Question Whateley reality-TV gameshows?

A reality TV gameshow was on in the background, and I watch Dancing with the Stars (because my wife and I are in ballroom dance classes), so I was thinking - what would a Whateley reality TV show be like?

It came to me while I was thinking of a hybrid game show someone should make. It would be:

Bear Grylls Dancing with the Biggest American Ninja Losing Survivor

let your imagination run wild with THAT idea, and THEN let your imagination come up with some Whateley Universe game shows .

Dude, did you forget about Paradise Island?

Paradise Island isn't a gameshow, its just tasteless, yet actually reality.

E. E. Nalley wrote: Dude, did you forget about Paradise Island?

Bear Grylls Dancing with the Biggest American Ninja Losing Surviving Paradise Island Bachelor Idol

Is THAT better?

You bet your roommates gender.

A few that for some reason may not need to be changed but may help others with those morbid minds.

Truth or Consequences
To Tell the Truth
Wheel of Unfortunate (Okay this one did)

Your family's life (The price is right)

Sorry I went with game shows My bad.

Mutant Feud: Team of MCO agents and team of mutants in Family Feud-style show.

American Superheroes, follows various superhero teams to get to know them, obviously censoring secret identities

Glamor Gladiators: Where contestants try to out glam the opposing teams first without using their powers and 2nd using them but at the cost of sacrificing one of their own for the privilege leaving only 1 standing.

I could totally see a supervillain putting on a reality game show along the lines of the killer obstacle course that Bond is run through in Dr. No. It's like Survivor, only literally.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: I could totally see a supervillain putting on a reality game show along the lines of the killer obstacle course that Bond is run through in Dr. No. It's like Survivor, only literally.

High level regens only?

mhalpern wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: I could totally see a supervillain putting on a reality game show along the lines of the killer obstacle course that Bond is run through in Dr. No. It's like Survivor, only literally.

High level regens only?

Minion Surviors? A team of supervillains send their best minions to compete in a dangerous obstacle course where the survivor is guaranteed a place of honor as the next henchman to the mightiest super villain around. Of course he has to survive the lessor villains attempts in eradicating both him and his new found boss.

A mashup of Scrapheap Challenge and Robot Wars, only with gadgeteers and devisors as contestants.

MCO Funded game Show:

America's next Super Hero!

Yes they do follow them 24 / 7, no they don't censor or obfuscate any details. Bets on them getting Misty turn up anyway before Jadis finds her and pulls her out of the line?

The Robin.
Much like The Apprentice, the competitors get the chance to work for a major superhero if they can preform a number of tasks.


Hells Street, supervillian version of Hells Kitchen. Only available online.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: MCO Funded game Show:

America's next Super Hero!

Yes they do follow them 24 / 7, no they don't censor or obfuscate any details. Bets on them getting Misty turn up anyway before Jadis finds her and pulls her out of the line?

Lawsuit waiting to happen.

Back during the first season of 'Total Drama Island', I had an idea where characters, fully aware that they were potential characters in a story, were auditioning for Whateley, like it was a TV show, by competing on an elimination Reality TV show. They would compete as teams to complete a challenge. The losing teams would then choose a person who might get eliminated. The potential losers would face a panel consisting of: Global Cop, staunch world-wide defender of Truth, Justice and Halliburton interests! Baron Inferno, Devil of Disco Destruction! And Femme Fatale, morally ambiguous professional intrieguese! They'd be critiqued and given a Pass, Fail or Meh vote.

Sadly, my efforts with Flash were so godawful that i gave up on it, and it simply isn't working in plain text

Le Sigh

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I was thinking of a team challenge - randomly assembled teams of bricks, fliers, mages, etc, etc - and team challenge competitions. Not combat, but obstacle courses, puzzles, etc. only ONE team member has an advantage in any challenge, and they have to help their teammates through. Each week, one team gets eliminated; they might have the strongest brick and strongest mage, but their flier sucks and loses that part of the weekly challenge, and so they go home.

Scrap-heap challenge with devisors verse gadgeteers so would be fun.

Also, if Womdercute ever got into the act, the old "It's a knockout" amped to the max and taking into account superpowers.

"So You Wanna Be a Supervillain"

Competitors face challenges from the life of a supervillain - planning robberies, kidnappings, holding cities hostage, destroying foes, building a lair, keeping loyal minions, etc, etc, etc. Each week, a new challenge. Each week, a panel of supervillains (appearing in audio or video but not in person) judge the efforts and eliminate one competitor.

"Lucky dip" wierd Japanese game shows.

Wondercute get to create a panel of Wierd Japaness games shows, and each week Venus Inc. draw one of them and have to recreate if for Whateley.

Kind of a Iron Chef plus behind the scenes TV Show reality show plus wacky Game Show all rolled into one.

Oh, and for that MST3K feel, we can have Ayla, Toni, Jadis and Natch doing the commentary. I'm thinking Toni and Natch just turn up and get to snipe away, but we make Ayla and Jadis watch the entire panel of weird Japanese Game Shows with Wondercute after they chose them, and both Ayal and Jadis are expected to be giving proper critics of how Venus Inc. is doing, and how well / imaginitively / successfully they pull of the "feel" of the game show.

Oh, and Wondercute is split amongst 'roving reporters' and 'expert advisors' for Venus Inc, as well as Jade fulfilling the role of "Chairman".

'Chop or Be Chopped'

This is a garden variety cooking show, where the 4 contestants have to brave the wilds of a bio-devisor's green house, hunt down their ingredients (yes, the plants do fight back), and prepare a meal with the bounty. It's three rounds (appetizer, main dish, desert), and a contestant is cut after each round.

Rip Off. (From the TV show Face Off). A tv reality show where artists compete to create the next big thing in both super-villain and superhero attire.

Contestants will be facing off against each other as well as being assigned to either a hero or villain in their design. Both sides will then square off in a contest to see what the audience thinks of the new costumes.

Winner gets to live. Loser? Stay tuned.

Cake Walk.

The current best Sim Team is given a combat final crush from a previous graduating year, and their performance is graded against the original team's performance to see if the current generation was as tough as those that came before.

Prison life.

Reality TV show where would be hero's live with in the same rooms as wold be villains in a federal controlled prison and must be able to survive for the next month. Unlike Big Brother, contestants will also be living with hardened criminals as with corrupted officials and limited super abilities.

Wait never mind. Sounds like Whateley. Or high school.

What about a cooking-show style competition... only for mages and/or devisors?

"This week, our mages will have to summon Death using only... three small sticks and 4 cc of mouse blood."

'Mythos Busters'

Each week, the team with it's rotating cast of interns takes on various myths and attempts to determine if there is a mythos component to them.

'Ghost Hunters'

Ride along with the Goobers as they test out Ecto-tek's latest and greatest inventions while hunting down ghosts and other Class-X sightings.

elrodw wrote: "So You Wanna Be a Supervillain"

Competitors face challenges from the life of a supervillain - planning robberies, kidnappings, holding cities hostage, destroying foes, building a lair, keeping loyal minions, etc, etc, etc. Each week, a new challenge. Each week, a panel of supervillains (appearing in audio or video but not in person) judge the efforts and eliminate one competitor.

and of course this is a spinoff of the greatest superhero show.

Most Extreme Elimination Challenge!

From coast-to-coast and pole to pole we've scoured the earth for the most powerful mutants to face the most extreme obstacle course ever devised! Now to say who's good, who's bad and who's badly dressed it's your hosts Kenny Blankenship and Vic Romano!

The Weakest Link: Darwin Edition

Every month, 10 random people (can be baselines or mutants, civilians, heroes or villains, its REALLY random) between 18 and 60 compete in a gameshow held in an unknown location.
They must make their way through a deadly maze, answering questions, bypassing traps and obstacles, and surviving deadly robots.
The weakest and unluckiest contestents die a gory death in slow motion getting all the gore and shock set to a laugh track. And at the end the survivors are allowed to escape into the back of a moving van where they're sedated before being depositing in a random city in their home country.
Best of all a snarky Brit comments on their progress, and lets the audience know just what the contestents are facing in extreme detail.
At the end, depending on how many points the contesant has earned and special challenges they overcame they'll find anywhere from 100 dollars to a million dollars deposited in their bank accounts. The losers will have their ashes mailed to their surviving family.

It's fun for the whole family, and if you're not careful you could find yourself on the Weakest Link: Darwin Edition

Domoviye wrote: The Weakest Link: Darwin Edition

Every month, 10 random people (can be baselines or mutants, civilians, heroes or villains, its REALLY random) between 18 and 60 compete in a gameshow held in an unknown location.
They must make their way through a deadly maze, answering questions, bypassing traps and obstacles, and surviving deadly robots.
The weakest and unluckiest contestents die a gory death in slow motion getting all the gore and shock set to a laugh track. And at the end the survivors are allowed to escape into the back of a moving van where they're sedated before being depositing in a random city in their home country.
Best of all a snarky Brit comments on their progress, and lets the audience know just what the contestents are facing in extreme detail.
At the end, depending on how many points the contesant has earned and special challenges they overcame they'll find anywhere from 100 dollars to a million dollars deposited in their bank accounts. The losers will have their ashes mailed to their surviving family.

It's fun for the whole family, and if you're not careful you could find yourself on the Weakest Link: Darwin Edition

Sounds like America's Amazing Race: For your lives.

Someone with far more money (and connections) than sense watches The Truman Show and gets inspired...

BattleBots - Competitors design and operate remote-controlled armed and armored machines designed to fight in an arena combat elimination tournament.

ArmorWars - They've tinkered and built their armors... let's see who's got what it takes to put their opponent down in a winner takes all competition.

KaijuFight - We've set-up an island paradise... let's see who can take their opponent down in the biggest survival of the fittest competition the world has ever seen.

Mutant DeathMatch - Coming from our secret arena... every week we show the best and the brightest of upcoming mutant contenders.

StoneD!!! - Every week two powerstone users meet and battle for all the stones. As they climb the brackets we'll see who's got the biggest stones of all.

Ib12us wrote:

Domoviye wrote: The Weakest Link: Darwin Edition

Sounds like America's Amazing Race: For your lives.

This, and mhalpern's game show on page 1, recall Arcade, an X-Men foe from the Claremont era; his kidnap-and-reality-deathtrap-show was usually called Murderworld. (At least once it involved the X-Men being in power-nullifying bubbles inside a giant pinball machine...)

--Dave, will recite old plots for food

I've always preferred Mojo myself, but since his entire universe is literally a reality tv show he designed for his own twisted amusement, rather than a complicated converted warehouse a la Arcade...