1. I want my own wiki. Yes. You heard it. I want my own fucking wikipedia page.
2. I want to make a fucking rock opera, and I want to write it from start to finish in under two months. Maybe not finish the music, but I want to claim that I wrote this thing in two months on the edge of my damn seat, conception to realization. You'll note today is the 31st. I want to release on New Years Eve, but I'll settle for just being done by then.
3. I want to say, out loud, "I have a rock opera. It's on the internet. It's about supervillains. I made it with my friends." and know that it's not a joke, but the truth.
With that said, here are the notes I've got. Notes Lav got out of me via some intelligent questions.
The opera will be four acts.
Act1: World President Guy Baddington is reminiscing over copious amounts of paperwork (Henchmen applications, acquisitions, reports on quelled uprisings) about the glory days when he was off slaughtering heroes and embarrassing them into not fighting him anymore. For instance, he'll have pulled down Superman (or the story equivalent's) underwear on national TV, exposing his tiny man parts, and sending him crying back to his home planet. He'll get the Fantastic 4 to divorce after exposing a homosexual love triangle, and he'll have the X-men arrested for tax fraud. All of them. Peppered into all of this will be his assaults using giant robots and tesla cannons. He will then realize that his life is boring as hell now, and that he pines for the days when his job was to kick the poo out of heroes and general upstanding citizens. To fix this, he'll adopt three orphans and raise them as super heroes (no magic powers or anything, but more or less Batman on a lot of performance enhancing drugs) who I have named Un, Deux, and their little sister Pi.
Act 2: Guy Baddington is secretly nurturing these three children to fight him, though he is masquerading as Papa Alphonse, an old brittish gentlemen not unlike Alfred who will teach them how to fight and how to dismantle Guy Baddington's power base through political action and sabotage. They will accept him as a father figure, and he will accept them as his children.
Act 3: The climax. The not-so-child like children will have grown into young adults and matured into their new task and will embark on their final mission: To overthrow Guy Baddington in a violent and bloody coups. They will inevitably conquer their way to Guy Baddington atop the Eiffel Tower where a battle will ensue of epic proportions until just before they finally put him down, his mask falls off and they realize that Guy Baddington is actually Papa Alphonse, their estranged and missing father. HE will then tell them his plan and insist they finish him, as he would rather die at their hands an evil villain mastermind at the apex of his career than from a heart attack in the tub. They fulfill his wish, take his Teslumbrella (yes, you read that right, he'll have a lightning gun umbrella) and be touted as world heroes.
Act 4: The world is now at relative peace, people are rebuilding, and the kids are left mostly with the task of aiding rebuilding efforts and cutting ribbons with golden scissors. Boring boring boring, until they find themselves taking care of a young boy who is very small and doesn't speak, but is incredibly intelligent. Pi will decide that to solve their boredom, they should make him into a super villain in much the same way that their father created them. One of the two remaining brothers will object, asking how they could even prove the child was up to the task. The child will then attempt to kill him with a crossbow made from an erector set, and the question will answer itself.
The end.
A few other notes are that Guy Baddington is the way he is because he feels disenfranchised, being half British and half French (a sort of tongue in cheek poke at the Brits and Francs being at odds, and an utterly silly reason to be a villain). His powers will be a mix of Super Science and general run of the mill but utterly identifiable super villainy. Giant robots, laser cannons, you name it, we got it. He will also sight Thomas Edison as the first super villain ever, and his personal hero. His children will be rather strange and somewhat grim.
This is what I have so far. Also, I've started a myspace music page which I'll likely use when I have music to put up there (because this is really for friends more than anything else) and it's at http://www.myspace.com/crescendotopower .
Any input would be great, especially if you're willing to help me write these damn lyrics. Jesse has admirably agreed to write the music for me, assuming I hand him lyrics. This will likely be his downfall.
Embarking on a journey of epic proportions,
-E
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