Action Thrillers Writing Prompts

A welder named Jack drives home at night, and accidentally runs over another Jack, a plumber. The Skill of Plumbing immediately downloads into his brain, together with a notification: "WELCOME TO THE GAME, JACK. KILL OR BE KILLED, THE CHOICE IS YOURS. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE JACK OF ALL TRADES".

You are an assassin with a strict moral code. You’re the best there is but you assess each job very carefully and if you believe the target does not deserve to die, you go after the one who employed you.

The amount of money your soulmate currently has appears over your head. The number over your head has always been low. Then one day, while sitting it your car, it suddenly shoots up and surpasses $1,000,000. Seconds later, someone jumps into your car and yells, “DRIVE!”

You stole 10$ from some guys bank and now he's coming after you with everything he's got.

A sniper and a photographer meet in a bar, neither aware of the other's occupation. They talk about 'how to take the perfect shot'.

You're pinned down, outnumbered and out of ammo. Your partner says, "There's no way we're both getting out of here alive." He pulls out a small pistol and presses it to his temple. He smile and says, "I'm going ghost". He pulls the trigger. The enemy stops firing... then they start screaming.

Nine out of ten dentists recommend a certain brand of toothpaste. You're the one dentist and, despite constant assassination attempts, refuse to change your mind.

You're a hitman who takes half up front and then never finishes the job because what are they gonna do, report you to the cops? Thing is, now you've pissed off a lot of people who have no problem hiring hitmen.

Your girlfriend has been complaining that some asshole was interfering with her job. Meanwhile, you are an elite bodyguard who has just stopped the tenth attempt on your boss's life.

Your little crime family ran a restaurant as a money laundering front. However, the place got so popular, you decided to quit the crime and just run the place straight. Now, a new crime organisation is trying to inch into town, on your turf. It's time to get back to business.

"Attention civilians. From now on the speed limit will be vigorously enforced." You scoff, before the car beside you explodes into a ball of fire.

The greatest thief to ever live, you quickly grew bored with how easy it was too pull off elaborate heists, and get into "impossible"-to-infiltrate facilities. After a while, you found a new hobby: mugging other thieves during their greatest heists.

To your surprise, a SWAT team breaks down your door, rushes inside, and surrounds you. Only, their backs are to you, guns trained on the doors and windows. The closest one whispers, "Here they come."

“Violence is never the answer,” the monk says, pumping a shotgun. “But you don’t always have to be right.”

You have been kidnapped by a human trafficking ring, & it’s unlikely that the authorities can recover you at this point. Unfortunately for your kidnappers, your SO is a member of the Greek pantheon.

An immortal warrior with centuries of combat experience settles down to run an orphanage. Slave traders kidnap some of the children...big mistake.

You are a cabdriver. But you don't drive any cab, you drive The Herocab, a cab that any superhero can call if they need to be somewhere urgently. Today you were called, only to find the hero a bloody mess on the ground and a villain, the hero's phone in hand, standing over them.

The abductors looked at their young captive, astonished at their calm, almost pitying, expression. "I have 15 siblings. I am the youngest, and the only boy/girl. You have absolutely no concept of how fucked you are."

You tried an online ancestral DNA test just for fun. To your surprise, just after an hour, the FBI broke into your house and arrested you.

Many gunslingers carve notches into their weapons each time they kill somebody. One day a stranger arrives in town. The metal of his gun(s) is completely covered in notches.

You've been out of the game for years. Retired, have a nice life with a dog. And then you found out. They cloned you! They cloned you and had no idea what they were dealing with and now they want you to "fix" it. Well, you're going to fix it all right!

"A robot's trying to hunt down and kill you?" ... "Don't you know that the first law of robotics-" ... "H-How the hell did you piss off a robot so bad it stopped seeing you as human!?"

"This gun right here is able to fire a bullet at the speed of 299,792,458 meters per second which is 1% the speed of light. Now, i gotta warn you of the flash that comes after the bullet hits the target."

He walked slowly, covered in blood, with his sword held in his hand. His armor broken, his army dead, he takes his stance once more against at least a thousand.

You had hoped taking your partner to a public place like a restaurant would help smooth out your breakup. However you didn’t anticipate a hostage situation breaking out right after you break up. Worse is that when the hostage takers hear about it, they take your partners side.

“Captain, what the hell is that?” “I think that's an assassin, sir.” “That hulking beast carving its way through our army is an assassin?!”

You protected this girl from an organization of quirky characters, all set on destroying her. Now, at the end of your adventure, you wonder if it was truly the right thing to do.

You and your partner in crime hide inside a closed mall as the police search for the two of you. You could feel your heart racing as you hear the footsteps drawing closer. Your partner tells you that they have never been so horny and you find yourself feeling the same.

"Kill the hostage for all I care; I'm not here to save anyone, I'm only here to kill you."

“You can’t win.” “Maybe not, but I can hurt you.”