Daily Entertainment.

[muji]

As I nom on a blueberry muffin, have a topic presented by Leesha:

In one or two sentences, summarize the plot of your pup's canon in a way that is *technically* correct, but completely fails to convey what the canon is really about. (If the canon is ongoing or has no overarching plot, just summarize one particular segment or story arc.)

Example for Firefly - ornery former soldier and his crew fly around in space and steal stuff. Also there's a doctor and his sister who are passengers.

Comments

[venusadept_2]

Golden Sun: The antagonists completely fail to take advantage of magic that would let them rule the world.

Final Fantasy IV: WANT SHINY.

I think I'll give Fluttershy's a bit more consideration and put it up later.

[leeshajoy.livejournal.com]

MLP:FiM Episode 1: A shut-in academic goes on a business trip which forces her out of her comfort zone.

[the_gene_genie]

Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes: Modern cops find themselves back in time, dealing with a different decade - and a boss with a 70s mindset. Hijinks ensue.

[sdelmonte]

The Question: TV reporter dons a mask and fights crime.

[sardonicynic]

Okay, so I have legit lol'd, thanks to this DE. ♥!

→ 24: G-man Jack Bauer races against the clock to save Los Angeles, and sometimes the world. All counter-terrorism, torture, and yelling ALL THE TIME.

→ 3:10 to Yuma: A rancher walks a known outlaw to a prison train.

→ Castle: A best-selling mystery writer meets his new muse in an NYPD detective.

→ Justified: After two decades away from Kentucky, a deputy U.S. marshal is re-assigned to the Lexington office.

→ Sherlock Holmes (2009): Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson fight crime in Victorian England. With fisticuffs.

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

G-man Jack Bauer races against the clock to save Los Angeles, and sometimes the world. All counter-terrorism, torture, and yelling ALL THE TIME.

Laughing because THIS IS HOW I SEE THE SHOW IN MY HEAD.

[innerbrat]

Fray: Thief is reunited with her twin brother.

Birds of Prey: An all-women trauma recovery club.

The Scarlet Pimpernel: A man lies to his wife about those long trips he's been taking.

Secret Six: A group of people come to terms with what their parents did to them. There aren't six of them.

Leonardo: A politician reads the diary of his son's best friend. The friend isn't happy about it.

Pirates of the Caribbean: A blacksmith keeps having his wedding plans thwarted by sailors.


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Claymore - I've already done this for a bunch of people! - It's like Buffy, if after Buffy died, Dawn had had her sister's corpse surgically implanted. Also with more loss of limbs.

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

The Scarlet Pimpernel: A man lies to his wife about those long trips he's been taking.

Dangit, you made me snort tea up my nose. :D

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

Midsummer Night's Dream: A group of coeds goes out to the woods to escape their parents' strict rules. Little do they know what is lurking in the trees.

[camwyn]

Half-Life: A government intervention obscures the truth of what happens when workplace safety standards are ignored.
Half-Life 2: A man wakes up on a train he doesn’t remember boarding, in clothes he doesn’t remember wearing. His response: three days of unremitting violence against the local authorities.
Dragon Age 2: The new kid in town meets a businessman on the prowl for a partner. Hilarity ensues.
Fallout 3: A dad who’s never really followed through on anything in his life finally mans up, but it’s his kid who has to live with the consequences.
Fallout New Vegas: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness nor even being dead is going to stop this courier from delivering her package…
Team Fortress 2: o/~ It’s raining men! o/~ … In chunks. All over the place.
The Belgariad: Farmboy vs. evil masked dude, with glowing swords of power. Everything else is just details.
Mass Effect 2: Nobody wanted to listen to her. Nobody believes they’re coming. She’ll show them. She’ll show them ALL.
Ghostbusters: Columbia University trims some unnecessary fat from its staff. The Dean lives to regret his decision.

[unbreakableben]

Completely unrealted but I think I see Bar's next prank to pull on Ray...what happens when you cross the streams?

[bodldops.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who: A man travels around the universe and picks up hitch-hikers. Also, he is obsessed with cardio.

Star Trek: The mission log of a military space ship.

Night Watch: A computer analyst meets a girl. It's destiny.

[dynastessa]

Also, he is obsessed with cardio.

LOL. Such a good way of putting it.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Fantastic Four
Four friends explore and sometimes save the world.

PS238
A school for special needs children who prove that more often than not kid power is more affective than adult power.

Wild Wild West
Thespian inventor teams up with impulsive brawler to save the United States.

Discworld
Oh gods, I can't even...
Or
If it's funny, yet poignant, it's canon.
Or, for Rincewind specific,
Special wizard tries to avoid his fate but gets dragged kicking and whimpering along anyway.

[minkhollow]

For Warehouse 13, I think Jack actually says it best: "We retrieve dangerous objects." (Seriously, it says everything and nothing about the Warehouse all at once!)

Sneakers: Some guys break into stuff for a living.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: A mad scientist and his damp sidekick try to impress a girl.
Percy Jackson: The most useful summer camp in existence.
Villains By Necessity: A wizard saves the world from itself! Or would, if this stupid assassin and his buddies would just stop interfering.

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

Percy Jackson: The most useful summer camp in existence.

ROFL'd.

[vance_prime]

Half-Life 2 Episodes 1 and 2: Having caused massive infrastructure damage to the capital city, terrorists evade the authorities until a crack team of government agents infiltrate their base and execute their leader.



THE ADVISORS ARE SEAL TEAM SIX WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN

[gorgonfondness]

Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete: A hero-worshiping fanboy goes on a quest to rescue his adopted sister/girlfriend from a magical homosexual.

Mother 3: A little boy with friendship issues ruins playtime for everyone.

Soul Eater: If Dumbledore were the Grim Reaper, what kind of school would he run?

[genarti]

Firefly: A small spaceship's crew wanders from planet to planet, in space: the final frontier.

Gundam Wing: A group of idealistic teenagers find themselves caught up in high-stakes global politics. A new kind of robots complicate the issue: will they save the day, or make everything worse?

Wheel of Time: A young farmboy travels the land, trying to learn the skills necessary to achieve his magical destiny. Good thing he has friends to help out!

Princess Tutu: A young dancer finds that all is not as it seems at the Gold Crown Dance Academy. Why does handsome Mytho acts like a zombie, and what dark secrets is the beautiful prima ballerina hiding? Can Duck break this town's sinister magic before it's too late?

X-Men: Can team captain Scott find happiness with bad girl Emma, or will Jean's memory keep coming between them? Will Warren ever regain his joy in life, or has he changed too much? Hank runs up against an ethical dilemma that might force him to leave school. And is Pete's sister really dead? Find out next time, in X-Men: San Francisco!*

*I'm not sure this is actually misleading. But I'm not sure what description WOULD be, given this canon...

[death_gone_mad]

Runescape: Horrible things used to happen here all the time, but now they don't. You must fix this.

[muji]

Twilight: ...Nope.

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

'Girl wants a boyfriend, zeroes in on a vampire.'

...Actually, that pretty much is the plot, isn't it?

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

TMNT: Illegal pet sales combined with poor chemical waste removal protocols. Oh yeah, that'll give you ninjas.

Middleman: Summary 2 Secret To Know

Avatar: KUNG-FU ACTION JESUS

Willy Wonka: You can't always get what you want, but you can get what you need. Now with more chocolate.

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

Hehehe Bing, mine was:

Middleman: A photogenic young art school graduate strives to balance friends, family, romance, and her new job at a wacky temp agency.

[saphyria.livejournal.com]

Sunshine: Kidnap victim hides secret life of bloody mayhem from cops and loving community.

The Slayers: Treasure-hunters save the world on their way to supper.

The Old Kingdom: Disfunctional family comes together to save medieval Scotland and early twentieth-century England from eldritch abominations.

[ceitfianna]

I love the Old Kingdom one and they're so terribly dysfunctional as they fight zombies.

[bcgphoenix]

Battlestar Galactica: Exit planetary system, pursued by robots. (Also, Bob Dylan.)

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I am here to Like/+1/Approve of this.

[aleister_author]

Negima!: Schoolgirls pursue relationship with underage teacher who has a talking ermine.
Atomic Robo: Self-aware robot constantly surprised by the amount of weird crap that happens.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Adventure archeologist loses magical artifacts and gives another away.
NightLife (Just Tyler Darrow's part that is): Mystery writer dates rock band member.

[thebattycakes]

SLiTHER- Creatures from outer space invade small town U.S.A. leaving the population extremely hungry.

Hellboy- A government team of paranormal investigators face monsters, Nazis and Russians.

Shrek- A social outcast and his donkey meet an assortment of oddball characters while trying to thwart the attempts of an old bag and her bratty son to take over the kingdom.

Young Guns II- A gang of outlaws ride around New Mexico, persued by a sheriff.

Astonishing X-men- A group of gifted individuals face bad guys on earth, in space, and elsewhere while cracking wise and fighting each other. One member wears very little clothes, the others prefer ridiculous outfits.

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

Unrelatedly I SAW SLITHER THE OTHER WEEK. AAAAH. AAAAAH.




Yeah it was funny but it freaked me out. O.o

[student_of_impossibility]

Codex Alera - Lost Roman Legion with Pokémon fights a Zerg invasion.

[a1enzo]

I would like to see you narrate an actual scene from the books in Pokemon terms.

[have_no_mercy]

Smallville - Clark Kent grows up in a small Kansas town, making friends and enemies along the way.

[a1enzo]

ReBoot: A young woman, doing her best to raise her little brother while running her own business, assists a law enforcement agent new to town in combating a local crime boss.

[karma-aster.livejournal.com]

Once Upon A Time: A young woman reconnects with her estranged son and experiences life in small-town Maine. Also, the mayor likes apples. A lot.

Transformers Prime: Jack Darby grows up and learns valuble life lessons in Jasper, Nevada with his best friends, Miko and Raf.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow Rosenberg tries to shed her geek persona and takes things to the next level with her childhood crush. Also, there's a mysteriously pale guy who does a lot of brooding.

Sanctuary: Will Zimmerman has wacky adventures at his new job and is BFFs with the resident tech-guy.

[ashen_key]

...you play Will? This. Is not helping my Ashley voice at all

[batyatoon]

Cordelia's Honor. She's a research scientist married to her job. He's an old-fashioned gentleman getting tired of his chosen career. They're stranded together in the middle of nowhere. Hijinks ensue.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A young woman is singled out by a shadowy quasi-mystical organization, trained to be the perfect killer, and aimed at carefully chosen segments of the population -- frequently those least likely to be missed.

Firefly. A veteran of a recent war is just trying to get by in his new life, but he may have made too many enemies to ever live in peace.

Firestarter. A single father tries to raise his gifted daughter in increasingly trying circumstances.

The Vor Game. A brilliant con artist attempts to pull off the biggest caper of her career, against the backdrop of an interplanetary war.

Supernatural. Two serial killers travel the country and evade law enforcement.
OR
In a world where most people no longer believe in magic, the struggling remnants of supernatural races are forced to live in hiding, constantly at risk from the deadly society of Hunters.

Homestuck. I can't put it better than the site: "A tale about a boy and his friends and a game they play together."