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graycardinalSo - clearly I need to post more often in order to encourage more of the gallery to chime in. Still, we have questions that deserve answers:
The list this round was as follows:
1 Agatha Harkness • MCU / WandaVision
2 Richard Swift/The Shade • Stargirl
3 Elisa Maza • Gargoyles
4 Adrien Agreste • Miraculous Ladybug
5 Carmen Sandiego • Carmen Sandiego / Netflix
6 Nicky Shen • Kung Fu
7 Jessica Fletcher • Murder She Wrote
8 Ron Stoppable • Kim Possible
9 Loki • MCU / Loki
10 May Parker • MCU / Spider-Man (Holland)
11 Dairine Callahan • Young Wizards (Duane)
12 Alfred Pennyworth • DCU / Batman
13 Daniel Jackson • Stargate SG-1
14 Sarah Jane Smith • Doctor Who
15 Kermit the Frog • Muppets
Questions fromthisbluespirit :
The Shade is publishing May Parker's tell-all memoirs - can Elisa Maza succeed in stopping them, and what's the secret May doesn't want printed?
Hmm. If we leave all the individual timelines intact, then this probably goes down after Stargirl's second season, long post-canon for Gargoyles, and between Far From Home and No Way Home for May.
This is therefore a pure bit of recreation for the Shade, and an attempt by May to mitigate the disaster of Peter's revealed identity - but the Shade, who has power over shadow and therefore Knows All, can't resist including some of the juicier excerpts from May's diary concerning her relationship with Happy Hogan, and that May really doesn't want to see print.
On one hand, Elisa (who is probably still at least nominally on the New York Police payroll) tells May that the Shade's sort of sleuthing and spying is neither preventable nor easily remedied by resorting to conventional legal action.
On the other - at this point, she almost certainly has access to the resources of Xanatos Enterprises and its fearless leader - and more to the point, to those of Owen Burnett's alternate identity. Also, this far along, that probably includes a fully-trained Alexander Xanatos, who should be able to either persuade or out-magic the Shade into returning May's journal and publishing the less salacious version of Spider-Man's Friendly Neighborhood Aunt.
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Nicky Shen and Loki go on a blind date. How does it go and why is Jessica Fletcher trying to sabotage it?
Heh. On the one hand, 98% or so of Loki's blind dates are either really, really short or rapidly devolve into universe-warping train wrecks - but this is one of the rare ones that probably actually goes reasonably well. Nicky's family heritage and martial arts training give her just the right combo of patience and mad skills that will (a) pique Loki's interest and (b) keep him from getting seriously out of line.
While the date certainly starts and ends in San Francisco, there will probably be side trips to Shanghai and perhaps Asgard in between, and long discussions of destiny over dumplings and tea (though Nicky will keep Loki as far from the family restaurant as possible, even though said family has now been read into the weirder aspects of mad kung fu skills).
Jessica, who even in a variant Marvelverse is less familiar with Asgardians and ancient Chinese mysticism, will have been looking into one or another of Loki's periodic acts of mischief, which have probably gotten someone in her orbit killed (though almost certainly not by Loki himself). She therefore believes that Nicky is in imminent danger of becoming another victim, and it will take pointed but polite conversations with several of Nicky's relatives to convince her otherwise.
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Agatha Harkness has been murdered! Why did Ron Stoppable do it, and can Alfred Pennyworth and his trusty sidekick Dairine Callahan solve the mystery in time? What kind of red herring is Adrien Agreste?
Hmm. The mystery here is not why Agatha is dead (or at least appears to be; Agatha is one of those villains for whom death is at best a temporary condition). The mystery here is how and why Ron's being blamed for it; clearly he's either been framed by the actual killer or possibly has been zapped into Zorpox "evil genius" mode by another Attitudinator device.
Fortunately, the combo of Alfred and Dairine (whom I distinctly recall as having been partnered in a prior round of this meme) have the right resources between them to chase down the correct killer and/or reverse the evil-twin effect of the Attitudinator. As for Adrien, his name turns up in Alfred's and Dairine's search because Dairine's wizardly database has Adrien (and his evil twin Felix) listed as being involved with Miraculous talismans, and one of their working theories (incorrect, as it turns out) is that Ron has gotten hold of a damaged Miraculous. For her part, the currently-deceased Agatha had in fact been unsuccessfully chasing Miraculous in hopes of giving herself extra abilities for her next round with Wanda Maximoff.
The case winds up with Ron cleared, largely because it doesn't take all that long for Agatha to orchestrate a comeback - though Alfred and Dairine between them are able to discourage her from pursuing immediate revenge.
A question fromsenmut :
Elisa Maza decided that life was boring. What does Jessica Fletcher do to spice it up?
My mind is boggling here, because "boring" and Elisa are hard to imagine as adjacent things. I suppose, though, that if we stipulate that this is some time post-canon for Gargoyles, life may have settled down sufficiently that she might actually be getting restless if all of Xanatos' and Goliath's respective enemies have been sidelined for long enough. And I should think that as a New York police detective, Elisa has long since gotten acquainted with Jessica by reputation at the very least, if not through one or another actual case.In the circumstances, we shall assume that this situation arises after Jessica's previous meme-incident - and that Jessica brings Elisa out of her funk by introducing her to Loki.
We shall then assume that Elisa arranges to go out of town with Loki as fast as humanly possible, because the thought of Loki and David Xanatos getting up to mischief together is way too scary to even begin to contemplate....
Questions fromshewhostaples :
Elisa Maza is the long-lost heir to the throne! But Ron Stoppable is determined to stop her from getting there. What's his dastardly plot, and will Elisa ultimately claim her rightful place? And what is the secret that Sarah Jane Smith has been keeping all these years?
Yeesh; the meme-gods have it in for Ron this round - again he's been cast as the villain. Ah, well, let's see....
If we take this as following from the episodes discussed above, the logical conclusion is that Loki has finagled Elisa into the Asgardian court (anything that Thor can do to give Jane Foster status therein, Loki can certainly do better for Elisa). Ron, having been introduced to multiversal magic during his prior adventure, is of course totally fascinated - and whereas Elisa is content to let Loki think she's playing along for the moment, Ron is worried about the consequences of potentially drawing Elisa permanently offworld and so has decided that someone needs to rescue her. [Ron, while he's gotten a good look at Loki, has not assimilated the presence of gargoyles in New York at this point.] So he's working on a suitably convoluted scheme to lure Elisa back to Earth, but has not yet been able to find the wizardly help he needs to actually get to Asgard.
This is where Sarah Jane comes in, as it develops that she has been keeping an eye on traffic between Earth and Asgard (see the Sarah Jane Adventures series for more about her resources) - and her long-kept secret is that the version of K9 living with her has built-in TARDIS circuitry, and so is able to transport Ron to Asgard. Against all odds (and with some assists from prior allies) Ron successfully convinces Elisa that she belongs on Earth, and Loki reluctantly yields the game.
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Nicky Shen has been kidnapped by Jessica Fletcher. Will Carmen Sandiego and May Parker manage to rescue her?
And here I thought Ron Stoppable was an implausible villain....
What's happening here only looks like a kidnapping because Nicky didn't have time to tell anyone before Jessica intervened. Once again we draw on prior meme-encounters to explain what's really going on. In fact, Jessica - not incorrectly - has realized that Loki's blind date with Nicky went entirely too well, and that Loki is therefore entirely likely to develop an unhealthy fixation on Nicky if not quickly and effectively distracted by something or someone shinier. Which is why, not long after said date, she kills two birds with one stone by aiming Loki and Elisa Maza at each other, per above...and by simultaneously smuggling a willing Nicky out of San Francisco to a quiet retreat outside Victoria, British Columbia.
Now, as it happens this attracts May Parker's attention because in the unified MCU/Gargoyles continuity, Elisa and May are both regulars at a couple of the same Manhattan diners. And it attracts the attention of one Carmen Sandiego because Loki is constitutionally incapable of not scooping up shiny things he isn't supposed to be scooping, and of course a few of his latest acquisitions are also on VILE's radar. When Elisa disappears on her Asgardian-royalty gig, May notices - and Carmen's recon correctly suggests that May will make a good ally.
Between Carmen's resources (and a little help from Peter, this being before the events of No Way Home), the duo is able to backtrail Jessica to Canada - where they find Nicky instead of Elisa, and finally get a proper briefing on recent events. Since no rescue is needed, they head back to New York just in time to find Elisa also returned.
...and that almost concludes this installment of Wacky Crossover Theater.
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The Shade, Adrien Agreste, and Dairine Callahan are ordering takeaway. What do they get, and what do they watch while they eat it?
This one is a much, much quieter scenario. We will stipulate that this takes place in Paris, on Adrien's home ground, since (a) both the Shade and Dairine have access to unconventional modes of transportation, and (b) the Shade and Dairine are also, for different reasons, very curious about the evolving magical fireworks the Miraculous are causing - mostly but not entirely in France. We will also stipulate that both are also aware of Adrien's dual identity, again because everyone has access to magic. (Wielding a Miraculous does not strictly make one a wizard as Dairine's sort of wizard uses the term, but the Miraculous are recognized as a parallel class of power-sources.)
Anyhow: because Adrien is hosting (Gabriel is conveniently on a business trip), he orders an extensive charcuterie board and the accoutrements of high British tea from the Agreste kitchen staff (the former mostly for Plagg, the latter for the Shade), and an equally extensive tray of tea-appropriate baked goods from Marinette's parents' bakery (for himself and Dairine).
One of the five or six screens in Adrien's TV setup is tuned to local news just in case an akuma shows up, but the primary screen is reserved for...hmm. I think this is going to be, of all things, a Hepburn/Tracy marathon - superhero or action-fantasy is too much like work for either Adrien or Dairine in this context, and the Shade is canonically into old-school film classics.
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Whoof. End round, with compliments to all the questioners. (I've occasionally had rounds where one or two of the questions conveniently connected with one another, but this one very nearly turned out to be a whole story more or less in itself, and that never happens.)
The list this round was as follows:
1 Agatha Harkness • MCU / WandaVision
2 Richard Swift/The Shade • Stargirl
3 Elisa Maza • Gargoyles
4 Adrien Agreste • Miraculous Ladybug
5 Carmen Sandiego • Carmen Sandiego / Netflix
6 Nicky Shen • Kung Fu
7 Jessica Fletcher • Murder She Wrote
8 Ron Stoppable • Kim Possible
9 Loki • MCU / Loki
10 May Parker • MCU / Spider-Man (Holland)
11 Dairine Callahan • Young Wizards (Duane)
12 Alfred Pennyworth • DCU / Batman
13 Daniel Jackson • Stargate SG-1
14 Sarah Jane Smith • Doctor Who
15 Kermit the Frog • Muppets
Questions from
thisbluespirit : The Shade is publishing May Parker's tell-all memoirs - can Elisa Maza succeed in stopping them, and what's the secret May doesn't want printed?
Hmm. If we leave all the individual timelines intact, then this probably goes down after Stargirl's second season, long post-canon for Gargoyles, and between Far From Home and No Way Home for May.
This is therefore a pure bit of recreation for the Shade, and an attempt by May to mitigate the disaster of Peter's revealed identity - but the Shade, who has power over shadow and therefore Knows All, can't resist including some of the juicier excerpts from May's diary concerning her relationship with Happy Hogan, and that May really doesn't want to see print.
On one hand, Elisa (who is probably still at least nominally on the New York Police payroll) tells May that the Shade's sort of sleuthing and spying is neither preventable nor easily remedied by resorting to conventional legal action.
On the other - at this point, she almost certainly has access to the resources of Xanatos Enterprises and its fearless leader - and more to the point, to those of Owen Burnett's alternate identity. Also, this far along, that probably includes a fully-trained Alexander Xanatos, who should be able to either persuade or out-magic the Shade into returning May's journal and publishing the less salacious version of Spider-Man's Friendly Neighborhood Aunt.
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Nicky Shen and Loki go on a blind date. How does it go and why is Jessica Fletcher trying to sabotage it?
Heh. On the one hand, 98% or so of Loki's blind dates are either really, really short or rapidly devolve into universe-warping train wrecks - but this is one of the rare ones that probably actually goes reasonably well. Nicky's family heritage and martial arts training give her just the right combo of patience and mad skills that will (a) pique Loki's interest and (b) keep him from getting seriously out of line.
While the date certainly starts and ends in San Francisco, there will probably be side trips to Shanghai and perhaps Asgard in between, and long discussions of destiny over dumplings and tea (though Nicky will keep Loki as far from the family restaurant as possible, even though said family has now been read into the weirder aspects of mad kung fu skills).
Jessica, who even in a variant Marvelverse is less familiar with Asgardians and ancient Chinese mysticism, will have been looking into one or another of Loki's periodic acts of mischief, which have probably gotten someone in her orbit killed (though almost certainly not by Loki himself). She therefore believes that Nicky is in imminent danger of becoming another victim, and it will take pointed but polite conversations with several of Nicky's relatives to convince her otherwise.
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Agatha Harkness has been murdered! Why did Ron Stoppable do it, and can Alfred Pennyworth and his trusty sidekick Dairine Callahan solve the mystery in time? What kind of red herring is Adrien Agreste?
Hmm. The mystery here is not why Agatha is dead (or at least appears to be; Agatha is one of those villains for whom death is at best a temporary condition). The mystery here is how and why Ron's being blamed for it; clearly he's either been framed by the actual killer or possibly has been zapped into Zorpox "evil genius" mode by another Attitudinator device.
Fortunately, the combo of Alfred and Dairine (whom I distinctly recall as having been partnered in a prior round of this meme) have the right resources between them to chase down the correct killer and/or reverse the evil-twin effect of the Attitudinator. As for Adrien, his name turns up in Alfred's and Dairine's search because Dairine's wizardly database has Adrien (and his evil twin Felix) listed as being involved with Miraculous talismans, and one of their working theories (incorrect, as it turns out) is that Ron has gotten hold of a damaged Miraculous. For her part, the currently-deceased Agatha had in fact been unsuccessfully chasing Miraculous in hopes of giving herself extra abilities for her next round with Wanda Maximoff.
The case winds up with Ron cleared, largely because it doesn't take all that long for Agatha to orchestrate a comeback - though Alfred and Dairine between them are able to discourage her from pursuing immediate revenge.
A question from
senmut : Elisa Maza decided that life was boring. What does Jessica Fletcher do to spice it up?
My mind is boggling here, because "boring" and Elisa are hard to imagine as adjacent things. I suppose, though, that if we stipulate that this is some time post-canon for Gargoyles, life may have settled down sufficiently that she might actually be getting restless if all of Xanatos' and Goliath's respective enemies have been sidelined for long enough. And I should think that as a New York police detective, Elisa has long since gotten acquainted with Jessica by reputation at the very least, if not through one or another actual case.In the circumstances, we shall assume that this situation arises after Jessica's previous meme-incident - and that Jessica brings Elisa out of her funk by introducing her to Loki.
We shall then assume that Elisa arranges to go out of town with Loki as fast as humanly possible, because the thought of Loki and David Xanatos getting up to mischief together is way too scary to even begin to contemplate....
Questions from
shewhostaples : Elisa Maza is the long-lost heir to the throne! But Ron Stoppable is determined to stop her from getting there. What's his dastardly plot, and will Elisa ultimately claim her rightful place? And what is the secret that Sarah Jane Smith has been keeping all these years?
Yeesh; the meme-gods have it in for Ron this round - again he's been cast as the villain. Ah, well, let's see....
If we take this as following from the episodes discussed above, the logical conclusion is that Loki has finagled Elisa into the Asgardian court (anything that Thor can do to give Jane Foster status therein, Loki can certainly do better for Elisa). Ron, having been introduced to multiversal magic during his prior adventure, is of course totally fascinated - and whereas Elisa is content to let Loki think she's playing along for the moment, Ron is worried about the consequences of potentially drawing Elisa permanently offworld and so has decided that someone needs to rescue her. [Ron, while he's gotten a good look at Loki, has not assimilated the presence of gargoyles in New York at this point.] So he's working on a suitably convoluted scheme to lure Elisa back to Earth, but has not yet been able to find the wizardly help he needs to actually get to Asgard.
This is where Sarah Jane comes in, as it develops that she has been keeping an eye on traffic between Earth and Asgard (see the Sarah Jane Adventures series for more about her resources) - and her long-kept secret is that the version of K9 living with her has built-in TARDIS circuitry, and so is able to transport Ron to Asgard. Against all odds (and with some assists from prior allies) Ron successfully convinces Elisa that she belongs on Earth, and Loki reluctantly yields the game.
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Nicky Shen has been kidnapped by Jessica Fletcher. Will Carmen Sandiego and May Parker manage to rescue her?
And here I thought Ron Stoppable was an implausible villain....
What's happening here only looks like a kidnapping because Nicky didn't have time to tell anyone before Jessica intervened. Once again we draw on prior meme-encounters to explain what's really going on. In fact, Jessica - not incorrectly - has realized that Loki's blind date with Nicky went entirely too well, and that Loki is therefore entirely likely to develop an unhealthy fixation on Nicky if not quickly and effectively distracted by something or someone shinier. Which is why, not long after said date, she kills two birds with one stone by aiming Loki and Elisa Maza at each other, per above...and by simultaneously smuggling a willing Nicky out of San Francisco to a quiet retreat outside Victoria, British Columbia.
Now, as it happens this attracts May Parker's attention because in the unified MCU/Gargoyles continuity, Elisa and May are both regulars at a couple of the same Manhattan diners. And it attracts the attention of one Carmen Sandiego because Loki is constitutionally incapable of not scooping up shiny things he isn't supposed to be scooping, and of course a few of his latest acquisitions are also on VILE's radar. When Elisa disappears on her Asgardian-royalty gig, May notices - and Carmen's recon correctly suggests that May will make a good ally.
Between Carmen's resources (and a little help from Peter, this being before the events of No Way Home), the duo is able to backtrail Jessica to Canada - where they find Nicky instead of Elisa, and finally get a proper briefing on recent events. Since no rescue is needed, they head back to New York just in time to find Elisa also returned.
...and that almost concludes this installment of Wacky Crossover Theater.
###
The Shade, Adrien Agreste, and Dairine Callahan are ordering takeaway. What do they get, and what do they watch while they eat it?
This one is a much, much quieter scenario. We will stipulate that this takes place in Paris, on Adrien's home ground, since (a) both the Shade and Dairine have access to unconventional modes of transportation, and (b) the Shade and Dairine are also, for different reasons, very curious about the evolving magical fireworks the Miraculous are causing - mostly but not entirely in France. We will also stipulate that both are also aware of Adrien's dual identity, again because everyone has access to magic. (Wielding a Miraculous does not strictly make one a wizard as Dairine's sort of wizard uses the term, but the Miraculous are recognized as a parallel class of power-sources.)
Anyhow: because Adrien is hosting (Gabriel is conveniently on a business trip), he orders an extensive charcuterie board and the accoutrements of high British tea from the Agreste kitchen staff (the former mostly for Plagg, the latter for the Shade), and an equally extensive tray of tea-appropriate baked goods from Marinette's parents' bakery (for himself and Dairine).
One of the five or six screens in Adrien's TV setup is tuned to local news just in case an akuma shows up, but the primary screen is reserved for...hmm. I think this is going to be, of all things, a Hepburn/Tracy marathon - superhero or action-fantasy is too much like work for either Adrien or Dairine in this context, and the Shade is canonically into old-school film classics.
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Whoof. End round, with compliments to all the questioners. (I've occasionally had rounds where one or two of the questions conveniently connected with one another, but this one very nearly turned out to be a whole story more or less in itself, and that never happens.)
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Date: March 31st, 2022 08:12 am (UTC)She therefore believes that Nicky is in imminent danger of becoming another victim,
And, I mean, you can hardly blame her really. Sabotage that date, Jessicae! ;-)