Click to viewOne of the big mysteries of the universe is why some types of story get to repeat , with endless variant , while others just do n’t . How is that space opera catch to be its own genre ? Or the amnesiac investigator storey ? Or metre - travelling romance ? Who decides that these things are genres , but some other perfectly great story mind are denied genre condition ? Here are 20 things we call up are right smart delinquent to become genres of their own . agitate the power ! 1 ) On election day , thousands of hoi polloi forget how to vote . Conspiracy ? Psychosomatic ? 2 ) A chemical substance plant accident make it to rain love potion … which later don off . Awkward !
3 ) Aliens invade , then realize they forgot something at home , and go away . And then invade again , a few week by and by . 4 ) Genetically mastermind meat increase sensation , and becomes a pop star . 5 ) The only guy who can talk computers into self - destructing loses his spokesperson , right before a golem rebellion . Gargle ! Gargle quicker ! 6 ) A new drug makes you believe you have superspeed . But actually , you do n’t . 7 ) A supercomputer imposes Kant ’s Categorical Imperative as the only police force of the dry land . 8) The shrinking - ray chase scene , with pursuer and pursued acquire small and smaller . 9 ) Due to genetic debasement , it now take a Greenwich Village to produce enough healthy chromosomes to make a child . 10 ) My dead ringer plagiarized my memoir !
11 ) Only rich people can open normal gravity , while the piteous start up floating away . 12 ) How much can you use genital organ , and still take them back for a refund within the 30 - day return period ? 13 ) wreck diet : visit a dystopian future for a few weeks . 14 ) I congeal up a holograph to make it search like I was at body of work , while I was at the beach . But it was better at my job than I am . 15 ) The only agency to stop inherited discrimination is to wipe out all knowledge of DNA . Using a sexually transmitted retrovirus ! 16 ) After a conquest , your full Carry Amelia Moore Nation is now a jumbo theme park . Your behavior mods are forthcoming . 17 ) intimate identity theft leave thousands of multitude uncertain of their sexual orientations . In some versions of this floor , the National Guard is call in to screen thing out . 18 ) Dead war criminals are reanimated so they can apologise , over and over again , to the descendants of their victims . But then of course they get groupie . 19 ) A new drug make you require what you already have . But over time , you forget they already have it , and think you have to go out and get whatever it is . 20 ) You ca n’t become famous unless your face can look like a more attractive version of whoever happens to be looking at it . The cognitive process do work great for about five years , then your typeface melts .
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