'The Adventures of Kit Fisto'? 'Young Gimli'? The best characters aren't always the main characters. Think about your favourite movies or TV shows and tell us about a spinoff you'd love to see made. Give it a title, share an overview of a potential plot, and tell us why you'd love to see the spinoff made. You can enter with original text, or better yet, with original video.
Premise: WeThe Lord of the Rings, but I think his life before and after the journey to Mordor has so much untapped potential. This series would follow Sam’s life from two different timelines: one in his younger days, starting as a gardener for the Bagginses, and the other after his return to the Shire as a husband, father, and eventual mayor. Each episode could be structured as Sam recounting his past adventures to his children through these “lost journals,” each entry revealing a different moment of bravery, struggle, and humor in both small-town Hobbiton and beyond.
Plot Overview: In the “before” timeline, we’d see Sam get into all kinds of scrapes around the Shire — rescuing animals, tending to eccentric gardens, befriending (and avoiding) interesting characters, and even uncovering little mysteries around Hobbiton. This would build up the adventurous side that he later channels into his journey with Frodo. In the “after” timeline, we’d see Sam facing new challenges: politics in the Shire, raising a family, and dealing with a few post-war struggles. Though his journeys might seem mundane compared to fighting orcs, Sam’s life would bring out heartfelt, everyday heroism in a way only he could.
Why I'd Love to See It: Sam is so much more than just Frodo’s best friend — he’s the emotional core of the story, and I think there’s a richness to his character that deserves the spotlight. This series would be a gentle, feel-good journey through the everyday heroics of a Hobbit who’s had his share of glory but is equally brave in the quiet moments. Plus, it would be great to see the Shire in all its colorful, earthy detail as Sam navigates a life that’s challenging in its own, understated way. It’s a way to return to Middle-Earth without the epic battles and instead appreciate the small, meaningful moments that make it feel like home.
It would be a spinoff about the past of General Iroh from Avatar: The Last Master of the Air. He's one of my favorite characters, in the series he's referred to as the “Dragon of the West”, and it's always commented on his great past. Everyone wished that one day it would be animated, but it never happened.
Talking a little more about the reason for the spinoff, it would show Iroh's story as the historical general of the Fire Nation, addressing themes that are not explored in the main series, such as disillusionment as a conquering nation and the cost of losing one's son. It would be great to see his journey through the 4 nations.
I think it's every fan's wish to understand more about this beloved character's past. Apart from all the depth it would add to the Avatar universe, and also the cool message his story conveys (a bloody emperor to a wise and gentle master with abrupt changes in his mentality).
An interesting spinoff idea would be “McGonagall: The Cat of Hogwarts”. The series would focus on the youth of our beloved professor, showing her relationship with Dumbledore, her apprenticeship in transfiguration and her entire journey, allowing each season to portray a stage in her life:
Childhood and Early Years
In childhood, the episodes could explore the duality between her father, who was a Muggle Presbyterian minister, and her mother, who had given up on the wizarding world for her husband, even omitting to tell him in order to preserve their marriage. So we'd have Minerva and her mother dealing with the emergence of her powers and her relationship with her father (I won't spoil it haha).
Life at Hogwarts
McGonagall has always been different, right from the start, since the Sorting Hat took her five and a half minutes to decide between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor, already demonstrating an enormous personality with a thirst for knowledge and a great spirit of bravery. We see his beginnings as an Animagus, his career in Quidditch, giving a touch of action to the story, especially against Slytherin haha.
Hogwarts
We would see her beginnings as an assistant in the Department for the Enforcement of Magical Laws until she became a teacher at her old school, until she became our beloved teacher that we see in the films.
Note: Our beloved Maggie Smith left us this year, the series would be an eternalization of her legacy by having her children act.
It will basically come to the begging of everything from the world of fallout , that means to the war that ends it all!
Plot:
"The fight between United States of America still increasing. We follow the life from different people among this tension, from a simple family at the suburbs of Washington, to the presidents of China e and United states. While the things heat up we see some business-people doing not so nice plans and thinking about the end of the world. The grateaste diplomats won't be enough to stop what is coming and no family is ready to survive, if they survive the coming of this new world!"
So my idea is to create the discussions, diplomacy, maybe some perspective of soldiers in some battlefield, and see how everything scales up to a nuclear war that will transform the USA in the wasteland that we see in the Fallout Tv show. It will remember some aspects from TV shows like house of cards of even the movie The Darkest Hour that show the diplomacy of war and how wrong decisions can make the lost of so many lives! I imagine it like a mini series just one season, there so much potential to show up many perspectives but it would be strange for me something like that have more than one season!
"Set in the rainy, neon-lit streets of future Los Angeles, ‘Blade Runner: Shadow of Gaff’ chronicles the investigations of this enigmatic Blade Runner. Gaff has always operated in the shadows, weaving between the grey areas of morality that define his existence"
I consider him to be a really well acted secondary character, with a profile that allows for a lot of evolution. Her completely Noir look, her attitude, the mysterious and enigmatic Origami figures... I think it's really interesting.
The show would be about other cases investigated by Gaff, not only as an officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, but even before he joined the department and started with the Tyrell Corporation case, such as the Moonbus case with Clovis as the main leader, and later cases in the same Lore of the Blade Runner universe with Nexus-8 involved. It could also explain the origin of his obsession with origami as well as maintain the ongoing mystery of who is really a replicant and who is human in everything that has happened in the films and the true importance of where humanity resides.
I would absolutely watch this! And I think Edward James Olmos would be up for starring in this, he really enjoyed playing the character. I had a chance to talk to him on a comic con in London, really nice guy!
I'd love to see a spin off of Triss Merigold, from The Witcher. What happened to her after she was thought to be dead in Battle of Sodden Hill? What politic schemes was she involved with and why? Maybe even her scaping the Nilfgaardian prison with help of another Witcher besides Geralt, as it's a possibility in The Witcher 2. She's a complex character and isn't personally explored as it could be, so I would love to see Projekt Red's team telling us more about her, her lovers and political causes, which would give us more information before choosing between her or Yennefer.
There is a book about Spock's father and we do see him in quite a few episodes and the movies as well, but still I think there is so much to his character what we don't know. I would love to see either a movie or a mini series focusing on his early life, how he became an Ambassador of Vulcan and how he met his wife.
This would also be a great way to see more of Amanda, Spock's mother and it would be an interesting comparison to see Vulcan and its people through her eyes and see Earth and humans through the eyes of a Vulcan.
We saw a little bit of young Spock in the reboot of Star Trek movies, but I would love to see more of his childhood, what it meant to be of mixed race and growing up mostly among his Vulcan relatives. The struggles he had to face, how they shaped his character and how he became the man we got to meet in the original Star Trek series would be a really interesting plot to follow and I'm sure many people could relate to the struggles he had to face.
I had this idea ever since I saw Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto face to face in the new Star Trek movies, and would have been interesting to see Leonard Nimoy not playing an older Spock but playing Sarek. Sadly that's not a casting we would be able to see. I do love Zachary's Spock though so would just have to find someone for Sarek and Amanda.
I’ve recently gotten into the John Wick films, and I think an interesting spinoff would be to focus on Jimmy the police officer. It could be titled “From The World Of John Wick: Officer. It would have Jimmy’s point of view from the John Wick series, we’d learn how he met John, and the police’s relationship with the High Table.
The Other Houses - Harry Potter Despite the negativity JK gets nowadays due to her more non-magical narrative, I think she has created one of the best fantasy worlds to date set in modern times.
My spin-off focuses on the other houses (similar to GoT) and how the students act whilst in the same year as Harry Potter. Because the HP series is set during the 6 years Harry is in Hogwarts, I feel that there is a lot to explore when it comes to how the other students act to the sometimes world changing events through the series.
A romance plot could be between witch and wizard of different houses and the difficulties of communicating once a curfew hits due to Sirius' escape in the third year or the effects of being a Slytherin and associated with the Voldemort purely by house affiliation. We could also see a different side to Harry and how he reacts to other students. Some may perceive him as stuck up especially in the 5th book trying to run an illegal Defence Against the Dark Arts Club or too shy and indecisive in the first few years as he adapts to the new wizarding world. Just as we are with celebrities, I'm sure there are students that see him as a hindrence to their studies at Hogwarts and would rather just get on with their O.W.Ls in peace rather than continue with an annual Voldemort event.
Togusa in Pyrophoric Cult, Part 1 from Ghost in the Shell: Arise
I've been a big fan of Ghost In The Shell since day one. I think a show that explores Togusa's character before, during, and after working with the Major would be really cool. A mix of True Detective and Blade Runner.
But the format of the show would be self-contained episodes, each covering a different time in Togusa's life. From what he did at the very beginning of his career, to one of most dangerous missions with the Major, to one after he split from the team.
To be honest, I'm not sure if this would be an animated show or live-action. I think both formats could work. We'll never get anything like this but it's fun to imagine.
Image credit: Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture @ Internet Movie Firearm Database
