Oh boy, have I been there and done that.

Wanna discuss wacky crossovers? by Laburnum on 2011-08-03 19:42:00 UTC Reply

By "wacky" I mean ones which you come up with and just know that it's going to be either one of the best or one of the worst fics ever, but either way you just can't get it out of your mind.

I bring the idea up because I was browsing the Penguins of Madagascar pages on TVTropes recently, and on the Wild Mass Guessing page I suggested that the entire show is actually a human in a mental hospital imagining that he's a penguin, a la Sucker Punch. I meant it as a joke, but then I got the idea stuck in my head and thought "Hey, that could really work ..." I drew it just to get it out of my system for a bit, but I think I'll have to try writing it once I have time. Sadly I have nobody to tell me whether it's a good or bad idea, because I don't know anyone who knows both fandoms.

As for other wacky crossovers, there is a ficcer who goes by the name of dreya_uberwald on Livejournal, who is the queen of the random crossover. She has a whole fictional town called Willowholme which she created for the sole purpose of having characters from random fandoms meet up in it. I can't do her work justice in mere words, but it's funny as heck.

Oh boy, have I been there and done that. by Tungsten_Monk on 2011-08-05 21:29:00 UTC Reply

My biggest fandom right now is GI Joe, and I love love love crossing over stuff with it. The great thing about GI Joe is that it can, with only minor tweaking/creative thinking, cross over with any number of universes--as long as it's set on an earth where the 1980s conceivably happened.

For example, I wrote a crossover fic where Snake-Eyes (heavily scarred, blond, mute martial artist good guy) meets Deadpool (heavily scarred, blond, never-shuts-up martial artist Chaotic Neutral). Also, for the hell of it, I did a short "what if Larry Hama and Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborated on a GI Joe musical?" thing, which essentially crossed over Joe and Phantom of the Opera.

My favorite effort, though, is a crack crossover without the crack: GI Joe meets Alien vs. Predator. It's kind of sad, and scary, how much effort I wound up putting into making it all fit, and how eerily everything matches up. *headshake*
I did some, too. by Sergio Turbo on 2011-08-04 09:02:00 UTC Reply

Detective Conan and Card Captor Sakura? The people on the forum where I posted it liked the fic so much I wrote a sequel. And they liked it too.

Card Captor Sakura and Knight Rider? Same thing, only that I don't want to write a sequel, despite having already some ideas for it. I'll probably recycle one of the OCs as a PPC Agent, though.

No links, though - it's all in Italian, ad I think nobody else understands it here... Do I look like I'm claiming to be a good writer while trying to hide proof?

However, an author that you all can check is Shadow Cristal Mage. He's got 64 fics on the Pit, and all of them are the crackiest, funniest things ever written. Too bad a lot of them are incomplete.
This one. by Jacer on 2011-08-04 06:08:00 UTC Reply

It's got four oneshots: HP/Transformers, HP/Hannah Montana, Twilight/Rocky Horror, and Twilight/Grinch.

My favorite is the second one.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5442156/1/ImplausibleCrossoversAhoy
OMG! by Flyndragon on 2011-08-04 03:30:00 UTC Reply

Yes yes yes! Half of the ideas I have for fanfiction are weird crossover ideas that probably shouldn't go together. But then I get either a brilliant or terrible idea as to how they could be combined and I have to write it. Most of it is slightly cracky and not good for publishing, but some of them have turned out to be my best work. I just love reading and writing crossovers. And hey, some of the ones you would expect to be crackiest are actually the best.
That's actually a pet hobby of mine. by Aeidhryn on 2011-08-04 00:40:00 UTC Reply

Whenr a certain friend of mine comes over- let's call her Bellatrix- sometimes we'll just go on a crackfic adventure and end up joining LotR with Artemis Fowl with Pride and Prejudice just for the heck of it. It's good fun... but I'm not sure if it would make for good reading.

Your idea in particular, though, sounds good to me, since many animated animal movies look like it's just animals being controlled by human personalities.

Sadly I don't know anyone else who knows both canons. by Laburnum on 2011-08-04 00:54:00 UTC Reply

I did ask a friend of mine who knows the show and read a summary of Sucker Punch, but he doesn't like grimdark remakes much, and it would end up pretty horrifying, given that the plot of Sucker Punch relies on sexual abuse, unnecessary brain surgery, and half the cast dying. Though I do like the idea of Julien dancing to "Love is the Drug" from the deleted scene (video contains scantily-clad women so is probably not worksafe): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8qBHeSk_OY

The poster for Sucker Punch... by Aeidhryn on 2011-08-04 01:02:00 UTC Reply

... makes me want to sucker punch whatever hormonal fool that thought women would be empowered if they were given weapons but still forced to wear basically underwear.

That's always a pet peeve of mine. Jadisinablockofice, do people really think that a furry bra is acceptable in the wintertime? Let me tell you, it is not. Just because it's furry...

Sigh.

Anyway, I don't know both canons either. Sorry.

Oh, and I've probably said something completely wrong in the above few lines, so here's the disclaimer:

I accept that I probably said something stupid and apologize in advance... thank you

I kind of agree, but there was some reasoning behind it ... by Laburnum on 2011-08-04 01:25:00 UTC Reply

... which is discussed here: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10701804&postcount=136
May or may not actually be justified, but I can sort of see what they were going for. But that's rather off-topic. Back to wacky crossovers ...

It'd be tricky to work a Sucker Punch storyline in text, because there are at least three different levels of "reality" going on in it, as described in the above link. It'd be harder to make it clear which was which than in a visual medium like film. Also, I'm not sure how comfortable I am with killing off the Penguins cast - then again, if I accept going in that it's going to earn me the hatred of the fandom ...

Re: I kind of agree, but there was some reasoning behind it ... by Aeidhryn on 2011-08-04 16:27:00 UTC Reply

Well, there's a few questions in response:
A) is it necessary to kill off half the characters?
B) do you want to kill off half of the characters?
plus, is this going to be an outraged hate, like, a 'wow, I can't believe laura just wrote that story legolas', or is it going to be a 'oh this is weird, I don't like it' hate? Because the former is not a good sign, but weird crossovers are sometimes not what people like, so ignore the latter.

I think.

*goes off to check the link*

*Sucker Punch Spoilers Ahead* by Laburnum on 2011-08-04 17:13:00 UTC Reply

In the movie, three girls die in Fantasy Layer 1 (Fantasy Layer 2 itself seems to die along with the first girls' death), the leading lady is lobotomised (the severe kind - it is in fact possible to remain reasonably functional after a lobotomy, but it's pretty clear this is the type that she wouldn't recover from), and only one escapes. I figured out a way to get the lead character out of the lobotomy, but I'm not sure if avoiding the three deaths would lessen the impact of the story, or how to avoid using them if I did want to. I have no attachment to the human versions of the characters, but people might be upset about me killing off the cute'n'cuddly animal characters (which I'm using for Fantasy Layer 1). Would probably be the latter kind of "upset" though, so maybe I should ignore that.

Hmm... by Aeidhryn on 2011-08-04 20:48:00 UTC Reply

Well, I have actually no idea. But if you're just doing it for fun and you can't get it out of your head, I'd say try it out.

Homestuck and, well, anything. by Firebird766 on 2011-08-03 19:53:00 UTC Reply

It's very popular for discussing crossovers, and some of it can get just plain weird. I mean, can you imagine Frodo and co. trying to take on Sburb? Someone's already written a Harry Potter crossover, with the kids and trolls in Hogwarts. It's actually pretty good.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is another one that gets crossed a lot. I'm not entirely sure why.

...We need a Homestuck and MLP:FIM crossover. Someone get on this.