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I would guess there's a difference between fighter-mounted laser cannon and the turbolaser batteries on the Trade Federation battleships...

But yes. Making the characters invincible jedi is definitely chargeable.

I have a feeling the fourth wall wouldn't survive the encounter either.

The author's also written self-inserts in Halo and Harry Potter. Unfortunately, the sequels make the characters invincible. And as a Halo and Wars fan, I did notice the problems. However, the shots in question come from military grade hardware, and civilian shuttles have been stated to be capable of surviving laser cannon fire from fighters.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I've just been reading the MST of Celebrian. That thing is hilarious - much kudos to David.

I was talking socially. Whether it's right or wrong, if you write an idea and someone (however immature) recognises it from elsewhere, they might start throwing around accusations of plagerism, and I don't think anyone wants to deal with that sort of mess.

That said, I probably came across as too definite, and I apologise. I'm just saying that it's hard, and that I, personally, would feel too guilty to do it.

As we write metafiction as well, any rules we implement concerning metafiction should be applicable to us as well, unless the Continuum Protection Initiative itself gives us special license (and even that smacks of sue-dom, as it would have to be us writing the CPI...)

It would be interesting to have a team of agents bump into a "film crew" filming a badfic for MST purposes...

2, on the other hand, is easy to answer. Smite it! That's not creative metafiction, that's using it as a convenient excuse to self-insert sues and 'stus. Smite it with fire, and if any of the smiting agents happen to be fans of technical nit-picking, they might want to mention that Star Wars-verse ships are much more realistic than HALO-verse ones, in that they're rather fragile without their shields, and thus, "taking a beating" involves having one's shields pounded on, and losing shields really puts one all of one shot away from firey death.

That is a very, very epic understatement. *hands over shiny gold Massive Understatement trophy* You're almost as unsquickable as I am, and that's saying something - I've read most Legendary 'fics, usually with no reaction or outright laughter.

Have a Prinny suit. *goes into obligatory Captain Exposition mode* It increases stats (in an RPG sense), may or may not come with complimentary Prinny bombs and a pair of swords, and makes you say "-dood" at the end of every sentence. It makes people explode when thrown, but that's... usually... only a problem in NIS videogame canons and similar games. Basically, games where people can be tossed around anytime, by anyone. (It's amusing to see the biggest normal enemies being carried by the smallest creatable characters in Disgaea, where the suits are from. Testing on the Final Final Boss, Baal, has not been attempted yet.)

Uh, no idea. I've not finished reading the spinoffs, so I don't know the current state of the PPCverse. I was rather surprised to see how little Status Quo Is God around here. You've made some major changes since the Jay and Acacia era.

Still can't believe you killed off Makes-Things.

That was me. Also, is there a precedent for such an encounter? The closest thing I can think of is Discworld's Death...

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4557131/7/JumpFictionEpisode2Phantom_Menace

Two questions:
1) What about other individuals/people who travel the multiverse? I've seen a few fics in the Pit of Voles on such concepts. Assuming that they're just observers (or even if they're not), how would an encounter go?

2)What do you think about the fic at the top? Smite or no smite?

BTW, will your Agents be based in a Response Center or a TARDIS?

there are other stories where vegetarian vampires make an appearance. Not a whole lot of them, but Angel from Buffy stayed away from human blood.

True, there is not an exact defining line where an idea becomes specific. But writing a story about teenagers in a boarding school learing witchcraft does not make a story plagery for Harry Potter. People may shout that, but they would be wrong. If anything, it would be plagery for the Worst Witch, because that is older.

I just read what Twilight is about: Meyer says that the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream on June 2, 2003. The dream was about a human girl, and a vampire who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood.

That's funny, I have a book that was first published in 2001 that can be summarised like that. Stephenie Meyer is plagerizing Charlotte Harris!

Seriously, ideas have to be way more specific than that. If two stories would get the same (detailed) outline, then perhaps they would be too similar. But if there are just some elements the same (Doctor in parallel universe, Rose not. Rose becomes Time Lady) you are not using the same ideas as someone else. Particularly not if you're going to explore what it means to Rose to become a Time Lady rather than right away plunking her into the Christmas special.

Ugh, it's like telling a fanficcer: you can't write that missing scene plot idea because you got it from watching that episode.

Ideas have to come from some place. And other fanfics are as likely a place as any. You're doing yourself a disservice if you dismiss an idea because you can point out a source to it.

... aged eighteen in T-5 days.

"Over 135 talks were given at bookshops, libraries and schools, many with Paolini dressed up in a medieval costume."

That makes me giggle lots.

But I'd be furious if my mum did that. I hate been called into the spotlight and if I do ever decide to try and publish some of my original fiction (HA!), I'll use a false name like "A. Psuedo-Nymme".

I've not read That Series yet, no. To tell the truth, that one scares me a bit, having read the wiki page on it.

Welcome to the PPC~ I've not greeted you yet. You'll fit right in here.

But what to give, what to give~? I could probably dig up some rabies for you (I've been hanging around certain people for too long :P), but I doubt you'd want that.

Hmm... have a sparkly pinwheel. Good for distracting those with short attention spans (be it partners or Sues), and if you're really inventive you can attach something sharp to it and use it as a shiny-go-round-stabby-thing. ^_^

Good to meet you. *offers a towel*

It's nice to know someone is looking out for the folks in Torchwood. I bet there is quite a bit of badfic in that world.
It's funny, though. The story you PPC'd was rather dull, or at least it seemed that way. I mean, did anything actually happen in it?
Good job. You made it interesting and funny!

Welcome. I gift thee with lots of chocolate. Everyone should have chocolate in storage for emergencies.

Response Center, TARDIS keeps on breaking down. Need something that won't keep going wonky.

Have you read That Series? If you survived Celebrian...

Exceedingly hilarious.

*huggles plushie and offers a Suenicorn tail*
You can use it as a fly-whisk...I think...

I burst out laughing halfway through the first paragraph. Unsquickable One, I salute thee.