If this were any other song, I'd post lyrics and the song time, but this is a common enough song that everybody probably knows it: "Beat It", by Michael Jackson.
I would think that it would generate a roughly room-sized (or area-effect, in larger rooms/outside) fear effect, specifically just powerful enough to make each and every person in the room scared enough to run away. Perfect for situations where Doug's facing down a lot of weak fighters (street gangs come to mind), and wants to resolve the situation without fighting.

*/ Bif Naked, "Spaceman", 4:20 /*
i see your face on television, almost every day
in magazines and on the big screen
close yet far away
i wonder why you choose those others
and you never come to call on me
when i'm the one who's waiting for you
i really need you - please pick me!
spaceman, oh spaceman!
come rescue me from this!
calling all aliens!
come rescue me!
remember that night at my window
when i waved at you?
i must have been only five, or so,
but i never forgot you.
i wonder why you choose those others
and you never come to call on me.
when i'm the one who's waiting for you
i really need you - please pick me!
spaceman, oh spaceman!
come rescue me from this!
calling all aliens!
come rescue me!
Seems to me that this would be perfect for interrupting a fight that isn't going well, by- as the song clearly suggests- having somebody pull him out of it from space.
The fun part is that "spaceman" would be defined by Doug's subconscious- he'd probably get rescued by sci-fi characters (or simulacra of sci-fi characters). I can easily see the song teleporting him out of danger in a classic Star Trek effect, or putting an open, 1960s London police call box in his path (which would disappear with him). As I see it, teleportation out of danger, with illusions thrown in.

Okay, per a suggestion made in another thread, I've created a forum area just for old recommendation threads. I've put the two biggies in there, but if anyone thinks other threads should go in as well, let me know and let me know the name of the thread so I can find it.
Thanks!
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

Just as the description on the main page says, this forum will hold archived threads from "Other People's Fanfiction" in which story recommendations are made. Only admins and moderators can post in here, so don't try to add anything to these threads. Go to "Other People's Fanfiction" and add to whatever thread is current and live there instead.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

Just continuing a theme
Post new fic recs here
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

I just finished 'the prince', the collected stories of the Fall of the CoDominium, and the thought of Doug in the universe keeps bouncing into my skull, but I cannot for the life of me figure out where a dimensionally displaced metahuman fits in in a Kipling Revived future infantry warfare situation.
But it keeps niggling at me.. grr.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

It's an interesting game, and internally self-consistent (I think), but if Doug were to end up dumped into the setting for Diana: Warrior Princess, he might yearn for the relative sanity of the Urusei Yatsura or Paranoia settings...
(For those of you not familiar with the game, imagine a television-series production company a few centuries down the line taking as much care and attention with our time as our time's television-series production companies took with ancient Greece to create Xena: Warrior Princess, and producing the title series. The "spinoff series" supplement Elvis: The Legendary Tours is also available.)
Doug would hate it. The readers would probably love it. I don't have time to write it...

-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

I get intimidated by the task of replying to all the creativity in this forum, so I put off even looking at it for a day... and then another day... and then yet another day... and next thing you know, it's been three months or more since I looked at anything here. I'm going to try to address things in here now, a little bit at a time, and try to catch up. My apologies.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

I have trolled these boards and FF.net (as much as I can tolerate) to no avail. So I'm posting this in hopes that someone can remember.
A while back (it may have been eaten by the forums) someone posted a link to a Naruto fanfic. I wish I had bookmarked it, but here is what i can remember.
It was of decent size, at least three chapters.
One of the major plot points was that Naruto though he was Kyubi, and has a bit of a breakdown when he realizes he isn't.
It's a bit of super!naturo, but not overly so (yeah, i know this is really helpful)
In the chapters I had gotten through there was a start of Naruto/Hinita
If this rings any bells I would greatly appreciate a pointer.-Terry
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die." - Carmen Boyle (Olympic Luge Gold Medal winner - 1996)
Mary Sue's theme music
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

I've been tryig to branch out into non-anime fanfic recently. I read a lot of Buffy stuff. One thing I noticed: Xander gets all the love. I mean, he gets to be a Jedi, a warlock, a superhero and on and on...
Most of the time, this is via the conceit of using the Halloween episode (you know which one)...
BUT...
I have yet to read a single story where Willow, Buffy or any of the other cast ever get anything interesting out of the Halloween episode hijinks. Does anybody know one where someone else, other than Xander, has their life changed by that episode?
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Epsilon