Through the Looking Glass (fanfic)

Through the Looking Glass is a trilogy of Mega Crossover Fan Fics by Herr Wozzeck (Not to be confused with the Alice in Wonderland sequel of the same name.) that somehow manages to cross over Sonic the Hedgehog, Banjo-Kazooie, Kung Fu Panda, and Mass Effect. The title is given because all of the fics are given a supernatural twist that would make the events of each respective part of the fic impossible or difficult to occur, depending on which part of the trilogy is being read.

One can find each part here:


 * Through the Looking Glass: The first part of the trilogy, crossing over Sonic the Hedgehog and Banjo-Kazooie. Throughout the first book, Banjo and Rouge see each other in dreams and many, many things change in the St H world. Complete as of the present moment.
 * Through the Looking Glass: Penance: The second part of the trilogy, crossing over Sonic the Hedgehog and Kung Fu Panda, with a brief bit of Banjo-Kazooie towards the end. It follows Tails as he flees to China tries to deal with the fallout of the climax of the first part while helping Tai Lung find redemption from his deeds. Complete as of the present moment.
 * Through the Looking Glass: Elegy: The third part of the trilogy, crossing over Kung Fu Panda and Mass Effect with Sonic the Hedgehog and Banjo-Kazooie crosses prevalent throughout. It concerns Tai Lung living a new life while also dealing with strange dreams in which he lives moments from the life of Thane Krios. In progress as of its third chapter set.

Tropes that apply to this fanic series include:
"--Banjo: "He's headed right this way!" Shade: "And what makes you think that?" Trophy Thomas: "Oh, I dunno, the fact that he destroyed our home! That, and those robots of his messed up my hair!""
 * Anticlimax Boss: was a little easily taken down at the end of Penance...
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:

"-- Crane: "Man, it feels so awkward to know that are related by blood...""
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Banjo is the nicest guy in part one. That said, you better not say bad things about his girlfriend lest you want to get punched in the face.
 * Big No: More like Big
 * Break the Cutie: Almost happens to Cream in Penance. Key word being "almost".
 * And then it happens to in part 1 as backstory.
 * Complete Monster: The villains of both of the first two parts apply.
 * Continuity Nod: Quite a few to the Banjo-Kazooie series in part 1.
 * Also to Sonic's being playable in Super Smash Brothers Brawl, as
 * Crossover Ship: Banjo and Rouge.
 * Darker and Edgier: Most of the series once the climax of part 1 happens.
 * Dead Person Conversation: The only substantial dream sequence in Penance is this between Tails, Oogway, and . Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming after Tails gives a World of Cardboard Speech that brutally tears apart in a counterargument.
 * Doing in the Wizard: Happens in Part 1, although it is partly subverted given that it does involve mystical objects and that particular reveal only explains how the pieces fit together, not exactly how said pieces would cause a dream land to form.
 * Dream Sequence: These are central to the story of both the first and third parts. Also appear in part two, although to a much lesser extent than the other two parts.
 * Dream Land: In part one, where Banjo and Rouge remember what happened vividly.
 * Or Was It a Dream?: Elegy seems to be going in this direction.
 * Embarrassing Nickname: Tails during the entirety of Penance. He's so disgusted with himself after the climax of part 1 that he (and the narrative) gives his given name of Miles Prower. By the end of Penance, though, he's warmed back up to it, such that by Elegy he no longer fusses about it and the narrative goes back to referring to him as Tails.
 * Empty Shell: Tails in Penance. He gets better, though.
 * Final Speech: gets a rather long one when he dies in Penance.
 * Girl of My Dreams: Banjo, in quite a literal sense.
 * Gotta Catch Em All: With the Chaos Emeralds in Part 1. Neither side gets a hold of all of them until the very end.
 * Greedy Jew:
 * Happily Married: The ultimate fate of Banjo and Rouge as seen at the end of Penance and throughout Elegy.
 * Heel Face Turn: Rouge in Part 1, thanks to Banjo. Tai Lung also gets this treatment in Penance: see Redemption Quest below.
 * Info Dump: in part 1.
 * Kirk Summation: To Tan Tao at the end of Penance.
 * Law of Inverse Fertility: Applies to Amy at the end of part 1, and then mentioned a few more times in Penance.
 * Long Lost Sibling:
 * Law of Inverse Fertility: Applies to Amy at the end of part 1, and then mentioned a few more times in Penance.
 * Long Lost Sibling:

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 * Love Before First Sight: Played with in part 1. Banjo and Rouge are in constant contact throughout, yet they never see each other's physical bodies until the climax.
 * Luke, I Am Your Father: Mother in this case, although said mother does exposit about the identity of the character's father as well.
 * MacGuffin: The Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald in part 1.
 * MacGuffin Delivery Service: Rouge inadverdently does this for Eggman. Fortunately, he's not successful in getting the Mac Guffins.
 * MacGuffin Escort Mission: This is why he's not successful.
 * Mad Scientist: Eggman in part 1.
 * He's so Royally Screwed-Up by the end of Part 1

"-- Banjo: "You may have been bad to your friends, but... What you did for me wasn't what any bad person would do. You, you told me about Eggman's plans to come straight for me... And the fact that you would've done the same thing even if you knew this was going to happen... You're not a bad person, Rouge. You're not a bad person, even if you've been bad to your friends. I couldn't think of anybody who deserves to be my friend more if I took Kazooie off of that list. Rouge... Don't think like that. Please.""
 * Moral Event Horizon: In both parts where the villain is a complete monster:
 * Just when you think Eggman couldn't possibly get bad enough with, he then
 * And then there's Tan Tao, who keeps a harem and a small personal army who kidnaps girls against their wills. Right when you think he's standard villain faire,
 * New Powers as the Plot Demands: Banjo gets this when he's able to perform a Chaos Control with the Master Emerald. It's heavily subverted for three reasons, though. The action constitutes a Desperation Attack when the only other person who could do Chaos Control at the time became a victim of a Non-Lethal KO, it's implied and stated that the action almost killed him, and he never really needs to do it again throughout the entire rest of the trilogy.
 * One Degree of Separation: comes under Rouge's care, and Rouge sees Banjo in her dreams.
 * Patrick Stewart Speech: Banjo gives one to Rouge that doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming:

"--Tai Lung: "My biggest question right now is what the bloody hell is a siha?""
 * Pull the Thread: Arguably, the entire second half of Penance after is this to.
 * Rape as Drama: In both of the first two parts. Part 1 has it happen to . Part 2 actually subverts it, as
 * Redemption Quest: Basically the whole plot of Penance.
 * Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Silver; see Set Right What Once Went Wrong below.
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something: The emperor of China in Penance.
 * Sequel Hook: At the end of part 1.
 * Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Silver travels back in time to the events of part 1 to avoid a nuclear war that could have resulted. It's successful, although it's not entirely by his own hands.
 * Skeptic No Longer: Happens to Knuckles in part 1. He takes a punch to the face and brutal taunting about what Eggman's going to do to his friends before he changes his mind on Rouge.
 * Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness: In Part 1, there are quite a few fourth-wall breaking jokes in which characters (all exclusively from the Banjo Kazooie series) make random references to both the author and the reader or in which the narrator interacts directly with a few of the characters. The fourth wall solidifies pretty quickly once it gets Darker and Edgier, however, and it never returns to that state after the climax.
 * So Happy Together: Amy and Sonic's only intimate experience in the entire trilogy comes three chapters before
 * Invisible to Gaydar: Buddy and Cody in Elegy.
 * Sure Why Not: The inclusion of Merrick in Elegy was by request of a reader.
 * Talking in Your Dreams: Lots of it in part 1, and then a very brief scene in Penance (see Dead Person Conversation above).
 * Take That: The Lord of Games directs a big one at Amy's 4Kids voiceover.
 * Take That Scrappy: gets rammed into electrified metal bars by Rouge's foot
 * Tear Jerker: at the end of part 1.
 * Trauma Conga Line:
 * You Are the Translated Foreign Word:


 * You Should Know This Already: Prevalent in Parts 2 and 3. Part 3 practically requires the knowledge that for the story to make sense. Part 2 subverts it, though, treating the climax of part 1 as a plot twist.