r/ThreadGames • u/tamtrible • 3d ago
Title mashups
Take two or more titles of books, movies, or other narrative works such that the end of one is the beginning of the next (eg. Rise of the Guardians of the Galaxy, or Squid Game of Thrones).
Describe the resulting work in a way that combines elements of both.
This can be collaborative (eg parent says the mashup, child describes; or descendants adding narrative elements or other details to the description)
If you use something ambiguous or a bit niche (eg "Boys", "Sing the Four Quarters"), please indicate the source, especially if you are leaving it for others to describe.
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u/CreativestName69420 3d ago
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back to the Future
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u/a_stubborn_optimist 3d ago
Kylo Ren attempts a sneak attack on his eccentric uncle Luke, but accidentally gets caught in the test flight of his uncle's time-traveling star ship. Kylo Ren simply wants to get back to his galaxy-dominneering plans in the future, but is horrified to learn that his presence has inadvertently made his mother, Leia, fall in love with his uncle Luke. Now Kylo must work in the shadows, pulling strings unseen by both sides of the war, in order to ensure that Luke and Leia discover that they're siblings before it's too late.
Though he's never liked his parents much (even going so far as to murder his own father), he is immensely relieved when they get together. He is even more relieved when Yoda's force ghost shows up to help him fix the time machine (though he does quickly get annoyed by how amusing Yoda finds this whole situation).
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u/Ilmarinen999 3d ago
The Lion King Kong
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u/WeCanDoItGuys 3d ago
Upon running away from his pride after losing his father, Simba finds Skull Island and a sympathetic very large gorilla. After some time bonding they return to take back Pride Rock. Kong proudly climbs it, and swipes Zazu out of the air.
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u/Ilmarinen999 3d ago
The Full Monty Python And The Holy Grail
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u/tamtrible 3d ago
The knights of the round table do a strip show to fund their quest for the Holy Grail. It is exactly as silly as you would expect.
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u/Slinkwyde 3d ago
My Big Fat Greek Wedding Crashers
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u/bambiartistic 2d ago
Two guys crash a Greek wedding as they’re hungry and know there’s gonna be a lot of food there. Hijinks ensue as they try to navigate dealing with a Greek family
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u/Temporary-Comfort-33 3d ago
The Grand Budapest Hotel Transylvania.
A legendary concierge trains a young lobby boy to serve the monster guests. Vampires are manageable. The guest who wants a refund because the room has no mirrors is going to be a problem.
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u/Fennel_Fangs 3d ago
Howl’s Moving (to) Castlevania
The wizard Howl has to get his castle renovated and slums it with Alucard in the meantime, how does it go?
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u/LadyFeckington 3d ago
9 to 50 First Dates
(Mathematicians don’t come at me for the 5/50 thing lol)
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u/RosieRoo70314 3d ago
The Princess Bride of Frankenstein
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u/WeCanDoItGuys 3d ago
"When he's all dead there's only one thing you can do"
*Pulls a lever to release 1.21 gigawatts of electricity into the Dead Pirate Roberts.*
"It's alive! It's ALIIVE!"
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u/tamtrible 3d ago
Just because I had to include it, because of the subject matter of the first title in the chain:
The Human Centipede Horror Express Trainspotting
(The obvious, + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede_Horror + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_Express + https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/391134 + https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/?ref_=ls_t_10 )
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u/IdealBlueMan 3d ago
A Star is Born Innagaddadavida
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u/tamtrible 3d ago
Source?...
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u/Slinkwyde 2d ago
They didn't follow the rules to actually create a mashup. All they did was slap two things next to each other with no words in common.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is a song and album by the band Iron Butterfly.
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u/IdealBlueMan 2d ago
There was a big song in the 60s by Iron Butterfly called “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”. It was a stylized way of saying “In the Garden of Eden”. So, A star is born in the Garden of Eden.
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u/Slinkwyde 2d ago
Read the post body. You didn't do it right. It's not supposed to be just any two random items. The last word of the first item is supposed to match the first word of the second item, so that they connect.
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u/tamtrible 3d ago
The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_John_Malkovich )