Idea #75: Worldbuiling Bonus 1

Bonus content to Idea #75: Worldbuilding

Sonic Franchise
Seriously, how the hell did I forget about the franchise memetically associated with hundreds of fan OCs?
1) Setting: Mobius and other various locales seem to imply a fairly Earth like world [1]
2) Inhabitants: waves hand in the vague direction of sonic OCs [1]
3) Population: Varied and numerous. Generally small woodland creatures, and Eggman [1]
4) Plot: Depends on the media. Sometimes its slice of life, sometimes Eggman comes in to ruin something [0.5]

Honestly, pretty good score for an adventure series. Its long history certainly helps boost it over. [Total: 3.5]

Murder Drones
A new web series by Liam Vickers featuring cute robot girls and cute murderous robot girls on an exploded ice planet. Liam has a pretty distinctive flair in style and story telling, creating a fun and unique experience, and appealing designs

1) Setting: A mining colony of Earth, Copper-9, after a corporate fuckup caused all biological inhabitants to die off, leaving only robots behind. [0.5]
Only have two episodes so far, so limited information, but the introduction does give us a good idea about what the rest of the planet may be like. The main cast of Drones seem to exist in shelters similar to Fallout's Vaults, but it is very constrained. We have little knowledge of what the rest of the Bunker is like outside that it has personal rooms, a school, and a hallway of doors.
2) Primary Inhabitants: Worker Drones, absurdly humanoid robots. A simple, yet unique design. Easily modified to make your own, unique OC and have it still be identifiablely from this show. The background characters however, are mostly generic unless specifically focused on [0.9]
3) Population: The Murder Drones (also called Disassembly Drones, basically vampire robots), along with the millions of Worker Drone corpses left behind. Earth appears to still exist, and used the Drones for menial labor until something goes wrong, in which case they get reprogrammed to mutually annihilate. [1]
4) Plot: Show is still young, though it appears the Drones have decided to imitate a human-like lifestyle within their bunker. What we know of the past is that Drones used to help mine the planet, and once all the humans died, decided to just do their own thing for a while before the Murder Drones show up. What's left outside besides the mountains of robot corpses and prowling murder robots is still unknown. Could be something interesting here. [0.5]

There's promise here, especially its distinctive charaters. The adversarial nature between the humans/murder drones and the worker drones hangs heavy over the setting, but with more exploration of the surrounding area, we could get a pretty interesting playground to play in. Its main flaw is how the viewpoint is still trapped in at most two locations, and lack of screentime as of this post. [Total: 2.9]

Stick Fights (Hyun's Dojo, RHG, etc)
Stick Figures who get in fights

1) Setting: Somewhere???? The Sticks just fight over random places with no rhyme or reason. Could be anything really. [0.5]
2) Primary Inhabitants: Sticks in a fighting pose. Generic, but there isn't anything that really ties the whole collaborative work together. [1]
3) Population: The planet seems to be covered in Sticks that live for beating the shit out of each other. Society and world building really isn't a focus of this thing. [0]
4) Plot: What Plot? There's occasional inklings of certain organizations vaguely searching for power, or taking on missions, but the nature of a setting constructed almost entirely by animators' free time makes world building very hap hazard outside of cool fights. [0]

Distinctive, mostly flashy with little substance intended, and was never the point. [Total: 1.5]

Starcraft
A three way war between three species, eventually unites against a common foe

1) Setting: Koprulu Sector. A sector of planets convicts from earth get stranded on, and eventually rebuild a society. Nearby are the aliens Protoss (long lived psychics) and Zerg (insectoid, consuming mass controlled by a hivemind). Human side is a bit generic, but the aliens are distinctive enough to be fairly recognizable [0.6]
2) Main Inhabitants: Humans, Protoss, Zerg, Xel'naga [1]
3) Population: Each faction has multiple planets of their own. Aliens are distinct enough to be unique [1]
4) Plot: Its story is mostly based around various fights for survival. Big bads and bigger bads are threatening to take over, assimilate, or annihilate everyone. You have to pretty much run to the end canon, the end of all the fighting, to get the breathing room to explore lower paced ideas. [0]

It shows in the fanfics Starcraft produces. Almost all of them deal with the fighting in the first games, or the fighting in the second game. [Total: 2.6]