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Let's make some shit up!

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.

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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.

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.

Edited 2013-10-27 20:43 (UTC)

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

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.

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.

I feel blood on my hands over this post.

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

Edited 2013-10-27 22:34 (UTC)

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.

Edited 2013-10-27 23:04 (UTC)

Attack on Titan: A scifi series about a group of child soldiers fighting evil monsters on Saturn's largest moon.

am i doin this meme rite

Baking Bad. A home ec teacher starts making and selling hash brownies after receiving a cancer diagnosis.

IT WAS PRETTY MUCH 100% LOUISE'S IDEA OK

Child Champs, a cartoon about five (six, for one season) superheroes who save the world about as often as they fight over who gets the last slice of pizza. Frequently looked down upon by fans of Z-Team as "kiddy" and "unsophisticated" even though shut up it's totally awesome. A spin-off of a far darker comic book series.

A sequel series, Child Champs Commence!, debuted several years after the original cartoon's cancellation. The drastically changed, hyperrealistic art style put off a lot of old fans, even though the writing has never been tighter.

PLEASE TO BE READING THIS AND ADD TO IT?

Anyways, made up stuff:

Pretty Pretty Sailor Girl is a long run series magical girl anime that was first produced in the early 80s as the girl's answer to Action Jack's Squad. Led by the cute, slighty clumsy but kind-hearted Mimi, the girls from the Sailor Hearts Club dispensed style and love throughout the universe in fighting the forces of the Dead Hearts, all while trying to maintain good grades. The series later spawned several other 'magic girl' anime as well as copy-cat series.

Heroines a sci-fi show about normal people gaining superpowers, that showed great promise until the WRITERS STRIKE and it just all went downhill from there...

:')

Tacking on to Saturn's Lord, The Dwarfling is the prequel book following the main character of SL's cousin as she discovers the artifact on a trip to planet that orbits a dwarf star.

Young Changeling, a TV series based on the 80s film of the same name where a high school thespian learns that she's not, in fact, human but a faerie changeling left in place of the human baby seventeen years ago.

Dominion Souls, a smash hit game series by the same company that made S&M about a young boy who discovers that he and his friends are responsible for stopping an genocidal freak hellbent on making everyone soulless monsters. It's a crossover with Kismet, who is know for their musical adaptations of popular faerie tales.

Kismetville and Marc Kismet Kingdom are popular theme parks, created by Marc Kismet after his animation company took off with their flagship character, Christopher Cat.

Ivorystone, a popular book series. It features woodland creatures who escaped their dead planet to settle on the planet Ivy W-006. "Ivorystone" is the name of the ship they arrived on and the first captain plays an important part in guiding the characters of later books thanks to holographic technology.

Annie Lewis and the Aesir, a YA series about a girl who discovers that the Norse gods are real and that she's related to Thor. Fun times.

And I am bad at languages other than French, but someone needs to come up with a non-French Les Mis XD

the Ultra-Squad Franchise is a long running Japanese live-action series of shows, revolving around different teams of sizes typically three to six members (though occasionally more) who use high tech equipment to defeat various themed foes, with an emphasis on teamwork and inevitable last second fights against giant versions of the monsters they defeat inside giant robots. Sister franchise to Karate Bugman, and prone to at least one yearly crossover.

Edited 2013-10-28 00:25 (UTC)

The Vehibots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Trickicons! The Shiftchangers!

~~Alternately, nothing changes except Go-Bots is the popular show and Transformers is all but forgotten.~~

Card Fight! A manga and anime that spawned a semi popular card game that's all about friendship, card games, and not being murdered by crazy people.

Ninja-Dragon Riders: An over the top originally Japanese live action show the was partly localized before being dumped for the anime of Tiny Monsters. The dragons are also ninjas.

Star Wars was a fantasy epic that came out in 1976 to massive, massive popular acclaim. A young woman named Lukra, raised since babyhood in the scrub wastes by halflings, has to leave her old home when it's razed by swordthanes in the service of the nonhuman-hating Red Tyrant. She has to go on long journeys, meet up with the Resistance, and embrace her destiny as Starkiller, greatest of the Starborn - people with strange powers and a duty to lead and protect people of all species, driven nearly to extinction during the Tyrant's rule.

When the first movie turned out to be outstandingly popular its title was hastily revised to Star Wars: A New Hope and it was made into the first in a trilogy. It's definitely influenced by Tolkien's Saturn's Lord series, and there are hints here and there of sci-fi elements. There are separate worlds or "stars" accessed through sacred groves with a resemblance to teleportery things, the Starborn are all originally from space, their signature Lightblades are sort of magitek, dwarves and halflings and elves are all kin to humans, etc.

While it was pretty feminist for the time, Starkiller infamously was not permitted to wear a bra in any of her costumes, and there ended up being a lot more focus on the exploits of rougish love interest. There were also very few other women in the films, and Starkiller herself is held up as one of the archetypal "Strong Female Characters" in a pejorative sense. You know. "Unfeminine" but still attractive and needing rescue by men, so not too threatening.

After the third movie, Star Wars: Revenge of the Starborn, stories were expanded on in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Claimed by some to be cohesive and having a single continuity, this collection of comics, books, games, television series etc... isn't really. It gets pretty ugly if dissected.

In the late nineties George Lucas, living high and wealthy on Starkiller Ranch, saw the buzz around the Saturn's Lord films in production and decided to release more Starkiller films. ...Okay, he'd been saying he had more stories in that 'verse to tell for ages but was waiting for special effects to catch up, but fans are cynical. Because these prequels? Much more sci fi. They're not regarded terribly well, for a number of reasons.

Data Dingos Story: Icon Handler (1&2)

a post apocalyptic scifi video game series that takes place in an artificial world. the characters strive to go to Heaven, but once there find that Heaven is not all as it should be.

a spin off game in the popular Shoot Mega Tansi series, it did pretty well among fans of the game developer Altus's but not as well as their best selling series

Identity (1,2,3&4)

which is a game series about one teenager forming bonds of friendship to stop the end of the world

(people never seem to care about 1 or 2 though....)

Edited 2013-10-28 01:21 (UTC)

Go-Bots is a show about transforming robots FROM SPACE. They're cyborgs in this one. Spawned a popular toy line, and many sequels, including...

Go-Bots: Animal Battles, a series involving cyborgs that turn into animals.

Go-Bots: Warband, Go-Bots: Homeland, and Go-Bots: Abyss, an alternate-universe series made in Japan

Go-Bots: the Movie, Go-Bots 2: Return of the Abyssals, Go-Bots 3: Shadows of the Sun -- Wow nobody likes these they were directed by Michael Bay

Go-Bots Animated, a much beloved cartoon series that was alas cut short

Go-Bots Alpha, a CGI animated series, which is very tragic.

There's also a bunch of comic books and stuff.

Seihou Project (which is an actual thing by the way http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Seihou_Project) is a series of Japanese Doujinsoft Bullet Hell games by a doujin circle called the Amusement Makers (with music and art contributed by ZUN). It takes place in a futuristic Sci-fi setting and centers around a "Maid-Type Combat Robot" named VIVIT (later VIVIT-r) who runs errands for her perverted scientist master, Erich. She's later joined by a miko named Hirano Sakurasaki, who first shows up in the third game and in this reality continues to act as player two in later games.

The series has a large cult following in Japan, especially after the jump from PC-98 to Windows, which also came with significant redesigns to VIVIT and Hirano's appearances. The Japanese community is especially well known for large amounts of fanart, Doujins, fangames and fanime they've made for it. The English community has also grown in recent years, though it's not as big.

(I know Eric/Marisa-mun was talking about Es-per-ade or however it's spelled in the last meme of this type, but he didn't know about Seihou, and it's more appropriate as Touhou's replacement in this verse. XD)

Edited 2013-10-28 01:59 (UTC)

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