Better Than It Sounds Meme
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1) A young aristocrat suffers a severe emotional crisis, is betrayed by his most trusted ally, abandoned by his family and country, treated with contempt by his friends, and attempts to kill himself repeatedly.
2) Celebrity stalker is lied to by his girlfriend and a mama's boy has a temper tantrum. Side plots include racing birds, stealing motorcycles, the militant arm of Green Peace, and everyone feels bad because the Cutie gets cut by a Ginsu knife.
3) Relatively unremarkable teenage rebel acquires a numerically significant number of allies to help take down a corrupt, centrist government in a protracted and bloody war fought over one or more magically significant MacGuffins. Just like it went down the previous four times.
4) A group of androgynous, sexually ambiguous young men pose as florists to cover up their lucrative business as assassins.
5) A hero's attempts to slay a dragon are delayed when everyone makes him/her solve their problems first.
6) A tavern waitress cons a ronin and a bandit into following her around Japan, looking for a guy she can only recognize by smell. They do it all to the tune of a hip-hop soundtrack.
7) A charming young soldier meets some interesting people, then gets killed by his employer.
8) Guy who eats pizza in slo-mo gets his shop ruined and goes after his Evil Twin who did it, climbing a "thick shaft that causes women to shudder" in the process. They are forced to team up against a bald guy with Boat Lights who turns into a blob through their father's power. The Evil Twin falls off a cliff.
9) While not pretending to be a rude and obnoxious corporate executive, a ninja detective fights a Monster Clown, and puts to rest once and for all that wiretapping really does work.
10) Centuries after the sequel to the prequel, but in a divergent time line from either, a boy sniffs around in the dirt, scares the hell out of innocent townspeople, and hunts for bugs while developing a meaningful relationship with his shadow.
11) A lot of people join the heroine's party and die. But not in that order.
12) A shameless anime otaku wins a Laser Blade in an online auction, and uses it to carve his way up the leaderboard of an assassins' guild.
13) A magical wolf paints her way to victory.
14) Ayn Rand fights The Mafia, twenty thousand leagues under the sea. Then you show up and resolve the situation. With a magical hand that shoots bees.
15) A guy does jigsaw puzzles in his efforts to track down his ex-girlfriend, who might not even exist, and apologize to her. When he finally touches her, she explodes. World 1 is the final stage. Hold X too long, and the game never happened.
16) Family tradition dictates the murder of an old man in his own home. He gets better. The old man's son hunts down his father's murderer...then hunts down and murders his father.
17) A guy (or possibly a girl) must stop the evil schemes of a rich blond guy. He has the help of an inscrutable blind woman, his faithful dog, a fat chick with a sledgehammer, a heavily-tatooed black guy, and a smug bisexual pirate.
18) The father of the hero of the prequel which is actually the sequel goes off on a journey to find his dad with the help of two musical dragons. Then he has to go stop a Gonk from destroying the world and sucking out everyone's soul in the universe.
19) A bunch of nobodies invade a world where the most badass person is Mickey Mouse. They lose.
20) A bartender pretends to be the world's greatest assassin on a quest to steal the power of Jesus, who was an alien.
20's BONUS SEQUEL: Same bartender pretends to be a guy in Renaissance Italy, who is on a twenty year quest to avenge the death of most of his family. Said quest ultimately leads him into a fistfight with the Pope.
Damn, I had so many possibilities I may do this twice~
1) A young aristocrat suffers a severe emotional crisis, is betrayed by his most trusted ally, abandoned by his family and country, treated with contempt by his friends, and attempts to kill himself repeatedly.
2) Celebrity stalker is lied to by his girlfriend and a mama's boy has a temper tantrum. Side plots include racing birds, stealing motorcycles, the militant arm of Green Peace, and everyone feels bad because the Cutie gets cut by a Ginsu knife.
3) Relatively unremarkable teenage rebel acquires a numerically significant number of allies to help take down a corrupt, centrist government in a protracted and bloody war fought over one or more magically significant MacGuffins. Just like it went down the previous four times.
4) A group of androgynous, sexually ambiguous young men pose as florists to cover up their lucrative business as assassins.
5) A hero's attempts to slay a dragon are delayed when everyone makes him/her solve their problems first.
6) A tavern waitress cons a ronin and a bandit into following her around Japan, looking for a guy she can only recognize by smell. They do it all to the tune of a hip-hop soundtrack.
7) A charming young soldier meets some interesting people, then gets killed by his employer.
8) Guy who eats pizza in slo-mo gets his shop ruined and goes after his Evil Twin who did it, climbing a "thick shaft that causes women to shudder" in the process. They are forced to team up against a bald guy with Boat Lights who turns into a blob through their father's power. The Evil Twin falls off a cliff.
9) While not pretending to be a rude and obnoxious corporate executive, a ninja detective fights a Monster Clown, and puts to rest once and for all that wiretapping really does work.
10) Centuries after the sequel to the prequel, but in a divergent time line from either, a boy sniffs around in the dirt, scares the hell out of innocent townspeople, and hunts for bugs while developing a meaningful relationship with his shadow.
11) A lot of people join the heroine's party and die. But not in that order.
12) A shameless anime otaku wins a Laser Blade in an online auction, and uses it to carve his way up the leaderboard of an assassins' guild.
13) A magical wolf paints her way to victory.
14) Ayn Rand fights The Mafia, twenty thousand leagues under the sea. Then you show up and resolve the situation. With a magical hand that shoots bees.
15) A guy does jigsaw puzzles in his efforts to track down his ex-girlfriend, who might not even exist, and apologize to her. When he finally touches her, she explodes. World 1 is the final stage. Hold X too long, and the game never happened.
16) Family tradition dictates the murder of an old man in his own home. He gets better. The old man's son hunts down his father's murderer...then hunts down and murders his father.
17) A guy (or possibly a girl) must stop the evil schemes of a rich blond guy. He has the help of an inscrutable blind woman, his faithful dog, a fat chick with a sledgehammer, a heavily-tatooed black guy, and a smug bisexual pirate.
18) The father of the hero of the prequel which is actually the sequel goes off on a journey to find his dad with the help of two musical dragons. Then he has to go stop a Gonk from destroying the world and sucking out everyone's soul in the universe.
19) A bunch of nobodies invade a world where the most badass person is Mickey Mouse. They lose.
20) A bartender pretends to be the world's greatest assassin on a quest to steal the power of Jesus, who was an alien.
20's BONUS SEQUEL: Same bartender pretends to be a guy in Renaissance Italy, who is on a twenty year quest to avenge the death of most of his family. Said quest ultimately leads him into a fistfight with the Pope.
Damn, I had so many possibilities I may do this twice~