Subject: Re: Mini-hats?
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Posted on: 2012-01-07 18:50:00 UTC
The only problem with mini-hats is that we already have them for Hogan's Heroes. A mini-fedora might be different enough, since the HH minis are military headgear, but I'm leaning toward Neshomeh's suggestion of snakes. I'm certain Dr Jones would agree that snakes are close enough to monsters :) .
I've found a mini in an Indiana Jones badfic. But from what I can find on the wiki, we don't have those minis identified yet. Any ideas on what to make it?
The obvious route would be "miniature version of the misspelled character", but if there's something more creative ....
Mini-Kali (the statue from Temple of Doom)
Mini-Thuggees (the cult from the same)
Mini-Crystal Skulls
Mini-interdimensional beings ( I think that's their name? It's what the LEGO game called them.)
First, please allow me to remind everyone that the first person to actually write an OFU or, if an OFU is lacking, a mission in the continuum gets to name the mini. It's one of the perks of branching out.
That said, I think there are two pretty obvious choices. The first one, Indie's main antagonists, is Nazis. Of course, there are some potential issues with mini-Nazis running around, especially with names resembling the good guys', so my other choice would be Indie's biggest fear: snakes—either not-so-mini regular snakes, or mini-whatever that giant water snake was from The Last Crusade.
~Neshomeh + $0.02
... but the only Indiana Jones mission I could find on the wiki didn't charge for mini creation. Apparently that Suethor got the names right.
I'd already crossed mini-Thuggee off the list, for the same reason you give for not using mini-Nazis. (Besides, Temple of Doom was the weakest film in the series.) Snakes sound good, I'll see if I can find out what breed of snake was in Last Crusade.
As in, the results of misspellings are never specified to be miniature. Then what?
First, there's plenty of precedent for non-miniature misspelled creatures. The Official PhanPhiction Academy of Phantom of the Opera, for instance, had not-so-mini scorpions and grasshoppers, after the little figurines Erik used in making Christine choose between marrying him (and saving everybody) and blowing up the entire Opera House with all of them in it. Also, Pirates of the Caribbean has Misspelled Monkeys, and World of Warcraft has Wrath Cadets (sort of mini-Wrathguards, but not actually miniature Wrathguards). There are probably more, but those I can think of off the top of my head.
Second, OFU gets precedence no matter what. Minis are an OFU thing that the PPC has simply borrowed, and the miniature-ness of "minis" is incidental to the thing in question being misspelled rather than the other way around. In other words, when it comes to the original source of the misspelled monster, size doesn't matter.
~Neshomeh
The Suethor of the 'Fic I've claimed a while back created an astounding amount of minis, belonging to three 'verses: Doctor Who, Artemis Fowl, and Teletubbies.
Now, DW and Artemis Fowl have a Mini (mini-Reapers and mini-Roots, respectively), but Teletubbies doesn't, and, as far as I know, a Teletubbies OFU does not exist. In that case, the person that will write the mission about that 'Fic (me, if/when I'll get Permission) decides what the mini is, right?
Just a thought. I mean, that hat of his is pretty iconic.
The only problem with mini-hats is that we already have them for Hogan's Heroes. A mini-fedora might be different enough, since the HH minis are military headgear, but I'm leaning toward Neshomeh's suggestion of snakes. I'm certain Dr Jones would agree that snakes are close enough to monsters :) .