/u/adriantullberg's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You're a prison psychiatrist being yelled at by your boss; every supervillain you've treated has gotten over their obsessions and hang ups, and become vastly more efficient and dangerous once free.
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[WP] What’s worse than a mad scientist? A well-meaning scientist that has no comprehension what social upheaval their inventions will inflict on society. As the city’s superhero, it inevitably falls on you to explain, every time, to this socially oblivious genius what’s gone wrong and why.
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[WP] It's bad enough you and your super-powered arch enemy know each others secret IDs, but can't reveal them due to mutually assured destruction. The real icing on the cake is the fact you both work in the same department in the same company.
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[WP] You are the least-liked member of an adventurous deep space explorer ship, the CSO (Common Sense Officer) Your job is to stop the others from doing things or bringing anything potentially dangerous on board.
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[WP] The latest reality show concept is to take one person, find multiple versions of that person in the multiverse and install them in a house, willing or (usually) not. Things are not going to plan in this season of All About (insert victim's name here)
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[WP] You've discovered a book of actual magic spells. According to the notes within the book, these spells were considered low tier, with little to no practical value. However, in today's modern world, they have exceptional, maybe frightening applications.
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[WP] You're an assassin with a high demand speciality; to prevent your targets becoming post mortem martyrs, you engineer deaths that are highly embarrassing and humiliating.
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[WP] An extremist has just committed the first major mystical terrorist attack; a truth spell cast over the population of a major country.
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[WP] You're a low-level minion for supervillians, you've encountered the hero a number of times, getting away by the skin of your teeth. Now encountering the hero again, you discover that this fabled protagonist considers you his arch-nemesis.
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