Black Hat Brigade: Episode 10

Setting: The Round Table. Camera pans to show various knights, then King Arthur... then Prince Charming.

King Arthur: Thank you all for coming. We all have our own stories and canons and responsibilities within. Yet, we also have this cross-canon alliance of villains, calling itself the Black Hat Brigade.

King Arthur: By my understanding, villains have banded together, before, to change stories in their favor. Prince Charming?

Prince Charming stands: Indeed. Such attempts have occasioned numerous meta-narratives of recent decades.

Prince Charming: Very recently, there was the movie Happily Never After, in which the wicked step-mother changed the way the stories happened so that the villains would have happy endings instead of the heroes.

Prince Charming: Similarly, one episode of Charmed dealt with forces of evil making attempt to change the stories so as to corrupt youth with corrupted ethic.

Prince Charming: Generally, when taken as meta-narrative from within the stories, these are restored after some story. In a sense, we, being the good guys, may be assured of victory... but not without cost.

A commotion sounds outside the door. A guard rushes in.
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