Situational Comedy Writing Prompts

As part of a newly established student exchange program between the realms, a dwarf student arrives at a human STEM college. He's about to attend his first computer science class. "This should be easy," he thinks, "how complicated can human technology possibly be?"

The Monster Hunter Association specializes in the eradication and containment of monsters. They’ve been doing this for centuries all the way back to King Arthur. You work as the secretary to this fine organization. Oddly enough, you’re also a vampire.

Your daughter has always been weird, but lately it's gotten worse. She keeps going on about not having a smartphone or bored because there's no internet. It's 1685 AD.

You're secretly a werewolf, with so much control over your were-form you're basically just yourself. You've grown so close to your roommate that you decide it's safe to transform in front of them. You expect shock, horror. Instead, they whip out a fursuit.

After a series of mutual misunderstandings during First Contact, a young human military officer has found themself accidentally married to an alien princess.

You're supposed to be the god of death, so naturally, it's a bit awkward when the rest of the gods find out you're expecting a child.

After years of searching, you finally unearthed a long lost and buried crypt covered in warnings of maddening knowledge beyond mortal comprehension. Unfortunately, "knowledge beyond mortal comprehension" was a much lower bar five thousand years ago.

You are a notorious hitman. Seriously one bad mother!@#$er. And this little kid just gave you a big fistful of change to get his bike back from the neighborhood bullies.

After a series of misunderstandings, a dragonborn paladin of noble birth is sent on a quest to save the lost princess (herself) from a vicious dragon (also herself).

You have failed and your foes have achieved their long sought goal of reviving their God-king. Everyone expected him to lead the final assault and solidify his rule once and for all. Turns out, he's actually a pretty chill guy and immediately calls the whole thing off.

A AskReddit post which reads: "Superheroes/Supervillains, what's the most awkward situation you found yourselves in during your career?"

You have been kidnapped by aliens to be a zoo animal. They expect you to be upset & try to escape, but you love your new life & become an "ambassador animal" for humanity.

One day the most popular (and meanest) girl in the school has a complete attitude change and becomes extremely wholesome and friendly. Then you learn she is possessed by a demon. “Is”. Not “was”.

You accidentally saved a princess from a tower. Now she won't stop following you, blabbing about "true love."

You're standing at the altar, about to get married to your beautiful fiancée. When suddenly the king of demons bursts through the door of the room, which naturally causes panic. You tried to warn everyone that inviting your sibling to the wedding would mean trouble, but they kept insisting.

You are a superhero and you are sick of it. So you decide to fake your death in the next fight with your nemesis. Unfortunately they have the same plan.

You are a 512 year immortal in a bar, angry because you can’t order a beer. It’s not your fault you took the immortality potion at 12 and have looked the same ever since!

Your job is to guard a button that no one may push. Things get complex when both legendary heroes and villains arrive to attempt to push the mysterious button. Everyone seems to have a different idea about what the button does, but they all want to push it.

You unknowingly acquired an ancient artifact that carries a most horrible curse. Well, "most horrible" by ancient standards. By today's standards it is a mild inconvenience at worst.

To get the eternal glory of a warriors death, you have to die fighting. You remembered this as the third village in a row surrendered before you could even draw your sword. You are a legendary old viking, and you're getting worried.

A pet groomer lands in a fantasy world. Rather than try to be a hero or an adventurer, they open a health spa & salon for beastfolk races.

Many genies pride themselves on using loopholes and technicalities to twist wishes. But you're using them to untwist this moron's stupid wishes so they don't die.

The bipedal species are considered to most ugly amongst the galaxy. That was until "humans" joined the confederation and obsessed with all the bipedal species saying they are "beautiful". You are the only bipedal girl in the intergalactic school, being bullied, until a group of humans arrives.

You came home from work early and when you entered your bedroom you heard your spouse exclaim "It's not what it looks like!" in surprise. But after taking in the scene for a few minutes you have to admit that you have no clue *what* exactly you are looking at.

You just joined a crew and found out that they have a human crewmate. You're curious and excited to meet them, given your species look so similar, it's uncanny! Unfortunately, it doesn't go so well.

Aliens are trying to eradicate humanity in subtle ways but it always ends up beneficial for humanity

"I thought you used to be a prostitute!" "Why would you...? Oh... No, no... Lady of the night is just a fancy way to say vampire." "You are a vampire?" "Used to be."

Your spouse (erroneously) thinks they’ve done a good job hiding the fact that they’re an assassin for hire from you. You’ve known for years now, but find just how awful they are at hiding it endearing, and don’t want to spoil it for them.

You started a cult to scam people out of money. However, more and more of your “prophecies” begin coming true and the “miracles” can claim begin to actually happen.

You wake up in your quarters, unable to recall what happened the night before. You see your human crew mate, Mark, getting dressed. Before you speak, he raises his hand. “Before you ask, no, we didn’t ‘engaging in activities’ last night, Captain.”, he explains calmly.