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** [[Guilty Gear|Sol Badguy]] or [[Mega Man X|Zero]]?

* Again, about a red-clad sword-wielding [[Chaotic Good]] [[Badass]] hero. A [[Glass Cannon]] fighter (Possibly) with a [[Swiss Army Weapon]]. He's affiliated with a [[La Résistance]] who goes against an Utopia-like, but actually corrupted [[The Empire|Empire]]. He's also a [[One-Man Army]] who succesfully makes [[The Empire]] having headaches, and thus, is hunted by them. Like the above, while he is [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|certainly good-hearted, he acts cold,]] [[Perpetual Frowner|perpetually frowns]] and [[Good Is Not Nice|doesn't hesitate to]] [[Shoot the Dog]]. It's hinted that he's destined to [[The End of the World as We Know It|bring out world destruction]], but he ultimately [[Screw Destiny|chooses to be]] [[Anti-Anti-Christ|the one who bring world peace]]. Considered a [[The Woobie|Woobie]], but that will [[Iron Woobie|never slow him down.]] His enemies include an [[An Ice Person|ice-powered]] [[Hero Antagonist]] who is [[Foe Yay|too interested to take him down]], and a [[Complete Monster]] [[Big Bad]] who is somewhat [[Ax Crazy]]. His ending isn't very good, to say the least.

* Even ''New York Times'' op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd has joined in the fun: read her [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/opinion/10dowd.html?_r=1&ref=opinion column] and see if you can guess what work of art she is talking about.

* Our protagonist is a young man who wakes up with [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|severe amnesia]] and [[Shapeshifter Weapon|the ability to morph his body into living weapons]]. He discovers that something recently happened ([[Super Prototype|possibly related to him]]) that is unexpectedly turning ordinary people into mutants. The young man tries to discover the source of his amnesia and stop the mutants from killing everyone, mostly by absorbing their mutations. The young man also deals with two separate organizations. One is an offspring of the military that is solely focused on the annihilation of all mutants, [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|no matter what the cost]], and the other is the mutants, led by [[Big Bad|a mysterious person]] [[Humanoid Abomination|who can control his/her mutations]] and [[Complete Monster|wants to kill all humans]].

** Is it Don Bluth's ''[[Thumbelina]]'' or Leonard Bernstein's ''[[Candide]]''?

* A musical about how a hero leaves home and becomes a celebrity because he dislikes his normal life, or else it has been unkind to him. A villain wants to either enslave him or kill him for his own selfish reasons. In order to weaken the will of the hero, he sends a girl, who works as his slave due to te consequences of her own selfishness, and who also parades around in seductive dress, to seduce him. The girl, however, develops an actual crush on him and helps him escape the villain. In the end, the villain is no longer dominant over the hero and he gets to be with the woman he loves. Involves several instances of characters escaping death, and one instance of the hero being restored to his original self.

* A blond man who's pretty good with a sword arrives in the middle of a plot he doesn't understand. His love interest, a brunette, turns out to know more about the plot than she lets on. He meets a mentor character who is strangely similar to a legendary soldier he's otherwise familiar with. He has various battles with a man who refuses to drop dead no matter how many times he's killed and proves why you should hate him by killing someone which agitates a major character. He learns that his childhood was mostly fiction and is repeatedly visited by a person of ambiguous gender with their face covered. He's swallowed by a huge, unnatural sea monster controlled by his father figure, confronts his father figure in a replica of a location he knew from a simulation and fights giant robots.

** Is this ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' or ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''?

** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'' or ''[[Red Dwarf]]''?

* A movie musical with heavy visual effects (though most of them focused on aspects of one particular character) and score by Alan Menken. Stars two protagonists, one girl and one guy. The guy is downtrodden or misunderstood and the girl is blonde. The girl desperately wants to leave her home area but can't. The villain, who is given [[Crowning Music of Awesome|at least one show-stopping number]], acts as a force gradually growing stronger against one of the protagonists, who knows a secret that is vital to the villain's life. The villain also sings songs to keep the protagonist on a leash in order to gain nourishment. Features an adorable green character. One of the characters has a [[Disney Death|near-death experience]] caused by the villain. Also, a major plot point involves a plant with some kind of unique supernatural power. At least one of the songs has once been sung by Mandy Moore.

* A charismatic former revolutionary who was captured by the regime he tried to defeat. Said regime commits [[Mind Rape]] and a mindwipe on him. The revolutionary breaks free of the programming, steals a ''very'' [[Cool Ship]], and proceeds to raise hell. May have been trying to fight a greater evil coming from outside known space with said revolution. Before we get any real answers, however, he vanishes into the unknown and dies ignobly. Said cause was taken up by one of his followers who previously refused to go along with the revolution, gets a couple former crew members and two AI units from his/her predecessor, and the cool ship...only to die ignobly with the man whose influence s/he could never escape. 

** Are we talking [[Blake's 7|Roj Blake and Kerr Avon]] or [[Knights of the Old Republic|Revan and the Exile]]?

** ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' or ''[[Tangled]]''?

* This story begins underground, with a burrowing colony whose philosophy is to dig as often as possible to avoid danger from the outside world. One digger, whose name ends with "-imon", accidentally causes animal-like creatures to attack the colony. He is then exiled from said colony, joining up with a large, boisterous friend. Eventually, the digger meets and rescues a young, innocent child who is related to the [[Big Bad]], left for dead. The digger relays his philosophy to said child and, after a [[Time Skip]], they go off to defeat the [[Big Bad]] and his forces.

** ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' or ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''? (Lampshaded [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2A7mdZ6mcQ here] with the German version of the ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' theme)

* One day, a young boy without a mother or father is recruited by a teacher from a school of magic. He quickly gets acquainted with other students, including an intelligent girl he becomes fast friends with, and a blonde male that views the boy as a rival that's getting undeserved fame. Using a strange power he had since the day he was born, the boy overcomes all odds and finds success. However, it is because of this power that his friends are constantly put into near-death scenarios. In the end, the young boy uses everything he's learned at the school to try and save it, and accepts that he might have to die for the danger to go away for good. Oh, and the black-haired teacher that poses a threat to the boy near the end of his adventures had a ''really'' close relationship with one of the boy's parents.

* A kind-hearted male protagonist in a nice jacket goes back in time to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|prevent the deaths of those around him]]. His main skill is to manipulate small objects in order to effect changes in the timeline. When he uses his power, the world turns [[Deliberately Monochrome]] and [[Time Stands Still]]. The protagonist finds out that {{spoiler|the main villain has a twisted, murderous obsession that's gotten worse over the course of many years and a power that directly complements his own. The villain uses this power to directly oppose the hero and [[Make Wrong What Once Went Right]]}}. The result is a complex story spanning multiple timelines, and an ending which is a bit of a [[Mind Screw]] if you're not paying attention. The villain {{spoiler|can be talked out of his craziness}}. A mysterious cat proves central to the story, as it {{spoiler|time-travels while carrying the source of the hero's power and becomes immortal as a result due to an unexplained temporal effect}}.

** Which Nintendo DS game is this? Is it ''[[Time Hollow]]'', or {{spoiler|''[[Ghost Trick]]''}}?

** Now, is the witch [[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe|the Big Bad]] or [[Bedknobs and Broomsticks|one of the good guys]]?

* During this game's expansion pack, an elderly official ranking in the seemingly good guy faction attempts to [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|establish peace and prosperity, albeit in a controversial and questionable way]], with the use of a special weapon. However, an army led by the previously villainous faction intervenes and meddles with the elder's plans. The official leads an army in white uniforms.

* A group of criminals enter into a wealthy man's dreams to trick him out of his secrets. In the course of the adventure, multiple layers of dreams are entered, "bigger guns" are summoned by the protagonists, the ultimate trick involves confronting the dreamer with a loved one that they're estranged from, people are removed from the dream by falling, and there's a risk that people stuck in the dream will enter a form of Limbo and go crazy if they stay in too long.

** ''[[Inception]]'' or [[Don Rosa]]'s [[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck|Dream of a Lifetime]]?

** Is this ''Inception'' or ''Ocean's Eleven''?

* This show focuses on two main characters: a kind but dim-witted young boy and a non-human who wears little clothing. The two live at the boy's house with his young yet intelligent little sister, and go to school with a variety of unusual characters, all of which are simply regarded as students despite their extraordinary origins. At one point, a ghost schoolgirl possesses the body of one of the protagonists to indulge in her own desires.

* This show is about a lazy, misanthropic, unhygienic man with the emotional capacity of a 12-year old and his young and more successful foil. In each episode, the lazy man drags his foil into some hair-brained scheme, which will inevitably backfire in some way.

** ''[[Dan Vs.]]'' or ''[[Kochikame]]''?

** ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', right? Or is it ''[[Frasier]]''?

* Two swordsmen, a girl with guns and a super-intelligent [[Little Miss Badass]] fight against a large authority that is secretly an evil organization. The white-haired, red and black clad hero holds a massive grudge against a member of his family, but {{spoiler|it turns out they aren't so bad}}. The final boss is {{spoiler|a [[Treacherous Advisor]] to one of the main characters, who turns out to be both a former hero of legend and the de facto leader of the evil organization.}}

* A series that chronicles the occasionally weird [[Slice of Life|everyday adventures]] of a group of female friends, which includes a somewhat naive bookworm, an energentic and boastful girl who fancies herself a great athlete but is actually kind of a klutz, her hard-working and more level-headed [[Friendly Rival]], a girl who frets over her appearance a lot and is usually the most serious of the group, a bashful animal lover, and one girl who's [[Cloudcuckoolander|not all there.]]

** ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' or ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''?

** ''[[The Brittas Empire]]'' or ''[[Fawlty Towers]]''?

* These stunningly-beautiful, black-skinned nonhumans live underground and come to the surface only to raid for captives. They are considered to be some of the fiercest fighters in a [[World of Badass]] and as a race are [[Shrouded in Myth]]. They worship a power-mad goddess, follow a religion which teaches that they are the [[Master Race]], and their aristocracy is noted both for its decadence and bloodthirstiness. 

* Boy gets famous for defeating a God-like villains. His two best friends get together in the end, and the boy gets an extremely powerful weapon. One of the bad guys turns out not to be quite as bad as he seems. His mentor is somewhat eccentric.

** [[Harry Potter]] or [[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien|Ben 10 Ultimate Alien]]?