Help me brainstorm a one-shot Hollywood monster mashup game.

[RangerWickett]

I had a weird idea today while talking with a friend about the upcoming Black Dynamite cartoon: a TSA agent having to scan and frisk a line of plane passengers, including a 'blackula' (as in, a black vampire akin to those from 70s blaxploitation flicks).

I'm not sure what the plot would be, but I was thinking I could run a horror game, where I give each player a pre-made character, and each player thinks he is the secret monster, when actually they're all monsters, and the real threat is someone else.

What would go well with this concept? People who can pass for normal, but are really dangerous monsters, would work for characters. Maybe the villains would be monster hunters, or the government, or some huge beastial, non-humanoid monster that is killing everybody? There would definitely have to be a terrorist in the mix, though this airport isn't his target. Maybe a witch and a serial killer?

I like the idea of every PC being a bad guy in normal circumstances, but being outgunned by a worse monster in this situation.

So any ideas? For characters or plot or villain? Right now my list of PC ideas are:

1. Blackula.
2. Terrorist.
3. Witch.
4. Serial Killer.
5. TSA Agent.
6. ???
7. ???

Monster ideas:

1. Tentacle thing.
2. Deadites.
3. Alien invasion.
4. Ghostbusters.
5. Navy SEALS.
6. Creepy Doll.
7. ???

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Some hidden "monsters" of the past who can pass for human...usually:

1) Bionic men, cyborgs & robots

2) Amphibians a la The Man from Atlantis or Namor

3) humanoid aliens (Superman, Martian Manhunter, the "Witch Mountain" bunch, body snatchers and many less powerful ones)

4) cultists of Mythos entities

5) Nephilim- humans with some angelic or fiendish ancestry

6) Shapechangers: skinwalkers, manitou, lycanthropes, body jumpers)

7) cursed humans (wendigo, for instance)

8) Psions (Scanners, B5's Psi Corps, Firestarter, "Pusher")

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

As for foes, check out the plots of:

1) 5 Million Years to Earth

2) The Blob

3) The Thing

4) Devil with a Glass Hand (Outer Limits episode)

5) Splinter

6) The Mist

7) Dr. Who's Silurians

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

BTW, have you ever played/read any Paranoia RPG?

Their whole thing about how mutants & secret societies are illegal...and all PCs are mutants with secret societies echoes what you're talking about. They may have some hints for you.

 

[Stormonu]

Hmm, I was initially thinking of the old Universal monster flicks, like Dracula meets Frankenstein. So, I'd put out for PCs

1) Vampire
2) Werewolf
3) Mummy (ala imhotep's rejuvinated body)
4) Flesh Golem
5) Deep One (passable as human while not wet)


and a few others
6) Alien Gray (wearing a "human suit" ala Total Recall or Mars Attacks)
7) Intellect Devourer
8) Pod Person
9) Doppleganger