Fanfiction Crossovers

    I may have mentioned before that I read a lot. Sometimes “real” books don’t satisfy me or I want something completely off the wall or my book has been left at home for some reason. During these times I like to read fanfiction. Now I know what you are thinking, “fanfiction? How dumb can you get?” And yes, there is a lot of bad and weird fanfiction. There is also a lot of good fanfiction. I’m going to point out my favorites just because I can. I tend not to read works in progress since I hate investing a bunch of time into something that may be abandoned mid-story. The only exceptions I make to this are writers who have written the story and are just posting chapters til it ends.

     The first thing to know before searching for fanfiction is some of the abbreviations that people use to label their stories. This website has most of the basic ones: http://mokisfanfictionblog.com/blog/mokis-fanfiction-glossary/. This way if there is something you don’t want to read, you are forewarned and can skip anything you might find offensive. I try to keep to stories based on things I already like: Firefly, Buffy, Harry Potter, various other movies and TV shows. I read a lot of crossovers which are stories involving two or more categories.


My five favorite crossovers (in no particular order):

1. Various – Tales from the Barman

http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-11757/Methos+Tales+from+the+Barman.htm

     This story is huge. It was originally started by a person going by the name of Methos on a site named Twisting the Hellmouth, a fanfiction site for Buffy fans. The main idea of the story was Xander got tired of fighting the good fight and opened a bar. Xander having his typical luck, opened said bar on a dimensional crossroads. He trades a drink, sometimes a meal or a place to set up for the night, for good stories and a small token from the patrons. There are so many good stories (and universes) included in this that it’s impossible to talk about them all. The whole community decided to kick in and add their own chapters to this story. After six months and 269 chapters, the story winds down. A couple years later, the tales were resurrected and another 101 chapters have been added to the epic. Some stories are funny, some are cute, and some are touching. There is a little something for everyone in this massive fanfiction.

2. GhostWriter84 – Rule Eight

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9408955/1/Rule-Eight

     Sadly this fanfic was never finished. It is a crossover between Zombieland and the Walking Dead. It takes place after the Zombieland movie and around Season 3 of the Walking Dead. The Zombieland crew has worked themselves across the country and run across Rick’s group. They are taken in by the group. The story follows what happens through part of season 3 with Florida, Columbus, and the girls’ special brand of insanity added. Unfortunately, the story ends after 9 chapters and hasn’t been updated since March of 2014. It’s a shame because the story was well written and the characters were true to their official counterparts.

3. Jedi Buttercup – Things That Never Happened to Buffy Summers

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1977157/1/Things-That-Never-Happened-to-Buffy-Summers

     This is a collection of short (less than a paragraph usually) stories about things that never happened to Buffy aka the Slayer. It’s mostly her running into characters played by former actors from Buffy the Vampire or the spinoff Angel. This one is a neat little collection, a palette cleanser type of story. There’s no big reveals, just a few what ifs to entertain you for a few minutes.

4. Nonjon – Browncoat, Green Eyes

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2857962/1/Browncoat-Green-Eyes

     This is a cross over between Firefly and Harry Potter. It sounds like it wouldn’t be a good idea but surprisingly it works. Shortly after his wife’s death, a depressed Harry Potter puts himself into stasis until the next big bad shows up that he can help defeat. Fast forward 500 years to the Firefly ‘verse. After the Miranda wave, the Alliance hears of this “wizard hero” and wakes him up to take care of their River Tam problem. What follows is an entertaining look at the world of Firefly and the chaos Harry Potter brings to the future as he tries to figure out what happened to all the wizards and how Earth was made uninhabitable.

5. Livi2Jack -- Window Of Opportunity Bonanza

https://www.fanfiction.net/Stargate-SG-1-and-Bonanza-Crossovers/68/414/

     During a mission gone wrong, the Stargate is hit by blast of energy from a Jaffa ship as the team is trying to evacuate. The overload shuts down the gate and the last scientist to go through is catapulted back to the Old West, where it turns out the Ponderosa ranch and Virginia City exists. The SG-1 team receives packets of letters written by the scientist and held in trust by Wells-Fargo. The story goes back and forth between surviving the Old West and trying to get the scientist back to the present. It’s a great example of how a writer can put an original character into a fanfiction without going over the top about it. Too many writers go over the top with original characters, like adding the character to the main group or writing themselves into the story without making it believable. For the unexpected mix of Old West and Stargate technology, the story is entertaining and keeps my attention the whole way through.