You live in Simland in a house. Many of your neighbours have died in fires or drowned in their pools as their ladders keep disappearing. Any time one dies they are replaced by another.
You have met the Grim Reaper a few times due to friends dying in your presence. You talked to them and found that they are funny, like pets, and have many things in common with you. After a few chats they open up to you that they have the ability to let a loved one cheat death, but that they can never stay long in the living world and only appear after someone has died.

You are Razer, a member of the Blue Lantern Corps and a former member of the Red Lantern Corps. For the past few years you have been travelling the galaxy searching for your love, Aya. Over the years, you have found many promising clues only for the vast majoirty of them to lead to dead ends.

As a member of the Blue Lantern Corps you wield a Blue Power Ring. This ring allows you to summon constructs (weapons, tools, vehicles, etc.) made of solid blue light. The Blue Power Ring is fuelled by hope. Your constructs will be larger, more powerful, and/or more precise the more hopeful you become.

The members of the Red Lantern Corps wield Red Power Rings. These rings have the same power to summon constructs however they are made of solid red light and are fuelled by rage, Your constructs become larger, more powerful, and/or more precise, the angrier you become.

The land has been overrun by man-eating monsters called Titans. Larger Titans can level ordinary buildings with ease, and even smaller ones can easily kill large numbers of humans in a short time span. All Titans hunt humans obsessively, and can be effectively fought only with specialized training and equipment.

A community of human survivors remains within three concentric rings of massive walls, which are mostly Titan-proof. The world outside the walls remains almost completely mysterious to them: they don’t know where the Titans come from, whether any other human communities exist, or so on.

The armed forces of humanity are divided into three corps:

- The Military Police, who maintain order within the walls
- The Garrison, who maintain and guard the walls themselves (including manning the emplaced weapons to fend off Titan attacks)
- The Survey Corps, who range beyond the walls

The Survey Corps are the smallest by a significant margin, with correspondingly low overall budget. They regularly suffer death rates of 30% per mission.

(This debate takes place before Episode 1 of the show.)

The city-state of Ankh-Morpork, under the benevolent dictatorship of the Patrician Havelock Vetinari, has modernised rapidly in recent years. Technologies such as the printing press have changed lives, the various minority species have been largely integrated into society, the Thieves' and Assassins' Guilds have been legitimized and regulated, and rule of law has advanced to the point where Vetinari himself has been arrested on more than one occasion. But now Vetinari is deathly ill and - understanding the importance of stability - he must select a successor.

Moist von Lipwig is a former professional con artist who was saved from the gallows and pressed into the city's service on Vetinari's orders. Since then he's served highly successful periods at the head of the Post Office, the Royal Mint and attached central bank, and the growing railway system (rescuing the first two from the brink of collapse, and getting the rail started from approximately nothing). His management style involves a great deal of showmanship and his personal philosophy of "Always move fast. You never know who's catching you up."

Sam Vimes is the Commander of the City Watch, having risen through the ranks from the very bottom. Though his marriage has made him the richest man in the city, he gets along poorly with the rest of the upper class and tends to take the underdog's side automatically. He is short-tempered and not generally a "people person", but has displayed some skill in handling mobs. He is a cynic, but utterly devoted to the city and the principle of Law (not quite the same thing as actual laws). The Watch under him has grown immensely in size, power, effectiveness, and diversity.

Rey is a student of the last surviving Jedi Knight, Luke Skywalker. Kylo Ren is a student of the Dark side of the Force.

Rey and Kylo Ren have joined forces to defeat Kylo Ren's master, Snoke. After this is done, Kylo Ren asks Rey to join with him on a new venture, untethered to the old factions:

""Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. Snoke, Skywalker, the Sith, the Jedi — let it all die. It's the only way to become what you were meant to be.""

(This debate is set at the end of Episode VIII. Episode IX hasn't happened yet and its events are not canon to the debate.)

You are Barry Allen (a.k.a. the Flash) who has superspeed. In a fight to save your city, your girlfriend Iris was killed by a supervillain. Enraged, you run faster than ever before and discover that you can time travel.

Time travel in this universe works by branching timelines. Going back in time doesn't change your past, but creates a new past with your time-travelling self added in, which then develops naturally. Thus, there are no time paradoxes and no causal loops, as effects can never touch their own causes: your causal history is in your original past, which is untouchable.

(After time travelling, you cannot return to your original timeline. You may or may not be able to engineer a new new timeline that replicates the events of your original one.)

You are the young Princess Bubblegum, sovereign of a land called Candyland, whose inhabitants are candy people whom you created.

The first candy person you created was the Earl of Lemongrab. Lemongrab is unable to communicate effectively with most people, including ordinary Candyland citizens, and reacts intensely to things not going his way (but reacts positively to rules and order). You consider him a 'failed experiment', and ordinarily he lives alone in Castle Lemongrab.

At one point, you and your friend (Finn the Human) were turned into younger child versions of yourself. On a legal technicality the Earl of Lemongrab was able to seize power over the throne. You (and Finn) tried pulling pranks on Lemongrab to get him out of power. This was unsuccessful, but you did eventually manage to restore yourself and Finn back to your original ages, whereupon Lemongrab voluntarily returned power to you, since he was no longer legally the ruler.

After being dethroned and being shunned by the candy people, Lemongrab no longer wishes to be part of the community. However, one day you discover that he has been returning to stare at the candy people while they sleep. (The constitution of Candyland legally allows him to do this for some reason.)