The Ultimately Rather Pointless Multi-Fandom Poll

[beer_good_foamy]

If we're talking about crossovers, half the fun is coming up with the basic idea; what if Character X and Character Y were to perform action Z, what would happen?

Here's a bunch of ideas of that sort, which I'm sure aren't going to lead to anything, but which I'd still like people's opinion on. And I'm not telling you which character is from which fandom either, because I'm just like that. Just go with your gut feeling here, and feel free to add further thoughts, questions or just general insults in the comments.

[Poll #1332661]

Comments

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

I know too few of these to vote but I've spotted an error. You've made a mistake in the 'Big Blessed Hero' section and included a despicable villain without any redeeming features whatsoever!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I thought someone would complain about that one. Poll on possible answers, some of which I may not agree with myself:

1. The idea of the poll is for people to pick the one who fits the description and single out the one who didn't. Well spotted, sir.
   
2. Captain Hammer is a deliberate subversion of the good hero role which the others play straight (or doubly subverted in the Middleman's case). Thus, his inclusion is intended to cast doubt on the trope itself.
   
3. Considering Dr Horrible's stated purpose of being evil, and his subsequent success, trying to stop him might be considered by some to be a redeeming feature. Hammer is clumsy, reckless, doesn't care about others... but is he evil? Deep down in places we don't talk about at parties, don't we want him on that wall? Don't we need him on that wall?
   
4. Nooooo! He's just misunderstood!1!!eleven!
   
5. What do you have against Lucky Luke?

:-)

[washa-way.livejournal.com]

An even crackier crossover: serial killer Stewie Griffin winds up on the table of Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory.

C'mon, you want to see Dee Dee cussing like a sailor while Dex cuts up the only brain that rivals his own, don't you?

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I've never seen Dexter's Laboratory... but it sounds like an interesting concept. I'm always in favour of characters turning out to be serial killers (hell, I'm still convinced Veronica Mars is one).

[washa-way.livejournal.com]

"I'm still convinced Veronica Mars is one."

Genius.

EVIL genius, but genius.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Here's what I wrote about the theory around the end of s2 of VM:

Veronica is severely schizo and it's been her behind every murder all along - she's just too psycho to admit it. It would explain her Mary Sue tendencies, the weird are-they-real-ghosts-or-just-hallucinations things with Lily and that dream scene on the bus, the numerous off-screen deaths (Veronica blacks out when she murders people), the easy way she adapts fake personalities, her ease in manipulating others to do what she wants, the "alternate ending" to that episode where Meg dies in the hospital, the way people can be her best friend one day and completely forgotten the next... All along, we've been seeing what SHE believes happens rather than what actually happens. Unreliable narrator. And as she goes increasingly insane, the show becomes increasingly incoherent. Remember that scene where Keith tells her there is no doubt that he's her father? Well, that's just Veronica hallucinating. What he actually says is "Veronica... your real father is a man named Patrick Bateman."