Genre Savvy/Fan Works

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Mikey: "Then you can be my escort tonight before it's too late! You'll do it, right! It's important! I need it! And you love me, so you'll do it! Right!"
Breech: "I never agree to do anything without knowing what it is first. How do I know you're the real Mikey, and not some Dai-Oni possessing his body with the intent of making me promise to do something awful?"

"But see, in every movie that's science-fiction or fantasy or the like, the kid always makes it. This time he didn't, and thus, this queen has broken the unwritten rule for such movies. Even an Asian martial artist cliché or the American commando cliché cannot defeat someone who is breaking the unwritten rules. But as I said, I didn't want to say this out loud, or I'd look weird."

Mike: "Ponies don't start randomly thinking about this kind of thing unless it's about to become some important plot point in a corny story they're in!"

Sure I could use my tech and powers (when I get them) to steal money, hell, with what I had right here I could just walk into a bank and punch the vault door straight off its hinges, but that would suck me into a villain narrative.
Before you know it, like clock work I'll be running around in spandex with some ridiculous scheme to steal all the gold in Fort Knox using the cunning power of goldfish, only to be defeated just in time for dinner and locked away yet again, all the while screaming things like 'damn you Spiderman!'.
No, instant ramen will have to do. For now.

Sadly, it doesn't work as he expected.
  • One of the mercenaries in Coil's employ in the Worm/Luna Varga crossover fic Taylor Varga is black, and for that reason refuses to go first into a dark room from which creepy sounds have emanated: "I've seen this movie, I know what happens to the black guy. Fuck that. Someone else can take point. I'll cover them."