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[WP] Your boss, an Tier-1 supervillain, turns to you one day with a worried expression and asks "Am I ... am I a bad person?"
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[WP] A local witch only offers over-the-top evil solutions to people who just need the OPPORTUNITY to do evil to realize that they don't REALLY want to hurt anyone, much less actively USE her magic. When folks really DO want to do evil come to her ... well, she has ways of dealing with them too.
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[WP] The Hero was summoned to your fantasy land from a strange place called "Earth." They don't have slaves there, but he took slaves here because "it's part of the culture" and won't free them because "they're vital to the mission." As a local abolitionist, you really want to punch him in the face.
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[WP] A wizard's library has two kinds of spellbooks: One labeled something like "Spells that Work and are Safe to Cast" and dozens or hundreds of others labeled something along the lines of "Test Data for Spell (X.1.3.89) through Spell (Z.7.56.43)"
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[WP] Alien civilizations think of humanity crewing interstellar ships the same way we think of dogs when we see them driving a car: "It's impressive, and cute, but why did someone think teaching them to do it, and subsequently letting them do it, was a good idea?"
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[WP] The "Uncanny Valley Effect" works on a bell curve. If something is in the middle, they're considered 'human' and are 'safe.' If they don't look human ENOUGH, the flaws set off warning bells in people's minds. However, if something is TOO perfect, the perfection sets off warning bells as well.
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[WP] You've been a vampire for centuries, your living family long gone, and your love for humanity with it. One day you're watching the news and learn of a young child whose parents died in a tragic accident, leaving them all alone. They have a rare surname. You know it's rare, because it's yours.
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[WP] Having created a warp drive, humanity decided to send an expedition to a potentially life-filled world. When it arrives, they find a pre-intersteller civilization dealing with an actual, legit, cliched viral zombie apocalypse. As leader, you must decide to help them or let the virus run its
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[WP]Superheroes and villains are really just bored rich folks who can afford to buy their powers/abilities and lawyer up, only doing 'right' or 'wrong' because of the publicity it gets them. Poor folks who have powers and try to use them to change the world get different names: vigilante & terrorist
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[WP] "All the world's a stage, and all its people merely players." You've just discovered it's not just a pretty phrase. Mortals occupy "key roles", while the fey play "rotating support roles." You only know because you just learned that one fey always wants the roles that support you.
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