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I came across this article on the net, describing the ten most awesomely bad movie plots and it got me to thinking (and laughing), what are some of your awesomely bad story plots? Old stories you had to give up because it was just that awful, or stories you wrote when you were little if you'd give it to us in a pitch, I think it would be quite humorous. ^^

My Awesomely Bad Plot:
A young girl saves a little boy from being beaten up and the boy turns into an angel. The angel tells the girl that she'll have to save the world from the devil. She doesn't believe him and wakes up the next morning thinking it's a dream. Then one night she's attacked and chased by demons and the angel appears, saves her, and asks if she believes him now. She does. The angel introduces her to five other people, all from different countries and all with special expertise. They break into an old catholic church and find the entrance to hell. They go in and fight. The girl is captured and meets the devil's son. They fall in love down there. The girl ends up killing the devil, and the son goes for revenge, so she kills him too. Then the angel/God reincarnates the devil's son to thank the girl for saving the world.

The end.

Anyone else? XD

Off the top of my head, one of my better awesomely bad plots:

A girl's mother dies thanks to a demented doctor. Her widowed father marries her wicked stepmother who, along with her stepsisters, makes her life a living hell. She later discovers this strange woman in white (who serves a kind of fairy godmother) who informs her that she is actually a mermaid. She escapes from home and goes on to have adventures in the sea.

Another old favorite:

An entire world is destroyed, and a girl, who is only a child, is put in a "sleeping state" in a magic bubble that will keep her alive, and take her where she will be needed most. When she arrives in another world, and the bubble pops, she meets a lonely boy her own age (she has grown in that time), who helps her learn his language, and re-learn basic skills such as walking and coordinating herself.

They go on a quest to find out where the girl comes from. Unfortunately, the person who destroyed her world to begin with is trying to destroy her too. Along the way, they meet up with a spider queen, a naga, and some other half-human hybrid that I do not even remember now, who are able to give them some clues and help them piece things together. They also find a wise old mentor who is able to give them guidance and fit the rest of the pieces together. They eventually end up on the Big Bad's home world.

Big Bad wants to destroy the last remaining survivor because the world he destroyed and the people on it had the means to destroy him. The girl (using all of the pieces they had discovered along the way) realizes who she is, and once she finds her true name, is able to come to her full power. Unfortunately, this comes at the cost of losing the boy who was her best friend and would have been her lover. She defeats the villain, the mentor comforts her over her loss, and it ends with her going on her way to find her place in the world, since her own world is gone.

...I might go back to this, actually. What I actually wrote is terrible (I still have some of it. >> ), but laying it out in that concept kind of made it interesting again.

For a truly bad one, however, there is my only high school attempt:

A girl is unpopular and lives with her grandmother who hates her and considers Halloween the Devil's holiday (and for those who follow along with my fandoms, this was before a certain version of a back story of a certain favorite character of mine was even published. XP). So she sneaks out on Halloween to go to a school dance, has a good time, and when she leaves, is attacked by people who do not like her. She escapes and goes to a cemetery.

She meets a demon there, and they are getting along nicely when her grandmother shows up. Grandmother was actually a witch who knew her granddaughter was going to die, and thought the demon was going to do it. In a shocking twist that no one saw coming [/sarcasm], the grandmother herself killed her granddaughter after some long battle with skeletons that came up from their graves. I do not even know.

Also of note: most of the characters were based on me and my friends. Which might explain how laughably bad it was.

I have even more to go on if you count some of the old RP plots I used to do (which range anywhere from "so bad it's horrible enough to block from my memory," "truly terrible," "so bad it's good," "actually good," and "OMG CRAZY AWESOME!" ).

To give you an idea of the kind of craziness my friends and I were fond of...put it simply, we liked turning Batman villains into monsters (we played them regularly too, but we liked the monsters more. Vampire!Joker was a favorite, for example), often mixed different technologies (like magic and science), screwed around with time travel, and more or less looked for excuses to torture our characters. Often literally (our favorite four each faced certain death like five times minimum...). And I am not even going to touch the fandom crossovers we did.

To our credit, we were big on continuity, so sometimes something that was literally mentioned months ago and forgotten might come up and be used again later (objects, promises/pacts that seemed meaningless at the time, one-shot characters...). We also got really good at improv and explaining away some of the more ridiculous plot elements...

An actual example of one of the better "so bad it's good" plots: Joker and Harley ended up in an AU future. Turns out the Joker (supposedly) finally killed Batman (he was getting too old to keep up and faked his death, allowing Joker to think he finally succeeded), and he and Harley settled down and actually had a semi-normal life. One of the best quotes from that one:

Joker (to his future self): "And, why aren't you wearing purple? I mean, why do we have kids?!"

Reading some of the old logs reads something like one long, up-and-down-in-terms-of-quality crack fic, though newer logs definitely improve from older ones. It was great. ^^

What is it with us and demons? Just sayin'. razz

Demons were the s**t last decade. Now we're into vampires, except the sparkly one-dimensional ones.

Lol, I think that when we first started out writing we kind of blamed demons for everything. And why not? Demons are evil, evil, evil.

I'm not real big on demons, but I used to be. They're fun to use (in stories and plots), in my opinion.

I can think of a couple plots that are probably the worst plots ever.

Here's one (from a story written in 4th grade):

There were two sisters named Aqua and Martle. The sister, Martle, goes missing. Days have passed, and one day Aqua plays chess by herself. Then the chess board becomes a portal and takes Aqua to hell. Aqua sees her sister's dead body in hell, and then Aqua suffocates to death.

Here's another one (from the 7th grade):

There was girl and boy who were coming home from a date. Then suddenly, something was in their home. A shadow demon thingy that stabs her boyfriend, and knocks the girl unconcious with the broom. The girl wakes up in a deserted city with demons taking over it. She meets a woman who was supposed to be her imaginary friend, and her friend tells her that the deserted place and the demons were all from the girl's mind. Then the two battles some demons, and they find the portal for the girl to get out of her mind. The girl finds her boyfriend again, and helps him, while the shadow was still in the house.

I think that demons are just so broad a species/creature, that we tend to, as amatures, throw them in to explain why things happen. "Who's attacking her?" "DEMONS!" "...Why?" "....THEY'RE DEMONS!" They don't need a reason to be evil, they're evil by nature. biggrin

I don't have any specific disgustingly bad plots to add to this, but I have heard a few that are worth posting here (no, I am not actually going to post them)

Sometimes when I'm feeling generous, I listen to my friends' stories- in depth if they want to go that far. My brain melts with the borish nature of it all. So many mary-sue characters, it hurts!