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It's that time again! ~~9:47am~~ Brainstorming post! No idea too wacky! Except mine. You don't want to know what I think about when I hear the word 'galoshes.' For instance "Did I just spell that word right?"

Anyhoo...

You have ideas! You wish to share ideas! Have at!

Only after I put up the OCD... which is now up! Go on with your brainstormy selves!

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They'd need to have someone really personable on the team too, to handle marketing and persuasion. Because, really, 'Maleficent' doesn't inspire a want to buy something, and neither does 'Dr. Horrible'. XD;;;

And, well, Sylar--we've got people from his canon here, so that'd be, well, interesting.

Manservant Neville! I mean, we're talking comparison to Fatboy Industries anyway.

Or even evil!Dub-Dub. Since we've already established her involvement with Fandom, maybe we could have a return?

DAMN YOU YOU BEAT ME TO MANSERVANT NEVILLE. :D

That's because I'm made of win. :)

Manservant Neville would totally make Zoe go WTF, too.

Oh, definitely. Who all from different canons is an evil corporate type? Lex Luthor maybe?

I don't think I'll be that much help with the evil-corporate types, really. ^^; My fandoms don't tend to have them.

But, I'm just wanted to elaborate. When I say personable and marketing, I don't just mean the 'top guns'--I mean the people that'd go out and about and actually get the product out. Because, yeah, fads are shiny, but we've got a goodly number of characters who probably wouldn't pay much attention to, say, a wristwatch fad.

Oooh yes, perky persistent grunt types. I can probably think of a few of those.

And now I have this terrifying picture of Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner pestering people into buying things. Except the Warners wouldn't be evil.

But that could be an opportunity for people to volunteer guest NPC salespeople for a few days maybe?

Oooooh, or not even NPC salespeople, maybe get a few to app PC salespersons (just for the plot zomg) for greater movement/characterization and such like. Mmmm.

(And that is a deeply terrifying mental image with Yakko, Wakko, and Dot.)

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And now I have this terrifying picture of Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner pestering people into buying things. Except the Warners wouldn't be evil.

Says you. My students have been singing Animaniacs' "The Presidents Song" since Monday. EVIL.

Oh god, that's been stuck in my head since Monday too.

GET YOUR STUDENTS OUT OF MY BRAIN. D:

OMG YOU'RE CONTROLLING MY STUDENTS' BRAINZZZZZZZ. STOP IT!

Can you at least make them sing something different? Please?

Thanks, now I am too! :P

FEEL MY PAIN!

Um...sorry?

I seem to be playing in Heroes Fandom a lot on this (Hi, TBQ), but there's a villain, Eden McCain, who has the power of persuasion. You do what she wants you to do.

In Sandman, Desire has the power to make people want things, though s/he is driven more by his/her own whims than evil. (Technically all the Endless can do the Jedi "These aren't the droids you're looking for" thing, Desire's just the only one who would use it for bad.)

I was wondering if we could work in Lex Luthor!

So -- okay. Maleficent is the big Head Evil. She employs Luthor, Sylar and Dr. Horrible. Dr. Horrible does R&D and finds a way to strengthen and channel Sylar's power through a shiny something-or-other, with Sylar's assistance. Luthor then takes the shinies to Fandom and does a hell of a sales job, posing as a benign townie.

Eventually Maleficent gets impatient and orders them to start more directly attacking people -- maybe Dr. Horrible has by now invented a handheld power-sucker that doesn't require physical contact -- which allows people who would be oblivious to trends IC to have their characters opt in. And then we go to research/fightiness/resolution. Which includes fighting Maleficent in dragon form, because that's waaaaaaaay too cool to pass up.

Is that too elaborate?

Ooooooh, I like that. Elaborate, but plausible, I think? It'd be a slow building plot, I think, not just a week long one, or a weekend one though. You'd want to have the shiny-something-or-other to have a chance to thoroughly get around the island. If it was a really slow power sucker, at least at the start, that'd be doable, I think. People, say, wouldn't start noticing their lack of skills/powers for a bit, it'd be gradual.

(And, yes, DRAGON.)

Yay! This definitely isn't a weekend plot, or even a week-long -- it's, like, a month, minimum, most of which is just the villains cackling and lurking while the watches have their effect.

It might also work to leave Luthor out, and have persistent, persuasive, perky salespeople in his place. I know the Smallville version best, but even that Luthor isn't so much with the perkitude.

That might work best? Leaving him out, though on the other hand if the perky salespeople had someone to directly report to who got the idea of marketing that might work too--and now, that might be more elaborate.

And, now I'm totally just thinking off the top of my head, but we've already got the perfect way to firstly introduce the plot: Monthly Markets. Luthor and his group of perky sales people could show up one Market time to be 'testing the waters' to see how well the watches/gizmos/things sell (maybe have them have different sorts? Like, watches, bracelets, keychains, etc... ) and after selling a few there (three? four? Prearranged who gets them, or not? ) they decide that there's a good chance of the gizmos being able to do the job on the island. Because, really, if no one is buying then the plot would melt from their perspective.

So, after selling a few and leaving at the end of the Market, he (and/or his perky salespeople) could come back and set up a shop. (Gizmos & Things? I have no idea.) And the plot could go from there with cackling from the more behind-the-scenes villains.

I like the Monthly Markets tie-in a lot.

As for specific characters, I think maybe what I would do is throw up a post for sign-ups, and see who wanted a temporary perky persistent type to run/work at Gizmos. If we get a lot, it's a PC store like any other for the duration of the plot. If no one is interested but there is general interest in the plot, then the eeeevil watches, etc., get sold on consignment at T&C, Stuff for Sale, or Pixie Dust.

*nodnod* I think that'd work really well, with both options. It's got versatility to adapt depending on the situation.

...and now you've got me trying to think of a perky persistent type. *ponders*

I believe Stuff for Sale is gone, having been stomped in the giant bear/IKEAzord fight, but I like these options; they both sound very workable, with lots of flexibility.

There's also the possibility, not involving a quasi-permanent business establishment, of getting a few students roped into a get-rich-quick pyramid scheme sort of thing where they try to sell to their fellow students. Like evil Avon ladies, only with much more pyramid-schemeyness.

Thanks, I didn't know Stuff For Sale was gone. (Obviously.)

Pyramid scheme is another way we could go, though that would give guiltguiltguilt to the kids who'd gotten roped in. Not a bad thingin a dark plot, though.

I like that idea! It sounds like it could definitely work!

And I suddenly have an urge to watch Sleeping Beauty, jut to see Maleficent in action. And I know I have Smallville around here somewhere...

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