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[bjornwilde]

 I have no brain this morning, so one from aaaaaaaagh_sky :

What's a canon other than their own that would cause your pup to have some kind of entertaining reaction? As an example, a while ago Ellen asked for a comic from the Bar and was given an issue of Glory- when Rob Liefeld was involved.

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[kd7sov]

Not a canon, per se, but someday I want Felix (probably the earlier iteration) to be shown a periodic table. Elements - but none of the ones familiar to him!

I imagine Fluttershy would go kind of headtilty at My Little Pony Tales, sometimes erroneously called G2.

[camwyn]

Edward Kenway encountering Disney's Jake and the Neverland Pirates would be something to see. It's a children's show, which just... does not sync up at all with anyone's attitudes towards pirates in his time, ever. And if he runs into the part where one of the characters solemnly tells the watching audience that a good pirate never takes someone else's property.

"I don't think you've quite got your head 'round the meaning of the word 'pirate', mate."

[damncompass]

The only one of mine that would have amusing reactions would be Helena.

Any adaptations of her work would elicit hilarity, but I think the biggest one would be The Dead Authors Podcast. I might even have her come across it in bar.

I might also have Joshua read Angels and Demons because of the depiction of CERN. (I... might have gotten some mental headcanon for W13's CERN from Angels and Demons. But not all)

[street_sparrow]

Ichabod: Any and all other versions of the Sleepy Hollow story.

[lambs_become_lions]

I saw Noah, and all I want in the world is for Javert to see it. Which would be easily possible, if it wouldn't lead to loads of uncomfortable 'why is my face in this film?' questions.

Though Javert being canon-punctured, although messy at first, would probably be the best thing for him. I'm not going to do it, but yeah.

[street_sparrow]

He could get hold of a version from a universe with the same script but different casting?

[lambs_become_lions]

Could work! I'll have a think. He needs to see it.

[camwyn]

IMDB says that both Christian Bale and Michael Fassbender were considered for the title role. Perhaps one of them...?

[road_to_calvary]

Ooooh. Thanks for the heads up. I was already drawing a blank, and Bale would probably have done a good, if different, job with it too. (Fassbender. Really?)

[ceitfianna]

I also recommend at a later point introducing Robin to the joys of the Robin Hood canon. I've done that for Will and its fun and strange.

[road_to_calvary]

I'm sure I will sometime! When Javert thought he was him, some people already mentioned that he was well known. I'll have a think about how soon I want Robin to find out about that, but there are obvious ways to enlighten him should the time come.

[bjornwilde]

And this thread is making me realize I need to make sure Mulan sees her Disney movie. ;P

[yakalskovich]

Didn't somebody in Ganymede's world approach him, thinking he was Russell Crowe? So he already has the context for the canon puncture...

[never_shall_yield]

They did, but it was never explained to him and I don't want it to be. Or at least, not yet. It's one thing for him to learn his life was written, and quite another to be faced with some 'real' man playing his life on-screen. If I do canon-puncture him, it'll be when he's a bit more stable. If I do it now, he'll throw his hands up and declare everything pointless, and probably turn into an alcoholic or something. :\

[yakalskovich]

Poor fellow! Nope, I can see that would be a very bad idea. It's too much fun having Javert around being himself, anyway.

I have plotted out a way for Hannibal to be able to diagnose correctly the mechanics of the IMDb flu the next time that one flares up, by the way -- but for that to happen, a certain number of circumstances I can't or won't control will have to fall into place first.

[never_shall_yield]

Oooh! I don't know whether to ask or not. I guess the next outbreak won't be for a pretty long time yet, though.

[yakalskovich]

I hope so! I would need a typical Hannibalistic long game with several pieces in place for him to even arrive at the idea. Including at least one new character to be apped by somebody else because they want to, not because I asked them to...

[never_shall_yield]

I am further intrigued!

[yakalskovich]

I don't even know that not everybody would quake in their shoes at Hannibal Lecter parsing the rules of the IMDb flu. It is probably a piece of knowledge nobody would want anybody to have, least of all Hannibal. That said -- the idea hinges on one word. Perkins!Vert.

[never_shall_yield]

dsafdhx killing me.

[yakalskovich]

The more I talk about it, the less likely it is to happen. It has to move organically...

[road_to_calvary]

Fair enough!

[fluffiest_archadian]

I had Sherral 'off-screen' see the old Winnie the Pooh cartoon.

Now his magical swords are named Tigger and Eeyore.


Beyond that, Yugo would have an entertaining reaction to Spiderman comics: Because Spiderman is a historical figure in his universe - a motorbike stunt rider who gained the iconic Spiderman suit from an alien from the Planet Spider, along with a leopard-themed giant robot. He'd be weirded out by all this 'Peter Parker' and 'Green Goblin' stuff.

The same with Captain America comics or films, since Captain America in his corner of the multiverse is a ballroom dancing female interpol agent who is part of a team of nation-themed superheroes.

Such fun is derived from the Kamen Rider/Sentaiverse having once been the surrealist corner of the Marvel Universe.

[last_kallig]

Hm. Can't think of any for Ibani, but Annabelle would roll her eyes and mock most of the old adventure pulp stories. Because the ones that she and AEon inspired are CLEARLY much better than this pap. >.>

Kreyu would be wondering why the dragons in most works of fantasy are so tiny. (She's bigger than a blue whale, as dragons are in her universe.)

[camwyn]

We'd have to put Kreyu in touch with the dragons of Pern, which admittedly are only sized the way they are because Anne McCaffrey literally forgot that there was a difference between 'feet' and 'meters'. Not yards and meters, feet and meters- and thus Ramoth, the largest dragon ever shelled, is the size of a Lockheed 1011.

'course the blues and the greens wouldn't really help much in terms of size comparison, but.

[last_kallig]

Heh. I suspect the size of dragons in Fireborn is because the designers didn't realize how big a blue whale was either. Creatures are grouped into 'size categories' and the category below dragons includes 'blue whale' as an example creature of that size category. That's the only real information you're given about just how big are they, exactly, so that's what I went with.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Invincible was in on that discussion of Glory, who is from his 'verse. He found the anatomy of the comic a little painful to look at.

Mark's opinions on zombie films would be changed rather drastically, if he found himself in either version of "The Walking Dead." Invincible or not, it'd be Horrible and Depressing and Not Cool At All to have to deal with those places without the TV screen between him and them. (Without invincibility, you could add "Terrifying" to that list, though he might be genre-savvy enough to survive for a while.)

[bcgphoenix]

On occasion, I've entertained the thought of Gaeta watching the original BSG series.

I still can't decide if he'd start laughing hysterically or immediately dive for the wine the first time Count Baltar walked onscreen. Maybe both. At the same time.

[camwyn]

Wine would probably sting something awful coming out his nose.

[bjornwilde]

I think Quin/Korvas seeing any space canon which mimics what we know of physics would confuse him. What do you mean your fighters can't have dogfights in space? Even space walks are much easier in Star Wars physics.

Not sure if I have an answer for Jess since her world is so close to ours with media, she's likely seen a lot of it already.

[ceitfianna]

Of mine, Will's been in the most other worlds and many of them left him going huh, superheroes still don't quite compute for him. The takes on the Robin Hood myth out there also leave him going huh.

It would be fun and terrifying to have Ivan learn more of the BSGverse since it and the Vorkosiganverse have some of the same basic ideas but go in very different directions. Also he just needs to know that he's not the only one from a world with spaceships, it worries him. He has met at least one person from one of the futuristic worlds but suddenly I'm blanking on who, but BSG has possibilities. Both verses are based around colonists going out to planets, though Earth is still around in his.

Someday Jane is going to be given a pile of various media inspired by her works and be fascinated and confused all at once. Everything from the murder mysteries starring her, a good series by Robin Paige to the weird mash ups, the follow up novels and a few of the movies and some of the other little stuff like the band aids. But she has to actually publish her book first before that part can happen.

That's all I can think of at the moment for mine, others will come to mind later.

[damncompass]

Jane and Helena should commiserate on adapatations of works. :D?

[ceitfianna]

They should just talk again as well. I need to play Jane more, well play more now that I'm not as busy.

Hee, another thing that would be amusing would be Moist watching various movies about identity and stealing. From the highly romantized ones like The Thomas Crown Affair or Catch Me if you Can to the creepier ones like The Talented Mr. Ripley or shows like Leverage.

[damncompass]

Oh, man. Now I want to see Joshua and Moist watching an episode of Leverage. ... we should make this happen.

And yes. Jane and Helena will be awesome. :D

[ceitfianna]

We should, that would make a fun OOM and one that can be poked at amongst other things. I'm sure Helena and Claudia would enjoy looking in and laughing along, a fun silly one. In terms of Leverage, I haven't finished the fourth and fifth seasons but I've watched all the others.

[damncompass]

I've seen bits and pieces of things. The funniest one would be to watch the pilot because it has Saul Rubinek (Artie) in it.

[ceitfianna]

That would be hilarious. We should definitely do that and then later Claudia can go wait no at them since Moist will see the technology and get all shiny eyed.

[1nv1nc1ble]

For added amusement, they should watch "Hustle," since it stars Jaime Murray.

[damncompass]

AHAHAH. That would be hilarious.

[ceitfianna]

Oh, I've heard of that movie but never seen it.

[1nv1nc1ble]

TV Show, actually. Sort of the BBC version of "Leverage," but a bit more mercenary. The Crew has a sense of honor and fair play about who they grift, but there's no doubt that they're in it for themselves, rather than the noble causes that Nate Ford & Co. fight for.

[ceitfianna]

*nods* I think I have vaguely heard of it.

[misslucyjane]

I borrowed an idea from the comic American Captain, and had Steve watch The Hobbit films--and then have a PTSD-related reaction because I am a cruel mun. Fortunately he tried again with Orpheus to help him cope, and he managed to get through the whole film the second time.

At some point I want to bring Merlin forward to the modern age and have him react to all the Arthurian adaptations. While I can see that it was his efforts that kept the story alive, I think he would eyebrow mightily at a few of the resulting movies etc.--and be annoyed that he was left out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail altogether.

[bjornwilde]

Perhaps his name was changed to...Tim?

[misslucyjane]

I want to make a joke now about fate coming for you with nasty pointy teeth. Alas, my thought process is not cooperating.

[bjornwilde]

Had my brain truly been in gear, I would've said, "Perhaps he is called...Tim." Oh well, missed chance but I got the pun across. =}

[genarti]

Thor: A wide selection of version of Norse mythology (which in his world is basically stories the Norse told about Asgardians, some of which were accurate and some of which were much less so), and latter-day reworkings thereof. Basically anything that strikes him as "hilariously inaccurate" rather than "infuriatingly disrespectful." Oh, and anything involving poorly choreographed fight scenes he'll cheerfully trash-talk if other people around are up for it.

Enjolras: Giving Enjolras almost any fictional depiction of the French Revolution is likely to be entertaining for spectators, if not for him. Ditto anything involving a farmboy becoming king, a tyrant unseated in favor of the virtuous utopian monarch, etc etc.

Clare: ...I'm honestly not sure. She isn't great at understanding the appeal of fiction in general. Anything that's got a surreal or nonsensical plot might make her entertainingly baffled? Or anything that relies on pop culture to be comprehensible. (Something that's visually surreal she might just interpret as a yoma, though -- it depends on the type. There's a wide range of body horror available, anyway.)

River: Anything where the science is WRONG, she will tell you how wrong it is. At length. If she's in the right mood -- which could be a grumpy pedantic one, or could be a playful one -- she will take apart anything metaphorical, too, either by taking the metaphors literally or by aggressively preferring her own.

Regan: Is not as bad as River about when the science is WRONG, but, uh, there's a strong streak of that in her. She's a terrible person to watch action movies with, especially ones based on dubious science.

Trowa: Hmm. Probably any more fantastical/magic-fusion mecha manga or anime? Ones where the general aesthetic and worldbuilding is similar to Gundam Wing he'd only have the private complaints of any expert watching an author get things wrong, but ones where the mecha arises from someone's soul and is powered by love, or whatever, he'd side-eye. In general Trowa's a bad person to go to for external reactions, though.

[hey35andholding]

Clem: Any canon where she has a doppelganger or Harold and Kumar's world ;)

Dixie: Anything from the far, far flung future.

Juliet: A world FILLED WITH PUPPIES.

Pinkie: Candyland.

Eponine: Any musical where things are bright and happy.