History PlayingWith / FantasyKitchenSink

** [[OfficerOHara Jac o'Naley the Leprechaun works for the NYPD]] and Mei Lin the Chinese Dragon lives in [[FriendlyLocalChinaTwon New York's ChinaTown]].

** Naiads fight Puca for control of river-turf, [[HybridMonster minotaur-centaur crosses]] become a public hazard, Chinese and Western vampires routinely have [[YourVampiresSuck your-sire-is-so-fat]] joke bouts, werewolves are often sued for chasing [[CatFolk nekomatas]] up trees, Quetzalcoatl, Zeus and Thor spend every Saturday seeing who can prank the most mortals with lightning bolts, and Satan and Cthulhu can often be found having staring contests.

* '''Conversed''': "So, if all of these cosmologies are real, [[FridgeLogic how come]] all the leprechauns stayed in Ireland and the Kraken only attacked Greece?" "Eh. They may be magical, but I'm guessing they live in ecosystems and don't like to wander. Still, it'd be awesome if Satyr's opened a Hydra-Head-Burger in Dublin."

** Or it's just a universe not related to ours where the creatures do not have to follow the same mythology as in our world, just borrowing look, name and possibly skills. In fact, say, a Medusa could be a fairly common monster in the wilderness.

** Naiads fight Puca for control of river-turf, [[HybridMonster minotaur-centaur crosses]] become a public hazard, Chinese and Western vampires routinely have [[YourVampiresSuck your-sire-is-so-fat]] joke bouts, werewolves are often sued for chasing [[CatFolk nekomatas]] up trees, Quetzalcoatl, Zeus and Thor spend every Saturday seeing who can prang the most mortals with lightning bolts, and Satan and Cthulhu can often be found having staring contests.

** Naiads fight Puca for control of river-turf, [[HybridMonster werewolf-centaurs]] become a public hazard, Chinese and Western vampires routinely have [[YourVampiresSuck your-sire-is-so-fat]] joke bouts, werewolves are often sued for chasing [[CatGirl nekomatas]] up trees, Quetzalcoatl, Zeus and Thor spend every Saturday seeing who can prang the most mortals with lightning bolts, and Satan and Cthulhu can often be found having staring contests.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Chi-Lin has a crisis of faith. If everything is real, can anything be ''true?'' She questions all the varied creatures and deities, but even they have no clue on the true workings of the cosmos.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** In the end, faced with the fact that faith may well be creating an incredibly diverse spirit world, she resolves that though Atheism is probably the easiest choice, she'll instead turn her and others' faith into creating a new cosmology of mankind's conscious choosing.
** Alternately, a world where anything and everything is possible is just that...a world of infinite possibility, and therefore one demanding infinite optimism.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Everything is real! Except it was [[ScoobyDooHoax just a guy in a mask.]] But he was part of a double-masquerade, designed to distract from there actually being plenty of weird stuff. But then it turns out that Chi-Lin was having a fever dream. Only then she learns she was in a LotusEaterMachine, then learning that she was in an experiment being conducted by Aliens from the 30th century. Said aliens turn out to be props in a 30th century amusement park.

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* '''Justified''': Chi-Lin isn't in the real world, but in AnotherDimension where the beliefs held by people in the real world (even those long dead) have made every mythic figure real.

* '''Double Subverted''': Except, those shapeshifters liked it to so much they [[BecomingTheMask became the mask]] quite literally.

* '''Parodied''': Naiads fight Puca for control of river-turf, [[HybridMonster werewolf-centaurs]] become a public hazard, Chinese and Western vampires routinely have [[YourVampiresSuck your-sire-is-so-fat]] joke bouts, werewolves are often sued for chasing [[CatGirl nekomatas]] up trees, Quetzalcoatl, Zeus and Thor spend every Saturday seeing who can prang the most mortals with lightning bolts, and Satan and Cthulhu can often be found having staring contests.

* '''Reconstructed''': In the end, faced with the fact that faith may well be creating an incredibly diverse spirit world, she resolves that though Atheism is probably the easiest choice, she'll instead turn her and others' faith into creating a new cosmology of mankind's conscious choosing.

* '''Averted''': Chi-Lin only encounters creatures from Chinese myths, and nothing more.

* '''Inverted''': All of the fantastical things are really [[ClarkesThirdLaw very advanced technology]], turns out Chi-Lin is in a 30th century amusement park.

* '''Averted''': Chin-Lin only encounters creatures from Chinese myths, and nothing more.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Everything is real! Except it was [[ScoobyDooHoax just a guy in a mask.]] But he was part of a double-masquerade, designed to distract from there actually being plenty of weird stuff. But then it turns out that Chin-Li was having a fever dream. Only then she learns she was in a LotusEaterMachine, then learning that she was in an experiment being conducted by Aliens from the 30th century. Said aliens turn out to be props in a 30th century amusement park.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Everything is real! Except it was [[ScoobyDooHoax just a guy in a mask.]] But he was part of a double-masquerade, designed to distract from there actually being plenty of weird stuff.

** Or it's just a universe not related to ours where the creatures do nto have to follow the same mythology as in our world, just borrowing look, name and possibly skills. In fact, say, a Medusa could be a fairly common monster in the wilderness.

* '''Parodied''': Naiads fight Puca for control of river-turf, [[HybridMonster werewolf-centaurs]] become a public hazard, Chinese and Western vampires routinely have [[YourVampiresSuck your-sire-is-so-fat]] joke bouts, werewolves are often sued for chasing [[CatGirl nekomatas]] up trees, and Quetzalcoatl, Zeus and Thor spend every Saturday seeing who can prang the most mortals with lightning bolts.

* '''Parodied''': Naiads fight Puca for control of river-turf, [[HybridMonster werewolf-centaurs]] become a public hazard, Chinese and Western vampires routinely have [[YourVampiresSuck your-sire-is-so-fat]] joke bouts, werewolves are often arrested for assaulting [[CatGirl nekomatas]], and Quetzalcoatl, Zeus and Thor spend every Saturday seeing who can prang the most mortals with lightning bolts.