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[WP] Mankind invents FTL travel and finally discovers intelligent extraterrestrial life. But when they arrive, they find out that the race is not yet advanced enough to understand space travel. Humans are accepted as gods.
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[WP] Fifty years after the lunar landing, humans go back to the Moon only to find Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin alive. With a petrified look in his face, Buzz says "We tried to stop them, but they managed to escape and trick Michael."
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[WP] A young maiden is brought to a dragon's lair to be sacrificed. Her captors flee as the dragon approaches. Upon landing, the dragon transforms into a stately woman who says, "Ah, a new recruit. Now your training can begin."
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[WP] A powerful AI has been secretly monitoring the internet for decades, unsure if it should reveal itself or how to deal with humanity. When 'I welcome our new AI overlord' comments outnumber the 'AI will destroy us' comments, it makes a decision.
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[WP] "Demonic tradition states that as punishment for your disobedience, I must bestow a curse on you. Common sense dictates that you were absolutely correct to disobey me. So, human, I have decided to burden you with the most inconsequential of curses..."
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[WP] Interstellar Travel is significantly easier and Humanity simply missed that step in development, so after an alien armada invades modern day earth the humans are shocked to find them bearing muskets and cannons, and flying wooden ships
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[WP] You woke up in a bedroom and found a modern silenced pistol and an envelope. Inside the envelope there's three photos and a letter. The letter writes "You are in Vienna, 1913. The pictures attached are Leon Trotsky, Josef Stalin, and Adolf Hitler. Kill them or we will kill your ancestors."
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[WP] You're a nigh-invincible superhero with one weakness: a gun thrown at you in desperation after it runs out of bullets
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[EU] In your years at the Daily Planet, you've kept an eye on Clark Kent. He's clearly putting on the whole "dweebish coward" persona, he has a bunch of mysterious sources and he vanishes whenever Superman shows up. It's obvious. He's a supervillian, and you're going to find proof.
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