/u/Paper_Shotgun's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] A magic kingdom is desperate for a hero to save them, so they try to summon a hero from another world. Instead of a hero, a SWAT team enter through the portal to arrest them for kidnapping children.
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[WP] At the head of the biggest crime ring on earth, people expect you really intelligent, as you fended off superheroes and villains for years. But you're actually dumb as you don't realise you're running a criminal empire, since your guards and servants deal with anything before they reach you.
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[WP] "Your only ability is telekinesis, and yet the system said you have a threat rating of 9? How is that possible?" "Well, you know that my power is to grab and move things with my mind, right?" "Yeah." "Well, that includes the internal organs of anyone near me."
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[WP] You live in a swamp, and your mama always told you "never go chasing any girls in the water at night, they're mermaids who'll get in your head and make you love them obsessively." It turns out that she wasn’t crazy, since you can clearly see a mermaid in the distance fighting off an alligator.
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[WP] When asked about druids, most people would refer to them as magical hippies who love all forms of life. This is because they're uninformed, as any mage would tell you that druids embrace all aspects of nature, even the cruel, the violent, and the deadly parts of it.
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[WP] A minor supervillain realises that the reason the superhero doesn’t kill is not a moral reason, but a practical one, as if there are no supervillains then there would be no need for superheroes.
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[WP] A supervillain offers the superhero the chance to join them not because they think the hero is the only thing in the way of their plans, but because they believe that the hero is being abused and taken advantage of by the general public, and that they would genuinely be happer as a villain.
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[WP] A e-tier supervillain is tranfered from supervillain penitentiary to a supermax prison due to overcrowding issues, and any villain under c-tier isn't classified as a risk to a standard prison population. The supermax barely lasted a week.
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[WP] "So, Hero, who will you save; The love of your life, or the bus of innocent civilians?" "The civilians." "...What?" "I choose the civilians."
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[WP] You are a merchant in a fantasy world peddling your wares when your best customer comes along and asks you how you've been able to get to a location ahead of them, though monster-infested terrain while also bringing your massive amount of supplies and equitment everywhere you go.
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