Crossovers that Should Be: Super Double Bonus Round
06-06-2013, 02:38 AM
Razputin, from Psychonauts, is a hero who is all about helping people with their deep, emotional trauma (and seeing deep into their souls at the same time).
Seems like he's ripe for any number of possible crossovers - as long as there's a maguffin on the other end to pull him in.
PMMM has, in its wishes, a maguffin of almost infinite versatility - and it certainly doesn't lack for people with deep-seated emotional problems.
Seems like something could be done with that. A fair number of somethings, really.
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I was rooting around in the stories by Tjin, and saw one with the summary, "Xander dresses as Alfred." The story is about Alfred Bester from Babylon 5 but when I saw the description I thought it would be Alfred Pennyworth from Batman.
That's a set up with a lot of potential. It doesn't give Xander any superpowers or mad combat skills but it does make him hyper-competent in a support role for a superhero. Plus domestic skills that will serve him well in life, social skills, and dry Brittish wit.
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I would read that so hard. There are far to many 'Xander gets superpowers and wins at everything' stories.
Plus the british!Xander / Giles interaction.
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Don't they portray Alfred in some version as being former SAS?
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Quote:blackaeronaut wrote:
Don't they portray Alfred in some version as being former SAS?
sometimes. I've also seen him portrayed as an ex-MI5 agent.
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Quote:Timote wrote:
Quote:blackaeronaut wrote:
Don't they portray Alfred in some version as being former SAS?
sometimes. I've also seen him portrayed as an ex-MI5 agent.
We are starting to over think this, but in canon the soldier costume gave Xander the skills to break into a military base and steal a missile launcher, as well as rigging the explosives to blow up the mayor. Using a military or espionage background story for Alfred wouldn't result in Powerful!Xander unless it was poorly done.
And on a side note, I prefer the inteligence background over special forces for Alfred.
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I was always partial to the idea that he was the original Q, myself. Brucie has to get those wonderful toys somewhere.
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I was thinking, there's enough paralells in Sekirei and Mai HiME that you could probably get some good mileage out of it. There's another I can't think of the name of too, with super aliens from a crashed ship, where the lead weenie boy finds one whose number is zero because she was a 'defective model' ore something... Arg, all I remember is the pushy blonde rival and a scene with gravity on the fritz in front of their high school... and at the end of one episode weeni finally shouts "I'll be your master!"
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It is a grim, post-apocalyptic future. People everywhere know that there is no future for anyone if there are no children, but safe refuges to raise them are few and far between. But they exist....
In one such place, a day-walking vampire with a penchant for teaching young children the wonder of mathematics guards this small remains of a New York City 'burb from the predations of the wastelands along with a band of stalwart, yet friendly mutants and monsters.
And so, people ask whoever would listen... Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?
I've got other ideas in mind for other sanctuaries. Like a Chinese wizard named Eggshen guarding what he has managed to save of Little China of San Francisco, and the Hellsing organization running full-tilt in the remains of London.
Other fun ideas: Florida is now known as The Land of Magical Kingdoms (methinks Adventure Time fits like a glove). Samurai Jack also got side-tracked into this timeline.
Thoughts?
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I'm afraid my only thought when confronted with a grimdark post-apoc future is "break that like an egg on train tracks" or "cross dimemensional evac the people worth saving, then finish the job," neither of which are very helpful. Maybe the janitor/kid's variety show host and other characters from Wierd Al's movie UHF could do something? And the Underground from the Beauty and the Beast TV show was basically that already, they might be part of the NYC operation. Pick a location for the Muppet Show theater.
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ClassicDrogn Wrote:And the Underground from the Beauty and the Beast TV show was basically that already, they might be part of the NYC operation. Pick a location for the Muppet Show theater. Sesame Street would be the main street of the enclave, with the Muppet Theater at the end near the brownstones and Muppet Labs at the other end. It would have to have an old subway station entrance for access to the Underground...
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Nah, despite the name it was a collection of sewers and steam tunnels, not anything dirctly connected to the subway. The right manhole or service access would do fine.
Speaking of sewer guardians, which city were the Ninja Turtles supposed to live in again?
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New York, of course... And no one would notice them on Sesame Street...
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ClassicDrogn Wrote:Nah, despite the name it was a collection of sewers and steam tunnels, not anything dirctly connected to the subway. The right manhole or service access would do fine. Would you want children to climb down a ladder or walk down a flight of stairs, though?
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Besides, you can always have a secret door in the subway station.
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Firvulag and I had a long discussion about mecha earlier tonight. It started with Macross/Robotech, and eventually worked its way over to Battletech (by way of the Unseen). The point it really took off, though, was when we started talking about one particular what-if.
What if the Clans and the Zentraedi encountered each other?
Consider it for a while. Zent mecha are laughable by Clan standards, but there are just SO MANY of them, they move faster than expected, and some of their officers are actually fairly good. Meanwhile, you'd have the Zents dealing with hideously tough, well-piloted 'mechs and infantry the likes of which they'd never seen. It'd be quite the combat shock. Then they send in micronized spies, and find paradise.
The Clans are a warrior culture, so the Zents would find much of it familiar. They also have art, sports, honor, love... all those things that draw the Zentraedi into micronian life. If anything, they'd fall in love with Clan life even more so than they did Earth culture.
As for Clan opinions of the Zentraedi,, well... It's an entire race dedicated to war, so the warrior caste would be pleased. Every single one of them is a clone, genetically designed by their makers- to Clan sensibilities, that would sound a lot like an entire race of trueborn, complete with something like bloodnames, and the enhancements given to the officer caste of Zents would probably be attractive genetic heritage for soldier breeding programs. The science and technician castes would go bonkers reverse-engineering Zent everything, especially their mecha, ships, and genetics. It's almost like it's meant to be.
This gets a bit silly the instant a Nupetiet-Vergnitzs defolds over Holy Terra, disgorging hundreds of dropships (each the size of a warship, even) onto the homeworld, each of which is full of dozens of mecha and/or 'mechs. The precentors who don't die of strokes will be crapping enough bricks to build a few hundred castles at the thought.
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... the only quibble I have here is mentioning that Zentreadi mecha typically act two or three times as often as BT mechs, so even if they're made of tinfoil in comparison (and it's not like that's a big change anyway) they're still credible opponents since their particle beams and missiles are just as burny and explody.
(Word of Kawamori, all those beams are energised heavy particles, not lasers, no matter what the stat books say. That's why they move so slow.)
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A crossover that probably should be, and possibly is if one fan's weird Pixar theory is correct:
http://jonnegroni.com/2013/07/11/the-pixar-theory/
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I'm sort of operating under the assumption that Mechwarriors are used to dealing with things that are more mobile than they are. Between Elementals, lighter 'mechs, ASFs, and some vehicles, I figure there are already things in their 'verse that move quicker than a 'mech, hit almost as hard, and crunch a lot easier. The trick would be to adapt those tactics (and their own expectations) to deal with something that's roughly the size of an Assault 'Mech, pretty much is made out of tinfoil by Macross standards (much less BT), but comes in hundred-packs.
Mind you, Female Power Armor would be a COMPLETE OCP, if potentially a little undergunned for the BT setting. It can hover, fly at supersonic speeds, routinely gives the finger to the idea of inertia (to the point of dodging Macross missiles), and mounts something like two SRM-40s as its main weaponry. Depending on where the missiles land, it might be able to kill something in its weight class, or it might not. Either way, good luck hitting it.
Also, the MAC-II Monster is a ridiculous piece of equipment in BT terms. Four AC/30s for main weapons is crazy, especially when you compare ranges. A normal AC/20 has a max range of ~4.5km, as best I could tell. The Monster has a max effective range of 160km- 320 hexes to the AC/20's 9. It's missiles go even farther.
Did I mention it can fire reaction warheads out of those guns?
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The MAC II's main guns are explicitly 16-inchers, a la WW2 battleship cannons. By BT standards they're super-artillery. (Even a Long Tom is only a 6-incher. A 16-inch shell is a lot more than twice as big as a 6-inch shell.)
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So... there is the mighty castle of Hogwarts... and Hoggle (from Labyrinth) gets referred to as Hogwart at least a few times (rather to his annoyance). What if, via some odd timetravel shenanigans, the castle really had been built in his honor, and/or belonged to him?
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I have no idea what is going on here, but it looks epic:
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And now it works? Ok...
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Anyone seen "Louise summons Agatha Heterodyne" in a fic? A steampunk revolution in Halkeginia sounds fun.
ETA - well whatta ya know... this IS the awesome I'm looking for. The only problem is, it barely got to the second day, and hasn't been updated in months.
http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/ ... ma.215897/
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Having gotten back to my Disgaea game recently (130 hours, still haven't played any story mode but the mandatory tutorial) it's on my mind again... it seems like it would be a natural crossover with Bleach - newly established Overlord Laharl (a relatively low level speed run version, not mine) gets the "travel to the human world" bill passed, wanting to find out what's been going on out there. Turns out he's just in time to take part in the Heuco Mundo and Hoagie-powered Aizen arcs.
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