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Some of the best fanfics out there sound extremely weird when trying to explain it in one sentence...
 
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* '' {{spoiler|[[Aeon Natum Engel]]}}:'' H.P. Lovecraft, Alastair Reynolds, and Stephen Baxter got drunk together and watched all of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' in one sitting, then played ''[[F.E.A.R.]]''.▼
 
** '' {{spoiler|[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]}}:'' The above, rewritten, minus the sanity.▼
▲* '' {{spoiler|[[Aeon Natum Engel]]}}:'' H.P. Lovecraft, Alastair Reynolds, and Stephen Baxter got drunk together and watched all of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' in one sitting, then played ''[[F.E.A.R.]]''.
* '' {{spoiler|[[Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon]]}}:'' A [[Sailor Moon|crybaby]] [[Magical Girl]] is re-imagined as a [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]. [[Destructive Savior|Property damage follows.]]▼
▲** '' {{spoiler|[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]}}:'' The above, rewritten, minus the sanity.
* '' {{spoiler|[[Better Off Alone]]}}:'' A neglected and abused shadow person falls in love with a turtle creature.▼
▲* '' {{spoiler|[[Beautiful Destroyer Sailor Moon]]}}:'' A [[Sailor Moon|crybaby]] [[Magical Girl]] is re-imagined as a [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]]. [[Destructive Savior|Property damage follows.]]
▲* '' {{spoiler|[[Better Off Alone]]}}:'' A neglected and abused shadow person falls in love with a turtle creature.
* ''{{spoiler|[http://avatar-dacia.tumblr.com/post/95488074469/better-off-not-knowing Better Off Not Knowing]}}'': [[Huge Schoolgirl]] gets bad news about her biological parents; [[Happily Adopted|is unaware of it]].
* ''{{spoiler|[[Blood That Flows]]}}:'' A [[Magical Girl|magical]] [[Lyrical Nanoha|girl]] has a [[Slayers|smart-ass sorceress]] for a mother. [[Stuff Blowing Up|Explosions ensue.]]
* '' {{spoiler|[[Code Total Drama Reality]]}}'': A dysfunctional group of veteran reality show contestants end up being bodyguards to a lonely girl and her computer. They help her to save her friends from her psychotic "brother."
* {{spoiler|''[[Cupcakes]]''}}: A cheerful baker has her friend help her get the needed ingredients for making baked goods.
** Alternatively: A girl's life is ruined when her best friend bakes her delicious pastries.
* {{spoiler|The ''[[Dangerverse]]''}}: Four adults conspire to train a generation to survive a war, with special emphasis on eight children.
** {{spoiler|''Living With Danger''}}: A young boy's babysitter teams up with a strange man to kidnap the young boy, break into a high-security prison, release a man known to have murdered at least thirteen people and betrayed his best friends, then force the young boy into hiding for years, kidnapping another child along the way when said child's father attempts to rescue the young boy. The adults are eventually caught and put on trial, but get off scot-free.
** {{spoiler|''Living Without Danger''}}: Four children brought up in an unusual household, only recently forced out of hiding, go to a school and are nearly killed repeatedly. After multiple murder attempts on the part of a teacher, said teacher is killed and a rock is destroyed, leading to the deaths of two elderly people. The next year, a boy, feeling different from his family, attempts to write in the diary he took from a younger child. He nearly kills multiple people doing so, and is almost killed himself before being stopped.
** {{spoiler|''Dealing With Danger''}}: A man with a dangerous condition takes a job teaching at a large school. Meanwhile, a teenage boy's estranged father attempts to reconnect with his son, but is captured and sent to jail for doing so. Then, the teacher's condition is revealed and he is forced to resign. The teenage boy is ripped away from his family and sent to stay with a foster family he detests, despite their efforts to be kind to him. Another teenager is forced to compete with three other students, all of whom are several years older than him. He is kidnapped, but manages to escape, though another boy is killed in the process.
** {{spoiler|''Facing Danger''}}: A student is expelled for disobeying a teacher, but continues to live at the school, attend class, and fraternize with other students, despite the teacher's best efforts to find him. Then he is kidnapped, and meets his birth parents for the first time, but chooses to leave them behind and go back to school, even with a psychotic madman trying to kill him. Many people are killed, and some captured, but a breakout attempt is soon made. Unfortunately, the time in captivity had an effect on one woman's mind, and she is no longer sure of her place in the world. Also, lots of teens try to figure out how they feel about other teens, and some of them kiss.
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* '' {{spoiler|[[From Fake Dreams]]}}'': A [[Fate/Zero|retired mage]] [[Dreaming of Things to Come|has some dreams of the future]]. He decides to make sure his [[Fate/stay night|adopted son]] has a good magical education as a result.
* {{spoiler|''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon]]''}}: Two girls fight world-destroying evil. One wants to fight regular crime too. The other has her panties stolen.
** {{spoiler|''Futari wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon -solar eclipse-''}}: The girls become ahave [[TakahashiBelligerent Sexual CoupleTension]] and continue their quest to glue a busted sundial back together. Monologues are replaced with flashbacks.
* {{spoiler|''[[Guide Me Home]]''}}: An [[Broken Bird|emotionally scarred]] divorcee and a hot widower have adventures and bond while trying to thwart the machinations of the female protagonist's [[Complete Monster]] of an ex.
* {{spoiler|''[[Half Life: Full Life Consequences]]''}}: A man rushes from his job in order to assist his brother. [[It Got Worse|It doesn't end well.]] He also attacks the [[No Kill Like Overkill|souls of the undead]].
* '' {{spoiler|[[Harry Potter and Thethe Methods of Rationality]]}}'': The heroic protagonist of a beloved series is rewritten as a power-hungry, self-righteous brat who delivers [[Author Tract|Author Tracts]].
** Alternatively: A shameless [[Author Tract]] in the form of a [[Fanfic]] that makes significant-to-radical changes to the personalities of the original characters. How radical? To the point where the murderous [[Big Bad]] of the original becomes a hardworking schoolteacher who makes a point of rewarding a student for doing the right thing.
* '' {{spoiler|[[Harbinger]]}}'': [[Mass Effect|Commander Shepard]] is [[First Encounter Assault Recon|the Point Man.]] [[Hilarity Ensues|Insanity Ensues.]]
* '' {{spoiler|[[Hemostuck]]}}'': The same social plights used in canon, just reversed. Also, everyone's a little older in this story, which swaps years between installments and [[Crack Ship|completely defies the apparently obvious relationships]] of the original.
* ''{{spoiler|[[30 "H"s|Thirty Hs]]}}'': Harry Potter makes creative use of a power tool with the help of his pal Dobby, before eventually playing guitar, eating a sandwich, and discussing life with a famous author.
* {{spoiler| ''[http://archiveofourown.org/series/198323 Lotus Hybridization]'' series}}: Thanks to [[What If|a few decisions being made differently]], a [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|team of supervillains]] are sentenced to community service.▼
* '' {{spoiler|[[The Ikaris]]}}'': Two teenagers fail to get a divorce.
* '' {{spoiler|[[Its a Dangerous Business Going Out Your Door]]}}'': Talking horses go on a road trip to get some medicine for a friend.
** Alternatively: An attempt to fuse [[The Lord of the Rings|J.R.R. Tolkien]] with [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|ponies]].
* '' {{spoiler|[[The Key to a Successful Interview]]}}'': [[Ranma ½|Legendary male-female duo]] known for their [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] in canon get off on the right foot for once. Oh... and they are very pop-culture savvy.
* '' {{spoiler|[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]}}'': The goddess of tropes uses even more tropes.
** '' {{spoiler|[[SOS Pretty Cure]]}}'': [[Pretty Cure]] just got a little stranger. Five of them, in fact. Except one of them is as normal as it gets. As for the other four, one of them is an alien, one of them is a time traveler, one of them is an [[ESPer]], and one of them is thought of by a bunch of [[Psychic Powers|Espers]] to be God.
▲* {{spoiler| ''[http://archiveofourown.org/series/198323 Lotus Hybridization]'' series}}: Thanks to [[What If|a few decisions being made differently]], a [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|team of supervillains]] are sentenced to community service.
* ''{{spoiler|[[Luminosity]]}}'': An entire book series is redone by giving the main character a brain. [[Better Than Canon|It ends up better than the series.]]
* ''{{spoiler|[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2184465 a million miles of fun]}}'': A [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|team]] of [[Villains Out Shopping|supervillains make a stop]] at a [[Greasy Spoon|questionable all-night chain restaurant]]. The [[Big Bad]] is [[The Ditherer|that guy who takes his sweet time ordering]], [[The Brute]] has [[Big Eater|quite the appetite]], the [[Blood Knight]] gets giggly when sleep-deprived, and the [[Punch Clock Villain]]'s [[Too Much Information|brain-to-mouth filter is out of commission]]. [[Toilet Humor|Crude humor]] ensues.
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* '' {{spoiler|[[My Immortal]]}}'': Bratty teenage girl screws people and complains a lot.
** Or: [[Canon Defilement|Canon is raped]] in [[Ron the Death Eater|the]] [[Idiot Plot|worst]] [[Mary Sue|ways]] [[Draco in Leather Pants|possible.]] [[So Bad It's Good|You laugh.]]
* '' {{spoiler|[[The Next Doctors]]}}'': An [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S4S30/E14 The Next Doctor|episode]] is changed up after a man pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] that saves his friend while changing him into a [[Talkative Loon]].
* '' {{spoiler|[[Nobody Dies]]}}'': A few people not dying results in a guy having a bunch of crazy eccentric sisters. [[My Friends and Zoidberg|And he's the most sane mecha pilot now.]]
* '' {{spoiler|[[On A Cross And Arrow]]}}'': A sextet of unlikely friends try to take a day trip to the big city. It quickly leads to [[Screw Yourself|selfcest]].
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* ''{{spoiler|[[Progress]]}}'': A shut-in immortal whose best friend is [[Companion Cube|an abacus]] tries to catch up on modern society.
* ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy]]}}'': [[Gratuitous French]] and [[Gratuitous Japanese]] combine their powers to make things smell nice.
** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Heavy Metal]]}}'': An all-girl metal band protects the universe from a land of Satanists by using [[The Power of Rock]].
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Hollywood Stars]]}}'': Two ballet dancers, a cosplayer, a comedienne, and a sailor-mouthed violent videogame maniac fight a group of Satanists in Tinseltown.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Dimensional Evolution]]}}'': A [[Villainous Crossdresser]] is conflicted about her loyalties before ultimately seeing the light and becoming an ally to the girls she was supposed to defeat.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Strange Happenings]]}}'': A [[Wholesome Crossdresser|male maiden]], a stage magician, a part-human, part-cyborg [[Bifauxnen]], a tomboyish ballerina, and a rhythmic gymnast fight a dangerous enemy with a claw for a hand that commands villains named after and loosely based on their counterparts from ''[[Kore Zom]]''.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure: Agents of Romero]]}}'': [[Highschool of the Dead|History]] repeats itself, but this time our stalwart band of survivors consist of a soon-to-be-former autistic boy, his girlfriend, a [[Bifauxnen]], a lady samurai, a snobby rich girl, her hapless overweight boyfriend, a ballet student, the school nurse, and a [[Tagalong Kid]] who becomes a protege of the ballet student. All except for the school nurse become Cures as they investigate the cause of the ongoing [[Zombie Apocalypse]].
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Contemporary Mouseworks]]}}'': Four dance students, including a tomboyish capoeira student, two ballet students, and a modern dance student, join forces with a publicly-educated friend of the modern dance student and a [[Megane]] attending an [[Dragged Into Drag|in-name-and-composition-only all-boys school]] to take down an [[Obviously Evil]] [[EVIL Organization]] ([[Fun with Acronyms|no pun intended]]) hellbent on taking over the world.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Transient School]]}}'': Eight students at a school with a [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]] dress code fight a robot and his crossdressing henchmen, all while in drag.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Android Wars]]}}'': Two trios of Cures reenact the Great Mobile Patent Wars in a corporate allegory of epic proportions detailing how using patents as an anti-competitive weapon can harm most everyone that's a consumer.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Old School Videos]]}}'': Three groups of Cures unite to promote the early days of home video.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Classics]]}}'': Six drama students fight for the [[Golden Age of Hollywood]]... seventy years after it ended. Hey, the Golden Age has got good promotional value, doesn't it?
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Engine Crank]]}}'': More than a handful of Cures unite to promote the automotive industry.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Pretty Cure Club Activities]]}}'': An artist/calligrapher, a gymnast descended from a Russian ballerina, a young cook, a drummer, an otaku, a gardener, and a detective interested in the supernatural fight an evil organization that's bent on stealing dreams.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Fan Fic/Spaghetti Pretty Cure|Spaghetti Pretty Cure]]}}'': Seven Cures fight an evil organization composed entirely of banditos in a [[Pretty Cure]] take on the [[Spaghetti Western]] genre.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Fan Fic/Science Fiction Pretty Cure|Science Fiction Pretty Cure]]}}'': A group of [[Science Fiction]] geeks gain awesome powers after their DNA is altered in a series of freak accidents, and they use those powers to fight a Mafia-like evil organization.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Cyber Pretty Cure]]}}'': A trio of video game and computer geeks fight your average everyday technological maladies anthropomorphized.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Dark Age of Pretty Cure]]}}'': Four teenagers [[Dark Is Not Evil|wielding the power of darkness]] fight evil in a story taken straight from [[The Dark Age of Comic Books]].
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Skater Pretty Cure 5]]}}'': Five British teenagers, including one who just moved in from Brooklyn, fight some hotter-than-hell villains [[Recycled in Space|ON ICE!]]
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Knox Nineties Pretty Cure]]}}'': Five Tennessee teenagers fight an evil organization in a very important year for the [[Magical Girl]] genre.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Dragon]]}}'': A boy who finds himself attending an [[One-Gender School|all-girls school]] and a girl who is the most beautiful student there unite to fight some evil martial artists.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Dark Legends of Pretty Cure]]}}'': Seven Cures find their sanity challenged by a series of events that would leave even [[Madoka Magica|Kyubey]] wondering what the hell just happened in this prequel to all [[Pretty Cure]] seasons, both canon and fanmade.
*** ''{{spoiler|[[Beautiful Dreamer Pretty Cure]]}}'': Five Cures at a science and technology school with gender-inverted uniforms fight the Mafia.
* ''{{spoiler|[[Relationships Series]]}}:'' A librarian, a cop, and a military combat instructor get into a three-way relationship after a drunken night together.
* ''{{spoiler|[[The New Captain N]]}}:'' A young man makes lots of new friends, lives in a castle, and gets laid multiple times after breaking his best friend's television.
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* ''{{spoiler|[[The Second Try]]}}:'' [[After the End|The two]] [[Peggy Sue|most commonly used]] Eva fanfic plots [[X Meets Y|are done together]].
* ''{{spoiler|[[Shining Pretty Cure]]}}'': [[Ascended Fanboy|Fangirl ascends]] but ends up in the wrong genre. She doesn't mind at all. An [[Ill Girl]] glows and tries not to be ''too'' obvious a [[Sixth Ranger]].
* {{spoiler|[[Shinji and Warhammer40K|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]}}: [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|A young boy]] finds a box full of [[Warhammer 4000040,000|wargame miniatures]] and starts talking to them. They start talking back. Then he gets a [[Humongous Mecha|giant robot]]. And [[Psychic Powers]]. ''Then'' the weird stuff starts.
** {{spoiler|[[Thousand Shinji]]}}: A different version of that young boy converts his friends to his cult in a plot against his father.
** {{spoiler|[[ToyHammer]]}}: A reclusive artist and his geeky friend find the aforementioned [[Warhammer 4000040,000|wargame miniatures]] that have been accidentally delivered to his house.
* {{spoiler|[[Q-Basic Gorillas]]}}: An idiot touches a forbidden relic and turns his entire city into primates, as well as the enemy forces invading his hometown. Several millennia later, the rival primate factions are equipped with [[Magitek]] up the gazoo, and things quickly descend into a plot that reads like ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' meets ''[[Rise of the Planet of the Apes]]''.
* {{spoiler|[[Stars Above]]}}: An [[Ordinary High School Student|ordinary high-school girl's]] [[Slice of Life|quiet life]] is thrown into disarray by the arrival of an angsty [[Magical Girl]] and a bunch of monsters. [[Les Yay|Yuri ensues.]]
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* '' {{spoiler|[[A World Without Rainbows]]}}'': An alternate universe fic that borrows elements from [[Fringe]] and concerns [[For Want of a Nail|a certain-kind of rainbow not occurring]] and the lives of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E23 The Cutie Mark Chronicles|6 horses]] [[What If|without it]].
 
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