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Which was your favorite pitch??

I'd love to see a "describe your favorite character badly" where Daniel has to guess which series/character is being described.

I’m surprised we didn’t get a response like, “Griffith, but he actually did nothing wrong this time"

Daniel is being so genuine with feedback. Me: that's the WoT adaptation, that's Mistborn, that's Red Rising. That's Terminator past tense. Lol

I feel like more people were pitching story ideas rather than characters.

I've got one: a bard, down on his luck, turns to necromancy in an effort to become immortal. He succeeded, but centuries of undeath have broken his already weak moral compass, and now his only drive is to use is knowledge of dark magic to put on "performances" so that he can always be the center of attention.

"Delayed trauma is a real thing," The way I smiled at this bc of my own novel-in-progress. The trope of "I used to be horrendous person and I was proud about it and now I'm traumatized by my own actions" is really fascinating to dive into. Great video, Daniel! Thanks for the motivation to write some stuff!

I don't know what I was expecting to see with this video but I'm genuinely surprised how great peoples concepts are. I'd definitely like to see more videos like this.

Reverse portal fantasy where a Goblin tries to find his place in our world by setting up a booktube channel ;-)

Any Daniel Greene video with “roast/roasting” in the title is a banger

Should do antagonists next. I’d love to see your reaction to the brief pitch of: Norse god King Arthur who can essentially firebend gets woken up by his cult in the modern day and tries to take over the world. He’s actually a nice person once you get to know him, just a bit of a control freak.

B-characters having the spotlight while the chosen one has only a few scenes is literally just Goblin Slayer. Dunno if it'd most peoples cup of tea though due to its graphic content.

Here's my interpretations of High King Arthur P. Hawkwing's emoji pitches (5:10) Anarchist alien from the Moon Astronomer who ends up doing journalism Three monkeys in a trenchcoat who hide a chicken in their top hat for nefarious reasons. Or for Stuart Little reasons. A buff guy who owns and runs a media corporation but doesn't know how to use a calculator and instead uses an abacus. Despite this, he's very successful. Engineer whose goal is to build a rocket on her own to escape Earth. Talkative robot engineer. Yes, as in they're a robot, and yes as in they engineer robots. Detective hired to solve an embezzlement case, with some time pressure. Astronaut who sacrifices herself at the end of the movie to save Earth from being Alderaan'd. A robot and a weelchair-bound human who are in love. There's tension, probably from outside their relationship. Scientist who figures out a gene therapy application for helping amputees adjust to their prosthetics. Aliens who come to Earth to steal call bells. A world traveler who has volcano powers. A heist crew: a traditionally trained ninja, an astronaut, a robot, a telemetry professional, an ex-military paratrooper, and an alien. A character who's used as bait for alien invaders to get them into a trap where this character infects them with a super-plague. A vehicle expert. A mad scientist who hatches a plan to plunge Halley's Comet into the sun.

There actually is a story about a guy who discovers that reality is a computer program and uses commands to program it to perform "magic", and it's actually pretty awesome! It's called Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer (it's a series called Magic 2.0).

Two noblemen living near a small town in separate spooky castles. One collects silver obsessively, the other buys any garlic he can get his hands on. The silver collector is a werewolf, and the garlic buyer a vampire, each trying to protect their own life, not take each other's. A comedic murder mystery.

Chosen One who survives the point where they were destined to die and becomes an immortal villain because the universe didn't know what to do with him after they 'died.'

Daniel not realising that Liam Does Things’ comment was a reference to Homer Simpson explaining the plot of Terminator 😂

I really like the "Weekend at Bernies sidekick" idea. I could just see it. The Hero dies during a mission (either because of a stupid chance or because the Sidekick messed up big time) and then the Sidekick just goes around pretending to be the Hero because he feels super guilty or because he doesn't want the Hero's legacy to be tarnished. In the end the Sidekick is actually recognized as a Hero in their own right.

9:06 Is no one realizing that this is a pitch from the Simpsons. Specifically the episode that Homer meets Alec Baldwin, and Kim Bassinger. This is Homer's pitch to Ron Howard.

4:17 This is literally Konosuba and it's one of the funniest anime I have ever watched. The MC is definitely not the chosen one but is reincarnated with a useless goddess and they have to survive in a usual DnD setting. What I love about the show tho is the character interactions and how they mesh so well together and how they act dumb all the time. TLDR: Really funny show. Check it out!!

10:14 not me hearing “it’s like if you made harry potter about ramen.” like, im down for that

Aaron's concept just about describes Rincewind's life, when Daniel said it was only good for a short story it made me laugh thinking Terry Pratchett made it into Discworld

The programmer pitch has been done. "Off to see the wizard" is I believe the title of the first one. Guy discovers computer file that allows reality editing, magic and hijinks ensue.

Goblin proceeds to place characters in an oven.

This video compared to the bookshelf roast is like Gordan Ramsey with children vs adults. I love it.

Did not know AnimeUproar was apart of this community…love to see it

Really wish I was more active on Twitter. I would’ve love to hear you talk about my chosen one character who isn’t discovered to be the chosen one until he’s a geriatric old man who is in no condition to adventure and may very well just croak before reaching the end of his journey

Talking about interesting pitches you should read Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. Its a story that takes place after our party defeats the evil lord and deal with how each one of them and especially the elf character (who will outlive them all) deals with it. It is trully sad and thought provoking. Also its a manga.

PLEASE do more of these videos! I love this!

6:43 stormlight archive dalinar 6:23 wheel of time rand but if he didnt know he was being manupulated

Referring to "Battlebitch's" comment, there's a manga similar to that called "Goblin Slayer". It's a story where an adventurer only hunts and kills goblins despite having the rank and skill to takle much higher level threats. The adventurers reasons for only killing low level goblins are both personal and very logical. It's not the best written but I find it very entertaining to read.

the first pitch was basically just the trials of apollo, a percy jackson sequel series lmao

"I'd love to see the B character's treated like the A characters" Have you read Glen Cook's "The Black Company"?

I seriously hope you do another one of these- it was interesting to hear so many others ideas!!

11:03 “True love is one of those things where you would be willing to destroy the multiverse if it meant saving the person who is you universe” Wow, that was too beautiful 🥺

Ayyy I'm the guy at 9:52, glad you liked the ideia Daniel, guess now I really have to write it huh

Roast: "Oh wow that's awesome! Write it!"

I liked this video and look forward for more if this does well! It's fascinating to hear such different ideas and many of them are actually good! I did not expect that.

Aww don't have a twitter but I have a pitch! Medieval fantasy setting. Insane old man commenting on events of his time, only sometimes pitching in to help when there's no other choice. Turns out he's a sage that's crazy because succeeded in his lifelong quest for a spell of infinite knowledge. the spell mentally connected him to our time and world's internet. Basically wizard Bo Burnham in a fantasy world.

Ive successfully deciphered the emoji pitch...youre welcome. There are aliens on the moon. An astrophysicist grad student sees something up there and documents it. She takes it to her professors but they disregard it. They ignore everything she says because they are too chicken. But she's strong, records her findings, tells everyone, wins a nobel prize and a grant for her university. She begins work on a spaceship to go to the moon to say hi to the aliens. Her ship takes a hit in the landing and the aliens have their robot help fix it. She begins searching around, tries to steal some alien valuables and needs to escape in a hurry. The aliens realize this, shoot her ship as its flying away and She gets sucked out into space and freezes to death. The robot, realizing this earth woman was his one true love, grows emotional for the first time. He begins upgrading his robot body, making it stronger, like the death machine in the days of old. The aliens meanwhile land on earth and all of earth is in a great panic. The aliens are launching attacks against all the great cities of the world. The twin sister of the grad student is training to be a ninja when the robot finds her and they set off to stop the alien menace. They all start kung fu fighting the aliens until they all have bloody noses and are deceased. The robot and his new lover the ninja twin have the first cyborg baby, named Anchor, and live on a farm. The ninja twin finishes her autobiography dedicated to 'my loving sister' as a new alien ship lands on earth and the team crack their knuckles to do it again.

Mr Freeze would absolutely cover the multiverse if ice if he could save Nora

6:14 -- Software Engineer becomes a wizard: it's a thing. The Wiz Biz, by Rick Cook.

The first one is trials of Apollo ( third series in continuation to Percy Jackson) The best part is that Apollo , the most arrogant and handsome god is sent as a teenager with pimples, flab and terrible musical skills and he has to serve as a servant to a twelve year old girl ( who isn't that great to her). It's middle grade but it's wonderful.

Loved this!

Loved! Part 2 please!!

6:17 Magic 2.0 Series by Scott Meyer. First book is called Off to be the Wizard.

I love this!

This was fantastic!! Please do more of these!

Dan. What you're describing in the pseudo Mr. Freeze scenario is just an anti-villain. Also, being willing to end creation because the one you loved dies is not idyllic love, it is psychosis.

There was a decent number of comments where I was like "A soldier that is the hero... and then he gets into politics. That's Leo Dan Brock. Go read Joe Abercrombie." or "That's Mat from The Wheel of Time."

these were all so creative!! i'd love to read some of those for sure!

I would love to see more of these

Heh I like this. This should be a regular thing along with the bookshelf roasts.

Dat was fun to listen to. Good job 👍

Some characters from a story I'm working on: - POV character is a terrified scribe who follows the heroes on their journey and must decide whether to intervene in moments of crisis or simply play narrator to someone else's story. - A guardsman tasked with arresting practitioners of an illegal form of magic begins to practice it himself.

Love this premise! Keep doing these types of videos!

good vid mate, good concept 🤙

I really like this video ideaaaaa

Please continue, I would love to see this as a recurring video series 😁

Great video concept. Lots of neat ideas! Bravo everyone!

Loved this please do more

already waiting for part two

Really love these vids about judging bookshelves, characters etc. would love to see one about story pitches/ magic or technology systems in a sci fi fantasy world/story.

love this

I wanna hear more of these They're great 👍

More of these videos please! This was amazing :8

Great video idea! Do more parts to this!

Thanks for the video Daniel, these are all pretty great. ^_^

Can we have more of these vids? They're great to get those creative juices flowing

I want more of this. I love hearing new and interesting ideas and concepts, and Daniels take on them.

Lady dimitrescu in a texan accent living in the confederacy is something i will now sleep on.

I love this video idea, I request you make it into a series

First, do another one, but this time you ask the yt comment section. Second, here is my concept: A person in a life threatening, but well paying job that loses his family but gets help by his/her co-workers. But those co-workers die and after he/she/whatever lost both family AND friends still doing the job, but the emotional aftereffects cause trouble to the character.

This is great definitely w our like to see more of this

part 1 has my character start as a hero and fall in love and face a conflict i havent figured out yet. the character is sort of a ball of rage that bottles it tightly, until it bursts and they kill their love interest. part 2 has them face the guilt that that brings, and the fear that others see them as a monster. they distance themselves from other loved ones and become more and more volatile, violent, and callous. part 3 (which could be combined with part 2, it is just essential that the pov switches) switches pov to a one of said loved ones, who has to take down the previous pov character because they have fully become the villain

Loved this! More please but more roasting next time

This was fun. I think you should do more of these type of videos.

This is a really good video idea. Very much enjoyed watching

This was dope. Hope you do this again!

Nice concept for a video!

I'm surprised how much I enjoyed this Nice fresh new content pal

12:13 I could totally see the driving force become that this vampire does not kill by drinking and are actually being stalked by a selfrighteous vampirehunter/serial killer

Its awesome how you keep renovating your video's contents at an unbelievable pase

This was actually pretty fun. More please

This gives me more inspiration to pull up Google Docs and write then I've had in a long time :D

I’ve had an idea for a character for a while as well: a long dead skeleton waking up in the middle of a field with no recollection of his past or who he is at all. Traveling the world with just the clothes on his back trying to figure out the world around him as well as himself, while also desperately trying not to scare people with his appearance.

The war hero in politics idea is Coriolanus by William Shakespeare.

This is absolutely amazing and could really really inspire so many people watching. It's super wholesome in a really fun way and entertaining way. So much more interesting and meaningful than bookshelf roasts (those are fun too of course). It also opens so many conversations about so many of the topics you mentioned (for example about those less commonly written stories). And I bet the people whose ideas you responded to are over the moon. I'd watch the hell out of each video like this.

Please do this again, this was so much fun!

Dammit, I should have pitched my Pathfinder character, but I didn't pay attention to announcements.

Some surprisingly good character concwpts in here!

For that soldier that does mission and become's hero Protagonist, there is a book exactly like that called Shadow of The Conqueror by Shad M Brooks

I love this video concept, I have 3 story idea's I have been developing, as in I come up with a character and decide which story they are best suited to or further develop an existing character, I do the same thing for world building. I also use my son's comments as good idea's for dialogue cause some of what he says just makes me stop and go blank or make my head spin lol

☯️ This banter back and forth of ideals, and theories, is what drew me to the WoT fandom 🥰 Love the show man, keep up the good work ‼️🍻

for the "protagonist that has no idea that he is and is manipulated by wise wizard types" i just hear that as "magic evangelion"

6:15 was done by Rick Cook in his Wiz Biz series (late '90's), but only did two books. Could be an extension of that. Also, Wen Spencer uses a similar concept for her Tinker series.

Alright yeah, I'm gonna need more of this.

This was such a fun thread to participate in and I loved reading all these pitches. Thanks for "roasting" my character. This was a great and surprisingly wholesome video.

The software one exists. It's called "Off to be the wizard"

This wasn't so much roasting as just an endless stream of compliments and heaps of praise. And I'm 1000% here for it. More please!