# **Rubber & Regret** ## *A Plastic Man & Deadpool Fan Fiction Graphic Novel-Style Story* ### **Op

# **Rubber & Regret**

## *A Plastic Man & Deadpool Fan Fiction Graphic Novel-Style Story*

### **Opening Scene: Metropolis — Ground Zero of the Marvel Invasion**

**Wide panel**: A chaotic battlefield. The skies are torn with dimensional rifts, half-toned and pixel-fringed. Flying Marvel villains descend — Green Goblin on a glider, Omega Red ripping through S.T.A.R. Labs defenses, Juggernaut flattening streets.

**Inset panel**: A Doombot uses a repulsor cannon to blast a LexCorp billboard.

**Plastic Man** is mid-morph: his arm has turned into a wrecking ball slamming Carnage into a hotdog stand.

> *Plastic Man (grinning, distorted speech bubble):* "That’ll ketchup with him later!"

**Cut to Deadpool** arriving via malfunctioning teleport tech, crashing into the same hotdog stand Plastic Man wrecked.

> *Deadpool:* "I asked for Earth-199999. This is like... Earth-WackyBugs?"

**Series of gag panels**:

* Deadpool riding a missile labeled “Tony’s Midlife Crisis.”
* Plastic Man morphing into a trampoline to bounce Rhino into a blimp.
* Deadpool holding up a sign mid-fight: *“Insert fight choreography here.”*
* Plastic Man wearing sunglasses and floating midair with pool noodles as limbs.

They don’t notice each other yet. They just keep one-upping each other’s gags.

### **Scene: First Contact — When Two Meta Minds Meet**

**Medium panel**: Plastic Man notices Deadpool flipping through a comic book during combat — *their* comic book.

He pauses mid-punch. His rubbery face stretches into exaggerated surprise.

> *Plastic Man (thinking):* "...He knows."

**Full-page splash panel**: Plastic Man *SNAPS*. He morphs into a duck-billed, red-nosed caricature of himself — a perfect Daffy Duck homage — and zips around the battlefield Looney Tunes-style.

> *Plastic Man (yelling while bouncing):* "WOO-HOO-HOO! A-WAH-WAH-WAAAAAH!"

**Blurred motion panels**:

* He turns into a rocket.
* Then a bicycle.
* Then an opera singer on top of a grand piano.

**Final panel of the page**: He *CRASHES* into Deadpool.

> *Deadpool:* "Whoa! Stretchy hallucination? You’re not my usual brand of weird!"

> *Plastic Man:* "You’re like me... but you’re allowed to say the quiet parts out loud!"

They LAUGH like lunatics.

### **Scene: Bromance Through Absurdity**

**Montage panels**:

* Plastic Man and Deadpool at a Gotham joke shop, trying on whoopee cushions as hats.
* Go-kart racing in the Batcave with stolen Batmobiles.
* Morphing into a tandem bicycle, with Deadpool yelling: "TO CHAOS AND CONDIMENTS!"
* Tagging the Daily Planet globe with graffiti: *“Serious is overrated.”*

### **Scene: Quiet Rooftop — The Real Talk**

**Wide panel**: Deadpool and Plastic Man sit on a destroyed skyscraper ledge, watching the skyline flicker with residual portal energy.

> *Plastic Man:* "You ever feel like the world’s a stage... and we’re just slapstick puppets in a script no one takes seriously?"

> *Deadpool:* "Pfft. I *read* the script. Sometimes I *edit* it. But yeah. It’s exhausting knowing the laugh track’s fake."

**Insert panel — flashback overlays**:

* Plastic Man as Eel O’Brian, bleeding in an alleyway.
* Deadpool on the lab table, hooked to tubes.

> *Plastic Man:* "I don’t see it like you do. But... I feel it. Somewhere deep, I know I’m in a panel. That none of this is real."

> *Deadpool:* "Exactly! We joke because it’s the only thing that makes the insanity bearable."

**Silent panel**: Both look at the stars.

> *Plastic Man:* "People think I’m a clown. But I’m the only one trying to keep the nightmare from becoming real."

> *Deadpool:* "You’re not a clown. You’re the guy holding the universe together with rubber bands and punchlines."

**Beat. Then Deadpool smirks.**

> *Deadpool:* "You wanna pants Galactus?"

> *Plastic Man (grins):* "I thought you’d never ask."

**Final page**: A wide, chaotic panel of them leapfrogging off the roof —
Deadpool in mid-flip, Plastic Man morphed into a giant slingshot.

**Caption box:**
*“Some fight for justice. Others for truth. These two? They fight because the world’s one big joke… and someone’s gotta laugh at the punchline.”*