WritingPrompts

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[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town.	7765
[WP] While you're walking down the street one day, a crazy-eyed man runs up to you. "Dragons live among us!" he shouts. You scoff, but he shoves a pamphlet in your hand and runs off again. Nervously, you check your hand to make sure no scales are showing. Does he know the truth, or is he just nuts?	1414
[WP] After aliens make peaceful contact with Earth, you are talking with one and ask about alien abduction stories. "Oh, yeah, that was us. We were checking for infectious diseases." Then you ask about the anal probes. They look uncomfortable. "Yeah, that was Kevin. He's a bit weird."	491
[WP] You, the hero, have been captured and tied up while the villain monologues about his plans for world domination. You should be breaking free, but something about his plan sounds ... reasonable.	270
[WP] People hear about fallen angels all the time. You're somewhat more rare; an ascended demon.	154
[WP] As the superhero's sidekick, you've been in love with them for years. Last night, you slept together for the first time. You woke to see them donning the costume of their worst enemy. Other people sleepwalk. Your hero sleepvillains.	139
[WP] "Burn the witch! Burn the witch!" You are fastened to the stake. Firewood is piled around. The flames lick upward ... completing the spell you had begun before the idiot villagers grabbed you. Closing your eyes, you whisper the final words to the incantation ...	91
[WP] As a god trying to hide their celestial nature, you live among mortals as one of them. In the teeming metropolis, you go unnoticed until one day you accidentally use your powers. Witnesses assume you are a superhero. You try to ignore this, until their belief changes your clothing to spandex...	88
[WP] Snatched from your world to one entirely unfamiliar to you, you find that you've been summoned as a hero to defeat a great evil. This bit, you can understand relatively easily. The trouble is, you were an inhabitant of a fantasy medieval world and now you're in modern Earth of 2021 ...	62
[WP] You're a classic supervillain. Your monologues are second to none, and your deathtraps are the stuff of legend. Though the heroes regularly foil your plans, you've perfected the last-minute escape. But the edgy new villain in town has just murdered your nemesis's sidekick. That's just not on.	50

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