This was stolen and heavily edited from
meeps. Take 25 series from
Better Than It Sounds and have your flist guess them. No cheating! It was originally Halloween-themed, but now it's more of a "Let's see how good of guessers my f-list is!" By the way, there might be some spoilers.
Some are obvious, some are... not. Have fun.
- A bartender pretends to be the world's greatest assassin on a quest to steal the power of Jesus, who was an alien. --Assassin's Creed, ryuujidiceboy
- Prince who blames himself for his father's death runs away and is taken in by all-male commune which subsists on insects.
- Son of a demon kicks Satan's ass with style and confesses a desire to fill a soul WITH LIGHT. --Devil May Cry, crossxhatch
- A precocious preteen finds out that fairies are real, and decides to kidnap one and hold her for ransom to fund his criminal empire. --Artemis Fowl, crossxhatch
- 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. --Bioshock, crossxhatch
- A pro ballplayer's hometown is blown up by a giant Space Whale. One thousand years later, he goes on a quest to beat up his father. --Final Fantasy X, pandapplesaurus
- A poor girl is forced to pretend she's a boy and hang out with obnoxiously rich Bishonen as punishment for destroying private property.-- Ouran High School Host Club, crossxhatch
- A boy and his dog grow up in a colorful fantasy world, and embark on a quest for revenge against a rich nobleman. He has the help of an inscrutable blind woman, a fat chick with a sledgehammer, a heavily-tattooed black guy, and a smug bisexual pirate. --Fable II, ryuujidiceboy
- A young boy looks for an old knife so he can save a monastery from a rat infestation.
- Celebrity stalker is lied to by his girlfriend and a momma'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.
- Nerdy kid opens a Pandora's box in the form of a Reality Altering Super Computer, finds a cute AI inside, resolves to drag three random classmates along to save the girl, her father, and the world from an evil AI akin to Skynet (two out of three ain't bad). Also, time travel removes all consequences of social stupidity and class cutting, except within the UST laden hero relationships. --Code Lyoko, starcrossed_sky
- For dead people, fashion is incredibly Serious Business. They overcome difficulties and learn to love. And kill people with Myspace Flare. --The World Ends With You, starcrossed_sky
- An effeminate boy sells his soul for a highly skilled butler. --Kuroshitsuji, crossxhatch
- An obscenely rich embezzler tries to get into his neighbor's cousin's pants.
- Superweapons are given to mentally unstable children while the adults plot to destroy the world. --Neon Genesis Evangelion, crossxhatch
- Rich, white man with daddy issues gets mind raped by 7 people he doesn't know, on the request of a Japanese man he didn't know he threatened. --Inception, crossxhatch
- A callow orphan joins a princess leading a resistance against an evil empire. They're joined by a roguish pilot/pirate and his tall, furry partner. A guy in full, black body armor gets in the way a lot. There's twins and daddy issues, but no R2D2. --Final Fantasy XII, ryuujidiceboy
- Terrorists put a very intelligent man in a cave with a box of spare parts. This leads the man to solve unethical business practices of his company. --Iron Man, crossxhatch
- A kid tries to save the entire multiverse by beating up monsters with a giant key. His strongest allies are a duck and a dog thing. --Kingdom Hearts, crossxhatch
- A boy repeatedly rips his arm off to fight a clown. --D.Gray-Man, ryuujidiceboy
- Nerdy girl saves the world with a stolen library book after Satan turns off the sun.
- The Chosen One saves the world from French Aliens with his sentient tongue.
- Titular character continually gets screwed over by his "best friend", an emo with an utter lack of sense and commitment. The Big Bad looks like a mix between Voldemort and Michael Jackson. China invades. --Naruto, starcrossed_sky
- Pieces of anthropomorphic produce teach children Bible stories. And there are rubber ducks. --Veggie Tales, starcrossed_sky
- Military specialist searches for a magic rock recipe to get his brother out of a can. In one version of the story, the rock is their father, in the other version the rock is us. --Fullmetal Alchemist, pandapplesaurus