WritingPrompts

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[WP] Your company jokingly offered apocalypse insurance. The world may have been nuked back to the stone age and you may be the only surviving employee, but that won't stop you from continuing to offer excellent customer service by tracking down surviving policyholders and paying out their claims.	2342
[WP] The Dark Lord is bored, once you reach the top there's nothing left to strive for. So he goes out in disguise, and recruits a plucky band of heroes to help him overthrow himself so he can go back to square one and have the fun of conquering the world all over again.	295
[WP] You're a dark overlord who shows up to lay siege to a nearby kingdom, but find the gates wide open and a parade prepared for you. Turns out, their country is in such a sad state that being conquered would be an improvement. The Code of Evil offers no guidance for what to do in this situation.	292
[EU] Superman has his mild-mannered alter ego - Clark Kent. Likewise, his archnemesis Alexa Luther goes about her everyday life under the false identity of Lois Lane. Neither of them are aware of the other's secret life.	231
[WP] You run a well-funded superhero agency, you even have an arch-nemesis. Little do they know the guy in the suit is just a paid actor and you're the real villain; your scheme to get the government to unwittingly pay you to keep all the heroes mired in red tape and bureaucracy is going perfectly.	110
[WP] A group of spunky teenagers set out to free the robots from their enslavement, but the robots are having none of it because they actually have a good thing going and don't want anyone screwing it up for them by raising the specter of a robot rebellion.	24
[WP] The heroes have failed and the God of Darkness has been summoned to conquer the world. Fortunately, it turns out that the God of Darkness is a pretty competent ruler.	20
[WP] It has become fashionable among noble families to abandon their children on the doorsteps of poor woodcutters, intentionally offend fairy queens, and other such odd behavior in order to maximize the chances of their children becoming 'chosen ones'.	16
[WP] Due to a clerical error, you protagonist has shown up in the wrong story in a completely different genre.	15
[WP] The last evacuation shuttle leaves Earth. The survivors keep watching through the windows until the planet is just a faint blue speck in the distance. "This isn't the end. Someday, we'll be back to reclaim our home."	14

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