Lets have fun: Popular story descriptions turned on their head

[Kato]

Bingo. Let me try another.

An ex-Catholic takes a holy mission to New Jersey.

Random guess: Dogma? But not sure if Bethany used to be Catholic...

[Iamyourking]

A couple more from me:

A young girl implements the world's most elaborate scheme to get someone else to solve a Sudoku puzzle for her. There are multiple casualties.

An episodic series of investigations and tribunals held by people under duress where they confront, amongst other things, the deep societal prejudices against serial killers with multiple personalities and against people who frame other people for murder.

999 and Dangan Ronpa.

[digiman619]

Correct! One last one before I go to bed.

A scientist's extraterrestrial experiment is made difficult by sarcastic subjects.

[Fiery Diamond]

Summer Wars?



Ace Attorney.



Mass Effect. Your earlier hints clinched it.

Let me try one out:

The imposter to the throne of a mighty magocracy decides to take the time to be a father to his double's bastard son. And fails miserably.

Crap, now I have to google to find the name of the book. I'm pretty sure I know what story this one is - I read the whole book, but I hated it. The son was a terribly unlikable person.

Ah, found it. The Lightbringer series (of which I only read the first book).

[Kato]

Correct! One last one before I go to bed.

A scientist's extraterrestrial experiment is made difficult by sarcastic subjects.

...MST3K?


A very old, often irresponsible man, regularly abducts or baits along younger people, often women, dragging them into mostly life threatening situations.

[Fri]

Area man just want to live alone in peace, but local delinquents keep kinkshaming him.

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Diamond is Unbreakable

[cha0s4a11]

999 and Dangan Ronpa.

Indeed you are correct.

[The Troubadour]

Random guess: Dogma? But not sure if Bethany used to be Catholic...

She did. To quote from the movie:

Bethany: "I think God is dead."

Janeane Garofalo's character: "Spoken like a true Catholic."

A very old, often irresponsible man, regularly abducts or baits along younger people, often women, dragging them into mostly life threatening situations.

"Dr. Who", I imagine.

[The Glyphstone]

A disaffected, unemployed intellectual fosters a violent uprising against the government and assassinates the head of state.

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Half-Life 2

Surprised no one took a shot at this. Giving any more specifics would be a shoo-in reveal, I think.

[Pex]

Extinct creature manipulates children into a cult of behavior that makes the Stepford wives look like feminists.

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Barney & Friends

A paladin, barbarian, cleric, warlock, ranger, and rogue form a party to stop an evil wizard opening a portal to unleash an army of demons.

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The Avengers

A nature documentary on a fish's feeding habits.

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Jaws

[Wookieetank]

Nature documentaries on the migratory habits of various types of fish.

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Finding Nemo & Finding Dory

A surprise guest provides much excitement and zany adventures for a group of camp counselors preparing for opening day.

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Friday the 13th

Family goes on a space vacation together where the youngest son meets his older self

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Lost in Space the movie

[DomaDoma]

Batman vs. Superman.

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Death Note.

Walrus vs. Carpenter.

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The second arc of Death Note.

[Sermil]

Group of friends decide on dangerous walk across continent -- despite huge numbers of easily accessible teleporters. At the end, they decide they don't want what they came for, and go back.

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Final Fantasy X. Seriously, you're in the ruined-a-thousand-years city, but you can still go teleport to play Blitzball at any time?

Misunderstood orphan is ostracized and bullied by his peers. Once he grows up, he meets the woman of his dreams and she agrees to marry him, but their plans are ruined when her 'friends' crash their wedding.

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Final Fantasy X again

Ghosts play soccer

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Mario Strikers Charged... You thought I was going to say Final Fantasy X one more time, didn't you?

[Rater202]

A little girl finds herself separated from her adopted family, spends a great deal of time around a pedophile, and is accosted by The Boogeyman, who turns her against her family.

This is only part of the story, so I'll leave it and see if anyone can guess it.

[Cikomyr]

The Boogeyman or the Boogie Man?!

[Rater202]

The Boogeyman

This one.

I was in a rush.

[Cikomyr]

This one.

I was in a rush.

Yoi have to admit, it makes a helluva difference XD

[Sermil]

A little girl finds herself separated from her adopted family, spends a great deal of time around a pedophile, and is accosted by The Boogeyman, who turns her against her family.

This is only part of the story, so I'll leave it and see if anyone can guess it.

Coraline? It doesn't happen in that order, but she is separated from her 'adopted' Other family at the end and the Other Mother could be counted as a Boogeyman who turns her against her original family.

[Rater202]

Coraline? It doesn't happen in that order, but she is separated from her 'adopted' Other family at the end and the Other Mother could be counted as a Boogeyman who turns her against her original family.

Nope. (In particular you're missing the bit about the pedophile.)

I'll give another hint

I'm only describing the events of one chapter.

[The Glyphstone]

Nightmare Before Christmas?

[Rater202]

Nightmare Before Christmas?

No.

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It's Interlude 25 (Bonesaw) from Worm.

The guy Bonesaw makes friends with is implied to be a pedophile(albeit one who doesn't act on his urges), Bonesaw encounters Fortuna Contessa(referred to as The Boogeyman on several occasions), and as a direct result of this encounter Riley(Bonesaw's real name) remembers who she used to be and that the Slaughterhouse Nine(a group that Bonesaw considers to be her family) kind of murdered her mother, father, brother, and dog.(She was 4-7 at the time, and the Nine's leader is a master at twisting good people into monsters)

Remembering this, coupled with another realization results in her betraying the Nine.

[Sermil]

A woman strives to keep her lover from indefinite imprisonment, and probably torture. She fails, though she is still trying at the end of the story.

Edit: This may have been a little too obfuscated. Let me add that the story involves a lot of families. And food.

Edit 2: OK, I guess I was way too obfuscated. Here's another way to describe the same story:
Young brash upstart tries to disrupt old, stodgy industry whose entrenched controllers can't see the advantages of the upstart's new ideas. In an extended flashback, we see that those entrenched controllers were once young brash upstarts themselves who wrestled control of the industry from the previous entrenched controllers.

[DomaDoma]

Okay, I'll leave this one to be guessed:

The War to End All Wars actually happened. Lo, humanity's technological achievements overstepped their control, and the vast part of the population was driven to extinction. Now, they are simpler but wiser, the nations of the world have taken to a live-and-let-live policy, and repeating the mistakes of the past is not to be thought of.

Of course, any civilization, even this one, has its malcontents. This bunch are especially ragged; they need to loot corpses to survive; and as such they aren't able to make any real dent in the state of the world - until the day one of their agents manipulates, by overtures of friendship, someone who happens to know the keystone to that peace - disposing of him once he's outlived his use. And yes, the information is completely good, their plan totally works, and the cycle of human folly is back in full swing.

[The Glyphstone]

A woman strives to keep her lover from indefinite imprisonment, and probably torture. She fails, though she is still trying at the end of the story.

Edit: This may have been a little too obfuscated. Let me add that the story involves a lot of families. And food.

Edit 2: OK, I guess I was way too obfuscated. Here's another way to describe the same story:
Young brash upstart tries to disrupt old, stodgy industry whose entrenched controllers can't see the advantages of the upstart's new ideas. In an extended flashback, we see that those entrenched controllers were once young brash upstarts themselves who wrestled control of the industry from the previous entrenched controllers.

Gotta be something involving vampires, probably of the World of Darkness flavor (either Old or New could fit).

[Sermil]

Gotta be something involving vampires, probably of the World of Darkness flavor (either Old or New could fit).

Nope. One last hint: It's a very well-known story, at least in the US (even among non-nerds). I'll bet the majority of Americans would recognize at least one quote from the story.

[Lord Raziere]

Nope. One last hint: It's a very well-known story, at least in the US (even among non-nerds). I'll bet the majority of Americans would recognize at least one quote from the story.

........Star Wars?

[Cikomyr]

A woman strives to keep her lover from indefinite imprisonment, and probably torture. She fails, though she is still trying at the end of the story.

Edit: This may have been a little too obfuscated. Let me add that the story involves a lot of families. And food.

Edit 2: OK, I guess I was way too obfuscated. Here's another way to describe the same story:
Young brash upstart tries to disrupt old, stodgy industry whose entrenched controllers can't see the advantages of the upstart's new ideas. In an extended flashback, we see that those entrenched controllers were once young brash upstarts themselves who wrestled control of the industry from the previous entrenched controllers.

Citizen Kane

Okay, I'll leave this one to be guessed:

The War to End All Wars actually happened. Lo, humanity's technological achievements overstepped their control, and the vast part of the population was driven to extinction. Now, they are simpler but wiser, the nations of the world have taken to a live-and-let-live policy, and repeating the mistakes of the past is not to be thought of.

Of course, any civilization, even this one, has its malcontents. This bunch are especially ragged; they need to loot corpses to survive; and as such they aren't able to make any real dent in the state of the world - until the day one of their agents manipulates, by overtures of friendship, someone who happens to know the keystone to that peace - disposing of him once he's outlived his use. And yes, the information is completely good, their plan totally works, and the cycle of human folly is back in full swing.

I was going to say Equilibrium, but not so.sure.

I love your description. Any other clues?

[Sermil]

........Star Wars?

No, doesn't really match "A woman strives to keep her lover from indefinite imprisonment, and probably torture. She fails, though she is still trying at the end of the story." Leia successfully rescued Han from the carbonite, after all.

Citizen Kane

No. Not sure how that would match the 'woman strives' bit either.

[Lord Raziere]

No, doesn't really match "A woman strives to keep her lover from indefinite imprisonment, and probably torture. She fails, though she is still trying at the end of the story." Leia successfully rescued Han from the carbonite, after all.

Technically Padme strives to keep her lover from being imprisoned by the clutches of the Dark Side and she does fail.

[Fiery Diamond]

Nope. One last hint: It's a very well-known story, at least in the US (even among non-nerds). I'll bet the majority of Americans would recognize at least one quote from the story.

Book, movie, folk tale? Literary masterpiece, pop culture item? I'm from the US, and I have no idea what story you're referring to. Narrowing down the medium might help.

Edit: Although now that I think about it, maybe it wouldn't, for me at least. I can't actually think of ANY stories that fit either the first description or the second description, let alone both.