Screenwriting : Let’s Have Some Fun: by Kenneth Tisdale

Kenneth Tisdale

Let’s Have Some Fun:

I’m a superhero. You’re a supervillain and we’re engaged in battle. In the midst of this battle, you turn your attention to a nearby neighborhood, riddled with families watching our bout from a distance…and vaporize it.

Me: “You monster! How could you?! All of those innocent people! Why??”

Respond as the villain:

Jon Shallit

Because i can.

Eddie Lawhorn

Hey, you let me!

Jon Shallit

Kudos to Maurice on innocent.

Maurice Vaughan

Thanks, Jon Shallit. I like your dialogue. I got the subtext "I do what I want" and "who's gonna stop me?" from your line.

John Muturi

It's them or me - no one's innocent.

E Langley

VILLAINY McVILLAINFACE

Good riddance. They mowed their lawns too often ... and they had bad breath!

Banafsheh Esmailzadeh

I did them a favour. They won’t like what’s coming next.

Jim Boston

I did it because I CAN!

Cynna Ael

Are they? Innoent, I mean. Who's to say you're not the bad guy? You allowed this to happen.

Anthony Moore

For you.

Elle Bolan

I have a better question.

Why didn't you stop me?

Ny’Jal Mosley

You call them innocent. I call them witnesses. And witnesses become believers. And believers… become followers. I didn’t kill a neighborhood. I erased a future that wasn’t meant to bow to you.

Mone't Weeks

"Somebody's got to lead, might as well be me"

Meriem Bouziani

Challenge accepted. I’ll respond with the mindset of one of my sci-fi worlds.

“Innocent? You misunderstand, hero. They are offerings. The god I have awakened demands a worthy sacrifice for immortality — and I intend to live forever.”

Doug Kayne

I turn to you, offering a knowing smirk.

“I see you are not only self-righteous, but foolish and blind as well,” I state, pointing my finger at you in an authoritative manner. “Those ‘innocents’ you are so worked up over are an advance scouting party from an alternate dimension. They are — my mistake, were — here to provide a point of attack on our world. By neutralizing them, I did what you were never able to do.”

I fold my arms smugly, smirking at you. “I just saved the world. And if you stop me, you will be the villain.”

I offer you my hands, challenging you to put me into custody. “Go ahead, ‘hero’…do what’s right.”

Meriem Bouziani

I got a new one from another sci-fi world.

I didn’t respond — I just left with a monologue:

“I survived them. You’re the real villain.”

Thank you very much for asking — you’re actually guiding me toward new twists in my story.

Debbie Croysdale

You pass the buck, was your own pious vengeful justice, that turned a society into marked witnesses.

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