Parody and Satire Writing Prompts

"It's time once again for everyone's favorite species that can't ingest raw nutrients to survive! It has to be just right, from temperature to texture, in a process that gives galactic biochemists a headache. Please welcome today's contestants in: COOKING. FOR. HUMANS!"

You are the newest dragon advisor for the royal family. Your predecessors favor cryptic advice like beware the red rose or cast a stone in the river shaped like a serpent. Your advice is more straightforward like “don’t marry your cousin” or “your daughter would make a better ruler.”

Turns out that Hell has no fire, torture, or frozen wastelands to endure. The only actual punishment is having to spend an eternity with the other assorted jerks that ended up there as well.

A Psychopath gets teleported into the world of a cheesy romance novel. In order to escape he needs to play the role of the main character, but due to his lack of conscience and empathy things don't go as planned.

You are Reference-Man. Your power can be whatever you want, so long as it is a reference to pop-culture. The obscurer the reference, the greater is your power.

Humans aren't actually space Orcs, they're space Orcas. For most, they're a social, playful species. For their prey, however, the evil shit Humans can conjure up to hurt and destroy them is terrifying.

"Father Christmas!" called out the Lord of Halloween across the bloody fields of November. "Your campaign of expansion shall go no further! On my honor, one of us will die before you set foot on October soil! ...We were friends once, Father Christmas! Don't make me destroy you!"

Heaven and Hell are actually both afterlife luxury locations who compete for your membership when you die. The only reason we view hell as evil is good marketing.

You are a werehuman. But you are not a wolf that turn into a human on full moon. You are a regular human who, on a full moon, turns into a way stronger, very angry and hyper-aggressive version of yourself. It is even harder to explain than being a werewolf.

"are you another so called hero? here to save the princess from my clutches?" no, i am but a simple scholar. i just want to know why you would kidnap a princess in the first place"

The Rick Roll jinx is a spell created by the legendary bard Rick Astley that spams a vision inside a mind reader's brain should they try to invade yours.

You are a superhero, who also happens to be a therapist. Your supervillain nemesis has just captured you and is giving the usual “love and friendship is for the weak” speech. You can’t help but ask, “Dude, who hurt you?”

Vampires can only enter your home if you invite them in because... Consent is important in vampire culture.

As a last resort, the wizard summoned heroes from another world. The first happily embarked on their "RPG adventure". The next said something about "darkness" or "souls", then rolled away alone. The third mumbled "factorio" and constructed supply lines. Every new hero is weirder than the last.

"Having seen how well humans treat their defeated enemies we wish to formally declare our surrender." "But we're not at war.", "Of course not we were hoping to skip that bit"

In the world of cartoons, everyone lives according to the status quo. Injuries are healed the next day, environmental damage is restored, and changes to the world is reverted. One day, the world stopped resetting, introducing "Continuity" to the cartoon world.

Most magical mascots would usually choose a group of teenage girls to be chosen as magical guardians, however one mascot, for the sake of efficiency, decides to choose a group of marines to become magical girls instead.

"Of course I've gone mad with power. Have you tried going mad without power? It's boring! No one listens to you!"

"We shall defeat you villain! With the power of friendship!" "I have friends too you dick"

You are the villain of an anime. Not because you’re evil, or extremely annoying, but because you wouldn’t let a 6’8 12 year old boy with a voice deeper than the ocean and that looks to be 30 with battle scars, into your school.

"so you are telling me, that you, a super genius super villain, is just here to rob the bank, no deep plot or philosophical metaphor about society, you just want the money?"the hero asks, "thank god"

“Death , for my life I challenge you to a duel , I’ll beat you with chess” Death sighed at the man , everyone tried the same thing , and every time they lose and beg for forgiveness, hadn’t he been forced to accept the offers he would “Yea sure , and by the wait it’s *at ches-*” *WHACK*

"I am sorry, he named it WHAT!?" Said Oedipus before storming towards the afterlife that houses Sigmund Freud

Rule 12 of the Official Evil Villain Rulebook™ states that "One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that they spot will be corrected." You, as the local villain you decide to do just that. It soon turns out your plans have quite a few flaws in them.

"I am the Lorax; I speak for the trees. And for some fucking reason, they're speaking Vietnamese."

Every full moon you must chain yourself indoor and hide. Not because you're a Werewolf, your entire hidden village is actually. No, its because you're a freak, a monster, an embarassment... you're a Werepug.

Your scientist co-worker has found an alien relic containing immense power and tries to convince you to help them harness it. What they didn't count on was your excessive consumption of media warning you against this very thing.

“No,” the beautiful goth woman said, “I am not the witch. You want the brightly-dressed himbo next door; he’s the actual witch you’re looking for. He’ll take care of all your witchy needs.”

In an exclusive global televised sit-down interview with Superman, he corrects Cooper Anderson's referencing Superman's Christianity; "Actually, Anderson, I'm not Christian, I worship the Sun, the source of my super powers."

“9/10 dentists approve” is worse than you may think. With 200 million dentists in the US, it means 20 million fully qualified individuals want you to stop using the product branded with this phrase-20 million people who know the truth.