DE: Et tu Honey Boo Boo?

[bjornwilde]

From thebattycakes :

Your pup is the star of a new reality show! Don't wanna be? Too bad! Their boss, mayor, mom, president, Commanding Officer of the Universe has decreed it so, and now they're stuck in front of the camera. What does the camera capture? How does your pup feel about the whole deal? Do they rebel, ham it up, backstab in the name of screentime and ratings? Tell us, the captivated couch potato audience is dying to know!

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[genarti]

Thor will be totally, cheerfully fine with it -- look, he's an extroverted prince, he's a public figure anyway -- riiiight up until the moment when he wants privacy and can't get any. Then the audience will get to see Thor's temper come out.

River, oh my god, I can't imagine anyone who knows her actually advocating this anyway. But she would hate it so much. It smacks very much to her of Academy surveillance. She would rebel beforehand, or if she was somehow just stuck in front of the camera, she would go find somewhere to hide and mutter and plan her escape. It would not be a great scene.

Regan wouldn't enjoy it, but she would put on her public face and deal. Everything would be scrupulously polite at all times, on her end of things. Even if she was furious, if you can't pull someone into a private corner to hiss out an argument without cameras or observers, you don't have that argument; that's how it is, for her.

Trowa, too, would put on a public face, although his is less society training and more a cover identity. He would be imperturbable, unruffled, and probably amuse himself by making up backstory lies and acting as if he was way less dangerous and competent than he is.

Clare does not even know how to compute this. She would act like normal, unless she were told that she had a job and needed to act like a human. Which... you know, I'm not actually sure she could successfully sustain that act. She can do it, but we've only seen her do it for short stretches of small talk and similarly brief interaction; she's never had to actually feign sleeping a normal number of hours and eating before observers and all that.

Uzura is already a side character in one. Sort of. Uh.

Anyway, she's a toddler, and wouldn't act differently. But she would keep wandering behind the fourth wall cameras.

[camwyn]

A while back I had the Ghostbsusters of Ray's universe nationalized, because frankly if world destroying threats keep cropping up the government is not going to leave it in the hands of just four yoyos in Manhattan- but since this was a comedy universe, the initial recruiting drive involved a reality TV show called Who Wants To Be A Ghostbuster. I never really went into much detail about it other than the proton pack handling training with Ray and Winston and a segment called Five Minutes With Egon, in which prospective new hires had to last through five minutes alone in a room with Egon while he just stared at them, maybe with a faint little smile.

[newredshoes]

...Harry would get in fights with the camera crew. His whole nature is about being unable to be fake, plus I'm pretty sure he's actually pretty introverted (no, it's true, I have reasons!), so... this would probably end up being a show that's uninsurable.

[knightoftheswan]

.............yeah, pretty sure this question just broke most of mine. The only one who would respond with any sort of normalcy is Mia and her kids would be having more fun trying to play with the camera crew.

[gavin62truck]

Given what happens whenever Tommy is in front of a news camera in canon, there would be fighting and cursing. He'd hate the idea of a TV crew in the firehouse and following him around. His job is not entertainment. Much of the footage would be of his hand shoving the camera out of his face and probably this icon. However, his ego might get the better of him, as once in a while he'll make a dramatic save (jumping from a ladder, leaping from a window ledge, etc) and ratings will go through the roof and he'll get fanmail and groupies and--

Wait.

Anyway, if the camera crew followed him home to film his family life as well? That right there would be ratings gold, because everybody loves to watch train wrecks.

[el_enmascarado_de_plata]

They're going to have to air it on the Scifi Channel.

... seriously, though, I'm pretty sure Santo's entire life qualifies as this kind of thing already, given that the movies routinely show him at home chillin' out in his mask when a friend comes over or heading on over to the gym to work out with his buddies, again in the mask and usually the cape. And considering that in his real life outside of film, Santo never, never, ever went out in public without the mask on, even to go shopping or eat at a cafe with his family, I think he may have been better suited to handling the idea of a reality show about his life than a lot of people who were born in 1917.

(Not kidding. The man was born September 23, 1917 and spent most of his movie career running around shirtless and in Spandex pants despite being older than most professional athletes from day one.)

[death_gone_mad]

"mumble mumble feline conspiracy mumble mumble"

Other than attempts to prove the camera crew aren't cats in disguise or slaves to cats when she gets frustrated, she would try her best to be boring. Killing a show via boredom isn't her style, but I am sure she has already learned it is the only thing that works when you receive unwanted attention. It would put a serious damper on her plans for a while, though, and how long while depend on which of her personas the camera crew follow along. Following around the wanderer would get boring quickly. Goat herding ain't that exciting. The Red Mistress would only be good for a documentary about a religious figure. But with Sumona or Jesmona... well, I am sure wacky personalities visit an odds and ends shop that is a front for a weapons shop all the time. Watch them defend the shop from raiders! And their students! It is Ultimate Fighter, Slayer Edition! And if there aren't enough interesting people coming around to bother them, the shows producers can come up with interesting people.

Oh, I forget. Another interesting thing that would keep the cameras on Sumona and Jesmona would be the inevitable question of why Sumona and Jesmona are never in the same room. They are twins! They should be all twinny and being perfect companions and talking in secret twin languages and pulling Parent Trap style pranks and and... come on, girls, stop being boring!

[masterofgunfu]

Andrea's reality show is likely something very much like Cops but filled with lots of snark and it'd be a hit, if broadcast TV still worked on her world. She'd play along reluctantly at first, believing this was a piss poor assignment designed to mothball her but eventually she would decide it was great PR for the Order and so would ham it up and make good TV.

[ever_lovin]

I'm seeing something very much like I'm with Busey for Ben but the situations would be the insanity not the host. Audiences would never know if the episode was going to be a foodies' walk on the streets of New York, a cooking show, a poker game with the Avengers, a prank war with Johnny and/or the Yancy Street gang or a battle for Earth in the Negative Zone.

[no_more_hiding]

Hank I am afraid to say would likely be boring. He'd try for awesome science but he'd be nervous and awkward and mumble a lot. If a second season was somehow order however, he'd step it up as it'd be post transformation and he'd take on the roll of mutant ambassador.

[thebattycakes]

Another busy day in the office, but I can take a few minutes to answer my own :)

Hellboy- He would love it. Red is all about the attention, and he would jump at the chance to be in the spotlight (especially since the other stars of the show, Liz and Abe, would hate it). He'd steal all the screen time from Manning and Myers and try to look as cool as possible.

Inevitably there'd come a point, though, when he was bored with it, or something came up and he'd decide he was done. Of course, reality TV doesn't end when the players say, and so there'd be confrontation and property damage. The ratings would be great, the lawsuit pending.

Logan- The show here would of course be following the X-men, and Logan would hate it. He'd probably roll with it as long as the cameras weren't on him and nobody got in his way, but when they turned his way there'd be threats. And violence. Or, he might just perch somewhere and glare without moving or saying a word. Logan glaring is very unnerving, and he can keep it up for hours.

Puss in Boots- I imagine him being on the Far Far Away version of 'The Bachelor'. He'd be quite happy serenading, wining and dining all the eligible ladies, the send homes would be ridiculously over-dramatic, and the end scene would be him and his winner riding off on the back of a white horse into the sunset.

Then, like all reality TV hook-ups it would end and he'd go back to adventuring.

Charlie Kenton- Wouldn't overly mind, as long as they were paying him. He's done the sports story thing before, and doesn't object to an interview. He'd resent anyone taking the washed up has-been angle, though (even though at this point that's exactly where he's at). It'd probably be a 'where are they now' piece and certainly not as good a story/show as it will be later on when he's back on his feet thanks to his kid and Atom.

Art Mullen- It would be a very resigned Art in front of the camera. All professional, all the time, and dry as a desert summer. He's not here to entertain anyone, but if it's what the job calls for, he'll put up with it.

Bill Pardy- Bill is the most surprising for me, because as much as he hates the media and interviews and having cameras shoved in his face, he would Love to be on COPS. Because, c'mon, COPS!

The ride along part in the car and any interviewing would be full of so much awkward, though. He wouldn't know where to stand, or how to stand, or what to say, and he'd try and talk up the Job and town rather than himself, and I can see him running over a curb while he's distracted speaking for the camera, and it'd be ridiculous.

And then the first call would come in and he'd snap into sheriff mode and do the show, and himself, proud.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark would be completely puzzled about why they would want to do a show about him, since he's just the son of a recently-deceased travel writer. NO. REALLY. THERE'S NOTHING GOING ON HERE. WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE. *pager goes off* EXCUSE ME. *runs off down hall and zooms away when out of sight*

(In other news: Water is wet, the sky is blue, the Pope is Catholic, bears defecate in arboreal regions, and Mark Grayson is really bad at hiding his secret identity.)

If it was a show for Invincible, Mark would be pretty cool with it, though there'd be a lot of moments where he'd be gone for thirty seconds and then back from dealing with a capsized fishing trawler or a collapsing dam or something similar that he can solve quickly, but would make for poor television. Interviews on camera would be like conversations with the Flash, with him zipping away and back in the middle of a sentence.

[thenewblack]

Superspeed is so, so very broken at high levels.




Shut up Wally.

[herr_bookman]

Once he grasped the concept, Autor would immediately go on strike. He wouldn't eat, he wouldn't sleep, he wouldn't speak. He'd read, and radiate hate until the public voted him off the island.

Or he'd ask a zillion questions and then cheerfully, systematically, dismantle one or more of the cameras.

Probably both, depending on his mood.

[ceitfianna]

I have a snow day and have so far used it to sleep a lot and wonder what I did that made my back hurt as much as it does.

Will would be suspicious of a reality show, it would be about the men of Sherwood and I think more like one of those shows where they follow people doing dangerous things. A cross between Deadliest Catch and COPs, it would be exciting but at least once, Will would lose his temper.

Charles would be calm and the one who keeps annoying the producers because he deflects conflict and keeps them from seeing the truly inner lives of the X-Men. Privacy is important and the show is only allowed a certain amount of access.

Jane would enjoy herself a great deal and love the chance to present and discuss how the world is, while guarding the privacy of others. Though if impertinent questions were asked, she would deflect them and put the focus elsewhere.

Sameth would be horribly awkward and go into Prince mode of being polite, proper and uncomfortable. Then he would go hide in his workshop.

Moist would love it or hate it depending on how much control he had. If its during either of his canons, he would restrict access and keep putting the attention away from himself until he wants it. His footage would be polite, interesting but not what they were hoping for.

William would hate it and get angry or hide.

Demeter would enjoy herself and act more like she did when she had temples and be reassuring and a little scary to the people organizing it.

Tumnus would be shy, but if someone asked him about history would end up enjoying himself.

The Pirate King would adore it and steal the show.

[battle_butler]

Alfred can do dull very well. He wouldn't necessarily object to being in front of the camera, but he'd do nothing controversial...

Wait, who am I kidding? He'd go for walks through the most downtrodden, filthy, disgusting, crime-ridden parts of Gotham he can find, taking the cameras along with him. Making a point. The same point Thomas Wayne was trying to make with his life, when he died.

The rest would be very boring. Tennis matches, where he never shows his full capabilities. Board meetings. Very dull. If the editors want ratings, they're going to have to show those walks.

[againsttherules]

Jack is currently in the middle of what will become (is) known as 'the video game war' because of the daily news broadcasts and CNN cameras going into the Jets on the air campaign.

Personally, he'd be very unhappy about being constantly on camera, and would withdraw into a shell, creating a persona for the cameras. It'd be fairly transparent that's what he's doing, but you wouldn't get him 'out of character' once he's created it. You might get the real Jack for two or three days. He'd bottle up all his frustration until he could either take it out on a dummy or during sparring, or the cameras have gone away.

[jjprobert]

Max would be an excellent host for Time Team, or something of that ilk. If it wasn't intended to be like that, he'd manipulate his life, until the editors have no choice but to make it more like that format. Which then gives him plenty of time off camera. He'd enjoy sharing knowledge with an audience.

Erik is doing classified Government work. Of course 24 hour surveillance is similar, but it's not the same, really. I just can't see SHIELD letting public broadcast cameras near the tesseract or anyone associated with it. But, if they did (or perhaps, had to), it would document the day to day boredom of scientific life.

Bean is about to enter a 24 hour surveillance society, up at battle school. (Well, he's due to sometime soon). (When I get him through the necessary bits of canon). Anyway, nearly the first thing he does, is to work out how to get around the system. He would hate being on camera all the time. Later in canon, it's plain dangerous for him. He'd show nothing. He can hold it all in his head anyway, and he'd do his best not to show the cameras anything he was writing.

[kd7sov]

Felix would be... quite perplexed. Probably he'd just try to pretend the cameras aren't there, and go about his life - tromping through forests and caves and plains all over the world, occasionally stopping in some town to teach their kids how to use their powers. Now, this being a world with a fair number of monsters, if he's pretending the camera crews don't exist, he might not feel bound to help them deal with getting attacked...

Kain jumps away. If they're persistent enough, he might eventually jump onto one of the cameras, spearpoint-first.

Fluttershy... ... would probably do nothing until Angel or the rest of the mane six (of their own initiatives) start to run interference. Unless she thought it was one of them who set the whole thing up; in that case... probably see her part of this song (warning: spoilers for early in the season 3 finale, aired two Saturdays ago).

Cranky wants no part of this. Unfortunately, yelling at the cameras and crews is possibly counterproductive to getting them to leave him alone.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen grew up in a surveillance society where there were cameras virtually everywhere and there was no way to leave the community even for a moment. Privacy consisted of voluntarily not pressing in on someone else's personal space, or deliberately not looking for someone who didn't want to be in contact. You could theoretically hide, but that generally only lasted until people decided you'd been missing long enough and the Overseer started going through all the cameras. It was not unheard of for at least one parent to insist on being physically present during his child's medical exams up to the age of eighteen or nineteen. Being followed around by a camera crew, for Ellen, just means that there's a whole bunch more people to keep safe when the deathclaws attack or the mutants open fire or what have you. Also that Three Dog now has competition, because the man was already out to make her famous via radio broadcast long ago. She tries to ignore that kind of thing and she'd prefer to do the same if the TV stuff came into it.