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From 1989 to 1993, ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' aired on American free TV. Also in the 90s, several more or less official comics were released for young readers (and, unbeknownst to the House of Mouse, the growing ranks of dedicated fans). In January 2003, however, one guy from New York City outdid it all single-handedly when he published something he had worked on for three years: ''[[Of Mice and Mayhem (Fanfic)|Of Mice and Mayhem]]''.
 
It is a webcomic, or rather a web graphic novel: It follows a comicbook page layout and, unlike the serial format of most web fiction, the entire story--all 232 pages, including a front and back cover--was published at once.
 
Instead of throwing the show's concept over and making up something entirely new, ''[[Of Mice and Mayhem (Fanfic)|Of Mice and Mayhem]]'' picks up where the show left, and that is presumably after the episode "Good Times, Bat Times". Three of [[One-Scene Wonder|the most popular one-shot characters]] have joined the Rescue Rangers (and been given an extra popularity boost), and this extra personnel, together with their individual abilities, is direly needed on the case the Rangers are thrown into, a case that doesn't only [[Darker and Edgier|go beyond anything ever seen in official material]], but also takes several months to solve. Since the target audience isn't the same as the show's, namely the first generation of fans who had all grown up by then rather than the kids who watched CDRR on Toon Disney, the author could increase the overall intensity by multiple notches.
 
While some accuse it of being a bad excuse for blatant [[Shipping]] promotion, most fans regard ''[[Of Mice and Mayhem (Fanfic)|Of Mice and Mayhem]]'' as one of the greatest creations ever done by a Rescue Rangers fan and "up there" together with the [[Fan Fiction]] epic ''Rhyme and Reason''. It is often considered superior to the show as well as the official comics, both story-wise and drawings-wise, and it received fandom awards by the dozen.
 
[https://web.archive.org/web/20130908005921/http://rrdatabase.dyndns.org/written/chris_fischer/mayhem.php Click here] to read this fan crafting. Prepare for a sleepless night or two after taking it in.<ref>Sadly, the artist's original site, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100303155305/http://www.electricfishmusic.com/001.html Electric Fish Music]," appears to be down permanently.</ref>
 
Fans will be delighted to know that the author ''is'' planning a sequel, but it won't be finished for some time.
 
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=== ''[[Of Mice and Mayhem (Fanfic)|Of Mice and Mayhem]]'' contains examples of: ===
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Ferrante. In fact, even {{spoiler|Gadget}}.
* [[Big Bad]]: Dr. Snow.
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* [[Everyone Can See It]]
* [[Everyone Knows Morse]]: Monty communicates with Chip this way at one point during a mission.
* [[Expy]]: Besides the [[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|canonical Dan Rather]] expy Stan Blather; the first family is clearly a spoof of the [[Bill Clinton|Clintons]].
* [[First Kiss]], [[True Love's Kiss]]: Probably the most famous of 232 pages, did wonders on the fandom.
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Monterey Jack's extreme (yet fake) [[Land Down Under|Aussie]] speak.
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* [[He Knows Too Much]]: {{spoiler|The attempted liquidation of Chip}}.
* [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]]
{{quote| '''Gadget:''' I think I left the thingy on the whatzit....}}
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Well, this is bordering on a shipping fic. The pairings are Chip×Gadget and Dale×Foxglove.
* [[Important Haircut]]: Gadget.
* [[Innocence Lost]]: Gadget has to overcome her, albeit brief, past as {{spoiler|an assassin and even having killed a human under mind control}}.
* [[Kick the Son of Aa Bitch]]: {{spoiler|The guy Gadget kills ''really'' deserves it.}}
* [[Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone]]: When Gadget meets Chip at the White House, the other Rangers stay back for a very good reason.
* [[Lego Genetics]]: Gadget discovers that {{spoiler|the time Nimnul mixed up the Rangers' DNA left her genetically compatible with chipmunks.}}
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* [[Post-Kiss Catatonia]]: Chip.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Gadget is wearing a dress and a new hairdo when she comes to take Chip home, mind you she has been wearing dresses in the show for disguise purposes only.
* [[Shout -Out]]: The first daughter shares her first name with [[Tress MacNeille]] (voice of both Chip and Gadget on the series).
** And then there are Tress's [[Pokémon|Pikachu]] plush, a poison named after a Roland music workstation...
** Roy Batty, the leader of the movie-addicted bat clan, is named after Rutger Hauer's character, the sort of [[Big Bad]], in ''[[Blade Runner]]''. The bat in question might indeed have watched ''[[Blade Runner]]'' once too often and decided to adopt the name.
** Gadget felt the need to [[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|do a barrel roll.]]
** Tress has a [[Powerpuff Girls]] T-shirt.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|Chip takes the poisoned dart fired at Gadget}}.
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