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* Another example of long Harry Potter fanfic is ''Hogwarts Exposed'', a fanfic coming in at over 700,000 words. It would be much shorter if not for the rampant [[Department of Redundancy Department|redundancy]] and [[Filler]], of course.

* ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' clocks in at (as of early November 2008) approximately 20 megabytes of pure ASCII text. That's 3.5 million words long. Which actually makes it longer than the ''Sacrifices Arc''.

* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4778437/1/These_Black_Eyes_Ag_Re_Post_Ing_r These Black Eyes]'' in the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' section is over 2.5 million words, 272 chapters.

* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1753484/1/RockmanEXE_The_College_Years RockmanEXE: The College Years]'' comes in at 942,893 words in 280 chapters. It's about three times longer than any other single fic in the Megaman category.

* ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'' is 732,891 words long. It shows, too; each chapter is a veritable mountain of text. ''The prologue'' clocks in at about 54 pages in Word-format.

* ''[[Pokémon Master]]'' is a door-stopper of a [[High Fantasy]] and a [[Dark Fic]] to boot.

* Then there's Lightning on the Wave's [[Alternate Universe]] [[Harry Potter]] epic known as the ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/895946/ Sacrifices Arc]''. It's posted as 7 separate stories (mirroring the 7-book format of the HP series), so the site doesn't record the full tale's word count. This is really too bad, since it clocks in at just over '''3 million''' words. Surprisingly enough (for a fanfic), it's actually a complete story. The author wrote it between September '05 and Jan '07, posting an average of 6400 words per day.

* The ''[[Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'' is 458,608 words in length. ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'', by the same author, looks like its going to run a risk of hitting this as well, as it is only seventeen chapters long at this point but is clocking in at over 150,000 words, and canonically, it hasn't even finished the first of the actual game's ''five'' acts.

* While we're at it, one particularly high quality fanfic in the ''[[Swat Kats]]'' section is [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3849671/1/SWAT_Kats_Endgame Endgame], which is now completed at 473,822 words and 70 chapters! (for those who beancount, that's 6768.8 words per chapter nearly) as of November 13, 2010. And [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/556935/KantoTheSlayer the author] has no intention of quitting now. Good thing it's an action fic rather than furporn. Now, the sequel, [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6474870/1/MegaKat_Shield MegaKat Shield] is underway!

* The ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1153636/ Whisper of the Heart]'' trilogy by Saddletank can almost fill a large sized binder when printed out using the default formatting.

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/159540/Ri2 Ri2] has at least 3 stories that are definitely doorstoppers:

** ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2053520/1/Latias_Journey Latias' Journey]'', weighing in at 1,186,409 words.

*** Originally, the author intended for a MASSIVE battle (even more than the last one where EVERYTHING was at stake) to occur, only to quit when he just got tired. That alone could've been a good (few) hundred thousand words.

** ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4319623/1/Brave_New_World Brave New World]'', surpassing it with 1,682,467 words.

*** ''[[Brave New World (fanfic)|Brave New World]]'' happens to be the sequel to ''[[Latias' Journey]]'', resulting in a combined length of almost 3 million words.

** ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3254812/1/A_Match_made_in_Hell A Match made in Hell]'', weighing in at 602,067 words.

* ScytheRider's ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4298303/1/Pokemon_Mystery_Dungeon_Silver_Resistance Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Silver Resistance ]'' weighing in at 443,889 words.

* Thunderblade's ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1605452/1/Battle_of_the_Sacred_Essences Battle of the Sacred Essences]'' is "only" 252,754 words but it still comes out in excess of 400 pages when printed.

* [http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_st.php?id=49664&submit=View This] ''crossover'' between [[Inuyasha]] and [[Yu Yu Hakusho]] is 500,000+ words and seems nowhere near done.

* tracefan's ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4012427/1/The_Darkness_Within The Darkness Within]'', presently having over 650,000 words. It doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon.

* The released chapters of ''[[Misfiled Dreams]]'' run 456 pages, including 2 blank pages in the first chapter and 5 pages of art. The ''unrealeased'' (and unedited) chapters run another '''616''' pages and counting.

* Razor Knight's ''Cyber Moon'', a ''[[Sailor Moon]]''-based epic trilogy, parts [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3214362/1/Cyber_Moon_Part_1_Genesis one], [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3214402/1/Cyber_Moon_Part_2_Chronicles two] and [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4639525/1/Cyber_Moon_Part_3_Crystal three]. Total length: over 600,000 words.

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2426552/1/Kim_Possible_Mind_body_and_Soul Mind, Body, and Soul] A Kim Possible fanfiction that's NSFW, clocks in at 450,669 words, and has a sequel being written that's three chapters long and 70k+ words already.

* The ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4691143/1/A_Different_Lesson A Different Lesson]. As originally posted, over 1100 pages; a smaller font sized version runs around 550 pages. 45 chapters, 632,000 words. And amazingly, very little of it is filler; there's just that much going on.

* The ''[[Total Drama Comeback]]'' series is composed of the first saga, one of the only complete alternate-seasons at over 400,000 words, and the second fic ''Total Drama Battlegrounds'' is set to at least triple that amount with double the contestants. This is over a million words for a kids' show.

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4112682/1/The_Subspace_Emissarys_Worlds_Conquest The Subspace Emissarys Worlds Conquest]. Currently at 181 chapters with just over ''3 million'' words. The author is aiming for ''300'' chapters by the way. And considering the chapters become actually longer as the story progresses...

* ''[[Nobody Dies]]''. 105 chapters and 626,466 words as of this writing, and will likely hit 150 chapters before it's run is up.

* 174 Chapters, 548,269 words, presenting the [[Bratz]] fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5203235/1/Blast_To_The_Past Blast To The Past]

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3766574/1/Prince_of_the_Dark_Kingdom Prince of the Dark Kingdom]: At 117 chapters and 832,144 words certainly qualifies. A Harry Potter fic.

* ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'': We've [[In Medias Res|just reached where the prologue left us off]], and it took us nearly 500,000 words. 600+ ''A4'' pages, if you plan on printing it.

* ''[[The Dream Land Story]]''. It's 87 (gradually-increasing-in-length) chapters, and 121,171 words, long, made even crazier by the fact that it's a ''[[Kirby]]'' fanfic. (And it ''works!'')

* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2388268/1/YuGiOh_Forever Yu-Gi-Oh Forever]'', which lives up to its name; it's a whopping ''321 chapters, 937,873 words, long.'' It also has a sequel, ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5893795/1/YuGiOh_Eternal Yu-Gi-Oh Eternal]'', which is 70 chapters, 451,622 words, long.

* Vathara's [[Love It or Hate It|controversial]] fanfic ''[[Embers]]'' currently boasts over 500,000 words.

* [http://agnph.com/fics/viewstory.php?sid=2995 Sabetha, The Walker of Fate], an EXTENSIVE Pokemon fanfic weighting in at a little over 520,000 words and 77 chapters.

* ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' fanfiction ''[[Shards of Memory]]'' ended at 41 chapters and over 275,000 words. The epilogue itself almost hits 17,000 words, twice the length of even the longest chapters up until then.

* [[Yet again, with a little extra help|Yet Again with a little extra help]] is currently over 900 thousand words long in will be breaking the million mark before it's end. This is all before the [[Time Skip]] in Naruto, incidentally, and the story will continue in a sequel for Post Time-Skip.

** At Chapter 65 Third Fang has cleared over [[Up to Eleven|1,000,000 words]].

*** Oh, and the fic updates about once every 1–2 weeks. Third Fang is a ''machine''.

**** Look at it this way. Third Fang has put up roughly 1,200,000 words in a period of 900, that is 1300 words per day, everyday. this time figure does not remove the time taken up buy revisions or time spent doing other tiresome things like sleeping and eating.

* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3455738/1/Tales_of_The_Cosmic_War_vol_1_A_Heros_Evolution Tales of The Cosmic War]'' is a story that has three parts with a total of around 200 chapters (parts as in stories) the first one has around 700,000 words with some new versions of the first few chapters, and it only gets longer. the third will be finished soon and has reached over 2 million words on it's own.

* Superstarultra's ''[[You Got Haruhi Rolled]]''. Over 300,000 words long and still not done. Even more amazing, it's currently 84 chapters long, but individual chapters were still pretty short until chapter 72. A very large percentage of its length is in the last few chapters.

* HVK's [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3298910/1/Kingdom_Crossovers Kingdom Crossovers], a retelling of [[Kingdom Hearts]], with [[Invader Zim|Zim]] taking the role of Sora, [[Calvin and Hobbes]] the role of Donald and Goofy and [[Garfield]] the role of King Mickey. Unlike most rewrites of [[Kingdom Hearts]], this actually has lots of different things than you would expect from the actual series, really good points of [[Adaptation Expansion|adaptations]], [[Loads and Loads of Characters|much more characters than the original]] (to the point of [[Up to Eleven]]), [[Garfield]]'s kingdom being the distant future of [[Warhammer 40,000]] ([[It Makes Sense in Context]], [[Kudzu Plot|hopefully]]) and Zim's journey to defeat [[The Heartless]]. The reason why it is a door stopper? It has over 500,000 words and it is still in Traverse Town, making an [[Arc Fatigue]] probably worse than the [[Dragonball Z|Namek Saga]]!

* [[Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns]]. At over 650,000 words, it is still only ''half'' done and no readers are complaining. Given the [[Wise Prince|kind]] [[Guile Hero|of]] [[Badass Crew|main cast]] is used, this comes with the territory.

* [[Ultimate Sleepwalker|Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams]] comes in at some 62 chapters and 330,000 words as of August 2011. [[Ultimate SpiderWoman|Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With The Light]], a companion series set in the same universe, isn't quite at Doorstopper status yet at "only" some 36 chapters and 215,000 words, but the author's working on it. Both series each get a new chapter every month, and combined they total over 530,000 words.

* ''[[Constant Temptation]]'', a ''[[Death Note]]'' fanfic has 102 chapters and is over 300,000 words. That's not counting the Sequel and the Deleted Scenes...

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' fanfic ''[[Skin (fanfic)|Skin]]'' recently passed the 1.5 million marker, and it's ''only half way''.

* ''[[Fallout Equestria]]''. A crossover between the ''Fallout'' and ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'', now ended, it is 45 chapters (plus epilogue) and approximately 600,000 words long, making it one of the longest, if not ''the'' longest [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|MLP:FiM]] fanfiction.

** The [[Recursive Fanfiction]] ''[[Fallout Equestria Project Horizons (Fanfic)|Fallout Equestria Project Horizons]]'' has passed it, at around 700,000 words, and still isn't finished.

* ''[[Fanfic/Rhyme And Reason|Rhyme And Reason]]'' was not only the first fanfic based on ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' and has always been considered one of the best, but with 158,492 words, it also used to be the longest and definitely considered a Doorstopper. But then, after seven years of on-and-off work, ''Gadget in Chains'' was completed. It stands at 402,670 words.

* [[A Growing Affection]] is over seven hundred thousand words long, and at the time of this post is only the fifth longest Naruto fanfic on fanfiction.net.

* The shortest completed [[Poke Wars]] arc by Cornova is ''The Incipience'' at 55,073 words long. If all the completed arcs are added up, it comes out to a total of 340,186 words.

* [http://fanfiction.net/s/4424201/1/ Teaching Darkness: Memories] by [[Rae Logan]], is over 206,000 words, and itself is PART 5 in a series, with the previous story at only a little over 52,000 (at least a quarter of it's sequel's size!) and the currently in progress part 6 at over 137,000 as of January 27, 2012. The fanfic series itself has sidestories (for ideas decidedly too short compared to the main stories to focus a multichapter story around, regarded as a different canon, except maybe the Twilight Zone-esque one), about seven posted scrapped unfinished stories (released as Deleted Scenes), and several fan written stories, which, if compiled into one volume would be considered a Doorstopper. Sometimes jokingly referred to [[Overly Narrow Superlative|THE Largest Fanfic Series Centered Around A Scrapped Character In A Game That Never Happened]]. Who? Mephiles the Dark from [[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)||Sonic Next Gen]]... VERY loosely.

* At the time of this posting, the [[Code Geass]] fanfic [[Dauntless]] is at over 539,000 words in 77 chapters. It started in July 2010, this is being posted in January 2012. It usually updates at an average of once every 8–10 days. The author believes that she ''might'' finish sometime in 2012.

* [[Thawing Permafrost]] is by no means a titan like the rest on this list, but it still qualifies as a door-stopper and the longest Mizore-centric fic in the [[Rosario + Vampire]] category (35 chapters across 518 pages, according to the author.)

** [[Here in My Arms]] is at least two and a half times as long, in the same fandom.

* [[Hitchups]] is 40 chapters long, with 329,533 words that make up the entirety of the fic. In the [[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]] ff.net archive in the stories over 100,000 words, it is currently the second-longest story there, after ''The Truth is a Shard of Ice'' by Whitefang333.

* [[Blood That Flows]] is, without a question, the longest [[Lyrical Nanoha]] fanfic on Fanfiction.net. Over 200 chapters alone and over 500,000 words. The only Nanoha fanfic that comes close is the [[Deva Series]], where, if you add up all four parts, there are more words than [[Blood That Flows]], but it still has less chapters.

* ''[[The Neo Domino Purge]]'' is putting up a challenge for the longer ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' fanfics - currently at 324,000 from 32 chapters. And still ''setting up the Dark Signer arc''. [[The Remake]] is 83,000 words from 5 chapters. Altogether; 407,000 and counting

* The ''Halo'' fanfiction [[The Life]] is currently over 100 chapters long and over 550,000 words in total. [[Word of God]] states that the story might end up being twice that length by the time it's finally finished. It is currently the longest story in the Halo fanfiction.net archive.