The Movies
Here, general information on what each movie/movie series the characters in the roleplay are from will be given.
The Avengers series: When evil villains from Marvel Comics strike such as Loki and Ultron, Earth's mightiest heroes are brought together by a crime-fighting organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. This group of super-powered and super-equipped (whether it's with the most advanced weapons or the most strange and supernatural abilities) individuals are known as the Avengers, and whenever the Earth is falling apart and S.H.I.E.L.D. can do nothing about it, they are called on and brought together to fight against evil.
The X-Men series: The world has a new minority-or, make that, a new species of human. They are the mutants, who are humans born with a certain gene that gives them powers. They are shunned and discriminated constantly. In New York City are two groups of mutants-the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. While the X-Men try to coexist peacefully with the humans, the Brotherhood tends to take more violent approaches whenever the humans make laws that limit the mutants' rights. Throughout this series of movies, both groups of mutants try to simply survive, but get caught in various conflicts between each other and the humans.
The Captain America movies: In World War II, a normal guy named Steve Rogers who hates bullying signs up to undergo an experiment. When the experiment has been finished, he has become a super-soldier-he has tremendous strength, speed, durability, and great fighting skills. After fighting in the war, Steve, now known as Captain America, seemingly dies...but later, scientists find out that he is really alive. Many years later, Captain America wakes up in the 21st century, and now must start a new life working for S.H.I.E.L.D.
The Thor movies: Once there was a Norse god of thunder named Thor...sounds like normal mythology, right? Well, not until Thor accidentally winds up stranded on a planet full of "petty and tiny mortals" called Earth. Thor learns about Earth while being there, and even develops a romantic relationship with one of the women, but in the end he returns to the immortal world he came from to deal with his evil brother, Loki. However, he will not be forgotten on Earth, and will soon become a hero and an Avenger there...
The Iron Man movies: These movies are mainly focused on a superhero named Tony Stark (alias Iron Man), who is a very rich genius who has special iron suits that he dons whenever he has to fight evil.
The Star Wars series: In the distant future, an uncountable amount of new planets have been discovered, and soon an intergalactic empire has been formed. This empire is guarded by the Jedi Knights, who are specially trained warriors that are experienced in using something called the Force-which, as it sounds like, is an invisible force that dwells inside everyone and has special powers. However, the Dark Side (AKA the evil side of the Force) is coming into power, and certain individuals are preparing to take over the empire...and only the Jedis can stop them.
Jaws: When a huge, man-eating shark begins to antagonize Amity Island, Amity's chief of police, Martin Brody, gets involved. Brody soon finds out about the shark-who is called Jaws-and is determined to catch and kill the shark. However, doing this will be a very hard task...
The Indiana Jones series: This series of movies tells the various tales of Indiana Jones (AKA Indy), a college professor, archaeologist, historian, and adventurer. Indy embarks on several journeys to discover hidden treasures, including legendary items such as the Holy Grail and the Crystal Skull. Throughout the movies, he has several co-ops on his adventures, including a few women, a kid named Shorty, and even his father, Henry Jones, Sr.
Ender's Game: In a future where the Earth is threatened by the presence of aliens, gifted children are sent to a military academy known as Battle School, where they train to prevent alien attacks. This movie is mainly focused on one of those children, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, who seems to be one of the most gifted of all in the art of war.
Home Alone 1&2: Kevin McCallister, a normal kid from the Chicago suburbs, is literally accidentally left home alone in the first movie when his family leaves to go on vacation. Life is great for Kevin-other than the fact that two pesky burglars, Harry and Marv, are targeting the McCallister house. Kevin, however, eventually thwarts the duo's plans to rob his house. In the next movie, Kevin is left alone somewhere in New York, and Harry and Marv are back and intent on getting revenge on Kevin.
Sixteen Candles: Everything in a normal teenage girl named Samantha Baker's life seems to be going wrong, especially when everyone completely forgets about her sixteenth birthday and instead focuses on Sam's sister's wedding. However, in the end, Samantha's family and dream boyfriend realize what happened and help her make up for it.
The Hunger Games series: Katniss Everdeen, a teenage girl, lives in future dystopian America known as Panem (which is basically futuristic America that has been split into twelve separate Districts). The Districts are ruled under a wealthy and cruel Capitol, which forces each District to send one boy and one girl in between the ages of 12 and 18 to compete in an annual "Hunger Games"-a fight to the death in the dreaded arena. Katniss ends up competing and winning the 74th Hunger Games. Her actions stir up the people of Panem, and soon Katniss finds herself being the figurehead of a new war, where the Districts have finally summoned the courage to rebel against the Capitol once and for all.
The Divergent series: Beatrice Prior is a normal teenage girl living in future dystopian Chicago (Which has been split into five "factions." The people of the faction match the faction's overall aptitude/personality; the Erudite are the smart, the Amity the loving, the Abnegation the selfless, the Dauntless the brave, and the Candor the honest. Note that two other groups are the factionless and the Divergent; the factionless don't belong anywhere, while the Divergent can belong in more than one faction and are considered dangerous to the system.). Beatrice takes a test to see which faction she is from and finds that she is Divergent. When she is then forced to choose which faction she'll live in the rest of her life, she chooses Dauntless. For the rest of the first film, she lives in Dauntless normally. However, her world is turned upside-down when the Erudite try to use the Dauntless to destroy the Abnegation for strange reasons...
The Harry Potter series: A normal, eleven year-old orphaned boy named Harry Potter is living with his mean uncle, spiffy aunt, and cruel cousin. However, Harry's life changes when he receives a letter that invites him to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry-this means he's really a wizard! Harry soon attends the school, and his life becomes much happier...but much more full of mystery, for there are many discoveries to be made in the magical Wizarding World (and some of them are not good). Soon, it turns out that Harry's rival, an evil and powerful wizard named Lord Voldemort, is returning into power and determined to take over the world, and Harry alone can stop him.
Oliver!: A young boy named Oliver Twist lives in the orphanage. After asking for more food one day, Oliver is punished by being sold like a slave to anyone who wants to buy him; his buyer is an undertaker. Soon, Oliver gets into more trouble and runs away to freedom. He goes to London, where he meets a boy named the Artful Dodger and an old man named Fagin. Fagin is in charge of a pickpocket gang (which is made up of young, homeless boys), and Oliver joins the gang. However, Oliver soon meets his mother's uncle by accident, and Fagin and Bill Sikes (who is a dangerous criminal) are determined to keep Oliver away from his relative so that Oliver can hide his knowledge of Fagin, Bill, and the pickpockets.
The Back to the Future movies: Martin "Marty" Mcfly is a normal teenage dude from the late 20th century who loves 80s pop music and skateboarding. However, when he meets up with a somewhat weird scientist friend of his named Dr. Brown, he discovers that Dr. Brown has invented a car that can travel through time. Marty and Dr. Brown then go on various time-traveling adventures throughout the movies.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off: A normal teenage prankster named Ferris Bueller is determined to get a day off, so on one of his school days he pretends to be too sick to leave home. Then, while his parents and sister go out to run errands, Ferris jumps out of bed, leaves his home, and rounds up two of his friends-Cameron and Sloane. While Ferris and his buddies go around Chicago and have the time of their lives, the principal of Ferris' school senses that Ferris' "illness" is just another one of his pranks, and thus he is determined to catch Ferris.
The Pink Panther series: In the first movie, a French detective known as Clouseau is sent out to investigate after the famous "Pink Panther" jewel is mysteriously stolen. Throughout the movie, Clouseau ends up in awkward and hilarious situations as he tries to solve the case. In other movies of the series, Clouseau embarks on other case-solving adventures, ranging from when his insane boss Dreyfus tries to find a way to kill Clouseau to when the French Connection is being reestablished and the people in charge of it try using over twenty highly trained assassins to kill Clouseau (and Clouseau escapes all of them by total accident).
The Hobbit series: Bilbo Baggins is a somewhat elderly Hobbit (which is basically a very short human with hairy feet) who peacefully lives in a magical world called Middle Earth. However, things turn upside-down when the well-known wizard Gandalf and fourteen dwarves invade Bilbo's home and have "an unexpected party" there. Gandalf and the dwarves tell Bilbo that they need his help, for a dragon has been guarding the ancient dwarves' treasure for many decades and the dwarves want it back; however, they'll need a Hobbit to help them. Bilbo agrees to come with them and sets off for the adventure of his lifetime.
The Lord of the Rings series: When Bilbo retires, he gives his young nephew Frodo a magic ring he's had for years. Gandalf pays a visit and explains that the ring was created by an evil being known as Dark Lord Sauron, and the ring has the power to let its owner rule the world. However, on a path of greed of death, the ring is finding ways to make it back to Sauron, so it must be destroyed before it gets to him. Frodo agrees to help destroy the ring, and he, Gandalf, and many others set out on an epic journey to Mordor, a place where the One Ring can truly be destroyed forever.
The Genius of Beethoven: This movie is a three-part BBC documentary about the life of famous German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Life of Pi: Piscine "Pi" Patel is a normal boy from India. His parents own a zoo, so he grew up tending to and loving animals. When Pi grew up to become a teenager, his family had to move to Canada by ship. The ship sank, and only two survivors remained: Pi and the Bengal Tiger from the zoo, Richard Parker (The man who caught him named him Thirsty, but when Pi's family purchased Richard Parker for the zoo, the names of the man and the tiger got reversed. They laughed about it, and decided to keep the name.). After many months of surviving at sea and making miraculous and strange discoveries, Pi and Richard Parker make it to somewhere along the coast of Mexico. Richard Parker abandoned Pi and ran off into the jungle, and Pi moved on to Canada, where he has been living peacefully ever since.
Maleficent: In a kingdom split into two parts (one half being the Moors, a fairy kingdom, and the other half being a normal medieval human kingdom), a fairy named Maleficent meets a human named Stefan. The two seemingly fall in love, but Stefan eventually prefers power over love, so in order to gain the throne he pretends to kill Maleficent by chopping off her wings and bringing them to the dying king of the human kingdom. Stefan is crowned king, but Maleficent, wanting vengeance, curses Stefan's daughter, Aurora (whom Maleficent is not the mother of), to touch a magic spindle on her sixteenth birthday and be put in a death-like sleep; the curse can only be broken by true love's first kiss. To try to protect Aurora, Stefan makes three fairies raise Aurora as a common peasant in the middle of the woods. Aurora meets Maleficent and develops a mother-daughter relationship with her; this is cut short when the curse comes into effect. However, Maleficent herself wakes up Aurora, and the two work together to fight Stefan's reign of tyranny. In the end, Aurora is crowned queen of both kingdoms.
Skyfall: When a British secret agent named James Bond (alias 007/double "o" seven) discovers that a rogue agent named Silva has been the cause of cyberterrorism-related attacks on MI6 (the British secret service), Bond delves further into the case and finds out that Silva, who had been seemingly betrayed by MI6 when he was captured by the enemy during one of his missions, is determined to kill the head of MI6, a woman commonly known as "M." Throughout the rest of the epic adventure, James Bond is determined to protect M and keep her out of Silva's clutches...even if it resorts to doing things the old-fashioned way.
The Amazing Spiderman: A teenage boy named Peter Parker is leading a normal life-until one of his friends, a scientist named Dr. Conner, shows Peter some of his experiments with lizards (for Dr. Conner lost one of his arms and has been obsessed with finding ways to regrow limbs; this leads to his interest in lizards). One day, Peter Parker goes snooping around the labs Dr. Conner works in and ends up being bitten by a strange spider, which results in him obtaining spider-like powers and abilities. Peter Parker then takes up the habit of kicking bad guy butt with his powers, but when he lets one of those common criminals go, that criminal kills Peter's uncle. Peter then tries to make up for his uncle's death by taking on the alias "Spiderman" and making crime-fighting more than just a habit. However, meanwhile, Dr. Conner has found a way to regrow his arm, but his experiment backfires and he is transformed into a giant, evil, and indestructible lizard...
Spaceballs: This movie is a Mel Brooks Star Wars parody. In a future where an uncountable amount of planets have been discovered and these planets have formed a sort of "galactic empire," a certain world, Planet Spaceball, has wasted all its air. President Skroob, leader of Planet Spaceball, sends out his two minions Lord Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz in a spaceship called Spaceball One to kidnap the princess of nearby planet Druidia so that they can use her as ransom to gain access to Druidia's air. The princess is indeed captured and used as ransom, but there's a problem-two normal dudes named Lone Starr and Barf are good friends of the princess and are on their way in their RV-like spaceship in order to save her.
Spy Kids: Two spies, Gregorio Cortez and Ingrid Avellan, are assigned to kill each other during a period of time filled with political trouble, but instead they fall in love and get married. They have two children: A girl named Carmen and a boy named Juni. After ten years of retirement from espionage, Gregorio and Ingrid are put back in service on an important mission but are captured by the enemy. Carmen and Juni find out about this and leave to become spies themselves and save their parents.
The Twilight Saga: This is a series of five movies about a misunderstood teenage girl named Isabella "Bella" Swan who lives in Forks, Washington. She falls in love with (the stalker-ish) vampire Edward Cullen. Eventually, she becomes a vampire herself, and she and Edward get married. However, they have to deal with evil enemy vampires and werewolves throughout their lives. This saga is basically the usual romance movie series with a darker note to it.
The Notebook: Based on a true story and a novel of the same name, this movie takes place in 20th century California. A man named Noah is pretty desperate for a girlfriend-specifically, he is desperate for a girl he knows named Allie. This is basically a romance movie with a "historical twist" to it.
Paper Towns: When Margo Roth Spiegelman, the girl across the street, climbs through Quentin Jacobsen's window one night, he isn't sure what to expect. But then, he and Margo fulfill a series of revenge plots against school classmates. The all-nighter ends sooner than Q has expected, and he finds himself being drawn closer to Margo. The next day at school, Margo doesn't attend school...or the next day...or the next day. Where is Margo? Quentin takes these responsibilities into his own hands, destined to find Margo dead or alive. |
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