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DerHaupt
#1 is a plot in one episode of supernatural
sinaloasam
These are good. The terrorist one is essentially the plot to The Man Who Was Thursday
Coolsailing
And the reason there are no numbers on our wrist now is because there is no need for 0 to be there.
AynRye
Maybe the 9 was actually a 6 and you just gained some extra lives for getting through such a rad car crash.
RedClaws23
I like that. I like you. Your username not so much
CyBercrook
It was a 6 but now it's 8 because you killed 2 people in the crash.
TheTimeless
Hey just like Hellsing!
Lan1010
That is so evil, so dark, but brilliant.
SayWhatYouMeanMeanWhatYouSay
Oh Shit, I like that twist!
ellert0
#12 is kind of dumb if everyone is involved then the economy gets ruined to a point where all your money is worthless.
huthvir
What is "night"? It moves with the "day" and someone is always falling asleep. so does that mean that only one person ... ever... dies?
rando84
The system should just use GMT for the sake of convenience.
huthvir
Yes! Let's impose our arbitrary time measurement on the supernatural money/murder button! ummm, you try first.
rando84
The money/murder button is already using wire transfers & banks rather than sacks of gold, so I'd say they're open to pragmatic solutions.
CMWizard
Nine lives! Cat's eyes!
Gianttesticlemonster
#5 sounds like a very plausible reality
quelin
Trainspotting
warriorprincess425
Is the rouge planet Mars?
imnotdrunkyouare
Rouge planet you say? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Redplanetmovieposter.jpg
AnythingYouCanChurnICanChurnButter
#1 is already a book. The Shifter by Janice Hardy.
DavidThane
#6 was written by G K Chesterton like 50 years ago. It’s called “the man who was Thursday”
RazorAndBladeSavedTheDay
is #1 Strega Nona?
Crowlands
#6 Is already a book. "The Man Who Was Thursday." It gets REALLY weird by the end.
tyrsfavoritesword
..
Ryanator50
...dot
bearfilm
A rouge planet? would that be MARS? now a ROGUE planet, might seem to make more sense...
Blubirdcake
#9 was put up on reddit as a writing prompt and one dude had an absolutely amazing short story 1/2
Efreeti
#1 too, but I can't find it I'm afraid
Blubirdcake
2/2 https://wp.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3pyg3h/wp_a_day_before_the_earth_is_destroyed_by_a/
MitchWbr
This was incredible
EvilMechanicalGoffSanta
So i just binged that entire story. Holy. Fucking. Shit. Its just amazing
JustSomeGuyNamedScott
I used #1 as a prompt for the backstory of my Paladin in DnD. He was part of an army and healed people unaware he was transferring the
Raithlyn
Similar to a cleric concept I wrote once. Low magic world, he couldn't truly heal but could take wounds from others. Martyr class!
JustSomeGuyNamedScott
Wounds. Eventually he found out, left the army and lived a quiet life with his wife and daughter. One day a farmer came to him begging
JustSomeGuyNamedScott
Him to heal his son because he had been poisoned. No remedies he knew of could cure the boy so he used his powers one last time.
JustSomeGuyNamedScott
He cured the boy but sadly, the poison transfered to his own daughter and killed her.
thotadin
I didn't know satan played D&D. (Holy heck good stuff though)
negativenull
fucking 10/10 would go on epic quest to reverse
JustSomeGuyNamedScott
We were. Unfortunately the DM got bored and killed our characters off.
AkoSuminoe
Forgive the 2 year gap. My DM used this too for an npc, it was amazing
andyar
Pssh just transfer again
JustSomeGuyNamedScott
Didn't work like that. One injury to another person. Like if you had a gash in your side, it'd transfer to someone else and become life
trogdorthburninator
kittyperfect
Jesus
JustSomeGuyNamedScott
No his name was Agathor
Midna792
Damn that's intense.
Wigglybobcat
Paladin to a necromancer real quick
clamsterdam
This only fuels my desire to learn how to play DnD.
eavenPayne
Find the discord channel, there's a looking for games section, make a post there and you'll find someone. That's how I did it. (1/2)
RiftSkipper
Roll 20 is a good option, or, where do you live?
BaronDodongo
I think that’s exactly what happened to Johnny after steel ball run
Lemmecheckthegoogle
ZeroBits
here's one: You're a villain that instead of doing dastardly deeds, posts writing prompts on a medium where people can only write 140 chara-
Tassyr
I liked the twisted version of #4 I saw in another dump. "You are the first astronaut to set foot on the moon, but find a cave with a 1/2
TheBennyDude
Wasn’t there another version of astronauts landing on mars to find a cave of skeletons with “we’re sorry, we tried” written on the wall?
strugglesnuggler
You land on the moon. And on your first space walk discover a viking boat.
KresblainTheMagician
HINGA DINGA DURGIN!
Zahnradfee
It was probably pulled up there by swans.
Tassyr
these words scrawled on the wall in blood: "NASA IS LYING TO YOU." 2/2
lonelylincolnshiresausage
I knew flat earth was true.
kuba913
"Pfff you belive in moon bitch?" The director comes out of a random rock and looks you in face, "Smile to the hidden camera"
Affray
A always thought it was just the back of the sun.
Genini
Usually it's "We're sorry." or "We tried to save-"
bibliophilic
This is amazing
nahtan00
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/
Spookadook
I prefered the "we weren't welcome" version of this
ElbowDeepInMythicalCreatures
Yeah
Tassyr
Probably better
ImADoctorNotAnImgurian
I know this is a dumb comment, but I never realised there'd be caves on the moon.
FrustratedBluffing
Not sure there would be, most cares are formed by flowing water afaik.
Helmacon
Actually, there are massive caves formed by cooled magma flows.
FrustratedBluffing
Thanks for the correction :)
Tassyr
And impact craters can cause them
metzershmit
I thougt it was 4 words?
TheMostKink
My favorite is "Please don't leave us" I know technically "don't" is two words, but I also know I don't care.
vorodar
You could also do "please do not leave", if you wish.
metzershmit
"You shouldn't be here" "Survivors left to Earth"
TanithRosenbaum
#6 has actually happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_of_Germany#2001%E2%80%932003_banning_attempt
frowardd
this is also the plot of The Man Who Was Thursday, its.. not great.
DougTheLlama
It was also kinda how Alias went.
hstein3
It's very weird. Apparently it's more about the symbolism and play of ideas than the actual story, but that's Chesterton for you.
BlueLanternBraxx
So Mars collided with the Earth? Mars is a rouge planet.
SDOMO
I had a Rogue named rouge once, it left the peasantry quite confuddled.
BlueLanternBraxx
drickanderson
uhhh what?
ZOMGNO
The typo in the post says Rouge, not Rogue. Rouge means red. Rogue in this case is supposed to mean wild and untethered, of sorts.
koinuchan
I had no idea there are two spellings. I need a drink now
ZOMGNO
Rooj is roughly how you'd pronounce Rouge. Rogue is like... X-men character or Rogue One from Star Wars
drickanderson
Oh damn, I missed that completely
EternalSunshineofthePotlessMind
#10 sounds like the walker planet in the Thrawn series.
EternalSunshineofthePotlessMind
Nkllon
BlueLanternBraxx
Actually it almost sounds like Ryloth, the twilek home world.
TheSnacker
Actually it kinda sounds like Mercury.
TommyWa
95% of these are from reddit.com/r/writingprompts
SpikeTheGoat
I believe that, though to be fair many are from ideas already long done, some tweaked.
Navadda
NICE. SAUCE.
jondeere89
#7 is basically a Dr. Who episode. S5E2 - The Beast Below
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
Yes
mikeyMN
Also #5 is basically a The Magicians episode. S1E4 - The World in the Walls
RamenAndBooze
...right. forgot that series existed
jondeere89
I wish I could forget.
Maatlooc
Someone wrote a version of the time stopped rogue planet one
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
I don't get it
BlueNickTattoo
Holy fuck, I just read it and it was FUCKING AMAZING
thankgodfordeaddinosaurs
I think you read that wrong. It says a rouge planet.
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
The attack of the rouge planet
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
https://cdnfr2.img.sputniknews.com/images/102402/54/1024025451.jpg
NeverDunNuffin
*shakes fist at Mars*
ImmaculateDegenerate
Link?
Maatlooc
https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3pyg3h/wp_a_day_before_the_earth_is_destroyed_by_a/
IShouldBeStudyingRightNowInsteadOfBrowsingImgur
thanks!
Luthasox
Thank you so much. That was such an incredible story. About a 2hour read and some forgivable spelling errors etc. But so so good. Read it.
Mobileuserwholikestoberandom
That was absolutely amazing. Anyone who quit reading because of its length, go back and read it now. Thank you so much for that link.
ImmaculateDegenerate
That was fantastic. I'm glad I took the time to read all of it. Thank you so much for sharing this.
AverageTortilla
I just read it. WOW. JUST, WOW!
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Wow! That needs to be made into a book! That was excellent! Thank you!
Maatlooc
It's a long ass read
godcixelsyd
I prefer my asses phat instead of long...
ImmaculateDegenerate
I got time. Thanks!
Leithreas
Hate those rouge planets. Always backstabbing my cleirc.
Ferrius
Rogues do it from behind
Whazitooyah
So are we not going to talk about the heavy make-up wearing elephant in the room?
AbsolutelyNotADragon
It's only the petit rouge one you smegheads need to look out for!
TheGreatBlueHeron
I can't believe this has bled over into things outside WoW.
eftwyrd
Shockingly enough, neither wow nor dnd invented the rogue class.
cosine83
What about the rouge class?
TheGreatBlueHeron
^
MMAgCh
But seriously, that talk of rouge planets does not bode well for the fuchsia.
anaprophylacticshock
you need more upvotes
manbearpiglet2
Genuinely impressed.
dancfontaine
I hope you feel good about that one
dogbeachesarethebestbeaches
Omg that is a beautiful pun.
TharrickLawson
Celebrimbor
READ THIS https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3pyg3h/wp_a_day_before_the_earth_is_destroyed_by_a/?utm_source=reddit-android
sickreference
https://media.giphy.com/media/10PcMWwtZSYk2k/giphy.gif
Celebrimbor
Trust me, it's worth your time
Impressive44
I just read it... I stayed up way later than I wanted to... but damn!
Celebrimbor
I rewatched The Martian after finishing that and was happy I did
RedClaws23
Mars: the rouge planet
PunchieCWG
I came here to make fun of the same error. Well done +1
Kilsim1v
The true rogue planet is pluto
FamousestAnus
He said rouge
Kilsim1v
Hey! Dogshit - the original context makes rogue work a helluva lot better than 'red' planet.
Billis75
Dune: Dessert planet.
Curli187
National lampoons doon is a great book
haveanothergif
He who controls the ice (cream) controls the universe
DovahQuinn
#12 sounds like a win win.
arkthan
How large a sum of money? If it is really a lot you could get away with only pushing the button once.
7562d1b7c8
"We knew it was a bad idea to press the button, but those who did came to own *everything.* Now I press the button to feed my daughter."
perhapsthisusernameisnottakenyet
You OK, mate?
mkyner
Is anyone, really?
perhapsthisusernameisnottakenyet
Good point...
nordicfatcheese
WeylandYutaniCorp
*Steal someone's button. Push it as soon as it turns night-time.
rockbuster
Hey same!
ParryLost
MAGICxMURDERxBAG
Wasn't that a movie, but it only involved one button an two people?
MMAgCh
You may be thinking of "The Box", which was based on the Richard Matheson story "Button, Button". Its premise was somewhat different though.
MMAgCh
(A Twilight Zone episode was made based on the short story as well; Matheson disliked it so much he used a pseudonym for the teleplay.)
IDidntThinkItWouldBeThisHard
Hyperinflation would take hold globally, back to bartering and serfdom
tantallous
#12 cant even work. what defines night? when does it start? the earth spins so night for one person is day for another.
vorodar
That's why it's a writing prompt. It's the idea and you can take it and justify it however you like. May be only in one country, or timezone
FettuccineAlfred
If it's night for you, you can press the button. Nothing in that says that everyone has to press it in the same time frame.
tantallous
well but it says "the first person", which does indicate a time frame
FettuccineAlfred
Not really. I mean, could be the first person in that time zone. We aren't given enough information to claim it wouldn't work.
snailphotography
You can press it at any time between 10PM to 11PM in your local time zone. The first person in your time zone to push the button is killed.
somenerandom
Could be "the first one among everyone for whom it is currently nighttime".
absolutezero182
On top of that though, everyone suddenly gaining a large amount of money would make that money worthless
dooremouse
If you shrink the scope down to a city or a Colony...
notyourmosquito
Midnight Zulu time
SorenDragonHeart
Well, if you assume it based of our modern knowledge of time then night would be when the sun goes down completely. So you'd just press 1
SorenDragonHeart
It when night comes for you and hope you don't die.
Randallfitz
Problem is EVERYONE has one, and there are time zones. And at which point does it become a new night? With the international date line?
SorenDragonHeart
I assume people would just press their button when their night came. It doesn't have to be complicated. Just press your button when it's 1
SorenDragonHeart
Night for you. The buttons would probably factor in different time zones.
MediaMuerte
Idk what it is, but when someone can't spell "Rogue", I want to fight them
brookers
Just a guess from left field, but have you ever played a rogue class?
quitepossiblygettingold
Make sure to stealth and open with garrote to silence them
toasteheh
If everyone in hell went to heaven, wouldnt that make heaven hell?
7562d1b7c8
Why? It'd be as it is now with softer physical rules and all the time you might want to work things out. Could be pretty nice.
vorodar
Well, if hell is other people and there is nobody else in hell, is it not heaven?
Ryanator50
naw everyone just gets stoned and receive blowjobs all day. even the women.
gahzeeruh
or just eternal life as it is now with good and bad
5P4C3M4N
EveryoneWhoDisagreesWithMeIsLiterallyHitler
For real. It has a lot of potential.
SenorElRoboto
Dr Who: The Waters of Mars
Mithim
Great episode but god damn was it terrifying the first time.
MuggleStudies
I still can’t watch that episode
TiGRIOSindustriesRnD
You know what the worst part was for me? When The Doctor learns that sometimes, the only thing that changes is the way things happen.
kuba913
"Red Planet"
gleely
pretty sure this is actually a videogame already
NiHyde
Yeah there definitely is, I can’t remember it’s name.
NiHyde
Oh nevermind, someone listed it above. It’s Lifeless Planet
mattproducer
I'm imagining Transformers: Dark of the Moon
EmanNiemThcin
This pretty much the story of this game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeless_Planet
Othernate
huh, it's on steam! *adds to already bloated wishlist*
giftkartoffel
They didn't say anything because Matt Damon was so annoying talking about his poop potatoes
BYERE
They kinda did, albeit with America and the Moon. Apollo 18
CredibleHulk
The movie "The Astronauts Wife" may be of interest. Different plot but similar theme.
ThePerfectGif
UnleashedMartyr
MamaJeaux
Dilly Dilly!
JasonAbbadon
It's the plot from a graphic novel called Open Space from the 90's. Man on Mars thinks he found alien metal- turns out it's a candy wrapper.
HungryPumpkn
"Matt Damon meets Russian Matt Damon."
Dracoknight
Hmm, well you have the Manga/Anime "Terraformars", if you are slightly squeemish, i recommend not even looking it up.
cerberus63
I need this to be a writing prompt and someone to write a story on it.
YharnamsFinest
Ghosts of Mars but just pretend it involves Russians somehow
blancopelon
They made this one into a short (6 mins) film with a soundtrack https://youtu.be/58bWccHax3I
iiiiiiiiiiiiooooggg
Dort
WhereArtThouMyTesticles
You mean a documentary?
Slinkthecat
It was a crowdfunded TV show. Pioneer One.
ImNotGayBut20BucksIs20Bucks
I fucking love space movies!!!!
shakedownblues
Ah, the secret history of the lore behind Doom.
nabacular
Someone made a game about this. It was okay
Nibbets
Starring the ugy from Godzilla
LuxUnica
Username checks out.
KingGranticus
I'm pretty sure there's a pretty long story someone wrote about this with like a billion parts over on r/writingprompts
rbudrick
There is a mini series called pioneer one. All 6 episodes are on youtube.
berderking
It was a game. BattleZone.
5P4C3M4N
Just make all of them movies
tigerpen
Most if not all of these premises are from https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/top/ so there are at least short stories 1/2
tigerpen
And there are regular attempts to film short movies based upon these WP: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/wiki/multimedia 2/2
FourthCause
Might get in trouble for the Harry Potter one. Or would that be under parody?
Affray
1)Just make it a gritty drug fueled criminal rampage then at the end when the "Dementors" finally get them and their drug addled faces are
Affray
2)pressed against the ground the camera pans over to what they are gazing at and you see a Hogwarts style castle, with no direct mention of
Affray
3)who the characters are supposed to be.
IWillNeverForgiveNoahForPuttingMosquitoesOnTheArc
Maybe someone has already made them, but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything
Charizard006
I’m writing a short story now
TheMortiestMortyfromC137
Starring Elon musk
Polaristars
Christopher Nolan. Make it happen. Please.
Lionskull
wouldn't work, the flags in space are all bleached by the sun.
Assfullofbread
The last days on mars
jesuisgur
There's a book called Apollo 18 with that premise.
gbombuh
Actually someone from r/writingprompts made a sick short story out of this —>
gbombuh
https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4xzr87/wp_we_finally_get_men_on_mars_and_they_discover/
Ravenbreaker
I thought I remember reading somewhere that the flag we left on the moon was white when they went back as the sun bleached the color off.
Ravenbreaker
Wouldnt that happen to mars as well?
SpaceSphere
The worst thing you could do is admit sending astronauts to Mars on a suicide mission. So the ussr would hide it soon as they found out
HoovesMcBoozeThePartyCentaur
Its not Mars (random unnamed planet) but this is quite literally the plot of the game “Lifeless Planet”. Short, but well made.
ButchMcKenzie
Watch Iron Sky. Instead of Soviets on Mars, it's Nazis on the Moon.
SpiralLover
I heard the third movie will actually take place on mars
Othernate
Wasn't that the ending stinger of Iron Sky? Though I think the sequel is supposed to be something else entirely...
ButchMcKenzie
They make it pretty apparent from the start iirc
scarface98
Isn’t it them coming back?
5P4C3M4N
Actually make most of these movies this one would be awsome too
CredibleHulk
This reminds me of The Departed.
weaselodoom
I see this as a sitcom, the one extremist has plans to blow shit up, but the spies stop it whilst trying to remain hidden
RealNormMacDonald
This would be an awesome comedy
HessianGhost
"The Man Who Was Thursday" by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908.
EvilMechanicalGoffSanta
If they do make it into a movie it needs Ryan Renolds as one of the spys and Samuel L Jackson as the extemist whos like "yall motherfuckers/
EvilMechanicalGoffSanta
really this motherfucking dumb?"
OKiluvUBuhBai
Yeah but... are they all working for the SAME guy as double agents? Or DIFFERENT ones?! Also what terrible double agents.
Mockingbirb
This applies to a German agency, “Verfassungsschutz“ (constitution protection): they had so many agents in a Naziparty they ran it actually.
OgrusDominus
This is actually an episode of Brickleberry.
Meilkor
Either as a comedy, or a horror.
Nibbets
Starring Dwayne Johnson
Chezoso
The later dune books had a plot line like this
dangerousDoc
There is actually a board game based on this that plays a lot like secret Hitler
DrKriegersClone
What's it called?
TypicallyKyle
That looks like a version of 22 Jump Street.
imanatheistdebateme
Similar premise to the classic The Man Who Was Thursday. Totally worth a read.
SCHRAMB0
A Cohen Brothers movie.
fraxinusoleaceae
This is close to The Man Who Was Thursday. It's a good read.
TheRealStalinWhoIsStandingUp
This was a maxwell smart episode
Whazitooyah
So... Spy Vs Spy?
BanadecCamberbootch
A few years back, I read a news story about some Al-Qaeda conference call with "all of the top-ranked leaders", and had an immediate 1/
BanadecCamberbootch
mental image of a "The Office"-style show about the boss wondering why he didn't get invited to that conference call. 2/
DrKriegersClone
The guy who likes to fancy himself the boss is only the assistant to the regional manager.
BanadecCamberbootch
You could have one of the characters some fat 65 year old FBI agent who is so close to retirement they don't even give a fuck 3/
BanadecCamberbootch
someone who openly admits that they don't believe in "the cause" but with the economy what it is, AQ benefits were better than available 4/
5P4C3M4N
this would be great too
Nibbets
starring Sean William Scott
dangerousDoc
Meh it's been done
BanadecCamberbootch
Seen the new Jumanji yet?
BrontTheGoodBoy
Exactly what I thought of, too. Also, it was really good.
CarcassCatapaultCombo
"The Story of Every Cat Ever" a Movie by M. Night Shyamalan
TheKillerMonkey
Sort of reminds of "the girl who leapt through time"
DanteLidge
Yea, more or less
yourewastingyourlife
matt damon exits the landing craft near the soviet flag... *deep inhale* “it’s good to be back”
Notanotherdamnone
But in a russian accent
Chaaaad
Da, is good to be back, comrades.
BYERE
FFS! Are we gonna have to go rescue him AGAIN?
mratio
MLGsamantha
Commanderwho
I chortled.
ConcernedPansexual
Blyat!
damnedsyncro
Fuck you Mars. I'm going to science the shit out of this.
CodyMcBean
Watch Apollo 18
TheRealGoddamnLochNessMonster
Exactly what came to mind. Loved this movie.
IShouldBeStudyingRightNowInsteadOfBrowsingImgur
*SPOILER*
IShouldBeStudyingRightNowInsteadOfBrowsingImgur
was that the one were the rocks were alien or something and came back to earth? may have to rewatch it
TheRealGoddamnLochNessMonster
Yeah.
cyno01
Eh...
Circuithusky
This is the correct response.
crookednixon
I mean, it's basically the prompt except the moon.
cyno01
Yeah, but its not a good movie.