The silliest idea you've wanted to portray seriously?

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

Somewhere along the line, when Vernon Dursley tries to broker a deal
to begin a long term partnership with Grunnings and the weapons
manufacturing conglomerate MARS (Military Armament Research
Syndicate), the owner becomes aware of Harry and adopts him, raising
him as if he were his own. At some point during his association with
another group of snake-themed baddies, they go too far in their doings
and Harry is involved. Enraged, the man cuts all ties with the COBRA
organization and leaves. The love of his life, the Baroness Anastasia
Cisarovna, follows, and they retire to his clan's castle in Scotland
to raise Harry.

And Harry gets the new name Harry James Potter McCullen Destro.

Not forgetting DEstro's treachery, Cobra Commander bides his time- but
before he can have his revenge, he finds himself on the business end
of an Imperius Curse from Serpentor. Destro already knew of the
magical world(his castle in Scotland had books about it that he did
not believe until he adopted Harry), and Cobra learned of it through
the forced interrogation of Harry, the act which caused DEstro to
leave Cobra.

So when Serpentor was created from the DNA of muggle leaders like
Julius Caesar, Napolean, Attila the Hun, Alexander the Great, Hannibal
and Genghis Khan, Cobra managed to eventually track down the tomb of
one of the founders of Hogwarts, Salazar Slytherin. This act made
Serpentor a wizard(and also a Parselmouth), and his Occlumency made
him able to silence the conflicting voices in his head.

Having complete control of COBRA thanks to the Imperius-ed commander,
he starts to plan. Deciding that European wizards are the most
malleable and easily influenced, and that an effective conquest of the
muggle world must come after taking over the magical one, he consults
Dr. Mindbender and puts a plan into motion...

And after hugging his father goodbye and giving his stepmother a
farewell kiss, Harry steps through the barrier at Platform 9 3/4 in
his first year. And he notices a boy about his own age of
indeterminate race glancing at him knowingly...


I always liked how Destro seemed like a decent guy who had been raised
to go into a dangerous and amoral line of work. He certainly seemed to
have a good relationship with his own father.

The story would deal with Destro's maneuvering to gain a foothold in
the wizarding world, not accepting the distance between the world he
lives in and the one Harry will live in, like most muggle-born parents
have to. His first contact in the ministry tells him Arthur Weasley is
the most pro-muggle employee that they know of, so he encourages Harry
to befriend the Weasleys before Hogwarts, and after ingratiating
himself with him, corners arthur and Molly lone, delivering an
impassioned speech about how he cannot accept being cut off from the
world Harry is in- he has many enemies due to his own line of work,
and he'll be damned if he doesn't know enough to protect Harry from
his. Seeing his point, the two reluctantly agree to send info to
Destro for a small monthly fee.(playing on concern for his child is
what did it for Molly).

With a multi-billionaire weapons manufacturer for a father and a
former terrorist for a mother, some of the muggle-borns are afraid of
him when he starts Hogwarts, including Hermione. Habing known Harry
beforehand, the Weasleys still like him (Destro never seemed to be
snobby, either, so I doubt Harry would be).

I've long since wavered over doing some kind of "Harry was raised by
__" AU, because I needed a really good one. The appeal of this for me
was this: so many AU fics have Harry becoming friends with Hermione
and not Ron. They often times paint Hermione as more understanding
than Ron, especially if Harry's a Slytherin. It would be interesting
to do a fic where the opposite holds true.

[WesFox13]

Eh, Me I've been tempted of doing a silly WH40k fic where I protray the C'Tan as Druggies. It would go somethin like this.

Nightbringer: Woah man, I'm trippin out.
Deceiver: Yeah, that planet's Souls made for a excellent trip, dude.
Nightbringer: Yeah, this stuff is way better than that lame star junk.
Deceiver: yeah, hey where's Outsider? haven't seen that groovy cat in a while.
Nightbringer: He's still stuck in that sphere thing, duson sphere, or whatever it's called.
Deceiver: Yeah too bad, He's missing out on the best stuff we've had in, umm, I forget.
Nightbringer: Ah, well, More souls for us, man.

[Setesh]

Various characters from fiction (jedi knights, power rangers ) with awesome physical skills on an alien game show version of gladiators.

I just trying to figure out who will be the gladiators, although I think a WH 40K space marine would be a good gladiator.

I did this in highschool, though not as a story. We were really bored for a while and started trying to build an RPG gladiator system where you could fight with anything. We started out using WEG D6 as the base. Really considering the initial fight ideas a system that has 'scale' built into it was a must. The conversions were the hardest part. We only managed 5 battles before we quit and went back to playing D&D.

What little story we knocked together to explain this was a multiversal gladiatorial game held in a pocket dimension. Allowing the 'laws of reality' from each universe to function and allow no holds bar battles with extinction level weapons. Since both sides had to agree to the number of combatants, it got very silly. On the other hand the guys who tried to preform power wank with uber-characters got trounced. Lack of character shields proved a hindrance to tactically stupid maneuvers. These are the match ups I remember.

Guyver 2 vs. WOD:Werewolf 5 man pack (rank 3) Winner: Werewolves (with 3 casualties)

Gundam Zero vs. Clan Assault Binary (Battletech 10 85 to 100 ton clan battlemechs) The Zero system and flight capacity nearly won the day, but the PPCs and Gauss rifles wore him down. Winner two Battletech Daishi's survived.

Conan vs. Thundarr vs. Kull vs. B.A. Barracas(no weapons match) Pure skill and strength, no one really won this one, though Conan died last, Thundarr stabbed him in the throat with a broken bone ripped out of Kull before dying.

[Academia Nut]

Due to a severelly messed up dream that is best described of as a combination of sleep deprivation, pre-finals stress, Discworld and Warhammer 40k I now have an idea that involves dating C'tan. Yes, C'tan, the star vampires that are responsible for the deaths of quadrillions (at the very least). It was a very messed up dream.

Bitches could have helped with the fucking bear swarms though.

[Themightytom]

How about a conflict between star wars and star trek that is instead acted out by furry animals.
Oh Wait, that has been done.
Star wars: The Furry Conflict

[zivalican_elite]

Oh you can feel the madness already...I would gladly pay $100 just to see Rygel, Chrichton, Marvin, Ford Prefect, Dargo, and Zaphod Beeblebrox argue/brawl in a locked room. And of course a feature by Chrichton called 'Conversations with Harvey'.

'Marvin, what the Yotz is your frelling problem?! You half-witted bucket of dren!'
-Rygel

'There is no point to anything. What is that strange language you are speaking? Not that it matters...'
-Marvin

'Why don't we go to Magrathea for Pan-Galactic Garble Blasters?!'
-Zaphod

'FORD, Why the Hazmada do you carry that STUPID looking towel with you everywhere?!! And Zaphod, you will talk when I tell you to talk you two headed freak!'
-Dargo

'First rule of being a galactic hitchhiker, never forget your towel'
-Ford

And 3 hours later then Dargo Quilta-blades Marvin and Zaphod while Rygel attempts to re-program Marvin as a 'food dispenser'. Then Ford has a very nice conversation between Harvey/Chrichton over some tea. Meanwhile Moya and the Heart of Gold argue over the concept of Artificial Intellegence vs Living Ships. And in the background the Vogons and Scarins declare war against each other(They look so much alike, don't they?!). The Scarins commit suicide after a week because of the Vogon's dreaded 'poetry reading weapons'

Okayyy...I think you get the picture.

[Ender]

I've given thought to a Harry Potter / Harry Dresden cross over. Thought was merge in after White Knight and OotP. Morgan asks Harry to go to England as DADA teacher as they can't confirm that a warlock is on the loose there and they are in a war, but he lost family the first time around so want's to have someone there and the Merlin won't let him shift around other warden assignments. Umbridge and Fudge get upset that the White Council is interfering in local business. I figured treat the Ministry of magic as an England wide version of the Ordo Lebes, only the most powerful of them e.g. Dumbledore and the teachers, were strong enough to meet White Council standards. The Black Council/Circle would be trying to contact/recruit Voldemort because he was able to escape death the same way Kemmler was able to. Voldemort of course will be no ones lackey, but when he learns of Bob he shifts from trying to grab the prophecy to getting more records from Kemmler. It becomes a 6 way intrigue as the Order of the Phoenix, Death Eaters, Circle, Wardens, Ministry, and Dumbledore's Army are trying to figure out what is going on.

Problem is making the differences mesh. The Time turner would have resulted in the Warden's purging the Ministry and Harry & Co, same for the ferret scene in Goblet of Fire. Then there is the time frame - Storm Front takes place in 2000, Deathly Hollows ends the series in 1997. But the big problem is the power levels involved. Harry Potter is low end where as Dresden is very high - it is hard to come up with something that doesn't start and end in a single chapter when Dresden drops a SUV on Voldemort's head and uses a tracking spell to hunt down the horcruxes. I started anyways and wrote a prologue and first chapter, but getting the tone right was really hard.

Title would have been Harry Potter and the Skull of Kemmler


And as for silliest idea, nothing here tops what Jim Butcher did with Codex Alera. The whole thing is an outgrowth of a bet that he couldn't take an absurd premise and make it worthwhile that he make at a Convention. Topic assigned was Pokemon cross over with the Last Legion. And it turned out to be wonderful.

[Themightytom]

How about a Samurai jack/Clone wars cross over since they were animated by the same people and in fact they PAUSED samurai jack to do clone wars...
I can se Obi Wan taking on Aku even now..
"He's got too many arms, I'm exhausted!"

[Xon]

<snip>
Title would have been Harry Potter and the Skull of Kemmler

Biggest problem is the Dresden Files Wizards policy on mind alteration compared to Harry Potter.

I believe the deliberate altering of memories on the scale HP-verse wizards practice would provoke a responce which would do an WH40K Inquisitor proud.

Especially the use of non-voluntary magically binding contracts.

And as for silliest idea, nothing here tops what Jim Butcher did with Codex Alera. The whole thing is an outgrowth of a bet that he couldn't take an absurd premise and make it worthwhile that he make at a Convention. Topic assigned was Pokemon cross over with the Last Legion. And it turned out to be wonderful.

So thats where it comes from.

[Zablorg]

For a while now I've wanted to read a fic about Hillary Clinton somehow teleporting to the 40k universe, and trying to become High Lord of some planet while somehow adapting to 40k's special brand of politics.

[hongi]

I've had an idea brewing in my head to create a crossover with LotR and a fantasy world of my own creation.

It would be a planet similar to our own in the position and shape of the continents as well as much of the same fauna and flora. I'd be focusing on one nation in particular called (with the place-holder name) Ululam. It's a theocratic empire with early Middle-Ages style technology barring some major exceptions which I'll explain in a little bit. The state religion din is a mix-mash of the monotheistic faiths of Earth, except it's heavily militaristic, xenophobic and socially restricting. Think of the worst aspects of Islam, Judaism and Christianity and amp it up a notch.

They worship one God of course. They don't build idols, they don't put have images of Him, but they do have a big honking temple dedicated to Him in the middle of their capital city. Their system of government is as I said, a theocracy with a single king-prophet and a system of judge-generals below that. Ullulans believe it is their divine mission to conquer the rest of the world. By far and large, Ullulans are composed of a single ethnicity, a tribal-based people called Shosoms who quite abruptly arose from the deserts to the south of where Israel is now, and took the neighbouring countries by storm only a few hundred years before. The Ululam Empire is roughly the size of the Mesopotamia.

The king-prophet is always drawn from a special family within the Shosoms. The original Prophet who was the one who brought the din to the world, made it so that only from his lineage could the king-prophet be chosen. At various points in the history of the empire, the king-prophet had nominal power and the judiciary were the real rulers.

The twist is, they actually have divine aid. Or...not exactly:Aliens. The Entity sends occasional gifts of armour, something we'd recognise as nanotechnology based, or swords or occasionally the Ullulans get a bumper season of crops. But the Entity doesn't help all the time, which the Ullulans have interpreted either as punishment for sin or God wanting them to do stuff on their own. Either way, it all ends up in a new war with their neighbours or a slaughtering of a subject people or some ritual sacrifice of slaves. Did I mention their economy was slave based?

So yeah, I wanted a crossover between this despotic theocracy verses the free peoples of Middle Earth. After a whirlwind campaign some few hundred years ago, the empire is falling apart after successive slave revolts, a couple of civil wars between successors within the Prophet's family over who would succeed to the prophet-king position, as well as between individual generals. Not to mention the hostile surrounding nations. Anyway, they find a portal to Middle Earth and the prophet-king wants to consolidate his power, so he declares a holy war. I wasn't quite sure whether to set it in the Third or Second Age.

There's a reason why it looks better in my imagination.

[Peptuck]

I've had the urge to try and write the Angry Marines and their fellow chapters, like the Pretty Marines and Lazy Marines, in a serious storyline.

[Battlehymn Republic]

Two different Halo ones:

1. A serious Red vs. Blue civil war occurring sometime before/during the war with the Covenant.

2. A role reversal where the Covenant were good, and the UNSC a fascist dictatorship dominated by future-Americans. The latter is basically true already.

[Ford Prefect]

I recently recalled a certain fanfic idea that I had once upon a time. A Fireman Sam fanfic, injected with twelve litres of SERIOUS BUSINESS. The plot in this case would be that a terrible arsonist has struck London in a heatwave of terror! Unable to handle the situation on their own, the London Metropolitan Fire Service - or whatever its called - sends out a distress call for support across the country. In response, the boys and girl from Wales mount up in Jupiter and Venus and ride in like the goddamn light brigade into a london that threatens to go up in flames.

Only, a dark shadow lingers over the heads of the heroic firefighter, a terrible secret from the depths of Sam's past.

Includes axe-duels to an obligatory Ominous Latin version of the Fireman Sam themesong.

[Aranfan]

Commissar: "If the God-Emperor had wanted you to live, He would not have created me!"

Space Marine: "Techpriest is credit to team!"

Sister of Battle: "Mmf-MMFFF-Mf. MmF-Mmf-Mmmf!"

Vindicare: "Feelings? Look, mate, you know who has a lot of feelings? Blokes who think love can bloom on the battlefield. Professionals have standards."

etc.

Sadly, I lack the skill to make such a fic.

[Peptuck]

Commissar: "If the God-Emperor had wanted you to live, He would not have created me!"

Space Marine: "Techpriest is credit to team!"

Sister of Battle: "Mmf-MMFFF-Mf. MmF-Mmf-Mmmf!"

Vindicare: "Feelings? Look, mate, you know who has a lot of feelings? Blokes who think love can bloom on the battlefield. Professionals have standards."

etc.

Sadly, I lack the skill to make such a fic.

That would be beyond awesome.

[Jadeite]

My region from the game Nationstates encountering the Federation during the Dominion War. I actually wrote out the first chapter, then got bored with it. I might revive it at some point.

[Glimmervoid]

I recently recalled a certain fanfic idea that I had once upon a time. A Fireman Sam fanfic, injected with twelve litres of SERIOUS BUSINESS. The plot in this case would be that a terrible arsonist has struck London in a heatwave of terror! Unable to handle the situation on their own, the London Metropolitan Fire Service - or whatever its called - sends out a distress call for support across the country. In response, the boys and girl from Wales mount up in Jupiter and Venus and ride in like the goddamn light brigade into a london that threatens to go up in flames.

Only, a dark shadow lingers over the heads of the heroic firefighter, a terrible secret from the depths of Sam's past.

Includes axe-duels to an obligatory Ominous Latin version of the Fireman Sam themesong.

THINK THE CHILDREN! If you write a good Fireman Sam fic then other people will write Fireman Sam fics and if other people write Fireman Sam someone is going to write slash Fireman Sam fics and if someone dose that people are going to write Postman Pat/Fireman Sam crossover slash fics and then my childhood would be dead. Seriously though it is a nice idea.

[SirNitram]

Silliest idea played and written entirely deadpan and serious:

The Beast from Homeworld: Cataclysm is tamed and controls a region of space sandwiched between the encroaching forces of a Sailor Moon villain, a Democratic alliance of powers which recently threatened to blow me away for harbouring Commie intragalactic starbusters, the Sixth Imperium, and the protagonists from Sailor Moon.

STGODs are SERIOUS BUSINESS, sir.

[Shroom Man 777]

Someone should write stories about the SDN world!

[Zor]

Someone should write stories about the SDN world!

Frankly i think that would be a good idea, so long as people stay away from too much Jizz when it comes to there own nations.

Zor

[Peptuck]

Had an idea to write a version of Super Mario RPG.

The kicker? Mario narrates it, as a tired, angry, foul-mouthed war veteran, Punisher MAX style.

[Aranfan]

Haruhi Suzumiya discovers the wonderful world of Terry Pratchett, the Discworld books.

[Satori]

Haruhi Suzumiya discovers the wonderful world of Terry Pratchett, the Discworld books.

I'm still hoping that someone will write a Haruhi/X-files cross. It'd probably be short, but it'd have to be hilarious.

I'm actually considering writing an Ocean's Eleven style story pitting Gotham's Rogues Gallery against the Darhel from John Ringo's Legacy of the Adelnata series. Catburgulary, hatting, riddling, and a solid dose of killing jokes.

[Rawtooth]

After listening to the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull soundtrack, I had an idea...

Indiana Jones and the Call of Cthulhu