Meme: 15 Characters

[graycardinal]

Borrowed from liviapenn (her results here):

I've made a list of fifteen (15) characters from a variety of fandoms.  Your job is to ask questions about various combinations of these characters (examples: What secret past do #8 and #14 share?  What if #2, #6, and #9 went on a road trip?  If #5 and #10 were having dinner, who invited who?), which I'll do my best to answer.

Notes:
Obviously, one shouldn't peek indiscriminately at the comments thread before posing a question, as there will be spoilers for who's where on the list as the game progresses.

OTOH, if some numbered characters are consistently overlooked, questions concerning these yet-unknown characters are encouraged so as to give everyone on the list a chance at the limelight.

Given the diversity of the list, there's definite potential for generating highly weird and improbable pairings based on the direction of the questions.  Management will do its best to respond to all queries posed, but reserves the right to designate some results Just Too Bizarre To Contemplate.

Let the game begin!

Comments

[graycardinal]

Interesting....

#6 is Remington Steele, #10 is Peter Parker, #3 is Willow Rosenberg.

What appears to have happened:

Mildred Krebs had been coordinating security arrangements for a TV shoot -- a series of commercials for a new cosmetics line, starring the line's spokesmodel, Mary Jane Watson-Parker. [We are finessing or ignoring those Marvelverse timelines in which MJ and Peter have been involuntarily unmarried...] There had been rumblings of sabotage involving a rival cosmetics company, and the TV producers were understandably concerned for MJ's safety. They appear to have been justified; Mildred's body has been found next to the craft services tent, next to a bowl of spilled fruit salad known to have been a favorite dish of MJ's. Mildred's mentor, Remington Steele, has been called in to investigate; meanwhile, Peter Parker is covering the shoot for the Daily Bugle (and watching out for his wife's safety, with Spider-Man ready to leap in at need). Neither is paying much attention to one of the makeup artists on set for the day's shoot, a certain Willow Rosenberg....

What's actually going on:

This being a Marvel universe, the Mildred-corpse is of course a duplicate; the real Mildred is being held prisoner by the forces in charge of the rival cosmetics firm. (This is, of course, illogical, baroque, and unnecessarily convoluted of the evil cosmetics firm -- but this being a Marvel universe, that's only to be expected.)

This being a Buffy universe, the rival cosmetics company is owned and operated by demons -- in this case, a consortium of demons attempting to market beauty products that allow those who wear them to be controlled by the demons and used for their illicit and evil purposes. However, the company MJ is working for is also owned and operated by supernatural agencies -- they're trying to covertly include magickal protective agents in their own wares. Willow has been (a) helping the company formulate its products, and (b) quietly keeping an eye on the security arrangements against the prospect of magickal threats.

What happens:

Mr. Steele, of course, is out to solve Mildred's murder...and quickly finds himself hip-deep in references to monster movies, comic book films, and multi-layered TV series arcs.

Peter quickly figures out that there's magic and corporate intrigue involved, and Spider-Man gets to face off with various sorts of demons -- not incidentally, saving Steele's life a couple of times and establishing that the Mildred who ate the poisoned fruit salad wasn't the real Mildred after all.

Willow is quickly forced to blow her cover when Spidey runs up against a particularly nasty demon and she has to bail him out with magic. She's perfectly willing to concede that Steele and Spidey are better detectives than she is; OTOH, they clearly need her to navigate the minefields of Los Angeles demonic politics (and yes, of course Wolfram & Hart are hip-deep in the relevant intrigues).

And we segue into a classically wacky Steele-inspired caper designed to take down the demonic cosmetics empire, rescue Mildred, and finish the TV filming without jeopardizing MJ's spokesmodeling gig....

[twilight2000.livejournal.com]

LOVE it -- amused that I ended up picking Pierce and Buffy-verse players? *I* am ;> And an Action Hero -- wOOt!

Can't wait to see the next one ;>

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

Love this complex scenario, even though I'm not too familiar with Remington Steele!

[twilight2000.livejournal.com]

This fits that universe quite well -- you might enjoy netflixing the first season (though, as with any show, it hits stride somewhere in season 2,or 3,, depending on whom you ask :>)

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I don't have Netflix, but I'll look out for a torrent when I have more hard drive space!

[graycardinal]

Ah, Remington Steele -- the TV series that served as Pierce Brosnan's audition for the James Bond role, though NBC finagled him out of it at the time (thereby giving us Timothy Dalton for awhile instead).

Premise in a nutshell: Laura Holt (played by Stefanie Zimbalist) was the gutsy girl private eye who had lots of enthusiasm but no clients, so she invented an imaginary boss named Remington Steele to lure in business. In the pilot episode, Brosnan's character -- a mystery man with five passports, expensive tastes, and the ability to describe any situation by matching it to a classic movie plot -- popped up out of the blue and (much to Laura's dismay) assumed Steele's identity. There was instant chemistry, followed by several seasons' worth of slightly screwball comedy/action/romance.

If you do Netflix episodes, note that Mildred Krebs (played by Doris Roberts, more recently known for Everybody Loves Raymond) doesn't actually appear until the start of the second season.

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the synopsis! It sounds like something I'd be interested in. I'll look for a torrent when I have more disk space.