[WP] "Every full moon I am cursed to turn into a rampaging beast-""Wait, you have a predictable psychotic episode each month? Why not just take some anti-psychotics beforehand?" Later, as a werewolf: "Well, I no longer want to kill anyone, but I just don't feel like myself."
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[WP] "I don't understand super-dude, why have you not killed this clearly irredeemably evil villain?""I have.""What?""I've killed him multiple times, but every time I do, some sort of massive cosmic retcon thing occurs shortly after, bringing him back, and I don't know why."
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[WP] Like other Wizards and Gunomancers, you moved out west after the civil war. While others were drawn by the promise of cheap land, and a new start, you desired to face beasts of native legend, in hope of pioneering new spell bullets, and mystic arms, but beware the rivals who come too.
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[WP] "Wow, this guy is terrible." The angel judging your soul loudly proclaims. "Can we... send him to *Buddhist* hell for this, is that something we're allowed to do? I just really feel he deserves it."
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[WP] A firefighter is intentionally a horrible person his whole life, so that when he dies, he can fight the ultimate fire.
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[WP] One of the unsung benefits of being exposed to cosmic horrors beyond man's comprehension, is that it can really improve your math skills, especially at the high level. A pair of unscrupulous dolts use this as the basis for a correspondence course for desperate grad students.
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[WP] The animal spirit servant of a powerful Yaoguai finally gets the chance at a better life.
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[WP] FTL travel and time travel are the same. Fortunately, the universe always conspires to prevent any significant info from travelling to the past. When stuff keeps randomly stopping the navigator before he can activate the FTL, you know there's a problem, now you need to figure out what it is.
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[WP] Aliens avoid Earth like the plague, since it's a hotspot of supernatural phenomena. An alien crashes on Earth, and making a deal with a supernatural entity is now his only hope of getting home before government agents close in on him.
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[WP] A sci-fi polity is losing a space war badly, when they discover a gas-giant sized planet that somehow has a livable rocky surface, and also features extremely powerful supernatural beings and ancient Chinese culture: a world of Cultivators, and they're going to help them win this war.
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[WP] The Government discovers the existence of Lovecraftian horrors. To save the human race, they initiate a project to turn all humans into Lovecraftian horrors as well.
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[WP] Those who are exposed to cosmic horrors don't "go insane." They act in a perfectly rational manner. It simply looks like insanity to those that lack their expanded perspective.
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[WP] There are magical items and forces in the world that are occasionally found by children, and allow them to go on whimsical magical adventures. Adults trying to prevent this always ends badly, so you are a government agent, tasked with secretly ensuring these adventures don't get too dangerous.
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[WP] A man who always gets a good night's sleep is unaware he's a werewolf, due to simply always being a asleep during the transformation, until he gets married.
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[WP] The hero prophesied to restore peace and goodness to the land becomes a villain. It is as a villain that they unwittingly fulfil the prophecy.
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[WP] The Superhero who is a literal pagan deity talks about their problematic past.
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[WP] "The young girl chosen to be a magical girl is actually the reincarnation of a Darth Vader-style Fantasy/Sci-fi villain."
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[WP] A sweet but stressed young woman who works an unforgiving retail job, and a ferocious evil powerful female dragon from a fantasy world start switching minds at random intervals. They both have to find a way to make this work.
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[WP] "But why summon only 'one' otherworldly hero, why not just solve like a dozen and hedge our bets?"
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[WP] The Eldritch being finds a baby human without its parents. He tries to place it where it will be found, but no one shows up. Out of options, he calls a licensed Wildlife Rehabilitation specialist.
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[WP] Write a Wild West themed Cultivation story.
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[WP] You unwittingly do a favor for a supernatural entity. They're grateful, but unfortunately don't understand humans very well, so they give you a power/gift that is great in theory, but awful in practice. Now you have to learn to live with it.
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[WP] A Superman-esque flying brick superhero can't take the stress anymore, and retires to the country, leaving the world in the capable hands of his fellow heroes. He marries, but his wife doesn't know he's a superhero, until she get abducted by an empire of unwitting aliens.
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[EU] Sun Wukong replaces Thor's place in the Marvel Universe (any of them).
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[WP] With Idunn and her apples missing, the Aesir get desperate and send an Emissary all the way to China to beg some immortalizing fruit from the Celestial Court. Unfortunately, they've just been having some thieving problems of their own.
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