FenrisUlf Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Goonies: The Dead End Kids have found the treasure map of infamous pirate One-Eyed Willie. In secret caverns deep beneath Manhattan lie untold riches, protected by intricate booby traps. They are hounded at every turn by the mob. Or it could be the Little Rascals and the caverns could be under Santa Monica. Using the Dead End Kids is a great idea! Anyone have any ideas for use of similiar comedy teams, like the Three Stooges? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! I picked up volume 1' date=' read it, and then tossed it. Not for me.[/quote'] Quite understandable. I wouldn't have read further myself if I hadn't seen some of the anime first. One of the best decisions of the adaptation was dumping everything between the first chapter and the flashback sequence. But back on topic: Remote: A brilliant detective has developed agoraphobia and can't leave his home. So he hires a strong legman to tote around a two-way radio to help investigate tough cases. (Or you can just use Nero Wolfe.) The High and the Mighty: An unusually full flight from Honolulu to San Francisco develops engine trouble shortly after the point of no return. The pilot is losing his nerve, there's a jealous husband with a gun on board, a scientist with important papers, a little kid traveling alone, a luckless middle-aged tourist couple, and others, each with their own backstory. Oh, and the weather's turned nasty. Can the dashing co-pilot keep plane and passengers together until they reach their destination? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The High and the Mighty: An unusually full flight from Honolulu to San Francisco develops engine trouble shortly after the point of no return. The pilot is losing his nerve, there's a jealous husband with a gun on board, a scientist with important papers, a little kid traveling alone, a luckless middle-aged tourist couple, and others, each with their own backstory. Oh, and the weather's turned nasty. Can the dashing co-pilot keep plane and passengers together until they reach their destination? A few small changes here and there, and you have pulparized Airplane!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! A few small changes here and there' date=' and you have pulparized [i']Airplane![/i]. Not surprisingly, since THatM was the movie that started the whole "airplane in danger" genre. (But not seen for many years, so new to me.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Hellsing: It's 1936 and the Thulegesellschaft (Thule Society), backed by Himmler's new Sonderkommando H (Special Unit H) are scouring the world for occult artifacts and secrets. Rumor has it they are looking for ancient mystical superweapons, such as the Ark of the Covenant, the Lance of Longinius, the Holy Grail, Excaliber, the Vajra of Indra, and even the original Bowie knife. But there are hints of an even darker purpose beyond collecting reputed magical tomes and records of ancient Catholic witch trials. It is whispered that certain members of the Thulegesellschaft are engaging in research designed to create unstoppable soldiers. Soldiers who are superhumanly fast, strong, and nearly impossible to harm. Soldiers who can't be killed because they are already dead, and worse yet, prey on the living (such as Allied troops) for sustenance. Enter the Hellsing organization. Started late in the last century after a certain incident with an Eastern European nobleman, Hellsing is Britain's own occult arm. Specially equipped to fight the exact enemy it is feared the Germans are bent on creating, Hellsing uses both technology and ritual to put down the black magics of the Nazis. And if the rumors are true, they have one (or more) (highly) "special operatives" of their own.... PS: The Thulegesellschaft and Sonderkommando H really existed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Publius Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Doom (although it does stray): A group of US Military personnel (or a Doc Savage like gang of highly skilled, special type folks with friends in high places who are suitable "blunt instruments" in modern parlance) are sent to a remote island in the carribean where a secretive scientific organization (which originally had ties to the US military as well as several major US corporate interests) has been performing "super-soldier" experiments using ancient secrets unearthed from a dig on the very same island. To evade detection, these experiments were being conducted in the temple that the dig uncovered, with shafts running deep underground and curious chambers, hidden grottos etc. Various animals were exposed to the super-solider experiments (which involve a combination of exposure to radioactives, electricity and chemicals other than heavy water *cough*Flash*cough*) and had become larger, more aggressive and far more hardy. They also gained a strange new set of behaviors. Those in the secret organization decided that the time had come for human experimentation, but here the US backers balked. The situation grew more distant and aid was eventually cut. Convinced that the secret organization has gone to other governments for the necessary "raw materials" and funding, the Players have been sent in to see what is going on. (One of the PCs of course is related to a scientist on the project that he has not heard from in some time) Unbeknownst to the US Military, Nazi (or Bolshevik or whatever) troops have been "invited" in and have all but kept the scientists under lock and key. A convict from their land has been subjected to the human testing phase and things... have not gone well. He/it/Test Subject Zero-One has gained enormous strength, vitality and near-immunity to bullets. Furthermore, those who he killed have undergone a mysterious transformation that brings them back to a semblance of "life" (No Nazis like Undead Nazis). Then the PCs will have to first decide how to get inside of the Temple now that the security doors and such have been activated from inside (puzzle stuff maybe?). As the PCs penetrate the facility, they also find scattered pockets of people who have holed up and defended themselves, sometimes effectively... sometimes not so much. They also find the freed animals, and animals that have not fully changed, but are half-transformed... humans in the middle of transformation as well as the dead which are shambling horrors driven by an inhuman appetite for flesh. And finally, they discover "test subject zero-one", evolving into a huge squid-headed bat-winged creature, in the deepest sections of the temple, attempting to enact some strange rite (probably using the sister-scientist) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Combine this with Return to Castle Wolfenstein and you're all set! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Ark of the Covenant' date=' the Lance of Longinius, the Holy Grail, Excaliber, the Vajra of Indra, and even the original Bowie knife. [/quote'] Interesting trivia - Lance/Spear of Longinus/Destiny has a nail of the true cross wired to it and is wrapped around where it broke with gold foil. Quite fictional of course - the spearhead design is not Roman in any way, interesting mythology though - check out the extras on the Constantine DVD. Holy Grail of course being used to catch the blood of Jesus on the cross (one wonders - Why? And Eww!) Excaliber = ex-calibre = cut steel. Also worth mentioning that this isn't the sword in the stone, but rather the one hurled at the man with supreme executive power in a farcical aquatic ceremony by a moistened bint ;-p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Publius Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Excaliber = ex-calibre = cut steel. Also worth mentioning that this isn't the sword in the stone' date=' but rather the one hurled at the man with supreme executive power in a farcical aquatic ceremony by a moistened bint ;-p[/quote']That is no way to set up a government! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSword Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Although I am loathe to mention it: Pokemon - Well, not trying to capture poor defenseless creatures in tiny spheres. Instead, at the height of the depression, X number of friends decide to leave the dust bowl and try to find work, or at least some reason to live when it seems like civilization is at its breaking point. Each town they come across has its problems, from bootleggers trying to control the population to missing children, a drunkard of a doctor that needs to sober up to help deliver a baby, or a crashed aircraft in the middle of the wilderness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakSpade Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Star Trek II -- just convert the starships into submarines' date=' Khan into an appropriate villain (I'd suggest the Geistkapitan from MM), and the space stations and planets into isolated islands.[/quote'] Quotes from that game... Chechov: Oh Keptin! It was Khan! He put these ... squid creatures... in our bodies... made us do things... say lies... Kirk: Say "Nuclear Vessels". Chechov: No. ---------- Kirk: Scotty, I need nuclear power in four minutes, or we're all dead! ---------- Kirk: You're going to have to come down here and kill me, Khan! Khan: I've done worse than kill you, Kirk. I've hurt you. And I want to go on... hurting you... So I leave you, as you left me. Trapped in side Inner Earth... BURIED ALIVE.... Buried Alive... buried alive.... Kirk: KKKHHHAAANNN!!! ---------- Jak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The Black Hole - submarine crews and their robotic assistants clash over one man's obsession with delving the crushing depths of the Marianas Trench. Ghostbusters - swap the unlicensed nuclear particle accellorators for something like "Radium-powered etheric lightning projectors" and you're good to go. "Ray, what did you think of?" "Something from the radio...someone who could never turn evil or hurt us...(sigh) it's Little Orphan Annie." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakSpade Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Stargate: Austrian archeologists in 1928 discoverd a ring made of an unusual metal in the Giza plateau during their search for religious and powerful artifacts. During shipping of the ring back to Munich, American troops attack and steal the ring. In studying the ring, the scientists discover that the ring conducts an electric charge, but continue to pour more and more energy into it, without results. Finally, after several days of charging the ring, they discover that the ring begins to turn. An earthquake, and spash effect later, the scientists and military personel are faced with a German infantry squad returning from an offworld mission. When the infantrymen are interrogated, the Americans discover that the Germans know more about the gate than they do, have discovered another gate, and have been using it for several months, travelling to other worlds. Jak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakSpade Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! TRON - Sound engineer working with the experimental Total Radio Oversight Network' date=' which allows for a series of relays to blanket the nation with a single broadcast, is transformed into radio waves when a freak electrical storm overloads his equipment. Now he has to navigate through deathly real versions of the various radio dramas the network broadcasts, trying to get past gangsters, savages and others to reach the Master Control which will allow him to escape this strange world...[/quote'] For some reason, this made me think of Lawnmower Man... The Town That Dread Sundown: The players arrive at dusk in the county seat of Texarkana, Arkansas, and wonder why everything and everyone is shut down for the night. They are able to find lodging (after much convincing), but they discover that the town is beseiged by a killer who comes only at dark. Rumors have it that the killer is supernatural, but there is no evidence to reach this conclusion. Every law man and able bodied person who stays out after dark turns up dead with no evidence to what killed them. People staring out their window at night have spotted a large man walking the streets with a burlap hood covering his face. The Lost Boys: Just change the time line of this movie, and you've got a setting... Boardwalk, gangs of vampires, comics, Frog Brothers... who could ask for anything more. Jak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Although I am loathe to mention it: Pokemon - Well, not trying to capture poor defenseless creatures in tiny spheres. Instead, at the height of the depression, X number of friends decide to leave the dust bowl and try to find work, or at least some reason to live when it seems like civilization is at its breaking point. Each town they come across has its problems, from bootleggers trying to control the population to missing children, a drunkard of a doctor that needs to sober up to help deliver a baby, or a crashed aircraft in the middle of the wilderness. When you think about it, Pokemon is a very pulp setup. Particularly Team Rocket, a pair of villains who combine comedy relief (mainly from their incredible vanity) with occasional bursts of genuine menace (when it becomes clear just how far they are willing to go to achieve their aims). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSword Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! When you think about it' date=' Pokemon is a very pulp setup. Particularly Team Rocket, a pair of villains who combine comedy relief (mainly from their incredible vanity) with occasional bursts of genuine menace (when it becomes clear just how far they are willing to go to achieve their aims).[/quote'] I think how Team Rocket was used in the series was a detriment to it. To Pulp-erize Pokemon I would change Team Rocket to be two members of a particular mob, that the team runs into occasionaly (not every episode) and are used for both menace as well as bumbling humor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! I think how Team Rocket was used in the series was a detriment to it. To Pulp-erize Pokemon I would change Team Rocket to be two members of a particular mob' date=' that the team runs into occasionaly (not every episode) and are used for both menace as well as bumbling humor.[/quote'] On the other hand, whenever you go to a con and hear someone say they're a "shipper" of a certain couple, such as Kaylee & Simon or Janeway & Chakotay, they are using a term that orgiinated with Pokemon fandom, whether they realize it or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Waiting for Godot- Doc Godot, physical marvel and scientific wunderkind, sends his faithful henchmen, Vladimir and Estragon, on a whirlwind quest around the world, packed with never-ending action and adventure!! jg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mraley Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! (slightly OT) Holy Grail of course being used to catch the blood of Jesus on the cross (one wonders - Why? And Eww!) I vaguely remembered something about this from the book "The Holy Grail" by Justin Griffin and went looking on the 'net. It's a Jewish burial tradition having to do with blood shed after death being unclean and having to be buried with the body. There's an article about it at www.shroud2000.com/articlespapers/article-Jewishburial.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! whenever you go to a con and hear someone say they're a "shipper" of a certain couple I have to admit I've never heard that one. What's it mean, that they dress up like them or have a similar relationship or some such nonsense? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! I have to admit I've never heard that one. What's it mean' date=' that they dress up like them or have a similar relationship or some such nonsense?[/quote'] A shipper is a fan who believes that a pair of characters either are romantically involved (presumably off-screen) or would be better off if they were. It's an ongoing theme in fandom (going back as far as Spock & Chapel and Kirk & Uhura in the TOS days -- and that's just the hetero pairings), but the term originated with "RocketShippers" who believed that the two principal human members of Team Rocket either were off-screen lovers or would be much happier if they were. Shortened to "shipper" (and then re-lengthened to "relationshipper"), it became especially prominent in media fandoms such as Voyager, Buffy and Firefly/Serenity. It gets awjward sometimes when a series is running, as the writers can always pull fast ones that cut things out from under the shippers. (Voyager is a perfect example -- a lot of people believed Janeway anf Chaotkay should have gotten together, but they didn't, but those who believed Tom Paris and B'ellana Torres were a perfect couple were rewarded with a marriage and a child born in the last episode). By the way, the currently accepted term for someone who dresses like a media character, borrowed from Japanese fandom,. is "cosplayer". Cosplay, short for "costume play", is its own scene (and, in some circles, a bit of a fetish). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKJAM! Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Battle Royale II: For a "bloody pulp" set in WWI...Those fiendish Huns have come up with their most despicable plan yet to attack our heroes' island base. They've abducted an entire class of 42 fifteen year olds, slapped explosive collars on them set to go off in 72 hours, and ordered them to attack the base and kill the heroic leader or else get their heads blown off. The plan relies on the Allies being squeamish about killing mere children, even if they are heavily armed. And the Hun doesn't expect the draftees to actually succeed. They're really just meant to soften up the defenses for a crack team of special forces landing the next day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted February 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The Hunt for Red October - A German U-Boat commander has decided that the Nazis are wrong and wants to defect and bring his sub with him. But the Allies are unsure of his sincerity and the Germans are pursuing him through the Atlantic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Serpent Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The Hunt for Red October - A German U-Boat commander has decided that the Nazis are wrong and wants to defect and bring his sub with him. But the Allies are unsure of his sincerity and the Germans are pursuing him through the Atlantic. Especially good if you have him bringing along an Enigma machine or some new weapon system/experimental sub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Patriot Games: A college professor accidentally saves one of the young Royals from an IRA assassination plot during a trip to England. The mastermind behind the plan decides to teach the world a lesson, and brings the full force of the IRA American contingent to bear in an effort to kill the professor -- but only after destroying his family and everything else he holds dear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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