/u/silentreader90's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You find some old film reels in the library dumpster. In them was a incredibly well made cartoon series that appears completely unknown despite your efforts to learn more. Even after steadily releasing it online to an rapidly growing fanbase, you still couldn't find even a name of the creator.
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[WP]"I am curious, how exactly did this whole genie set up get started? A being of your power being forced to grant wishes seems odd to me. Did you ever have a life outside of this?" asked the wisher to the Genie, who is taken aback as no one ever ask this before.
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[WP] The hero is actually a fairly decent person. Yet keep getting slandered by the media as being arrogant, dumb, corrupt, and so on. Even his villains get annoyed by this.
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[WP] A criminal mastermind have been playing a game of cat and mouse with an equally smart detective. They finally got caught not by some clever machination, but by sheer dumb luck when the detective literally stumble into them doing the crime. Neither are sastified by this outcome.
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[WP]"No, I will not let you die." said the villain to the struggling hero, "You are far too good to just sacrifice yourself for those people down there. No, I rather see the world burn than let your spark wither away. Afterall, you are the reason I get up in the morning."
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[WP] Wanting a more exciting world, you asked a genie to give superpowers to random people at random times. He granted your wish and vanished. After years of seeing new wonders and terrors popping up, you felt you made the right decision, through some of the new superhumans disagreed.
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[WP] People often forget that resurrection tears a person away from whatever afterlife they were in. So think before you revive someone, because a lot of those who came back tend not to take it well.
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[WP] After you figured out how to communicate with Mother Nature, you realized she doesn't actually care about global warming or even pollution. She sees death and devastation all the time. No, what she want is to expand from the planet and is pushing you to get to space, creating a avatar to help.
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[WP] You and your friends found what you thought was a realistic online magical roleplaying game. For fun, you all decided to play as the bad guys. You realized you all were managing a real evil organization when the henchmen show up to protect you from the heroes who discovered your locations.
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[WP] When the genie manifested, they were expected the usual greedy and tricky human that always tried to take advantage of their power. Instead this human just talked to them, asking about their life and their thoughts on things. Overtime the genie and the human became friends.
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