I don't know if anyone else here plays Star Trek Online (usually just called STO) but I've seen some really bad foundry missions. The foundry is basically a thing that allows you to make your own missions. A... startlingly high amount of them are good, but that just means the bad ones stand out more. It might be possible to make a foundry mission that parodies another really bad mission, but without railroading, I'm not completely sure how this would work. I'm sure it could, but it would take some effort. Who knows, when I ask for Permission, I might try this out.

And fan comics would be easy enough, if you can match the art style of the badcomic author. Fan films aren't worth your time. Most of them are just really short flash animations drawn by a five-year-old. The big, long films tend to either be really good, or never completed. But I do encourage you to explore these mediums. It might end up as something wonderful. Or awful. Hopefully the former.

Your agents could possibly be pulled into what's commonly refereed to as a boobs-and-butt pose, where there spines twist and impossible angles to show both their boobs and butts to the camera. It really hurts.

...that pops up every couple of years or so. Unfortunately, it never goes anywhere due to the sheer amount of work involved. I'm not saying you shouldn't try, just that the success rate is pretty miserable. You should know what you're getting into.

Also, re. the Sonichu discussion, best just to leave it alone. Seems to me no good can come of messing with it.

~Neshomeh

(For those not in the know, this is what I'm talking about.)

That is definitely mission-worthy, but I don't know how you'd have agents going about in a comic medium, especially if you want to match the art 'style' of the fan comic you're sparking; not everyone has the artistic ability to do that.

... For someone who can at least decently draw. Making a mission in comic form would be pretty cool, IMO. You could have the pre- and post-mission in text, with the medium changing when the agents enter the badcomic. They could even complain about being badly drawn, if you can/want to (at least temporarily) draw them in roughly the same style as the badcomic. (There could even be a CAD setting for fixing that, as with tense shifts)
(I'm not gonna do that, though. I can't even draw a stickman properly.)
As for fan movies... Yeah, missioning them in the same medium would be much harder. Which is a pity, because some of this stuff definitely is mission material. (*cough* Dusk's Dawn *cough*)

To me, great parts of a mission’s appeal are the hilarious scenes the agents experience when the world interprets words that are ambiguous or just incomprehensible or don’t mean what the suethor believes them to mean. You obviously can’t do this in a visual medium. Can agents missioning a fanfilm read the words? Probably not, unless the sporker actually has access to the script, so there’s no reading ahead. In a comic, it may be fun to watch the agents stumble from panel to panel, but the inherent discontinuity is not a problem specific to badcomics.

I don’t know how to make it work; I only see problems there.

HG