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'''''Important Note''''': Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as [[So Bad Its Horrible]]. Hard as it is to imagine at times, [[Rule Thirty Six|there is a market for all types of deviancy]] (no matter how small a niche it is). It has to ''fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this. Any descriptions that fail to imply anything but offensiveness will be deleted.
'''''Important Note''''': Merely being offensive in its subject matter is not enough to justify a work as [[So Bad Its Horrible]]. Hard as it is to imagine at times, [[Rule 34|there is a market for all types of deviancy]] (no matter how small a niche it is). It has to ''fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this. Any descriptions that fail to imply anything but offensiveness will be deleted.


* '''[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/RANGERS.TXT The Rangers Of NIMH].''' [[MST|MSTed]] [http://linkchecker.stacken.kth.se/mst3k/rangers.txt here.] (crossover)
* '''[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/RANGERS.TXT The Rangers Of NIMH].''' [[MST|MSTed]] [http://linkchecker.stacken.kth.se/mst3k/rangers.txt here.] (crossover)
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* '''[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/text.html Sailor Moon: American Kitsune]''' (racism, sexism, homophobia, implied incest, blatantly [[Out of Character]], crossover, explicit sex)
* '''[http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/text.html Sailor Moon: American Kitsune]''' (racism, sexism, homophobia, implied incest, blatantly [[Out of Character]], crossover, explicit sex)
** Fandom: dub ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', ''[[Power Rangers]]'', Archie's ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Book)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', proto-[[Gonter Verse]], [[Planet Eris]]. Practically everything the two authors watched pre-1997, injected with [[Canon Defilement]].
** Fandom: dub ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', ''[[Power Rangers]]'', Archie's ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', proto-[[Gonter Verse]], [[Planet Eris]]. Practically everything the two authors watched pre-1997, injected with [[Canon Defilement]].
** Pairing: Usagi/David "Davey Crockett" Kintobor, a blatant [[Author Avatar]] [[God Mode Sue]].
** Pairing: Usagi/David "Davey Crockett" Kintobor, a blatant [[Author Avatar]] [[God Mode Sue]].
** Synopsis: Usagi gets launched across the Pacific by one of Rita and Lord Zedd's monsters. She's caught in St. Louis by "Davey Crockett", who proceeds to offer her a home for the time. They discover a diabolical team-up of Rita, Zedd, Queen Beryl, [[VR Troopers|Zitkor]], and presumably tons more, requiring them to assemble many characters, powers, and other miscellaneous crap that [[David Gonterman]] and buddy made up as he went along in an attempt to fight the villainous team. A very confusing ~32,000 words of [[Dead Fic]], to be certain.
** Synopsis: Usagi gets launched across the Pacific by one of Rita and Lord Zedd's monsters. She's caught in St. Louis by "Davey Crockett", who proceeds to offer her a home for the time. They discover a diabolical team-up of Rita, Zedd, Queen Beryl, [[VR Troopers|Zitkor]], and presumably tons more, requiring them to assemble many characters, powers, and other miscellaneous crap that [[David Gonterman]] and buddy made up as he went along in an attempt to fight the villainous team. A very confusing ~32,000 words of [[Dead Fic]], to be certain.
** Comments: One of the most infamous badfics of all time. The story has a horrible, inconsistent structure (although it has surprisingly decent spelling) and a total lack of continuity. Not only do things quickly get contradicted, but new elements just pop up out of nowhere with the expectation that the audience will understand. And it is ''dull''.
** Comments: One of the most infamous badfics of all time. The story has a horrible, inconsistent structure (although it has surprisingly decent spelling) and a total lack of continuity. Not only do things quickly get contradicted, but new elements just pop up out of nowhere with the expectation that the audience will understand. And it is ''dull''.
*** The story starts out innocuously (if self-indulgent), but it enters this territory with scenes that are inaccessible because the dialogue isn't credited. These look worse compared to the following scenes with the villains, which are in [[Script Fic|script format]]. (The work has two authors; they may have done their separate parts without care for consistency.) Then the story starts crossing over with ''everything''. Then Gonterman (maybe also the co-author, but he's a relative unknown) starts writing autobiographically, which is the closest to "[[Character Development]]" that Davey gets. Then he drops the [[Drama Bomb]] that Usagi is Davey's brother ''via'' a sickeningly degrading artificial insemination and abortion plotline that makes little sense. Not only does this make the implied sex scene (itself ten levels of [[Squick]], since Davey was in fox form then) incest, but also, he and Usagi still have a subdued relationship with each other after this realization. But they hadn't forgotten that drama bomb: they '''constantly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] it and how wrong it is'''. Not exactly respectful to the [[Sailor Moon]] fandom. They also [[Character Derailment|derail everyone's character]]: they turn Usagi into a weak, worthless [[Distressed Damsel]], making canon first-season Usagi look like [[Alien|Ellen Ripley]]); they make the Sailor Senshi fawning [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] of Davey from the moment they meet him, even fighting each other over his affections; they make Mamoru [[Die for Our Ship|Die For Gonterman's Screwed-Up Ship]]; they make the villains whimpering cowards around Davey; and they generally screw up the characters beyond recognition.
*** The story starts out innocuously (if self-indulgent), but it enters this territory with scenes that are inaccessible because the dialogue isn't credited. These look worse compared to the following scenes with the villains, which are in [[Script Fic|script format]]. (The work has two authors; they may have done their separate parts without care for consistency.) Then the story starts crossing over with ''everything''. Then Gonterman (maybe also the co-author, but he's a relative unknown) starts writing autobiographically, which is the closest to "[[Character Development]]" that Davey gets. Then he drops the [[Drama Bomb]] that Usagi is Davey's brother ''via'' a sickeningly degrading artificial insemination and abortion plotline that makes little sense. Not only does this make the implied sex scene (itself ten levels of [[Squick]], since Davey was in fox form then) incest, but also, he and Usagi still have a subdued relationship with each other after this realization. But they hadn't forgotten that drama bomb: they '''constantly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] it and how wrong it is'''. Not exactly respectful to the [[Sailor Moon]] fandom. They also [[Character Derailment|derail everyone's character]]: they turn Usagi into a weak, worthless [[Distressed Damsel]], making canon first-season Usagi look like [[Alien|Ellen Ripley]]); they make the Sailor Senshi fawning [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] of Davey from the moment they meet him, even fighting each other over his affections; they make Mamoru [[Die for Our Ship|Die For Gonterman's Screwed-Up Ship]]; they make the villains whimpering cowards around Davey; and they generally screw up the characters beyond recognition.
**** Davey Crockett deserves his own special mention. He's an insanely overpowered [[God Mode Sue]] with [[New Powers As the Plot Demands]] built into his robotic arm and access to pretty much every shiny toy that Gonterman wishes he had. He defies every law of physics possible. He shoots a throne on the moon from Earth with a sawed-off shotgun; astrophysicists had best not read this story lest their brains explode. He is a "freelance Power Ranger" that turns into an anthropomorphic fox when he morphs for no reason but [[Author Appeal]]. His [[Backstory]] makes no sense whatsoever and contradicts itself in every way possible (and must involve [[Time Travel]] at some stage). He has nothing likable about him whatsoever. He's one of the worst [[Original Character|Original Characters]] ever written. His friend Ed (who, one presumes, is the [[Author Avatar]] of the other writer) isn't much more balanced, but he seems more tolerable because he has comparatively little screentime.
**** Davey Crockett deserves his own special mention. He's an insanely overpowered [[God Mode Sue]] with [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]] built into his robotic arm and access to pretty much every shiny toy that Gonterman wishes he had. He defies every law of physics possible. He shoots a throne on the moon from Earth with a sawed-off shotgun; astrophysicists had best not read this story lest their brains explode. He is a "freelance Power Ranger" that turns into an anthropomorphic fox when he morphs for no reason but [[Author Appeal]]. His [[Backstory]] makes no sense whatsoever and contradicts itself in every way possible (and must involve [[Time Travel]] at some stage). He has nothing likable about him whatsoever. He's one of the worst [[Original Character|Original Characters]] ever written. His friend Ed (who, one presumes, is the [[Author Avatar]] of the other writer) isn't much more balanced, but he seems more tolerable because he has comparatively little screentime.
**** Gonterman (the only person to plug the story positively) suffered ''massive'' backlash against this story. His [[Author Avatar]] kills Zoisite in a horrifically over-the-top '''hateful''' way directed against homosexuality. Then he gives [[Character Filibuster|a speech]] about the horrors that homosexuals have inflicted upon his life that makes the Sailor Senshi cry. (Guess nobody told him that the Japanese ''Sailor Moon'' is pro-gay and includes two openly homosexual Sailor Senshi.) He's still banned for life from practically every aspect of the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fandom, and mentioning his story within the community causes [[Internet Backdraft]]. Gonterman now considers this story an [[Old Shame]].
**** Gonterman (the only person to plug the story positively) suffered ''massive'' backlash against this story. His [[Author Avatar]] kills Zoisite in a horrifically over-the-top '''hateful''' way directed against homosexuality. Then he gives [[Character Filibuster|a speech]] about the horrors that homosexuals have inflicted upon his life that makes the Sailor Senshi cry. (Guess nobody told him that the Japanese ''Sailor Moon'' is pro-gay and includes two openly homosexual Sailor Senshi.) He's still banned for life from practically every aspect of the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fandom, and mentioning his story within the community causes [[Internet Backdraft]]. Gonterman now considers this story an [[Old Shame]].


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** Fandom: ''[[Sailor Moon]]''
** Fandom: ''[[Sailor Moon]]''
** Pairing(s): Usagi/Mamoru
** Pairing(s): Usagi/Mamoru
** Synopsis: On Usagi's 15th birthday, Mamoru proposes to her; they have sex that night (already diverging from [[Canon]]). They get married and have more sex, enjoy married life with more sex, [[Fan Fic Chopsuey|eat at the Sizzler Steakhouse,]] listen to Yanni, shop for dresses, and go on a double date with Lita and Ken. Throughout everything, Usagi gets dressed and undressed a million times, suffers from a weird disorder in which every time Mamoru approaches she [[You Fail Biology Forever|pisses herself and orgasms uncontrollably]], and overall makes [[Married With Children|Kelly Bundy]] look like a Rhodes scholar. Oh, and there's way too much emphasis on pubic hair.
** Synopsis: On Usagi's 15th birthday, Mamoru proposes to her; they have sex that night (already diverging from [[Canon]]). They get married and have more sex, enjoy married life with more sex, [[Fan Fic Chopsuey|eat at the Sizzler Steakhouse,]] listen to Yanni, shop for dresses, and go on a double date with Lita and Ken. Throughout everything, Usagi gets dressed and undressed a million times, suffers from a weird disorder in which every time Mamoru approaches she [[You Fail Biology Forever|pisses herself and orgasms uncontrollably]], and overall makes [[Married... with Children|Kelly Bundy]] look like a Rhodes scholar. Oh, and there's way too much emphasis on pubic hair.
** Comments: The author shows no knowledge of female anatomy whatsoever, and the sexist/misogynistic undertones are more than a little disturbing. The writing itself is cringeworthy; you'd think a third grader wrote it, but to say it would be [[Insult to Rocks|an insult to third graders everywhere.]]
** Comments: The author shows no knowledge of female anatomy whatsoever, and the sexist/misogynistic undertones are more than a little disturbing. The writing itself is cringeworthy; you'd think a third grader wrote it, but to say it would be [[Insult to Rocks|an insult to third graders everywhere.]]




* '''[http://anime.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=544187359 Shinji's Nightmare Cataclysm]''' (explicit sex, crossover, ''pedophilia'')
* '''[http://anime.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=544187359 Shinji's Nightmare Cataclysm]''' (explicit sex, crossover, ''pedophilia'')
** Fandom: [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] crossed with [[Warhammer 40 K]]
** Fandom: [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] crossed with [[Warhammer 40000]]
** Pairings: Yes, unfortunately
** Pairings: Yes, unfortunately
** Synopsis: We tried. We really, honestly tried. But the few who have sat around long enough to give an accurate summary have no doubt since gored out their eyes and couldn't type it down coherently.
** Synopsis: We tried. We really, honestly tried. But the few who have sat around long enough to give an accurate summary have no doubt since gored out their eyes and couldn't type it down coherently.
** Comments: '''[[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]''' with a lot of horrible [[Character Derailment]] thrown in on the side.
** Comments: '''[[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]''' with a lot of horrible [[Character Derailment]] thrown in on the side.
*** Why?... God... Why? THIS... THIS... Looking through the reviews of this story, one may get the impression that there is plenty of kinkiness to appeal to the niche, and also some good old fashioned smut. If this is your opinion, then you are horribly, horribly wrong. The author has only the most base acquaintance with Warhammer and no true understanding of the universe at all. He has depicted Slaanesh as some depraved god of excess and lust; while perhaps not far off from a literal translation, he has failed utterly to comprehend Slaanesh's style. Slaanesh is a being of beauty, grace, and perfection - he is/was, after all, created by the Eldar; Psychostorm has chosen to present Slaanesh as an atrocious monstrosity that perverts this concept into a twisted blob (literally). Seriously, does a god of grace and perfect beauty sound like it would be responsible for (this comes from a review) "vomitous lust, four-year-olds with maggot-spewing vaginas and talking fetuses who french-kiss teenage boys while in Hell." The vast majority of the positive reviews hopefully came from people who take the story as a parody, a joke. Hopefully, this is what the writer was aiming for, crossing the line, raping the dog, whatever you want to call it. Because if it isn't... This isn't writing. This isn't an abomination or a sin or a crime. No. Those words inspire grander ideas; [[HP Lovecraft|Cthulhu]] to abomination, [[Paradise Lost|Milton's Hell]] to sin, anti-hero to crime. This is shit. Pure and unrefined shit. [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]? Indeed. And if it was made [[Troll Fic|purely to disgust, shock, and horrify...]] Then, um, good job? What's the proper protocol here for that great a success in transgressive fiction: 'Yay,' or more abject horror?
*** Why?... God... Why? THIS... THIS... Looking through the reviews of this story, one may get the impression that there is plenty of kinkiness to appeal to the niche, and also some good old fashioned smut. If this is your opinion, then you are horribly, horribly wrong. The author has only the most base acquaintance with Warhammer and no true understanding of the universe at all. He has depicted Slaanesh as some depraved god of excess and lust; while perhaps not far off from a literal translation, he has failed utterly to comprehend Slaanesh's style. Slaanesh is a being of beauty, grace, and perfection - he is/was, after all, created by the Eldar; Psychostorm has chosen to present Slaanesh as an atrocious monstrosity that perverts this concept into a twisted blob (literally). Seriously, does a god of grace and perfect beauty sound like it would be responsible for (this comes from a review) "vomitous lust, four-year-olds with maggot-spewing vaginas and talking fetuses who french-kiss teenage boys while in Hell." The vast majority of the positive reviews hopefully came from people who take the story as a parody, a joke. Hopefully, this is what the writer was aiming for, crossing the line, raping the dog, whatever you want to call it. Because if it isn't... This isn't writing. This isn't an abomination or a sin or a crime. No. Those words inspire grander ideas; [[H.P. Lovecraft|Cthulhu]] to abomination, [[Paradise Lost|Milton's Hell]] to sin, anti-hero to crime. This is shit. Pure and unrefined shit. [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]? Indeed. And if it was made [[Troll Fic|purely to disgust, shock, and horrify...]] Then, um, good job? What's the proper protocol here for that great a success in transgressive fiction: 'Yay,' or more abject horror?


* '''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5055279/1/Should_Have Should Have]''' (Murder of a major character, mutilation, AU/divergence, a hell of a lot of [[Character Derailment]] and [[Canon Defilement]] of Gregory Maguire, [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|L. Frank Baum]], and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
* '''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5055279/1/Should_Have Should Have]''' (Murder of a major character, mutilation, AU/divergence, a hell of a lot of [[Character Derailment]] and [[Canon Defilement]] of Gregory Maguire, [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|L. Frank Baum]], and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
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* '''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6403110/1/Tsunami Tsunami]''' ([[Mary Sue]], [[Character Derailment]], [[Self Insert]], [[Draco in Leather Pants]])
* '''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6403110/1/Tsunami Tsunami]''' ([[Mary Sue]], [[Character Derailment]], [[Self Insert]], [[Draco in Leather Pants]])
** Fandom: ''[[X Men Evolution]]''
** Fandom: ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]''
** Pairing: Pietro/Mary Sue, With a slight Kurt/Mary Sue hinted at.
** Pairing: Pietro/Mary Sue, With a slight Kurt/Mary Sue hinted at.
** Synopsis: Semina is a [[Mary Sue|young girl]] who, despite being good at everything, is [[Informed Flaw|Bad at math]] and has her grades lowered by a [[Sadist Teacher]]. Without warning, her powers manifest and Charles Xavier has her trained by her aunt in controlling her Pheoni level psychic abilities to Read minds, Move objects with her mind, Water Manipulation and Healing. When she reaches the right age she is taken to the Xavier institute where she quickly becomes [[Black Hole Sue|liked by everyone]] exept for Scott and Jean [[Ron the Death Eater|because they are bad people and as such are constantly bashed by Semina]]. Episodes from Season 1 are retold from Semina's point of view after she is inserted into them, usually with important moments changed so she can look better, while the [[Jerkass]] Pietro slowly starts to fall for her.
** Synopsis: Semina is a [[Mary Sue|young girl]] who, despite being good at everything, is [[Informed Flaw|Bad at math]] and has her grades lowered by a [[Sadist Teacher]]. Without warning, her powers manifest and Charles Xavier has her trained by her aunt in controlling her Pheoni level psychic abilities to Read minds, Move objects with her mind, Water Manipulation and Healing. When she reaches the right age she is taken to the Xavier institute where she quickly becomes [[Black Hole Sue|liked by everyone]] exept for Scott and Jean [[Ron the Death Eater|because they are bad people and as such are constantly bashed by Semina]]. Episodes from Season 1 are retold from Semina's point of view after she is inserted into them, usually with important moments changed so she can look better, while the [[Jerkass]] Pietro slowly starts to fall for her.
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