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MEDIA
The Media Page offers videos, audio
files, comics, and other forms of
entertainment set in the Fictional
Universe.
ARTICLES
The Articles Page has non-fiction articles
about creating your own media, reviews,
and other topics of interest.
CHARACTER PAGES
The Characters Pages give you profiles of
public domain fictional characters as well
as original creations of the Fictional
Universe project. It also provides lists of
characters that don't yet have profiles
and consolidated links to media featuring
your favorite characters.
RESOURCES
The Resources Page will provide
resources, including a growing library of
character templates, stock footage, and
sound effects, along with links and brief
comments on various tools for content
producers. It's sparse for the moment.
The Media Page offers videos, audio
files, comics, and other forms of
entertainment set in the Fictional
Universe.
ARTICLES
The Articles Page has non-fiction articles
about creating your own media, reviews,
and other topics of interest.
CHARACTER PAGES
The Characters Pages give you profiles of
public domain fictional characters as well
as original creations of the Fictional
Universe project. It also provides lists of
characters that don't yet have profiles
and consolidated links to media featuring
your favorite characters.
RESOURCES
The Resources Page will provide
resources, including a growing library of
character templates, stock footage, and
sound effects, along with links and brief
comments on various tools for content
producers. It's sparse for the moment.
CONTACT
contact@themysterywalk.com
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PUBLIC DOMAIN?
MISC LINKS
Before Man
- Mystery Walker
- The Titans
The Stone Age...
- Dino-Man, Protohuman Champion
- MJ-12: Stone Age
The Ancient World
- Heroes and Monsters
Days of Long Ago
- The Giant Warrior Robots
Modern Times...
No time period in fictional history has been quite as well
documented as the 20th century, due to a variety of factors
that include the popularization of mass media and the rise of
the Internet.
1900-1929
1930-1949
1950-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-2000
- Captain Obvious
- The Cybernetic Woman
- Spader-Man
The Future
- Deepspace Adventure
- Those Damned Monkeys
The End
- In 7510...
Scientific Science:
Real Atomic Power
contact@themysterywalk.com
Please comment! We're lonely!
PUBLIC DOMAIN?
MISC LINKS
Before Man
- Mystery Walker
- The Titans
The Stone Age...
- Dino-Man, Protohuman Champion
- MJ-12: Stone Age
The Ancient World
- Heroes and Monsters
Days of Long Ago
- The Giant Warrior Robots
Modern Times...
No time period in fictional history has been quite as well
documented as the 20th century, due to a variety of factors
that include the popularization of mass media and the rise of
the Internet.
1900-1929
1930-1949
1950-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-2000
- Captain Obvious
- The Cybernetic Woman
- Spader-Man
The Future
- Deepspace Adventure
- Those Damned Monkeys
The End
- In 7510...
Scientific Science:
Real Atomic Power
Under the influence of Gleek the Monkey's Genre Aura, the Justice League
changed their name to "The Super Friends" and became much less
realistic. Conversely, their combined auras modified Gleek's original form.
Below is an artist's conception of what Gleek the Monkey looks like
without the moderating influence of the Justice League's quasi-realistic
Genre Auras -- a creature so unbearably cute that it must be destroyed on
sight to protect the very sanity of our species.
changed their name to "The Super Friends" and became much less
realistic. Conversely, their combined auras modified Gleek's original form.
Below is an artist's conception of what Gleek the Monkey looks like
without the moderating influence of the Justice League's quasi-realistic
Genre Auras -- a creature so unbearably cute that it must be destroyed on
sight to protect the very sanity of our species.
| LURID HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY is nowhere to be found on this site. |
| Shockingly enough, the answer to the above question is YES. |
| THE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE PROJECT |
| THE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE PROJECT |
| The Fictional Universe FAQ Introduction Welcome to the fast-paced and exciting world of the Fictional Universe, where ALL of the characters from fiction coexist with each another and share a common history. In the Fictional Universe Marvin the Martian, My Favorite Martian, and the Martian Manhunter come from the same planet (Mars). It’s a planet that has invaded Earth many times, going back to the first War of the Worlds. Mars also suffered a shameful defeat at the hands of Santa Claus in 1964 (Santa Claus Conquers the Martians). And speaking of Santa, his elves are members of the same species as the Keebler Elves and Legolas. Nice concept. But if you feature every copyrighted character in existence on your web site, isn’t it remotely possible someone will sue you? You have a valid point. Copyrights prevent us from showing you the actual fictional characters in their entirety, so some of names are changed to protect us from going to jail. We apologize for this necessary inconvenience. What we do is substitute pastiches in the case of copyrighted characters. Wikipedia defines a pastiche as, “…a literary technique employing a generally light-hearted tongue-in-cheek imitation of another's style; although jocular, it is usually respectful.” So… um… yeah. That’s what we do, which is nothing like shameless rip-offs, because it’s a literary technique. Can you give me an example? We use the high-class literary technique of featuring a giant atomic dinosaur named Kaijura instead of Godzilla. Even so, Godzilla is not completely absent from the site, because we can use him in parodies and under the provisions of fair use in non-fiction. So the Fictional Universe is populated by cheap knock-off characters? No! Well, okay yes and lots of them. But we also include tons of characters that have entered the public domain making them free for use by anyone. Public domain characters on the site include the very famous (Betty Boop, Buster Brown, Felix the Cat, Superman) and the obscure (Colonel Cosmic, Joe King, Stardust, Super Giants). Awesome, dude! I love Felix the Cat, that wonderful wonderful cat. Whenever he gets into a fix he reaches into his bag of tricks! …actually our Felix has no bag of tricks. What? The bag of tricks is copyrighted material from Felix’s 1953 television series. Our Felix has a detachable magic tail as portrayed in his original cartoons. And all these different characters live together in one universe? That’s the idea. So what happens when a realistic character with good observation skills, like live action Sherlock Holmes, meets someone bizarre looking like Betty Boop? Doesn’t he notice her bizarrely ginormous head? No, Betty Boop’s head looks normal to Sherlock because of a phenomenon known as the “Genre Aura.” Genre aura, you say? A Genre Aura is an invisible energy field that surrounds fictional characters and magically alters reality in the immediate area to suit their genres. The aura of a character like Felix the Cat results in a cutesy cartoonish style to the world around him, bends the laws of physics to match that style, and influences events to unfold according to genre appropriate storylines. On the other hand, the aura of a character like the Fleischer Brothers’ Superman results in a more realistically conceived reality surrounding that character. Still, Superman’s aura has implausible peculiarities of its own, like the phenomenon of a pair of glasses being able to serve as a credible disguise. Thus, reality within the Fictional Universe has an element of chaos to it on a grand scale, but stays relatively consistent from the point of view of the fictional characters themselves and within the context of their individual stories. Also, characters with similar Genre Auras tend to unconsciously attracted toward one another. That’s why you see Betty Boop and Koko the Klown together more frequently than you see Betty Boop and Superman. That makes no sense to me, the average person. It means that different characters in the Fictional Universe run around having adventures like you’d expect them to. Zany cartoon characters have zany cartoon adventures and serious black and white movie detectives have serious black and white detective movie adventures. So they CAN’T meet each other after all. You lied! Yes, they can and do have crossovers all the time. When two characters from different genres meet, what happens depends on how their Genre Auras interact. Each case is different, but considering an example of Felix the Cat meeting Superman, the various possibilities are: - The auras blend, resulting in a style shift for the duration of the story that approximates a midway point between the two genres. Felix temporarily becomes more like a real cat and Superman temporarily becomes less realistic. - One aura dominates the other. For the duration of their encounter, either Felix is a more or less ordinary cat or Superman is a super-deformed chibbie version of himself. - The auras clash. Felix remains his usual self, but is temporarily sucked into a realistic world or Superman finds himself in a surreal cartoon landscape. The clash is noticeable to the characters, although they will probably not remember it afterwards. Incidentally, this phenomenon is particular to all fiction, not just stories that appear on our web site. For instance, the Superfriends were much cooler when they didn’t have Gleek hanging out with them and now you know the reason why. They were freed from the evil influence of his little blue cartoon monkey aura. Fictional auras also mutate and shift from time to time, which is how you end up with the live action Three Stooges, the animated Three Stooges, 8-bit Atari- style Three Stooges, and so on. So ALL fiction is true in the Fictional Universe? Yep. WOO HOO! Porn!!! Hentai and Tijuana Bibles!!! Sorry to disappoint you. The Fictional Universe Project, if rated by the Motion Picture Association of America’s copyrighted movie rating system, would probably receive a PG-13 rating. Hentai (Japanese cartoon porn), Tijuana Bibles (old underground comics featuring well-known characters like Flash Gordon, Popeye, and Betty Boop), and other forms of fictional pornography, technically describe events that occur off camera in the Fictional Universe (because they do actually take place according to our premise). We don’t offer pornography on this web site. What about characters with multiple versions? Are there thousands of Snow Whites and Cinderellas in the Fictional Universe? Generally, we pick a single version or else combine elements from different incarnations to create a character we like. There remains more than one version of most characters, though, because of parallel and alternate universes. What? You said it’s a single universe! We said it’s a single universe where all fiction is true. Parallel and alternate universes show up all the time in fiction. Okay, so what parallel and alternate universes are there? There are an infinite number of them. Here are a few of the most important: - The First Universe (The mainstream Fictional Universe in which virtually all fiction published on the site takes place) - The Second Universe (A bootleg universe produced in some unknowable cosmic sweatshop, featuring such characters as “Spader-Man, Superheroic Man, and Robert Cop) - The Third Universe (The evil universe where characters we know as good guys are evil. Often a character’s evil universe counterpart has an eye patch or a goatee.) - The Fourth Universe (The “real” universe referred to by characters that break the narrative fourth wall and realize that they’re in works of fiction. This is not the actual real universe, however, because characters remain conceptually trapped in the time period their adventures were originally published. For example, a superhero in a golden age comic may ask the reader to buy war bonds, but never says, “Okay, you can stop buying those war bonds now that World War II is over. This is also the universe of supposedly true dramatizations, such as “true confessions” or “true crime” fiction. Many characters in this universe are considered to be actors playing themselves.) - The Fifth Universe (The universe you live in, not typically visited by fictional characters as far as the scientific community knows) - The Sixth Universe (The Parody/Satire Universe, which is both a parallel and alternate world. Parodies of copyrighted characters, such as “Batty Man,” inhabit this universe.) - The Seventh Universe (This is a combined universe made up of all characters from fiction, including those that are copyrighted. It’s what the Fictional Universe would be if copyright infringement was legal.) - The Black Universe (This is a universe much like our own except virtually everyone is black. You can see it featured in movies like "The Whiz" and "Blackenstein.") - The “What Else” Universes (Many of the universes, such as one-shot universes portrayed in stories of parallel and alternate universe travel, have yet to be numbered. We call these “What Else” universes or “What Elses.”) - The “Now You’re the Dog, Man,” (NYTDM) Universe (This is a surreal alternate reality populated by familiar characters who for some reason make repetitive motions and sounds. It’s named for one of its original inhabitants who famously says, “Now you’re the dog, man.” Other noteworthy inhabitants of the NYTDM Universe include talk show hosts, people who have had their bicycles stolen, and bald starship captains.) - The “Punch the Kids” (PTK) Universe (Even stranger, there is a parallel version of the NYTDM Universe [above] in which things are slightly different. For instance, a clown who sells tacos in the NYTDM Universe, instead is a man in a white suit that sells chicken. Scientists believe that the PTK Universe was created by a bizarre accident involving time travel. - The Black Universe - Everyone's black, like in Blaxploitation films and the Cosby Show - Etc. |
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