What If... your hero gets a music video

[Mayday]

Inspired by a question in City of Heroes Forums, What if your heroes were asked to participate in a music video or if they sing/dance, to star in one? What song would they use? What would the video look like?

A Charity "We are the World" thing, cameo in someone else's video, all sorts of possibilities.

Feel free to embarass your character :-)

[Mayday]

None of my heroes are professional singers/dancers unfortunately, but my pheremone powered Mind Controller Prime Donna is a SuperModel and nightclubber. On the premise that videos with really hot chicks get played her manager begs Justin Timberlake to perform a duet with her. After meeting Prima (and inhaling some mind controlling phermones) he agrees.


WORDS GET IN THE WAY (Gloria Estefan)
Duet: Justin Timberlake and Donna Marstairs (Prima Donna)

(Clad in a painted on silver laced dress with a flowing skirt slit high Prima, a tall leggy suntanned blonde, exits a silver Mercedes and enters an exclusive nightclub without waiting the staff smile and jump to cater to her as she keeps walking. She picks up a glass of champagne as the music begins.)

(Camera passes behind a wall, fade to an office. Justin emerges from the office looking like a James Bond clone passing Prima, sitting at the secretary's desk gazing longingly as Justin catches a flirtacious brunette less pretty than she in the hall and the two go off together while Prima watches.)

Prima: I realize you're seeing someone new
I don't believe she knows you like I do (Justin and the brunette enter a Ferrari and drive away as she watches from the window)

Prima: Your temperamental, moody side
The one you always try to hide from me...

(Justin smiles and sings to the brunette passenger, heavily made up in exotic fashion, while he drives through London. She pouts and teases with her eyes)

Justin: But I know when you have something on your mind (two black sedans pull in behind the Ferrari and the men inside pull out guns.)

You've been trying to tell me for the longest time... (Justin gets away from the pursuers after several car stunts and pulls into a parking garage)

And, before you break my heart in two
There's something I've been trying to say to you (Safe, Justin turns to the brunette who raises a tranq gun and shoots him, fade to black)

(Chorus: Prima & Justin )

(Prima steps into a car now wearing a drop dead sexy outfit in deep red leather and pulls the pins from her hair, tosses her head and lets waves of silver blonde hair curl and wave down her back. Her car takes off in a spray of gravel. Two men carry Justin to their car's trunk. Fade. Justin wakes in a cell and sings to the walls as Prima sings and drives.)

Prima:But the words get in the way
There's so much I want to say
But it's locked deep inside

(Justin is hauled out of the cell and strapped to an examining table. The Brunette is now clad in a sexy leather uniform standing beside the Bad Guy. Justin refuses to answer and a minion hits him across the jaw. Prima's car slides to a stop, she gets out, checks her guns and goes in beating up minions and shooting several)

Prima: And, if you look in my eyes
We might fall in love again
Justin: I won't even start to cry
And, before we say goodbye

(Prima arrives where Justin is being beaten for information. He breaks free and a fight breaks out. Prima and the Brunette go at it with martial arts until the Brunette pulls a knife. Prima pulls a stiletto from a hidden part of her outfit and the fight continues)

Prima & Justin: I tried to say "I love you"
But the words got in the way

(Prima stabs the Brunette who collapses in a bloodless shocked look. Someone shoots Prima in the shoulder and is clocked by Justin. Justin takes her in his arms. They sing together)

Justin: Your heart has always been an open door
But, baby, I don't even know you anymore
Prima: And, despite the fact it's hurting me
I know the time has come to set you free

(Overcome by her wound Prima is taken away by EMT's. Agents swarm the area mopping up. Justin's boss congratulates him but he is looking at the ambulance)

Justin: But the words get in the way
There's so much I want to say
But it's locked deep inside

(Fade to present. Prima wanders the nightclub. Justin appears across the room and the two meet in the center of the room. They dance and look fabulous. Fade to a bedroom. Justin faces camera, Prima faces Justin as she slips the top of her dress off revealing a new tattoo in place of the bullet scar on her shoulder)

Prima: I'm trying to say "I love you"
Prima and Justin: But the words get in the way

(Fade as they come together and fall onto the four poster bed)

[Mayday]

Linedrive is a celebrity on a minor league baseball team in Florida, the Amber City Miners. Slugger, Shortstop, the boss's daughter are also PC's. His video is a tv ad featuring the Miners as they go for the Big Win this year. As one of their best players he gets alot of screen time.


MINERS, to the tune of Cowboy, by Kid Rock
Devil Without a Cause (1998)

(rooster crows on a rooftop as the sun peaks over the city skyline. Camera follows the sun as it rises quickly and the cars start moving as the city wakes up...)

Popular Local Radio DJ clip from on air: Good moooorning Amber City! It's baseball time in a baseball town... Time to tailgate and salivate, a lil bird tells me this is the year we bring home the trophy, so hit the snooze one more time. It's gonna be a GREAT Year...

(a thousand voices cheer, volume rising as the music begins): Mi-Ners... Mi-Ners...

(Cut to: Several of the more popular team members on the diamond in full gear walking posse style at the camera. The lead pokes his finger and gestures for emphasis)

Handsome NPC Pitcher who had an elbow injury last season: Well I'm ahead of my game and gonna be the best
been a long year but I passed the test
Find a Coach get a game never gonna be the same
Linedrive, to his right: Line Drive here to bring it up and down the clock
With a can of whoop ass cause you got no gas,
not gonna last, your time has passed.

(Fast clips of last season's highlights, best plays, dumping blue gatorade over the coach, cute cheerleaders posing)

Everyone: I wanna be a Mi-Ner baby
NPC Cuban Catcher to left of Pitcher: Ridin tonight cause I win today

Mi-Ner baby (stands full of fans screaming and whooping it up, a real party going on)

NPC Cuban Catcher: I can smell a loser from a mile away
9 Cheerleaders in the back of a pickup (looking like Charlies Angels but hotter):
I bet you'll yell cause our train's rolled in
It goes (game horn) we winning again
Slugger: Causin' chaos, rockin their world like Amadeaus
Shortstop: Mack like mayors, play like Lakers
They told us to leave, but bet they can't make us
(stadium crowd): Mi-Ner...
Pitcher: With the top let back and the sunshine shinin
(3 teen schoolgirls at a bus stop (including the Team Owner's daughter)): Mi-Ner...
Linedrive, to his right: Spend all my time at Hollywood and 9th
(Stadium crowd) Mi-Ner...
Slugger: Sleep all night cause I train all day
(Guys in a business meeting) Mi-Ner...
Shortstop: I can smell victory from a mile away
(the suntanned Mayor in a convertible) Mi-Ner...
Catcher:With the top let back and the sunshine shinin
(Stadium) Mi-Ner...
Guy in Mascot suit on field alone (with soul): AMber CiteeeeEEEeeeEEEeeey MiIIIiiiIIIIiiineeeeeeerrrrrrsssssss...... This the year y'all!

(Mascot gets tackled by the entire team from off camera to cheers by the sound and camera crew, fade to black)

[Bengal]

Mayday, you're the witchdoctor of fanfic. I have absolutely no idea what any of that was supposed to mean, but I read it all the way through anyway, which I won't even do with most Peter David comic books, and I like Peter David. You're the frickin Pied Piper of whateveritis you are writing about. You're more entertaining than my haircut. You are physically larger than Bill Bradsky and probably way cuter too. You taught Perry Como how to play the bongos. And I bet that was you who kicked the winning field goal in the giant football matchup in the square building with the Janet Jackson halftime thingie.

[tkdguy]

My character, Dr. David Ballard, isn't known as a superhero, as he hides his mental powers. But he is known to do heroic (read foolhardy) things. Such as being called in to negotiate the release hostages, then offering to take the place of a hostage (a little girl with a bomb attached to her). Did I tell you he's paraplegic? And a pacifist.

Anyway, he'd probably be offered to join in on a humanitarian type of video like"We Are the World." After all, he's a paraplegic pacifist who lets a bomb get strapped on him to save a little girl and her mother has to be a hero of some sort.

[Badger]

My character probably not. Can he sing or dance? Nobody knows because he doesnt do song and dance( he may or may not sing in the shower) . Though it would be cool if he was in a metalllica video or something. Maybe a brief cameo in a video of their song that goes "seek and destroy". Yeah that'll do.

[tkdguy]

One of my characters (heroic, not superheroic), Richard Oritz, may do it. He has the fame (champion status in fencing, judo, and taekwondo) and the ability (PS: musician). He actually plays classical music, so it would be more like a classical guitar concert rather than a rock video.