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The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[Alternate Universe Fic|folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-[[Grimdark]] universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites [[Undocumented Features]] as an inspiration, but instead of the [[Author Avatar]] [[Original Character|Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least [[Star Wars]], [[Star Trek]], [[Warhammer 40000]], [[Discworld]], [[Girl Genius]], [[The Matrix]], [[David Weber]], [[Sluggy Freelance]], [[Tenchi Muyo!]], [[Dune]], [[Babylon 5]], [[Asterix]], the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], [[Sailor Moon]], and [[Transformers]] along with, of course, the three core continuities.
The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[Alternate Universe Fic|folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-[[Grimdark]] universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites [[Undocumented Features]] as an inspiration, but instead of the [[Author Avatar]] [[Original Character|Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least [[Star Wars]], [[Star Trek]], [[Warhammer 40000]], [[Discworld]], [[Girl Genius]], [[The Matrix]], [[David Weber]], [[Sluggy Freelance]], [[Tenchi Muyo!]], [[Dune]], [[Babylon 5]], [[Asterix]], the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], [[Sailor Moon]], and [[Transformers]] along with, of course, the three core continuities.
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=== Provides examples of: ===
* [[Academy of Adventure]]: Furinkan is one. Dr. Moreau and Dr. Frankenstein are their biology teachers, and the former high-energy physics building is closed down due to radioactivity from a reactor accident. Not to mention the Trebuchet Incident. Also describes Hogwarts, though it's less because of ill judgment on the part of the teachers as because it's politically neutral and the best school of magic in the galaxy, so citizens of nations currently at brutal war attend concurrently.
* [[Academy of Adventure]]: Furinkan is one. Dr. Moreau and Dr. Frankenstein are their biology teachers, and the former high-energy physics building is closed down due to radioactivity from a reactor accident. Not to mention the Trebuchet Incident. Also describes Hogwarts, though it's less because of ill judgment on the part of the teachers as because it's politically neutral and the best school of magic in the galaxy, so citizens of nations currently at brutal war attend concurrently.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: This is the flavor that the Amerai clans have from the perspective of the younger Saotomes and Tendos in ''Biker Half''. Severely creeps out Nabiki, in particular, because Genma Saotome and Soun Tendo, both being involved deeply with the Clans, have no records at all in Earth-based systems.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: This is the flavor that the Amerai clans have from the perspective of the younger Saotomes and Tendos in ''Biker Half''. Severely creeps out Nabiki, in particular, because Genma Saotome and Soun Tendo, both being involved deeply with the Clans, have no records at all in Earth-based systems.
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