The rules are simple. Someone starts by naming a team-up of one DC character/team and one Marvel character/team. The challenge is to see who can pitch the best plot for a team-up of those characters.

Try to keep it 200 words or less. You can go over if you want, but you're probably going to get one of these:



I'll start the first team-up:

The Flash & Dr. Strange

The Flash accidentally ends up in the Marvel Universe while battling a super villain who's casing mayhem - a villain who turns out to be an inter-dimensional bad guy. The Flash is caught in the wake of his dimensional transport wave/beam/whatever when he attempts to escape from the Flash to the MU's Earth, and Flash trapped there, abandoned by the villain, who escapes into the night, leaving a dazed Flash behind him, passed out in an alley.

The Flash awakens, wonders where in the heck he is, and sees Spider-Man battling some bank robbers (some low-grade bad guys of some kind, anyway). He assists, and when he speaks to Spidey afterwards, Spidey is shocked by his weird situation, and takes him to see Dr. Strange ("This is above my pay grade, Flash").

Dr. Strange, upon meeting the Flash, perceives some type of residual mystical aura surrounding him that alerts him to the nature of the original inter-dimensional villain's mode of travel - an ancient amulet that will eventually cause the person using it to become host to a terrifyingly powerful demon. Spidey makes a hasty exit (with an editor's note explaining that he's on his way to some adventure in his own comic book, which is on sale now), and Flash and Dr. Strange use the residual energy which has clung to The Flash to track the super villain.

They find the guy just as he begins to change into a demon, fight the demon, and Dr. Strange figures out some kind of spell that will allow the Flash to use the demon's own destruction as a means of sending Flash back where he originally came from. Flash manages to use his powers to distract the demon, making himself the bait, and Dr. Strange uses his mystical know-how to destroy it...but he must use all his power to ensure the idiot who was using the amulet to begin with survives the demon's destruction.

He manages to do it, Flash returns to his world, and Dr. Strange is left with an amnesiac teenager who has no memory of ever finding or using the amulet. The amulet itself is secured by Dr. Strange, who escorts the confused young man away from the scene of the demon's rampage, wondering if he will ever meet the Flash again.

384 words.

You counted...how cute!

Have I mentioned that you're not as short or thick as that reviewer said you were? He totally overstated those qualities.

I eagerly await Doot's offering....will Dr. Strange and The Flash battle schoolgirls, critics, or both???

His Flash will be short and thick, but surprisingly fast.

In the future Abra Kadabra has taken the over title of Sorcerer Supreme. The Flash and Dr Strange must race to the future and ensure the title is returned to its rightful owner else history will be rewritten

Mahoney has shown us the way....and yet, mine was conceptually well crafted, and had a Spider-Man cameo.....and....and.....



Ah, I tried.

Also, to be mocked by Doot....this was a blow to my ego too terrible to endure....I mean....how low can you go, really?

I'll throw out another one.

Starfox and Mister Miracle

An alien presence controls Starfox and uses his "attraction" power on Barda to make adult films...Scott Free is left feeling shock and disgust...but must still get to the bottom of things!

Not sure what you mean by "get to the bottom of things?"

I think you do.

I was going through some old Word documents, and I found one with the start of a circa-1997 DC Two-In-One Story - Robotman (Stanton-version) and Ragman.



Cover: Ragman in a pawn shop is horrified to find Robotman's head amongst the goods



That's all I have, except that it was supposed to be an extended storyline that takes Robotman to Metropolis for team-ups with Black Lightning, Guardian & The Newsboy Legion, Rose & Thorn and Jimmy Olsen.

I can't remember who the old bald guy was, or where I was going with the story.

I would buy the hell out of this script. The job is yours.

Total score: 3 Francos (out of 4)

This is why we can't have nice things.

Thank you! Three Francos out of four is a great score!

You forgot to say Serious Efforts Preferred in the thread title. That's proven to stop the nonsense.

♫ You can't stop the nonsense, nobody can stop the nonsense.... ♪

How about Firestorm and Spider-Man

When an accident at an experimental nuclear power facility rips a hole between the two worlds, Spider-man investigates to find a dazed Firestorm in the rubble. Each blames the other for their misfortune and a fight ensues. Can the two heroes put aside their differences and combat the real menace...an enraged and growing Nuklon before he reaches critical mass?

After a lighting storm, Ronnie Raymond finds that he has two personalities floating above him in the panel -- Dr. Stein and Peter Parker, who's been displaced from his body by Otto Octavious. After a brief argument about who is the most angsty, Parker enlists Firestorm in the mission to regain his body from Otto. Parker asks, "Do you ever just melt the bad guy right off?"