Make Tadashi be the twist villain. That is all.

In today's post, I wanted to ask you all, how you write a Harley Quinn movie, with a similar premise to Deadpool and Wolverine? First some ground rules:

1. It must have a similar premise to Deadpool & Wolverine, or at least the basic skeleton of the plot, has to be similar. Right down to the R-rating.

2. Akin to how DP&W was the send-off to the Foxverse, this must be a proper send-off to the DCEU and the old, Pre-DCU Era of DC in general.

3. Harley needs to be paired with someone throughout the movie. AKA, the film needs its own equivalent to Wolverine, and this must be the "Worst" Variant of whichever character you use, much like how Wolverine in the movie was the "Worst" Variant.

4. The in big difference though, is that unlike DP&W, this one must end with the DCEU destroyed and Harley moving to the DCU (essentially taking Psychopirates role from the comics), in a way that feels right for the story.

5. It needs to be a Multiverse film, if that wasn't obvious already.

6. Have fun.

Many people have argued that Batman Forever and Batman & Robin would have been better if Tim Burton directed them, and if Michael Keaton reprised his role as Batman. The problem with most mediums and rewrites that attempt to continue the story of Burton's duology (e.g. the Batman '89 comic series, and FanScription's videos "What If Tim Burton Directed Batman Forever" and "What If Tim Burton Directed Batman & Robin") is that none of them understand their assignment. Batman and Batman Returns are not standard Batman films. They are Tim Burton films that happen to star characters from the Batman mythos. And if Tim Burton returned to direct Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, then I can guarantee you that they would be the latter types of films, and that they would be used as vehicles to service Burton's agenda of telling stories about social outcasts; much like how Batman Returns was. They would not be standard Batman films. The Batman '89 series and FanScription videos arguably fail to recognize this, and I would argue that if you're going to continue the story of Burton's duology, then you need to come up with ideas that service Burton's agenda. That being said, the goal of this pitch/rewrite is to continue the story of Burton's duology in a way that services this agenda, but also takes into consideration the restraints that Warner Bros. more than likely would have imposed on Burton had he made a third Batman film given the public backlash against Batman Returns. This pitch/rewrite will also draw inspiration from the Golden Age Batman comics, which served as primary sources of inspiration for Batman and Batman Returns.

Villains:

The Scarecrow/Doctor Jonathan Crane

The Scarecrow will be depicted as a professor of psychology at Gotham State University who resorts to crime in order to accumulate material wealth after suffering years of ridicule at the hands of his peers and colleagues over his clothing and physical appearance.

Panels from the Scarecrow's debut appearance in World's Finest Comics #3.

Adopting the guise of a scarecrow, the Scarecrow takes over an extortion ring, and uses fear toxins and other fear tactics to intimidate business owners into paying him protection money.

Panels from the Scarecrow's debut appearance in World's Finest Comics #3.

The inclusion of the Scarecrow's character in this pitch/rewrite will service Burton's agenda of telling stories about weird, eccentric characters and social outcasts, and continue the trend from the previous two films of adapting Golden Age Batman villains. While most continuations of the story of Burton's duology feature Two-Face and the Riddler in antagonistic roles, I don't feel that Burton would have necessarily adapted these villains as screenwriter Sam Hamm has admitted to being the sole driving force behind the inclusion of Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the Burton duology. Also, it should be noted that the Riddler was not considered as a villain until Lee and Janet Scott Batchler came on board to write the script for Batman Forever.

While \"Batman: The Long Halloween\" was not published until 1996-1997, I envision Burton's interpretation of the Scarecrow resembling Tim Sale's design of the character.

Catwoman/Selina Kyle

While implied to be the case in Batman Returns, it will be confirmed in this film that Catwoman suffered a traumatic brain injury after being pushed out the window by Max Shreck, and that her injuries resulted in the onset of dissociative identity disorder, and the manifestation of repressed feelings and emotions in the form of the Catwoman persona. Now down to her last life, Selina seeks out therapeutic services from Crane in order to help her quell her alternate, destructive persona, which occupies itself by committing small time burglaries. The inclusion of Catwoman's character in this pitch/rewrite builds upon Burton and screenwriter Daniel Waters' interest in continuing Catwoman's story, and making a spin-off film about her. While most of the mediums and rewrites that have attempted to continue the story of Burton's duology do feature Catwoman, this pitch/rewrite arguably succeeds in giving the character a meaningful role in the story and justifying her presence, which is something that the others struggle with.

Catwoman.

Anthony "Fat Tony" Zucco

Tony Zucco will be depicted as the Scarecrow's right hand man in the extortion ring.

Tony Zucco.

Supporting Characters:

Robin/Dick Grayson

Robin will be depicted as a child acrobat who is adopted by Bruce Wayne after his parents are murdered as part of an extortion scheme, and later becomes Batman's sidekick. Given that Warner Bros. pushed for the inclusion of Robin's character in both Batman and Batman Returns, it is likely that the studio would have forced Burton to include Robin in a third film in order to make it more kid-friendly. Unlike in Batman Forever however, Robin will be portrayed in this hypothetical film by an adolescent under 18 in order to reinforce the father-son dynamic between Batman and Robin.

I envision Robin's costume resembling the one that appears in this rejected piece of concept art for Tim Burton's \"Batman\" by artist Neal Adams.

Loose Plot Points and Ideas:

• The film is set during Halloween.
• Flashbacks to Crane's childhood will show that Crane was mocked by other kids for physically resembling Ichabod Crane from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and dressing shabbily like a scarecrow.
• The Scarecrow will serve as a mirror and foil to Batman in that he symbolizes fear and poverty.
• Batman fights to protect local businesses from being extorted or destroyed by the Scarecrow and his minions.
• The Scarecrow rides a horse.
• Crane is eventually fired from his teaching position at Gotham State University due to his unorthodox teaching methods.
• The Scarecrow poisons Catwoman and later Batman with his fear gas. Whereas Catwoman fears her alternate identity and dependency on males, Batman fears bats, and struggles with flashbacks of his parents' murders at the hands of the Joker. The fear hallucinations induced by the Scarecrow can be used as a vehicle for Burton to indulge his weirder, creepier side. The Scarecrow also uses his mastery of psychology to pit Batman and Catwoman against each other.
• The Scarecrow and his minions attempt to extort Haley's Circus, and later sabotage one of their performances after the ringmaster refuses to pay them protection money by cutting the trapeze ropes used by the Flying Graysons in their act, and releasing all of the circus animals. In doing this, the Scarecrow and his minions cause Dick's parents to fall to their death, and create a general state of panic amongst the viewers.
• Dick's status as a material witness to Zucco cutting the trapeze rope puts him at risk. In order to protect him from being silenced by the Scarecrow and his minions, Bruce offers to let Dick come and stay at Wayne Manor while Commissioner Gordon figures out a permanent placement for him.
• Dick seeks revenge on Zucco for killing his parents, and later discovers that Bruce is Batman. The discovery of his secret identity as well as their bond over their mutual tragedies informs Bruce's decision to adopt Dick and train him to be his partner.
• The Scarecrow's master plan involves threatening to poison Gotham with his fear toxin, and holding the city to ransom, on Halloween night. Batman and Robin foil the Scarecrow's plans with the help of Catwoman, who loses her last life in the process and dies. The Scarecrow also meets his demise given Burton's tendency to kill off the main villain in his films.

Casting Choices for the New Characters:

The Scarecrow/Doctor Jonathan Crane- Tim Curry

Robin/Dick Grayson- TBD

Tony Zucco- James Gandolfini

I've been thinking a fair bit recently about Rey Star Wars, why her character fell flat and what could have been done about it. I really think so much of it stems from the mystery box approach to backstory that The Force Awakens sets up.

Of course, we all know that Abrams and Johnson ended up having quite different ideas as to what could be in that box which meant that Rey had one of the messiest character arcs I've seen in my lifetime, but I, for one, place a lot of the blame on how she is introduced in TFA.

Rey isn't really allowed to establish herself in TFA simply because the mystery box backstory is overshadowing everything else the film is attempting to establish about her. The first act of TFA attempts to establish her as a loner, a scavenger, a whimsical adventurer (largely through Williams's leitmotif for the character), a mechanic, a pilot and a fighter.

People raced to call Rey a mary sue for these qualities but given that we know that she's had to be self-sufficient on a desert planet since she was a child, I think these are fair qualities for her to have. My problem is that the film is more interested in getting the audience to question why she was abandoned there, who her family was, and why she's even so damn important in the first place.

Which is to say that my proposed fix is something I've been ruminating on and it's a threefold look at how to pull an actual character out of all that mess.

1. Rey Is Neither A Skywalker Nor A Palpatine

I believe that hooking Rey into an established Star Wars bloodline is simply a shortcut to narrative importance. I, along with quite a few of us, was certainly on the "Who are Rey's parents?" speculation bandwagon in the pre-TLJ days and I actually found myself satisfied with Johnson's Rey Nobody angle. I thought it freed her from a lot of unnecessary entanglement within the franchise's narrative and focused her story on her choices.

Obviously, it seems like there was a predisposition toward Rey ending up as a Skywalker and the reveal of her Palpatine heritage became a story of overcoming a bad heritage to embrace a noble one, but I find that ultimately toothless and meaningless backpedaling.

My fix is predicating on embracing the freedom of the Rey Nobody angle and providing her with emotional entanglements within the story that prioritise circumstance over heritage. Maybe she can still dub herself a Skywalker at the end, but she has to earn that place by actually forging an emotional connection with that lineage. It can't just be about forcing an unearned narrative of bloodline wars.

2. Rey Is The Only Survivor Of Kylo's Attack On The New Jedi Temple

This fix is part of a holistic rewrite of the Sequel Trilogy and part of that is repositioning Ben Solo's decision to kill his fellow students at the New Jedi Temple as fundamentally his own actions. I liked the Rashomon-esque retelling in TLJ, but I dislike that Ben's actions ultimately come down to his seduction by Snoke and his misunderstanding of Luke's intentions. By proxy, I also want to remove the idea of Luke killing his nephew.

Instead, Ben is a troubled teen (19 at the time, putting this in 24ABY instead of the canon 28ABY because it aligns with Luke's age in EPIV) grappling with the expectations put upon him and the fear that has been placed upon him by the virtue of being Darth Vader's grandson. His decision to raze the New Jedi Order is rash, selfish and one designed to remove the thumb of expectation from his future. It's only after this that he comes into contact with a radically rewritten Snoke, who is no longer a Force user and instead a Thrawn-esque former Imperial Admiral who has been amassing the Imperial Remnants into the fledgling First Order, and is groomed into Snoke's personal Darth Vader, exploiting the guilt he has over his actions.

In the midst of all this, I want to place a 9 year old Rey. She's one of Luke's younger students and on the night that Kylo razes the temple and kills the other students, Luke manages to at least save her. Wracked with guilt and despair, Luke hides her on Jakku with Lor San Tekka (whom he met on his travels as a sage akin to the Guardian Of The Whills) before exiling himself.

The revelation that Rey is the only surviving student would be hinted at when Rey, who kept some contact with Tekka in his village, comes across the devastation caused by the First Order raid in the opening of TFA. There she finds Luke's green lightsaber, which he abandoned upon exile, and experiences fragmented visions akin to what she has in Maz's basement in the film proper.

This puts her on a quest of understanding that leads her to Luke and all is eventually revealed in TLJ, as in canon, and shakes her belief in both Luke and Ben and forces her to confront her position as The Last Jedi.

3. Rey Is A Primal Conduit For The Force

Given the above, I've been working with an idea that Ben's actions severely destabilises the Force. With him as the Dark Side Ascendant and with Luke in exile, the Force has little to do but overcompensate and weigh all of Light Side upon Rey in the hope of eventual rebalancing.

Thus, I want to evoke the title of The Force Awakens literally by having her repressed connection to the Force explode out of her upon contact with Luke's lightsaber and the additional grief she feels over Lor San Tekka's death. I was really fascinated by Rey's flirtation with the Dark Side in The Rise Of Skywalker and I want to bring some of that unbridled Force energy into the character from the beginning.

I am also tipping a hat to The Force Unleashed in that I want her use of the Force to feel somewhat unhinged and at the whims of her chaotic emotions. This isn't a case of her intuiting that she can use a Jedi Mind Trick out of nowhere, this is her conjuring Force Lighting unintentionally in moments of stress and ripping shit off the walls by accident.

It's something that not only makes her quest for Luke's teachings (and his initial rebuttal of the idea) more desperate, but also mirrors something I saw Adam Driver talk about in regards to the initial vision for Kylo Ren. I'm paraphrasing, but he posits the idea that Kylo was supposed to be a reverse Vader: when we meet him, he's grappling between his allegiance to the Dark Side and the pull of the Light, and over the course of the three movies we only see him grow stronger in his connection to the Dark Side.

What I'd do with Rey is a similar reversal, but for her resemblance to Anakin and Luke, and instead of her starting weak in the Force and growing more powerful as she trains, she starts at her most powerful and her training is about self-discipline and learning to harness that chaotic, emotional connection to the Force.

I don't know, this is all just stuff I've been ruminating on as I envisioned this holistic rewrite of the ST, but I hoped it interesting enough to share.

tl;dr - instead of Rey being a Palpatine or a Slywalker, she's the sole survivor of Ben's razing of the New Jedi Temple and hidden on Jakku by Luke.

Instead of a DC universe with a new direction, I would like to try making the directions they have for the original DCEU works. With the 3 main directions being:

1.Trying to get Superman and Black Adam to fight eash other.

2.Pushing Harley Quinn as much as possible.

3.Lead to the climax against Darkseid.

And I would like to keep many storyline the same(Though rearranged), But not the characterizations of Zack Snyder. Also I won't go deep on how I would change each solo film unless it's ties to a bigger plot(Like how Ares shouldn't be responsible for World War in WW)

This whole DCEU will have 23 projects in total(The same number as Marvel's Infinity Saga) and will be divided into 3 phases as well

Phase 1:

1.Superman(2013)

-The first film in this universe. The film will be based on the New 52 version with Lex Luthor and Metallo as the main villains. Also Superman won't snapped anyone's neck in this film.

2.The Batman(2015)

-Joker coming back with his new assistant Harley Quinn. The film will deep dive into the scar Joker left on Batman from killing Robin. At the end Batman will be forced to kill Joker to save Gordon, Which will affected him in the next film.

3.Superman: The Man of Steel(2016)

-Essentially BVS but it will dive more into the conflict between Superman and Batman in ideology(They won't really fight each other) and how Batman become more brutal against criminal afted he killed Joker(But he won't become The Punisher or anything) The villain will be Parasite which was transformed by Lex using the power of Motherbox. Superman will still die at the end.

4.The Suicide Squad(2016)

-James Gunn version, Continuing from The Batman which Harley was arrested.

5.Wonder Woman(2017)

6.Aquaman(2017)

7.Justice League Chapter One(2018)

-No "Dark Future" stuff, Other than that it could be based based on the Zack Snyder's version but with some minor changes and way shorter.

8.Shazam!(2019)

Phase 2:

9.The Batman Part II(2019)

-The main villains will be Talia Al Ghul and Deathstroke, Some teasing for a mysterious figure who will be revealed in the next Batman film.

10.Black Adam(2020)

-The film will be set in United States and not Kahndaq. Black Adam will be awaked by Lex Luthor. This film will also features Shazam and Suicide Squad(A new and different Squad to Harley's)

11.The Harley Quinn Show(2020) [Series]

-HBO Max premier series. Focusing on her relationships with Poison Ivy, Black Mask will be the main villain of the first season.

12.Wonder Woman: Frontier(2021)

-Set in the present day. Honestly just make the Wonder Woman Bloodlines story with Cheetah instead.

13.Martian Manhunter(2021) [Series]

-His origin story and how he came to Earth, It will also tied more into Darkseid plot.

14.Superman: The Man of Tomorrow(2022)

-Superman VS Black Adam as they wanted with Lex manipulated the event behind the scene, Inspired by Superman VS The Elite.

15.Doom Patrol(2022) [Series]

-MAX Series, Featuring Cyborg.

Phase 3:

16.Lanterns(2023) [Series]

-Pretty much the DCU version, It will also tied to Darkseid plot.

17.The Batman Part III(2023)

-It's Under The Red Hood but with Dick Grayson instead of Jason Todd, and without Joker who is already dead.

18.Shazam! in the Magiclands(2023)

-Just proceed with Mister Mind plot that was in the end credits of the first film. Featuring Black Adam who is trying to fit in with the rest of Shazam family.

19.Throne of Atlantis(2024) [Series]

-Focusing on the internal politics of Atlantis, With Black Manta come back as the main villain.

20.The Harley Quinn Show Season 2(2024) [Series]

-Harley Quinn with more Suicide Squad stuff mixed in. Harley will find an offspring of Starro(Jarro) and become its mother.

21.Justice League Chapter Two(2024)

22.Justice League Chapter Three(2025)

23.The Flash(2025)

Title: The Banana Splits II

Director: Danishka Asterhazy

Runtime: 1 hr 30 minutes

Plot:

Two years following the events of the first film, The Taft studio lot has been shutdown by the company’s CEO, Jim Long (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).

Poppy has been living in the abandoned studio with the dismantled animatronics. She rebuilds them and sends them out into the town to search for Harley’s family and the others who were at the studio. She blames them for the death of her fiancée and the studio for causing the animatronics to go haywire.

When Parker and her mom are kidnapped by Bingo and Drooper, the police immediately take action. Two FBI Agents, Agent Slater (Michael Che) and Agent Michaels (Bill Hader) are called in to investigate and they go to Harley and his family.

As the animatronics begin to go after random people and murders and abductions skyrocket, The FBI sends a SWAT Team to apprehend the animatronics at the abandoned studio lot, but they’re all slaughtered in various horrific ways.

Poppy and her animatronic buddies head into the town and convince a bunch of criminals and crackheads to launch a sort of revolt and go to war against the police and find Harley and his family.

Harley, his brother and mom, Zoe, the FBI agents, and Paige (from the first film) band together in a final fight against the animatronics in the town square.

As more FBI operatives and policemen arrive and quell the chaos, a military officer arrives in a helicopter and has his men take the incapacitated animatronics to an undisclosed location. And Poppy is taken to a psychiatric hospital.

By the end, the heroes slowly readjust to they’re old lives as the animatronics are studied at a government institute known as The Vault.

Homer Simpsons as..... HMR-1987

Maggie Simpson as.... MGE-1995

Pillow.... Loth-pup Pillow

Mr. Burns as.... Darth Burns

Waylon Smithers as..... Grand Moff Smithers

Sideshow Bob as..... Darth Bob

Moe Syzslak as.... Biaattcchh Moe-Tuna

Din Djarin.... as Mando

Grogu.... as Baby Yoda

Vending Machine...as the Bonk Droid

(Any ideas for the Simpsons characters?)

We have an intense aerial chase which leads Maggie telling Grogu to fly to the stalls. Maggie grabs supplies from the "Endor's Sticks and Stones". Maggie would throw sticks and stones at the fighters, which surprisingly works.

Though, Darth Bob causes the supplies to drop out of the ship. However, they land onto the slaves that are forced to mine for Kyber Crystals, leading to a revolution. Eventually, Grogu and Maggie manages to have Bob crash into an Imperial ship, sending both of them plummeting to the ground.

Just when it seems hope is there, Darth Burns, on the Tie-Couch uses the Force to pull the pram towards him so he can claim the Kyber Crystal.

Homer and Mando sees this but then, Homer gets an idea. He takes the Loth-pup pillow, shoves it into a torpedo tube and tells Mando to fire. The Loth-pup is fired straight at Burns, sending him plummeting to his death. (Pretty sure there would be a funny scene there).

Maggie still falls out of the pram however but Homer jumps out of his seat and commandeers the Tie-Couch to fly it to save Maggie. Happy moment.... then, a fleet of Star Destroyers appear, ready to rain down laser fire onto the planet.

Thankfully, Maggie inserts the Kyber Crystal into the Tie-Couch, activating its Super Laser. After that, the fleet is blown to smithereens.

Not long after, a ceremony is held where Homer, Maggie and the baby stroller are honored as heroes. We see the miners forcing the defeated Imperials at gunpoint....with sticks and stones.

After that, Homer and Maggie become New Republic officers are are piloting the Tie-Couch to help the New Republic against the Empire.

End Credits: Darth Bob is still alive. He gets out of his crashed ship and walks away, only to be sliced apart by a lightsaber rake.

The Dixie Kids

Synopsis: After their town gets taken over by the Union Army who bullies and destroys their stuff, a group kids work together to take on the Union Soldiers and fight to defend their way of life.

Plot: It's 1864 in the town of Sweetwater, Virginia, and when Union soldiers take control of the town, the citizens of Sweetwater struggle to hold onto their sense of normalcy. Among them is a group of children who witness the soldiers bullying locals and vandalizing property, including their own treasured spots. Despite being outmatched in age and strength, the kids—each with unique skills and courage—decide to stand up for their home. They devise clever schemes to push back, creating distractions, playing pranks, and sabotaging the soldiers’ efforts in small but meaningful ways. Then a group of Yankee kidnap one of the Dixie kids and threaten to imprison him for treason so the rest of the kids with the help of "humble servant" Tom Huckle, the kids track down the soldiers and rescue the kidnapped kid and dump rotten garbage getting them to leave. The kids get a chance to meet President Jefferson Davis who congratulates the kids for beating back the invaders and fighting for states rights. The kids return home as heroes and they get more "humble servants" as a reward from their parents.

It would be much smaller scale and focus on Nicky Roth (Jack Harlow) moving to Raven Brooks and investigating his neighbor, Mr. Peterson (Nick Offerman).

I watched parts of it on Netflix. A lot of the underlying ideas are kind of interesting (the heroine being the evil emperor's adopted daughter and trained into a killing machine by him), even some of the backstory (the previous emperor of the motherworld wanted to chill out and move towards peaceful coexistence with it's neighbors and the Big Bad took control to stop that from happening) were interesting. But it overall fell far short of it's potential. What would you do to make it more interesting as a movie?

Homer Simpsons as..... HMR-1987

Maggie Simpson as.... MGE-1995

Pillow.... Loth-pup Pillow

Mr. Burns as.... Darth Burns

Waylon Smithers as..... Grand Moff Smithers

Sideshow Bob as..... Darth Bob

Moe Syzslak as.... Biaattcchh Moe-Tuna

Din Djarin.... as Mando

Grogu.... as Baby Yoda

Vending Machine...as the Bonk Droid

(Any ideas for the Simpsons characters?)

Hours later, Homer, along with Maggie on her stroller, go to the town. The scene would back-and-forth between shops selling things and the father and daughter. Notice, after each shop showcases their products, we cut back to Maggie who holds some of those items.

Note: Foreshadowing

We then cut to see mysterious figures trailing the two. One in particular has a familiar theme.

Homer takes Maggie to a daycare center while he goes to a canteena nearby to find employment. This is followed by Mando (you guess it) who has Grogu follow Maggie while he goes after Homer.

Naturally, Homer is sitting at the bar, drinking his sorrows away with Duff bottle. Mando comes to him and tries to explain (or show) to him that the Empire is after him for the Kyber Crystal. Not long after, Grand Moff Smithers and a legion of Stormtroopers corner the two fathers.

Back to Maggie, she becomes intrigued with the new pacifier then meets up with Grogu. Suddenly, the Imperials come in, lead by Darth Bob.

Cue action scene.

Mando pulls out the Darksaber while Homer just takes a Duff bottle and smashes the bottom half which somehow turns into a lightsaber.

Grogu uses the Force to open a Jack-in-the-Box and launches it right at Bob's groin. This gives Maggie time to activate her baby stroller and it transforms its Droideka form which fires upon the Imperials.

The two got onto Grogu's hovering pram and escape. Grogu transforms the pram into a working starship and they head to the skies with the Imperials not far behind them.

Back with the fathers, eventually, Homer uses different beer bottles that turns into lightsaber with their own color.

Duff is Brown.

Corona is Yellow.

Bud Light is Blue

Heineken is Green.

Homer just throws all the lightsabers at his attackers only to miss all of them. Then, it turns out the sabers did surround them and are melting through the floor. Mando fires upon a ceiling light which drops and causes the unstable floor to crumble, sending Smithers and the troopers into the maw of the Rancor.

Both Homer and Mando head out the canteena and sees their children in danger. They get into Mando's ship, but Homer has to take seat in Grogu's. After that, they take off.

I wonder if there's too much conspiracism in the Prequels?

George Lucas said this famous quote, "Democracies aren't overthrown; they're given away" and developed the Prequels based on that idea.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020423000824/http://www.time.com/time/sampler/article/0,8599,232440,00.html

"All democracies turn into dictatorships—but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ... What kinds of things push people and institutions into this direction?"

In Clones, Lucas goes a way toward answering that question. "That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic." Lucas' comments clarify the connection between the Anakin trilogy and the Luke trilogy: that the Empire was created out of the corruption of the Republic, and that somebody had to fight it. "One day Princess Leia and her friends woke up and said, 'This isn't the Republic anymore, it's the Empire. We are the bad guys. Well, we don't agree with this. This democracy is a sham, it's all wrong.'"

However, deep down, I don't think even Lucas believed a democracy could be murdered in broad daylight. The ways Palpatine's rise to power was written, rather than the cult of personality and populism, they are very much based on conspiracism--Palpatine as this cruel, powerful, or controlling ancient religious forces, engineering both sides of the war, creating the secret clone and droid armies, enacting a secret protocol to massacre the Jedi at once, and launching a coup...

Thinking back, instead of focusing on that popular mandate and spontaneous aspect of Palpatine's rise, Lucas mistakenly focused on conspiracism. This is why Palpatine's speech declaring the transition to the Empire and the entire Senate applauding for it comes across as too sudden. Simply because the movies failed to show the turmoil of people which would contextualize Palpatine’s rise nor do we feel a growing losses of freedom within the Republic. They are thrown in as vague expositions that don’t materialize.

Agree? Disagree? Is there a way to make Palpatine's rise more spontaneous so that we completely buy for the Republic to transition toward the Empire?

I was thinking about what events led Goku achieving super sayjin 3 today and realized there really isn’t much back story to it. He just whipped it out to show Babadi.

If someone is up for it, let’s follow these main plot points: Goku remains dead and doesn’t interact with any other Z fighter. Have at least one Dragonball Super reference (foreshadowing) A tragedy leads to him achieving SSJ3 There should be 2 original characters, one new villain and one new ally It should end with Goku earning the right to go back to earth how we saw him at the beginning of the Buu Saga. Bonus: The events are wiped from Goku’s mind, only thing he knows is that he can achieve SSJ3

I’ll try it myself later today. Looking forward to replies.

Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Phantom would stay largely the same, overall it's a fine movie in my opinion (and my personal favorite out of all of them), however, what would be the first and biggest divergent point would be the removal of the romance sub plot between Anakin and Padme, she's 7 years older than him, it's just weird, their romance never made any sense, and I always got the feeling that George really didn't think it through. The prequels would've been a far better trilogy if Padme and Anakin at best shared a big sister / little brother-type relationship, where throughout the movies, she would exert her political influence to keep him out of trouble, and help him on his adventures.

Episode II: Attack of the Clones

I believe out of all Star Wars movies, this is the worst, right after Solo of course. There's a lot to fix in this, first of all, the complete removal of a romance subplot. But then I hear you ask, dear reader, who would be Luke and Leia's mother. The answer is simple, it would be another unorthodox Jedi like Anakin, say the padawan of Shaak Ti. A mischevious Padawan, the so-called black sheep of the Order, who not out of malice, but her own sense of right and wrong would pull Anakin away from the Order's more traditional approach, counterbalancing Kenobi's fatherly influence.

I personally always felt like if Bene (who is mostly a background character) had been introduced in Clones, and be introduced as a love interest to Anakin, would've made far more sense to the story. Two Jedi who fall in love, defy the Order, and get married in secret. The point of friction between Anakin and the Jedi could come from them discovering that Bene is pregnant and banishing her from the Order as a result, basically kicking her to the curb, Anakin goes off to find her, Kenobi trying to bridge the gap between the Order and his Padawan to maintain peace. Anakin beginning to hate the Order for banishing Bene, which would be the first thread Palpatine would start to pull on in Episode III.

And we won't have to suffer through Lucas' horrible romance dialogues.

Also, extend the battle sequences between the Clones and the Droids, which is pretty much the only saving grace of Episode II as it currently stands, maybe even add a space battle, introduce the Commandos, etc.

Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Closing off the Prequel trilogy, Anakin's fall to the Dark Side would make far more sense if it was out of hatred and rage over losing his wife and unborn children (he's led to believe), and believing their deaths to be the result of the Order's banishment of Bene. Or even have Palpatine manipulate Anakin into thinking that in fact the Order secretly tried to assassinate Bene, as her children, born of two powerful Jedi and out of love (an incredibly powerful emotion that they think only the Sith would foolishly indulge in), would be too powerful and unpredictable.

This way, Anakin's fall has some actual gravitas to it, and him killing younglings would make even more sense, at least in his mind, not just the whole "he's blinded by the Dark Side" spiel. This way, it's his way of thinking "If I can't see my children grow up, then you won't see these younglings grow up either", or something to this effect.

Bene would still die, of course, but not of a broken heart like Padme did (What were you thinking, George?), but by Sith assassins disguised as Jedi.

Simpsons Rogue Not Quite One

Homer Simpsons as..... HMR-1987

Maggie Simpson as.... MGE-1995

Pillow.... Loth-pup Pillow

Mr. Burns as.... Darth Burns

Waylon Smithers as..... Grand Moff Smithers

Sideshow Bob as..... Darth Bob

Moe Syzslak as.... Biaattcchh Mortuna

Din Djarin.... as Mando

Grogu.... as Baby Yoda

(Any ideas for the Simpsons characters?)

The scene would begin at a starry night sky before the camera pans down to see an Imperial facility with a holographic sign that says "Rogue Not Quite One". Of course, Simpsons shenanigans occur when the sign changes to let say "I.P. Freely".

Inside the facility, we start off in a small room run by a sleeping HMR-1987. The camera shifts out to show it is the janitor's closet, then showing an opened room opposite to it, housing several camtono canisters.

In-between them, there are a group of Stormtroopers, with one trying to show off his new and shiny armor only to get smacked with a camtono canister which drops a pillow shaped like a Loth-pup.

The mood changes when Darth Burns appear and kicks the Loth-pup Pillow. He meets up with Grand Moff Smithers who shows the latest Imperial plans to defeat the New Republic. As both Burns and Smithers laugh evilly, behind them, we see the Loth-pup Pillow is gone.

Note: So yeah, Homer has the Force so I'm setting it up with the Loth-pup Pillow. How Burns and Homer treat the pillow would show their character. Burns shot first...unfortunately.

We then transition to a large room, housing what appears to be a new craft for the Empire, that looks like an ordinary couch. Smithers explains (or shows) that this Tie-Couch is a starfighter that has the firepower of the Death Star, powered by a special Kyber Crystal. Smithers intends to demonstrate the power to Burns by having the laser targeting the "Orphanage of Passion and Creativity".

As the laser is counting down, we see several shots of the base with typical Simpsons shenanigans but one in particular has it showing HMR-1987 gently hugging the Loth-pup Pillow. When it reaches zero....BASE EXPLODES!

The test is a failure and the facility is in ruins. Darth Burns gets angry at Smithers. Then, HMR-1987 shows up. Though as he did, we see that the special Kyber Crystal is lodged on the ceiling above him before it drops into his suit. Smithers points fingers at HMR-1987 and Burns electrocutes him.

We see HMR-1987 fired and is leaving the facility on his speeder bike. Though because of his weight, the bike goes back-and-forth in moving and stopping.

HMR-1987 returns home and his wife greets him. HMR-1987 shakes his head with HMR's wife getting the message. To lighten the mood, Maggie or MGE-1995 appears on her Droideka, that has been turned into a makeshift baby stroller. MGE-1995 shows her broken pacifier leading to a cute scene where HMR-1987 finds the Kyber Crystal and creates a new pacifier out of it.

The family get out to see the Binary Suns but with bugs roaming about getting burnt as they get too close to the suns.

GODZILLA REVENGE OF GIGAN

Following the events of godzilla vs space Godzilla,godzilla and little godzilla are living peacefuly on baas island. Deep in space mothra is preparing to destroy an astroid heading towards earth,she does so easly however this releases 3 monsters,gigan,megalon and a as of now microscopic hedorah who secretly latches onto mothra.gigan and megalon defeat mothra and she retreats back to earth with gigan and megalon hot on her tail. While rentering earths atmosphere hedorah flies off landing in a heavly polluted area of factorys.mothra lands on baas island where she is met by little godzilla,godzilla arives and begins to attack mothra thinking she was trying to kidnap Jr but his son difuses the situation. Mothra realizes godzilla has gotten much stronger then before and asks for his help in stoping gigan,Godzilla however refuses as he has no reason to help mothra or the earth.gigan and megalon arive on earth in japan and begin to rampage as a now kaiju sized hedorah uses his flight form to go to thier location whipping out all humans and metal he flies over. He also flies over bass island and while all 3 kaiju do not die little godzilla is hurt and gets sick by hedorahs toxins causing godzilla and mothra to persue him.the jsdf deploys thier newest wepon jet jagar to fight gigan and megalon and does very well killing megalon but once hedorah arives he is destroyed. Godzilla and mothra arive and godzilla fights gigan while mothra takes on hedorah. godzilla Jr arives having secretly followed them and mothra dies protecting him.enraged Jr fires his first ever atomic breath and manages to kill hedorah via evaporatorating him. Godzilla defeats gigan with assistance from his son and a spiral heat ray and the two return to baas island

Also a bunch of human stuff I couldn't care less about

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He is played by Sebastian Stan. With makeup and some extra weight, he'd be perfect.

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Lex Luthor was born in Metropolis to the Billionaire tycoon Lionel Luthor, one of the strongest people in Metropolis. Luthor was born into wealth but always craved further power and respect due to the mentality his father taught him. He was intelligent and a genius since his young days, way smarter than people at his age, but was disrespected by Lionel who always pushed him further and beyond Lex's limits and mentally abused him. Lex sees himself as superior to others due to his intellect, skills, and family heritage as taught by Lionel.

By the time Luthor was in his 20s, he joined the business world and became a businessman. The Young Luthor was a selfish and arrogant yuppie, straight out of American Psycho and the Reagan era, and used his intellect to become more powerful and richer, joining his father's LuthorCorp and expanding it. His high intellect would be useful to him in developing new weapons and technology that would turn LuthorCorp into more and more powerful selling weapons to the US army.

He gained a huge crowd of wealthy fans and politicians who wanted to be close to him and would slowly rise through the ranks of the Elite of Metropolis. While he was adored by some, he was despised by others who saw him as a ruthless, arrogant, power-hungry, and selfish businessman. Some of his rivals were the mayor of Metropolis and Perry White. Luthor celebrated the spirit of the Bush era by crushing his rivals, taking over more companies, and selling weapons. His political views are very Nationalistic, he believes America needs to be stronger and tougher, and that the market doesn't need regulations. He would slowly also gain influence within politics, and craft a public image that portrays him as an American Patriot. While Lex is rising to power, Lionel still disrespects him. Luthor would buy papers and force them to adopt his narrative but one Paper refused to be his tool - the most popular paper in America, The Daily Planet, which would drive Luthor nuts.

Luthor would eventually sabotage his father's flight and would take over LuthorCorp, turning it into LexCorp. Lex would buy congressmen but would get into fights with the mayor of Metropolis, who sees through his manipulations. Lex would also build an alliance with religious organizations that kiss the ground he walks on and would later be useful in spreading conspiracies against Superman and painting Superman as the "Antichrist".

Lex would rise to become much more powerful then his father was, and truly believes himself to be America's protector and the one who will save humanity. Someone who looks and talks like he can lead the free world. Someone that an outsider will adore. He believes himself to be the protector of civilization and a historical figure, which leads him to believe that he can bend the law to his will.

All of this will change when someone in a cape rises to glory..

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Having seen that short, I can tell somebody just don't care about the characters and just put in dumb jokes and mindless action. I want to correct that.

The story would begin with Homer, as an Imperial working in a hidden facility to help create a super-weapon for the Empire. Let's say it's a "Death Couch". However, Homer's laziness would somehow ruin things leading to his superior, Moff Smithers to fire him. Unbeknownst to everyone at the time, the main power source, a Kyber Crystal wounds up in his suit, similar to how in the Simpsons Opening Sequence where plutonium got into Homer.

Homer comes back home and be with his family. Homer finds the Kyber Crystal and uses it to create a makeshift pacifier for Maggie.

The next day, Homer and Maggie head to the daycare center, with both Imperial and Mando coming after them. Homer leaves Maggie at the center while he heads to Moe's Canteena to find a job. Mando follows Homer while leaving Grogu to look after Maggie.

The Imperials consists of Moff Smithers, Darth Bob and Inquisitor Eyebrow Baby.

We have two fights occurring.

1. We have a Canteena fight where Mando and Homer team up against Moff Smithers and his Stormtroopers. Mando uses the Darksaber while Homer breaks a Duff bottle....and somehow turns into a lightsaber.
2. Grogu rescues Maggie but not before using the Force to have a Jack-In-The-Box to launch and hit Darth Bob right in the groin. After that, it's Eyebrow Baby going after them.

This all leads to Darth Burns to launch the Death Couch and the heroes are able to beat him by turning his own weapon against him and the Imperial Fleet.

Homer gets a job as a member of the New Republic and he and Maggie uses the Death Couch to fight evil.

This movie is really well made and mature... for the most part, but Pinocchio's song to mock Mussolini is just... embarrassing, not even in the funny way, ESPECIALLY that it doesn't even make sense, so yeah, I would change that.

Also, here's some story tweaks and other ideas I had:

1. At the beginning of the movie there's a scene where it's revealed that sometimes souls of people (which are glowing blue like the blue fairy) buried in the forest enter the trees (I don't know, that would fit to the fairy's more angelic nature in this movie and maybe it would justify her giving Pinocchio life even more, like, trees CAN absorb souls so she CAN give him life, maybe that could even be tied to HER origin somehow, just an idea).
2. Pinocchio is made out of pine and oak which would make his name literal (pine-oak-io).
3. I know the pleasure island plot line is dropped from this movie but I think it would be cool if Pinocchio turned into a wooden donkey (it was never done before, he always turned into the real donkey which didn't really make sense), maybe it could be a dream or a part of one of the "afterlife" sequences.

Hear me out:

I usually don't go for these preemptive fixes, but I think it's pretty obvious this movie is going to be a stinker. It just seems so... thuddingly obvious in what it's doing. Yet another fantasy movie where the snarky protagonist strolls around saying "well, that just happened!" like that counts as a joke. A throwback to the days of Joss Whedon ruling Hollywood, still trying to subvert expectations when there are no real expectations to subvert.

My main beef is with the casting. Both Evans and Johnson are playing their usual personas (give to take a Captain America). Evans is a snarky, cynical wiseass and Johnson is a gruff, no-nonsense straight man. But wait. This is a movie with an absurd premise about Santa Claus! Why are BOTH main characters playing against that sentimental holiday energy? The Rock as Santa's bodyguard is already a funny premise. You don't need to put a hat on a hat by giving him a sarcastic sidekick to explain the jokes. The Rock talking to Santa Claus is either funny on its own or it never will be.

What I'd do instead is go the Dungeons & Dragons route, with actual sincerity and commitment. Instead of making the Chris Evans character a snarky cynic, make him a Chris Pine character who is awestruck by all these wonderful things he encounters. Johnson can be the seen-it-all-before grouch who underplays everything, while Pine gets swept up in whatever the scene is about.

I just think it'd be funnier if there was this big contrast between the characters and instead of the expected cliche of the outsider mocking everything he encounters, he acted like Reese Witherspoon in a Target commercial.

Driscoll

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There will be one episode focusing on Driscoll who is the surprising main character there. In the original, there was nothing substantial about Driscoll. Not even being the founder of the Negative Ten doesn't change how unremarkable of a villain that he was.

Here, we get to see more about Driscoll and his relationship with Enoch. Unlike the original, Driscoll really was serving under Enoch as the latter's main tech expert, building all of the equipment the Forever Knights used. Even the Forever Ninja was one of Driscoll's reactions.

However, whenever the Tennysons thwarted them, Enoch always blamed Driscoll for the failures. By Season 3, Episode 4, Enoch replaced him with Dr. Viktor.

While Driscoll is not someone that should earn sympathy, his journey is trying to surpass both his boss and Dr. Viktor makes him sort of compelling and one to root for.

Plumbers

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Now, evil Plumbers have been quite common in later years but I want the idea to be the focal topic of Max's character arc and may have been the reason that caused Max to left. We have seen time and time again how capable Max is, even at his old age. There was a lot of reluctance and shudder on Max's part that seems to suggest that it wasn't old age that got him retired.

To be more specific, it's not that the Plumbers are completely evil. It's just that they are totally out-of-touch of their humanity. They have spent so long fighting evil aliens that the mission is all that matters. Civilian casualties is secondary.

Long ago, Max already had a family but he is too-focused in completing the mission at all cost. However, that all changed when Vilgax appeared. Max was facing the greatest challenge at the time but it wasn't he nor the Plumbers to got Vilgax to leave the planet. It was an alien fugitive who Max encountered and they helped him finally defeat Vilgax.

After so many years, one good alien came and turned the tide for Earth's future. That alien saved Max's family. Sure, he may have just brushed it off as one in a million but overtime, Max realized he was losing sight of his humanity. So, he left.

Unfortunately, none of the Plumbers had and they don't care if Ben is Max's grandson. To them, he is a threat to the world and needed to be put down.

Anur Monsters

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If you want to make the Big Bad threatening, do the same for his minions.

Before meeting Ben, Dr. Viktor had been pulling the strings to get where we are at, even facing off against the Forever Knights. If this new bad guy can take out the old one, it would only make the anticipation of their and Ben's confrontation much more engaging.

To the point, none of these monsters suffered losses at Ben's hands. Instead, they are the ones that are coming out on top, even if the Tennysons mess them a little bit.

Z'Skayr

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Personally speaking, the reveal of Z'Skaryr's return is cool but not a lot has done to make this hype stay. There wasn't any engaging confrontation between both Z'Skayr and Ben. Now, I'm changing things.

More hints would be littered about Z'Skayr's involvement. Then, have him subtly tears down Ben in ways no one can imagine. And I'm not just talking jumpscares, we are going to see Z'Skayr phsychologically mess and torture Ben to the point he is breaking down. And all of this is due to what happened in Season 2 where Ben abused the Omnitrix's Master Control.

The movie begins with Kate Bishop, Ms. Marvel, and Cassie Lang in a street ally fighting crime. Kate Bishop uses her trick arrows to zap the criminal till unconscious and return the money to the bank. All three headed to Avengers Campus where Kamala goes into the database for the criminal's identity. Thor accompanies his adopted daughter Love to leave her at the Avengers campus while he battles Dr. Doom and the other gods. Suddenly, the alarm goes off from New York State Maximum Prison; it is Tommy Maximoff breaking out of prison. As the three go after Tommy, they come across his twin brother, Billy Maximoff flying down to save his brother. The three knew they were the scarlet witches' children so they took Billy and Tommy back to the Avengers Campus. Kamala shows them the Westview hex memories and tells Billy and Tommy they are the Scarlet Witches' children. It appears that Wanda is in the Battleworld castle with Dr. Doom. Kamala tracks down Dr. Doom's ( God Emperor Doom) castle on battleward and he's in the center of his throne. The young Avengers including Love go on a journey to find Dr. Doom and Wanda. On their way, they meet America Chavez running from Doom bots. The Doom bots appears to capture America Chavez and take her to God Emperor Doom. The young Avengers set off to save America Chavez, also that's where the Scarlet Witch is currently at. At Doom's throne, America was chained up upside down and weak. Doctor Doom appears and finds the young Avengers trying to save Chavez. He calls out for the evil variants of the Avengers to fight them. Love uses her laser eyes to free America Chavez to join the fight against the evil variants. Then, the scarlet witch comes in with her realizing that her children are alive this whole time. Billy and Tommy reunite with their mother as Wanda regains her memories of them. The movie ends with the young Avengers joining the fight on Battleworld fighting other variants from other universes. 

Inspired by the Young Avengers Comics 2005, and the Children Crusade Comics 2017

If anyone is able to please provide me with the digital/Disney+ exclusive elemental deleted scenes, embers intro and beach proposal, it would be truly gratefulmy appreciated as I cannot access them anywhere for myself

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