Plot Bunnies: Habit Forming

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Okay. Given my backlog of requests and writer's block lately, I doubt I'll be getting to these plot bunnies anytime soon. But I just wanted to make note, so I don't forget: this is what my imagination has been feeding me lately. If you use any of them, let me know, k?

• Max Payne (movie) crossover with Constantine (movie). Max's double dose of Valkyr opened his eyes to other levels of reality, which he is now having trouble dealing with. He runs into a certain very famous NYPD detective in a bar who says no, he's not necessarily crazy; John's time in the LAPD was before Angela Dodson was hired there, but he still has connections who pass on rumors, so... if Max needs to talk to someone, perhaps a vacation to the West Coast? Max goes.
  
  It would be mostly a story about recovery and moving on, both Max's (having finally solved his family's murder, gaining this new perception, deaths and betrayals of old friends) and Angela's (her twin's death, admitting her abilities, and everything else she went through during the Spear of Destiny crisis).



• Appaloosa (movie) crossover with Firefly (tv/movie). Appaloosa is a back country town on a rim planet, a few day's ride from the nearest off-planet port and cortex station. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are a private roving security team with a decent reputation among the rim worlds; Hitch was a Browncoat, and met up with Cole after the war, and they just sort of clicked as partners. "Allison French" is actually the latest alias for Yolanda/Saffron/Bridget, who was stranded way out the back end of nowhere by her latest jilted "husband" and is entertaining herself playing the wounded and needy woman until she can engineer her next ride off planet, which is looking to take awhile longer than she'd hoped.
  
  The story picks up after both movies' events, when Serenity's latest job takes the crew to Appaloosa. Comedy, violence, and some touching character moments ensue.



• Max Payne (movie) crossover with Boondock Saints (movie). Unlike the Constantine cross above, this Max Payne does not deal well with having suddenly rid himself of the driving motivation that has kept him going for the last few years. He runs into a certain pair of twins in a bar, and gets swept up in their crusade. As a complication, Mona Sax's organization is on the twins' menu of targets.



• Eagle Eye (movie) crossover with Transformers (2007). Connected, of course, by the Shia LaBeouf characters being related. I just had this image of Bumblebee spotting Jerry Shaw's award ceremony on the news and going WTF? But would probably include the cousins having to work together, because the new Defense Secretary had allowed the use of Megatron-derived technology to build the Eagle Eye computer without telling Optimus, etc., etc.

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