What would be the most absurd 'gritty reboot' imaginable?

[tahrey]

oh! OH!

THE ANIMALS OF FARTHING WOOD.

You only need make one change. Remove the strange mental block that stops the foxes, badgers, owls and other predators seeing the smaller animals (rabbits, voles, mice...) as viable prey. Extrapolate. Animate. Air at 4.15pm on a children's channel. Have all your post diverted to a PO Box that you then pay a hazardous waste disposal company to empty and dump directly into an incinerator.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Undeniably horrifying, a world made of robots.

FUCKING CHILDHOOD!

He's Rolie Polie Olie...He's small and smart and round...

 

[fates_puppet13]

a gritty reboot of the sims where you control greasy teens through their low income lives or the unfulfilled joy that one would expect from fame with many activities such as monologue, self harm, go to their (unsatisfying) jobs, have rough sex, brutally murder people for fun or start/join a band and all those other chesnuts you so badly wish to see in a gritty reboot of a life simulator and more all with voices you can replicate with an industrial sized blender with tourets full of gravel

number 2 would be a gritty reboot of lemmings where they're all manic-depressives and you play their council worker where you must get them out the asylum whilst avoiding masked psycotics

but the stupidest, most rediculously absurd gritty reboot i can think of would be one of kinetimals super smash bros where you can see kirby slowly devour mario or see meta knight impale someone mortal kombat style through the chest, solid snake hack people to death with a machete as opposed to a combat knife, samus blast opponents to bloody stumps and my favourite watching mario drop kicking princess peach's head into bloody piecies
actually the more a think about it the more i want to see nintendo and friends' fat francises be punished for releacing basically the same game over and over

 

[Rory Gallagher]

Q-bert. "When the lights go out, so do you."

 

[Boom129]

the winner is found
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smurfs_hardcore.jpg

 

[Vothriller]

*SNIP*

I'd say that.

Or better yet, the Chao in Sonic Adventure.

That picture killed the most innocent, pure and beautiful thing in my memory.

Also this:

 

[Nouw]

Come on it's Hello Kitty with Warhammer 40,000! Can you get any more gritty?

 

[teutonicman]

For video games I would go with Kirby. For television Sesame St. could be fun, or teletubbies.

 

[Atticus89]

The Wuzzles.

Because Disney is not above it and probably 85% of this site has never heard of it.

 

[tehroc]

Offtopic but I'd actually like to see a gritty Buck Rodgers movie.

 

[TheMariner]

[HEADING=1]kirby[/HEADING]
I think this wins the thread.

Yes. Very yes.

I personally think that a Mario reboot would be interesting. Someone already did a video in GTA IV but I think the game could be something like this

 

[Boba Frag]

Doctor Who Rebooted:

just to try and expand the viewer base, they cast Robert Pattinson as The Doctor, but he plays it with an American accent.

Mwahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa....

You.... you monster!!! *shakes fist*

The Flinstones.

Fred the Flint, the meanest club weilding psycho to ever ride a velociraptor.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

In the comments section of Moviebob's review of Unstoppable there are posts joshingly referring to it as gritty Thomas the Tank Engine.

I'd never seriously endorse such a thing, but given how much I was into it as a kid it got me thinking about a live-action version where all the Isle Sodor's steam engines are secretly alive, and a big part of the plot is the human characters finding out why/how. Are they haunted? Are all train engines secretly alive and just pretend not to be?

 

[rayskyrift]

Gritty reboot meaning...gray/brown coloring and dirt everywhere...hm. I would have to say Dragonquest. Those games go out of their way to remain colorful and lighthearted. Going into that realism territory would probably force the creators of the game to require therapy for the jarring experience it would be making that game.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Phineas and Ferb.

The titular characters would be mad inventors who constantly unleash reality-warping abominations upon the populace, all the while maintaining a carefully constructed false innocence. Candice is a completely ignored, constantly arrested protagonist slowly being driven insane by her futile efforts to convince the people that P&F are evil. Isabella and the Fireside girls would be P&F's logistics team (thieves essentially), Bufort would by the bodyguard and Baljeet would be the twisted messwork guy. Stacy would be a cop sympathetic to Candice's cause, even if she doesn't quite believe her, and is the one who is always bringing Candice in.

 

[Blemontea]

When I first heard everybody's rage against the new smurphs I thought they were making it some sort of gritty war movie but that was proven wrong so instead I will have to say power rangers. It could not be taken seriously no matter how gray it gets.

 

[subject_87]

-snip-
Come on it's Hello Kitty with Warhammer 40,000! Can you get any more gritty?

Hm, I guess it somehow transcended the limits of darkness and grittiness and reverted to being cute and colorful. I didn't know that was possible; we may have a very important discovery on our hands!

 

[Krion_Vark]

Pokemon

You're already capturing wild animals and forcing them to fight eachother, the change to gritty hyperviolence would only be a stylistic one.

Want gritty Pokemon read the Manga.

Spoiler: Deoxys arc ending

Blue is looking for her parents and is finally able to find them but at the end of the story arc a Team Rocket Soldier uses a weapon meant for deoxys on Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Silver and turns them all into stone.
The last line of the arc was spoken by professor Oak. "Get Blue's parents out of here they can't see this."

 

[kidigus]

Eraserhead, do NOT make a GRB on Eraserhead... Ever...Seriously.