marbleglove | Plot-bunnies: action flicks

I have a couple of action flick type fics that I'd like to see:

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In several recent action movies there have been these chase scenes which take place through apartment complexes. I'm not talking about the hallways or public areas either, they go through windows and kitchens and living rooms and bedrooms and all, disturbing various families. Sometimes the people in the apartments rear back in fear, sometimes they yell and throw things. Both the bad guy and the good guy who are running through these apartment are big and bad and they get through. Sometimes the chasee gets away sometimes the chaser manages to catch up.

I would desperately like a story in which one of those apartments is the residence of some even more dangerous type.

The chasee runs out of one apartment and into another, there's a person in this one too but instead of screaming, this time the guy pulls out a sword, skewers him and then hides the body. The chaser then tries to find out how the chasee managed to escape. There's probably a scene in which the chaser is questioning the apartment residents and the killer is acting innocent and fragile and like he couldn't hurt a fly even if he wanted to.

It's possible that someone else recognizes the innocent-looking killer.

Specifically:

Maybe Jason Bourne and villian-of-the-day are racing around Mexico City and villian-of-the-day tries to make his get away through Bruce Banner's apartment.

Maybe 005 thinks he can make a quick get away via Adam Pierson's apartment. 007 would then have to interview all the residents and would get within 50 paces of the apartment, stop dead in his tracks and go, "oh no!" (becuase, of course Bond is immortal.)

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There are several movies with the premise of underground fighting championships. Sometimes the participants are eager volunteers, sometimes they're coerced by love or loyalty or somesuch, and sometimes they're flat-out kidnapped and forced to fight. A somewhat sillly premise, but go with it. There are certainly a lot of script writers who have.

So I have this idea that Duncan MacLoed has somehow been either forced or coerced to compete. Possiby some woman tried to coerce him with emotional blackmail which didn't entirely work but did work enough for her to get him somewhere where he could be forced. Anyway, so there he is, fighting for his life against some of the best fighters in the underground fighting world. (He is still significantly better than almost all of them: he's been fighting in an underground fighting world for centuries after all.)

Then he's in the ring, waiting for his next opponent, wondering if he'll be able to get out of this without either killing some poor misguided mortal or allowing himself to be killed. Then he feels the buzz of an approaching immortal: oh no! However it's Methos to the rescue.

He reams Duncan out about getting himself caught up in this, whines about the trouble he had to go to in order to get himself kidnapped the same way, and then they both break out together.

Of course, while they were chatting they were putting on a show of fighting, using flashy moves and the like and generally joking around with sparring.

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I always wondered in those films why didn't any of the residents suddenly point a gun at the agents and accuse him of breaking and entering.

I would adore to see it especially if they went through the apartment of the poor grad student who is only there on a dig and the two chaser and chasee disappear... Bond goes to question and suddenly finds out his old mentor is there... which is not good for him as he was only supposed to see the guy in another 30 years for the new student centennial check up

Exactly! Bond gulps nervously, and Adam raises an eyebrow, and everyone else looks confused.

The problem with those scenes is that they assume that only the main characters (good or bad) are seriously dangerous. It implies that the world is a lot simpler than it really is. Coincidences do happen, more often than not, and they can get you into all sorts of trouble when you are acting like the big bad and then stumble across someone else who is that much more dangerous than you and you've just pissed them off.

yes! we must have the eyebrow of doom!

and Bond would just say something like "have you seen a white male, tall..."
and Adam (or what name he would be using) would interrupt and say: " about 6.3, brunette with a birthmark on his right hand and a scar on his left brow?"

"Uhm, yes "

"Nope, doesn't ring a bell"

To which Bond would reply, "okay then" and when questioned later just say that he had from a reliable source that that men was not someone to be pissed of and that agent 005 and his target were very likely dust in the wind...

While thinking that "Matthew" really did look well, and maybe the original M might have a point about retiring... those new agents don't know the dangers that the world really presents

and i agree the guys are chasing rooftops in Mexico city there is a chance that he is going to get into a gang's apartment or crash a game of poker he really didn't want to interfere

Heh. And M would question his report and generally be deeply suspicious. Bond would finally cave enough to say, Look, it doesn't have to do with national security unless we make it, and we should really write off 005 as having died from stupidity. M would consider this and nod, because she didn't get to the position she was at by provoking unnecessary conflicts, and sometimes you just had to trust in your agent's discretion.

On a complete tangent:

Have you ever stumbled across the Hitman comic book?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_(comics)

It's more than a bit of a spoof. The main guy is a low-level hitman in Gotham with x-ray vision but no other superpowers, and the story is about the thugs that make Gotham dangerous without being high profile enough to attract superhero attention.

But there's one scene in which our protagonist is escaping through his girlfriend's window because her family drops by for a visit, but the fire escape breaks off and crashes him into another building where a big drug deal is happening, and it all goes down hill from there.

Despite the issues involved it is side-splittingly funny. Or maybe because of the issues involved, and I like black humor. :-)

I love the dying from stupidity and I am sure that spech about taking too many risks from 007 would be both ironic and a great warning about what really took place with 005.

I had never seen the hitman comic, I think I will read some of it this weekend! thanks for the rec

And M probably calls him on it, telling 007 that he takes more risks than 005 ever did. And 007 looks his perfect suave self and points out that, unlike 005, he never gets himself into trouble he can't get himself back out of.

which in turn would make M even more curious about what sort of trouble 005 managed to get himself into, but since Bond isnt talking she cant do anything but try to find out throught backtracking his and 005 steps... and all MI6 can find is poor UK grad student who at the time of the chase had been having a beer and friendly poker game with some of his local friends

You should check out the old swords and sorcery stories of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, by Fritz Lieber.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser

F and GM are more-or-less swords for hire, and one time they find themselves put up against each other, as champions of two opposing lords. One of them shouts at the other, "Do you remember the Castle of Doom? I'm going to get you this time, just like I did then!" The other shouts back something equally fierce, and they go at each other.

It turns out that, years ago at the Castle of Doom, they were commissioned to choreograph an elaborate mock swordfight for the entertainment of a very sophisticated audience. So they step right into that choreography, only no one realizes it here and now.

It's been a long time since I read this, and I don't really remember how it comes out, but I suspect they turn the tables on both opposing lords at the last minute, and escape together with a large amount of treasure. Possibly without the lords realizing that they have been had.

This might be in "Swards of Lankhmar", or in "Swords Against Wizardry". Or it might not.

I have been intending to read those books for years but they've gotten buried in my to-read list. Thanks for the reminder. And that does sound like a perfect scene.

Have you read Cornered Rat by Rhi? Alex Kryeck accidentally chooses Conner MacLeod's house as a good place to break into while hiding from the cops. http://rhi.moonlit-eyrie.com/stories/corneredrat.html
She writes a lot of dangerous people coincidentally encountering other dangerous people and maybe realizing it or maybe not.

I should probably mention it's slashy, I don't know if you care.

I have read that and I loved it! So very, very good. And I'm glad you reminded me of it because it does perfectly meet the need I had for a dangerous person accidentally running through another dangerous' person's residence.

At this point I'm so used to casually dropping by her website to look for updates that I haven't gone and reread my favorites in a while.

I don't care, but probably a good idea in general.

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