Line #19 Script/TheRevengeOfTheOldQueen


1	''The Revenge of the Old Queen'' is an unproduced sequel for ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', written in 1988 by franchise creator Creator/RichardOBrien. It takes place after the film and seems to ignore ''Film/ShockTreatment''. It takes place many years after the Denton Affair and the Miss Mental Health scare, the script suggests in the 1980s or 1990s. Riff Raff is on a mission from the Old Queen to bring Frank back to the planet and galaxy; however, the Queen is unaware Frank had been murdered by Riff a long time ago, but he goes anyway and bumps into stranger characters.
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4	!!''The Revenge of the Old Queen'' provides examples of
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6	* AliensAmongUs: Transylvanian spies and human sympathisers are stationed all over the world.
7	* AliensInCardiff: Riff Raff teleports to a Transylvanian safe house in Fresno, California. Though they're mentioned to have teleporters hidden in places all over the world including Washington.
8	* AlienSea: Transsexual has an "ink-black glutinous sea that gloops like an ocean of oil" alongside a beach of black sand.
9	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: As well as speaking it, the "TRANSDUCER PROGRAMMING FOR THE BEGINNER" manual's cover is written in English, but the instructions inside are in an alien language.
10	* AllThereInTheScript:
11	** Character's names at times in the script.
12	** [[http://www.rockymusic.org/showdoc/revenge-of-the-old-queen.php Pretty much everything is. The movie was never made.]]
13	* AlwaysNight: Justified as the planet Transsexual somehow has no sun.
14	* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Frank's father is never alluded to in this script.
15	* AmbiguouslyRelated: Given that the script seems to ignore ''Film/ShockTreatment'', Brad being adopted may no longer be canon. Meaning it's unclear whether his brother Steve and their mother are his biological family or adopted.
16	* AnalProbing: One of the fears of the diners singing "Never Let Your Daughter Date an Alien".
17	* AntagonistTitle: If you consider The Old Queen the story's villain.
18	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Janet's character profile says "She drinks, smokes, dyes her hair, hooks and watches television".
19	* ArtisticLicenseSpace: Transsexual is specified to have no sun. Although rogue planets that don't orbit stars exist in real life, they wouldn't be warm enough to sustain, let alone evolve humanoid life.
20	* AscendedExtra: Riff Raff is now one of the main characters.
21	* AssimilationPlot: Steve believes that Transylvanians are trying to make us all slaves to sensation, just like them.
22	* AsYouKnow: "We PAN AROUND and see a very SMALL PERSON dressed in the manner of this strange Planet (which as we all know by now) is the Planet of Transsexual in the Galaxy of Transylvania".
23	* AttractiveBentGender: Steve finds Riff (of all people) in drag very attractive, believing him to be a beautiful woman. The script goes out of its way to state that Riff looks good. Then, Riff is lightly built with quite androgynous facial features...his offputting appearance in the first film is mostly down to a ''fake'' hunchback and scraggly receding hair (it's implied he's fully bald by the time of this sequel, but he's wearing a wig when in drag.)
24	* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: They travel back to the events of the first movie to try and save Frank but don't get into the castle before it blasts off.
25	* BenevolentAlienInvasion: Your mileage may vary on whether you think Transylvanians trying to make us be more like them is a good thing or a bad thing.
26	* BittersweetEnding: Most of the characters [[spoiler: who are still alive]] at the end of the movie are living happily on Transsexual except for [[spoiler: Steve, who's stranded in the past, being arrested by the police who think he's insane.]]
27	* BlastOut: The climax turns into this. Riff is at the castle trying to stop himself from killing Frank in the past. Ray, De Lordy and others pursue him there. The Old Queen and her mooks are there in pursuit of De Lordy. When Riff sees the Old Queen, thinking she's onto his deception and is after him, he shoots at her and narrowly misses. Cue all the Queen's mooks shooting at Riff, Riff shooting back, Ray, De Lordy and the rest of their group caught in the crossfire... then the Queen realises De Lordy is there and orders her mooks to shoot ''him'', one of them hitting Steve in the process... it ends with Riff killing De Lordy and Judy, and Ray getting hit by a stray shot and killed. Including ''two'' different characters, at different points, ordering everyone to hold their fire... and in both cases it works for all of a minute before people start shooting again.
28	* BookEnds: The script starts and ends with Riff Raff about to climb into [[ILoveTheDead Magenta's coffin]].
29	* BroadStrokes: Takes broad strokes from an [[http://www.theshocktreatmentnetwork.com/rhshh.htm earlier attempt at a sequel]] where Brad turns gay and Janet gives birth to Frank's son. It could nearly be considered canon if you ignore the ending where Janet and her baby go off to Transsexual.
30	* BunnyEarsLawyer: A very extreme black comedy example. Riff Raff is described in the script as "more than a little loopy", which turns out to be a major understatement: he's completely lost his mind since the events of the original film, and has not only killed his sister, but talks to her corpse as if she's still alive and has sex with it. You might expect someone deranged enough to beg a corpse for forgiveness one moment, angrily berate it the next, and greet it with "Hi honey, I'm home!" in the final scene to have very little capacity for rational thought and planning. However, Riff's psychotic break doesn't seem to have affected his competence as a high-ranking general (who ''isn't'' a GeneralRipper) at all. If anything, he's the most competent character in the script, scheming his way through the plot, successfully carrying out various disguises and deceptions, and coming out on top in the end thanks to his opportunism and quick thinking, as well as holding his own in combat against multiple opponents. His insanity only comes up in his first and last scene and doesn't otherwise cause him any problems.
31	* CanonDiscontinuity: Seems to ignore ''Film/ShockTreatment'' with Janet only referred to as Brad's fiance when they were married in ''Shock Treatment''.
32	* CerebusRetCon: The first movie only hints at it in the song ''Superheroes" but we know now that the events in Frank’s castle destroyed Brad and Janet’s lives.
33	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Doctor Scott is the only surviving character from the first movie who isn't mentioned, which is strange because the UFO bureau he belonged to features prominently.
34	* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: The original film focussed on the perspective of Brad and Janet, ordinary and rather naive humans with no idea what they're getting into who both, Brad especially, mostly play the role of PinballProtagonist. This script focuses on the Transylvanian Riff Raff, to whom all the strangeness of Transylvanian culture is normal, and his ruthless scheming drives the plot.
35	* ContrivedCoincidence:
36	** Steve investigates a Transylvanian safe house at the same time Riff Raff has been dispatched to Earth. Also Riff Raff uses a teleporter hidden in a hotel room that [[spoiler: Janet]] happens to be staying in.
37	** Judy accidentally activates the Transducer to send her to Transsexual at the same time Riff Raff teleports to Earth, if she'd been a few seconds earlier or later one of them could have been [[TeleFrag tele-fragged]].
38	* CutAndPasteSuburb: Child!Steve and his mother live in one in the past.
39	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Played in multiple directions.
40	** Steve, as a conservative Midwesterner, is not meant to be particularly likeable, with his HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday attitude, and the way Brad becoming openly gay as almost ''more'' of a shameful and horrific fate than his death in an unfortunate accident, being used to make him seem laughably backward in his views.
41	** The Transylvanians, meanwhile, lack many of the prejudices found on Earth, but also have some more disturbing alien values, being a FeudalFuture where the Queen can have people brutally tortured and executed, and having no incest taboo. Also, while murder is apparently still a crime, it's implied that Riff Raff thinks the reasonable reaction to Judy's "You've killed him [the man she's in love with]--kill me too!" is...to grant the request. (On a more comedic note, despite aforementioned torture and the fact Frank whipped him, Riff Raff's idea of the ultimate act of sadism is apparently ''stealing lipstick.'')
42	* FeudalFuture: The Old Queen of Transylvania appears to be an absolute monarch, able to punish people for disobeying her with torture or execution (by drawing and quartering) without trial. There are also Lords, such as Lord De Lordy.
43	* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Riff Raff and Janet don’t recognize each other at first. Janet doesn't recognise Riff because she's been trying to forget the events of the first movie for the last 15 years (he's also fully bald now and dressed differently). Riff doesn't recognise Janet because she's aged pretty badly, and because he never paid that much attention to her anyway.
44	* FromNobodyToNightmare: Riff Raff's backstory is a little vague, but he describes himself as "born to be the victim // born a pawn without the system" and in the original film was a mistreated servant (really a slave in all but name). At the start of the script (15 years on from the original film) he's a General, and [[spoiler:he gets promoted to TheDragon to Sonny by the end, with implications that he still sees himself as "born to rule" and has plans to be TheStarscream]]. He got where he is in large part by murder, scheming and backstabbing.
45	* GassHole: When Steve finally gets over his nostalgia of Judy, he remembers that she used to sit at the back of Miss Peterson's class and pass wind.
46	* GreasySpoon: The coffee shop where the customers sing "Never Let Your Daughter Date an Alien" is described as "a typical William Hopper style of diner".
47	* HappyEndingOverride: This movie shows that Riff Raff got away with [[spoiler:killing Frank]] for a few years by lying about it, but the plot kicks off when the queen sends him back to Earth to bring Frank home.
48	* HaughtyHelp: The Queen's servants behave this way towards Riff Raff, clearly looking down on him even though he is a General. It's likely a combination of the "reflected glory" type, as they work for the Queen, and "offended sensibilities" at someone implied to be from a much lower class background than them outranking them.
49	* HollywoodThin: When Steve is gushing about Judy's beauty, he guesses her height and weight as 5ft7 and 111 pounds, which is actually underweight. ("Judy" is actually Riff Raff in drag, who is 5ft8, and Steve's guess at his weight was based on how he looked ''with'' two grapefruits down the front of his dress. The weight might be an inaccurate guess in-universe, and might say something about Steve's rather dickish and sexist personality that this is his idea of an attractive woman, but it's noticeable that the same character generally viewed as creepily scrawny as a man is seen as so attractive as a woman.)
50	* ILoveTheDead: The very last scene is Riff Raff [[BrotherSisterIncest climbing into Magenta's coffin]].
51	* InformationWantsToBeFree: The script starts with a paragraph written by the guy who uploaded it, saying that he feels bad putting it online without permission but thinks that ''Rocky Horror'' fans deserve to read it.
52	* InterspeciesRomance: Between De Lordy and Judy; the song "Never Let Your Daughter Date an Alien" explains why this is a bad thing.
53	* IWantSong: Riff Raff sings ''Short End Of The Stick'' about how he wants to rule rather than follow. ''Judy Judy Judy'' is Steve's song about how he wants Judy.
54	* LegFocus: In-universe and played for laughs, Steve's description of Judy focusses heavily on her "legs that went right up to heaven". Of course, unknown to Steve, the "Judy" he met was actually Riff in drag (who admittedly has pretty long legs for his height)...
55	* LightningReveal: One shows a road sign leading to Fresno with a Transylvanian lightning bolt symbol on it.
56	* MissingMom: Janet to Sonny. [[spoiler: They reunite at the end when Sonny takes the royal throne after the Old Queen dies.]]
57	* MortonsFork: Riff can admit that he killed Frank or go to Earth, pretend to look for him and fail. Either way he'll be in trouble.
58	* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Riff Raff's [[ILoveTheDead thing with Magenta's corpse]] overlaps with this, as it's a deranged obsession with the corpse of the woman he loved when she was alive, rather than a fetish for corpses in general. He's described as having gone mad and talks to her as if she was still alive, alternately begging for her forgiveness, angrily ranting at her, or addressing her affectionately/seductively, though he is clearly aware on some level that he killed her as he asks why she "made him" do it at one point. She is still in her coffin...but he keeps the coffin in his chambers and gets in there with her.
59	* MythologyGag: There a few nods to ''Film/ShockTreatment'';
60	** Riff Raff tells Magenta's corpse that they can play Doctors and nurses, a reference to the characters they played in ''Shock Treatment'', also a nod to the title song that says “Playing doctor and nurse can be good for your health.” .
61	** The housing estate that was built where Frank's castle used to be is called ''Happy Homes'' after the reality show Janet's parents starred in.
62	* NakedFirstImpression: Judy is transported to Transylvania while in the shower. She arrives stark naked... right in front of Lord De Lordy.
63	* NeverRecycleABuilding: Averted. A housing estate is being built where Frank's castle was in the first movie, meaning that Riff can't locate Frank's body.
64	* NoNameGiven: The small servant is just called Small Person in the script.
65	* PeggySue: Riff Raff goes back in time to try and stop [[spoiler: himself killing Frank in the first movie but fails.]]
66	* PleasurePlanet: the ''The Moon Drenched Shores of Transylvania'' song implies Transsexual to be this and Riff Raff has to cover his ears to block out "the sighs, moans and groans of unseen Transylvanians drowning in pleasure".
67	* PortalNetwork: The Transylvanians have a network of teleporter/time machines hidden throughout Earth.
68	* POVSequel: Thanks to timetravel, we briefly see the outside of the castle from the first movie [[spoiler:as Riff Raff is running in to kill Frank at the end of The Floor Show.]]
69	* RememberTheNewGuy: The fog during the ''Super-Heroes'' song in the first movie must have obscured all the time travellers come back to save Frank.
70	* RevengeOfTheSequel: Being a satire of horror movies, this kind of title is fitting.
71	* RhymingWithItself: "Stay vain in Transylvania / Stay sane in Transylvania / Remain in Transylvania". (Some other lines in that song also end in "Transylvania" but this is the only part where it's directly rhymed with itself.)
72	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Frank is revealed to be a prince who spends his time doing experiments on another planet. His mother assumes he's just on Earth to have sex.
73	* SettingIntroductionSong: Starts with "The Moon Drenched Shores Of Transylvania" which describes the PleasurePlanet Transsexual.
74	* ShoePhone: The Transylvanian teleporters that we see are disguised as showers in Holiday Inns.
75	* StableTimeLoop: At one point Steve mentions a crazy guy showing up on his lawn when he was a kid and getting arrested by the police. [[spoiler: At the end Steve is stranded in the past and goes to his mother, ranting about aliens and time travel. She calls the police, who drag him off, thinking he's insane.]]
76	* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Riff introduces himself as "Brankmire, George Brankmire" while pretending to be a government agent.
77	* TheStarscream:
78	** De Lordy is next in line for the throne after Frank and knows that he's dead. He can't wait for the queen to die so he can rule.
79	** Riff Raff again shows shades of it during ''Short End of the Stick'' ("I was born to rule, not follow") and ''No Hiding Place'' ("there's going to be [...] changes made with me at the top"). He ends the story as Sonny's supposedly loyal second-in-command, but it's clear it's all an act and he'll be getting up to more scheming in the future.
80	* StockRhyme: Frequently defied. The lyrics are full of very unusual rhymes like "Transylvania" with "fan your mania", "Mars" with "boudoirs", "starred" with "boulevard", "Medicare" with "tableware", "tactile" with "pterodactyl", "sadistic" with "lipstick", and more, to the point of showing off.
81	** A few do still show up: one "you / too", one "see / me" and one "be / me", and one "lying / crying", though most of these aren't at the end of lines and so aren't very blatant. "Death" and "breath" appear in the probably-too-uncommon-to-count combination of "death day" and "breath away" (similarly, "change the past" rhymes with "rearrange it fast", but you're not likely to see that in many pop songs unless time travel becomes a more popular them). "Above all your joy / You love a new boy" is another mid-line one which is the only time "love" is rhymed with anything in a script where it appears quite a lot. "Girl / world" is a more conventional stock rhyme at the end of a line.
82	** "Judy" is an exception to the script's use of more creative rhymes, being a deliberately cringe-inducingly cheesy love song that uses "fire / higher / desire", "life / wife", "lips / hips", "stare / hair"... all to describe Riff Raff in drag (he's in a wig, in case that last one confused you).
83	** "Moon-Drenched Shores of Transylvania" uses night, light, and delight, though as mid-line rhymes ("where hearts are light because it's night all day" and "if you delight in candle light and the infernal"). The rest of the rhymes are probably far too unusual to have been written by a 15-year-old as the song supposedly was (it's diegetic), though this is justified by Sonny being a Transylvanian rather than a human teenager.
84	* StormingTheCastle: The Old Queen makes The Transylvanians run in and rescue Frank but they're too late. [[AsYouKnow The castle launches into outer space]] and the blast kills them.
85	* StylisticSuck: The movie starts with us seeing the journey from Earth to Transsexual. It looks deliberately fake as it's part of one of Sonny's music videos, but ends with a quicker, more realistic looking version of the same journey.
86	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: Brad and Magenta]] have both died since the last movie.
87	* TeleporterAccident: Riff Raff invokes this trope so that Steve will step into the transducer by himself so he can send Steve out of the way to Alaska.
88	* TimePassesMontage: On the way to Fresno, we get "A MONTAGE of SHOTS of STEVE's car hurtling through DAYS and NIGHTS, RAIN and SUNSHINE, PUNCTURES and TRAFFIC COPS, etc. This of course gives us the passing of time.".
89	* TimeTravellersAreSpies: When Riff Raff first meets Steve, he's in drag and pretends to be fellow agent Judy. The next morning he pretends to be her fictional brother, also an agent investigating aliens. Not really a time travel example but the characters do end up travelling back in time later on.
90	* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Janet has blocked the events of the first movie from her mind.
91	* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' has been made as a movie since the events of the first film, though it seems to be called The Rocky Horror Show rather than The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
92	* UnexplainedRecovery: Frank implied his mother was dead in the original movie, as he swore on his mother's grave that he wouldn't tell Janet that he and Brad slept together . It's possible he was just saying that to appease Brad.
93	* VichyEarth: The Transylvanians have infiltrated the American government and it's implied that they've done this to others.
94	* ViewersAreMorons: The Denton Holiday Inn has a different colour and style from the Alaska one in order not to confuse the viewers.
95	* WeAreEverywhere: The bureau and/or transylvanians seem to have agents everywhere. A random man in the diner reports what Steve and Riff are doing to somebody on the phone.
96	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Riff Raff's stated to be one while disguised as Judy. (He's not a particularly wholesome ''person'', but he's an anti-hero if anything in this story rather than a true villain, and the actual crossdressing is done for disguise reasons rather than creepy reasons and is stated to look both convincing and attractive.)
97	* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Riff Raff asks Magenta's corpse at the start why she made him kill the only thing he ever loved.
98	* WigDressAccent: Riff uses this.
99	** First with a red wig, makeup (including fake freckles), a dress, and fake breasts (grapefruits) to pass himself off as Judy (an accent isn't mentioned, though he is stated to use a falsetto voice and his voice is already quite high, but considering he knows Judy is an American government agent and that Steve doesn't think he sounds British, he's probably using an accent). He's successful at looking like an attractive woman (he doesn't actually look like Judy, but only because he was going off Steve's description and Steve misremembered the real Judy's hair colour.)
100	** Then without the wig/makeup/etc and in ordinary human men's clothes, but presumably still using an American accent since Steve readily assumes he's from Denton, he pretends to be Judy's brother George. Again, it works because Steve has never met either Riff Raff or the nonexistent real George Brankmire, so has no reason to believe this bald man in normal-looking clothes with an obvious "family" resemblance to "Judy" is anything other than who he says he is.
101	* WrongTimeTravelSavvy: Ambiguous. A StableTimeLoop is demonstrated with child Steve's encounter with his future self, but [[spoiler:both Riff Raff and The Old Queen attempt and fail to stop Frank being killed in the first movie. The reason they fail is not in itself a StableTimeLoop, though (they fail because they're too busy fighting each other), and it's never actually stated that the rules of time travel in this universe would have made saving him impossible.]] The sci-fi is so soft that time travel working in a consistent way is not guaranteed, and it would hardly be the only soft sci-fi series to contain both examples of StableTimeLoop ''and'' cases of changing the past actually being possible.
102	* YoungerThanSheLooks: Janet is described as being around 35 but looking at least 50 due to being aged by the events of the original movie.

Context Script / TheRevengeOfTheOldQueen