[UA] Re: Horror Books to snag stuff from

[Mark Fender]

>the main idea is to take the Gotham of the comics but remove Bats, 
>leaving a
>trult corrupt and insane version of New York. the various villains >will 
pop
>up as members of the OU (ie the Joker is a serial killer plus >Godwalker 
of
>the Fool, Poison Ivy is an amoromancer, Maxie Zeus is a True King, >the
>Riddler is a cryptomancer, the Penguin channels the Merchant, etc >etc)

>Hoody hoo!  Can it be that UA has become a perceptual virus robust enough 
to infect any fictional structure?  Let's give it a try!  What's the UA 
version of the X-Files?  How about the Love Boat?

This is sort of a 'gimme' question. Television shows typically have 
archetypes of their own. How many sitcoms have a ditz (Fool) and/or a slut 
(Pornomancer) on them? Only very rarely does a TV show step outside of this 
mold and have actual personalities behind them.

Not that it isn't a fun exercise... Gilligan is very obviously a Fool, the 
Professor is a Mechanomancer, and Mr. Howell is a Plutomancer. And I'm not 
even touching the slew of avatars-just-waiting-to-ascend on The View.

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