Toontown Showdown 2

[Florien]

It's probably not the fish because he can swim, but aside from that, If we can't get anything else out of this, perhaps it's time to move on.

/Vote Skip

Why don't you give up that easily when there's a home improvement project to do, Leroy?

[wahoothis]

... He feels like he's missing something important here. Strange. His reporting flipper is tingling. It feels like he's out of the loop here. Regardless, everyone seems to be skipping a vote, so...

/Skip Vote

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Voting:

/skip vote: 5 (Walt Disney, Jenny, Badgerclops, Lockhorns, Perch)

6 votes are needed for the skip or execution, whichever

[Kennifer]

Tina, not being able to put the pieces together and getting increasingly frustrated and confused, will also

/skip voting

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

You're skipping voting?! What, are you all afraid of seeing someone get brutally maimed? You're all pathetic! I'll show you all!

Mincer moves the hands on the clock of the bomb to where it's ten seconds left until detonation and throws it at everyone.

10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

And BOOM!

Everyone thought they were all about to get blown to bit, but to their surprise, the "explosion" only consists of confetti blowing up and getting all over everyone. Everyone is unharmed.

Gotcha again! Man, you people are easy! All right, guess everyone will be spared for now! We'll have something new in the soundstage set up shortly!

[PointMaid]

Lotta snickers. Oh, I love seeing those scared looks on people's faces! Makes all the hard work worth it.

Come on, now! Time to get this cleaned up and change the set. She snaps her fingers and some very tired looking 'toon workers come out to sweep everything up, haul away the Steamboat set and sweep the floors, and even fold up Lotta's chair and snacks to take back away.

[PointMaid]

The workers then roll in a new set: A Western town and railroad!:



Feel free to explore. But it is time for some more competition here! Don't want to get whacked like Haruhi? This might help! At least overnight tonight.

CHALLENGE:
YOU HAVE 72 HOURS FROM NOW TO COMPLETE THIS. PLEASE POST YOUR COMPLETED CHALLENGE IN THE THREAD HERE. YOU MAY CONTINUE DOING OTHER THINGS WHILE THIS IS GOING ON.

You've got your script. It's a cliché story of a clean-cut Sheriff, bank-robbing bandits, and rescuing a damsel in distress. You're given some actors, and can participate, but you're mostly charged with DIRECTING this straight-laced mess! But you can make it better by your shots and tweaking things, right? So take the director's chair and describe how you're directing this...

- A cackling villain has just tied your friend/love interest/etc to train tracks and a train is barreling down on them. How do you save them - and make it look like you're a last minute hero for our film?
- Uh oh, the sheriff doesn't like you and you're being strung up to hang for a crime you didn't commit. It's a big scene! Get out of this one and don't spare the drama.
- Ok, this time you'll actually commit the crime. Rob the bank, have a shootout, and ride off into the sunset with the money! What are you going to do to keep your paint intact and the shot looking great?

[Kennifer]

Tina Belcher's Directorial Debut!

- A cackling villain has just tied your friend/love interest/etc to train tracks and a train is barreling down on them. How do you save them - and make it look like you're a last minute hero for our film?

"Uhhhhhh! Jimmy Junior, no!" Okay, whether this was real or special effects it was distressing. And the actor who's playing Jimmy Jr. in this really looks a lot like him. Camera is rolling, suitably dramatic music is playing, the villain is twiddling his mustache in a very fitting, cartoonish way.

Tina is already wearing cowboy boots instead of her usual high-top sneakers, so she just grabs a white hat and a pocketknife from props and rushes onto the scene. She's not about to let one of the other actors rescue her precious Jimmy Jr.! She'll cut the ropes rather than untie them, grab Jimmy's hand, and pull him off the tracks. Then since the music is still playing, they might as well dance a little, right? Wow, this guy dances almost as well as the real thing. When splicing this together she'll use a heart rather than the usual iris out.

- Uh oh, the sheriff doesn't like you and you're being strung up to hang for a crime you didn't commit. It's a big scene! Get out of this one and don't spare the drama.

"UHHHHHH! But I'm a hero, didn't you see me rescue Jimmy Jr.? With the music and dancing and everything? Oh right, I'm supposed to be dying." She'll flail dramatically for a while, then... Hah, she's still got the pocketknife, she'll just cut the rope and fall. Hopefully somewhat dramatically. Into a pile on the ground, oof. "I'm okay," she assures the audience as she stands up and takes a deep bow.

- Ok, this time you'll actually commit the crime. Rob the bank, have a shootout, and ride off into the sunset with the money! What are you going to do to keep your paint intact and the shot looking great?

Okay fine, the sheriff is determined to hate her? Might as well give him a reason. Back to props and wardrobe, and she'll dress all in black and put a bandanna over her face. And oh my god is that a gun? She hopes it's just a prop, or at the very least not loaded, as she grabs it anyway. Okay, what did that Mickey guy do when he held her dad hostage and robbed the bank? Oh, right. Hold people hostage, ask for all the money, yada yada yada. She cues up some fitting music and runs into the bank. "Hey! Give me all the money and nobody gets hurt!" She'll grab an actor as a "hostage" to make her point, waving the... oh god that better be a prop gun around to make her point. She sounds as serious as she can muster. Once she gets the (also a prop? who knows!) bag of money she fires a random (oh god that's not a prop gun) shot into the air and runs off to the cave, the dramatic soundtrack still playing. After stashing her "robber" disguise and the (are these even really props) gun and money she slips back around to the director's chair and shouts "CUT!"

[wingedcatgirl]

Adrien is hanging out with Plagg in his green room, the only place he can get some privacy and talk to his secret cat.

"This would be so much easier if we were actually fighting a cackling villain," Plagg gripes while munching on cheese.

"I know, but I've got this," Adrien says, deep in contemplation. "It's basically just a creative writing exercise, right? I always get top marks in creative writing class."

[Owen23]

"Well, here's what I'm doing for this western shootout, it's got inators, it's got some kind of action, and it's got me!"

Doofenshmirtz's Western Movie Roundup!

- A cackling villain has just tied your friend/love interest/etc to train tracks and a train is barreling down on them. How do you save them - and make it look like you're a last minute hero for our film?

"Oh no, Ballooney and Vanessa!.. and Norm, I guess. YOU'RE TIED TO A TRAIN TRACK BY SOME KIND OF EVIL VILLIAN LIKE ME, don't worry, I have.. MY FREEZE-INATOR! It'll stop whatever's in my tracks, including that train!"

Doofenshmirtz then uses his Freeze-Inator to stop the oncoming train and the villain who tied Doof's friends to a train track, then unties the ropes together, trying his best but succeeding.

- Uh oh, the sheriff doesn't like you and you're being strung up to hang for a crime you didn't commit. It's a big scene! Get out of this one and don't spare the drama.

"Okay, how do I get myself out of this.. I know! I'll try to unwrap this thing, using my mouth.."

Doofenshmirtz, biting into the rope, randomly gets himself tied and tangled, tries to shake out of the rope.. and gets down from it, but he's on the ground now.

"Oh well, curse you sheriff that doesn't like me!"

- Ok, this time you'll actually commit the crime. Rob the bank, have a shootout, and ride off into the sunset with the money! What are you going to do to keep your paint intact and the shot looking great?

"Well, bank owners, you are mine now thanks to the traps I set up! As for the money, I'll steal it.. Oh yeah, don't forget the shootout.. take this, people in the bank!"

Doofenshmirtz then fires his Freeze-Inator he used on the train and the cackling villain, now using it on the people in the bank, freezing them one by one until all of them are frozen."

"Well, looks like I'm done, better carry this money right back home!"

As he walks out to the sunset, the safe of money he was carrying drops on his foot, causing him to still carry it.. but now jumping in pain.

[Florien]

Leroy and Loretta Pronghorn get Railroaded and both act in and direct a film

As Loretta is tied to the railway track, the train appears in the distance. "Why do you always railroad me into doing what you want to do" says Leroy, as the train approaches. Loretta glares at him. The villain just stands there, dead eyed, as an observer to their marital dispute. After a while, he throws himself in front of the train because apparently being in the presence of the Lockhorns has sapped his will to live, derailing the train and sending it crashing through the saloon. Loretta says "I wish you'd jump in front of a train... for me." while the saloon collapses, killing any survivors, which is why...

They're arrested by the sheriff for the destruction of the saloon because anyone else who could have been blamed is dead now. However, high drama is not something the Lockhorns normally do. Relationship drama, however, is. "Well, it's better than being married." says Loretta, looking at the gallows. The cast groan. Just then, their relationship councilor arrives on set and the pair get let down from the scaffold to talk. They don't bother finishing the scene and immediately cut to them being alive and not hanging with no explanation. "It's an art film, it shouldn't be in chronological order any more than Leroy's life is in any order whatsoever. The audience can fill what happened in between with a very good idea of how we escaped."

Then, the movie cuts to them turning to evil. Loretta distracts a scientist character who's in town by complaining very loudly about Leroy, while Leroy puts on the costume from the Run Over villain and sneaks into the scientist character's lab to steal a time machine. This movie is going to make no sense, and they fully intend to make it make even less sense. Leroy robs the bank with the very steampunk time machine, travelling back in time to before the vault was built and travelling forward to when the vault was built inside of the vault, then steals all the money, but the time machine breaks, so he has to MacGyver a bomb to blow up the vault door, but is blinded by the flash. He knows that he's arrived right as the bank opened, so he rushes the door and takes a customer hostage without seeing who it is, puts a bag over their head, and ties them to the train tracks outside to effect his escape, but then he finds out it's Loretta who he's tied to the train tracks as the train approaches and Past Leroy comes to make the quip he made at the start of the movie. Time Traveler Villain Leroy dramatically leaps in front of the train to save Loretta. The film cuts to black and silence as the train approaches. "I wish you'd jump in front of a train... for me." echos Loretta's voice after a couple seconds. Then silence for a few more, then... Fin.

Roll credits.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

24-hour warning to get challenges in

[Oggy123]

"Ok, so we're just gonna give up!?" Coda exclaimed. "Hey, this reminds me of those old West towns i traveled to back in the day!"

- A cackling villain has just tied your friend/love interest/etc to train tracks and a train is barreling down on them. How do you save them - and make it look like you're a last minute hero for our film?
Coda enters the scene riding on horseback. But the horse stops too fast and Coda gets thrown off and splattered on a wall! Thankfully, he reverses time to the moment before. Coda stops tho horse slowly. Then he threatens the bad guy with a pistol! Then after he surrenders, Coda unties the victim and escape while the bad guy gets arrested.
- Uh oh, the sheriff doesn't like you and you're being strung up to hang for a crime you didn't commit. It's a big scene! Get out of this one and don't spare the drama.
Great, Coda actually got hung and he dies. Again, he reverses time to the moment before. He then distracts the sheriff by pulling his hat over his face and then runs away!
- Ok, this time you'll actually commit the crime. Rob the bank, have a shootout, and ride off into the sunset with the money! What are you going to do to keep your paint intact and the shot looking great?
Coda dons a hat. Now it's time to rob the bank in style! He grabs a pistol and threatens everyone in the back. Then he gets his money after threatening the bankers, and runs off with the money on horseback.

[PointMaid]

We're still waiting for entries from:

Jenny
Meito
Cat Noir
Perch
Walt
Badgerclops
Grampy

Challenge ends tomorrow morning, US time

[Guma]

Past Meets Future: A Jenny Wakeman Movie

Alright, people, let's get this over with. The sooner we get in, the sooner we get out. Snacks are at the back—not like I'm gonna need them.

For the first climactic scene, the maniacal villain has tied

the brilliant scientist Nora WakemanJenny obviously isn't gonna rope her real mom into this, so they got an OK lookalike

to the train tracks, as a train approaches. A real train. If this take goes wrong, the studio could and will get charged for negligence.

Just as the brave sheriff shows up, however, a blue figure flies up to the train driver.

Excuse me, Mr. Train Driver? There's a person tied to these tracks. You probably can't see them, but if you could please stop this train, that would be swell. Thanks.

The train stops in the nick of time. Everyone rejoices... except the sheriff.

So... you think you can uproot my do-goodin’? Well, not this time, you old bucket o’ bolts. Y'see, I planned for this and told everyone you'd make the train late. And what's the train carrying, you may ask? Food for the starving village downtown.

What? How was I supposed to know that?

Guess there's a price for bein’ a hero... well, enjoy the fireworks.

That's my line!

The townsfolk from downtown arrive with a stake and some firewood & nails. Unfortunately, her metal body is too sturdy and the nails don't actually do anything. The townsfolk, while still kinda mad, don't know what to do.

Don't move. I have a plan.

She fires her blasters at the nearby bank, causing it to blow up and rain a copious amount of money. The beggars take all they can get while thanking the metal hero. The sheriff and the other police try to find her to get revenge, but she's already gone...

...but then she comes back.

Here's your paycheck.

Wow! I can finally buy the Musique 37 Plus XL Lite!

[TheOtherCG]

A Cowmouse Needs a Horse - Staring Walt Disney!

The heinous villain has tied Walt's wife, Lillian, to the train tracks lying in the middle of the desert. Her pink bow is messed up and the poor mouse is particularly afraid about her fate. She cries out for Walt as the train comes closer and closer. Yet he seems to be nowhere. The train is gonna run her over soon and Lillian closes her eyes, seemingly accepting her fate. However, in the nick of time, neighing is heard and someone quickly cuts open Lilian's ropes and scoops her up their horse. It's Walt!
"Don't worry, Lillian," Walt said to Lillian. "I'm here. I just needed to get a horse."
The horse leaped over the tracks right before the train arrived at its destination. Walt and Lilian smuck in a little kiss, with the latter blushing.

Cut to the next scene! Walt is forcibly dragged to the gallows by two men. He looks around in a panic, trying to find an escape. He steps both of the men's feet hard and makes for the run for it. The men chase him and Walt gives them a nice kick. With his hands still tied, Walt jolts away from the gallows! The sheriff who framed Walt for the crime was nearby. He pulled out a gun and fires at Walt. Walt dodges the bullets and his leg stretched over to kick him straight in the face, knocking him out! Once the sheriff fell onto the ground with a loud thump, Walt walked away.
"See you later, folks!" Walt shouted.

And now, unto the final scene. Wearing the typical bandit gear, Walt kicks open the bank's entrance and rushes over to the banker.
"Ma'am, would you mind giving me the money please?" Walt said. "I don't want to resort to hurting anyone, after all."

The banker obliged with Walt's demands and hands him all of the money. He happily walks out of the bank, his bandana lowered to show off his wide grin. Then, the same Sheriff from earlier approaches him, hands on his pistol. Realizing that the sheriff is about to duel him, Walt takes out his own gun. The two fired at each other around the same time but Walt was the one to dodge and his bullet hits the Sheriff in the shoulder. Walt whistles his horse to come over to his aid and mounts it. The Sheriff gets the same idea and calls upon his own horse. There, they rode across town on their horses, shooting at each other. Bullets ricocheted off buildings and nyooming all over the place. The Sheriff, holding unto his wound, was pretty close at getting Walt such as when he managed to shoot off the hat he was wearing. However, Walt would soon gain the upper hand when he aimed at the legs of the Sheriff's horse and fired. The horse neighed in pain and the Sheriff was sent flying. Laughing gleefully, Walt rode out of town with the money in back. Just in time for the sunset.

[PointMaid]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

As we're still waiting for more than a few people, we're going to extend the deadline by two days

[Zanreo]

The BackstrokeManager of the West - Meito's Movie

1. "Wait, how did they get

several of the Animate employees?(most likely just lookalike actors)

I'll save you!" Meito runs towards the train, jumps onto the side and climbs towards the driver, breaking in... only to find out the driver is knocked out? "Hey, dude, wake up! You gotta stop this train, there's people tied to the tracks!" Meito yells as he shakes him, but unable to get anywhere, he has to handle this himself... He's never driven a train before, especially not an old-timey one like this, but eventually manages to get the train to... fly off the tracks and right above the people tied to them, jumping out as it lands and rushing over to cut them free with a small knife. "Told you I'd save you!" he tells the terrified Animate workers.
2. "Hey, what are you going after me for? You got the wrong guy!" Meito struggles wildly as he's dragged to the nooses, accused of breaking in to knock out the driver and endangering everyone, along with attempted knife-murder. Just as he's getting hung, he summons some fire one last time to at least go out in a cool way... and the fire catches the rope, making it burn and Meito fall down. "Ow... not gonna stop me that easily!" he says, as he runs away as fast as he can.
3. "Well, if they're gonna make me into the bad guy, maybe I should just BECOME the bad guy..." Meito says dramatically, as he approaches the bank. "Hey... give me the money and no one gets hurt" he says as he pulls up a gun. As the banker hands him a bunch of huge bags of money, the sheriff from earlier just happens to walk in to notice this... "Oh?" He turns around as the sheriff approaches him with a gun... "Well, if it's a duel you want, it's what you'll get. But let's take this somewhere else, huh?" They go outside, and lots of wild shooting ensues as they both shoot towards each other, with Meito rapidly dodging most of the shots, but also missing his own. Then suddenly, Meito gets hit several times and falls to the ground, not moving... and the camera zooms in to show this was just a few of the moneybags, dressed in Meito's jacket and hat and stuffed mostly with various non-money materials. Camera then zooms to Meito, laughing as he rides away into the sunset with the rest of the money.
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[wingedcatgirl]

title

- A cackling villain has just tied your friend/love interest/etc to train tracks and a train is barreling down on them. How do you save them - and make it look like you're a last minute hero for our film?

"Oh no, Marinette, my very good friend who is just a friend! What am I going to do? I can't transform here, everyone in Paris who watches this film will be able to figure out exactly where Cat Noir came from!

"... of course, that's it!" Adrien swiftly transforms into Cat Noir and absconds!

Carefully keeping off-camera, Cat Noir sneaks into the train tunnel and cataclysms the tracks, blocking it off before the train arrives!

"Good thing these trains are always empty. How do I know that? Because if there were people on it, the engineer would just stop the train in the first place."

Adrien transforms back and rushes over to untie Marinette and carry her off into the sunset. In a totally friendly and non-romantic way. This is a normal way to feel about friends.

- Uh oh, the sheriff doesn't like you and you're being strung up to hang for a crime you didn't commit. It's a big scene! Get out of this one and don't spare the drama.

Uh-oh, someone wasn't paying attention to the film's runtime. You can't be done when you're only 25 minutes in! Now Adrien's moments away from a hanging! Transforming into Cat Noir again would be a sure-fire way out of this, but everyone's watching! No, he has a better idea.

He carefully waits til the last moment, when everyone's eyes are on someone else, and whispers the words: "Super-duper mega Cataclysm!"

And all of a sudden, the entire gallows collapses into a crater! The rope disintegrates, fleeing Adrien, and he flees unnoticed in the ensuing panic!

- Ok, this time you'll actually commit the crime. Rob the bank, have a shootout, and ride off into the sunset with the money! What are you going to do to keep your paint intact and the shot looking great?

Well, after that, Cat Noir is feeling mighty unappreciated. He digs up a wooden box he never expected to use... after blowing the dust off, he opens it to reveal a pair of six-shooters.

"Hey, Marinette, wanna be an outlaw? This town kinda sucks."

"S- sure! I love yyillegalactiVITY I mean I love illegal activity yes! Breaking the law, breaking the law!"

"Great!" He hands her one of the revolvers and transforms into Cat Noir while she puts on her obligatory robber's domino mask. "Let's go!"

Jump cut to the deadly duo kicking in the bank door, and with a pair of well-aimed opening shots, they knock down a support beam, trapping all the customers and tellers inside. "This is a stickup! Nobody move!"

Cat Noir saunters up to the nearest teller and hands them a big burlap sack with a euro sign on it. "Fill 'er up, kiddo."

But just then! A purple butterfly flutters into the bag, turning it jet-black! "Hello there, Ultra-Teller. How unfair that this catboy can saunter into your bank and take all the money, and meanwhile you're getting paid minimum wage. How about you kill him and take the money for yourself?"

"Sure, anything is better than working with customers again."

The teller transforms into a floating masked supervillain with six six-shooters hovering around them!

"Hawk Moth!" Cat Noir spits. "I should've known you were involved in this somehow!"

Ultra-Teller begins blasting lazer beams everywhere just as the corrupt sheriff shows up! Conveniently, they vaporize the sheriff in one hit.

Cat Noir baits Ultra-Teller into blasting the vault open, freeing the money for anyone's taking, and shouts "Now, Calamity Mari!"

Marinette spins the barrel of her revolver and fires her ace in the hole.

~WIBBLY FLASHBACK NOISES~

"But before we head out," Cat Noir says, "I wanna make sure you have an ace in the hole." He takes one bullet, does some mystical motions, and intones "Cataclysmic bullet! There, now that'll destroy anything in one shot. Save it for something really important. Probably the vault door, but if Hawk Moth decides to butt in for some reason you can also use it to destroy his akuma."

~WIBBLY UN-FLASHBACK NOISES~

The bullet impacts the enchanted money bag, disintegrating it and the butterfly inside, causing Ultra-Teller to revert back into a normal person and fall to the ground.

Everyone is so terrified of all the destruction that there's nobody stopping Cat Noir and Marinette as they shovel all the money into their bags, load up their horses, and ride off into the sunset for real.

"Nice plot pitch," Plagg says, reading over what Adrien has written. "But, uh, aren't you meant to be keeping your identity a secret?"

"It's a story, Plagg. I'm presenting it as 'what if' I was Cat Noir. On top of all those fake powers I made up, I even suggested adding a scene in the intro to explain how I transform - and since the writers here don't know what a Miraculous is, they'll get it all wrong for sure!"

"Oh, is that what all those calls with Pigtails were for? I was worried you were getting all mushy, but you were actually doing work? That's worse!"

"Well, I had fun, and that's all that matters."

"That and whether you win! But... it is a good little story. Perfect for munching popcorn to."

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

24-hour warning and note we cannot give another extension, we do have to move on

[Magolor]

Badgerclops reappears with a cowboy hat and some boots with the ol' spurs. Y'know, I'm not a big fan of the whole murder thing, but I get to dress up like THIS!

Now for the challenge.

title

- A cackling villain has just tied your friend/love interest/etc to train tracks and a train is barreling down on them. How do you save them - and make it look like you're a last minute hero for our film?
Well, I'd normally just use the ol' cybernetic arm, but it'll be way cooler if I scare off the villain with a HORSE! I woke up face to face with one once and I couldn't sleep for a whole DAY! Anyway, after that, I'll try to untie my partner, who's definitely thanking me for my brave actions for once. But as I'm basking in the glory, BAM! It looks like I was too late! Until we emerge from behind the entire train after I pulled ourselves under the tracks. The whole time I was untying him, I was really digging with my spurs! The train company came to collect damages after, though.
- Uh oh, the sheriff doesn't like you and you're being strung up to hang for a crime you didn't commit. It's a big scene! Get out of this one and don't spare the drama.
So I was like, what!? No, I didn't do that! And the track suddenly disappearing later down the line wasn't related either. They didn't believe me for some reason. Okay, I thought I was the hero and stuff. I cross my arms while they kick the chair but my neck doesn't even bend at the bottom. Even after they tie me up and kick me a bunch in front of everyone, I only cry for like, an hour. The sun goes down and everyone goes home, and I just cut the rope off.
- Ok, this time you'll actually commit the crime. Rob the bank, have a shootout, and ride off into the sunset with the money! What are you going to do to keep your paint intact and the shot looking great?
A carriage doesn't need paint. I search the arid deserts for my li'l buddy again, then charge into the bank. I'll use the carriage itself as my shield, which I fully reinforced with the strongest deflection covering I could make. After that, I just shoot gelatin bullets at everyone to keep them trapped and the money's as good as mine. Nobody's gonna chase this baby!

[PointMaid]

Lotta is sitting front and center, clapping, at the premieres.

That was fabulous! What an effort! But we do have a favorite.

We think The Lockhorns went above and beyond this time! The cooperation, the non-cooperation, the bickering, the pacing, the callback... the non-linearity! Very experimental and chic. Bravo!

Take some time to unwind, now. The sun is starting to go down.

(We'll close the thread and open Night Phase later in the day)

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Congratulations, lovebirds! You all have immunity! Use that time for a nice romantic moment between you two! Just don't catch cooties!

[Kennifer]

"I think I'm better at acting than directing, but that was fun. I just wish I'd gotten the Jimmy Junior actor's phone number."

[Florien]

Loretta glares at Leroy while he stands there, holding a skull and wearing the iconography of a Shakespearian Actor, in the traditional pose for such a scene, basking in his own victory.

And you accuse me of being dramatic.