Obama & Co. (series)

thumb|Depiction of the first arc of Obama & Co. (Characters pictured, starting from the top left and going clockwise: Flumpty Bumpty, Bill Cipher, Bill Clinton's Clone, Negavalon, Clive Handforth, and Barack Obama)
Obama & Co. is an improv-roleplay crossover series created by Zaikou and Cap back in 2021. It is, at it's core, a story about the forces of Cliveism, led by president Barack Obama (or Clive Handforth depending on how you look at it) fighting against the forces of Avalonism, led by, well, Avalon Centrifuge, with some occasional neutral but antagonistic parties interfering. The series uses characters and elements from a variety of fictional media, such as LittleBigPlanet, Total Drama, One Night at Flumpty's, Super Mario, Undertale, Gravity Falls, DC Comics, etc., as well as memes and real-life people and history. It has also spawned a variety of spin-offs, including the Tupperbox Lore and Shaggy & Co.
Originally starting as a series of messages on PlayStation 3 while Zaikou and Cap waited for the return of the LittleBigPlanet servers (which were shut down, unfortunately), it was then briefly moved to PlayStation 4 DMs before the series was continued on Der' cord. The series is currently on hiatus.
== Inspiration & Predecessors ==
The main inspiration for Obama & Co., or at least its first arc, was The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation N-W.O.R.D. by Nass is Secretly a Pikmin. The inspiration is pretty apparent, due to the story being about trying to end racism (and other forms of bigotry in Obama & Co.'s case), the inclusion of Obama and Skipper as major characters, and the idea of a president of the United States impersonating another president while also playing an antagonistic role, although while one has Donald Trump play this role, the other has Bill Clinton (specifically his clone) play this role instead, with Trump just being one of his disguises. At least on Zaikou's part, the inspiration for the story's weird crossover aspect was inspired by several weird ass crossover stories that he found online, most of which didn't make a lot of sense and include characters from a wide variety of media. In some sense, Obama & Co. can be considered to be kinda maybe not really a parody of these.
Before the creation of Obama & Co., Cap had actually created a similar story on Burnout Paradise of all things, with none other than PsychoDuel himself. It was basically some really weird RP crossover similar to Obama & Co., and included media such as Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Knight Rider, Christine, etc. This is considered to be the spiritual predecessor to Obama & Co.
== Story Arcs ==
=== Arc 1, The Racism Arc ===
=== Arc 2, The Sexism Arc ===
=== Arc 3, The Homophobia Arc ===
=== Transphobia Mini-"Arc" ===
=== Arc 4, The Dawnekiel Arc ===
=== Arc 5, The Skyboxer Arc ===
=== The Big Intermission ===
=== Arc 6, The Squid Game Arc ===
=== Arc 7, The Fatphobia Arc ===
=== Arc 8, The Redditor Arc ===
=== Arc 9, The Russian Arc ===
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