Let's make some shit up!

[steinsgatehaschosen]

Know what's fun to talk about in RP? Imaginary canons.

Know what we need more of? Imaginary canons.

There was a similar post to this a few months back, but that was specifically for expy versions of represented canons. Let's use this post to come up with some TV shows, games, movies and books to namedrop in conversations! Also, assemble fake canons that have been referenced in the past.

Here's all the established ones I know of from previous posts:


Adamgelion, a 90s mecha anime full of weird freudian themes and meaningless Christian symbolism. Has a huge, eccentric fanbase.

Agents of S.W.O.R.D, a new tie-in series to a recent line of comic book superhero movies called The Revengers.

Annie Lewis and the Aesir, a popular recent book series about a girl who learns that she's the daughter of Thor.

Baking Bad, a comedy series about a home ec teacher who is diagnosed with cancer and starts baking pot brownies.

The Big-Toe, a mecha anime with heavy noir trappings and weird psychological elements that nobody really understands.

Card Fight!, an anime about card games and mind crushing and possibly motorycles that made a shitload of money.

Child Champs, a popular superhero cartoon aimed at a younger audience, which some fans of Z-Team look down on with scorn. Spawned a sequel series Child Champs Commence.

Courageous Lord Roarmachine, another mecha anime released shortly after Adamgelion, but instead of ponderous symbolism it has explosions and hot-blooded shouting and enormous toy sales.

Dark Alteration, a series of sci-fi third-person shooter video games from a few years back with an extremely controversial ending.

Data Dingos Story: Icon Handler, a pair of post-apocalyptic RPGs about how much Heaven sucks.

Days of our Goodbyes, the long and terrible soap opera to end all long and terrible soap operas. It is mainly notable for starring confirmed acting superstar Octavia Serket in the unforgettable non-speaking role of Girl.

Detergent, a long-running action anime about a blue-haired boy who gains supernatural powers and fights vampires.

Dollmansion, a sci-fi TV series from a few years ago.

Dominion Souls, a video game series about a boy with a destiny of fighting the soulless, and also crossovers.

The Dwarfling, a prequel to Saturn's Lord written by the author's cousin.

Fable of Helga, a hugely popular fantasy game series about a red-clad young hero named Chain who rescues a princess named Helga over and over and over again.

Formshifters, a TV series from the nineties about teenagers who turn into animals that was held back by a shoestring budget.

Galaxy Quest, an adored sci-fi TV show from the 60s about space explorers in an adventure-packed universe. Spawned a continuation much later called Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues.

Gekiganger III, a 70s super robot anime that spawned a great deal of spinoffs over the years.

Gendum, an anime meta-series about teenagers piloting giant robots in space. The original had a lot of political themes, and some of the later series like Gendum XX went more into superhero team territory.

Go-Bots, a rival cartoon to Shiftchangers that has endured into the present.

Harmony Dolphin, a kids' show about talking dolphins written to sell bath toys. Unexpectedly gained a cult following among adult males, who call themselves Brofins.

Homebound, a massive and experimental multimedia project slash webcomic about kids playing videogames and saving the world. Got weird when they introduced 48 magical girl squid aliens at once.

Heroines, a TV series about women with mysterious powers that was tragically cut short of its full potential by the Writer's Strike.

Identity, a series of RPGs about teenagers and friendship and saving the world.

The Inconcievables, an animated superhero movie by Xipar studios about a family of supers and a disgruntled fanboy supervillain.

Inspector Spacetime, a sci-fi TV series that's been running for over fifty years. Includes two spin-off series, Peacemist and The Mary Sue Predicaments.

Ivorystone, a book series about woodland creatures settling a faraway planet after their own was lost.

Jurassic Heart, an infamous dating sim about a girl who goes to a school full of sexy dinosaurs.

K-OFF!, a moe anime about girls having fun in high school. Possibly regarding rock music?

Karate Bugman, a long-running live-action series from Japan about hot-blooded young men who transform into superheroes with bug costumes.

Magical Remedy, a long-running magical girl meta-series about girls discovering the true meaning of friendship while fighting doofy monsters in endless filler episodes. Has a bunch of crossover movies between different continuities.

Magician's Card Trick, a magical girl anime about a girl who uses cards to summon magical allies to help her seal off rifts in the fabric of space.

Ninja-Dragon Riders, a live-action Japanese series about riders on dragons that are also ninjas, that ran out of funding because of Tiny Monsters.

Pretty Pretty Sailor Girl, a long-running magical girl anime from the 80s about a team of five girls who fight oddball monsters and villains. Has spawned many sequels and imitators.

Proselytion, a modern mecha anime that had a lot of heavy-handed symbolism and a weirdass ending. People accuse it of ripping off Adamgelion.

Sanctuary, an indie platformer about reconstructing a destroyed world. Famous for its soundtrack and soothing narrator.

Saturn's Lord, a famous sci-fi epic book series about a young boy trying to destroy a mysterious artifact before an invading warlord can get his hands on it.

Seihou Project, a series of brutal bullet hell shooting games about a robot maid named VIVIT.

Shiftchangers, an old cartoon about vehicles that transform into robots to fight other robots. Recently got a big-budget movie trilogy that a lot of people didn't really like all that much.

Star Wars, a trilogy of fantasy films about Lukra Starkiller's battle against the Tyrant. There was a prequel trilogy, but it got weirdly sci-fi and nobody liked it.

Stockades & Serpents, a popular tabletop roleplaying game about murder-hobo heroes in a fantasy world. There's also a spinoff of one of the older editions called Trailseeker.

Swords & Machines, an RPG series dating back to the late 80s about fantasy steampunk heroes collecting crystals and fighting nebulously-explained manifestations of darkness.

The Mantis, a comic book series about a tortured billionaire playboy who fights crime in dark alleyways.

Transcendental, a mediocre supernatural thriller book series about two brothers who fight ghosts. Might be getting a TV show.

Tiny Monsters, a wildly popular game series about capturing and trading monsters.

Trinity Peaks, a 90s mystery thriller TV series about an FBI agent investigating the murder of a teenager in a small town. Gets weird.

Ultra-Squad, an ongoing franchise of live-action series from Japan about color-coded teams of three to six superheroes. Has occasional crossovers with Karate Bugman.

Young Changeling, a TV series based on an 80s movie about a teenager who is secretly a changeling.

Z-Team, a long-running comic book series about a group of mutants with special powers who are shunned by society. The leader is Richard Zelver, a double amputee with incredible psychic powers.


Drop by the comments either with ideas or with things we're missing (we need a magical girl anime! and so forth), and we can assemble the details together. Also, if there are more I'm missing on the above list (there definitely are), bring them up and I'll update the list. Let's roll.

Comments

[gogoghostpowers]

The Z-Team, a comic book series (that has been adapted into a few movies) about a group of people who are ostracized for having superpowers but later become superheroes.

[two_stones]

Is the leader still played by Patrick Stewart?

[gogoghostpowers]

Sure, why not!

But the character he plays is Richard Zelver, a double amputee with incredibly powerful psychic abilities.

Or something. I dunno.

[originaloddcouple]

Inspector Spacetime, the fifty-one year, long-running sci-fiction show about an alien who travels through time and space in his ship disguised as a British red phone box (nicknamed "The Booth" by fans). He frequently picks up Associates to see the universe with him and perhaps fight the deadly Blogons, The Sergeant, or his many other enemies.

There's also been two spin-offs: Peacemist, the more family friendly show, and The Mary Sue Predicaments, a darker interpretation of former associate Mary-Sue Brown.

[wonk]

Pixar's The Incredibles is now, Xipar's The Inconceivables.

[drama8om8]

Days of Our Goodbyes is the terrible daytime soap Tavia was once an extra in, so there's that. You can name any awful soap opera plot twist ever conceived and it will have been in the show. Twice. Per week.

[playerspooker]

Stockades and Serpents, a popular roleplaying game system, though recent versions are rather polarizing among different sections of the fanbase. Trailseeker is a spinoff of the third version of S&S that balanced a lot of things mechanically and included some stuff of its own, but is pretty much S&S 3.75 with the serial numbers filed off.

[steinsgatehaschosen]

Has D&D been mentioned by name in the game before? If so, we can just retcon it to this.

[honestopinion]

I feel blood on my hands over this post.

Adamgelion A story about how a insane mother turns husband into a giant robot.

[steinsgatehaschosen]

Oh shit there WAS already an Evangelion knockoff.

I guess I can retcon Proselytion into a Sousei no Aquarion knockoff.

[honestopinion]

I THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT YOU MEANT BY A DEEP MECHA ANIME IN THAT TAG but I wasn't sure so I replied a little dry!! Yeah I was using Adamgelion because I'm a big tool.

holy shit this post.

[stagnantair]

don't forget The Big-Toe, the mecha anime that brought mecha anime to the united states before it really started getting popular. known for it's film noir style, it started making a name for Bandaid and Sunset over in the state.

[stagnantair]

LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE

[honestopinion]

Digital Dingo Saga

[stagnantair]

Digital Dingo Saga: Icon Handler

the junkyard basically is australia tho

[playerspooker]

Nnnnnot sure, but I agree with the retconning if so.

[hawaiianheir]

Stockades and Serpents has a lot of different settings that people argue about is the best.

Most people know of Blackbird, which was the initial version codified by the creator. It host all the typical trappings of the game today, though pioneered them in its heyday.

Then there's Regulon, which is a slightly divisive setting that replaces a lot of the innate magic elements with technology. Wizards are bookish studious scientists, Sorcerers are mad prodigy geniuses, and there's even robots. There's also Lands Without Name, a setting that has a lot of counterpart to real-world cultures, Crowsnest, which is more classical gothic influence, and Realmwalker, which has you travelling from Realm to Realm, and thoughts and influence become power.

And that's without getting into the recent revival of Uplifted that everyone is going nuts about...

[truthandlogic]

Actually, I could use someone who is better at naming things than I am. I could use a name for the expy for Ace Attorney.

For those not familiar with the canon, basically silly visual novel/courtroom drama for DS and 3DS. I'll come up with some more random details once I get off work.

[moarnomsplz]

Formshifters, an early-90s TV show in which four teenagers fight evil centipedes from an alternate dimension using shapeshifting powers (shown onscreen as little as possible, and quite badly when they are).

[steinsgatehaschosen]

Someone in a tabletop game I'm in made up a game series to reference called Lawyer Wars, which was like Ace Attorney but even more ridiculous, with people bringing cannons into the courtroom and stuff.

[hawaiianheir]

Law Prodigies, where you attempt to convict people with seemlingly impossibly tight alibis who you know are the true culprit, from the perspective of the prosecutor.

There's a rather fanatical following for the spin off series, Law Prodigy Defenses, where you play as the most well known rival defense attorney (who often helps you in many main cases of the game).

At least, that's my contribution.

[stop_hamerutime]

This needs at least one long-running Magical Girl anime, but I'm balls at names and really, a PreCure player should name it.

[hawaiianheir]

Courageous Lord Roarmachine is a late 90s anime and the best known entry in the Courage Franchise, which usually involves a lot of passionate yelling and giant robots. It's notable for being one of the biggest (and brightest, in terms of tone) mecha anime to come after Adamgelion. In it, a small kid realizes he's part of an alien race, as an enhanced cyborg combines with the Roarmachine to fight off dark, alien invades, who wish to take over the world and destroy humanity. Has a large following, even to this day. Enough that it got a minor sequel/followup in Courageous Lord Roarmachine CLIMAX, an 8-episode series that pushed the envelop on mecha anime further than most people thought possible.

[shiromadoushi]

Pretty sure it has been. Multiple times by this nerd here.

[titansno]

I am not even sorry.

Gekiganger III is an early 70s mecha anime with strong themes of cooperation and human potential based on a much darker manga, and the first example of a combining giant robot in fiction. The opening!
The anime's ending compresses later arcs of the initial manga and is widely considered a disappointment by fans, though not so much as the early 90s anime adaptation of a later sequel manga, Gekiganger Go.
The manga continued, giving us the prequel to Go - True Gekiganger - and the later entries Gekiganger Aṃ and Gekiganger Flame: The Moon Murder.

In the late 90s and early 2000s, a number of OVAs emerged - the first was True Gekiganger: Apocalypse, loosely based on the Go manga.
Next was True Gekiganger vs. Nova Gekiganger, widely considered an attempt at penance for the Gekiganger Go anime.
Last was 2004's Neo Gekiganger, which is a darker but more faithful adaptation of the early chapters of the original manga, but not without its share of liberties.
Fans eagerly await an upcoming animation project for the franchise's 40th anniversary.