Stories by @fancastunity

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

Gravity (2023)

Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

Chinatown (2024)

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

Inglourious Basterds (2019)

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Snowpiercer (2023)

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

Red Dragon (2022)

Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

Vertigo (2018)

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Avengers: Ultron Revolution

After months of working together, Hank Pym, Tony Stark and Reed Richards finish Project Ultron and activate it. The Artificial Intelligence powers up in Tony’s lab at Stark Tower and the tests seem to go perfect. They have succeeded in mapping the human mind onto an AI in hopes of it taking over as the main protector of Earth. Hank and Reed then upload the AI into a mechanical body made out of a mix of vibranium and adamantium. The model acts as Ultron Prime as the three plan to upload the rest of Ultron’s program into the other hundreds of bodies they have created for him. However, Hank begins noticing some strange errors in the AI.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: READY! A.I.M! FIRE!

Many years ago, a brilliant scientist by the name of George Tarleton studied genetics in grad school, primarily focusing on the human brain. While attending, he met two other brilliant scientists, Monica Rappaccini and Hank Pym. The three developed a close bond until they finished grad school when they started to grow apart. From there, Hank went on to start his own company P.Y.M Tech as well as working closely with the government agency S.H.I.E.L.D, whilst George and Monica formed the scientific organisation known as the Advanced Idea Mechanics or A.I.M for short. George had hoped to use A.I.M’s resources to expand the human brain. He had felt that the brain had limits and George wanted to exceed them, so he began working on ways to expand them. George expressed his idea to Monica. Eventually, George managed to convince Monica to go ahead with his project and after many months, George had tested his experimental serum on himself. However, the serum begins to alter him as his head grows larger in size, expanding the jar, gaining an increased intelligence. Monica designed a special chair for George after finding him the next day. He began to change himself as he grew beyond human limitations; he was now M.O.D.O.K (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing). The two helped A.I.M grow, until they gained the attention of HYDRA. With their aid, the two became one of the world’s leading scientists, due to Monica and M.O.D.O.K’s work together.

Spider-Man: Friend or Foe?

Peter must face a group of supervillians that have a grudge against him.

The Defenders (Season One)

A group of heroes assemble to battle a team of supervillians called the Wrecking Crew.

Captain America: Ghosts of the Past

Steve Rogers is still living in Washington, DC as he seems to have come to grips with the modern world as he lives ins. After the dispensation of S.H.I.E.L.D, Steve fights alongside some of his fellow Avengers members and former S.H.I.E.L.D agents such as Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton and Sam Wilson, all under the guidance and supervision of director Nick Fury. Their mission is to rescue a group of agents trapped in unknown facility in Belgium filled with Hydra agents. Steve and the rest of the team are able to take them down and find the missing agents and take them to safety. However they discover that they were being kept hostage by Hydra agents Viper, Grim Reaper and Crossbones. Agents that were thought to been defeated and killed at the hands of S.H.I.E.L.D on the island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a few members of the team are killed in the process but the core group make it out alive and are able to bring the agents back to the Avengers Headquarters. Questions begin to arise as the team come together to seek answers on how these supposedly dead Hydra operatives are alive. Fury and Agent Maria Hill do some digging and discover this is all began towards the end of World War II where Armin Zola had formed the New Hydra once the Nazis won the war. Zola had been pronounced dead but seems as though that the act on S.H.I.E.L.D was planed decades.

Iron Man: The Ten Rings

In the middle of Red China lies the underground secret headquarters of the terrorist organisation known as the ‘Ten Rings’, when the leader the Mandarin addresses a public on a live broadcast across the world, before revealing a hostage held at gunpoint with a bag over their head. The hostage is revealed to be none other than Tony Stark, who has been captured by the Ten Rings after he went out to take down the organisation.

X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

The world has come very much accustomed to mutants after the Magneto attack which has made the debate on how Mutants should be perceived in the public eye. Through his connections with Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D, Professor Charles Xavier was elected to be the representative of Mutants in Congress to debate against Senator Kelly to hopefully finally bring peace between humans and mutants. Charles received a standing ovation as the debate is televised across America, as in a bar in Alberta sits the Wolverine as he takes his last sip of his bourbon before heading off on his motorbike. He rides up towards Alkali Lake to search for clues on his past life, after searching through every possible angle he is unable to find what he was looking for. He decided to make his long waited return to ‘Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters’.

Heroes for Hire

Carl Lucas was wrongfully sentenced to prison after being accused of a crime he did not commit. Whilst in prison, Lucas was attacked by a fellow inmate who attempted to kill him. After the attack, Carl was subjected to many questionable experiments by Noah Burnstein which resulted in Lucas gaining superhuman strength and unbreakable skin. This led to Lucas escaping prison and returning to his home in Harlem and changing his name to Luke Cage as he attempted to lay low. Danny Rand was the son of wealthy businessman Wendell Rand. When Danny was a young boy, Danny and his parents went on a trip, but their private jet crashed, killing both of Danny’s parents and making him the sole survivor. Soon after the crash, Danny was found by the monks of K’un-Lun and raised as one of their own. Danny spent many years training to become the Immortal Iron Fist, eventually gaining his power by defeating the Dragon known as Shou-Lao. Once he obtained the power of the Iron Fist, Danny was instructed to guard the gateway to K’un-Lun, but he neglected his responsibilities and returned home to New York reclaiming his father’s company and his past life. Both Danny and Luke were changed by their respective incidents and vowed to help those who couldn’t help themselves. They set out to fight crime and do some good in Manhattan.

Fantastic Four: Reign of Doom

Since defeating the Mole Man, the Fantastic Four are now publicly known and have somewhat become celebrities among the citizens of New York on the same level of the Avengers. While Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm have spent most of their time attending charity events and creating Fantastic Four merchandise, Reed Richards and Sue Storm have preferred to remain out of the public-eye and continue to focus on their research at the Baxter Building. The couple are currently collecting research and resources regarding the ‘Van Allen belt’, the cosmic rays that struck the Fantastic Four to give them their powers, with the belt now given the title as the ‘Negative Zone’. In order to assist them with their research Reed has created a Highly Engineered Robot Built for Interdimensional Exploration, also known as ‘H.E.R.B.I.E’ for short, as they try to relocate ‘Van Allen belt’. Meanwhile in Latveria, Victor von Doom is watching over his manufacturer workers as they construct a new machine in order to rediscover the hidden realm that kept his mother’s soul. While the machine does work in at first, instead of opening up to the realm hiding his mother’s soul, he instead discovers the Negative Zone.

Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme

In New York City, Stephen Strange is a brilliant, smart, yet egotistical man. Born in Philadelphia and raised in New York City, Stephen studied hard and earned his medical degree before entering a five-year residency at New York Hospital. While Stephen has found success in his career, going on to become a wealthy and a celebrated neurosurgeon, he also became an arrogant, greedy and cold-hearted human being, having a limited amount of close friends that being fellow surgeons Nicodemus West and Clarke Temple, with his interest in his patients genuinely beginning and ending once he received the bill. However his life took a turn for the worst when he got into a major car accident leaving his hands completely crippled. Desperately trying to find the best doctors in the world to help cure or at least heal his disability, Stephen begins to see his medical career fall apart as he is unable to complete the work as a neurosurgeon. Due to his ego and stubbornness to become an assistant or consultant, Stephen goes through a deep depression and decides to lock himself away from the world.

Doom

Latveria is a small European nation located in southeastern Europe, outside of the city of Haasenstadt is where the Zefiro clan often camped. The clan were referred to as gypsies by the outside world despite the people living peaceful lives as Latverian and Romani wanderers. The clan however were often the victims of harassment, discrimination and persecution the Baron and his men, and while many Zefiro accepted this behaviour, there was one member of the clan that would. A sorceress named Cynthia von Doom who had witnessed her people persecuted and harassed for decades cast a spell in an attempt to give her magical powers to fight for her people. The spell was unsuccessful however it summoned a power demon known as Mephisto. Cynthia made a deal with the demon, promising her soul in order to gain the power of Mephisto. Once Cynthia gained her new power, she went into the village in an attempt to fight back against the Baron and its men. While successful, it also came at the cost of Cynthia accidentally killing many of the children of the village, sadden by her faults she renounced her power and was killed by the village’s soldiers. Cynthia’s body was left for dead until it was discovered by her husband Werner, in her last dying breathe she begs her husband to keep their son safe.

Star Wars: The Sequel Trilogy (2015-2019)

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.