What are some of the most absurd plots you've ever encountered in fiction?

[Eldoria]

What are some of the most absurd plots you've ever encountered in fiction?

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

Try this one: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/760579/an-unborn-hero

 

[Naravelt]

A snail caused the apocalypse because someone jogging in the park accidentally avoided it, which set off a chain of events that eventually led to the end of the world. It was just a normal snail.

 

[Eldoria]

A snail caused the apocalypse because someone jogging in the park accidentally avoided it, which set off a chain of events that eventually led to the end of the world. It was just a normal snail.

This is similar to the "unleash the pig" plot in AoT. lol

 

[BigBadBoi]

Invisible Dragon

 

[Madkins]

drug addicted angel/ball of light, rebels against reality.

 

[Woolen_Monkey]

The mc’s father fought his father in law who attacked and almost killed the mc because he thought the mc’s father killed his daughter which made the mc’s mother fight and almost killed her father who was saved by her brother who almost killed the mc’s father but instead got beat and all this happened without any of them know who each other where only for them to all make up in like a paragraph… This happened… I don’t know how but it did.

 

[Tyranomaster]

Honestly speaking, the HPMoR plot was kinda wild. Like, there are books that have really absurd and *bad* plots, but the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality plot is kinda absurd for being a good read.

 

[Deleted member 166465]

A group of aliens decided to wreck the planet and basically destroy everything becouse they decided to play god and answer the prayers of a lazy, dumb, fat, asshole called Melvin.
IT was a boring read, full of cliches, dumb, not funny jokes, and unnecesary plot twist and unwanted sex scenes... I dont think it exist anymore, the page closed like ten years ago.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Go on, admit it.
You all thought the isekai with the vending machine was crazy.
Than it got a second season immediately.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PLANET??

 

[Deleted member 166465]

Go on, admit it.
You all thought the isekai with the vending machine was crazy.
Than it got a second season immediately.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PLANET??

Gravity, you see with no gravity, people would just float into space and all this madness would end.
If I had a wish I would ask for gravity to disapear... or people to have tastebuds on their assholes... that would be funny.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Biorg Trinity.

 

[l8rose]

I'll be honest, the whole harem plot where the MC levels up by impregnating women is one of the more absurd ones. I get it... it's fantasy but like... that's a tiring amount of sex and then never sleeping again because of all the babies. Even if they chose to have just a few wives, that's still 10 months between each level up (12 if we're going with allowing the woman to at least recover properly). Of course, there is the whole issue of just treating the female characters like baby making machines but I'm glossing over that one for the moment.

On a less fetish-like note, the other absurd one was where the MC died but was brought to purgatory to be a psychiatrist to a bunch of dead souls who couldn't move on because they committed heinous acts. But wait. The reason they committed all these bad things was because their childhoods were ungodly terrible (even worse than the acts they committed). Finally, their issues are solved with modern world medication and food. Go figure, proper care helps mental patients.

 

[Uwuwiii_676]

What are some of the most absurd plots you've ever encountered in fiction?

One of the most absurd plots I’ve ever come across was in a manga where the main character’s power was literally being average in every possible way.

She begged the gods, “Please, make me average in my next life.” The gods granted her wish… but since the strongest being in the world was a dragon, her “average” ended up being half a dragon’s strength. So instead of being normal, she became ridiculously overpowered but still thought she was average, causing complete chaos every time she tried to “blend in.”

Ugh!

 

[Lark_Devon]

I'll be honest, the whole harem plot where the MC levels up by impregnating women is one of the more absurd ones. I get it... it's fantasy but like... that's a tiring amount of sex and then never sleeping again because of all the babies. Even if they chose to have just a few wives, that's still 10 months between each level up (12 if we're going with allowing the woman to at least recover properly). Of course, there is the whole issue of just treating the female characters like baby making machines but I'm glossing over that one for the moment.

On a less fetish-like note, the other absurd one was where the MC died but was brought to purgatory to be a psychiatrist to a bunch of dead souls who couldn't move on because they committed heinous acts. But wait. The reason they committed all these bad things was because their childhoods were ungodly terrible (even worse than the acts they committed). Finally, their issues are solved with modern world medication and food. Go figure, proper care helps mental patients.

That’s wild.

 

[Echimera]

One of the most absurd plots I’ve ever come across was in a manga where the main character’s power was literally being average in every possible way.

She begged the gods, “Please, make me average in my next life.” The gods granted her wish… but since the strongest being in the world was a dragon, her “average” ended up being half a dragon’s strength. So instead of being normal, she became ridiculously overpowered but still thought she was average, causing complete chaos every time she tried to “blend in.”

Ugh!

Ah yes, when you don't specify what kind of average you mean.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Chinese fuckshit reincarnation.

The cycle of eternal rubbing off each other.

 

[ChrisLensman]

The prose in Charles Stross novels is always very grounded, with a heaping helping of dry British humor, so it usually only hits you some time later how absolutely insane the plots can get.
His Laundry Files series starts out with a secret agent of the British agency dealing with the Lovecraft monsters accompanying a spec ops unit to a parallel universe to stop an ice giant that was summoned by the Nazis using the entire Holocaust as a sacrifice ritual and that carved Hitler's face into the moon before sucking all the energy out of that universe, then sent agents to our universe so that we would try to kill it with a hydrogen bomb, thereby giving it enough energy to hop over to our universe and suck that dry as well.
That is already insane, yes. But by Book 10 the story has transitioned to Prime Minister Nyarlathotep assembling a black ops unit consisting of a vampire secret agent lady, her boyfriend Superman, an autistic vampire elf sorceress, a DnD nerd, a vicar and two gay tech nerds to go over to the US and stop US President Cthulhu from hollowing out our entire solar system in order to turn all the planets into a giant supercomputer. No, I am not exaggerating. Yes, it is amazing.

 

[LiteraryWho]

One of the most absurd plots I’ve ever come across was in a manga where the main character’s power was literally being average in every possible way.

She begged the gods, “Please, make me average in my next life.” The gods granted her wish… but since the strongest being in the world was a dragon, her “average” ended up being half a dragon’s strength. So instead of being normal, she became ridiculously overpowered but still thought she was average, causing complete chaos every time she tried to “blend in.”

Ugh!

Hey man, that anime was hilarious!

Stupid as hell, of course, but that's just part of the comedy.

 

[Amelia-chan]

What are some of the most absurd plots you've ever encountered in fiction?

What are some of the most absurd plots you've ever encountered in fiction?

people with STDs trying to fight each other and infect each other