/u/driku12's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You used to be the most powerful evil overlord humanity has ever seen. Then you turned over a new leaf, and your empire is a utopia. The only person who refuses to believe you've changed? The hero who has tried to stop you for decades.
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[WP] The evil overlord has killed innocent people, burned cities, and actively suppresses all resistance in the world. On your quest to stop him, you have found out why, and it turns out he has a pretty damn good reason.
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[WP] The world is an absolute Utopia, but nobody knows how it came to be. Anyone who was alive beforehand can't remember and it's law that human history from 2017-2022 not be known by anyone. A hardboiled detective, out of the job because everything is so perfect, is trying to unlock the mystery.
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[WP] Aliens have no concept of mental illness. During the great galactic war, humans send in all of their depressed, insane, schizophrenic, psychopathic, etc. to take them by surprise with their "illogical" behavior.
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[WP] In the far off future, humanity sends their most dangerous criminals through wormholes to random points in time and space as a humane way of execution, because there is a very small chance they may survive and get a second chance. One has, against all odds, landed in ancient Israel in 2,000 BC.
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[WP] A new blockbuster movie is sweeping the nation, but despite a record number of ticket sales critics are calling the movie forgettable. After leaving a showing, you and your friends find you can't recall anything from the last 2 and 1/2 hours.
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[WP] NASA finally sends a manned mission to Europa, but while investigating a crevice in the ice, they find a crashed Voyager 1. So if Voyager 1 crashed on Europa... what has been transmitting signals to Earth all this time?
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[WP] After a horrible accident at a comedy club, it turns out that every human has the ability to blow up in a giant explosion if they do a specific set of absurd actions in a certain order. You have the only recording of "The doomsday dance" and must keep it safe from all who want to learn it.
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