1. Have a montage shown as the intro where Lightning wins all his four Piston Cups instead of just telling us he did it.

2. Explain how Doc died.

3. Remove the spy plot and instead focus purely on WGP. Have one race on each continent.

4. Lightning and Mater could still have their falling out. Mater does something that screws Lightning over by being himself so he looses the first race and have Lightning overreact but have Mater actually learn something valuable from it. He could get sad, travel the world on his own and be involved in stuff which changes him to take stuff more seriously and be more serious as a person sometimes when he’s not at home. He comes back to the last race and redeems himself by helping Lightning winning it. Lightning meanwhile gets upset at himself for being too hard on Mater and learns that it's important to hold onto friendships, especially your best friend.

5. Francesco eventually feels symphaty for Lightning because he showed many of his old friends away because they also were annoying but he misses them every day because they also had very good sides to them. This makes Lightning truly understand the good sides of Mater and also eases up Francesco and Lightning's rivalry.

6. Have the rest of the Radiator Springs gang accompany them on their journey because they are very sidelined in the original movie. They closes Radiator Springs and puts up a sign saying they are on a holiday. Sally helps Lightning realizing how much Mater means to him and how much he means to Mater, they also go on romantic dates and explore stuff outside of the races. Also the rest of the Radiator Springs gang interracts with other cars, perhaps they meet some who do the same stuff they do. Ramone for example meets another grafitti painter and they have a fight about how a car is the best painted while Sheriff meets another sheriff and they have totally different views on the law.

Instead of doing what he’s doing to spite Pym, he’s doing this to make Hank Pym better, and to make him use his Pym Particles to do good, to protect people, and not just to be this big secret that people don’t get.

He’s attempting to make him a better person who is willing to do what is right. He’ll hate Scott because Hank is using him as a pawn to protect what he loves, and is disgusted by him and what he’s being used to do.

This makes Darren a person who’s goal is too motivate his “mentor” to do what’s right and get up and help people and not let his Formula die with him.

It’s going to be, “I’m going to give it to people good and bad, or you’re going to use it to do something good.” He’s attempting to get Hank Pym to be a better person.

He’s also hypocritical, as he’s doing what Hank is, only attempting to help people that he loves and deep down he loves being Rich, this is just a bad mechanism to deal with this.

And add to his background, he was abandoned or abused as a kid, and Hank Pym did right to help him “get up” shall we say when he was an adult. He loves Hank, but believes he’s able to be better.

This not only gives him depth, but will let us see what Hank doesn’t do well, and how he’s possessive to a FAULT, with his Pym Particles.

My idea is he’s a reverse-Black Widow. SHIELD brought him in because he, Tony Masters, was experimented on as a kid to cure a disease that would cause him to become braindead quick, and due to this he was given a Photographic Memory and able to Mimic people’s moves in battle. Mom and dad weren’t able to raise him.

Masters did work with SHIELD, and was an asset that little people knew about, who was known as Taskmaster, used to kill people when it was needed most. He was done with being used at a point, around when Natasha was with The Red Room, and dipped.

This where we’ll get to Dreykoff. He won’t be in this. Instead, we’ll use Ivan Bezukhov. He was Nat’s “handler” with The Red Room and he was her “Father-Figure” who brought her in to it. For his relationship with Dreykoff, he’s Vader to Dreykoff’s Palpatine.

Both Ivan and Taskmaster believe people are predictable, they’re only capable of doing what they’re taught. It’s hypocritical though, as Tony is obsessed with becoming the best and self-improvement, and Ivan is not doing what he’s taught, this isn’t working with Russia; and instead of believing that people only CAN do what there taught, like Tony, he believes people SHOULD only do what there taught. They’ll both see Natasha as a deviation from what people are capable of doing, and are going to be disgusted by her existence. Ivan is going to want to use Mind-Control to ensure that this is never going to happen again.

Once Dreykoff was killed, Ivan took over The Red Room. He “evolved” himself by becoming part-robotic. He recruited Tony Masters, who, in a big twist, we’d reveal liked being used and liked killing, and he believed he was “replaced” when Natasha was brought in. Taskmaster is going to believe he has no purpose or use besides killing as a weapon, and that’s what Natasha’s purpose and use is as well.

Taskmaster has right to do work besides what The Red Room gives him, and it’s better than what SHIELD gave him. He was asked by Ivan to deal with Natasha, to get revenge, and that will be his goal to kill her or better, to get in her head, and break her.

I think this is better, Ivan with a personal relationship to her, and Taskmaster as an ideological parallel to her.

#FNAF

#TFO

Challenge: pitch me a rewrite of The Marvels(2023) that makes the film much better than it was and gives off a much more compelling character arcs for the three leads.

Years ago I said if Sony wants to continue the Uncharted franchise, they should remake Golden Abyss--the Vita prequel spin-off by Bend Studios. I still believe this is the route to go for. Considering Bend Studio is out of a job after the cancelation of the Days Gone sequel and the God of War live-service game, a remake of the black sheep of the franchise could remedy their reputation and gauge interest in more Uncharted.

Full-blown remakes are suitable for flawed games with unique quirks that could not be remedied with a sequel. I hated The Golden Abyss, but even I have to admit they got the Uncharted feel perfectly down to PS Vita. The moment I hit the new game, the general feel and aesthetics harkened back to the original Uncharted. It felt exactly like a portable version of Uncharted 1, with all the same shittiness. One major blight with the game is gimmicks. If the game is riddled with minigames, it means the developers themselves know the core gameplay is too weak and shallow to hold the full-length game. It is riddled with the Flash game-tier minigames and tedious QTEs. even the melee is turned into a quick-time event. No one likes them. No one asks for them. Instead of wasting time and resources developing those terrible minigames, they should have spent them on fleshing out the core gameplay.

But they are the gameplay problems. In the old post, I only talked about how the gameplay could be reimagined, but the story is also something that needs fixing. Although a portable spin-off could be restraining for creative freedom, it is also a great opportunity for the developers to experiment with the formula. Namely, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and God of War: Chains of Olympus have some of the best narratives in their respective series. This is why it is unfortunate how Golden Abyss has such a nothing story. The set-pieces suck, which is understandable considering it's made for Vita, but there are not even the moments that come across as somewhat creative. The pacing drags and drags with the repeating scenery and environments. It features some of the worst characters in the entire franchise. Chase is the worst sidekick. Guerro is the bargain bin version of Lazarević. Dante is the most interesting addition, but even then, he is just a repeat of Flynn from Uncharted 2, and his sudden turn toward the "mercenary boss" role comes across as jarring. If he could hire an entire army anyway, why not hire them in the first place? It comes across as one of the episodes of the TV serial, maybe Season 12 of it, long after they ran out of ideas.

However, there is one movie that came to my mind recently while replaying it... called Lupin the Third: The First. A standalone prequel seemingly set earlier than the other installments. Lupin aims to steal an ancient relic that could be a key to the massive wealth but inevitably comes across Laetitia--a young and kind-hearted female treasure hunter who wants to steal the same treasure. Lupin and Laetitia clash with each other initially, but they eventually team up when a rogue army related to Laetitia is chasing to use it for a sinister purpose. Eventually, Laetitia reveals her reason for looking for the treasure. She is the granddaughter of the famous archeologist and doing it to honor her grandfather's legacy. She gains respect from Lupin, whose motive goes from selfish greed to helping his new partner, and in the process, they flirt and eventually kiss. Sounds familiar? There are also some scenes that bear striking similarities. Obviously, Golden Abyss' story is not exactly fresh anyway in the adventure genre, but despite tackling the same premise I gave some shit about Lupin the Third: The First while I didn't with Golden Abyss.

I realized the big problem why I couldn't connect with the new characters was the introduction. In the other Uncharted games, there is the proper first act where you get to know the characters and the goal: Uncharted 1 with the boat scenes, Uncharted 2 with the Istanbul heist, Uncharted 3 with the London fight, and The Lost Legacy with the urban street battle. Uncharted 4 has Panama and home. The games tend to ease the player into what treasure they are about to get and who they are about to partner with or fight before starting the adventure.

Golden Abyss starts without the beginning, throwing the player into the adventure that's been happening midway through. After the lackluster flashforward segment, which seemingly only exists to spoil the future events, you are accompanying this boring guy named Dante who apparently has a decade-old friendship off-screen to investigate... something. And then some bad guy from the insurgent army comes up to shoot you because you and Dante didn't get a permit (which doesn't even make sense since it is revealed the reason why Guerro is looking for the treasure is all because Dante is secretly working for Guerro all along). You fight back and continue on to dig up the ancient corpses killed by poison. Dante's partner named Chase comes up and pulls up a mysterious amulet that Dante doesn't know about, and refuses to let Nate examine it unless he agrees to her offer of partnership. The bad guys arrive and you fight your way through until you realize Dante has been working with the insurgent army led by a warlord named Guerro. Guerro knocks you out and throws you into a burning building, but you escape and rescue Chase by mowing down more bad guys, but Chase wouldn't want to leave until Nate retrieves her amulet... With that, literally 1/3 of the game has passed. See the problem?

There is a very little "story" here, but stretches it to an insane degree. Right from the start, the stakes are vague and low, and they only get lower. It doesn't even seem like Nate wants to get the treasure... because we don't know what they are even going after! If anything, he is bored in most of the playthrough, and the only reason he is in it is because his friend told him to come. The characters also are not in danger until the burning building scene. Nate and the player don't really care about the McGuffin falling into enemy hands. What happens if Guerro gets what he wants? I guess his army gets stronger. So what? Why should I care about Chase's amulet? Because Chase would be sad otherwise. Yeah, that's about it. That's what this story is about. Why should I care about Chase? She's pretty annoying and unhelpful since she refuses to hold a gun.

In addition, Nate is a passive character here. The scenes, conflict, and plot are more driven by Dante and occasionally Chase, while Nate is dragged along and reacting to the gunfires and findings he stumbles upon. The only real choice he makes is to go after the bad guys with Sully to rescue Chase, and that occurs at about the midpoint of the plot. Once Sully joins, it does get better because the banters with Sully are way more fun, but by that point the 2/3 of the story has passed.

I believe the story would be twice as good if the first third of the story was different. I am thinking of what Uncharted: The Lost Legacy did--one setting, but more focused on the open exploration and road trip. Having the game take place in one location means you can flesh out more as a real place. However, just as The Lost Legacy did, there needs to be the first act of sort that takes place somewhere else but in the jungle.

Let's start the game without a flashforward. Uncharted 1, 3, The Lost Legacy didn't have it. Instead, it takes place in Guerro's rebel hideout, in which Dante and Nate have been called to work for them as an expert. Nate isn't expecting much at this point. Unknownst to them, a mysterious woman is following them to sneak into the hideout. They meet Guerro, who shows a precious amulet that could be the key to finding the lost city of Quivira. Guerro wants to find the city and use its wealth to build his military to topple the government. Nate thinks Guerro is talking gibberish and doesn't believe in the existence of Quivira, but he likes the cool amulet he sees, which could be worth a fortune.

Recklessly, Nate finds an opportunity to steal the amulet, and he takes Dante with him to leave the place. Guerro realizes the amulet is gone and the hideout is on alert. Dante curses at Nate and realizes his relationship with Guerro is jeopardized as Guerro's troops are also going after him. Nate and Dante shoot their way out of the hideout in a chase set-piece. It is important to remember that this is Nate in his youth before the character arcs he went through in all the mainline Uncharted games. Nate at this stage is like Indy from The Temple of Doom. He is immature and doesn't care about repercussions. Nate was like this in the trilogy, too--that was his whole character arc--and he is more so at this age. It is a shame because none of this personality is even hinted at at any point in Golden Abyss, in which he is softer than any other Uncharted game.

Nate wears a gas mask and unleashes a tear gas to repel the troops and escapes the place with Dante and the amulet, but his plan is foiled by a young woman. She uses a combination of acrobatic abilities to snatch the amulet from Nate's hand. She squeals off into the distance with her vehicle. As Nate is stunned, Dante says he knows who she is. She is Marisa Chase--a cat burglar who is also searching for Quivira.

The next day, with the help of Dante, Nate tracks Chase to a resort, where she enjoys freediving or other recreational activities fitting for the tropical setting. Nate approaches her, disguised as one of many tourists. Dante doesn't follow him since Chase already knows about him, but she has not seen Nate's face. Nate approaches her, expecting to make contact and gain her confidence to find out where she hid the amulet. Nate dives after Chase, chasing her, and eventually, they challenge each other. Nate and Chase are exhilarated by sheer recklessness.

As they emerge out of the water, Chase casually invites Nate to a beach bar for a drink. They talk about themselves to each other, but they are evasive as to who they are. It is becoming clear, unlike what Dante said Chase is not a cat burglar, but an archeologist. Eventually, Chase discreetly pulls out a weapon against Nate and says she knows this meeting is not unintentional. It's obvious Nate's working for Dante and Guerro. Nate then gets honest and reveals everything he was up to--his friendship with Dante, why he was called to, and how he wanted the amulet just for the quick bucks. Realizing Nate is more than knowledgeable on archeology, Chase offers him a partnership, saying he can earn more than simply selling the amulet to the black market. She says she has been chasing Quivira for most of her life and assures him that it is absolutely real, and she knows where to find it. She shows Nate a map that points to the trail of the Spanish conquistadors in central Panama. Nate is still skeptical, but it has piqued his curiosity.

Before they can learn more, they are interrupted by the arrival of Guerro's men, who have chased them to the beach. It is revealed that it was the trap. While Nate was off to approach Chase, Dante had secretly informed Guerro of Nate's whereabouts, so that they could retrieve the amulet. Going through the spectacle set-pieces, Nate and Chase wreck through the resort to escape. With Dante backstabbing him, Nate agrees to Chase's proposal.

Nate and Chase travel through the jungle to follow the map but realize the place is already occupied by Guerro's forces, so Nate shoots his way to the dig site. At the dig site, Nate and Chase unravel the remains of a group of Spanish conquistadors who were murdered via poisoning by forces unknown. The only clue to why the soldiers were killed is a grave marker carved with a symbol Nate recognizes as being of Visigoth origin.

Chase reveals her backstory. This amulet belonged to the grandfather of Marisa Chase, and she carries it with her at all times, as it is very special to her. Her grandfather had been searching for the lost city of gold of Quivira for 20 years until he was diagnosed with cancer. Perez hired Dante to take charge of the expedition and Perez soon mysteriously disappeared.

More of Guerro's forces arrive and Nate and Chase flee, getting chased through the forest. Eventually, Guerro and Dante catch up to them, taking the amulet and Chase into their captivity and knocking Nate unconscious.

With the first third of the story changed, the rest of the story can be the same. It sets a better ground to build off the relationship between Nate and Chase. There is an actual characterization. The characters are doing things and making choices, which makes them active. The stake are clearer. There are more locations other than the constant jungle, showing the different sides of Panama. The things are visualized, such as Chase's desire to find the lost city, who Guerro and his army are, as well as how sneaky Dante could be. It also makes sense why Guerro backstabs Dante later on at the 2/3 point of the story. In the game, there's really no reason for him to betray Dante. Here, there is a reason, because he shot up his army and inadvertently helped Nate steal his shit at the beginning of the story.

If you have not read phase 1 here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/s/B0HKgLV7jT

Phase 2 Captain America(2013) this movie follows Steve Roger’s becoming captain America and fighting the red skull and Heinrich zemo also in the final battle Heinrich zemo plants bombs On a plane and Bucky goes to it and try’s to defuse them but it blows up and Bucky crashes and “dies” and Heinrich zemo dies and cap crashes his plane and wakes up after being thawed out by the avengers. A post credits scene shows baren zemo who is Heinrich zemos grandson looking at his grave and saying he will avenge him and kill captain america.

The Invincible Iron man(2013) this one is gonna be about tony after the events of the avengers and dealing with ptsd but at the same time Wen wu also known as the mandarin has been staging attacks across the United States. Nick fury then speaks with tony about this and assigns Clint Barton aka Hawkeye to help tony locate and defeat the mandarin. Wen wu’s motives are revealed as he wants revenge against iron man for destroying his operations all the way back in the first iron man movie and has been waiting in the shadows. So iron man and hawkeye investigate the attacks and after one of their attacks leaves behind a rare residue, tony uses Jarvis to analyze it and identifys it as being from China. And after they defeat another ten rings member they interrogate him and the member gives up the mandarins location. Iron man and Hawkeye then go to China and they raid the mandarins castle and find that he has been waiting for them and then fights them. Initially the mandarin poses as a challenge for them but they eventually get the hang of it as when wen wu uses the spin ring ability tony manipulates the energy and causes them to destabilize wen wus control of the rings. Now that he’s powerless, wen wu is arrested by shield and iron man invites Hawkeye onto the avengers. The post credits scene shows baron zemo talking to wen wu in prison and saying he’s forming a counter avengers.

Thor: Sorcery and Steel(2014) this would be nothing like the actual Thor sequel. Let me explain. The film opens up centuries ago and shows amora the enchantress experimenting on forbidden magic only for Odin to discover it and banish her to the weird world limiting her power. We then cut to present day and Thor exploring more of earth since in this version of the mcu his first time on earth was in the avengers. He meets a nurse named Jane foster and they develop feelings for each other. Meanwhile on Asgard after Lokis invasion on earth he has remained in Asgard prison and has been communicating with amora through magical channels. Loki has been telling her Asgard and Thors weaknesses and their plot to take revenge against Odin. Also it’s worth mentioning that enchantress has been growing in power in her exile. Thor brings Jane foster to Asgard so she can learn more about it when suddenly Loki has been freed with the help of the enchantress and skurge but is secretly plotting to betray her(he is the god of mischief after all). Also amora made it look like Loki escaped on his own and then she and executioner launch an attack on Asgard which forces Thor to intervene and stop them also the executioner kills Thors mom and in this battle we should see asgardians cast spells at enchantress and use this movie to introduce balder the brave as Thors half brother and ally. Anyways enchantress seduces asgardian soldiers and makes them try and assassinate Odin but Thor and balder intervene and manage to bring them back. He learns that amora has returned and is attempting to overthrow Asgard along with Loki. Now the climax has Thor, lady Sif, the warriors three, and balder fight Loki amora and the executioner along with asgardians casting spells against them. Now Thor faces off against amora alone and she attempts to seduce him however this backfires on her and Thor defeats her. Loki then betrays them both unsurprisingly and escapes. The post credits scene shows baron zemo talking to enchantress and skurge about joining his counter team.

Ant man and the wasp 2(2014) this would be the second installment in the ant man and the wasp seires and take place after the avengers and follow Hank and Janet facing off Nathan garret aka the black knight. Honestly I don’t have a whole lot of plot details except that Hank grows to giant man and ultron helps locate Nathan’s whereabouts. The post credits scene shows baron zemo alongside absorbing man, radioactive man, enchantress, abomination, and the executioner recruit black knight and the second one shows ultron learning to be more violent.

Avengers Under Siege(2015) this would revolve around baron zemo forming the masters of evil consisting of himself, enchantress,absorbing man, the executioner, abomination, crimson dynamo, black knight, the mandarin who has regained his ten rings, radioactive man. Basically baron zemo is out for revenge against captain america after learning about his revival because he killed his grandfather from the previous movie and also captain america would try to adapt to the modern world in this film. Also Simon Williams is gonna be introduced as the head of Williams manufacturing after his father died but after embezzling funds he gets arrested. While in prison the enchantress breaks him out and offers him ionic rays to which Simon accepts and gains new abilities like super strength, invulnerability, Flight, and energy projection and joins the masters of evil. The masters of evil eventually raid avengers mansion and the avengers kind of struggle against them until Hank let’s ultron intervene as he did help in the previous ant man movies however ultron goes too far and kills every single one of them except wonder man who would slowly redeem himself and join the avengers. Because of this Hank shuts down ultron. The black knight mantle is then passed onto Nathan’s nephew dane Whitman who joins the avengers. The lineup at the end is Captain America, Iron man, Thor, Giant man, wasp, wonder man, war machine, black knight, black widow, Hawkeye, and the hulk. The post credits shows that ultron is not completely gone and uploaded himself on a backup robot. The Amazing Spider-Man(2015) the Andrew Garfield movies in this universe would just not exist at all and Tom holland would be the second spider man after Tobey maguire. This movie follows 15 year old Peter Parker who has been operating as spider man for a couple months after uncle bens death. Also instead of ned Leeds being Peter’s best friend it is instead Harry Osborn like in the comics and this movie takes some story beats from the actual amazing spider man just changed. The villain is still the lizard but with a more reptilian look and Gwen Stacy is still the love interest. Some changes is that there are mysterious disappearances in the sewers and multiple lizards spotted. Eventually spider man and captain Stacy investigate the sewers and discover that Dr curt Connor’s has transformed himself into the lizard and was also transforming other people. They fight and the lizard kills Captain Stacy and then spider man webs him up or something and turns him into the police. The post credits scene shows kraven the hunter looking at videos of spider man.

I'm trying to figure out how would "This is the Thanks I Get?!" would work as a song for Princess Celeste. After accusing Queen Amaya of keeping her half-star hybrid heritage a secret from her her whole life, she storms off. The song os about Princess Celeste's anger and resentment towards the people of Rosas, Queen Amaya, and later on, Armaan (because he's the one who questions her first)

Lyrics: I am the picture of beauty and grace It's genetics! Yeah I got these genes from outer space

I've the presence of magnificence I put the “I” in omnipotence I'm passionate, I'm not petulant Someone praise me for my benevolence!

(Just look)

I've give the clothes off Benito's back If you really needed that I'll be the first one to volunteer Henry! If your home were to crumble Or if you were in trouble

I let you live here for free But only if you have my consent I clean up all your messes And I'm always there when you need to vent

I give and give and give and give You'd think they'd all be content And all I really want is just a little respect

And this is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da This is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da And this is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da And this is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

"You're so brilliant" Ah, that's the least you could say There's more, admit it "You're cute! And strong! And bold! And brave!”

(Thanks)

That's very much me to a t There's nothing in the world to rival me You dare to try and call me a snob? How would you like to try and do my job?

I'm the guardian of all your wishes It's what I really represent You dare question your princess The disrespect I just underwent!

You know I always got your back Yeah, really though, it's no sweat Since the day you were born And the day that we met

And this is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da This is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da And this is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da And this is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

I already made my choice I already made my choice My power's growing stronger every day I'm never letting it all to go away

A potion? A spell? A summon? A curse? Anything to make that light reverse! To this book I don't wanna be tethered, but Desperate times call for desperate measures

(Where was I? Oh, yeah...)

There's a traitor in this town And still I remain unbent Come out now, explain yourself I'm sure it's all just an accident!

Well, whoever finds them first Now, that's a wish well spent Honestly, keeping you safe Should be worth every cent

And this is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da This is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da And this is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da This is the thanks I get?! Chorus: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Oh, THIS IS THE THANKS I GET!?!

This is just an idea for my Wish AU rewrite. If you have any suggestions for it, be my guest.

I recently have been altering if not fully reworking the stories if they need it. I was at work on this one for a while because, naturally, it needs the most work despite its promising premise and some ideas. That said, here is my take on how DMC2 could be majorly improved as a story.

And, yes, I know the current timeline has the anime take place between 1 and 2, but for the sake of this rewrite, we'll say that doesn't exist yet -- it didn't at the time of release after all.

Dante's campaign

Since Trish isn't in DMC2's main story, have it start off with a cutscene montage of the two working together with instances of Dante in his depression -- that started in my small tweak of DMC1 -- being reckless and Trish getting annoyed. The opening mission could be a prologue where their objective is plain and simple, but Dante's recklessness nearly gets Trish killed. That being the final straw, Trish leaves Devil Never Cry and we are shown Dante changing the name back to Devil May Cry.

A while later, Dante is wallowing in his depression when demons attack his shop before a stranger butts in to help him. The next mission is him following the stranger to the museum in the opening of the original and the stranger, of course, is revealed to be Lucia. The opening of the original happens and Dante has a depressive stoic persona like before, but he still sneaks in some signature snark throughout as opposed to saving it for the moment he "crowns" Arius.

The setup for the mission involves the expanded material knowledge that Argosax's forces are at war with Mundus's despite the latter being sealed away. In order to prove himself more powerful, he is manipulating Arius to do his bidding, telling him to release him into the human world. This brings the Underworld war to the forefront of the series and exuberates Argosax's power and character better.

Dante could still have the coin flip shtick, but have it be more obvious that he's cleverly rusing everyone with the double sided image instead of making it look like he doesn't care to help kill devils. I also love him tricking Arius by switching the coins so we're keeping that -- just so long as it's presented in a way that doesn't make Arius stupid.

Instead of skipping straight to the mission of stopping Arius where virtually nothing happens, we are shown more life in the Vie de Marli amongst the Protectors clan and Dante getting to know their way of life. During his interactions, he could have sworn he saw Trish around talking to a clan member before she mysteriously disappears, Dante blaming his depression.

Have bosses talk so that they can have character and Dante can deliver more one liners -- aggressive ones signifying his depression for that matter.

In the original, Arius's sea base explodes at random presumably in an effort to kill Dante. During that mission, have it instead be because Dante discovered his computer archival secrets on how/where/when the Argosax ritual will take place.

Have clan members assist Dante and Lucia in gameplay so that there's some semblance of life in the missions. I know that making more NPCs probably would have been a limitation of the time, but if they were to ever remake DMC2 today, this would be a viable option.

Dante will continue to see Trish in cutscenes throughout missions and brush it off, until toward the end when he's for sure something's up.

Have Matier actually tell Dante the story of how Sparda returned from hell before the latter goes to save Lucia. For this, I will go with the theory that Eva is an Umbra witch (at least according to Kamiya's DMC). Have it be that in her pursuit of combating the Demon World, she once acquired the magical means to allow her husband to return from hell thus saving him -- whether they were married at this point or not, it could go either way. This would foreshadow my biggest addition to the rewrite coming up!

Dante's campaign would still end with him crowning Arius, defeating Argosax, and getting trapped in hell. However, the overall game would not end here or at Lucia's story for that matter.

Lucia's campaign would be mostly the same aside from some of my earlier cosmetic additions as I like her arc -- I would, however get rid of or alter the water level.

But now my biggest addition would be a...

Trish campaign!

That's right. Instead of a non-canonical replay of Dante and Lucia's missions with Trish, I would have her be an additional campaign. This would make it a more meaningful followup to DMC1 storywise.

Start with the intro tension between the two partners and have Trish break off to go freelance demon hunting and is cold toward the idea of ever working with Dante again. While living on her own, one day a mysterious caller summons her to Vie de Marli. The caller: Gloria from DMC4! Call me crazy, but I think if we wanted to maintain the idea for Gloria in DMC4 and make her a separate character from Trish, it ought to be set up here. Have Gloria be part of the Protectors with Lucia; Gloria and Trish work around the island to face demons separate from Dante and Lucia while Gloria also has this psychic ability to see the future, using it to save Trish from trouble. She would eventually get a vision of Dante being in trouble and becoming trapped in hell -- perhaps have her meet Dante at one point so it holds weight. Trish could be indifferent, reluctant even, to think about helping Dante ever again when he had been such a jerk before.

Then she remembers her will to change for the better -- another tweak I made to DMC1.

Trish and Gloria would go to some ruins where Trish unlocks Eva's buried Umbra witch powers she stowed away for another day -- the implication being that she didn't have them when she was killed by Mundus. Hearing Eva's spirit call to her, it enters the Perfect Amulet (a cosmetic addition to her model up to this point) as it gives her is given the ability to open portals back from hell, which can only be used once by one user at a time. Gloria then senses Dante in danger and bids Trish farewell as the latter follows Dante into hell, witnessing him defeat Argosax.

Soon as Dante motorcycle rides "all the way to hell", Trish eventually keeps up with him and apologizes, Dante realizing he wasn't hallucinating. While Dante has no clue how to get out of there, Trish offers to use his mother's power to find an area containing enough energy for a portal. They fight their way through hell before encountering a tortured soul variant of Argosax-Arius preventing them from getting out. The two easily destroy Arius once and for all, Trish getting them back to the human world to which Dante is grateful she came back. She then promises to always have his back and come back to Devil May Cry when needed, Dante realizing that his mother truly lives on through her now.

And that was my DMC2 MEGA-fix! I hope you found this more entertaining than the original and can't wait to read your thoughts!

Wish AU opening ideas

Now for my Wish AU rewrite, I am trying to figure out how to being my story. I decided to use two different openings to see which opening is better.

The first opening will be just like the original opening to the movie, but with some elements of the opening of Sleeping Beauty being added in. The opening talks about how the King and Queen of Rosas were longing for a child of their own, and then they finally had their wish come true with a daughter being born and they named her Celeste as if she was a gift sent from Heaven. As she was born, she was enchanted with gifts of beauty, song, and magic. But as the daughter was born, the king died. Soon a great holiday was declared for all the people of Rosas to pay their tribute to the newborn princess.

As Celeste was growing up, she was learning about every kind of magic and she became a great sorceress at a very young age. Then one day, the people of Rosas have forgotten about what they want or desire and they felt sad. Soon Princess Celeste declares that on her 15th birthday, she will be holding a wish granting ceremony every year on her birthday. But she can only grant one wish to only one person. The people rejoiced and praised the princess for they see her as the symbol of hope. Nobody knows how she has the ability to grant wishes until one day. And that where we are introduced to Armaan.

The second opening will be about Armaan narrating his life story growing up and how he gets along well with his parents. At one point in his life, he learned from his father about the stars and their connection to all living things. Then one day, when he was 9 years old Tomás died and Armaan and Sakina are grief stricken. Then over a year later, they moved to the Kingdom of Rosas where they now live with their grandfather Sabino. Armaan’s been living in Rosas for almost a year, he made some new friends and he's learning to like it, but he still feels like he wants to make a difference in his new home. And that's where we cut to the current moment where Armaan is now 11 and doing something important, like drawing or something.

These are just two ideas for how do I want to begin the story. What do you guys think?

Another thought I've had, have Kraven as a loner attempting to find someone worth killing, while Mysterio has cancer and is attempting to cure himself.

Phase 1: Iron man(2008) literally same exact movie except that Terrance Howard is replaced by don cheadle.

The Incredible Hulk(2008) this is largely the same movie just that abomination has a more comic accurate design and pym technologies is referenced and abomination is a lot more sadistic and pushes the boundaries of a pg 13 rating. The post credits scene shows Samuel sterns becoming the leader.

Ant Man and the wasp(2010) this would introduce Hank pym played by Neil Patrick Harris and his wife Janet van dyne played by Anne Hathaway and basically Hank has spent years building his ant man suit and shows it off and it shrinks so it’s a success and fights criminals with it while china sees this and decides to recreate it on chen lu played by Steven yeun but it backfires horribly and he turns to radioactive man and targets hanks newly founded company pym technology’s so this forces Janet to also become the wasp and stop him. Also ultron is gonna appear as hanks ai assistant and help ant man and wasp stop chen and turn him into the authority’s. The post credits scene shows tony stark approaching Hank and Janet about the avengers initiative and shows footage of the hulk from the previous movie and says to stop him.

Iron Man: Armor Wars(2010) this would change a lot from the real iron man sequel as Ivan vanko is instead crimson dynamo and adapts the armor wars comic but some stuff like Rhodey becoming war machine and the post credits scene can stay the same but one difference is that black widow has a Russian accent and is a more mysterious character.

Thor(2011) this would have a lot of changes like instead of taking place on earth it takes place entirely on Asgard a millenia before the events of any previous films and has Thor going through Herculean like trials to prove that he is worthy of Mjolnir with Thor speaking in a Shakespearean like tone and the asgardians actually being gods instead of godlike aliens. Another thing I would change is that instead of Asgard beijg all gold it’s a mix between gold and nature and the bifrost having a curve and be an actual rainbow bridge. Anyways the post credits scene shows loki going to the realm below and speaking with the rock trolls.

The Incredible Hulk 2(2011) this movie will be a sequel to the Incredible Hulk and follow the hulk fighting a new nemesis named absorbing man also this movie explores Bruce’s backstory a bit more and how his abusive father killed his motherwhich would explain Bruce’s line about being always angry in the avengers and also Betty Ross will appear to try and calm hulk down. The post credits scene shows Loki mind controlling the Hulk.

The Avengers(2012) this movie follows iron man, Thor, Hank pym, black widow and Janet vane dyne as they are brought by nick fury to form the avengers and fight the hulk who has gone on a rampage since he’s under Lokis mind control and at the fancy party German scene instead of Loki getting someone’s eye he instead unleashes the hulk which causes the avengers to go and stop him and eventually they do bring him back and make him join the avengers and the battle of New York has rock trolls instead of chitauri and fights between Thor and Loki are endless entertainment and Thor controlling the weather is used more and would continue his Shakespeare like speech. The post credits scene would show the avengers discovering captain Americas frozen body.

So lately I was thinking about movies that had good ideas and Concepts but they were badly done so heres my question; what were movies that had good ideas or concepts but they were executed badly? For me I have to say that M Night Shyamalan movies are great example of what I'm saying because they were a lot of creative ideas and the trailers look very good but when you watch them there's just this sense of boredom and disappointment. From Lady in the Water The Happening After Earth and also the village they are all very good idea but just badly done. Even though he can make very good movies too The Sixth Sense I remember when I watched it when the movie ended my immediate response was what happened because everything after that felt so underwhelming or terrible so I would love to hear other examples of movies that had good ideas that they were badly though.

First of all I'd skip the dark phoenix saga, Giant-size and first class. Already done. If possible I'd bring some of the fox x-men to supply that backstory.

The essy answer would be keep adapting from Claremont's run following dark phoenix. But knowing movie franchises have another logic, I'd mix a bit of eighties x-men with mid-90's and mid-late 2000's. There's things already done by fox movies, but I think they can be reimagined in a new context and are not as archetypal as phoenix or creating the team from scratch.

##Phase 1:

Emma frost movie. A bit of the rival schools and Hellfire Club from Claremont's and the mental takeover over Xavier's of Whedon's.

Time travel movie. A mix of Days of future past and Age of Apocalypse. If possible I'd throw a bit of Legion also.

Deadpool: all old x-men vs the new mutants

##Phase 2:

Something with the Morlocks... Not mutant massacre. Maybe they kidnap Dazzler.

Space movie/s: Brood Saga and Breakworld

Rogue movie/s: Rogue and Captain Marvel. Mutant cure and something inspired by from the ashes (either something with Wolverine or Cyclops).

Deadpool vs. The shiar empire

##Phase 3: Onslaught/Decimation

Deadpool: Messiah Complex

So you know how phase 4 mostly sucked well I’m here to fix it.

Wandavision(2021) I wouldn’t change a whole lot of things except that Agatha is a puppet for magneto whos trying to reach his children and also reveals to Wanda that she’s a mutant and then magneto turns to the camera and screams AAAAAA THE DEMONS and they team up to take down Mephisto.

Loki Season 1(2021) I wouldn’t change anything except that in the end it’s revealed that he who remains is actually laufey who stole asgardian tech and became kang the conqueror. The post credits scene shows him talking to baron strucker.

Captain America:Legacy(2021) this is basically FATWS turned into a movie and the whole plot revolves around the mad bomb which was built by baron strucker and also John walker is gonna appear and turn into Modok and then look at the camera and shoot it. The post credits scene shows that kang was actually behind the mad bomb and then kills baron strucker for his failure and then turns to the camera and obliterates it.

What if(2021) the only change is that the Thor party episode is replaced with what if kang ate your childhood universe where the episode revolves around kang raging after baron struckers failure and then eats the fox x-men universe.

Shang Chi and the legend of the ten rings(2021) this is one of the few good phase 4 projects but the third act does get generic so kang should come and kill wen wu and reveal his variant Rama tut as the creator of the ten rings and then Shang chi joins his side and they conquer different universes while you got a friend in me plays. The post credits scene shows Shang chi becoming ultimate Shang chi.

Spider man no way home(2021) since this also one of the few good phase 4 movies im not gonna change a lot except that venom has a larger role and also Tobey and Andrew live in the MCU universe now.

Moon Knight(2022) this would be TV-MA and the villain is Rama tut and Shang chi as he did ally himself with kang in his movie and also moon knigjt almost dies so he enlists the help of blade, ghost rider, doctor doom, GI robot to take them down but they are too powerful and team moon knight retreats. The post credits scene shows moon knight being tasked to hunt down werewolf by night.

Doctor strange In the multiverse of madness(2022) this would have doctor strange experiencing cracks in the multiverse after the events of moon knigjt with Rama tut and shang chi so he enlists the help of scarlet witch who he has a sexual relationship with and also there’s more cameos like Hugh jackman, Chris Evan’s human torch, moon knight who got lost looking for werewolf by night, and Deadpool and eventually doctor strange and America Chavez kill Rama tut but then shang chi escapes and cries.

Ms. Marvel(2022) the biggest change im making is that ms marvel has her costume early on and says I miss, marvel. The post credits scene shows captain marvel screaming wiggily doo biggedly bop.

Avengers Secret Invasion(2022) this would pit the new avengers( Sam Wilson captain America, white vision, spider man, Thor, iron man whos alive for some reason and nobody mentions that he died, and more) who stop the skrull invasion pretty easily but it’s revealed kang is behind it and the skrull invasion was faked as kang wanted to unite humanity against a common threat and actually wins. The post credits scene shows the joker screaming why so serious. Werewolf By night(2022) honestly wouldn’t change too much except that moon knight is an antagonist.

The music video’s intro for Black or White is of Macaulay Culkin’s kid character getting back at his father after he gets mad at the noise he’s making, but it doesn’t really have anything to do with the theme of racial harmony.

My idea is that the music video takes place at school with Culkin’s character being a bit of an irreverent kid, blasting loud music in class on a boombox. However, his teacher (who you could still have be played by George Wendt) seems to ignore him and his legitimate misbehaviour in favour of getting mad at an otherwise well behaved Black student who is doing something way way minor (keeps having his shirt untucked, comes to class a few minutes late), even givi =ng him detention. It’s clear the teacher is racist and prejudiced against minorities while turning a blind eye to Whites. The white kid takes pity on the Black student (who he is friends with) and gets revenge on the teacher with the boombox.

Watch dogs 1 has been released for 11 years now and is one the most debated games on Ubisoft’s history with some praising as a great game while other call it a gta clone. Watch dogs 1 itself is heavily underrated possessing plenty of opportunities to be a stand out game and even a GTA competitor. But while the game could have been the best game of 2014 it had multiple flaws that prevented it from reaching global superstardom being its story pacing,lack of side character interactions and cutscenes and a rushed story.instead of wishing the game was better here is my pitch on what would’ve made this game more interesting act by act.

ACT 1: Act 1 opens the same way it did in original game with Aiden and Damien committing a cyber heist but instead of it failing it’s a success as we find out that it is 2011 in New York rather than Chicago. We cut to one month later we’re see aiden pearce arriving to Nicole’s house for Lena’s birthday party during the opening mission we see a happpier and sarcastic aiden, where interacts with Nicole, Lena and Jackson even playing hide and seek with the kids there. Once the party is over aiden then receives a call from Damien to meet him at a bar to discuss a big score.

Aiden arrives at the bar where Damien along with one of their contacts discuss a job that involves a high stakes poker game in the higher levels of the prestigious hotel merulat we’re the money is spent is wired and transferred onto a big server. Partners in crime Aiden and Damien take the job but will need extra help for this job, a sniper, another hacker and two extra gun men one at the merualt with Aiden and another protecting Damien . The preparations begin with Aiden reaching out to Jordi Chin and Iraq while finding a hacker by the of Cassandra. The night of the heist comes with each member taking possession with jordi Chin entering the building with Aiden as protection. While Iraq is stationed as a bodyguard for Damien and Cassandra. The heist goes smoothly up until Aiden and jordi reach the server we’re Damien starts exploring where he shouldn’t blowing their cover sending the whole hotel into a lockdown. During aidens escape Mirko is shot in the leg and is unable to run so tells Aiden to escape and the he will manage the authorities.

Aiden arrives at the hideout rightfully angered at Damien for blowing the operation but Damien goes on the defence saying that everything was good on his side but there is a rat amongst them trying to sabotage them. We cut a week later where we see Aiden lying low and spending his time at Nicole’s place socialising with the kids even taking them fishing, shortly after Aiden receives a one of a kind call from Jordi who Aiden thought had died, jordi explains that during the firefight he hid in hotels ventilation system and has been there for a week and needs aidens help to escape due to his bad leg.

Aiden arrives revisiting the hotel that was turned into a battle ground where he helps Jordi escape the police that are also there. By the end of the mission he is surprised to be meet by Damien waiting at Jordie place, then scolding Aiden for going back to rescue Jordi and that daimen was planing and Aiden could’ve but them at further risk.

Time passes and Aiden and the rest of the crew are called to a laundromat were they wait for money to be counted and picked up. Everybody arrives except for Cassandra as she called in sick, this drive Damien’s paranoia through the roof, but Aiden has had enough of it and calls out Damien on his sudden change of personality becoming more controlling and paranoid but before things can further escalate fixers swarm the laundromat firing from all sides. Everybody escapes but Damien tells Aiden to go for a ride with him to Cassandra places for some questioning, the pair arrive at Cassandra’s apartment we’re daimen begins interrogating her but things escalate yet again due to daimens paranoia besting him pulling out a gun even threating her but then daimen pulls trigger as he was startled when her boyfriend walked in the end killing the both of them. The mission ends with Aiden berating daimen for his recklessness and saying that he should leave New York while he still can.

In the final mission Aiden is called by non other than daimen again with a change of tone in voice saying that he and the group should meet for the last time. Pearce arrives a the set location where he sees everyone there except Mirko and Jordi daimen tells all of them to get in the car and Aiden to drive, they stop at house where Aiden stays in the car while daimen and Iraq go in the house, soon there a gunshots and screams coming from the house with daimen and Iraq running to the car revealing that they were doing a robbery with Aiden as their getaway driver.

The trio drive through suburbs with Aiden scolding them both of daimen and Iraq but as they were driving a van collides with aidens car crashing on a bridge. Aiden is the first one to wake up and get out of the car were he sees an army of fixers approaching them from both sides of the bridge. Amidst the chaos daimen quickly regains consciousness and yells out to Aiden for help as he is stuck but with fixers quickly approaching Aiden jumps of a bridge to escape.

Aiden makes back to his home were he finds his spare phone and rings Nicole that he will be taking Lena and Jackson on a fishing trip to Newark for a few days. While driving up to Newark a fixer is able to track Aiden in a tunnel and shoots Pearces car tire sending the Pearce family crashing. Aiden gets out of the car to help his niece and nephew but only to find out that Lena had died on impact. The final mission ends with Lena’s funeral and a cutscene between Nicole and Aiden.

Act 2: Act 2 opens up a year later were we see that Aiden has tracked his niece’s killer Maurice Vega to a baseball stadium where is able to capture him. From this point act 2 remains the same as in the original game with Jackson’s birthday, the fixer contract, not the pizza guy mission, the auction, Nicoles kidnapping and the prison break in and break out remaining all the same. The only changes to act 2 come in its final few missions were Clara and Aiden have to track down Raymond Kenny to decrypt some files that daimen needs in order for Nicky to be free. So their searching leads the pair to Newark were Aiden finds Raymond Kenny in a bar where he beats Raymond in drinking challenge and try’s to convince T-bone to come with Aiden. But then a massive bar fight ensues when Aiden push’s a man that tried to get T bone out the bar. But by the end of fight Aiden is knocked out

3: Act 3 starts with Aiden reawakening on a boat where he is being interrogated and tortured by the same man he started the bar fight with. Where man from the bar continuously beats for information about who he is and his occupation in Newark. Aiden then cracks under the pressure from the abuse but instead tells the man a fake name of Carlos Manno. Before any more nefarious acts can be done the interrogation is interrupted when the boss of the Romano crime family Micheal Romano alongside his right hand man Jorge Sirco and begin asking their own questions. The man who attacked aiden begins telling the events of the bar fight before he shot and killed by Micheal out of frustration for using his boat as place torture. before Jorge can free aiden Romano tells him that he now works for them now and that they’ll be in touch.

As promised aiden Pearce receives a call from jorge the following day where he tells aiden to meet at a coffee shop called little Sicily in Newark. Pearce is greeted by Giorgi and is introduced to the rest of the Romano crew who are directly inspired by T he sopranos Sammy is a knock off Silvo, Giorgi Sirco is based of Paulie nick and joespi are direct copies of chirssy and furio.

aiden Pearce is then properly introduced to Micheal Romano in where Romano explains to aiden that he is now indebted to the family for not only saving his life on the boat but has to pay for the damages he caused during the bar that will cost 20,000 dollars. Micheal Romano further explains that he needs aidens unique set of skills to help take down the De Guzman family the Cuban cartel that has been in a thorn Romanos side for the better part of a decade.

After this encounter Aiden Pearce is put to work and goes on a slough of odd jobs from protecting the Romano family from police and helps dismantle the Cuban mob with Jordi chin and even working with the most feared hit man in New York Vincenzo Moicano while trying to track down Raymond Kenny at the same time.

By the near end of the 3rd act the Cuban mob have been disbanded with the romanos on top resulting in nick receiving the opportunity to become a made man, while at the post inciation party Aiden seizes the opportunity to hack into everyone’s phone to see where everyone had went in the last two weeks when he finds one that stands out from the rest being Tommy Tenznio cousin who has been going to an abandoned ski resort on the outskirts of Newark daily. Further digging reveals that Tommy has been a federal informant for the past three years. Discovering this new information Aiden is able to locate where the evidence is being held and hacks into the police precinct and copies the evidence using as blackmail making Tommy a messenger for aiden Pearce . This works and Aiden revives a letter from T-bone revealing his current state, that T-bone was captured by the Romano crew while fleeing from New York and made them use his hacking skills to not only spy on the police and rival competitors but to also find any incriminating footage to be used for blackmail. In the letter Raymond also writes that he can’t escape because he has a small explosive device strapped around his waist on the lower part of his spine, with it exploding if he goes more than a meter away paralysing and the kill switch being with Micheal. Also T-bone mentions his armed junkyard that needs to repaired

Learning this Aiden devices a plan to help Raymond escape but before Aiden can finalise his plans, Tommy has a sudden heart attack due to the high levels of stress and rushed to the hospital. Knowing that Tommy will snitch, Aiden decides to leak the incriminating evidence to Micheal in where in response Micheal sends nick to silence Tommy.

With Tommy no longer in the frame Aiden is prompted as a temporary overseer for Raymond Kenny while Micheal and the others have a big deal coming up. Aiden Pearce uses this time help Raymond escape in where he uses the signal from belt bomb to attract rest of Romanos men to the armed junkyard. But before act 3 comes to an end Aiden tracks Micheal down to the same boat he was interrogated on and kills him before leaving New Jersey good.

Act 4: Act four opens up with Aiden and T-bones return to New York in were Aiden goes finish off Iraq and to downland the data. While in Iraq fortress Aiden learns that Iraq was the second hacker at the merlaut and was going to betray the group from the start using the money to buy the management of the human trafficking auction and to further build his criminal empire.

After Aiden kills Iraq we see that Aiden and Clara’s relation has grown from a professional partnership into a strong friendship where Aiden finally opens about Lena’s death and the guilt that sits in his shoulders. The act continues as in the original game Default leaking Clara’s phone call, Aiden rescuing Nicole and saying goodbye to Jackson.

The change comes when Aiden corners lucky Quinn and hacks into his pacemaker slowly killing him, it’s only in his final moments that lucky Quinn reveals the truth that he used the videos to blackmail the president of the United states to not only aid Blume in their bellwheather program to control people and their actions but two also help America further advance into the Middle East. Also how Quinn was using Daimen and Iraq to gain all the blackmail and to clear his man with Blume.

After Quinn’s death things play out as usual Clara’s death and Daimen taking full control of CtoS but at the ending instead of Jordi being at the lighthouse it’s instead Maurice. The same thing happens with Aiden exploding the light and throwing Maurice the lighthouse.

After that Aiden is given the choice to either kill or spare Maurice and uses his hacking abilities to protect,expose and if necessary to punish

Just got done watching No Hard Feelings and I understand why it had an average rating of 6/10 on Rotten Tomatoes. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't great either with a lot of aspects that felt unnecessary, illogical, or cringe. So here's what I would change about it.

1. Age Percy up to at least 22 and still make him a virgin. The most controversial part of this movie was the grooming aspect, rightfully so. It's not unrealistic, or in any way bad, for someone to be a virgin at that age.
2. Make Maddie a professional sex worker and just leave it at that. The movie is about sex work but the writers seemed to want to portray Maddie as not the typical sex worker and just a girl in a desperate situation. This added a lot of convoluted story beats that could've been trimmed away with a simpler premise of "This is just my job." Just call a spade a spade.
3. Make it explicit that Percy is demisexual. Its never outright stated but its shown that Percy has to form an emotional connection before he wants to have sex. That's demisexuality. The movie could've been a lot stronger if the writers explored him discovering that and becoming more comfortable with his sexuality. If Maddie was portrayed as an experienced sex worker than maybe she could've discovered it first and counseled him through it.
4. Replace Laird and Allison with a rich, old school, somewhat shady, single dad. Its more realistic that a morally questionable parent would go through with this concept rather than well-established, stable ones like Laird and Allison. Either a wealthy playboy, a mobster type, or a combination of the two. Someone who equates sex with being a "real man" and how unhealthy that thinking is, making him a foil to Percy. Most mothers in the world would not go along with this idea and I think a very stereotypical single dad is a more likely too.
5. Remove the whole plot concerning Maddie's car and being an uber driver and make her financial burden as her rent being increased. Again too convoluted. Less is more.
6. Keep the side story of Maddie's dad abandoning her and add in a side story of Percy's mom abandoning him. Have both of these aspects impact their viewpoints on relationships; Maddie being cynical and seeing men as only good for financial benefits and Percy being more closed off and fearful of rejection. Throughout the movie they would both learn from each other and become more open with trusting people with their emotions.
7. Give Maddie an interest in Psychology instead of surfing. Sex workers often compare themselves to psychologist and I think it would be interesting for her to almost act as a counselor to Percy and then at the end deciding to go to school to pursue that more. It could even end with his father pulling strings to get her into a good school.

What went wrong with Wii U has been so well analyzed I don't think I have to elaborate it here. I can just link the video from Nerrel, which succinctly explains why it failed to appeal to both the casual demographic and the hardcore demographic.

In light of the reveal of Switch 2, which has the same path Wii U had to walk as a direct successor to the popular console, I'm looking back at Wii U retrospectively and what it should have been. Is it possible for Nintendo to build a successor to Wii in the first place? The game console that is appealing for casuals and hardcores?

Wii U is said to be a prototype for Switch for its tablet with the screen. My idea is similar in regards to it being a prototype for Switch, but I'm thinking of it as a prototype for a different reason--the one feature that is often ignored in discussions about Switch: the Joy-Con.

So let's say you are back in time far before 2012... No. 2011... the late-2010... Nintendo is announcing a new console in E3 2010. You watch a reveal trailer. The guy on the screen plays a new Call of Duty game called Black Ops with a new pair of controllers called "Joymotes". They look like Wiimotes but smaller, gyro-based (don't need a sensor bar), and have an analog stick for each controller (as opposed to only the Nunchuk having one). He uses the right analog stick to make a large camera turn (like turning your character 180 degree) but uses the gyro aim for the microscopic aiming (basically how the modern gyro aim works), so you don't need to fiddle around the motion control to turn your character around as you did in Wii. As the guy plays the game, he suddenly attaches these Joymotes together to a "Joymote Grip" accessory that coverts these controllers to a more traditional gamepad with gyro. He then plays it as if he's using a normal controller like Xbox 360.

After demonstrating this feature for the other games, the Wii logo comes up, and those "ii" letters duplicate and slide left, then morph into 2.

Wii 2

This is the selling point. A next-gen Wii that can play HD games with controllers that can be played like the Wiimote and the normal controller. Now, the audience understands this is the successor system of Wii--a natural progression of where it left off. It can appeal to people who want games like Wii Bowling and those who want to play without the motion controls.

And 2010 is the perfect time. First, it avoids the competition against PS4 and Xbox One as Wii U had. This is the time when both Xbox 360 and PS3 came across as stagnant, and coming here with the next generation console will generate a lot of energy and anticipation without the concerns for the 8th gen.

Second, you can divert the late Wii hit games to the new console. Wii in the later years received a lot of great games that people didn't play. If this hypothetical Wii 2 came out in the late 2010s, you could make Red Steel 2, Donkey Kong Country, Metroid Other M, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Sonic Colors, Epic Mickey, Xenobalde, the Goldeneye remake as the launch titles, as opposed to Wii U's lackluster launch line-up. In the very next year, Skyward Sword would be the system seller--the same effect Twilight Princess had for Wii and Breath of the Wild had for Switch. And that game wouldn't require the Motion Plus since Wii 2's Joymotes would already have that feature internally. Hell, maybe Skyward Sword might turn into a better game with better hardware since the rigid linearity of that game was born from Wii's specs.

The price of Wii U, including the gamepad, was 300 dollars, and the gamepad's price if sold separately was 110 dollars. This means more than a third of the cost was diverted to the gamepad alone. If you are wondering why Wii U was so weak and even underpowered than Xbox 360, this is why. Because the price and resources had to be distributed to the gamepad. The tablet technology wasn't ready for the early 2010s.

However, Wii U's dual-screen tablet concept is not all lost. You can implement it as an optional secondary device later like Kinect and PS Move did. You can release it in 2013 with the 99-dollar price tag, and promote this new tablet device with The Wind Waker HD, Super Mario 3D World, Zombie U, and Pikmin 3.

Obviously, I'm not a businessman or saying that this Wii 2 concept would have been as successful as Wii or Switch. I'm sure there would be logistical challenges to execute it in the late 2010s. However, I do believe it would have faired better than what Wii U ended up being.