Blog #40

 Creative

Today I decided to do an exercise called "Genre Jump", here’s how it works:

  1. Take a story, character, or idea you already like.

  2. Change the genre entirely.

  3. See how that new genre reshapes everything about it.

For this one, I used:
Spider-Man → But reimagined as a character in a gothic horror story.

Here’s how that played out in my brain:

  • Peter Parker is now a reclusive scientist living in a fog-covered Victorian city, doing morally questionable spider experiments in a crumbling tower.

  • Instead of being bitten, he creates an elixir derived from rare venomous spiders—and it slowly twists his body and mind.

  • His “webs” aren’t high-tech, they’re organic, gross, and pulsing—something out of Frankenstein meets The Fly.

  • Villains like the Green Goblin become literal monsters, maybe former nobles transformed by their own scientific ambition. The city fears Peter—some call him a protector, others whisper he’s cursed.

  • MJ is now a fearless investigative journalist trying to uncover the truth behind the “Spider Demon” haunting the rooftops.

Rewriting Spider-Man in this genre made me think differently about the core of his character. The guilt, the burden of responsibility, the dual identity—all that still works, but it gets reinterpreted through a much darker lens. It made me realize that good stories are flexible—they just wear different costumes depending on the genre. Try it yourself! Take something you already love—a game, a movie, a campaign character—and ask, what if this existed in a totally different genre? Cyberpunk, noir, fairytale, survival horror... it doesn’t just spark new ideas, it deepens your understanding of the old ones.

Seriously—it’s a creative reset button that works every time.

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