Fanfic Links

1. Martyrdom - A crossover fanfic piece which sees Professor Charles Xavier (X-men) transported to biblical times as a result of a botched time-travel experiment. Recuperating with a family of Aramaic-speaking farmers, Xavier is without his wheelchair and passes himself off as a disoriented cripple. While staying with the family, Xavier encounters Jesus, the biblical messiah at the height of his popularity. Witnessing Jesus' healing ministry, the Professor decides the man is a powerful mutant and decides to accompany him and his disciples to Bethlehem. While a good crossover piece, Martyrdom could do more to explore the mutant spin on Jesus - is the messiah simply a good-willed mutant, or he using his gift for deceptive purposes?

2. Joker Delight - A lyrical crossover that tells the tale of Batman villain The Joker, banished to a strange work detention by the exasperated lawmakers of Gotham City. Exiled to work at Charlie's Chocolate Factory, the Joker is welcomed in the form of a song, sung by his new colleagues, the Ooompa-Loompas. At first, the pint-sized labourers mourn The Joker's twisted crimes, lamenting the fact he 'thinks nothing of a casual kill', but as they reflect on the demise of the Chocolate Factory's prior guests (Violet, Verruca, Mike - "we sent one brat right up a pipe!"), they realize that their dark mischief is on par with his, ending the ode with a request to join his gang. A great example of crossover, where both world's are represented and their facet's melded well.

3. Family Guy - Road_to_Nintendo - This unoriginal Family Guy fanfic piece finds the characters of the leftfield comedy up to their usual tricks - Meg hits on a strange Scottish man, while Chris cleans up after the evil monkey in his closet, and Stewie jacks up one of his many handheld gaming consoles to create a parallel universe-spanning machine that sends Brian and him on a quest to discover a universe of bones. Perhaps best left on the cutting room floor...

4. Knight Rider - The Phoenix Knight - This Knight Rider/MacGyver crossover opens with Michael Knight hospitalized by a malfunctioning KITT, while in a junkyard faraway, the daughter of fabled fix-it hero Angus MacGyver rifles through the wreckage of a mysterious black Trans-Am that took the life of her father. A good example of altering characters by switching generations and genders .

5. Castaway - Irony - In a great example of effective fanfiction, the author presents an alternative ending to the Tom Hanks feelgood hit Castaway. The altered closing scene sees Chuck returning the Fed-Ex parcels he had collected whilst on the island - he delivers one of the final packages, only to witness the recipient open it and eagerly produce a satellite phone, batteries for the satellite phone and a GPS unit. A hilarious twist.

6. The Shining - Return To The Overlook - A fanfic piece which takes place ten years after the tragic events that befell the Torrance family as chronicled in the original Shining. Invented protagonist David Trevanall serves as nothing more than a duplicate of Stephen King's character Jack Torrance, the storyline almost aping the first couple of chapters of the book - the only noticable difference being that Trevanall's child is a girl, as opposed to Torrance's child, who was a boy.

7. Truman Show - Show Must Go On - As the intro to this piece says, "A TV network would never let such a succesful concept get away" - 3 years after Truman Burbank's escape from the created world of Seahaven, shamed producer Christof is coaxed back into the producer's chair, creating a "new flawed and strangely unremarkable world." As the world in large watches in anticipation, another innocent soul is born into the manufactured goldfish-bowl world in which he will live. A great example of the continuation of a movie's storyline, however, not the most original continuation - the author could have offered some speculation from Christof about how he was going to avoid a repeat occurence of Burbank's awakening and escape.

8. Seriously Floating - A crossover piece which sees the two most sinister clowns of all time meet, painted face to painted face. Having terrorized the children of Derry for decades, Pennywise (from Stephen King's It) hears about some competition to his monopoly on terror and party tricks - a sinister villain named The Joker. Pennywise crawls the sewers to Gotham City, meeting The Joker and confronting him, while they each assert their respective turfs. The author could have made more of this piece; essentially, Pennywise does nothing more than crawl up a drain and say hi to the Joker. For two such well-developed, iconic and sinister characters, you would hope for more fireworks upon their meeting.

9. Assigned To What - Crossover. The ever mischievous Gregory House takes his workplace pranks to a whole new level when he gets himself and colleague Cuddy assigned to the X-Files. Their first case? Spontaneous human combustion. Storyline is not well developed - not entirely sure how House talked his way into the FBI, nor is it made clear where Mulder and Scully have gone - one can only guess they are the spontaneously combusted cold-case.

10. He Wishes He Was Elrond - A crossover ode to Agent Smith from The Matrix, who can't help but be occasionally overwhelmed by "weird" urgings to become Elrond, a distant cousin. "I wish I was Elrond, just for one day" Smith laments, "Ruling half the elves, send those quest dudes away." A great crossover parody, which centres around the actor of two roles as the common thread.