English dub (a la Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions).

Star Fox the Movie

Being made with the Mario Movie, the Star Fox movie will have people that worked on the Muppets for this and will follow the story from the first Star Fox game, and to add on to the muppets there will be no CGI.

"Set in the future, the protagonist wakes up in cyro freeze to see a world taken over by an A.I. of the protagonist.

Edited by This on Sep 29th 2021 at 7:38:52 AM

Mirrorland, a 2003 First Person Shooter video game, which stars Tara Strong as bothg of them.

(If you were expecting more, sorry)

"A superhero comic about one that takes after the Headless Horseman legend."

Edited by generation81 on Oct 1st 2021 at 12:08:52 PM

Headman: A shameless Genre Throwback to The Dark Age Of Comic Books where Death of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (who’s inexplicably the same person as the Headless Horseman, don’t ask questions) is brought down to Earth to kill the 666 people that could potentially cause Hell on Earth, with Axe Cop-tier insanity in the various plot threads. The best-remembered issues is #12, where Death meets Venom^note One of the 666, LongStory and admits I'm Your Biggest Fan.

A What If? fic exploring what would’ve happened had Kingdom Hearts starred Warner Bros. characters instead of Disney ones.

Edited by GeneralGigan on Oct 6th 2021 at 11:50:08 AM

Bump.

<br> Spacejammer, a fanfic thst has since blossomed into a multi-creator project. In particulae, it delves into how in WB, most of the works are created by seperate groups instead of effectively one like Disney.

"A film does for superhero comics (and to a lesser extent Early 2000's Superhero cartoons) what The Final Girls does for Slasher films as a bunch of teens get taken to one's favourite childhood cartoon. Make sure to include a female superhero that's basically an Ancient Egyptian-themed Wonder Woman (part of a larger tream, the cartoon's focus) mixed with Doctor Strange who through magic determines the characters are from another world."

Edited by generation81 on Oct 8th 2021 at 8:58:36 AM

Superteens!

A film where a group of teens fight evil alongside a superheroine and her team. We also have a villain team, one of them parodying Thanos. Popular with superhero fans.

A game very similar to Kingdom Hearts where Kirby goes into the worlds of various Nintendo works, from Super Mario Bros to Fire Emblem to Mother (mainly those featured in Super Smash Bros.).

Edited by Oggy123 on Oct 9th 2021 at 6:13:04 PM

Bump.

Kirby and the Infinite Realms begins with Magalor experimenting on the Dimension Mirror by merging it with a portal to Another Dimension, accidentally creating a nexus between all Nintendo worlds. It quickly escalates into an all-out brawl between Nintendo’s various Multiversal villains such as the Ultra Beasts, Team Rainbow Rocket, and Void Termina as Kirby assembles all the heroes to save the Nintendo Megaverse from these fiends. The game ends with all the worlds merging to form one Shared Universe, giving us a Sequel Hook for the next Crisis Crossover.

Revival/Sequel Series to Drawn Together about the cast reuniting after years of being apart and questioning what’s heading next, with what they were up to during the Time Skip spoofing the recent activities of the franchises/genres that the group originally parodied.

Edited by GeneralGigan on Oct 12th 2021 at 1:42:24 PM

Redrawn Together, which is an Animated Anthology Series instead.

"A parody of murder mystery thrillers where an Attention Whore fakes their death and watch the media go crazy for them."

Missing White Girl Syndrome, a satircal comedy in the vein of The Coen Brothers about a smarmy social media influencer who craving publicity, decides to fake her own disappearance with the help of some friends and hide out in the remote desert before letting the media circus go wild, watching it from older electronics as she seems to capture the heart of America. However, an FBI agent among the many searching for her (and a bit of a Genre Refugee from thrillers who'd play the premise straight) is the first yo catch on to her scam.

"A heist at a mansion goes awry when one guest is found dead, and several member, disguised as off duty cops, must solve it."

Heist at Nightmare Mansion, featuring a group of master thieves who are the targets of an even more dangerous assassin and their attempts to fend him off.

A Hal Laboratory RPG series about personifications of gaming companies such as Nintendo, Sega, and others in the same vein as Neptunia, though they are not portrayed as Moe Anthropomorphisms, but as adorable Cartoon Creatures resembling TVs instead, essentially being Neptunia meets Kirby. The one representing Nintendo is the main character.

Edited by Oggy123 on Oct 19th 2021 at 2:45:03 AM