Explain a Plot Badly

[Crucible of Shards he/him]

Animorphs:

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A bunch of conspiracy theorist teens go out of their way to touch some of the most dangerous animals on the planet.

 

[Shqueeves]

Pokemon(games)

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A child enslaves magical creatures in the hopes of preventing an organization from enslaving magical creatures because they want to be the very best and take over the government. Or destroy the government. Or ruin the ecosystem. Sometimes they want to free the enslaved creatures. Sometimes they want to enslave specific creatures. It's all a little confusing, especially when you wonder who is paying for the cloning of nurses and police officers

 

[Crucible of Shards he/him]

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (the book, not the horribly inaccurate Disney movie):

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Three men who are all disgusting in their own unique ways are all after the same girl.

 

[+Croaker's Apprentice he/him]

Avengers: Infinity War:

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An environmental activist mourns the death of his daughter

 

 

The Black Company series, by Glen Cook:

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Hard-bitten mercenaries experiment with literary devices

 

[Fcrate he/him]

23 minutes ago, Croaker's Apprentice said:

Avengers: Infinity War:

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An environmental activist mourns the death of his daughter

 

Haaah!
Skyward:

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A scavenger tries to fix bumblebee in a cave with the help of a glowing mushroom.

 

[Use the Falchion]

On ‎11‎/‎16‎/‎2018 at 6:26 AM, Croaker's Apprentice said:

Avengers: Infinity War:

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An environmental activist mourns the death of his daughter

That's close to what I was gonna say! So I'll do a slightly different spin.

 

Avengers: Infinity War

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A Thief undertakes One Last Job, attempting to reconcile with his daughter along the way. 

 

Skyward

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A brilliant individual with paternal-issues builds a flying warship in a cave.

It's also Iron Man if you look at it sideways...

 

Edited November 18, 2018 by Use the Falchion
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[Nathrangking he/him]

Highlord Sebarial 

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Old rich slob hits on murderous orphan

Mraize

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The secret owner of a chicken and tea bearer

 

[Ripheus23]

Elantris: 

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A city of glowing lepers goes to war against monks with a degenerative bone condition and is saved by the power of geography and urban planning.

Mistborn:

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People who do drugs made out of metallic mist confront the god of destruction who created their world.

His Dark Materials:

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A girl whose soul is a shapeshifting animal kisses a boy to prevent the multiverse from falling asleep forever.

The Neverending Story:

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A book inside of a book takes over the lives of its readers, tricking them into losing their memories until they convert to an esoteric form of Christianity.

 

[Feruchemist he/him]

Doctor Who:

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A big two-hearted alien with multiple personality disorder travels through time and space, all without realizing that he was his worst enemy all along.

Magic: The Gathering

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Whatever it is, it all comes back to the Eldrazi.  Somehow.

The Flash (television series):

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Every villain is just either Barry from the future, or someone who looks vaguely like Barry from the future.

 

[Nathrangking he/him]

Eragon

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Dragons, Dragons, more Dragons. Everywhere you look dragons. And magic words kill?

 

 

[Ookla the Foreclosed]

Hero of Ages

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A young girl fights the greatest evil in the world. Her mother's earring.

 

Edited November 22, 2018 by MistCLOAKed Mountains
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[Ashertliden]

Name of the Wind:

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Teachers are annoyed when a student turns up the temperature, but are fine asking the same student to jump off a building.

The Expanse series:

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When theres something strange in the universe, everyone calls James Holden

Dune:

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A boy who hallucinates vividly drinks some dirty water, goes comatose for a few days, and is crowned emperor of the universe.

The Lord of the Rings

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An old man prone to wandering off drags unwilling midgets across half the country before falling off a bridge.

 

[+Croaker's Apprentice he/him]

A Song of Ice & Fire, by George RR Martin-

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Novelisation of 9 line poem takes longer than expected. 

Elantris -

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A struggling group of writers is inspired when one of its members bursts into publication.

Mistborn, The Final Empire -

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A rebellious girl prone to daydreaming at the back of the class whilst her teacher drones on about the periodic table, falls in love with a nerd. 

Words of Radiance-

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Manic-depressive Peter Pan rejects Utilitarianism. 

Edgedancer- 

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A girl and her imaginary friend get the munchies. 

Warbreaker-

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Technicolor Elric, with punchlines more deadly than his sword.

Game of Thrones, the TV show-

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Season 1- A Brandon Hope

Season 2- Starks Raving Mad

Season 3- Charles Dance With Dragons

Season 4- Je Ne Ygritte Rien

Season 5 - Who Arya ?

Season 6 - Kings Landing Is Not Soft

Season  7 - Chosen One chooses Chosen Jon

Season 8 - Aegon With The Wind (?)

 

 

[ebfritz]

Rithmatist

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Boy and girl using geometry to defeat tiny drawings. 

Steelheart

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Boy obsessed with superheroes joins other fans as they try to kill superman

 

[Ripheus23]

The Chronicles of Narnia

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In a last-ditch effort to defeat militant Islam, Jesus becomes a talking lion in a parallel universe controlled by children.

The Cosmere as a whole:

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Having successfully completed another author's life work, a witty Nebraska-born professor tries his hand at a satirical sequel to The Neverending Story where Dr. Who must bring the Childlike Adonai-Elohim back to life using an enigmatic black sphere.

The Children of the Last Days:

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A disparate group of Catholic priests dies slow and horrible deaths while trying to prevent the Antichrist from taking over Canada.

The Cthulhu Mythos:

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After uncovering the dark side of non-Euclidean geometry, explorers and scientists lead the fight against marine biologists from outer space.

The Shannara series [only the original, technically]:

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In the aftermath of global nuclear war, one family of elf-human hybrids is tasked with saving the world from a wizard who tricked himself into becoming immortal.

 

[Shqueeves]

Zelda Timeline

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A goddess forces herself into a girl and forces her "boyfriend" into a guy. Then they get cursed by an intense version of Disney's Hades into forever being these two people. This continues until time travel accidentally gives birth to triplets, one of which gets flooded. Thousands of years after this birth, one of these timelines has ninjas who love bananas and robots with scary piano skills

 

[Wyndlerunner he/him]

11 minutes ago, Shqueeves said:

Zelda Timeline

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A goddess forces herself into a girl and forces her "boyfriend" into a guy. Then they get cursed by an intense version of Disney's Hades into forever being these two people. This continues until time travel accidentally gives birth to triplets, one of which gets flooded. Thousands of years after this birth, one of these timelines has ninjas who love bananas and robots with scary piano skills

 

True. I honestly hope that BoTW is a convergence, so I no longer need to worry about keeping track of triplets.

[Ashertliden]

Elantris:

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A noble in an arranged marriage sails to a new land and meets with powerful lords to help a young man imbued with magical powers protect his magical society.

White Sand:

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A noble in an arranged marriage sails to a new land and meets with powerful lords to help a young man imbued with magical powers protect his magical society.

Words of Radiance:

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A noble in an arranged marriage sails to a new part of her country and meets with powerful lords to help an old man soon to be imbued with magical powers protect his army

Warbreaker:

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A noble in an arranged marriage travels to a new part of her country and meets with powerful "gods" to help a young man imbued with magical powers protect her people.

The Hero of Ages:

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A half-noble who's just been married travels the country and meets with powerful lords in order to help a young man imbued with magical powers protect his people.

 

Edited November 26, 2018 by Ookla the Indefatigable

[Feruchemist he/him]

On 11/27/2018 at 9:14 AM, Ookla the Indefatigable said:

Elantris:

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A noble in an arranged marriage sails to a new land and meets with powerful lords to help a young man imbued with magical powers protect his magical society.

White Sand:

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A noble in an arranged marriage sails to a new land and meets with powerful lords to help a young man imbued with magical powers protect his magical society.

Words of Radiance:

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A noble in an arranged marriage sails to a new part of her country and meets with powerful lords to help an old man soon to be imbued with magical powers protect his army

Warbreaker:

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A noble in an arranged marriage travels to a new part of her country and meets with powerful "gods" to help a young man imbued with magical powers protect her people.

The Hero of Ages:

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A half-noble who's just been married travels the country and meets with powerful lords in order to help a young man imbued with magical powers protect his people.

 

So true, I'm glad I'm not the only person to have noticed this.

Here, have a reputation point.

 

DIsney's Frozen:

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A young queen with the power to avert the immediate effects of temperature change caused by global climate change throws a tantrum and builds a snow castle.

Disney's Tangled:

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A young girl with astounding strength (able to retain straight posture, normal speed, and dexterity despite having over 300 feet of hair) hits a thief with a frying pan.

 

[Crucible of Shards he/him]

The Little Mermaid:

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A teenage girl willingly disables herself for a chance to be with a guy she has literally never talked to.

 

[Undead Wookiee]

Skyward

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Moody teenager plays how to train your starfighter.

 

[ebfritz]

Portal

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Science teacher promises student cake in exchange for doing tests all day.

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The cake is a lie.

 

 

[Eluvianii he/him]

Oathbringer:

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A father gets angry at his son for saving people, a girl that's actually three girls learns to drink, a guy cheats his girlfriend with a sword, an undepressed guy gets depressed again, people finds that women can actually do the same things as men and vice versa and an army that slaughtered a city is forgiven because they didn't mean it.

Meanwhile a king and a god sort out their problems togheter.

 

[Wyndlerunner he/him]

Fahrenheit 451 

A career arsonist decides that arson is wrong so he commits arson against a bunch of other career arsonists, and sends in his two- weeks notice via flamethrower

 

[Lunar Blessing she/her]

Warhammer 40k

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the Emporium of Mankind is spread all over the galaxy with these super mutant soldiers called Space Marines. But things kind of suck because they forgot like, to back up their files on how to make stuff. So while the higher ups can only shake their head and say things like “My bad dawg” the rest of the people have to look for old technology to use. They really should have had some sort of cloud service. Anyway, the leader is actually kind of dead. His name is “The Emperor” and he just sits on this chair while people take care of him. Then they discover aliens and everything hits the fan

This is so oversimplified it kind of hurts....